The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-08 00:00:00

THE NAPOLEON DYNASTY.

The following nrogramme of the ceremony to be
observed on the birth of Princes or Princesses, chil-
dren of the Emperor, has been published officially in
Paris :

As soon as the Empress shall feel the first pains of labour,
the Grand Mistress of her Household will wait upon her
Majesty.
As soon as the Grand Mistress shall have arrived, she
will take the Emperor's orders, and she will send to inform
the Princes and the Princesses of the Imperial family, the
members of the family of the Emperor holding rank at
Court, the mother of the Empress, the grand officers of the
Crown, the Ministers and President of the Council of
State, the Marshals, Admirals, Grand Chancellor of the
Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour, the Governor of
the Invalides, the Commander-in-Chief of the National
Guard of the Seine, the General in command of the Impe-
rial Guard, the Adjutant-General of the Palace, the offi-
cers and ladies of the households of their Majesties.
All these persons must appear at the Tuileries in dress,
as in going to high mass, the ladies in morning costume.
The Princes, Princesses, and mother of the Empress will
be duly informed by the officers of the Emperor's house-
hold designated by his Majesty.
The Senate, the Legislative Corps, and the municipal
authorities of Paris will also be informed by an offieer of
the Emperor's household, so that they may be assembled
at the moment his Majesty sends to announce the birth of
the
In the Empress's chamber there will only be present the
mother of the Empress, the Grand Mistress, of her Ma-
jesty's Household, the Governess, and the Lady is Wait-
ing;on her Majesty
In the Green Saloon, contiguous to the Empress's cham-
ber, the Princes and Princesses of the Imperial and the
,members of the Emperor's family holding rank at Court
will be assembled.
In the saloon of the Empress will be assembled the high
officers of the Crown, the Ministers, Marshals, Admirals,
the Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour, tho Go-
' vernor of the Invali,les, the Commander-in-Chief of the
National Guards of the Seine, the General in Command o.
the Imperial Guard, the Adjutant-General of the Palace,
the Ladies-in- Waiting of the Empress, the Uoder-Gover•
ceases and Ladies-in-Waiting on the Princesses.
The Grand Master of the fleusehold and the First Chain
berlain of the Ponpress will (lo the honours of the apart-
ment in the absence of the Grand Mistress and Lady of
Honour of her Majesty.
The °Meers of their Majesties' household, the officers of
the Prince and Princesses, will assemble in the third saloon,
which is the first after the guards'-hall, and in thoguards%
hall.

• When the last pains of labour shall be felt, their Excel-
lencies the Minister of State and the Keeper of the Seals
shall be sent for and brought into the chamber. Such of
the Princes and Princesses 'shall also bo admitted as his
Majesty may deem advisable.
The tinder-nurses will be sent for when their services
are required.
When the child shall have been presented to the Em-
peror and the Etupress by the head nurse, it wilt be pre-
sented to his Excellency the minister of State, and to his
Excellency the Keeper of the Seals, who will at once pro-
ofed to the saloon occupied by his Excellency the Pre-
sident of the Couneil of State, fulfilling the functions
attributed to him by the 13th article of the Imperial
statute of the 21,t of June, 1853. A formal statement
of the birth of the child will be drawn up.
The Imperial child will then be carried to its apart-
ment by the head nurse, accompanied by her sub nurses,
the General Commandieg the Imperial Guard, and the
Equerry or duty. This cortege will leave he bed-
chamber, cross the saloons, and enter tho apartment pre-
pared for the child

In this aparmeut will be assembled the perons ap-
pointed by the Emperor to wait upon the Imperia, child.
The Emperor havihg returned to his State apartments,
will receive the congratulations of the persons assembled
in ilte Empress's apartments.
On the day or ‘'n the morrow of the confinement the
Imperial child will be privately b tptised in the Palace
Chapel by the Emperor's First Almoner. in presence of
the Princes and Princesses of the Imperial family, the
' Princes and Princesses of the family of the Emperor hold-
ing rank at Court, the mother of the Empress, the grand
officers of the crown, the Cardinals, Ministers, Alarshals,
A imirals. President of the S nate, &c.
After the ceremony of baptism a Te Deuin will be
chanted, and before the Te Ddam, the Royal child will
have been taken to his own apartment.
The Grand Chancellor of the Legion of honour will
take to the Imperial Prince the Grand Cordon of that
order and the Military Medal.*
The Princes and Princesses, relations of the Emperor
and Empress, will be informed of the birth of the Imperial
Prince by letters watten by the Emperor himself, and
conveyed by officers of his household.
The Senate and Legislative Body will receive the infor-
mation from an officer of the Emperor's household ; the
birth will be announced in the same manner to the.muni-
cipal authorities of Paris.

The Grand Master of the Ceremonies will send a Master
of the Ceremonies to the Ambassadors, and an Assistant of
the Ceremonies to the foreign Ministers, to announce the
birth of the child. ..

Each Minister, in his department, will take the suitable
measures to inform his agents of the birth, abroad as well
as at home.

As soon a, the Imperial Prince is born a salvo of 101
guns will be fired ; the same salvo will be fired in countries
occupied by French troops. t
Iu the evening the public buildings will be illuminated.

(,CEREMONIES TO TAKE PLACE ON THE DAYS
FOLLOWING THE BIRTH.
On the morrow, or on the day after the morrow, of the
Empress's_ confinement the Emperor, having received the
congratulations of the diplomatic body, will ascend the
throne. His Majesty will be surrounded by the Princes of
the Imperial family, and by the other members of the Em-
peror's family holding rank at Court ; as also the grand
officers of the Crown; the officers of the household, Cardi-
nals, Marshals, Admirals, and all the other functionaries,
&c.

The PresidOnts of the Senate and of the Legislative Body
will alone harangue the Emperor.
All these different bodies will be presented as is usual en
solemn presentations.
On leaving the audience of the Emperor they will be ad-
mitted to the new-born Prince.
They will meet in the Salon dc la Pal; and will, suc-
cessively, be admitted to the apartment of the Imperial
Prince. They will leave it by the door opposite to the one
by which they entered.
As soon as the health of the Empress will allow it, her
Majesty will appoint the (lays upon which she will receive
the congratulations of the Princes and Princesses, ladies of
the Palace, wives of the Ministers, &e., and the congratula-
tions of the high officers of the Crown, Cardinals, Marshals,
Admirals, &c.
Her Majesty will also receive the congratulations of the
members of the diplomatic body and of their ladies. The
Empress will receive all these congratulations in her easy
chair.
When her health is completely restored the Empress will
be lifted up by the. Grand Almoner, according to the spe-
cial ceremony drawn up.
The ceremony of the public baptism of the Imperial
Prince will take place at Notre Dame after the churching
of her Majesty. Immediately after that ceremony a
solemn Te Deula will be performed.
A Te Deum will be chanted in the Church of Notre
Dame of Paris and in all the churches of Francs on the
Sunday following the day of the birth.
CAMBACERES,
Grand Master of the Ceremonies.
Palais Royal, March 3.

* The official programme assumes that it is a Prince that
will be born, but u the margin certain alterations are made,
in case it should be .a Princess.

1 In case of it Whit; a Frinccuz only 21 guns will be fired.