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

THE NAPOLEON DYNASTY.

The following programme of the ceremony to be
observe I on the birth of Princes or Princem,•es, 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 Princos and the Princesses of the Imperial f 'wily, 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 Pre4iont of the Council of
State, the Marshals, Admirals, Grand Chancellor of the.
Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour, the Governor of
the Invalidos, the Commander-in-Chief of the National
G lard 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 Prinoss, 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 of ieer of
the Emperor's household, se that they may be assembled
at the moment his Majesty sends to announce the birth of
the child.
In the Empress's chamber there will only be present the
mother of the Empress, the Grand Mistress of her Ma-
iesty's Household, the Governess, and the Lady in 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 s doon of the Empress will be assembled the high
officers of the Crown, the Ministers, Mai-shale, Admirals,
the Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour, the Go-
vernor of the Invalides, the Commander-in-Chief of the
National Guards of the Seine, the General in Command of
the Imperial Guard, the Adjutant-General of the Palace,
the Ladies-in-Waiting of the Empress, the Under-Gover-
nesses and La lies-in-Waiting on the Princesses.
Tho Grand Master of the Inusehold and the First Cham-
berlain of the Empress will do the honours of the apart-
ment in the absence of the Grand Mistress and Lady of
Honour of her Majesty.
The officer:. of their Majesties' household, the officers of
the Prince and Princesses, will assemble in thel third saloon,
which is the first after the guards'-hall, and in the guards%
hall.

When the last pains of labour shall ba felt, their Excel-
lencies the Minister of State and the Keeper of the Seals
shall bo sent for and brought into the chamber. Such of
the Princes and Princesses shall also bo admitted as his
Majesty may deem advisable.
The under-nurses will be sent for when their services
are required.

Wh:-in the child shall have boon presented to the Em-
peror and tho Empress by the head nurse, it wilt be pre-
sented to his Excellency the dinistor of State, and to his
Excellency the Keeper of the Seals, who will at once pro-
czao.l to the saloon occupied by his Excellency the Pre-
sident of the Council 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, accompaniel by her sub nurses,
the General Commanding the Imperial Guard, and the
Equerry on duty. This cortoge will leave he bed-
chambor, cross trio saloons, and enter the apartment pre-
pared for the child

In this spar ment will be assembled the per.ons ap•
pointed by the Emperor to wait upon the Imperia,
The Emperor having returned to his State apartments,
will receive the congratulati ns of the persons assembled
in the Empress's apartments.
On the day or ~n the morrow of the confinement the
Imperial child will be privately b►ptised in the Pelece
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 Curt, the mother of the Empress, the grand
officers of the L'rown, the Cardinals, Ministers, .Marshals,
A imirals. President of the S nate, &c.
Alter the ceremony of b tptison a Te Deunt will be
chanted, and before the Te Datlib the Royal child will
have be,,n taken to his own apartment.
The Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour will
take to the Imperial Prtn,y.e 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 wiitten by the Emperor himself, ana
conveyed by offieors of his household.

The Senate and Legislative Body will receive the infer-
maVon from an officer of the Emperor's household ; the
birth will he 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 t) 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.

AA soon al th 3 Imperial Prince is born a salvo of 101
guns will be fired ; the suns, salvo will be fired in countries
occupied by French troops. t
In the evening the publie buildings will be illuminated.

CERENIONIES TO TAKE PLACE ON THE DAYS
FOLLOWING THE BIRTH.
On the morrow, or o❑ 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 °Milers of the household, Cardi-
nals, Marshals, Admirals, and all the other functionaries,
kc.

The Presidents of the Senate and of the Legislative Body
will alone harangue the Emperor.
All these different bodies will be presented as is usual on
solemn presentations.
On leaving the audience of the Emperor they will be ad-
mitted to the now-born Prince.
They will meet in the Sai,on, de la PaEx, 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
Jfajesty will appoint the days upon which she will receive
the congratulations of he Princes and Princesses, ladies of
the Palace; wives of the Ali isters, &c., and the congratula-
tions of the high officers of the Orown, Cardinals, Marshals,
Admirals, 1::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
chat...
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 Ileum will be performed.
A Te Ileum will be chanted in the Church of Notre
Dame of Paris and in all the churches of France on the
Sunday following the day of the birth.
CAMBACERES,
Grand Master of the Ceremonies.
Pal ais Royal, March 3.

* Tile official programme assumes that it is a Prince that
", be born, but n the margin certan alterations are made,
should be a Princess.
f it bap; a Princess only 21 guns will Do firocl.

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