The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-15 00:00:00

DEATH OF TUE DUKE
OF ORLEANS.

Id addition to the particulars of the melancholy death
of the Duke of Orleans on Wednesday morning, which
appeared in yesterday's Sun, we are enabled to publish
the following official and authentic account up to a late
hour on Wednesday night :
" PARIS, WEDNESDAY, 9 P.M.
" The official account published by the Government is
as follows :
" A dreadful disaster has fallen upon the King, the
Royal family, and France. The Prince Royal is dead !
This morning at half-past ten, the Duke of Orleans wont
to Neuilly, to take leave of the Royal family, intending
to set off in the evening for the camp of St. Omer. A
short distance from Neuilly the horses ran away. The
Prince leaped out of the carriage. He was taken up
senseless. One moment there were hopes of saving him,
but the evil was beyond all earthly, remedies. At Ilan.-
past four, after having received the succours of religion,
the Prince breathed his last, surrounded by the Xing,
Queen. -iald 'Royal- family, whose grief no words can
express."'
The following .;.; a translation of the telegraphic de-
spatch which has been ‘eddressed by the Minister of the
Interior to the Prefects of the several departments
throughout France '
•' THIS3IINISTER OF THE INTERTGa TO TEE PREFECTS.
" The Prince Royal has had a sev.2.e fall from his
carriage ; he died from the effects thereof at half-past
four this morning. The King has borne „Lis severe
blow with his customary firmr.ess. His Majesty Is ill
good
,health. . What a loss for Fran-.:e."
(From the Maniteur Parisien.)
A frightful catastrophe—a misfortune which all France
will deplore—has to-day happened.
At noon his Royal Highness Monseigneur Ile Due
,l'Orleans, who was to have started this evening for St.
Omer, went to Neuilly to take leave of his august father.
At the end of the Chemin de la Revoke the horses of
his carriage ran away. The Prince leaped from the
door, and received a most fearful fall.
He was raised from the ground in a state of perfect
unconsciousness, and was borne into a neighbouring
house. Medical aid was given—a vein was opened—
leeches were applied—but all was in rain. At four
o'clock the Prince was dead. ~

The King, who was to preside at a Cabinet Council in
Paris, had quitted Neuilly. He arrived at the spot
where the accident occurred when the Prince was being
raised. His Majesty was accompanied by the Qtteen
and. Madame Adelaide One may well imagine how
heart-ren.-ling a scene that melancholy rencontre ocest-
,,ioned.

M. Le Baron Fain left immediately to announce to
the Ministers assembled at the Tuileries, the .event which
had delayed the arrival of the King. The 'Ministers
immediately started for the purpose 'of being near his
Majesty.
The body of the Due d'Orleans was placed on a litter
and carried by soldiers to the chapel of the Chateau
of Neuilly. The King, the Queen, Madame Adelaide,
and M. le Due d'Auwale followed the funeral cortege on
foot, attended by a battalion of the 17th Light Regiment.
Their duty drew tears from the soldiery. Behind the
litter, mingling indiscrimininately with the members of
the Royal Family, followed the Ministers, officers of
every grade, and citizens d every class, who had collec-
ted on the first tidings of the catastrophe.
-Several clergymen, who also followed the cortege, re-
'peated prayers for the Royal dead.
The Prince was alone in the carriage. The carriage,
called a demi Dauniont, carried a tambour in front, which
came off and struck against the horses. The startled
animals ran away, and the postilion succeeded in stopping
rhem when they had run about forty pace; but the
Prince had already fallen.
The death of the 'Prince is attributed to the disloca-

lion of the dorsal spine.
The King gave orders to General Rurnignv to depart
Cor Plotnbieres immediately, where the Duchess of Or-
leans then was. _

This evening the theatres are' closed.
(From the Gazette de France of Wednesday.)
This forenoon, at half-past twelve, the Duc d'Orieans,
who was about to set, off for Plombieres, where the
Duchess is staying at present, was returning from Neuilly
after having taken leave of his family, when in the centre
of the Chemin de la Revolte, a short distance from the
Porte Nlaillot, the horses ran away in spite of the efforts
of the postilion, and there was every reason to fear that
the carriage wculd be overturned on the slope at the side
of the road.
At this moment the Duke, to avoid the danger, leaped
from the carriage ' • but unfortunately his spurs, or. as
some say, his sword, caught his travelling cloak. This
accident caused him to fall, and the Prince received some
contusions on the temple and the wrist. A celebral con-
gestion was occasioned by the shock. and was succeeded
by a suffusion on the brain,
Having fainted in the road, his Royal Highness was
removed to the nearest house, occupied by a grocer, and
assist ince speedily arrived from the Tuileries.
Bleeding was resorted to almost immediately, but the
Prince did not recover his consciousness. Dr. Baumy,
happening to be on the spot, gave every assistance to
Dr. Pasquier, his Royal Highness's physician, who had
come from Paris.
Their Majesties and the Duc d'Aumale arrived from
Neuilly and.Courbevoie as quickly as possible.
A clergyman of St. Phillipe tin _Houle, and the cure of
Neuilly were called in ; but could only administer ex-
treme unction.
he had been carried, No. 4, in the Chemin de la Ilevolte.
The body was removed to the Chateau de Neuilly, and
placed in the chapel.
All the Ministers repaired to Neuilly, as well as
Marechal Gerard and General Pajol. A Council of

llinisters was held.
The Due d'Aumale, who was at Courbevoie, as soon
as he heard of the accident that had happened, set off in
a hired cabriolet. . carriage broke down on the road,
and the Prince was obliged to continue his route on foot
to see his dead or dying brother.
His Royal Highness proceeded to Nancy, and will go
to Plombieres, where the Duchess d'Orleans is stayin,g.
The late Prince had testified the greatest p'.easure at
his intended voyage, for which great preparatians had
been made in the various towns through which he was
to pass. He was to have taken the command of a camp
of 40,000 men, but who can calculate on the morrow.

(From theMessayer of Wednesday.night,)

A terrible misfortune has stricken the-King and
Royal Family of France. The Prince Royal is dead. This
morning he went to Neuilly, to bid the King farewell
about half after ten o'clock, intending to start some hours
afterwards for St. Omer. At a little distance from
Neuilly hie horses ran away,_ an i lie leaped out of the
carriage, and when raised from the ground wcs uncon-
scious. At first a hope of saving him was entertained,
but the injuisy was beyond medical aid. At half-past
four, after having received the consolations of religion,
he breathed his lasi sigh, surrounded by the King,
Queen, and Royal Family, whose grief no language can
express.
PARIS, JOLT 13, QUARTER PAT): Foun, he
greatest consternation reigned thii MOOD at the
Bourse. About one o'clock the first fleas .of the acci-
dent arrived, and froin that hair to the close Pf busi-
ness at half-past three, is was quite a panic. The
most contradictory accounts of the event were current,
but at four o'clock a national guard of the cavalry
came galloping to the Exchange from Neuilly, and
brought an account of the state of the Royal Duke
up to three o'clock. According to this version his
Royal Highneee had lost his senses for the second
time. The most Sitsthentie account is, that at half-
past twelve the Duke of Orleans was returning
from Villiers in a cabriolet and that, on his ar-
rival at Sablonville, he had got into his ealeche.
The King, with his suite, was in that neighbourhood, on
his way to Paris, to preside at it Cabinet Council. On
leaving Sablonville, steer the Barriesse de I'Etoile, the
horses of the caleche took fright, and hi; Royal High-
ness , jumping out of his carriage, was pite;:sed on his
head, falling on one of the wheels. He had some severe
bruises on the forehead, and shortly afterwards beca.7.l°
senseleas. He was carried into a house, the King being
present at the time, having alighted from his carriage,
and a M. Duval, it surgeon, bled him. After some.
minutes his Royal Highness cense to himself, and an
hour afterwards was removed to the Chateau of Neuilly.
A courier was sent off immediately to Marshal Soult,
the President of the Council, to countermand the Cabi-
net meeting. The King rewarded liberally on the spot
the persons who had assisted his son.
The fluctuations in the furri' were - very great and
rapid. The Threes, before the fall, were at 79f. 70e.
The first sale was at a decline of 20c., and then they'
were down to 71 At the Parquet the panic was greater
than amongst the Coulissiers. The Threes fell to 78f.
and to 77f.90c. in two hours, and in ten minutes 79f.
and 7Stf, were done without any intermediate quotation.
They left off at 78f. 80e. the end of the month, and
78f. 60e. for cash. The Fives followed the same fluctua-
tions, and left off at 119 f. 55c. for the account, and
119 f. 50c. for cash. The following despatch was stuck
up at the Bourse by a Baudesson de Richbourg, the
Commissary :
" The Duke of Orleans has just been thrown from a
carriage, The accident is not serious, and the state of
the Prince inspires no uneasiness. The Minister of
Finance gives this information to the Commissary of the
Bourse in order to meet the reports that may be spread
on the subject."
Foreign Securities were quite neglected.
After the Bourse, at four o'clock, in censequence of
alarming reports that the Duke of Orleans was again
senseless, the Threes were 'doing in the Coulesies,
at
78f. 26c., of 60c. from-the closing price at the
Parquet.
PA um, WEDNESDAY, 6 :P.N.—At the Cafe•de Paris the
and were
Three per Cents. fell to 76, tL."I I.°e to 77'
doing, at nine o'clock, 76f. 75c.
neelluced by.this
nothing can exceed the sensatidn
news, say our private letters. Ti„ de.Ah
,2‘f this univier-
sally-beloved Prince was regarded as a natlesliat csawa,:s
mity. The streets of Paris were crowded, and grlei ---
p.ainted in every face. The theatres were. closed. The
Count de Paris is the heir to the French throne. It
would be idle now to speculate on the probabilities of a
long Regency, and in whose hands, after the decease of
the present King, whom God long preserve for the peace
of the world.

This is St. Swithin's day, and as the baroinetor
stands very high, and the weather is all that can be desired, we
may, putting faith in the wisdom of our ancestors, reckon the
omen good for the approaching harvest.
The Town Battalion mustered very strongly yes-
terday, and marchei to the Greve d'Azette, where they were
reviewed by the Governer. General Napier was present. He
was dressed in plain clothas; an olive frock coa', white bat,
Ike. He is a tall, military-looking man. and has altogether the
keen, decided, intellectual expression . which one would look for
iii the author of Petli;:s.u!fkr IV"ar." ,c,.;vlctl highly
plea'ed wjh the appearance of the battalion, and we ourselves.
hAyito and the Governor remark upon the euellenee 9( the
light Ompany in particular.—Jersey Gazette. •