The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-07
Prospects Of the Napoleon Dynasty.

Prospects OF the Napoleon Dynasty.
The Empress Eugene, we are told in the
Monitar, promises decidedly this time to pre-
sent France with an heir to the imperial throne.
| The event is announced, as was to be expected,
| with great flourish of trumpets by the impe-
| rial press, and France is congratulated on the
| guarantee Of political stability which the pros
| pect of q permanent succession holds out. We
| too-though we are not so apt to believe in the
stability of dynasties as the imperial journalist,
and can contemplate the pregnancy of an EN-
| press without inconvenient emotion-regard
the possible destinies of the child who may be
born next February with no ordinary interest.
| The last Napoleon had son-a sweet, beauti-
full child, whose features the skill of the artist
has rendered familiar to every one; he was
born after many longings and many disap-
pointments, and came into the world when his
father was at the summit of power aud fame
No human child ever had such prospects as he
at his birth; yet, in very few years, before
he had learned to know right from wrong, he
was an exile, a sickly, miserable child, soon to
die in foreign land Now the performance,
say the enemies of the dynasty, is to be played
over again. And at first sight it does certain
ly bear some resemblance to the revival of an
old play. The Moniteur announces the joyful
event in very much the same language as
it used in the time of Napoleon the First
the son Of Eugenie-pray heaven it be not a
daughters as anxiously expected, and, if
he is born alive, will be proffered as brilliant
destiniesas those held out to the King of Rome.
Wars and victory are the natal pean of both
| children. The Archbishop of Paris could con-
| graduate his Emperor on the capture of
city and the prospect of an heir in the same
breath, just as his predecessor, Tipped court
| ly flattery to Napoleon the First, about the
conquest of new provinces and the perpetual
ton of his dynasty. Who knows but van
quished Gear may be as humbly civil to the
son Of Napoleon the Third, as the whole crew
of German sovereigns were to the son of the
first Bonaparte?
What prospects for child to be born with
Here is the Emperor, at war, and with Power
of gigantic strength, and unshakeahe resolu-
ton no one but he knows where that war is
to end. The people murmur. His allies chafe.
-thunders. He never so much as looks round,
but pursues his course darkly, upswervingly,
over the neck of Disaster and the PROSTATE
form of Misfortune. What matchless GOODNESS,
and perseverance in the siege Of Sebastopol.
And now, what sublime deliberaton and stea-
diness in every part of his policy He is like
| law, that man-Dot like q human creature
least of all like his impetuous, hot headed, vim
| dittive uncle.
Yet who can doubt that their purposes are
the same-that Napoleon the Third dreams
already of the same destiny for his unborn son
as Napoleon the First hoped his fair boy would
inherit? Every act of the present Emperor
shows that he is merely carrying out the views
Of his une,e-but with infinitely more tact aud
less passion, more knowledge of the world and
less glory. There is not mail which arrives
that does nSt bring some confirmation of the
old familiar iackneyed story. 1t is Napoleon,
Napoleon, Napoleon all through. One day we
hear ef movements in Spsin; revolutions axe
threatened, the Queen is to abdcatc, Espartero
is to 90 into exile, and so forth; then, calm
comes, ard it is whispered tfat French inau
eHCc was ulOtNSaJ W pcurf *tldJ UOOr sUdkV
Spain, whe is so jill able to ailsrd the luxury of
war that The cost Of her garrison in Cuba is
breaking her back, ie actually going to testify
her gratitude Ivy sendilg feeble contingent
to the Crimea. How far better 70 rule Spain
in this way, thra,gh puppets like the Queen
and Espsrtcro, than to send q blOcSbead like
Joseph and u bully like Victor there to keep
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see the way he has dealt viii the Pope. He
knew az well as his uncle that the mar who
would rule the Catholic masses Of Europe n ,ust
have the head Of the Church under his thu. ID.
aud be able TO bring superstition to bs,lr
wherever he needed IL. The uncle went abeEa
it in his fierce angry way, and dragged the
Pope to Paris. The nephew, on the contra
~, was the Pope's best friend. lie saw that
the Roman republicans had no stamina in them:
so he choked them of a day or two before their
time and lent His Holiness a few Frenchmen
who were likely to be more serviceable than
the gewgaws known US the Papal Guard What
was the consequence? lie has the Pope quite
as completely in subsection as his uncle had
Plus thinks him his faithful son; and the pious
masses OF EUROPE, VINO are not 50 lew as Is
generally supposed, talk of him as prince
expressly sent from Heaven. See the Uairers.
The last story among the Russians of the
continent is that he intends to restore the old
borders of France, and carry her frontier to
the Rhine and over the Alps. lie is, ii seems,
forming a new camp in the neighb1rbood Of |
Lille, to operate on the Rhine, in military par
lance. Anything easier than an extension Of !