Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-04-10
NEWS FROM EUROPE.

have not space, this week, to dot them down.
NEWS FROM EUROPE.
The steamer Asia with Liverpool dates to the
22d ult., has brought us o satisfactory conhrma-
tion Of the previous rumors in regard to the con-
clusion Of peace. The Prussian representatives
arrived in Paris on the 10th, and having taken
their seats in the Conference, it was understood
that peace arrangements had been concluded. A
committee, formed of one representative of each
Power, vas engaged in drawing up formal treaty,
which would be submitted on the first Saturday in
April, and made public by proclamation. So the
bloody record ends.
An equally interesting scrap of news by this ar
rival is that announcing the birth of the 'mperi-
al baby" on the morning of the 10th ultimo.-
The preparations made for this august event are,
to our republican eyes, amusingly grand and mag
ni6cent. The wardrobe prepared by Madame
FELIcIE was for several days the ell absorbing OBJ
ject Of attention. and Madamcs ware-rooms were
daily crowded by the anxious and excitable Paris
ian multitude-all bent, ticket in hand, upon q
sight of the costly and beautiful millinery there
deposited In the inventory of this vast collection
of baby-clothes, might have been seen twelve doz-
en- dresses, twelve dozen Ell cetera to match twelve
dozen caps, twelve dozen hats, twelve dozen bon
nets in the back-ground,) twelve dozen pairs Of
stockings and, in fine, twelve dozen of all sorts Of
habiliments whercwithal incipiens royalty is wont
to be clothed about. The cradle, in the same
''tweve dozen" style, was made to cost FIVE thous-
and dollars; the room for its accommodation,
eight thousand dollars more; the coral for the ba-
by to bite at, one hundred dollars, and so forth
Then, the programme of ceremonies to be observ-
ed Immediately preceding, during and after birth,
we're minutely, and with all pomp and pride and
ceremony, published and declared. The Chamber
of Deputies, the officials, ministers and hangers
on, were all notified to be ready and in waiting
and all Paris was up to the highest pitch that oil
Paris can possibly reach.
GAS soon as the Empress" &c., the "Grand,
Mistress of the Household would wait upon her
Majesty" &c; ; the "Princes, Princesses, and high
officers in waiting, in dress as if going to high
mass-the ladies in morning costume" would be
admitted into the chamber, when &c." where
upon the "cannoniers without" would announce
things with much shooting, all Paris would ilumi-
nate, and all France would be glad. All these
ceremonies, of which We give only o speck of an
idea, were duly performed: nevertheless, her Ma
jesty survived; and Gathers hope and mothers
joy" found 'local habitation and name"-to
wit, Napoleon Eugene Loui, Jean Joseph-:fls de
France-"King Of AlgiersP The young king is
reported to be as round, plump, promising boy
as was ever born in cottage; and her Majesty is,
as folks in this country say Gas we'll as could be
expected"
Ofcourse, the event so long and anxously looked
for by his Majesty could not fail to put the man
out of his wits and we are accordingly told that
the blood rushed to his head, and he literally fell
over in fit of syncope Well may he be un-
nerved with such an overpowering burden of good
luck as that which has without ceasing weighed
upon him. Never was there man more complete
ly covered up with the thiekly-falGng favors of
Fortune! The undisputed ruler Of the greatest of
empirss-the arbiter of Europe-at peace with
the world-congratulaton pourin upon him from
the full heart of his people, rejoicing in the for
And to "cap the climax" it is said that on his
boys shoulder is an impression-the exact resem-
blance of the celebrated eagle he carried when he
invaded Boulognc! As somebody said, ina come
dy written by VIC don't know whom" pro-di.g.
ous.'
But, seriously, whether this event is worthy of
such unulixcd congratulations and such universal
exhibitions of joy, is yet to be proved. If We are
to Judge the future by the past-and VIC may, for
France is still the same-tho young liking" is
destined never to fulfill the hopes now cherished
for him. Over forty years ago, the first heir of
the Bonaparte dynasty was born in the midst of
acclamations in comparison with which these of
which we speak ore commonplace F; and yet
the King of Rome died in foreign land, a
miserable outcast. Glancing at the prospect, q
correspondent of the New York Herald says:-
"In former days, the imperial astrologer would
have drawn the horoscope, consulted the stars and
predicted the future fame and glory of this young
scion of the house of Napoleon. All that sensible
men can say is that this boy has good chance, if
he lives and at all events as much chance and as
much right to the throne as the other candidates.
It is curious fact that for the last two hundred
years. no son has succeeded his father on the throne
of France From the accession of Louis XIV to
the present time not single King or Governor of
France though none of them, with the exception
of Louis XVIII, have been childless, has been
succeeded at his demise by bis son. Louis XIV.
survived his son, his grandson, and several of his
great grandchildren, and was succeeded at last by
one of the younger children of his grandson, the
Duke of Burgundy. Louis XIV. survived his son,
and was succeeded by his grandson Louis XVI
Louis XVI left son behind him, but that son per-
ished in the filthy dungeon to which the cruelties
of the terrorists had confined them. The King of
Rome. to whom Napoleon fondly hoped to be-
oueath the boundless empire he had won, died o
Colonel in the Austrian service. Louis XVIII.
was. as we have said, childless. The Duke de
Berri fell by the hand Of nm assassin in the life
time of Charles X and his son, the Duke de Bor-
deaux, is in exile from the land which his ances-
tors regarded as their own estate. The eldest
son of Louis Philippe perished by an untimely ac-
cident, and his grandson and heir does not sit up
on the throne of his grandfather.
1.-The life of man is in itself lottery, but when
the chances of freigning depend upon the sovereign
will of so tickle people as the French, all that
can be said is that this new born imperial colt is
the favorite for the imperial Derby.
son the Goth of March, 1911, there were simi-
lar rejoicings at Paris. One hundred and one
guns on that day also announced to Paris that an
heir had been born to Napoleon, and that child
was the King Of Rome.
"Since that day France has had again the legit-
;riat dunn stv the heir nf which liz nm exile call