Smyrna times., 1869-10-20
THREE FUTURE RULERS OF
EUROPE.


the portraits of three royal children, viz :: The
Prince Imperial, of France, Prince Albert
Victor (son of the Prince of Waes) of En-
gland, and Prince William of Prussia, all of
whom, should they live long enough, are des
tined to become the rulers of France, England
and Prussia. We make the following extract |
from the article in relation to them:
They are not individuals blessed with the |
liberty In the years to come and go where they |
| list, but are wholly the creatures of position |
They have before them no choice but that of
compliance with the high call before them, or
ignOminious abnegation. Chained to the car
of State, they must either be borne along by
its wheels, or be thrown from it, miserable vic
TINS to accident exigency or cruel necessity
For one or more there may be an exile of pee
wish plotting and the gnawing hunger to feed on
lost chances for either, luxurious Incidence
amid the whirl fevents which, mingling, breed
dire revolutions; or for all doom as terrible
as happened to Charles l. or a Louis XVI,
and which maddened populace might call a
ness, therefore, are blessed things to them
The unveiling Of fate will come soon enough.
SO young Why, the births of the three are
contained in the past thirteen years. Prince
Napoleon Eugene Louis Jean Josesh (gener-
E ally known as the Prince Imperial), the heir
apparent of France, was born on the 10th of
{ March, 1856. Prince Frederick William Vic
tor Albert, eir-presumtive to the throne of
Prussia, was born on the 9th of January,
1859. Prince Albert Victor Christian Edward,
heir-presumptive to the throne of England, was
! born on the 8th Of January, 1864.
t The tenderness of their years excites our
] sympathy, and we look in the youthful faces
there to detect, if possible, some clue to their
s destiny. The quick, vivacious look and noble
bearing of the Prince Imperial, with his intel
lectual brow and the mothers face indicate an
. active intelligence, while the sweet lips, com
t pressed, denote degree of hrmness that may
S be commensurate with the situation forming
e for him, but which does not look like one OF
{ entire ease at the present time. His culture
e has been adapted to hard service Educated
d under his father eye, his instruction has ad.
mitted of no indulgence-the hard lesson and
e the hard duty have been in no wise mitigateo
If for royal or imperial consideration, and the eff
as feminacy which destroyed the Duke of Reich
N stadt has been avoided in his training. While
If knowing his place as the Prince Imperial, hC
has not been allowed to use it like prince
but has had his fortune cast for him, in thu
schools to which the people were admitted, a
L. though there were thought in the father
l. mind, that comprehended the tendency O
ne events, to adapt him to meet the severest cir
no cumstances. His is beautiful face and W
of feel that France will not be disgraced no
all :yrannized over by its posSessor.
Elf In the features of the royal Prince of Perssi
" the dOwncast eyes and heavy expression-w
RS see the sensualism OF the Guelph revealing
to itself. There is dullness of look, indicating
e, sluggish temperament, though the intellectus
at developments are good and the slope of th
d. head up to the region of frmness indicate
,r- good moral qualities, and German persistenc
of that may crop out In grand action when tn
anI IDnn mot 40 IN
elf only royalty commendsit.
ar In Prince Albert Victor, the rst-born
nd the Prince of Wales, we have lovely chile
)m and lovable, doubtless as may be affirmed fro
D the picture. Childhood, prince or peasant,
Va alike interesting; and we can associate crow
Va with the former, and give them place over Il
1n- latter, no more than they can themselves whiC
at is impossible. The terrible democracy
er. childish feeling levels all distinction and, lie
ma to himself, Albert Victor would be found Wi
in the sculion's boy immersed in the mystery
BY mud-pies. 1t is a tractabe and amiable infa
TO cy seen in the picture, the Danish mother pr
Ter ponderating, and it is to be hoped that her
ore fuence will continue as the prince, his fathe
eL- shows small indication of greatness, and to
the like him would be misfortune for the you
of child and England.
,or- When is it likely, should their wheels of ft
'oet tune prove auspicious, that these three be
the will assume the round and top of sovereig
lar TYP" Here the science of the actuary comes
ady our aid. 1t informs us that the probability
wife human life is two-thirds Of the difference
son. tween the age of the person and eighty. No
eing Louis Napoleon is sixty, therefore the probal
lily, duration OF his life is twothirds of twenty,
e of in round numbers, thirteen years. Leavi
nci- wholly out of the reckoning the aged King
by Prussia, the Prince Royal of Prussia, husba
ord of the Princess Royal of England, is thirty nj
the consequently his life is estimated at TWEEN
Hbo n,,aan oP EnolonI
fifty, therefore she may live twenty years mo
The Prince of Wales is twenty-eight, so &
ltors he may have a lease for thirty four years.
orm- cordng to this calculation, which it is to be
,ntly served is based upon numbers merely, with
nus, taking into account any of the attendant
eple cumstances in either case, and can, thereto
stee- only give the merest approximation TO
by TRUTH should the Emperor Napoleon,
lSO Prince of Prussia, Queen Victoria and
nica- Prince of Wales survive and reign to the
then of their actuarial lives, these three priu
This would ascend their respective thrones az,
his Prince Napoleon, the age of twenty-six yea
lIged for Prince Frederick William Victor Alber
4 at the age of thirty nine years But, inasml
from as it would be against all probability that Il
! tor parents lives would run to their close conc
'haln rently, the doctrine of averages comes to
and assistance, and we find the likelihood tina
itua from twenty-three to twenty-five years he
ce OF all these boys will be crowned kings
ty in An English ,cotemporary,, djlating upon
tlon- same theme, thus says: What will be
ere a aspect Of their kingdoms, nay, the world, W
y, let they shall have arrived at their kingly st
The and all three be seated on thrones at the s.
ready time? We can only declare the problem tC
ed to at least, to be insoluble. For who could p
xe off nosticate what would be the probable condi
Irave of mankind and the nations of the earth a q
d let ter Of a century hence? At present five &
was Powers rule the civilized, that~is, the Chris
COM world: England, France, Prussia. Russia
the United States of America. Will the
: 40 tive positions they at present occupy be m
ian in tanned for twenty five years more2 At the
D her of that period, will France be found con
heart witha Napoleon and her present boundar
young Prussia satisfied with the whole of Germs
b u Russia hating ON the shores Of the Bospho