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VOLUME o---No. 12.
Exit Napoleon-The Empire Exploded.

Exit Napoleon-The Empire Exploded.
Charles Louis Napoleon, otherwise called
Napoleon l!l, is the youngest son of Louis;
King of Holland, and Hortense, daughter Of
the Empress Josephine, and was born in Paris,
Aprils20, 1903. His early life, after the battle
of<Waterloo,' was spent in Switzerland and
subsequently in Italy. His principal tutor was
M. Labas, strong Republican, and from him
he imbibed those beautiful ideas of Republic
canism, which, in after life, he so pompously
expressed yetso fatally warred against.
After the death of the Duke of Reichstadt,
in 1882, he became the successor of the Great
Napoleon, not by regular Descent but by vir-
ture of the Imperial edicts, of 1904 and 1905,
which fixed the order of succession in the heirs
of Joseph, instead of the older brothers of the
first Emperor. Soon after this, Louis seemed
to have come to the conclusion that destiny
had fixed upon him as the deliverer of the
French Republicans, and, in connexion with
Colonel Vaudry, and other officers of the gar
rison of Strasbourg, on the 30th of October,
1885, he proclaimed revolution. This attempt
to raise himself resulted, in q few days, in g
miserable failure. Taken prisoner by Louis
Philippe, instead of being executed for insur-
rection, as he expected, he was, through the
ihtercession of his mother, merely banishedthe
kingdom. s..ss,,, ,,,;..s,iill:... = .ess,s
Coming to this country, he led a life of idle
ness for some time, and then went to South
America. Soon after, he returned to Europe,
andre-visitng his sick motherat Arenenburg,h he
reached there just in time to witness her death.
Here, he soon commenced various publications
in defence of his Strasbourg fasco, which caus-
ed Louis Philippe to demand his expulsion
IL La
ly withdrew, and took up his residence in Eng
land. Here, he occupied his time in writing
ldees Napoleoniennes, and in getting up another
revolutionary expedition.
In 1910, accompanied by Count Montholon,
an old friend and fayorite of the Great Empe-
ror and retinue of about fifty persons he SAIL
ed from Margate, and in few days after LAM
ded at Bologne, marched to the barracks and
called upon the soldiers to surrender or join his
standard. This they refused-a few shots were
exchanged, when the nephew of his uncle re-
tired to the hills where he was soon after cap
tured. He was tried for treason before the
House of Peers-was defended by Berger, con-
victed and sentenced to perpetual imprison-
ment in the Fortress of Ham.
In 1846 he managed to escape from prison,
and two years after when the Revolution of
184S broke out he repaired to Paris, and was
chosen deputy to the National Assembly from
the department of the Seine and three other de-
partments. An effort wss made in the Assem-
bly, to effect his banishment, which movement
was led by Lamartine, but after 81 stormy. de:
bate he was admitted to his seat He was then
professedly strong Republican, and as the
known pupil of Labas received much credit
for his sincerity -;
In May, 1850, he was elected President of
the Republic by a large majority. Though
nominally Republican, it was soon discovered
that his government was directed mainly to
strengthening his own power and the revival OF
Napoleonic ideas. Changarnier, staunch Re-
publican, who commanded the army OF Paris.
was dismissed from his command in 1851, and
the legislative assembly which showed some
consistency in refusing to yield to his personal
wishes, were startled on the I'd of December in
that year by the promulgation of an order by
the Prince President, as he had come to be desA
ignated, declaring Paris in state of siege, dis,
solving the assembly and placing $50 OF the
most conspicuous of its members under arrest.
At the same time a decree was published, es-
tablishing universal suffrage and ordering an
election for President for ten years. OF course
the "Nephew" was elected, and he Immediately
set to work preparing for the Empire. In 1852
a national guard was established, and new or
ders of nobility issued. Later in the year the
people were required to vote on plebiseitum,
recognizing the imperial dynasty in the person
of Louis. The majority was largely in his ia.
yor, and thus was founded the new Empire,
which, on the I'd of September, 1870. went out
amid the smoke of battle, the boom of artil-
cry and the red glare of Prussian needle guns
on the bloody heights of Sedan. 80 81 a..EsI
The Empire is ended-the nephew OF bis
uncle is disgraced, dishonored and dethroned.
The victorious host of William turn their faces
towards Paris-the long coveted metropolis
and the rich valleys of the Moselle, the Meuse,
the Aube and the Seine will, ere long, wake to
the echos of the triumphant tread OF Williams
soldiery. In less than ten days the shadow of
Notre Dame will fall upon a serried line OF
armed invaders and the subdued tones Of cathe-
dral bells greet the ears of the rude North men
in their temporary bivouac on the heights
around the apparently doomed city,
The Emperor dethroned-Trochu Dictator.
These be strange words One short month ago
Napoleon the ILL., grand Emperor of heroic
France. was the talismanic word which walked
to life the slumbering fires of the, French SOL
diery.. But one short month back and them
Who now, by the voice of the people, takes the
absolute command of La belle Francois, was
not known beyond the limits of the small CO.
terie of officers who had shared his tolls and
successes in Africa. r The star of, Louis has set.
That of the youthful Trochu appears for the
first time above the horizon. With best wishes
for his success, we shall anxiously await the de-
pelopments of the next few days.-Augasta
Chronicle. -, tF b. .r@l
TIE HOUSE OF ORLEANs4-Now, that the
present complications in France may at any
moment revive the Bourbon dynasty, it is in
teresting to know who and what are the present
representatives of that ancient family. The
last King of France was Louis Philippe, de-
scendant of the Orleans branch of the Bourbon
family. His eldest son; the Duke of Orleans,