The New York herald., 1870-09-26

against the government of that country, and
to the action of United States officials in con-
nection Herewith. The affairs OF Egypt
promise soon to occupy their share OF public
attention.
| The Emperor, the Empress and the Prince In
| Exile.
| Nothing is easier and, at the same time,
nothing is meaner than to kick the dying lion.
| The bitterest and most determined opponents
Of the imperial usurpation of December 2,
1851, can take no pleasure in the unmanly
abuse and contumely heaped upon the fallen
Emperor of France and his family by some Of
| the very creatures who cringed for his favor
and fed upon his bounty while he was in
power. We are glad to perceive that none OF
the decent republicans do this pitiful thing.
| Even Rochefort is conservative and silent,
and Victor Hugo suspends the denunciations
| of the ''chatments" that he inflicted when
| Napoleon was the master. Only the low ad-
venturers and lckspittles, who are ever ready
to kiss the feet of success and to leap upon
the PROSTATE body of misfortune, have per-
sisted in the howl that continues to follow the
dethroned family now in exile. The French
| people have dire cause indeed to cry out, in
system that have bequeathed to them such
legacy of humiliation; but the French people
were themselves very largely to blame, since
! they sustained that man and system by their
votes and vehemently called for the war. In
| fine, they pushed the Emperor into the field, If
the voice of their press be true, and now,
when assailing him, they are somewhat in the
position of those who
knock man down
And then kick him for falling.
| Our course has been plain and clear in this
whole matter. We have reprobated the attacks
of the empire on Germany and we have greeted
the formation of republic. But it is duty
| as well as right to pronounce justice, and
now, by much concurrent testimony, we are
informed that, despite feeble health and excru-
ciating pain, the Emperor Napoleon ILL., strove,
at the last, to do all that reasonable man
could do by the influence of his personal pres
ence on the battle field at Sedan Both French
and English correspondents state that he
was on foot among the troops from eight
in the morning until three in the afternoon
He first went to the corps of General Lebrun,
at Balan where the action was very fierce
encouraging the soldiers and displaying the
greatest coolness amid the storm of shot and
shell. He was four hours on the field in that
direction where the peril was most imminent.
AsssrYard waIle be was i9 the -, ,spb-prefecture
of Sedan, in the very centre Of an avalanche of
fire, several shells bQr,t on the root and in
the courtyard, and the adjacent streets were
hocked with bleeding corpses. Even then he
made no offer to yield until commander after
commander arrived to urge that further resist
ance would only involve the slaughter of the
whole army.
The Empress, too, toiled night and day with
her Ministers aud in the hospitals at Paris.
For two weeks preceding her departure she
hardly disrobed or slept, and all who saw her
pitied the anxieties that had nearly bereft her
even of the ordinary appetite for food,
while they sympathized deeply with the
tenderness Of heart that made her
daily pass laborious hours in the
military hospitals The poor young Prince
mere child in years-after being
buffeted about day after day and week after
week between the armies, was at Namur, in
Belgium, by the Emperor's order, pale, weak
and downcast, when he heard of his fathers
captivity He remained for few moments with
his head bowed and in tears then, looking up,
he said, ''All this is nothing should France
but be spared entire"
And now this little family OF three persons
The father, the mother and the son-are virtu-
ally banished from the soil of France, as well
as cast down FROM their high political estate
The head of the circle is prisoner, more
securely held than was the first Napoleon on
mis- rock at st. Helena-the modern Prone
theus with the vulture of disappointed
ambition that would have scaled the very
heavens gnawing at his entraiIs. The lesson
is most impressive one to men and nations;
the solace to the chief actors in the scene, let
all generous hearts believe, is the conscious
ness of having acted well their part in the
closing hour and having borne with dignity the
inevitable decree of fate. Napoleon, Eugene
and the Prince may prove far more worthy of
in their grandeur.
The Farragut Obsequies.
There seems to be some misunderstanding
between the managers of the Farragut obse-