The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-13
THE BoNAPARTE MURDER.

FROM the N. I. Tribune
The lists are being drawn in France. Prince
Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, cousin of the
Emperor Napoleon, has murdered NJ Victor
Noir, friend of that champion hater of the
empire, M. Henri Rochefort The latter had
been challenged by the Prince, who would
have warmly embraced any fair opportunity to
shoot him. but as it was, M. Grousset insisted
upon his right to duel of which his article
in M. Rochefort's paper, the MarSeiHajse, was
the cause Accordingly, two friends of the
trenchant writer waited upon the Prince who
in the course of an alteration, but not until
Gas he himself says) he had been slapped in
the face by M. Noir, drew pistol and shot
that gentleman dead. The deed was one of
dreadful rashness; in short, murder The
Prince received doubtless such keen provoca-
tion as to have made a veteran of his ardent
temper anxious to kill or be killed in an en-
counter with that prince of bitterness, M.
Henri Rochefort Nj. Rochefort has at one
time claimed rank and title, and would have
been no unworthy match for bad-tempered
prince, willing to do his family service.
But the wrong man has been shot, and the
murder gives q new argument to those who
are eager to excite the greater duel, not be-
tween a count and prince, but between the
people and the empire
Such is the meaning of the demands which
M. Rochefort has made, with increased tenn
known Deputy, Nj. Guyot-Montpayroux, has
moved that princes of the royal blood shall be
made amenable to the law, by which we are
to understand that, unless the Legislature
takes some special action on the case of
Prince Pierre, nothing can be done to him.
1t is plain, from the report sent us by cable,
that the proceedings of the Corps over the
subject of the murder have been unusually
demonstrative and menacing. M. Olivier
to have said:-"We are Justice. moderation
law; if you force us, we will be power" These
are brave words, spoken on the strength of o
great many bayonets and of an absolutism
still strongly fortified in France. The threat
of the Minister in reply to that of the Depu-
ties illustrates the temper of the proposed
duel between the Empire and the
people, and it must be again &C.
knowledged that the former counts
upon vast odds. Even the shooting of a man
of the people by prince of the blood is not
enough to drive Paris or Lyons into frenzy;
for it will be remembered, perhaps, that
Prince Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte has been,
with all his faults, one of the most democratic
of those who have borne his name. The en-
pire, however, stands ready to champion the
cause of its own blood, for we observe that it
has retorted upon the demands of theincensed
radicals by moving for the arraignment of Nj.
Rochefort for an outrage against the Empe-
ror, and for exciting violence. This action
! will serve to define more sharply the expected
battle in the Legislative Corps. NJ Rochefort
charges prince of the House of Bonaparte
with murder; the Emperor charges M. Roche
/ fort with outrage; and on this issue France is
| called to decide Here are materials for
many scenes in the French Legislature, with
perhaps q chance for the exhibition of bayo-
nets.