The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-16

TO write 1t without faults IN spelling. Perhaps
this was because she had little time for study.
and was not OF a mood studious enough TO avail
herself OF time even mad she had It, Her favorite
books were the novels of Edmond About and
Arsene Houssaye. and her pet paper the Vie
Fdftsienne. There was always an impression
abroad that she took ardent part in politics,
and the Parsians disliked her in consequence; but
1t may be said tnat her political influence was
always exerted in an unobstrusive way, and was
characterized by good sense and prudence. This
was owing probably to the fact that she had not
her mother by her to pour too energetic counsels
into her ear. Napoleon Ill., who had early formed
the same opinion OF his mother-in-law as the Duke
OF Alba had done before him. had finally stpu-
lated that this clever lady should betake herself
away from Paris and never return to it. Nor did
she return to it. When the Empress wished to see
her mother she went to Barritz, and met her. as
1t were, on the Spanish frontier. At other times
she resided in Madrid, keeping up such
high state that her mansion was a rival
Court to Isabela's. Since the fall of the Second
Empire the Empress has been living in England,
at Chiselhurst, ana spending a great deal OF money
to enven the Bonapartist propaganda. Despite
the declarations which have been MADE TO the con-
trary, the Emperor was very rich. He had saved
enough TO insure his son a truly princey revenue
In case OF adversely; and for some time after the
war those Bonapartist papers in Paris the Gaulots,
Pays and Ordre, were supported wholly by sub
sides from Chiselhurst. The Ordre Is supported
still, and OF the innumerable Napoleonic PAM
phlets, songs and tracts which are at this moment
being circulated over France to advocate plebiS-
cite there scarcely that Is not paid for by the
Empress Her Majesty has a firm faith in the
restoration OF her son, and 1t Is whis-
pered among her intimates that believing,
Snirit liam OH hos
frequently consulted the spirits through the
medium OF Mr.. Home and has been assured by
them that she "will die in her bed at the rebuilt
Tuieries and that Napoleon Nv. will avenge the
misfOrtunes OF Napoleon ILL.," So be it. Mean
while the Empress in her widowhood has been sur
rounded by the universal Difference OF English
men. even OF those who feel no sympathy for the
cause with which her name Is identified; ana
Chisehurst has thus been not wholly house Of
mourning to her. She speaks English very well
and writes 1t better than she does French.
lew words now about
THE PRINCE IMPERIAL OR NAPOLEON ".
Louis Eugene Napoleon was born on the 10th Of
March, 1855. When two years OF her married life
had passed without the birth Of heir his mother
made VOW that If q son were given her
she would build chapel to the Virgin, and
this votive church was built on grand
had an English nurse provided for him, and he re-
NAMED under her charge till his seventh bir thday,
so that he spoke English before he could pronounce
his own tongue and he speaks 1t still with remark
able nuency and q pure accent. All through his
childhood and bOyhOOd the Prince Imperial had an
inseparable companion in the person Of young
Louis COnneau. son OF the DR.. Conneau who
abetted Louis NapOleons escape from Ham, and
this boy, who is his daily companion to this hour,
has been as good as a second tutor to the Prince,
so keen witted is he and so frank. In his early
tutors the Prince was not very fortunate. One
man was found who began teaching his pupil re
publicanism; the next one turned out to be
affiliated to the Society OF Jesus, and was dis
missed before he could mould the boys mind to
ultramontane ideas. The Emperor then fastened
to be military eagle, and who proved himself at
FOrbach TO be military goose. Under this warrior
more cou-tly than erudlte, the Prince Imperial
learned smattering OF mathematics, little Latin
less Greek, but good deal Of Craftsmanship and
fencing Ae also learned history, but that was be-
cause he liked 1t and studied it by himself
quiet-mannered boy, naturally shy and disposed to
become more so by the diplomatic reserve contin.
ually inculcated upon him, the Prince had, never
theess, from mis- earliest childhood, considerable
fund OF shrewdness, and he used often to say, ~
Always Jake Oil my uaC 10 Tue ParlSlanS because
they take or ones crown so easily when they are
offended" He was entered on the roster of the
Imperial Guard when he was three years old, was
promoted to corporalship at five, to sereeantship
at seven and bore his sub-lieutenants epauet for
the first time when ne started with his
father for the German war; After the
peace, when Napoleon iii. was released from
his captivity at WilhelmshOhe. the young Prince,
who had been spirited away to England at the
first French defeats, was entered at the Wool
witch Academy, and he has just completed his two
years. course there. No favOrtism was shown
him in the matter Of studies. Although py two or
three years younger than most Of the other stu
DENTS he worked up the same subjects as they,
and has recently passed with credit an examina-
ton which would entite him to o commission II
he desired it. The chances are that he will not
make up his mind on this point till after his
eighteenth birthday and the events that may at.
tend the celebration of 1t in France.
II in q months time the prospects of restora.
ton seem remote, 1t is probable he will accept the
offer made him by Queen Victoria and enter the
army, waiting, like Mr.. Micawber, ''for some
thing to turn up" He is a handsome amiable
boy; capital horseman, ready with his money,
UNAFFECTED and much liked by his brother pupils at
Woolwich. II left to himself he would have gladly
joined them in all their amusements and rambes;
but this he was only allowed to do as regards the
amusements held within the college grounds.
From fear that he might be assassinated by Com
munatst refugees he has never been suffered to 60
out without the escort OF Viscount Clary and M.
Bachon, his two equerries, while couple OF pri-
vate Corscan detectives follow him about every.
where, well armed, at a distance Of fifty yards or
80. These precautions are necessary in the case
OF all who would wear a crown nowadays, and
known that throughout the Second Empire Napo-
leon ILL., greatest fear OF revoutionists was on ac-
count OF his boy, whom he loved with an affection
unusually deep and watchiul. If the Prince
went out in carriage not only might
an escort Of cuirassiers be seen gallop.
ing before and behind. but equerries, with
holsters omen cantered at either carriape door