New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-02
THE CHISELHURST FESTIVAL.
HOW TT WAS OBSERVED.

fFROx THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRiBUSyI
LONDON March 17.-The Bonapartists are probs-
bly, the ccverest people in the world at organizing
a spontaneous manifestation of popular feeling.
They had twenty years practice why should they
not be perfecti Yesterdays affair at Chiselhurst
in honor of their young Pretender's birthday wn
one of their great successeS-grcat considering the
circumstances. They can no longer put their hands
into the public pocket and take without stint tho
hire of a shouting mob But the hope of being
again able to goes great way, anh tho
number Of French people who wet TO
Chiselhurst yesterday with lively of possible
favOrs to come is reckOned by smiling reporters
AT i've or SIX thousand. There many French
mon Of many classes. There were peasants ami
workngmen. say Bonapartists, which may be true
suppose it costs no TO hire real peasants and
workngmen than to hire ex-pOlicemen and dress
them up in real peasant and workinGmen costumes.
A, funds are not now unlimited. whichever WA
cheapest was undoubtedly done. And there Wers
considerable numbers of people who certainly did
not require to be paid in cash.
There were, it ia ayerTed, Populations from cVery
Department in France. which IL not Improbable, ~
| a Department includes average something
like half million Of people among whom 1t canno'
be difficult to find BOnapart5ts Jealous enough 70
take journey to England Oh so solemn an OCCASION
The Journey il must in fairness be added, is very
he ia a stay-at-home creature and if he travels he
| has particular and not wholly unreasonable dislike
to crossing the channel All this the BoDapartiss
| managers made allowance for. and they took
| great pans to make the pilgrimage easy
| In tho French papers OF ten days ago
| appeared a notice from the committee signed.
| | believe, by no less a person than the Duo
dc Padoue, assuring the faithful that on application
| they would DO furnished with every information.
both how to get to London. and as to the means OK
| subsistence while there You would imagine they
| were making journey to Timbuctoo. Ladies came.
though not many and for the last two or three days
| YOU might meet them every now and then IN the
streets of London. If you did not know they vera
| French by their faces, you would know IL by a GER
! tain delicate jauntlness Of costume. aud by their
smart way of keeping their skirts out OF the mud
| Not even their boots would be muddy phenoms-
| non Goethe observed Of FTenchmen on memorable
march Az il is rather early in the season for Ameri
cans you naturally suppose every particularly wen
| dressed woman you meet in London to be French.
The list of princes and mobiles who come to do
| homage to the boy whom they hope to call. and.
indeed do now call, their sovereign, is long ono.
one prince Is c0nspicous by his absence oe::::.os
| PlonPlon, called of old more respectfully, Prince
| Napoleon, OF Prince jerome, cousin to the late
| Emperor; with more cleyerness, and what they can
| in Connecticut, smartness, and less Judgment than
any of the lot Long plotting secretly iof nus o""
behoof and against the Empress and her son. FFihcs
Napoleon has at last openly broken with them, ana
with the great body of the Bonapartlsts, who, fol
| that matter never much loved him. His ruling
| idea is that there should be Napoleon
| Egat6; and that he should be the man
| to play that part. How it ended with the other
| Egat6 he can hardly forget; but when did
Frenchman learn anything from history, or believe
in anything but logigls and his own personal suta
bleness and ability to run the universe, an the un-
suitabeness and inability of every other person than
himselfi One other of the family is absent Prince
| Pierre who shot Victor Noir, but upon my word l
| cannot recollect at this moment whether Prince
| Pierre be alive or dead 1t does not much matter.
The family always looked on him the black sheep.
He was not, in fact, any blacker than the Others,
| but had less skill in painting himself white.
Without these two there were still plenty of Bona
| parties five in all beside the boy beginning with
the respectable Prince Lucjen, and ending with the
| unimportant NJ Jerome OF names great under the
| Empire there no lack, and even of names great
| before the Empire was invented there were repre-
| sentatives-men who had never been horse jockeys
| nor adventurers; men whose ancestors were great
mobiles dozen centuries OF so before Corsica gave
| family of brigands to the world and of rulers TO
France. 1t is odd to the flower of the Faubours
|
side by side but is, and the French historian Of
| the next generation may moraiize on it at his
leisure. The men who sprung into notoriety with
tho Second Empire and whose only hope is in the
creation of Third, are here of course. and theiI
hold upon the Empress and the Young Prince is tenn
| pered by nothing but influence more fatal
than their own, that of the priests Astntc Rouber
| feather Drained Due de Gramont, foolish Pinard
| the Home Minister whom Paris laughed ont Of
office Grandperret, the attorney who invented the
| assassination plot the two Graners calling them.
selves de Cassagnacs, and the usual squad of Cors
cans with Pietr the modern Fouche, at their head.
are here. OF 81 Projects of the Empire, IS are said
| to have assembled at Camden House and they are
men who could put Tweed himself up 20 thingp
| worth knowing in the art Of ballot-boE
stuffing; strong listed fellows who never thought
| themselves so well employed as in suppresslng .
newspaper guilty of truthtellng or telegraphng Ia
Paris the particular public opinion the Emperor de-
sired reported in next days hOni'eur. Surprise w4
| expressed that NJ Emile Olivier should be absent
but the surprise is unreasonable. This is NJ RouheTs
| affair between whom and NJ. Olivier who super
seeded him on that fatal 10th January, Eot much
love is supposed to be lost The Empress even then
detested Olivier, and would hardly be civil to him,
and launched sweet epigrams at his young wife,
rich shopkeeper's pretty daughter, who had
| the i'll taste TO go to balls in dress that
did not expose the whole of her bust.
Imperiasts Of the Rouher- Cassagnac sort. with
characteristic truthfulness and generosity lay
all the blame of the disasters of 1870 on Olivers
shoulders forgetting tho maniac yels Of Berf,n,
with which they themselves hailed the war. Pocr
Olivier specialized schoolmaster as be looks light
heartedly leading his country to ruin in that sad
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