The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-07-10
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% n,edsa Zulu on a. distant korie an d made [
after him.1. So ran. u sentence IN Q sNata.
paper which arrived here several weeks i
aee and. accorai ing to the London Times,
Il was .sst.iking y incident. Since then
the world has been startled by q still more
striking Incident. It appears that tbts time
it was q Zulu that 8 made after tue
PRICE, The Zulu was about bis duty not
se. ti,e prince, TO whom the English GOV
arnment had most clearly and distinct
10 denied any connection whatever Win
the army. We read In the "BigloW fa-
ners ,, j: ssEz fur war call II murder" ms.
NOV no true so far as the Governments
which declare war arc concerned, but u IS
not tr,1e of the individual soldier who Kills
Snen without personal object and by sane
finn OF custom and law. The Prince I'M
nertaL however, had no such sanction;
Every Zulu he killed was murdered. anu
one can only hope that he was too tnougnl-
less to know it, and that 1t was not Simply
TO obtain reputation for pluck. we nave
not bulletins from the home MADE desoIate
nv the death OF that Zulu on bis distant
kopie whom the Prince !" maze a1ler.-
C3roi1f I'M his {. Zululand :" describes very
fender love between Zulu mothers and
their sons. It is but too probable that our .
modern Caesars have fed on such meat OF
adu,ation that they live under feeling OF
privilege with regard to moral laws. III is'
ON the whole, however sad, well enough
FOR the world that rs they so live they 40 so
occasionally die. The lawless and sportiVe
killing OF Zulus, who had done him no
wong, was no doubt the very best moral
training for the work cut out Tor the
Prince BY the Bonapartist party; but
one NAV, without hard-heartedneas, re-
fleet that his future "success" would
have pierced the heart of not one,
but innumerable mothers, as tender as
that poor lady at Chiseiurst. Alas so
ends ssn,o gue7re," as she used to say be-
fore Gravelotte came. The agony OF the
childless widow IS hcartrendInS. am tola
that she said to those who were anxious at
her not eating, - will NOT die; shall 1--we
on to be hundred There IS indeed
more likelihood that something worse than
death may occur, and that the Second En-
pre may have for its monument another
living tomb OF lost reason besides the lady
of RaXimilian.
There are wild suspicious fitting about
the Partisan air. Some say that the Eng
lsh meant to get the Prince out ct the way,
a. David did Uriah. because he and tie
Princess BEATRICE were III love with each
other. Others say that the Prince recoiled
from the programme OF his party and
meant never 70 return. There has been,
indeed, some talk OF 4 possible bctrothal
with the Princess; it is true also that the
Prince, when, just before his departure, he
took the sacrament and kissed his fathers
tomb, expressed desire to be placed
there should he be slain. But it
is certain that the Prince chiefly de-
sired relief from the ennui OF ChiselhuIst
and irksOme over-viglance allowing him no
freedom. On the way to Africa and up TO
the hour of his death the Prince was the
eayest of the gay. 1t is also certain that
there was no foreigner living whom the Eng
lsh Government and army were More anX-
ious to protect from harm or would have been
better pleased TO have wed Beatrice could
he have been carried to the French throne.
One fa0 has been eSnecialg prominent
since his death-a fact which dries the tears
of all the friends OF Republican France:
Official England has been until now the
very nest Of the conspiracy against
France. Imperialism was steadily erect
ing its stronghold here and leveiling
its guns across the channel. The per-
turbation here at the Princes death is OF Il
kind that amounts to revelation that the
succession OF the Prince had become part
of the Tory policy. Furthermore, the same
eat has Jumped out OF that deep bag held
jby Bismarck. Instead of the competency
which might have been anticipated in Der
lin at the death of the heir OF Napoleon ILL.,,
vino underwent his baptism OF tire" at
| German hands, there has been disclosure
of bitter disappointment at the removal OF
| This Damocicsian sword from above the
| French republic. France has thus fair
warning that her republican regime IS sur
rounded by enemies. Not without req
son. for her constant consolidation OF free
government is reactin: terribly on the
growing imperialism OF England and Ger
many.
The disappointment OF the English I'm
perialists at this death is enhanced by every
| disagreeable incident. The event has in
splred the severest and most humiliating
criticisms by military journals upon the
plumbers and Incomnetences Of the Eng
lsh Journals. Of which this is salient il
lusration. The German papers are esnC-
cialy severe. They have been endorsed by
Lord Beaconstield, who smoke in Parlia-
ment Of the Princes death as "a cruel and
needless sacrifice" That an English army
OF 10000 soldiers, kept in the field ut a cost
f So, 100000 a month, should be held at
bay by tn, sc Zulus is itself Il perpetual hui
initiation. In the biography n Cdvour, by
his nephew, Napoleon III. is shown to
have said to Cavour that there were but
three men in Europe who had to he taken
into account. One, he frankly owned, was
himself, the other was Cayour; the name OF
the other he would not give; and never
gave, though often pressed. 1t was before
Bismarck's time; it would indicate far
sightedness il he meant his friend Di>raeli.
The Daily News thinks he may have meant
Prince Napoleon; and having some per-
Sonal knowledge OF the Prince, can un-
derstand that he may have been the man.
| He is powerful man with an unfuItiled
career. There is something impressive in
the fuct that whiIet the late Emperor was thus
conyersing with Cayour about the Three
Fates OF Europe, the particular Fafe whose
shears were to cut the thread OF his own
line was lurking in the maize field OF
Zuuland. But l do not feel The sense or
security which others do about the result
OF this event upon France. The Inree
Parc8 OF Europe are now Beaconsheia,
Bismarck, and Prince NAPOLEON. VI 'uese
three the only man from whom any mercy
for French Republic could be expected IS
the MIN most interested to oVeftpro" IL.
Napoleon III. had sworn solemnly anu Ior-
mally to support the republic he betrayed.
Prince Napoleon is bound by no oath, while
his antecedents are Of Just the kind which
may enable him to remain in Paris and I'M
dermine the Republic under disguise Of his
record. Every Prince has his price. 1t is
ntopian to hope that the same stock which
has borne Napoleon the First and Napoleon
the Third is now about to flower into
great hero of humanity.