The New York herald., 1879-07-03
THE DEAD PRINCE.
Views of the English and
French Papers.
TRIBUTES TO HIS MEMORY.
Grief at Chiselhurst and
at Madrid.

We gave yesterday from the Irish journals and the
London kilograms to them some incidents connected
With the reception of the news of the Prince I'm
perial's death in England. To-day We give from the
london Journals of the 2lst some further
"details and some interesting remarks from
The editorials and comments of the English
and French and other Continental journals. They
may be prefaced with fuller account OF the manner
In which the sad news communicated ut Camden
House. Among the letters brought to the Empress
by the last South African mail one bearing the
Cape postmark, from Mr. Biggs an old clsssmate OF
the Prince. 1t CHEEKY. joyous letter. brmfu OF
high spirits and told of all the little adventures OF
the Prince Imperial and his friends, of their
of '.roughing it, in the eld and what they thought
of the country and the enemy and OF their hopes OF
speedy and glorious end to the campaign. Hardly
had Her Majesty laid down this pleasant epistle
when she perceived note addressed to M. Pictri,
who is at present on the Continent 1t was from
friend in London and spoke Of "cete horrible nospee
from Zululand and altogether was couched in tones
OF the deepest grief.
BREAKING NEWS.
eThe Empress was alarmed and could not under
it, she sent for the Duke de Bassano and asked
him what it all meant what could this horrible news
from Zululand be? Alas says the Standard, the
Duke only knew too we'll, and it required all
from his august MISTRESS 1T must concern
u.s. said the Empress. for he offers us his con-
dolence.' The Duke spoke of some new disasters
TO troops and did his best to postpone the blow;
but the Empress, with the intuition OF motherly
fondness, through the thin disguise and cried
that something must have happened to her son
and that she would go out to the Cape to
Snt @ beside her ehd Ths Duke fatered and
made excuses to escape before his emo
ton betrayed him. Lord Sydney had arrived below
in the meantime and had confirmed the painful
tidings After brief interval the Empress again
summoned the Duke; she affected to appear COM
posed and insisted that he should tell her ALL that
she was prepared for the worst and that if neces-
sary, she would rejoin the Prince Imperial by the
next steamer .Helasi Madame. said the Duke.
.c'es trop tard' 100 late. Hardly had the fatal
words reached her when the poor lady sobbed
out. Mon Us! mon pd'.ore .fs'' The heartrending
that Followed Is of too sacred nature to be
dwelt upon. As soon Her Imperial Majesty had
got over the first awful paroxysm of anguish she
knelt in prayer until the arrival of the Able God
dard, her domestic chaplain and her own and her
sons faithful friend and counsellor.
ENGLISH JOURNALS
$50 died tho only son of Napoleon I'LL, says the
Pail Mall Gazette, land with him all the hopes and
aspirations which so long surrounded and for some
years exclusively centred in his person. 1t is
bitter rebuke to the vanity of human counses to re-
member-as even at this moment the remembrance
will force itself upon us-that terrible and disastrous
precipitated nine years ago i'll the interests
of that young life which. while thousands OF other
lives being spent in the struggle, was itself re-
served to be cut short in a nameess skirmsn and
by the hand Of savage. The hopes of Bonapart-
Zulu assegais have destroyed French political
party we'll q French prince Says the Times
'The Prince Imperial is dead For the time the coun
sells OF the imperxlist party in France must be dis
tracted and the possibility OF return OF the En-
pire must appear more and more shadowy in popular
glorious fashion, says the Daily Ne,cs, 's not the
least Of the misfortunes of this disastrous war. II
the Count of Paris had fallen in the great American
struggle in which he took the part of the North 1t
would have been felt that he had at least died in
cause worthy OF his fame: but the imperial dynasty
OF France has closed the its misfortunesby
death its representative in circumstances which
must always be associated with unalleviated DIS
aster. at Is difficult" says the Standard, ITO
imagine o stranger, sadder freak Of fortune than
that the heir OF q mighty race. the hope Of .
mish in Africa. in quarrel not his Great will
be the blow which 1t will inhict upon the hearts of
his advocates ID t % w the Inc hopes 1nnt nave % so
1t is the end of imperialism, for Prince Napoleon,
now the head of the family. Ii abhorrent to the
Bonapartists OF France"
From the Daily Telegraph
Promises and prospects, hopes and fears, aspira-
tions and antagonisms. lie all alike cold. con-
reposes the dead heir of the Napoleons. The
greatest and most stirring imperial record Of
glen OF south Africa by the spear thrusts of
barbarians. Romance has nothing to outdo the
startling effect of such an ending and fiction can
not distantly describe the heartaches and the
wrecked fair hopes Of which it is the source and
cause to-day. In the omniscient will of heaven
must be found the solution of these over
throws of human affections and defeats of
careful calculation. It seemed natural o
thing that the youthful manhood Of this Prince
should long for field OF action; slight peril to
give his gallant spirit its course Here is the
issuel funeral ship returning with the boy
ish corpse to be laid beside his fathers at
Chiselhurst; an Empress weeping with a grief
never to be comforted. and all England mourn
comrades would joyfully have sacrificed their
own to Yet be IL remembered with gentle
praise that Prince Louis has died innocent beloved
and in the brave discharge of the duty which he
assumed; let any fall into the folly Of thinking
thatlike the Zulu savage who struck down this inn
whom he smote-the hand of destiny strikes with
out motive and without mercy.
IRISH EDrroRIALs.
"June may be reckoned the moon accurst of the
Napoleons' says the Irish Times s.On a June day.
sixty-four years ago. the family were hurled from
the heights of empire to suffer long eclipse.
On June day, only three weeks ago, the
heir of the dynasty met bis death at tho
1t is doubtful IL the catastrophe Mount ST. Jean
was heavier misfortune for the Bonapartists than
the tragedy at Hyoloyozi River. Says the Freeman
J0unai:-"wo find scarcely parallel in all history
for sad close or great dynasty. The youth
thus butcherod by sayages In an obscure ARRAY bore
since the dynasty of the Caesars pershed. In the
short course OF single century we have
the sun of the NapoconidB rise,
blaze with noontide brIliance and go down. The
heir of the two Emperors, the granddaughter of the
mighty captain who laid the world at his feet and
bore the tricolor through Europe uncontrolled
the OF the victor OF Magenta and Solforno,
should have fallen great world battle de-
csive of the fate of empires and the dcstinies of
nations"
pAErs.
Says the Paris correspondent OF the Standard
"Among the nonpolitical public. the general feel
ing may be expressed by the words I have
heard hundred times il have heard
them :--Cest Jtcn cruel pour mere ; -
The 0Tdyc NJ. Rouher's organ. comments briefly,
apparently through inability to draw inspiration
from him before going TO press. 1t says:--
''fhe Prince Imperial is dead. We have but one
duty and one cal-pously to kncel before his tomb
and TO mingle tears with those shed the
young hero whom we mourn by his two so cruelty
visited mothers, the Empress and France"
Dc. CAssAGSAc.
NJ. dc Cassagnac, in the FuyS, is much less
served :--''Ttrrible. horrible has fallen on us
like thundercap. The Prince Imperial is dead.
The telegrams leave only the absurd foolish hope
obstinately cherished by those who stand erect
against adversity and refuse to believe in IT, even
when il clutches them by the throat. IL the thing
is true-and it must be so--we fcc neither the