Daily globe., 1879-06-25
THE HEARr-BROKEN MOTHER,
Etsgenfe at Chtselh,srst-H0,U She Received
the Ne,Us of Her 80n,ss-Death
lChiselhurst Special June 2O) to Chicago
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Times
From this green exile of the ex-empress of
the French the Times correspondent cabled
on tho 8th of this month the first news that
Prince Louis Napoleon had been under fire
and had behaved gallantly. On that day the
Times correspondent was present in the
chapel where the empress was at mass. She
sat behind two empty chairs, and afterward
kneeled in the shadow of the lonely tomb of
Napoleon III. In the cures house, later in
the day, the Times representative talked
with
THE ERREss' PRIVATE ooNFEsson,
who related how anxious the empress was
about her son. She had given reluctant
consent to his going to the Zulu war, and
ever since hts departure had been more than
usually melancholy. We talked of her hopes
and of the hopes of the great French party
in tnat boy, though the Times correspond
ent gathered from other sources that what
are generally known in Paris as Bonapartist
inrrlgues found no special encouragement at
the little modest
COURT OF cH1sELHURsr.
Mother and son were in favor of waiting
for the time when France might call them
back again. Both earnestly forbade in their
behalf any violent interference with the
peace of the republic. We little thought as
the empress passed out of the chapel to her
unpretentlous carriage that
HER SON WAS ALREADY DEAD,
q victim to the assegais of the Zulus. The
news which was cabled to the Times on that
day was supplemented few days afterward
by the London press accounts of the princes
GOODNESS under fire. On the 10th came re-
port of his narrow escape from Zuln am
buscade. Hardly had the empress ex-
pressed thanks God for her sons deliver
ance than there followed circumstantial &C.
count OF his death, of which the Times was
duly informed yesterday.
LADY FBERE
sent the news to Lord Sydney, intrusting
him with the melancholy duty of breaking
it to the princes mother. The queen ap.
proved of this. Lord Sydney came here
and met the cure, and they together told the
broken-hearted mother that she was now
alone in the world. All night she was
ON HER KNEES
and to-day was almost insensible. It is fear
ed she may die of grief. The prince of
Wales brought the queens message himself.
Lady Bnrdett Coutts is here. This pretty
village is alive with great persons on missions
>of mercy. kilograms are coming from all
quarters. The Republicans ana Imperiaiists
of France alike send
MESSAGES OF SYMPATHY.
At present the object Of their solicitude
has only brief intervals in which she recoo-
nizes what is passing. There is hardly dry
eye in all the crowd at Chiselhurst where the
unostentatiOus kindness of the French
royal. family has endeared them to all
classes.
TIE STORY OF DEATH
Is as brief as it is bloody. Surprised in an
ambush of "mealles,' not unlike patch
of American corn, he himself gave orders
to mount and retreat, being the last to
follow his own command. The prince
his saddle, for, when the others arrived at
q place Of safety, his horse came eallop
ing in rderless. A party formed to recover
the body and found it stripped naked, and
stabbed in eighteen places BY asseeais. Two
troopers of the party were found lying near
similarly stabbed. They packed the bodies
and brought them into camp.
THE PRINCES REMAINS
received military honorz and were sent to
the rear to be dispatched to Chisel.
hurst, where they win be buried in
the mortuary chapel where his father lies
and where his mother werships. The jour
mails express the national sorrow to-day
in simple eloquence. In England the event
of course, has no political significance. In
France it will disorganiD the Bonapartisi
party. and help to strengthen and consoli.
date the republic.