The New York herald., 1879-07-03

We do not feel strong enough to discuss talk.
Our very enemies il they have little feeling will
understand the poignant grief to which, body and
soul, We must to-day give up ourselves. There is
no room tor anything else & our nS wnlca absn IS CON
our grief. We have lost our chief. We mediate,
thinking only of the tomb and not yet of the Throne
Gods will be done. If He visits cruelty so
severely it is because He has mpenetrable design
before which my Christian faith bows without muir
muring, imposing silence on the revolts which
fercely invade my mind
SEMI BON ApARrIsr AND LEGITINIsT
The semi-Bonapartist Liberte remarks :-"Perhaps
his premature end spares him the hazards and dis
tresses of life which politics would have spoiled
and chequered they did his fathers. He tried
by the ordeal of the battlefield" The
Estafette observes that the Prince Imperial has
died few hundred leagues from ST. Helena
at the age of twenty three Just as the Due de keich
stadt died in exile at the age of twenty-one what
strange destiny that of the Napoleons! The legiti-
mist organs express sympathy. The Union remarks
that the Prince bore a name which has shed all the
lustre of dazzling meteor and has undergone az
the hnmiliations OF great reverses ali tne
overwhelming responsibilities. He had TO penu
under the double weight of that glory and those
disasters whose terrible alterations have stapea
his with special and fatal sign. be.ween
Jena and Sedan the cup of Caesar was exhausted
Bonaparte had longer to mosten It's lips VIII ~;
The Prince resolved, at least to fall as soicr anu
his death African soil is like last ray on a. IN
peral lustre which in the history of the
has mingled military reputation with adven5urohs ,, %
schemes. We greet the Prince $ toiio WIN 'Ae
homage due to death on the battle hcid.
THE REPUBLICAN PAPERS.
s'In presence of so tragic an end says the Journal
des Dtbafs 1--WE only remember one thing-that
Prince Louis Napoleon was frenSn man anu, anu tns'
he has died soldiers % aea5n as 90 @ we nomd oehd do
before that of every child OF france VINO mas
been struck down while hgnting Tor friendly
this land of Africa is fatal to those who bear the
name of Napoleon. The First Napoleon died ut st.
this one perishes at the age OF twenty-three
in the service of England pierced by the assegai
of Zulu The mind is con confonnded by
certain moments and in certain families, and it is
impossible not to experience sad impression when
we think OF this unheard OF destiny, which begins at
the Tuleres to terminate on the soil Of Africa in
fight that has not even a name The Temps
says:-"The hopes Of the most declared and
centrated in the Prince, who was the last
incarnation of the imperial legend. The
of them clericals, others democrats, but the
Empire held them together, and now they will dis
and the clerical another while the legendary element
has no longer any individuality to which 1T can
attach itself. Fol. the great majority OF the ma.
tion the Empire had disappeared for ever, but
Imperialism still influenced a minority of par
tisans The death the last representative OF the
Casarian regime has just surrendered this minority
the Republic which has only itself to reckon
with. The Republic can afford to show itself all the
more moderate, it is now all the more invulner-
in the country has, its necessary consequence
the ailaying Of excitement. The nation having
TO fear that IL De arrested on lts rOau Dy
adventurous attempts, can avoid all impatence and
anger and it is thus that the death OF the heir Of
Napoleon Ill. becomes u national event"
HISTORICAL MEMORIES.
perhaps, remarks the Ltterte, 1.-The Princes prem
ature end spares him the hazards and trials of
sch hs case 0His Ms ns
the presence of DEATH, says the Monitev,
universal political divisions should be silent. As
for ourselves, do not hesitate to bend respect
fully before the coffin of him who the Prince
Imperial. Nor do we hesitate to incline before the
mourning of the woman thrice sanctifed by misfor-
tune. who has borne the title OF Empress Of the
French. There is not mother in France-and. we
may add, there is not man Of heart-whom her
sorrow does not strike and her grief does not touch
The remarks of the Pays and the France have al
ready been given in the HERALD. The National
the he esss Of frsna. tine ba
not atenuate the gravity OF the disaster which des
tiny has inflicted upon the enemies of the Rep ublic
The Estdfete remarks that like the Prince Imperial,
the Duke de Reichstadt son Of Napoleon l., died ON
foreign SOIL at Sch0nbrunn. in 1882. aged
rni riai was % txensythres years Of age Both were
born in the Tuilerics. Both suffered the pains
of exile What strange destiny is that Of the Nspo-
leons eft is impossible to add anything to the deep
emotion which suddenly spread through all classes
of the Paris population upon the receipt Of the
spoitical resentment and party hatred suddenly
eaced. and have given place to nothing but stupor.
and to that COMMUNICATION which unites all hearts in
the presence OF great human catastrophes.
RCu2E MADRID. s
The Roman clerical press comments in . despond-
ing tone on Louis Napoleon y ueatn Inc OSseTrQ-
Roaaano discussing the probable policy of the
Bonapartists, passes Jerome in silence. and
hints the Likelihood Of their exerting themselves in
favor OF moderate popular regime The Voce Della
Veritd remarks that the Bonapartist party, to
which the future of France appeared to belong will
be all the more disconnected by the death of Louis
Napoleon, by it the right to the En-
pire devolves upon Prince Jerome. The
Madrid papers. says q correspondent. this even
ing express sincere coincidence for the Empress
and her aged mother, the Countess de Montjo who
received the intelligence to-day with deep grief
Her house has been crowded all day by noblemen
generals and statesmen, who signed the visitors
book to express their sympathy. The dowager
Countess is over eighty years of age.