Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-20
The Latest Concerning the War
in South Africa---Advance
Movement Of the Brit
ish Forces.
Failure Of a German Cotton Firm in
Liverpool, which Causes a
Depression in the
Market.
England and France Unite in De-
Inanding an AbdicatiOn
of the KhediVe.
Miners TrOubles---A General SusDen-
sion Of Work Anticipated.

LONDON, y une zU.-Ine representa-
tions made to the khedive by the
French consul general were semi
official. The Pail Mall Gazette be-
lieves he is neither the only nor the
first consul to advise the khedive to
abdicate.
With reference to the match with
Courtney, Elliott states that he cannot
decide to row until after his match
with Boyd.
The following are additional par
ticulars of the death of the Prince
Imperial The body of the prince,
when found, lay on its back. There
were eighteen assegai stabs in it, two
of them piercing the body from the
chest to the back, two inside and one
destroying the right eye. A locket
with hair, medallions and relieguares
we're found around his neck. The
face wore a placid expression. He
had evidently Intellectually tried to
mount, the leather of the flaps
tearing. Two troopers lay near the
body, both assegaied. The prince was
very adventurous.
The official account says: The
prince, with Lieutenant Carey, of the
Ninety y-eighth regiment, six men and
one friendly Zulu, left the camp at
Kelitze Mountain, seven miles beyond
Blood river, on the 1st inst for the
reconnaissance party. They halted and
unsaddled when ten miles from the
camp. just as the prince gave the
order to remount a vOlley was fired
from an ambush in the long grass.
Lieutenant Carey and four of the
troopers returned to the camp and
reported that the prince and two
troopers were missing. From their
statements there could be no doubt
that the prince was killed. A party
of seventeen lancers, with an ambu-
lance, started on the I'd inst. to
recover the body of the prince, which
was found and brought in on the same
day."
A special dispatch says; "At day
break the cavalry patrol under General
Marshall left to make search for the
prince, and went to the kraals, ten
miles further on. The body was dis
covered among the long grass, some
three hundred yards from the kraal.
There was no bullet wound, but
seventeen assegai wounds were in the
front Of the body. His clothes had
been taken, but around his neck was
a chain with a locket. A stretcher of
lances was formed and the body borne
by General Marshall and officers
Drury, Lowe and Stewart, of the Sew
enteenth Lancers, to meet an ambu-
lance, by which it was then brought
hither with an escort. There was
funeral parade in the afternoon,
Deep sorrow prevails throughout
the column. The prince did not
mount after the attack, his horse
being rostive, but ran a-foot. The
corpse will leave with an escort for
transportation homeward.
News of the death of the prince
reached here at late hour last night.
AZ about one o'clock this morning
it was circulated in the lobbies of the
house of commons, when, in reply to
inquiries, Colonel Stanley, secretary
of war, read the foregoing official
telegram.
Lord Sydney, an old and tried friend
OF tho imperial family, has left for
Chiselhurst to break the news to the
Empress Eugene.
London journals, while deeply de-
ploring the princes death, regard it as
the eud of imperialism in France.
The following is the latest concern
ing the war in South Africa The
movement Of party of officers from
Colonel Woods camp to reconnoitre
was his FIRST step in the new invasion
Of Zululand. Lord Chelmsford, COM
mander. chief, and staff will accom-