New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-16
ENGL1yD AND FRINGE.

English scntimentalism is not appreciated
across the Channel. French Republicans are
at loss to understand why the young Louis
Bonaparte should be followed to his grave by
the Queen and her family, and why Dukes
and Princes should set up his statue in West
minister Abbey. France is n Republic, not au
Empire and the young cadet who sailed the
seas in search of military adventures and died
like a soldier of fortune, with his face to the
foe and his comrades far behind him, was
Pretender 10 the thrOne-the son OF an I'M
principled intTiguer, who cheated his country
men out of their liberties. He WAS the cham
pion of cause which has been voted down
by overwhelming majOrities, and which is now
ridiculed by the best elements Of French So
ciety. Yet in England he is buried with pomp
like Prince, and mOurned by the leaders OF
fashion as a hero and a martyr.
The Steele is one of the journals in which
French Indignation over the scenes at Chlsel-
hurst and the ThapsOdies of London society
finds vent. At the risk of being charged with
exaggerated susceptibility it cOnfesses that
France has not beheld without establishment
the display of funeral pomp and the tribute
of flowers and rhetoric TO one who was no
1
is no longer an Empire. 1t intimates that
it would bc better for England not TO create
a belief that she mourns at heart the death
of the son of Napoleon III. rather than the
unfortunate refugee who was killed III her
service 1t wonders what England would say
if she had another Charles Edward to deal
with and if Frenchmen were to go half so FAR
as she herself has gone in this instance.
Ii lays stress upon the rumOr that the
Prince of Wales in an afteT-dinner speech had
stated that the Prince Imperial would have
made an excellent sovereign, and contends
that England has placed herself in an I'M
pleasant dilemma. Either the regrets so Os-
tentatously expressed over the mausoleum at
Chiselhurst are not sincere, and her aflecta-
ton Of grief is demOralizing spectacle, or
this affection is real and genuine, and implies
strange calculations. speculation and duplic
itv which will not bear the light Gambetta's
journal has articles in the same strain. 1t
maintains that the enemies of the Republic
must be forced to disam or else be driven
into exile, and is unwilling to accept the pro-
LESSONS of Prince jerome Bonaparte so long
as his faction wages Zulu war against ex-
listing institutions"
Thus for a second time in the course of a
few months have the relations between these
great States become clOuded. 1t cannot be
doubted that English sentimentalism has
been carried to too great lengths. The young
exile went to South Africa in quest of mill
tary prestige IN order that be might return to
Europe and, whenever the opportunity should
offer Itself, reassert his claims to the French
throne To win his spurs he engaged in one
of the most unnecessary and uniustifabe
wars of recent history. There was misman
agement at the British headquarters and he
lost his life. He made u brave end Of it, and
fought as long as he could. But why should
his statue find place in Westminster Abbeyl
Is it not England's duty to recognize
the fact that the government which French
men prefer is not an empires