The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-12
BY la MARouIsE DE FoNTENoY.

| the wedding OIL Prince NlClOF
! Bonaparte to Princess Clementine
of Belgium. at Moncalieri, tho
home of the backgrounds mother.
Princess clothilde, in tho neighbor-
| hood of Turin. Much speculation ex-
| lists as to the fortune OF the bride,
which is estimated at between two
and three millions of dollars, while on
the death of her demented aunt. the
Empress Charlotte of Mexico. she will
doubtless receive a share of the latter's
estate, the amount of which remains,
for the present at any rate. mys-
terry. Its original figure stood in the
neighborhood of eight millions of dol
lars, that is TO say, at the time of her
marriage to the ill.fated brother OF
the Emperor OF Austria. But whether
lit was sduandered by her brother, the
late King Leopold who persisted in
retaining its management In his hands,
declining to render any account, or
whether 1t has gone on doubling itself
again and again during the last half
century no one except King Albert
and the executors OF his uncle's will
have any knowledge
Whatever Princess Clemcntine's for
tune is, however. it will prove a per-
t9ct godsend to Prince Victor. who
has suffered for years past from very
straitened circumstances. 1t Is true
that he receives an allowance from
Empress Eugene, but 1t is by no means
large. and somewhat grudgingly paid.
for Eugene, who was SO extravagant
when on the throne. has become eX-
tremely economical in her old age.
Princess Mathilde's fortune, which was
small, went partly to her morganatic
husband and partly to Prince Victor's
younger brother. Prince Louis. who
also inherited the whole OF his fathers
property, Victor being disinherited,
and receiving nothing but his fathers
flial conduct Victor has also been
receiving small allowance from his
mother, Princess Clothilde, but he has
experienced great difficulty in max
| ing both ends meet, and In living, not
as prince of the blood, but even
as mere gentleman of leisure, 1t
being doubtful whether his total In
come has ever exceeded $4,000 year,
If indeed as much.
1t has been expected that Prince Louis
would have helped him; but unfoT-
tunately Louis, though exceedingly
a deaf ear to all the offers made to
him of the chieftaincy of the Bona
partist party and Of the role OF I'M
pcrialist Pretender,, developed craze
! for gambling. which rendered II COM
pletely out Of his power to assist Nics
tor: in fact landed him in such en-
barrassments as TO cause him TO Tor.
felt the good will of the Car and OF
the imperial family OF Russia, by
whom he was formerly treated as
was withthe rank OF general OF Rus
sian cavalry, and with the ORDER OF
st. Andrew
1t is this impecuniositY of Prince
Victor that has rendered him SO harn
less as pretender, since he has had
no money whatsoever to make 1t pos
slble for him TO subsidize any organs
of the French press, or TO employ
paid agents of his cause. Wheth 2
/ Princess Clementine's money VIII Ne
used for the organization OF P so!,ar
partist propaganda in France In FAVOR
of the restoration of the Napoleonlc
empire remains to be seen. 1t was the
fear Of something Of the kind th q !.
led King Leopold, who IN spite L, o. !, ms
to Withhold his consent to the, marriage.
Prince Victor, by the by. dtsllkes to ne
/, known by that Christian name, when
| he owes to the fact that he Is a
grandson Of the late King Victor I'm,
| manuel. and insists on being stylea
| prince Napoleon.
| Nowhere have I seen mentioned the
Ifact that Luccheni, the assassin OF lSm-
press Elizabeth, who committed su,.
1 eide couple of weeks ago IN ms
| prison at Geneva, attempted some
| years back to murder NJ Purrin, tnee
/, governor Of the jail, with the sans
\ snecies Of wesnon as that when ne
had used to kill the consent of I'm,
/, peror Francis Joseph, namely, small
lille which he had sharpened 70 an
extremely fine point BY rubbing on
1.-THE stone floor Of his cell, In tact,
his frequent attacks upon the GOV
ernor and warders are said to nave az,
hastened the premature death OF the
former. by keeping him In constant
state of anxiety
1T will naturally be asked how SO
dangerous a prisoner happened to,have
a file in his possession, The eXplnna-
ton is to be found in the fact that he
was employed In the bookbindery de-
partment of the institution. and that he
| had managed to secrete one of the
tnn1s 1T was one OF his moro than