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Show iiei.CE LOUS. Kflliu ot the French I iu-pcrlul iu-pcrlul fringe Loudon, 19. Reuter's dispatch from Cape Town, dated June 3, via Madeira, to-day, says Prince Louis Napoleon, Prince Imperial of France, accompanied by other oflicers, left Colonel Wood's camp lo reconnoitre; tbe party dismounted in a mealie field when the enemy crept upon them and aaragaied the Prince, killing him. His body was recovered. The limes correspondent writing from IMtzi Hill, cn the 2nd iust., sayc: "Tbe body of tbe Prmce Imperial Im-perial was discovered in a field of grass. I'here were no bullet wounds upou it, but there weie seventeen wounds, made by ussat'! thrusts. The body was found etripped and the clothes had been tukeu away. A dispatch from Cape Town, June 3d, says tbe news of the death of the Prince Imperial cast a gloom over the city. All Digs were flying at half maat. London, 20. Following are additional addi-tional particulars of the death of the Prince Imperial : There were eighteen assagai stabs in his body when found, two of them piercing the body from the cheat lo the back, two in the side, and one destroying the right eye. A locket, with hair medallions and reliquinary, were found around his neck. The face wore a placid expression. He had evidently ineffectually tried to mount, and the leather of the flap tearing, he ran along the path to where found, Official accounts say the Prince, with Lieutenant Carey, of the 9Sth regiment, regi-ment, bix meu and one friendly Zulu, left camp at Kelilzi Mountain, seven miles beyond Blood River, on the 1st instant, for a reconnoissance. The party baited aud unsaddled when ten miles from camp. Just aa the Prince gave the order to remount a volley was fired from an ambush in the Jong grass. Lieutenant Carey and four of the troopers returned to camp and reported that the Prince and two troopers were missing. At daybreak a cavairy patrol, under Gen. Marshall, left to search for the Prince, nd went to the kraal, ten milee further. One body was discovered discov-ered further along tbe grass, '300 yards from the kraal, The body was borne by Gen. Marshall and Officers Drury, Lowe and Stewart of the Seventeenth Lancers, to meet the ambulance, by which it was then brought hither with an escort. There was a funeral parade in the afternoon. after-noon. Deep sorrow prevails throughout tbe column. Tbe Prince did not mount after the attack, his horse being be-ing restive, but ran afoot. Tbe corpse will leave with an eBcorl for transportation transpor-tation homeward. News of the deafh of the Prince reached London at a late hour last night. At about 1 this a.m., it was circulated in tbe lobbies ef the house of commons, when in reply to inquires in-quires Colonel Stanley, secretary of oie iui wui, xtuu ma loregoing oin-cial oin-cial telegram : Lard Syduey, an old and tried friend of tbe imperial family, hasj left for Chi3elhurst to break tbe news to ex Empress Eugenie. London journals, while deeply de , ploring the Prince's death, regard it ; aa the end of imperialism in France. Prince Napoleon, who has beoome the head of tbe line, ia a democrat in politics, and distasteful fo the entire Bonapartist following. He haa two Bons, 17 and 35 years, respectively. Party loyalty may fasten around the name of one of these sons, but for the time the imperial counsels must be distracled, and the possibility of a return re-turn of the empire appeaia more Bhadowy than ever. Another special from South Afrioa eays the Prince Imperial had been sent forward by the quartermaster general to sketch the site for tbe next camp. When the volley was fired not a single Zulu was to be Been. The party diapersed and sought safety under un-der cover. The Prince wr.s never seen alive again. His boree joined Lieutenant Carey's party on the road back to camp. New York, 20. The Ilerald sayB : The Bonaparles came into prominence promi-nence as soldiers of fortune ; as a soldier of fortune their last figurehead figure-head has disappeared. Their reifen 1 was always one of brute force, and it ia fitting that by the aseagai of a brutal savage tho line haB been extinguished. ex-tinguished. Heaven save the world from another like it I The Courier rfcy Etat Unis says about the death of the Piiuce Imperial Im-perial : The Bonaparte party may be considered to have gone out of existence. exist-ence. Tbe republicans, instead of rejoiciug over the dramatic ovent which relinvfs them of the presence of a preteudunt of no man calibre, will rather think of this young man who probably would have worthily served his country il he hnd not been a Bono! Napoleon JH. |