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Show Prinnn Napoleon's Wilt. Cincinnati Enquirer. Some way much popular interest fciciiis to attach to this subject; and so it is sought here to explain it. Under the Code Napoleon, as amond-ed amond-ed by the legislature of the third empire, em-pire, it was declared that the sovereign might name his successor to the iniper- ial throne within his own family, and that this power should pertain to all successors thus nominated. The third Napoleon selected his son, who was killed in the Zulu war. That son, before he died, acting uuder tho advice of his mother, Ku-penie, Ku-penie, made a will nominatintr as his successor the 1'rince Napoleon who has just died. Tho prince had two sons Victor, the first-born, and Louis noxt. Ho lirst made his will leaving the succession to Victor. Then Kugenie quarreled with him, and Victor espoused her cause, in defiance of his father. So the father rejected Victor, made a new will, and left all his property to Louis, nominating him also his political heir. The I'.onnpartists of France, such as there of them, profess to repudiate this will, and insist upon sustaining Eugenie and Prince Victor. lint under tho code Napoleon they cannot do it, you know. The will of Prince Jerome must carry or the code Napoleon goes down. ll does not much matter, for the reason that Itonapartism is long since dead in Prance. Louis will get the little property that his father lett, and Kugenie will take care that Victor does not go hungry. Hut neither will ever realize anything on tho political legacy. |