SYDNEY.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 387, 21 June 1866, Page 2

SYDNEY.

We have received papers to the 4th instant. The telegrams, market reports, and other extracts, will be found elsewhere. The trial of Bertrand for the murder of Mr Kinder will take place in August. • Ihe Herald of the 29th ult. contains the following account of the death of the Prince de Conde, who expired in Sydney on the 24th ult. J H.it.H. Louis d'Orleans, Prince de Conde—the young Prince who died on Thursday night, 24th May, at Petty’s Hotel, Church-hill—although naturally possessing a weakly constitution, appears to have improved in health after his arrival in Sydney, and to have spoken frequently in terms of unreserved gratification with regard to his short sojourn in this country. He left Southampton on the 4th of February last, on a tour which was to embrace visits to all the colonies of Australasia, to Singapore, Java, Japan and China, Calcutta, Lahore, and other notable cities of India, and having passed through that country to Madras, he intended to sail thence for England. The time his father had arranged for his absence was eighteen months. During his stay in Sydney he caught a cold, whilst out late on a fishing excursion, but had evidently recovered from the effects, as he was subsequently in comparatively good health, rusticating among the Blue Mountains. It was whilst returning thence that he first received intelligence of the death of his grandmother, Marie Amelie, ex-Queen of the French, and this produced a physical prostration from which he never recovered. On his deathbed be was attended by the Venerable Arch* deacon M'Encroe, who administered to the Prince the last sacred rites of the Homan Catholic Church.

“ His Excellency visited the Hotel on the 25th, and, in a spirit of condolence, granted his aid in facilitating some of the proceedings incidental to the occasion, and in making arrangements for communicating the event to the bereaved parents. “ Arrangements were then made to embalm the body, and that office was performed by Mr J. S. Norrie, under the direction of Dr Alloway, and Dr Gingeot, the late Prince’s medical attendant.

“ The father of the deceased Prince is now residing at Twickenham, England ; but the family vault is at "Wey bridge, where lie the remains of Louis Phillippe, ex-King of the French. Louis Marie Leopold Phillippe, Prince de Conde, was the eldest sou of the Due d’Aumple, the fourth son of Louis Phillippe. His father’s brothers w’ere the Due d’Orleans (killed by being thrown from his carriage), the Due de Nemours, the Prince de Joiuville, and the Due de Montpensier—married to the Infanta of Spain. The Duke had three sisters. One was Queen of the Belgians (died in 1852), mother of the present King of the Belgians, of the present Empress of Mexico, and of the Count of Flanders ; a second sister was married to the Duke of Coburg Gotha, and the third (now dead) was married to Alexander of Wurtemburg. Hie deceased received the title from the Due de Bourbon, Prince de Conde, father of the unfortunate Due d’Eughien, some years after whose death the Prince bequeathed his title and property to the eldest son of the Due d’Aumale, Deceased was born on the 15th December, and on that day, this year, he would have reached his twenty-first year. He has a brother twelve years of age, to whom the title will descend.”

The Late Prince he Conde. —At an early hour on Tuesday morning, the coffin containing the body of the Prince, and a small silver box, in which his heart was enclosed, were placed in a case, and removed on board the Sea Star, then lying alongside the Circular Quay. The Sea Star cleared out yesterday and sails for London this morning. I)r Giugeot and the late Prince’s private secretary return to England in charge of the remains.