ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Kumara Times, Issue 884, 31 July 1879, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] London, Jane 9. Advices froin Cape Town, via. Madeira, officially announce the death of the Prince Imperial. June 21. Lady Freere went with the news of the death of the Prince Imperial to Lord Sydney, entrusting him with the melancholy duty of breaking it to his mother. The Queen approved of this, and Lord Sydney came to Ohiselhutst and met the cure, and they together told the, mother • that she was now alone in the ■ The private secretary of Eugenie telegraghed to the Duchess of Sutherland early on 21st June, that she remained in a semi-conscious condition* and the Duchess hastened to her. Paris papers generally express great sympathy with the bereayement of the Empress, but treated the Prince’e death as an end of Imperialism in France*' _ The news excited profound impression in Berlin and Vienna, and the Imperial Courts went into mouring for ten days. Jnne 23. Upon the return of the Princess of Wales from Chiselhurst, the Queen paid the Empress a visit in person. When she took her leave of the Empress and entered her carriage she was weeping. At the Roman Catholic Churches in London prayers were offered for the repose of his soul. A mob surrounded Timanp’s Circus* Paris, where the Imperialists assembled on the night of June 25, and as they began coming out, assailed’ them with cries of “Hurrah for Zulus!” “ Down with Imperialists !” A street figbt ensued, which the police quelled with difficulty. The Empress Eugenie signifies her intention of retiring to a convent-near Bruges for some months after the funeral. National subscriptions are proposed; in Prance to purchase ground at Chiselhurst for a tonb for the Prince Imperial.