THE LATE PRINCE DE CONDE.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 227, 8 June 1866, Page 3

THE LATE PRINCE DE CONDE.

(F m the Sydney Morning Herald, May 26.) The young pi'ince who died on Thursday night at Petty's Hotel, although naturally possessing a weekly constitution, appears to have improved in health after his arrival in Sydney, and to have spoken frequently in terms of 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, China, Calcutta, Lahore, and other celebrated cities of India, and having passed through the country to Madras, he intended to leave there 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 lat?. ona fishing excursion, but had evidently recovered from the affects, subsequently he was in comparativly good health, rusticating among the Blue' Mountains. It was whilst returning thence that he first received intelligence of the death of his grandmother, Marie Ameiie' ex-Queen of of the French , and this produced a physical prostration from which he never recovered. On his deathbed he was attended by the Very Eev. Archdeacon M'Encroe, who bestowed the extreme unction and gave full absolution. His Excellency paid a visit to the hotel yesterday, 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 breaved parents. Yesterday it was determined to embalm the body, and that office will be performed to-day under the direction of Dr Alloway and Dr Gringeot the late Prince's medical attendant. On Monday morning at ten o'clock, the body will be removed from the hotel, with all the ceremonials of a funeral procession, to St. Mary's Cathedral, where it will lay in state for a short time. In the absence of an early opportunity for transmitting the body to England, it will be removed from St. Mary's io the Convent of Subiaco. The father of the deceased prince is now residing at Twickenham, but the family vault is ' at Weybridge, where lie the ramaius of Louis Philippe. Louis Marie Leopold Philippe, Prince de Conde (the deceased) was* the eldest son of the Due. d'Aumale, the fourth son of Louis Philipec His father's brothers were the Due d ; Orleans (killed by being thrown from his carriage), the Due de Nemours, the Prince de Joinville, and the Due de Montensier (married to the infanta of Spain). The Duke had three sisters, one was Queen of the Belgi ans (died in 1852), mother of the present King of the Belgians, of the present Empress of Mexico, and the Count of Flanders ; a second sister was married to the Duke of Coburg G-otha, and the third (now dead) was married to Alexander of Wurtemburg. The deceased received the title from the Due de Bourbon, Prince de Conde, father of the unfortunate Due d'Enghien, 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 loth November, and on that day he would have reached his twenty-first year He has a brotehr twelve years of age, to whom the title will descend.