THE LATE PRINCE IMPERIAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 200, 2 July 1879, Page 2

THE LATE PRINCE IMPERIAL.

Our cablegrams recently announced the death of the Prince Imperial, who only recently proceeded to the Gape t.o sery.e as q, volunteer in the British army. We tyke the following account of his career froifl " Men of the Time" " I\ T apoleon (Prince Imperial of France), Eugene Louis Jean Joseph, son of the late Emperor Napoleon 111, and the Empress Eugenie, was born March 10th, 1850. For some time great fears were entertained on account of the delicacy of his health, which /improved considerably in the summer of In 1870 ho accompanied his father to tile sea : t of war, and was present, on August 2nd, a,t the capture cf Saarbruclc, when the Emperor telegraphed to the Empress at Paris this m.emorabl? dispatch: ' Louis lias just received his baptism of fire. He showed admirable coolness, and was not at all affected, A division of General Frossard has captured the heights which ovorlook the left bank at Saarbruck. The Prussians made but a short resistance. We were in the front rank, tlio bullets and cannon-balls fell at our feet. Louitf lias kept a bullet which fell quite close .to him. Some of tlio soldiers wept at seeing him so calm, We have only lost one officer a nil ten men killed,' After the disastrous defeai"'s Sedan, the young prince made his escape to Belgium, and crossing from Ostend to Dover on September Gtli, proceeded to Hastings, where he was joined by the Empress three days later. He subsequently resided with his illustrious parents at Ohiselhurst, ifis Imperial Highness joined the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, as a gentleman cadet, and pursued his studies there without iutenpis; sion, except for a shoit period, when, iij. consequence of the death of his father, lie was unable to be present at the periodical examination in February, 1873, He then joined the first class of students preparing for th,e examination for commissions in the Royal ]3n«inoers and Royal Artillery, with which class iie was associated during lus subsequent career at tlio Academy. At the final examination in February, Ifjjfy lie stood seventh in a class of 34, a posir tion which, if he had wished io enter the British army, would have entitled him to elect service in the Artillery or Engineers,