THE COMING BONAPARTE.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 126, 26 November 1881, Page 4

THE COMING BONAPARTE.

Princo Victor, who is now 19 years old, is said to be a youth whose life is as blameless as that of the gallant boy who was left to die by Zulu speara. and we are told that he inherits the quickness and brilliancy of intellect of his father. As the son of Clothilde, he can trace his lineage for eight hundred years, through the long line of Boldior Princes of Savoy to that almost legendary hero, Count Humbert ; and though he is now tho head of the Bonapartiat House, he must feel far more pride as a grandson of Victor Einanuel than as a great grandson of Carlo Bonaparte. He is not half or wholly Dutch, as was the Third Napoleon ; nor is he partly bpanish, as was Prince Louis Napoleon ; but his blood is almost as purely Italian as that which ran in the veins of Napoleon the Great. The ohurch cannot but look with favour on the son of the pious Clot Wide ; the liberal Imperialists will believe that he has inherited to some extent the democratic impulses of his father, and those to whom Honapartism is the cult of military glory will belieya tbat a Prince of the House of Savoy is mentally a born Boldier Dark as the prospects of the Imperialists may seem at this moment, they are certainly not darker than were those of the Legitimists for half a century, and a a Henry V. could have had tho crown of Franoe a few years since but for his own obstinacy, it must be admitted that there is a chance that a Prince, blameless in character, and the inheritor not only of the Napoleon traditions, but of the fame of Prince Eugene and £ ing Victor Emannel, may yet be crowned as Napoleon IV.