THE DUC D'ORLEANS IN PRISON

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2802, 28 June 1890, Page 6 (Supplement)

THE DUC D'ORLEANS IN PRISON

(1.U0.M OUn OVVN COKRIML'O.VDENT.) Pakis, Mnroh 29. Oi'iNiox seem? to have had enough of the Opora-Comique imprisonment of the Due d'Oi'leans. Any public at( cation bestowed on the incarcerated is simply to laugh at the indulgences—Lont reisrns— granted hiti) by the Republic. At Clairvaux the upper.crasfc Royalists njake post pil grimages to the priaou as if to a Mecca ; the prisoner they regard as a " cabin'd, cribb'd, couftn'd" Messiah. His cell-drawing-rooaj has been furnished with palatial splendour ; he fares sumptuously every day, like Dives—while the prison lodges 3000 Lazarus codctoins. Does the Duke want a library ? Ho is sent books by the cart-load, Does he wish, ta perform his religious duties ? A special mass is celebrated for him, just as Ludwig, of Bavaria, had an opera all to himself ; and in order that he be not seen by the prisoners, the windows on his passage are muffed. The director, the doctor, and the officials of the prison, assist at the ordinary convlnt mass, and do not feel dofited. Jesus did not shirk the society of publican's and sinners. It is to be hoped that Home Minister Constant, who is a was as well as a man of great ability, with a keen eye for the ridicuious, has infiluded in the bofjks sent the history of Silvio I'ellico'e imprisonment and of the detention of the Duchess de Berry at Blaye by Louis Philippe, the duke's great grandfather. As the Due d'Orleans has no enemy, not even in the Republic that he forced by his political speculation to vindicate the law, it is time for President Oiraot to tell him he is free: and if he refuses, as did B(anqui, tq quit the prison, to eject him ; conduct him to the frontier, but allowing him twenty-four hours to manufacture some mot, or to scribble an "Adieu, pla'mnit pay* do France ! "