No further trustworthy details of the death of the Prince
Imperial have been received, except that it is certain he was attached to General Newdigate's column, and not to General, now Sir Evelyn, Wood's. On Monday, however, the Duke of Cambridge, aware of a strong public feeling that the Prince had not been sufficiently cared for, read his own letter recommending him to Lord Chelmsford, and asking his Lordship, though the Prince could not be attached to the army, to let him see as much of the campaign with the columns in the field as he could. It is evident, from a letter from Lord Chelmsford, read on Thursday in the Commons, that he accepted this trust, and regretted the rashness of the Prince, whom he promised for the future to keep "in his own sight." It is not yet clear whether the Prince asked an escort from General Newdigate's head-quar- ters, or whether he accompanied a reconnoitring party ; but the Premier on Monday expressed a strong, and probably premature, opinion that his life had been "cruelly and needlessly sacrificed," —by whom, he did not say. A severe inquiry into the circum- stances of the Prince's death, and Lieutenant Carey's conduct on the occasion, will undoubtedly be ordered. The Empress Eugenie remains quite prostrated by her misfortune, and grave fears have been entertained at Chislehurst both for her life and her reason. The latest accounts are, however, more favourable.
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