DEATH OF MARSHAL NEY’S SON. Joseph Napoleon Ney, Prince of Moscowa, and eldest son of Marshal Ney, died lately at St. Germain-en-Laye, near Paris. The prince was born in 1803, and had entered the army as a matter of course. He attained the rank of general of brigade, and then left active service. The prince was in his youth an ardent supporter of the turf, and was one of the fourteen founders of the French jockey club ; he likewise distinguished himself as a gentleman-rider. He was a first-rate musician, and exerted himself at one period to introduce a taste for classical music into France. With that view he organized concerts, to which the finest voices of Parisian society contributed; these aristocratic concerts attracted at the time immense interest. As a composer, the prince was less successful; his opera entitled “Regina,” proved a dead failure. He contributed some papers on Cowes, and yachting, to the Revue des Deux Mondes, but they were not very remarkable. The prince married the great heiress of France, the daughter of Jacques Laffitte, but the union was an unhappy one and led to repeated lawsuits and demands for a separation. The political career of the prince was peculiar. He was appointed peer of France in 1831 by Louis Philippe, and at once joined the opposition ranks. He delivered a famous speech in defence of the memory of his father. In 1828 the prince became a violent red republican, and he formed one of the principal members of a German democratic club, of which Herwegh the communist was the leader. This club sent forth a column of republicans on a revolutionary excursion into Baden, and the prince distinguished himself by addressing an encouraging speech to the column before its departure. On the re-establishment of the empire, the prince became a warm imperialist, and was named a senator.

From: Ballou’s Monthly Magazine. Vol. VI, No. 5, November 1857.