[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] panied by a young French count, and escorted by Mr. Anthony Constant, of what was afterwards Hastings. Mr. Constant had previously announced to Mr. Irving his intention of bringing Louis Napoleon to breakfast. " Mr. Irving," says his nephew and biographer, " enjoyed the visit, and was much inter-ested in the peculiar position of his somewhat quiet guest, though little anticipating the dazzling career that awaited him." It was during this sojourn of Louis Napoleon at Mr. Constant's that he expressed a desire to visit the famous State Prison at Sing Sing, and Mr. Constant drove him up, with several others, in carriages to Sing Sing village. 1 The party passed, of course, through 1 The following fuller account of Louis Napoleon's visit to Sing Sing prison was published in the Christian Intelligencer, in New York City, iu April, 188.1 : NAPOLEON III. ONCE IN SING-SING PRISON. (Authentic). BY MRS. E. T. BARRETT. No person in modern history experienced greater reverses in fortune, or passed through more checkered scenes than did Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, third son of Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, and his Queen Hortense, daughter of Josephine Beauharnais, the devoted wife