26. M. Haussmann, the Prefect of the Seine; Ba-third and fourth sides of this great quadrangle. ron Rothschild, chairman of the Northern Rail- Here, in the centre, after first makig the round way, and M. Petiet, chief engineer and mana- of inspection, the Emperor and his guests took ger; M. Perrier, Count de Segur, chairman; up their position amid a grand flourish of drums Duc de Galliera, vice-chairman; M. Sayr and trumpets. The défilé was soon over, but and M. Roux, directors; M. Bossange, secre- not until the setting sun lighting up with tary; and MM. Edwards, Sauvage, and Vin- splendor so many successive forests and bayoguer, engineers to the Strasbourg Railway. nets had left upon the mind of the spectator a Their Majesties were at once conducted to the most powerful impression. This became enstate-carriage, and the train, soon after twelve hanced by the presence of the Royal squado'clock, took its departure amid loud cheers ron in the offing-a presence proclaimed in and the strains of "God save the Queen." the thunders of a magnificent salute as the reAt all the stations on the way, the neighboring view closed. At its termination the Emperor population were collected in dense crowds to took his guests to the Camp at Honvault, welcome the illustrious travellers; Amiens where from the heights they witnessed some was, however, the point of a special demonstra- practice with a new description of rocket.tion there the station was beautifully deco- Thence they drove as far as the Camp at Amrated, and a saloon had been prepared for Her bleteuse, and night had fairly closed in before Majesty. The National Guard, the Infantry they returned to the Imperial Pavilion Hotel. of the Line, and Cuirassiers kept the platform, The farewell dinner was laid with thirty covwhich was overlooked by a series of balconies ers, and while it was proceeding Boulogne filled with elegantly-dressed ladies. A salute was brilliantly illuminated. Exactly at 11 of twenty-one guns welcomed the arrival of the o'clock the embarcation was safely effected train. Lieutenant-Colonel Duhamel, prefect amid the roar of a salute from the fleet which of the department; General Boyer, Mon- shook the houses both at Folkestone and DoA wonderful display of fireworks acseigneur de Salinis, Bishop of Amiens, the ver. sub-prefects, the Cour Imperial, and all, the companied the departure, which thus took functionaries of the department, were in at place without a single mishap or drawback.— tendance to receive their Majesties, who were Indeed, looking back at all the arrangements greeted most enthusiastically. At Abbeville of this visit, there probably never was witnessa party of dragoons were drawn up with the ed more successful management. Not one acNational Guard to preserve order; but the cident has occurred, and the Prefect of Police, sight of the Imperial carriage was too much for M. Pietri, has reason to congratulate himself the latter, and they fairly broke their ranks, upon the manner in which the newly organizrushed forward, beating the ground with their ed force under his control has acquitted itself "Vive la Reine!" under a very severe trial of its efficiency. musket-butts, and shouting It is not yet known to what extent the muni"Vive l'Empereur," etc. It was five o'clock when the train reached Boulogne, and imme-ficence of the Royal family has displayed itdiately after their arrival the Imperial and self in the shape of presents, but, no doubt, Royal party proceeded to review the troops these have been liberally bestowed. We understand that a magnificent snuff-box has been now encamped on the heights. presented to the Prefect of the Seine, and that M. Hervoix, the chief of police for the Imperial household, whose activity and zealous exertions cannot be too highly praised, has received a handsome diamond pin. Her Majesty is extremely popular among the Parisians on account of her natural manners and her great affability. She has certainly on all public occassions appeared highly gratified by the extraordinary attentions of her Imperial host, and we are assured that her private feelings are entirely in accordance with her bearing when all eyes have been upon her.

The review took place on the sands in front of the Imperial Pavilion Hotel; and, like that in the Champ de Mars on Friday, consisted only of the inspection and défilé, the number of men assembled being from 45,000 to 50,000. This force, with the exception of a regiment of Lancers, consisted entirely of infantry of the line, there being no artillery present. The Emperor, Prince Albert, and Prince Napoleon were on horseback, attended by their equerries. Her Majesty and the other members of the Royal family, with the suite, witnessed the spectacle from carriages. The tide being out, and the sands tolerably dry, the troops were displayed to the greatest possible advantage, and looked superb. On the eastern or upper side of the sands were the Lancers, extended in one long line. In another, parallel and of equal length, were formed some fifteen regiments, in close-column of contiguous battalions; and at either end were masses of men brigaded together, whose serried ranks completed the

The hasty manner in which, unavoidably, this great event has been chronicled has prevented us from recording several minor facts and incidents, which, nevertheless, deserve a place in all contemporary records of an occurrence so remarkable. For example, at St. Germain on Saturday the Queen visited the tomb of her ancestor James II., and yesterday again she went to Neuilly in the afternoon,

and there stood beside the untimely grave of and it was a refinement of cruelty to allow the late Duke of Orleans. What food for the Sovereign just to touch the soil of France moralizing do these two simple occurrences and not to go further. A Queen who has afford! Yet perhaps they are exceeded by a lately been obliged to paint the front of her scene which took place this morning at St. palace to counteract the humidity and the Cloud, and produced a powerful impression on smoke of her capital, and whose pictures must all who witnessed it. Whether by clever pre- be annually scoured, had never seen that city meditation or fortunate accident, the Emperor over which the summer's sky is cloudless and there caught sight of a Voltigeur of the Im- transparent, and in which architects and sculpperial Guard, who had lost his leg before Se- tors work with a heart, for they know their bastopol and had otherwise been severely work will not be spoilt, at least in their lifewounded. The still suffering soldier was mak- times. With what a zest, with what enviable ing his way forward on crutches when the Em- enjoyment, with what a new birth of emoperor advanced to meet him, and, taking off tions and aftergrowth of pleasures, a well the Cross of the Legion of Honor which he stored and cultivated mind must have drunk wore, transferred it to the poor fellow's breast. in the beauties of a capital supreme in the All who witnessed the spectacle were much realms of taste, and fortunate in every cir affected by it, most of all the decoré himself.cumstance that contributes to the higher order Her Majesty is expected to arrive at Osborne of earthly enjoyments! to-morrow about noon.

How many vague ideas must now have been defined-how many associations have now LONDON, 27 August. been arranged-how many questions of compa THERE have been many emancipations and rison decided in the course of one week's proliberations in our time. Nobody but has been gress through the capital and palaces of France! delivered from some tyranny or other, some When next the Queen passes under the pedes restriction, some limit to his fair allowance of tal of the Duke of Wellington's statue, at the top liberty, though we are not all so grateful as we of Constitution-hill, she will be able to measure, ought to be for it. At this moment a man can by the Arc de Triomphe, a structure as large do, we should be sorry to say how many, as the front of our St. Paul's. The taste of things he could not do 50 years ago. But we our artists and the skill of our engineers have have just witnessed a real emancipation, been exhausted on the finest site in Europewhich, for the extent of the grievance, and, Trafalgar-square, and the scheme of Waterloowe will venture to say, of the gratitude, beats place, and the stairs to St. James's Park. all the rest. The victims of the persecuting With these efforts of genius the Queen can old code were illustrious-in fact, the highest now compare the Place de la Concorde, in the land-no less than Royalty. For 400 where it is a matter of no small labor and years no reigning Sovereign of England has time barely to enumerate the component seen, or could see, the beautiful metropolis of parts of the unrivalled panorama. With the France. The Sovereign might have the most two or three little rooms that constitute our florid or the most exquisite taste; he might National Gallery, with our gloomy and take a special interest in architecture and crowded Museum, and some half-dozen other pageantry; he might see around him palaces collections scattered here and there, the and castles of his own designing and furnish- Queen can now compare the galleries of the ing; he might see streets rising up after his Louvre, of the number and vastness of which, own name, in particular rivalry of well known however, she could only form a rather overstreets abroad; he might see his own statues, whelming idea. As for the contents, it must and the columns in honor of his own relatives pass even Royal quickness, accuracy, and reand the heroes of his own age; he might be con- collection to grasp the faintest glimpse of stantly tantalized with the comparisons made them in so brief a visit. Happily, there will between these and their foreign rivals; but be some redeeming features in the comparithose foreign rivals he must never see. Every-son. The Thames, as nature made it, can be body in his kingdom with a dozen sovereigns mentioned with the Seine; the bridges over in his pocket, and as many ideas in his head, the latter are but models by the side of Lonhad seen Paris, but not the first gentleman in don, Southwark, and Waterloo bridges; while this country. The smallest shopkeeper in the the Champs Elysées are only a suburban prosmallest street in London was likely enough to menade under stunted trees upon gravel and have seen Paris, and, with the system of ex- dust compared with our parks. Westminster cursion tickets, might take a week's trip there Abbey is not stripped of its monuments, and quite as easily and cheaply as to Ramsgate. it so far beats Notre Dame in historical interProbably there was not one in the whole circle est. Our St. Paul's, though little more than a of the Court that had not seen Paris, except vast mausoleum, far surpasses St. Genevieve only the centre of that Court. Till lately all or St. Eustache. For Westminster-hall there France was tabooed; but Paris is France, is no competitor in France, but, on the other

hand, Her Majesty will now have her ideas of gious communions, and now we are both tolethe simple and beautiful augmented by the rant of all religions. We have quarrelled classic form of the Madeleine, the façades of for legitimacy, and now we both have monthe Louvre, the unique Sainte Chapelle, and archies founded on the will of the people. the long row of splendid edifices on the south- We have quarrelled for colonies, and now we ern bank of the Seine; she will now know, have discovered that colonies are no accession by actual recollection, those other famous edi- of power or wealth to a country, but rather a fices and localities where even the most colos- burden, a risk, and an expense; in fact, that sal size and the most picturesque arrangement the best course is to leave them as much as yield to the higher and deeper interest of his- possible to themselves. We have quarrelled torical associations. She has seen at Versailles for commercial monopolies, and now we have how Louis XIV. enshrined the glory and found out that all nations have a common buried the wealth of France; where Marie interest in the absolute freedom of trade. Antoinette cherished the memory of the Ty- Every quarrel with France has been a misrol; and where Louis XVI. saw the last of take hitherto, founded on some great misappreRoyalty. At the Tuileries, begun in the mid-hension on one side, or on both, as the event dle ages, and still slowly laboring to comple- has proved. We claim no extraordinary tion, and passing from style to style like one light for the age, but simply that time has of our own cathedrals, she has stood where worked out our national errors to their own the closing scenes of three revolutions have confutation, when we say that, after eight occurred within the memory of her own centuries of alienation, there is no reason why Ministers. She has reviewed an Imperial England and France should not now exhibit army on the very ground where France has to the world a friendship only equalled by taken the oath to two Republics; she has their former animosities. It is this reunion seen the sites of the Bastile and the Temple; that we see enacted and inaugurated in this she has driven through that Faubourg the interchange of Royal visits. If it portends name of which is terrible to every Court in nothing, why has it never occurred before? Europe; she has walked through the Palace What can it portend now but the commencewhich was ancient when Henry IV. inhabited ment of a new period the very opposite, in it; she has seen where James II. maintained respect of our political relations, to that of the shadow of Royalty and ended his days; the last 1,000 years? and, to close the list, she has now visited that marvellously beautiful sepulchre to which,. with her consent, the remains of Napoleon have been brought from St. Helena.

PARIS, Monday, Aug. 27, 6 P. M. The Queen has left Paris on her return to England. Already the whirl of festivity in Of all these places there is not one which which this city has lived for the last eight or has not now acquired a new interest. Eng- ten days is beginning to subside. The crowds, land does not make an idol of Royalty, but, if though still much more than the average at it must have been something more than a this season, are less dense than on Friday or shadow which for so many ages deferred the Saturday last. The houses that have been event of this week, that event must have most gaudily decorated begin to be thinned something more than an imaginary value. of their flags and streamers, and fewer oriBut the truth is, England and France, in flammes flout the air. Shields and devices, spite of themselves, have always been mutually and garlands, and Imperial crowns are disinterested, and even in their antipathies have solving away. The eagle himself, the bird so confessed a common destiny. Whatever the worshipped by political ornithologists, deone has suffered the other has felt; and there scends from his lofty resting-place, and with is not an event in the history of one which plumage ruffled from exposure to the weather, does not intrude, uninvited, into the annals of and eyes dimmed from so long gazing on the the other. Notwithstanding the immense du- sun, is hurriedly conveyed away among broken ration of the differences which have separated flagstaffs and torn canvas, destined, perhaps, the two countries, we venture to say that to figure at some suburban fête; or, sad to they are accidental. The circumstance of think, transferred to the marchands de bric àthe "Conquest," the French possessions of brac of the Marais. The triumphal arch that our early kings, and the religious jealousies of imposingly spanned the Italian Boulevards at later days have stood in the way of that cordial their finest point is stripped of its effigies, its friendship which we believe to be the natural flags, its busts, its crimson covering, and, at state of the two countries. All the political the hour I write, it stands stark and bare like discoveries of our days, as important and as a huge skeleton; and before the sun sets will indisputable as the discoveries in natural not have left a trace behind! We have witscience, tell us that for ages England and nessed so many sights of splendor during the France have been quarrelling for nothing. week that it is not easy to all at once resume We have quarrelled upon the claims of reli- the habits of quiet existence. Not a wheel

rolls along the pavement that is not taken for tions, and the Gymnase modified its previous an incipient Royal salute. Courtiers have mode of decoration, and was now covered all not yet begun to recover from the continuous over with banners. When the corege issued bend of the spine, endured for so many days. on the Boulevard close to the Madeleine, in Corporations and deputations of all sorts and the midst of acclamations from the crowd, the sizes and denominations still, from habit, re- flourish of trumpets, the drums beating to cite addresses and speeches of congratulation. arms, and bursts of military music, the eagles The very gamins of the streets begin to talk in front of each regiment were lowered, and favorably of beefsteaks, and the word "lunch" then it was that an immense cry of admirabids fair to be admitted into the French voca- tion arose from the multitude. bulary.

But, with all this, it is right to observe that When the Allied Sovereigns visited Eng- some disappointment was felt at the Queen land after the fall of Napoleon, the Emperor passing in state through Paris in a close carAlexander, for some unknown cause, became riage. Her entry was so far a failure that at a great favorite with the Irish colony of St. the hour it took place no one could see her Giles's. The Hibernian nature loves ex- features, and, except to those in the streets tremes; a party of pipers decided on giving and close to the cortége, the carriage she rode His Majesty a concert, and actually played in prevented her being seen this day to any "Green grow the Rushes oh!" under his advantage. The carriage, the sides of which windows, from some vague recollection of the were plate-glass, was, it appears, that which visitor being Emperor of all the Russias. I was used by the Emperor on the occasion of cannot say whether a similar blunder has been his marriage. It glittered all over with gildmade here, but it is certain that Queen Vic-ing, and was drawn by eight horses of the toria has been sung to, and played to, in every same size and color, with gorgeous housings, imaginable style and form and tongue, and mounted by postilions who seemed no bigger even now the artisan of the faubourg whistles than the Aztecs, while grooms as tall as Gula tune which seems to be an unskilful com- liver must have looked to the Lilliputians pound of "God save the Queen," the "Mar- marched stately at the horse's heads, and the seillaise," " Drin, drin," and the "White grand officers of the Crown caracolled at the Cockade." sides. The Emperor, in his usual military As you are already aware, the Queen and costume, and wearing the Riband of the Garsuite left St. Cloud this morning, at 10 o'clock, ter, sat opposite; the Queen, with the Prinin the Imperial carriages. Previous to start- cess Royal by her side, returned frequently ing the whole of the functionaries of the Cha- the salutes of those who could see her and teau, administrative and military, were re-whom she could see. Prince Albert sat next ceived by Her Majesty. The inhabitants of to the Emperor. A second carriage, similarSt. Cloud and the municipal body cheered her ly appointed and attended, contained Prince as she passed under the same triumphal arch Jerome, his son, Prince Napoleon, both in which was erected for her arrival. The Army uniform, and the Prince of Wales. Several of the East, the garrison of Paris, the Nation- other carriages of the Court, drawn by six al Guards, Sappers, and Special Corps, lined horses, conveyed the officers of the household the way from the bridge of St. Cloud to Paris of the Queen and Emperor. It was 12 o'clock -the National Guard on the right, the place when the cortege reached the Strasbourg termiof honor. The weather was magnificent, as nus. The preparations to receive the Queen it has been, with two exceptions, since the at this spot were not different from those that Queen's arrival. It has rained but twice for met her on her arrival; the decorations were the last 10 days, and the moisture only served the same, and so were the functionaries who to lay the dust. The Royal cortége reached the Tuileries at 11 o'clock, where the Empress awaited the Queen. The Ministers and the members of the diplomatic corps were already assembled there to meet Her Majesty. When the last presentations were over and the last farewell spoken, the cortège resumed its march. The numbers who thronged the line through which Her Majesty passed, the same as that by which she entered, were considerable. The decorations were pretty much the same, and the words "Long Life to the Queen" were substituted for that of "Welcome" on the shields and escocheons. The triumphal arch raised by the artistes of the Grand Opera had resumed its floral decora

received her. The National Anthem was performed, and the Queen, leaning on the Emperor's arm, entered the station. She saluted those about her, and proceeded to the Royal train, while the band of the 9th Regiment of the Voltigeurs of the Guard played "God Save the Queen." She shook hands very cordially with Prince Jerome, the uncle of the Emperor, with Marshal Vaillant, and some others. She at once entered the Imperial carriage, and was followed by the Princess Royal and the Prince of Wales, and then by the Emperor, Prince Napoleon, and Prince Albert. General Lowestein presented the Queen with a fine bouquet and the Princess with another. The persons of the Royal suite

took their places in the other carriages, as which he was not concerned, inveterate pasalso the railway directors in attendance. The sions which were directed against him only Ministers and civil and military authorities because he was the highest personification of were drawn up in line in front of the car- the principles of '89, then ill comprehended. riages. In a few moments the signal was To-day these immortal principles have tribeard, and the train slowly moved away, while umphed over the opposition of Europe, and a last cry of "Vive la Reine!" announced its liberal England has acknowledged their legideparture. The great dignitaries moved to- timacy. The heir of the name of Napoleon wards the entrance of the station, and the had then no other reason for preferring anrest of the crowd soon followed. The troops other role to that of pacificator, more conformdrawn up on the outside and along the line to able with the greatness of his soul, with the the Tuileries were already returning to their actual interests of his country, and the ideas barracks, and the masses of people separated of his age; and, as the Emperor had admirably and moved about freely. comprehended that the durable and cordial concert of France and England constitutes THE Moniteur contains the following appro- the greatest force of modern times placed at priate remarks on the late visit of the Queen the service of the progress of the world, he of England to the Emperor of the French :- has held out a friendly hand to the English "The Queen of England quits our hospi- people and its Government. The enthusiasm table shores. Her visit will remain as one of of England has answered this appeal. She the grandest events of this epoch, so abundant has warmly grasped that loyal hand in hers, in new and memorable facts. Let us salute, because it was that of France herself, thrice for the last time, this august Princess, the personified in the Emperor, and her well messenger of concord and peace. Let us beloved Queen has crossed the Channel to salute her, with her young family, the hope of bring us the expression of the confidence of three kingdoms with her Royal spouse, who a great nation with the seductive accompanihas so well comprehended the genius, the ment of goodness, grace, and the mildest Ma manners, and the arts of France. This is not jesty. This was a moment awaited by France the first time that crowned heads have visited to show forth her enthusiasm; for it is not our country. Peter the First came here to enough for the policy of Princes to prepare study civilization, to take advantage of it "fusions;" there are none, in truth, which are against civilization itself; Joseph II. exhibited not effected by the people. It was therefore himself as a philosopher and as a critic, rather not enough that St. Cloud should worthily than a monarch. The one and the other ex-reply to the royal hospitality of Windsor. cited curiosity, but not national sympathies, Paris had resolved to rival London by its and the nation remained indifferent in the rejoicings and its spontaneous demonstrations. presence of those two travellers who were not Queen Victoria has witnessed the popular guests. The presence of Queen Victoria, on delight which has signalized her passage. At the contrary, has excited the French people; the theatre as at the Palace of Industry, at the from Boulogne even to the capital, and after- Holy Chapel as at the Hotel de Ville, upon wards from the capital to Boulogne, she has the Boulevards, inundated by floods of the received from this electrified people a veri- population, as at the Champ de Mars, resoundtable triumph. This arises from its not being ing with the acclamations of the army, every a mere simple personal gratification which has one of her outgoings has been a fete, and each brought among us this illustrious Sovereign. of these fêtes has been an energetic manifestaShe arrived to close at last seven ages of dis- tion on the part of the French people, which astrous rivalries, and to cement upon its basis has had for witnesses the thousands of foreigners the alliance of the two greatest nations of the collected within our walls for the marvels of west. France and England, since circum- the Exhibition. It may be said that for stances have allowed of their studying each greater solemnity this fraternal alliance has other more closely, feel that they cannot dis- been celebrated in the presence of the whole pense with one another, and that they are still world represented in Paris. Providence, it nearer neighbors by the common stock of must be acknowledged, seems to have reserved liberal civilization than by their coasts. And for our epoch profound subjects of meditation. nevertheless their sentiments had not over- It is at Versailles, in the Palace of Louis XIV., passed till now the bounds of a reciprocal es- that the Emperor Napoleon III. offers to the teem; they were never intermingled either in Queen of England the most superb magnifithe same policy or in the enthusiasm of a cences of the Court; for her he reanimates the warm friendship. It was reserved for the noble pleasures and the long extinguished Emperor to operate a more intimate approxi- pomps of the great King, that haughty foe of mation. When the chief of the Napoleon the Revolution of 1688. The same day this dynasty was placed by the public voice at the head of the country he found national hates which had preceded him, obstinate conflicts in

Queen of an elevated soul was received in the funereal asylum of the Stuarts, which her dynasty replaces. She has done more, and,