The New York Herald Newspaper, September 7, 1856, Page 6

AFFAIRS IN EUROPE. Our London Correspondence. Loxvoy, Aug. 20, 1856. Our Paris Correspondent ona Flying Visit 0 London—Na™ tion 1 [diosyneracies—Comparison Between the Two Leal ing European Capitals—The Material and the Imagina tive Paris Gastronome in a London Eating House— The English Painted by Themselves, he., he. With not a day passing without the record of some dis covery leading to the increased approximation of London and Paris, and the consequent obiiteration of their dis tinotive characteristics, it seems to me that each o us render a service to the untravelle1 world who jot down such salient points as still forcibly strike the eye, and which, on the principle that the sharpest projections are the first to be smoothed ant polished of by the ever encroaching tide, may naturally be expected to prove the most evanescent, ‘The triumph of steam will in course of time so leaven the whole mass of men—their habits modes of thought, their government, their laws, their dwellings and their passions—i'u' the pleasures of trave will die a natural death ‘or want of material to feed on. For six years and more [ oy.» been a constant resident in the rival capital of France ua’ now, for the first tim during tbat period, flad my. if mexing a flying visit t what is not unaptly termed ‘ne modern Babylon. Per haps the suggestions which of r temselyes to my mind fresh as it is from an emponun widely different in it cbaracter, language, inbabics-ts, commerce, architecture and modes of communica: may give a few minutes amusement to an American 4) s/o 18 to observe the diffe rence of two great capitals ©. watch bis thoughts will often have dwelt. We are not aware, till we su)m't ourselves to the test, of the transmutation which \s iu ousibly produced in oar minds by a longresidence a»rond At drst, excited by the charm of novelty, we pit. our tent in a foreiga land disposed to view everything «leur de rose, Sick of old familiar scenes, we fall upon ts new with the sharpened appetite of a fade epicure. ‘ora period comes the re- ‘action, aud the danger is th~ other way. We begin to mcneure everything we “isle everything externally ‘bad, by some fancied standar io our own land, which by constent repetition assumes y° portions not its own, aud finally becomes enlarged ais 4 aot aocorated into the measure of some perfect pati) as unl original as Presideut Pierce is to bis prot iype, President Washing ton. Thus it often bappe ~ oat the longer we live abroad the more istense bec uv « our nationality, till it really grows to be a legitimats source of wonderment to the inhabitants of the land «+ (well in why on earth we ever chose to come among thein or, having done so, do not make has‘e to return from whence ame. As for us English, our pational hab): »f rambling and our pro verbial conceit find a footing ta a forcign land, I was going to say, before the whole of our bodies fairly takes possession of it; but some of us ratner pique ourselves oa ‘our philosophy, on our superiority to oar countryman in this respect, and take a little mors e begin to exer. ture to represent myself; and aitbough perhaps conscious of a deeper na tionality than I ever cared jo » knowledge at home, I st'll believed my cvsmopolitan philosophy, in the main, irre- proachable. Alas, I suspect | have only lived in a tool's Paradise, and been mislcad:og myseit and others by na- tioaal coneeits which have not cue iota of cosmopolitaa- ‘ship about them. No, facts are stern things. {am bound to look at far tamed London, which Fugiishosen, in their secret heart, believe to be the wou the earth, a3 am American would, who, crossing the AUlautic, had, for the first time, an opportunity of compartog the two capitals, He would probab’y be more distrastful of the correctness of hi Opinions than myself, from hi« superticial knowledge of botu; but as [am now toleravly familiar with everythiag appertaining to each, it would be false motesty not to speak unreserved!y, London, then, in the sense ia w! capital is un 1, a8 a coucentration of a! tand rare int and mortar mslak tly, colossal sor pen, cut throat look tu form and stature, and expressive » ar conceit of Engiishm y house and my castle.” ¢ Paris, with that cone: palaces, where Ue very cumin whore Lan. to raise it, has a front to his dwelimg which au Koglich monarch might be proud cf, is to compare things which io their very natur There may be a monument here oft lanes of tile 8, diminutive ne thing—the ig the terms na erty with nitration of: marbl arliament, but Paris ‘sa very galaxy of monuments Turn where you will, you stumble upon them—their ain: is legion. “Aad it matt Zessoa that the manvers and orstoms of the French » & hundred years in advance of those and in Londen sinnce, the sbors, tre eating saloons, the German character Loveon. All is big, hus co of speaks + hitnself about, aud as he paases through tae |, Seeding for custome ikea mountebank he same inlivtdual is eileot, respectful atientive, and. except that be is v2 service, as dignified as the passenger he receives. Aad thea, contrast the two ‘vebicies. In Paris your coacbmac wears @ livery, as does the conductor. The wiitn of tt tle gives room Take, tor ti tocomotive conver iencie totics meet you at The ery turn gross'aud brutal. Th Out deference, aud for your knees; you rife ay pirasaatly as la your own 7 , While bere. garmots of the agents {a Jew peiler, and the size of the car riage is such that yoo_ou!y begin to breathe when relented from it. Take the rostaaranie—those glories of Paris, whict ant with gold and glass and exquivie pa and at whose doors Stand smiling Waiters, W.\u -birts, ftockings, sprous ‘and white Lies a8 white as enow—co pace these with the miserable, aingy, fithy, steamy, greaty chop houses of Londoo, with their bariot looking serving maits, or their dirty, cutthroat serving men. As if to make up {or acon scious deficiency im ths respect, loncon groans under a weight of bam and beef shops, which in this hot weather look positively awiul. Sueb bams, such colossal pieces of beef, euch gross logs of mutton, such gigantic sausages, musta Frenchman thing wien he calla to mint ttle plate of the Valais Royal’ ry ‘man caly chooses to spend a frave or thirty sous dinner, at lenet ne dines likes gentleman. He has for Bis salle a manger a beautiful esloon, airy in summer, ware in wibter, with a tableclo.k aud gervictie worthy of & ministering ang tn Lopdon, for the same money be fousi se; dows ib & room compared with which many igstics would be an imp it, his tablecloth per. | Bape a week old, and instead of an elegant carajfe ot | water, a gracefully shaped bottle, aod delicion naire, be bas a pint of balf and balf in an old pewter il! <leaned mug probably corral with the monament which comm emorates the fire of London | The great dining house of the English metropolis is now | ‘Simpson's in the Strand; and it may be taken as the pran | dial periection whieb the capital na uttaied. The room Ws very goo, undoubted, but ip consequenes of its being ‘one, ‘8 always $0 overcrowded that the heat in these days takes away tbe p'rure of dtoing. The sya- tem is the very antipodes of that in Paris. The same colossal arrar goment prevails in the way of bulky viands and if quickvess is a desideratum, Simptoa is an im provement on the Trois Froces, where « pause between each plat is a recognised Inw. Ii the guest takes salmon, & poederous dish of the succulent fish is woeeled on the table on castors before bim by & carver with a cook's cap and apron, who helps hiw toa portion. The carving is excelicct.| Having entep the fish, the guest makes his | choice of a joint, which, forthwith, as in the case of the fish, is wheeled ‘before bim, amd the carver giviag an extra whet to bis long, insinuating Dlade, the guest ceives bis portion. if such a system ta approved of, it cannot be better carried out than at Simpson glass of two of sherry, the bill #, five shillings. Bat it would be woo't say dinner—dut pted by any one of the The one is like gettiog a n— he smoke-hogrimed win A by the narrow therougbfare—the + he at who never opens b c iI, aud stunning the Fngtabmnen, English women, or the Fren speak of the two capitals as representin: countries, and all Teay t, that they are oy re-peotive tests, Every American er ein Paria, The latter is un n, and 1 : of the former, Th . you at every corner The glittering re he loxerious @afe—the pa he verdant foliage of am bragec vies, gay gardens and sparkling £ wand of art prvating every nook ead corner—the galias ery, #0 dilferent from the joutiah red coat (o# ally ae iw mprovel) of Lon- don—the requisite mi\iliry baad—tie lofty and imposing arobitecture—the brilliant silks, costly laces and embra dery— present a fund which the American will search ia vain for elsewhere. At must, in explanation, be borne in mind that Paris, contrary to London, is the epiome of France. [London obvious!y growing, more ant more, a gigantic concentra tion of offices for mere business: and if every one haetes fin the eowr*> to eat hie dinner and pass the night, it is provision for this purpose will become ndom, rather than improve. If the ix ‘do not make it their homo. not i fnd many inducements to do eo { the Frenchman. fe glories in ta boundless attractious, and if ‘arn to it with tenfold anima. there is @ vast market for ail | technics, I suppor NEW YORK HERALD, SU tt -——. bewg adequately represented by its capital—mighty in @ commercial sense though jt be—is no home for yoa, thee on to Paris, bask in its sunny smiles, let the Spray of its thousand fountains dash iv your faces, eat, drink, and be merry in its im portals, for it is sui generis, avd there is none else ide it. Our Paris Correspondence. Panis, Aug. 19, 1856. The Féle of the Emperor—Svenes and Incidents of the Day’s Rejvicings—Concert in the Gardens of the Tuileries —The Iluminations—Historical Souvenirs of the 16th of August, &c., Be. Ii will be a curious fact if, smong other changes, the much loved, much abused, all-absorbing /éte should lose its hitherto uusbakable tenacity on French taste, The 15th of August was certainly kept as a féte in every sense of the word, ‘or never was relaxation more general, ver was the Horation sentiment acknowledging the de light which all have im occasionally casting gravity be hind more faithfully received—‘+ dulce est desi’ —(‘*Here im love’’?)—was the ruling principle of all, but here the matter ended. Either the government had not prepared sufiicient variety, or else the people cared for nothing but that freedom from toil of sivews and brains which th eight of each other in holiday garb was soon to generate. Certain it is, bowever, the mummeries on the esplanade of the Hotel des Invalides or at the Barriere au Trone— the well greased poles, culminated by a sucking pig, a leg of mutton, or a string of sausages—did not attract so many as usual; and more persons seemed deat on visit ing the Bois de Boulogne, the Roi Catalan, the beautiful villsge of Auteuil, the exquisite environs of Paris, such as Mendon, Ville d’Porny, Montmoreney, Eoghien, aud other delightful epots, than laying themselves oat for the oft told tale of Parisian ayrements, There war, as usual, the same number of little shops spreading their slanting roofs to the sun; there was the same number o! fiddlers, of pi pers, harpers, hornblowers and trumpets, but the psople stopped not to listen as heretofore, nor was the business done by the keepers of the little magazines of any consi cerable amount. Even the i!luminations and the tire works had a limit to their usually absorbing power, and though the Arch of Triumph illumined the city far and wide by the splendor of its pyrotechnic delusions, the number to stand and gaze was palpably |: Still, let us pot forget to do justice. The purer part of the observances of the great fé/e was welcon | and en- joyed, apparently, as much as ever, Thecliirches were thronged. The alms-giving was abundant, overflowing, and essentially philanthropic. At 2 o'clock P. M. all Pa ris was in motion. It was one colossal bird cage, full of gaudy songsters, The day was beautiful. The scorching beams of an August sun were softened by a gentle breeze. Flags fluttered from every tower, steeple, balcony, roof and public monument. The bells of the churches rang merrily. The priests, in their broad beaver: de charite, in their snow white bonncts; the soldier, in bis gayest uniform; the policeman, in his pantaloous ri- valling the snows of Mount Cenis; the dame de comptoir, in her toilet of last Sunday; the countess, on foot, in the robe she daintily reserves for her carriage—prince and peasant, clerk and clown—all, all attest by their gait, their looks, their joyous hilarity, that it was a fdle—per- haps not a show—not a spectacle—not a day of theatrical display—but in the truest sense of the word a holy da: In this sense this natioaal fi‘: bas been kept, aa! well kept. But I repeat, the special amusements provided for the public were not on this occasion so cnergeti- cally sought for as before. Some of the mais de cocagne—that classic name for poles greased from stem to summit—were crowned with laurel, from the leaves of which were yy oe either a watch, a silver cup, a silver courert, a dsome pipe, a knife with cosily baa die, and other rewards, of course, for such gal lant young men, who, proof against the tubricious in lu- ence of fat, could still climb, and climb. and gain them. These scenes were not without interest; for what in this life is uninteresting which relates to succesefu! enterpri<e? Amoraican be learned from the mat crit see that youth, bow gallantly be dashes forward—his srmy, bis legs, bis bent head, his every sinew, are brought to bear the work before bim. He bids deflance to the deceitful ong uent. No spider, spinning its artful mashes, more easily ghdes over the work beiore him—a fuot, a yard, a moiety of the pole, is already paseed—he pauses; ut itis only to make azother gigantic effort; when, lo the o'r worn sivews re! odedience to their master's will—the omnipotence of fat begige to make itsel! maa! fest, In vain be clasps, he clings, he coils arozed bis anxious limbe—the goal is in sight, the silver prize hangs jauntily from the urel—the satdene:! youth can only throw upon id I then, yielding to a will path ‘be has with so moc! fate of hundreds, and such ts the fay pon thou b we push our way at starting. We see beiore us the prize of onr high caliiog—we as cend—we c'imb—we mount—we feast our eyes on its meginary possession; and then, failing strength, failing resolution, or fhiling fortune, bids us ¢epart and yield to other end ycunger neads the ambition of our itfe. The Emperor aud Empress did uot disdaia to e-couraze with their presence some of there rts after bono: placed under such oleagizous difficultics. They drove unattended, without guards or escort of woy kid, were enthusiastically cheered. At bulf past #ix, a ma_nificent concert took place in the gordens of the Tuileries, It was compozed of the banis Of the pardes, the gen d’armes, and the First regiment of voltizeurs of the Imperial Guard. They q {nto One vast orchestra. At o'clock the vast c persons leaving the Place de la Concorde and their way through the Cnamps Elysées, mee their way to the Arch of Triumph, where waa really to be seen & moguiticent spectacte, Th: sition of tuis dae art eminently Gts it (or bel disyiay. To see those ri kets of scarkling dismo cracking, blazing, hissing and gurg'ing up i pight air was real'y aeight lo remember. T: Arch was one temple of wreath ng fire. The inten» thrown on the space below, was suilicient to make to people believe the great comet, so long expecteu, had length arrived. It was acurious sight to see the paoy! by this intense light gathered at the base of the Arch. y in groups of tens, sixes and threes heeding not the red hot fire which came showering down on their beads, apd only raising their eyes in pious con tentment that 20 much barmiess fre should fail around them. Some accidents did take place; but it was mainly to the sparks being carried out far over the peo pi ends among & mass ef shops farnished with com astible matters, such as wood, charcoal, &s., aud one or two devastating covfiagrations fo,lowed, ‘The {lluminations were good, but to an Aabitvé they wanted the attraction of originality. Tho gardens of the Tulleries, the Place de la Convorde, the rae Rivoli, une rve de In Paix, the Hotel de Vile, the Mini-try for Affairs were ali in thetr several degree essentially b H but it was @ tale deci repeata.”? The baptimal baked meats might Le said to have been preserved for the fé'e of the Emperor, and, as I beiore remarked, the gen eral interest of sp2etite was proportiouabiy less. It had been in contemplation to have bad a grand review of the troops of the line and the Natioaal Guard, but the extrem> beat of the weather caased the idea to be abandonei The pyrotechnic display at the Arc de Triomphe was aa attempt to represent—I cannot say a successful oae by any meane—the Fort of St. Angelo at Nome, Tuis fort, it wih be remembered, forma part ot the castle of that ssoleum of the Emperor gardens of Domotian:. jecm wae covered by mvt beaatifal marble, and embellished with all kinds of decorations. Jo those days twenty four columas of violet mart ormed its portico. there was a beautifal cupola, and on the sum mit a marble cone. Now, the masoleuie of Adrian ts oo thing bot a shapelese mass, and an immense ron i to is all that remairs of its former granteur. The tower | politics! prieom It is clowe to the Vatican, an! the next time the goverament of the Pope be somes too hut fur him luis Hloliners may, perhaps, take refuge there. This tower is surmounted by a colossal angel, armed with « sword, and so it is called Fort St Angelo it was th crigipal dome or capoial have referred to, jant'y lighted up, which waa illustrated in the feu d’artafice on the 16th, It wae certainly very ingenious on the part of whom ruch effairs are deputed to dignity the ¢ such a name, but for aught any one vaderstoot about the matier the rore would have emelied just as sweet by any other name. |t somewha‘ reminded one of that ‘artist who, being employed to iinstrate the passage of the obi! dren of Israel tarough the Red Sea, cvafined himself to imply covering the wall +/th a flaming red tent, and on being atked where were the flying bots of Isract ant the pursning chariots of Pharicab, answered, that the chi! dren of lerael had already paseet \hrough, and that the Fgyptians were coming. in painting, poetry, and pyro it is Decessary to leave something for certainly the Are de fromphe was fair \ostauce of this posta name, which was the old the imag inatiog, om ‘hia occasion, late The 16th of August, the fi of Napole», is no nea fasiue ‘0 the apuals of France, it ia,'im the first 5 the fe of the Assumption, and so far bask as 1f55 Louie XII! made ite national fev by placing his persoa and his kingdom under the protection of the aoly Virgin, g that on that day emn procession sb ould ¢ 10 the charch of Notre Dame, at which the Soperior Courts of law and the manicipal body should be progent, and that a similar proceasion shoald take place 1 all the parochial churches of the monastery and see of P churches of the kingdom. Up to 1789 never omitted to observe the old cust J. re-establ é his pame and the ana bone, on their restoration ceremonies wers tin ment of the empir again invested w The Bout obweved it, After 1890 the noed t eines the re-establish: foe of tho Aesumption bas deen revigiou® and national character. Panta, Aug. 21, 1856. Departure of the Emperor and Empras for Biarriten Vieit of Prince Jerome to Havre—Pamily Resemblances Amongst the Bomapartes—The Season at Dirppe— Final Evacuation of Turkey ty the Prench—The Paris Money Marit, @e., Be. The gayest capital in the world is at presen‘ a dim and dreary On Toesday evening the Emperor and Empress came in from Saint Cloud, with the “child of France,’ who reclined on hia mother's lap, there being herevor the best market is, advantageously anpplied, @ up your minds, then, af prejutices may be thers, rat i oy no atterdant ip the carriage, and went straight along to the Orleans station, om route to their lovely retreat Piarritr. The journey from Paris to Orleans dccupies qhree hours, from thence to Tours three more, and from Tours to Bordeaux it is seven hours, and Bordeaux to Bayonne, which is an hour's drive trom Biarritz, is four hours and # balf, The imperial party travelled al! night, and reached Biarritz yesterday morning, (Wednesday, ‘20th,) at 11:16 o'clock. ‘The eame afternoon, (Tuesday, 19th,) Prince Jerome Bonaparte took his departure for Havre. The health of the Prince appeared, considering his age and the fearful passage be has lately gone through, excellent. We, who have ourselves been much en voyage of late, saw and con versed with bim for a quarter of an hour at the station, and it was impossible not to be struck with the improve- ment in his general appearance. The resemblance which the Prince bears to his gifted brother, the late Empcror, is of a much more pleasing character than that of his son to the same personage. Betwixt all there ig an astonish ing family likewees, but the difference ig this: Prince Jerome, with the features, has not the broad temple aad general intellectual physiognomy of his elder brother. ‘The character of bis lineaments is gentle and indulgeat, and he looks what his career has proved, a man rather to ollow in the wake of others, and to enjoy the crumbs which they let fall, than to originate any path of his own. Be is tal, well proportioned, with much of the bent, haf sloueby gait of the grand Emperor, and the Italian origin of bis featares is very apparent. His singular pa lor, the prominent developement of his chin, combined with the interest which inevitably clings to a man so nearly connected with the most wonderfcl man the world bas kuown for a thousand years, make him a person to be observed whereever one may chance to mect him The appearance of bis son, Prince Napoleon Bouaparte, though the features are so precisely similar, is very dif ferent to that of bis father, Prince Napoleon’s visage is harsh, swarthy, Israelitish, It is not wanting in intellect uatity, but itis rather thatof the lower than of th higher propensities. He has the mouth, the eyes, eve: ihe forehead of the great Emperor semblance to him ia very etriking, but it is the iikeness which Lucifer fallen bears to Lucifer before his degradation. The spirit vality of the great hero is nowhere to be found, The high purpoge, the god-like mark of genius, are untrace able. In their room is sensuality, brutality, cunning, haughty domination, His person has ali the characteris- tics of deformity, without the cause. His shoulders are so round that he might well be accusea of having a hump. In height he ts rather above the ysual standard, and this, if anything. renders more conspicuous the pecu- lier formation of his frame. He would scem absolutely to have no neck; and as he abruptly moves from side to side his large head, one recalls to mind somethiag of Kean’s im of Richard the Third. Altogether be has something of the {talian bravo about him. As I watched the movemen’s of his father, Prince Je- rome Bonaparte, 1 was strt one circumstance which 1 believe has not before been remarked. You know there are strange stories told about Napoleon the Third’s illegitimacy. It is by many believed that there is no more Bonaparte blood in his veins than in the pen with which I trace these words: and some have gone 60 ‘ar as to say that he makes all the better chiof ruler on account of it, for that the Bonapartes, notwithstanding their t progenitor, are at least a bad lot. But, though it difficult to trace in the features of the present Emperor any resemblance to the other members of the Bonaparte family, it is impossible to deny that the form of his figure, the manner of bis gait and general carriage ere 80 similar, that without consanguinity it would be diffi. cult to understand it. There is the sane round shoulder, the same turn out of the fect when walking, the same tone of voice in Jerome that there is in Napoleon III. The walk in each ir precisely the same, and it is such manner of walking as I never witnessed in any other .. No one who hag remarked the Emperor's gait Fer beitroom can have failed to be steack by it. But to return to what I said of the dim and drear ap. pearance of this habitually gay capital. Such a swee; off of the imperial host bas, in be ag ed it ite coup de grace. Until the fé'e of the 1th of August had passed off some few distinguished personages still lin- red on the scene; but now that Saint Cload and the is Royal, or, as it is now termed, the Palais Imperial, have yieided up the ghost, the darkness is becoming more and more profound. One of the most fashionable places of resort 5 Die} This old town of Normandy, whose appearance Pt beapeaks its better days, bids fair to shake oil the dust which bas so long clung to its wayworn feet, and become more yousg aud vigorous than ever. It stonds, by the potent inspiration of steam, exactly mid- woy between the two great capitals of the world Six or seven hours brings the traveller to its shores from Len- don; arather less number conveys him to Paris. An Clegant winter society is gradually spriugiog up ia Dieppe, consisting of good American and English families. Tne surrovnaing coantry is beautiful, fault of bill and dale, wood ghd verdure. An English chapiaia performs ti Fpiscopul service. The bathing establishment ts unique for its excellent arrangement. From 8 o'clock tll 6 an orchestra, consisting of some thirty artistes, perforin mor- ceauz trom the best musical compositions extant, while part(s may either continue their bathing or their pro- menade, or indulge themeelves with reading the journals which bave arrived ‘rom ali parts ot the world. The coup o’orl at this time is perfectiy epchantiag. Tbe bold clifls of Dieppe overlook a magnidcent expanse of goa. The remens of an old Norman castie are on the right; on the le‘t areto be seen the church and eathedral of Dieppe, cach presenting as flue specimens of ancient Norman e Cosiastical architecture as can anywhere be met with. Tmmedistely ourrowuding them are the elegant bathiog houres, coliages, gardevs, &c., avd before you stands an crchestral stage, trom which pour deticious symphonies, nll the more enchanting thatthe ripple of tne sea wave lends ite mormuring notre to soften and assist them. Bat I bave yet to mention the most important feature of this marine retreat. The tate sex, collected from every ‘ount y, make ita polnt to gather together and add fresh charms to the scene by their presence. Not onty have we the richest apd moet tasteful tiieties the ingenuity of woman can produce, but the greatest possibie variety. Freneb, Neopoltan Fomao, Florentioe, Duteb, German, American and Englis™, all are to te seen bere in their richest silk attire, ant whether it be the great taste which geterally prevsile, or the saline qualities of the air they reepire, certain it is that nevor co women appear $9 so great advantage as in this ancient city of Nor avudy his r Oe lady deserves especial attention, from tue iniguill cence of her toilet combined with tie sirictly marine taste which kept it in harmony with the place. Sh» wore large Leghorn bat, with arich veil of Chantilly lao» Over her shoulders hung an exqui-ie mantilla of Genoa velvet, trimmed with lace of great depth, ant of suchcun ning manufacture that T beard a murmor of admiration run through the conclave of beauty, whose eyes are never mistaken in such matters. Hor cress, which was in tbo ampie style of the present mode, with abundant flovaces, was a rich bive silk figured on a white ground. Spiendid as were the toile tes generally, not only the materials bat the mise were here #0 perfect, that a | eyes were rivetiot, The lady was accompanied M4 Toman nurse, whose turer que costume, with @ brig we ‘on the back of her sable pair hardl, less ob servation than that of her roistreas iy children, dreaeed in the tast triumph of Parisian art, completed the group. Ia‘terwards ascertained that these o served of all observers were no other than Mrs. G—— B—— and ber ehilit from New York At iirat the general belief from the el it origina ity of the toilet, as well as from eo appeararce of the servant, and from the laity addressing ber in excellent Italian, that the visiter was some de reendart ef the Colouni of Rome, who had voucheafed to visit these Norman waters; then, as a relation of [’rince Poreaiowski Was seep in afimate! conversation with her, that she must be a Pole, or [useian, or from some far dis. tant country of the North; and when afterwards f had the honor of speaking to her i English, tt require? consider able faith in my veracity to induce any one to accept the fact thet the enchantress was no other than a trae born native of the land of Washington. | ought not to omit to ‘were bo less joud in their admira- the French troops in the Bart had quitted Constantinople, and that General Parisel, the military commandant, him self had embarked with his stat on the above date. The evacuation of bags! is, therefore, now complete. The Empress, ¢ leaving Paris, visited the institu. tion for three hundred young girls, of poor parents, wbich ber Majesty bas founded, ana which is ow betu butit im the faubourg St. \ntoine. She was accompani the Duchers de Bassano and several latices of tne palace, and by Count Tascher de ia Pelngerio, grand master of her household. A detachment of Cent Gardes has been sent off to Blarritz, and several court ea He aviness is still the order of the day in the Parisian money market. ae 4 set off againet the present excreting dulness, the Most magnificent anticipations are in’ ulzged res; the approaching seston. Although at the prosent time the number of furnished apartments to let \a far greater than bas been known since 1862, stil! 't i* atorrtatned, on loquiry, that agreat portion of them bas been secured from the month of October, when the |'aris eeagon is pre sumed to commence The profoun! peace—the | number of Russian families who will consequently freemthe reaction in Russia towards France gonerally, and Paris in perticular—the large arriva's from America, s# coon as the Presidential question is settled, whieh are auticipated—all combine to give rite to expectations which, to proprietors and others who live by the influx of strangers, excites the mort unbound ire to obtain good pric’s. It ia, in fact, said that there will be higher then ever, and in all coneetence they do not seem to nee'l apy auginentation. Sir Charlies Nopler’s Opirion of Cronstatt Sir Charles Napier has returne 7 tent notes on the strength of Cro ; Morniug Advertiser, He writes-—if fitty eail of the (nm and 60,000 men In stoamers, were to attempt an attiwk St might jost possibly ed, provided they did not ink ships between Mentch'kot and Cronsioit, and our ships did not take the ground in going In. it would be new sary for the leading ebips to ancht r against the batte-ior ‘These following shonld go inand break the boom if they sueceeded we should probably overpower the and the steamers would land the troops on the sea we it we tm in breaking the boom there would be great confusion, and there is no kpowing what would hap. pen. It would alse be neceseary to have a stroug reserve to take tha place of the shioa against the batteries, if they failed in silencing them, which is more than provable. if al went rigut Cron stadt would be taken ; and if all went wrong the fleet wid be lost. No one, I thitk, except the Time, would bave tried Cronstadt. They said it was not nocer- eary to see how one was to get out; it was only necessary to get in. Tbave shown that the north passage is doub!s —Imay say triple—holed, and four new batteries built: #0 that pasenge is senled. There gre no em the porth wail, but outside there are redoobts well arme1. cide, between Rixbank and the main land, new Which renler it unasmailable, fo up towards Peterho! is holed also. On |, many of them Jort Menschikofl is now fitted with platforms like a ship's NDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, i856. decks, with 32 pounders, where the acamen are exercised in the winter. It is wel! ventilated, having no guns on the sides or rear, On the shore, inside Peter the Great, there is @ heavy earthen redoubt, which points to the sea, There are redoubts all over the island, and on the weat- ern part of it a new fortification is begun, right across, and between it and the town a chain of redoubts, Tae line wall is of small stones, like Bomarsund, which could be easily knocked down ‘There is a ditch, but n> glacis. I forgot to say that the screw line of-battle ship has 830 men, excluding engineers and stokers. The Queen Dowager Auf Oude at Southamp Sovrmampron, Aug. 20, 1856. The Indus arrived this evening with the heavy portion of the Indian mail, Amonget her passengers are the Queen Dowager of Oude, and the brother and son of the ex King with hundred and sixty followers, The Queen Dowager is a good looking woman, of dark com: plexion, fifty-five years of age, and very intelligent. She 18 very sanguine as to the success of her mission to this Farnell for the restoration of her son to the throne of ie. Bhe bas £80,000 for current expenses. The jewelry she lost on her voyage was worth £50,000. Some portion of it was intepded for presents for the Queen of Eagland. The brother of the ex-King is a fine, tall man, and is a general in the Oude army. The son of the ex King is a very handsome youth. ‘They dress in the most magnificent style, thiir head dresees being covered with diamords and emeralds. Many of the followers are swall, pgor lookiog men, and exceedingly dark. They are shoemakers, tailors, cooks, und of otber trades. They are working all day long on board. The cooking apparently never ceased. ‘he Queen of Oude and suite occupied the whole of the fore part of the ship, where a cooking galloy was fitted up. ‘The party lived upon rice, curry, sheep and lambs be ‘ween Alexandria and Southampion. The dishes were usually served up of curries aud piliaus, The Queen of Oude ‘occasionally sent into the saloon for the English passengers a curry of pillau, and such dishes were found 0 be delicious. A eupuch is withthe party; he is @ very extraordinary woking personage. ile has long bair, and a feminine bug and voice. There are six maids of honor in attendance on the Queen every day, A screen was erected on deck, the en closed part was carpeted, and the Queen and ladies were c:corted up bebind the screen, and guarded by the eunuch, who bebaved with remarkable severity in keeping all persons from oe g on the ladies. He 18 a general of in- fantry in the Oude army Owing to the state of the tide, the Queen and her suite could not land tonight. Tne Indus will arrive io dock about seven o’clock to morrow morning. The most intense interest exists in the town to see the Queen and her suite. The whole of White’: Royal York Hotel has been taken fo ‘hem. It was uninhabited, and workmen and charwo’ have been working night and day to clean and tit up the hotel, The Queen is to pay twelve guineas a day for the use of the hotel. Five nouses in Regent’s park, London, have been taken for the Queen Dowager. One of the party—a moonshee, or writer—died on the voyage He lived for a long time entirely upon opium. it is believed that the box of jewelry which has been said to be lost wasstolen. The ex-King of Oude is expected to leave Calcutta short- lv for England, with 150 followers. ‘The treasures which the Queen has on board consist chiefly of the most costly Cashmere shawls and jewelry. Sovrmamrron, Aug. 21, 1856. As soon as the Indus came alongside this morning, the kuropean passengers and their |i @ left the ship first. ‘Then the baggage and treasures e Oude party were landed, and piaced into ome of the dock sheds cleared out for them, the Lords of the Treasury having ordered that every facility should be given for the tanding and passing through the Customs. e inferior persous of the Queen of Oud ite landed with the baggage, and remained in the shed, guarding the baggage and treasures. Each of the packages of the latter bad the word “Oude” written on them. The interior of the shed looked like an Eastern caravapserai and bazaar combined. Heaps of bedding, vaiuables, culinary utensils, pipes, tchebouks, baths, ves- of all descriptions, were lying about, and the Oudeans were amusing themselves with smoking, disputing and chatting. A dré/c amongst them, by bis antics, sparring, &ec,, caused much laughter. The Oudeans area mixed race; there is Arab blood in many of the vatives, and a few of the suite are Mabommedans. The Queen and Priuce de- cided on landing at three o’clock this alteraoon. The sedan incended for the use of the Queen was too large to be got out Daan af from the main deck of the Indus, and it was resolved in consequerce that her Ma- Jjesty ebould land in a palanquin and be conveyed to acar- riage close to the ship. Just before three o’clock two splendid carriages were gent from Mr, Audrew’s (the Mayor ot Soutbampton) carriage bazo+*, drawn by four borses. At three o'clock unusual ex tement was ob- served at the gangway of the Indus. { 1° landing stage frem the sbip to the dock was covered with carpet, Surrounding the gangway were eunuchs, aad the chief ofhicers of state belouging to the Court of Oade, dressed iu magniticent robes, and holding the iasigvia of their offices. Asuow white screen was beld up before the genew It was now whispered that preparations were making for the Queen leaving the shop, an4 voic heard bebind the screen. Presently two figure: hke Egyptian muinmies, appeared. and walked acrosé to the stage, their little naked feet in gardy siippers tarned ap at the toes. They were assisted {ato the Queen’ riage, not a vestige of any part of them bemy s their fect and legs. These were t to the Queen. aiter they were seated t. thrown dowo, aud the pa'snquia was brought out, is con sisted of a chair enclozed in a stealer frame, woish was co- vered with # splenoid blue and silver robe. Ia it was the Queen, whom few Fersons in the world have ever si cn. A splendid scarlet umbrella was held over the paianquin. mace bearers attended her; eunuchs and oilicers of ute preceded and followed ber.” The pressare of tbe crowd to getagiimpre at her was intense, and the gigantic eu. were ia agony. The cifllcuty of getiiog hor Ma into the carriage without being veen was immense, At lepgth a screen was placed aguiret the body of the arriage, avd her Majesty was just in the act of stepping a, when, horror of horrors, two men were detected on the coachusn's box, looking deliverately into the car- riage, aba about ty stare her Majesty in the face. A shout of inéiaation drove them from their post, to the iwnite rehef of the courtiers. As soon as her Majesty was seated, the carriage started for the Royal York Hotol, where the (ocen ts to reside during her stay in Southamp. ton. Shoruy afterwards the Mayor arrived in tae docks aud went on board the Indus. He was accompa- ated by Mejor Hird, the agent to the Queen of Oude, ® number of Oriental gentlemen. Tae Mayor ent introduced to the Princes, and soon afterwards we Deir apparent to the throne of Oude, escorted by bis worship, and followed by tne heir presump- uve to the ssme throue, left the ebip and entered the carriage ae. for them. Two far loo«iog princes one would not wish to see. The helt apparent is @ youth abdow five feet six inches in height, with a toia, lithe Ligure, #nd looking not more than eighteen years ase. Hits face was of « brown color, and his eyes biight snd inte)i gent. His uncle, the heir presumptive, is a handsome, stout built man, regal in appearance. They were both gorgeously dressed, their bead dresses being iu the shape of a helroct and glittering with the lustre of precious stones, Their appearance seemed to strike the crowd who witnessed their landing with astonishment, and an involuntary Durst of admiration, la the shape of horrab, took place. The young Prince evidently did ot know what to make of the appinuse, and par and looked about bim with dignity. His uncle lilted the beck of bis band to forehead and smiled. As soon as the l’rinces were seated the Mayor of the town apd Major Hird, the agent, entered tho same carriage and crove off to the Royal York Hotel. The whole of the suite soon followed in omnibuses, flys and cabs, and appeared highly amuved. As s on a8 the !riaces reached botel an immense crowd gath wrouad it and Ned for the Princes. The latter wei on to the bal copy by Mejor Bird, who addressed the crowd, stating the object of the visit of the Princes to (sis country, and ng from Rogliehmen an ii ‘tigation into their. giievances, and demanding that justice should be done the Princes. have travelled pearly Great credit is due to the l'eninsular and Oriental pany, the customs authorities, and Messrs. Hedger and Levy, om tbe part of the docks, for the arrangements mace for the convenient landing of the (Queen and Prin. con, The following are the names of the family of Ovde and the chief persons of their suite, whica have come to England in the Indus, viz | Hor Majesty Jonab Allur, Queen Dowager of Oude: bis Hightoss Miizs Wal lee Hiyoer Baheadoor, heir apparent to the throu of Onde; bia Bighness Mirza Secundra Hashmut Baha joor, heir presumptive to tbe throne of Gude: Moolee Mascec ordeen Kban Babadoor, equerry to the ex King of Oude; Moonahee Mahomed Rufee, secretary to the ex King; Jalleesod Dowlah Syed Allee Kaha Bahardoor, aid de- comp to the ex King; and Neeval Nazier, . Mahomed, Jooreet Alle Khan, Meer Turzand Allee Khan, Meer Bakab Allee Khan, and Harmussiee Berzerjee Moodee, principal officers and indies in attendance ov the Queen and Prinees, {From the London News, Aug. 23.) Sovriampros, Briday Evening, Aug. 22. The Ra‘ah of Surat, and Indian vaseals and crandeca, have visited this town to pay their respects to the Princes of Oude. The ‘een of Oude and ber ladice cccupy the suite of apartments on the first floor of the Royal York Hotel. the rooms being ritauted close to the ony. Two of the roome—the Queen residing in the jower—bave Dow windows. Hier Majesty ts surroanded by eereens, so that if the door is opened sho may not be seep. Last night the crowd outside the hotel called for the princes to appear, but access to the bal: cony could oply be obtained throvgn her Majesty's apart ment, and the Queen bad the greatest diMcuity in re- «ing from the apartment unovserve!, The fent was effected at last by drapery being held around her by the eunucha, The window blinds of the ladies i are kept down lng the whole of the d 4 the cunuchs guard the doors of the p ocasionally, when the canrdian’s atte: tion ig withdrawn, fornale Curiosity is exened, the window blind ja slightly and timidty drawn aride, anda sight is then obtained from the street of the houris of the Lucknow or Fyaabed harem, Tho complexion of there bevties ia ox ceedingly dark, the hair viaek, and the face remark ably rowod and ermal) Andrews, the Mayor of Sonthempton, was indre to the Queen of Oude by Major Bird. The major mr ed bis nama onteide the carriage, Whereupon her » ¥ put her hand throug! the blind and bis worship ands with her. The transfer of the full ( f io0 nation from the revion of the Fimal Sontnampton has caused the utmost amar wd curiosity to the inhabitants here, and a crows | 178 around the hotel, At every window of the buildin y , rolled apparently in cashmere shawls, are to be sc aning out, or emok- ing, or performing ablations, 7 eee room is given up to the inferior castes, who are «busily employed. ¢ bar is one of the Cooking r: Inside the innor doorway #it the upper servants, the ol sticks” of the prince, emo. Ly and oo : ry vee are gover town pure! fruit, poutte y, pT a Nearly all the party csr the ray po able of their treasures and money rown \ieir perso ys, which 10 some avery picturesque to other: « wow long the are about to Making known the complaint of the Cou the East Jadia Company, " tie oe appara It is uncert ‘Will stay in Southampton. Pamph) eases The Approaching Coronation of the Czar DD Strangers tn St. Petersbu. "6 {Correspondence of London Post j ie. | M., the Em oth Fs who bas returued from her Geriaan tour aud resigae4 her intended Italian excursion, in order to be present at her son's coronation, disembarked from the steamer, one eee & elery ane the cheers of many thou- ph i. oa rarcen of voterbot excursionists, at the beaut! In my last I referred to the a i some of our popular portraits and prints. Among. thosd who arrived in that overcrowded Stettin oat which, as I mentioned in my Wednesday letter, brought the hereditary Duxe of Hesse, Moufavieil,’ three dis- tinguished French Generals, and go n ers that a large portion of those who Trad taken rst class tickets could obtain no sleeping accommoda- tion, there was one whom I was auxious to see, not so much because be was to figure prominently in the coronation ceremonial as a near relative of the late and present Czar, but because he has the reputation of being an accomplished prince, who knows English perfectly, a sincere encouragor of science, and himself not ungkilled, for instance, in archwology, and other such pursuits things which make low born men note worthy, and the high piaced of this world still more remarkabie. allude to the Duke of Oldenburg. Merely to see him as he hurried like others on to Moscow, would uot have been worth crossing the strect; and precisely because he was thus hurrying on, I thought there was no chance of more. I was deceived. Butl will brietly give you the various little occurrences of the three days in their order. M. de Morny had been a little, or rather not a little, ill om Tuesday evening; maoy people felt grouad. lessly alarmed, and were talking, it seems, about the gloom which a continuance of his illness (alleged to be serious) would cast during the coronation over one of the the most bri Hantembassies that Western Europe ever sent t») Russia. The Neva water generally levies a tax on the health of visitors, and M. de Moray was merely called upon by this impartial and inexorable collector. On Wednesday evening everybody’ went to a splendid evening party. at Madame Kotzebue’s, the various mem bers ot the dfplomatic body suilicing not only “to makea house,’? but to make for one pight, at least, a whole capi- tai—a.beit out of the season in which that capital loves gaiety. The next day (Thursday) the British Embassy, including all the ladies who have accompanied it, went to Peterhoff, and had an audience of the Emperor; and after rl Granville had presenied his credentials, his lordship the whole of the brilliant party were presented by ‘exander bimself to the Empress. Here the custom of the Court is that, even on the ordinary Court festivals, the “Grandes Charges de la Cour,” and whoever has the honor of @ presentation to the Empress, kiss her Majes- ty’s hand as they The ceremony is so arranged that the people, who are admitted freely to stroll about the beautiful grounds and among the groves which ex- tend from the Palace down a gentle slope to the very wa- ter’s brink, may see the whole scene through the win- dows; and it is certainly extremely pretty to notice the well bebaved groups, attired in their best, take y sort of vanity inthe proceedings ot the august family whose pleasance ia also practically there. The day before Earl Granville’s embassy was received at this charming summer retreat of the Russian sove- reigns. St. Petersburg was alive with a more solemn kind of excitement, and more imposing scenes. It was the Russian Ist of Angust, anda great Greek festival, called the la Semnoi—or, as well as I can make out its meaning, the blessing of the wate's and fruits of sum. mer. Everywhere in the streets you noticed an unusnal crowd, and ¢verywhere settling more or less into the form of a procession. The long-haired and long-bearded Greek and archimandrites, with attendants bear- ing tall crosses, gave almost the charac «r of some vast confluent pilgrimage to the immense throng. Every. where the human streams were settiog in the direc- tion of the beautiful and pellucid nataral streams which divide. this city in two; avd everywhere, along both banks of the numerous canals je con- course headed towards the spot where they flowed into the broad Neva. The festive looking barges, gay with flowers, rant with incense, bore a species of altar, surmounted by the picture of some Eas:ern saint, real or apocryphal, set in gold and in jewels. Bzlow the venerated picture were fruits and a vessel of water. Toe Mujiks, men, women and children—the men in sheep:kins belted with thong, the women in bright colored spencers or jackets, with a kerchief round tae head, many carry- ing babies in their arms, many slapg in a hood and tight ly swaddled on their shoulders; many leading little chil. dren by the hand—pressed around the scene, crossed themselves seoseheay stooped to the very ground, which they kissed again an’ , and with impassive counte- ances recited aloud a chorus of chants and prayers. The priests intoaed from massively bound silver enchased vo- jumes words of their ritual, and solemnly lifved their ringed hands to bless the people. It rained signs of the cross It blew sighs and groans and responses. Toe crowd splashed themselves with water from the Neva, which they gathered inthe palm of the hand. Some of the women even took their infants and fairly soused them in the stream. Meanwhile, the faces of the devotees were singularly and strikingly unmoved. Great enthusiasm of action, were it spontaneous instead of well learnt and mechanical; no enthusiasm of ook—no change of expres. sion. Stony featnres, inceseant mobility of hands and hip joints, the whites of eyes visible wherever you tarned, in the midst of this fleld-aay of religious demonstrations, a learned Frenshman a weil known geolceist and au thor, who neither knew one word of Russ, nor had ever been at St. Petersburg betore, approached to witness closely so remarkable a spectacle. It was at tho corner where the firet conal which crosses the Nevsky Prospect joins the Neva. The priest was loud (n his chavnt, the people louder in their response; the shrine on’ the Hosting altar glittered in the bright sunlight. It was ® singular and enthralliog scone. Immodiately the hed foreigner became the centre of a devotional cir- cle, wbo absorbed all his attension. There was a perfect whirlwind of signs of the eross, under cover of which a valuable watcb, with seals ov which the arms of his an- cient family were engraved, quitied his pocket unper- ceived, A moment before he approached the throng hi had looked to see the hour; ecarcely had be entered the mous cirele when he missed bis property. The St. Peters. borg pickpockets arc comparable to acy tn Enrope; and ‘tis in the churches, or in these open air ceremonies, ibey chiehy pracice their art. The sufferer on this xcea »on is a member of | know aot how many scieatitic aca- demies and institutes in France, in Eogland, and throagh- out Europe. Bis researches, discoveries and publications in the geological department, and, indee 4, in others, well known; he was decorated by tho first Najo! ‘he age of twenty, and has since passed a long bts » suing bis jovestigations m ail * ‘of the worl. ile arrival at St Petersburg, even at this moment of ox- citemert and distraction, was pot left for one day un- noticed by the bigher personages of the country; and] mention it for what it may be worth, as aa indication of the digperition « bich animates the new go\ ernment to- wards peaceful arts and useful studies (afer a io which nothing but military accomplishments and mi- ay | qualities was recognised) that M. de Boucher de Crévecoeur de Verthes—for it was he—was no -ooner known to here than the Duke of Olden. burgh invited bim to pass over for a few hoars to Veterbotl ere going on to Moscow. M. do Perthox proposed to me to accompany him, offering to pre. sent me to lis Imperial Tn any case I should bave gone to ecko tot t ladly availed myself of we Freoeh savant’s kind offer; so we took our places in the steamer yosterday at two o'clock, £ toll, first, of an cilort which we made to trace, if possible, the par. toined wateb, Ae the British Ambaxsy would be at Pe tif onthe next day, we thought Friday would be better for the ‘lying visit to the Duke of Oldenburg, acd we devoted Thursday to the watch? First, *the Fenchman bought another, telling his story to the Rus- ‘an watebmaker, and learning that it was quite uscless wo attempl the recovery of what was lost y be worthy man, with look, as I thought, of hurt vani. \y, “when a thing is lost in that way among us, it i¢ well ort; believe me, sir, our yop know it busi cess.” “1 was robbed with the siga of the cross,’’ sald ue Frenchman, “but i know it is nota religious cere- mony. 1 heer that your police are also very clever. Por- bape they will have found my watch.’? At the severa! persons having to'd as before we id the wateh have been found it woald for the owner to leave St. Poteraburg ‘Weeks, owing to the necessity of his for the ends of justice. The fire owert, OF watch towers, of St Petersbarg, on which, ar above the roofs of the houses, two sentries are cep against the sky pacing their incessant round at very bour o day oy ~~ in every traveller's , r them in their Spans argions, wabetermanes’ teres of vigilance, in order to ren fer impossible those devastating comfegrations which at one time were the fatality of St. ‘etersburg. Weil, these wateh towers mark the police «ations, which are also stations furnished with the elec. ‘ic telegraph. Before leaving home the merest stranger bas oply to look out of the window, and he needs no guide, no knowle:ge of Rusa, no Une nearest police station. T nee! were no tidings of the wateh. We gious festivals it was usaal for articles of that masure to ON Peter at ‘hofl, whither I yesterday accompanied the Frenchmrn, we paseed the imperial palace, before whieh: » wilderness of fountains are made to assume the forms of trees, shrubs, columps, and arches, and where troops of statuer, according to the ion of the Russians for have their marble hiddea be. neath a coating of that metal, and through the pleasant groves made ovr way to the truly pastoral residence ot the Duke of Ollenburgh, The Emperor, I may men ‘on, although he receives Ambassadors in summer vt the Palace of Peterheft, does not live there, but occ & pretty cottage embowered in the trees a mile or two At the Oldenburgh Palace we saw first the Dui brerian, M. Postel, who is the teacher of bia chil who edd us to stroll for five minotes through the park.’ d pastar’s, enclosed ina girdle of rover, would bave beep a more correct ¢eseription of wbat he called a park, were cows grazing hore, atong the plantation, each cow with a drowsy tened nk ing bell round ite neck. The effect was inexpressibly ‘orm like, Soon M. Poste! came, and led us into bis own fretiy cottage on the hill overlooking the sea. Somethin new in everything around, even in the trees, prosenie, he impression of a pretty Engiteh marine villa, Tae whole life nround us Hreathed that of country gone. man. House, gardens, grounds had © certain dienided simplicity, While M. Postel was urging BM. de P not to go to Moscow with me, but to wait one d the great mastodon in the Mosenm; and w! reproachful pathos, he reminded the Frenchman of his feelebrated countryman’s (Oavier) Inet and only regret when dyio’, that he bad not lived to makea journey to St. Petersburg to rey, hat same mammoth ‘a visit, in came an officer without knocking, and we heard ‘fa light and rapid footetep behind bim, It was the duke. ‘As M. de Perthes presented me tothe duke, mentioning that | had come from Enginad to see the coronation, his Imperial Highness aired his English by talking tt with me, ané very good English he . Nothing could ex- ceed the cordiality and sim iy of his manner; ho shook M. de Perthes warmly by the hand, and vaye mo a similarly hearty . He neked was it my first visit to Russia—where I was staying—did I like my hotel’ &c. —when I was going to f On Monday,” he said, when I had anawered the last question; ‘‘so does every body go that day. I go with my children in a spe- train— A ‘We returned wilh him to St. Petersburg at six o'clock in ‘he steamer, which was densely crowded with Ros#an officers ond Greek priests. Among the latter was avery {nterestimg person, with whom Duke converted @ —_—_— It was Bajanof, the father confessor of the He was a portly man, with a cheerful, intelli * dark brown beard, Next him eat u Ris* ian, or Greek Sister of Charity, who had tendod the ounded in Sebastopol itself during the siege, she Seemed about 33, not pretiv, but with & very sweet ex. pression of countenance. The costume differs from that Of the Catholic Sisters of Charity, tn this especially, tint the liair of the Greek nun’s heal! was visible in front at Ahe whie bands which bound her head under the black c.f, or rather cowl. Kasenbock, the Caucasian’ monic the professor of the Georgisn language iu the St. Patora: burg University, was also on board; and there were many aides+'e-camp of the Grand Duke Nicholas. One, who seemed about 22, was blazing with crosses. He had been with the Grand Duke Nicholas in Sebastopol. It was Prince Gagarin, sou of the director of the theatre at St. Petersburg. Ir this goodly ¢om- pany, we made our return trip, which occupied little bet- ter than an hour, The Ld ate mother’s arrival at Pe. terbot! before we re-embarked had made the place alive with equipages and cavalry, rolling and galloping aiong its shacy avyenucs, The Dowager Empress looks jaded; but 1am told she is health itself compared with what she appeared when leaving Russia after her great Wo- reavement, and the dark going down of Nicholas’ onc: Driliiant sun. Before starting for Peterhoff I attended the high mass ot the Catholic church, where, as it was the féle of the Emperor Napoleon the Third, (the Feast of the Assum. lion, ) the whole diplomatic bod 7 anda vast concourse of Perscns asgisted. The whole church was lit up with gor g¢0u8 uniforms and jowelled dresses, [ saw M. de Morny, the Vicomtes de ’Kepine and Siméon, the Comtes Jon- chim Murat and Lavaiette, Karl and Countess Granville, Lord Ward, the Marquis of stallord, the Earlof Dalkeith, Sir Robert Peel, the sallow, beaky, but thoroughly patai’ cian face of Prince Paul Esterhazy, aud, what produced a rimilar effect, the swarthy lineaments of the Greek Am- bassador and his cortrasting dress of white lawn, &c. A bisbop gave the benediction after mass. ‘the post is made up at 10 A, M., therefore I cannot add more than an anecdote, as er visit yesterday to the Duke of Oldenbarg ran away with the time 1 had intended to devote to this now hurried and abridged letter. The Governor of Moscow is Count ——. His daughver was united in marriage to Count Neaselrode, Jr., and is sepa- rated from him in divorce. The mother, Countess ——, is not received at Court. Wore she at Moscow during the coronation, how could the wife of the Goyerner remain uninvited? The scandal would be great; the case was delicate, How is it arranged? Why, a decree of the Em- Peror unexpectedly ae stating thet as Countess —— is most anxious to travel abroad, his Maj raciously permits her to do so forthwith. She thauts Mie sjesty, choking with rage; and her friends cheke with regret or laughter as they wish her good bye. I believe the es - Ce meny to fe Rie vel There was a much spoken lecture on pl te a monk te the Neveky mocaairy. ee es The official programme of the ceremonial to be observed at the coming coronation at Moscow is divided into five :—1. The solemn entry into Moscow from the Palace |. 2. The public proclamation, which will be made to emer for three days eee to the coro- Ration. 3. decorations of the Cathedral of the cengion, in which the cere: will take . 4, The coronation itself, and this ig the Tongest ‘of all the parts and 6. The decorations of the saloon in the old palace of the Czars, the Kremlin. In this saloon there will ball given, as also in the Alssande elfen ees aaa 2 z g i 3 frew 5 The entrance into Moscow will be of nine guns, and will be accom, by the rather striking of the bells of the Cachedral of sion. The procession itself will consist of of the Cossacks of the Guard of the and a squadron of the Cossacks of the representatives of the he nobility, two horseback and in uniform, beaded by the Marshal nobility of the circle of Moscow, and del from the different Asiatic -tribes or subject to the Russian sceptre, two and two, on horse- back; the Emperor on borseback, followed by the Minis ter of the 1 . the Minister of War, an Adju- tant-General, a ‘general dla suite, and one adjutant oa duty; the Grand Dukes (with the of the Grand Duke Wiadimer Alexandrowiish), Prince Nicholas of Leuchtenberg, Prince Peter of Oldenberg and the princes, allon horseback; and after them come all generals and adjutants, also on horseback. The Empress mother then follows ina gilded carriage of State, sur- mounted by an imperial crown, and drawn by’ eight horses, led by a ym; then the reigi Empress, with the Grand Dul imir, in a similar carrisge, fol- lowed by the Grard Duchesses and the Princess of Uiden- burg. As soon as the Emperor enters Moscow seventy - one guns are fired; when their Majesties enter the Cathe dral of the Ascension eighty five guns salute them. the Kremlin they are receiued by the clergy. The Marshal of the Coronation and the members of the comp- toir of the Palace hand the Emperor bread and salt, aud while this is going on 101 guns are fired. The whole da} long the bells and in the evening there is tobe an il- jumination. The proclamation is to be read at thirty-five different places, gutes, bridges, &c., in Moscow, and distributed among the people. Its general sense is as follows:— The Emperor Alexander Nicolajowitech, who has mounted the throne of bis fathers, commands that his coronation end anointment sbali take place on the 26th of the month of August (Sept. 7), and that his consort shall par- Heipate in it, Itthen enjoins the subjegta, on that aus- picious day, to implore the blessing of beaven on the Em- peror’s reigb, apd specially to pray tbat peace and ‘rapquillity may abide in the empire The day of the coronation is announced to the foreign Am- baseadors by masters of the ceremonies in state carriages. In the Church of the Ascension the throve of the Czar Johann lil, the conqueror of Nov- gored and the liberator of the land from the yoke of Tartars, is place’ for the Emperor, and for the reign- ng Empress is placed that of the Czar Michael Fedoro- wiiseb (the first of the house of Romanoff). On the right of the lapperor’s there is placed for the mother a canopy, with the throne of the Czar Alexis Mi- chaelowitsch, the father of Peter the Great. These thrones have never yet been used for this ra. At seven © elock on the age Oy the day of the coronation 21 gus wili be fired. ¢ Empress mother, bepress sori i BS ; wearing the imperial mantie, and her crown on her head, repairs to ‘he cathedral with the Grand juke, heir to the throne; 101 cums will indicate the conclusion of the coronation: Before the commencement of the anointment. Princes is laid in that part of the palace teeret chamber. For three days after the coronation (bere are to be bella all , aud illuminations in the evening; and on one tae dy phn} will be smal! Toney distribuved to the twenty different places ts they come out ofchurde. - - Tae Census or THE Puxsave.—The results of the cepsus show afi increase all previeus similar in- quiries in the Punjaub. succeeding enumeration coms to exceed iis predecessor in numbers, and shows od pate eed make a full return of al! the inha- yitants and that many persons escape enumeration, while Anais Sane voretenen wang be weseeny increasing. The inference theretore is, that the new returns are cer- tainly not overrated, that if there be any error it is oa ‘the wide of deficiency and not of excess, and ca wen "ks ppnnis ft a peat 6 252,874 rf are Hindoos, while the Mahometans num ber 7,064, 94 found loges in the Punjaub territories is Of these £6,210 contain lees than 1,000 inhabitants 2,154 lees than 5,000; 77 leas thai 10,000; while three boast opulatons ‘bove 80,000." TG tures latter are—Amritzur, 192,184; Lahore, 94,143, and ‘ur, €3,296. 8 A hy 47.1 19,246; Ghareo 47.191 , 16,546; | Mooltan, si; Darts Iemeal K exclusive with the ¢: of I : | Ld H 33 é 5 H s H if =e 4 =: jer of inmates to is @ total of 2,60¢,454 set Pupjaub territories, , western provinces, it 83. of the most prominent featares of a census, namely, the reisuve density or otherwise of at 155.80 persons per tquare mile, This may bea fair average, a8 compared with many European countries; bot it shows « spare rather than ne ae for India, In the northwestern provinces are 420 persors per square mile by last census; in Bongal, according to the best available data, there apprara to be O11 persons Pd square mile; in the Madras presidency, 170; Inthe Bombay preside: only 166; in the Sugor ond Nerbadda territory, 1 bn tne whole, the Pun. jaub (x one-fourth leas ious in proportion to its area than the United K ingdcm and about as thickly peopiod at cliber France, Prassia, Austria and Italy on ths con.j- Dent, or as the Madras and Bom! esidencies in In tin. On the other hand, it is not more than half as lous Ag the mest densely inbabited of the world, such as Holland, Belgiom, Northern Italy, China, the Gangetic provirees of Inéia'and tho like. The most thickly propio ciriet 'n the Punjaub ie stated to be Juliunder, where there are 513 persons per equare mile. In the corres. ponding districts in the northwestera provivees (Benarag and Bengal Burdwan) tnere are fespectively 859 aad 533 persons per square mile; while in T>njore, Madras, and Kaira, Bombay, there aro respectively 469 and S10 por- cons per equare mile, Kohat ia the most thinly peopled district int] b; ithas only 35 persons per eqnare mile, while west similar fignre in the est ie 100, Butoven Kohat exceeds in density of ation Bhagulpere, in Bengal, where there are only le. —Indian paper. APPoIntMENTS BY THE Presipext.—Jacoh ©. Tewlet, surveyor of the customs at Cold Spring, Now York, reappointed. Benjamin R. Bythewood, er,lector of the customs at Beaufort, South Carolina, re & pointed. ©. P. Pittsteld, “of New Grieans, Louisiana, & ijr-vial ine] of steamboats for the Fourth dis pict, vive We Muir, deceased: it HI iti z + Hi ase popu ‘28 per square ‘We have received no account of the * smissal of work men in the United States Armory at Fyarper's Forey. Tt seems that there was money cndugb to ke +p the sath a ‘workmen employed It was only the Novthern mon ©o0 wore to feel the effects of the & ure of the appropriation