The Press.
London, England, 1853-09-10 00:00:00

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PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
Putts, September K.
THI Emperor and Empress will probably quit
Dieppe on Saturday next, the ►lay after the fetes
offered them by that town. They will then retuni
to
Paris, and about the 15th inst. will undertake the
journey so long announced to the north, to Boulogne
and the camp at St. timer. In the absence of the
Emperor several Cabinet Councils have been held at
the Keeper of the Seals'. At the last were present
the Ministers of Justice, Foreign Affairs, War,
Finances, Marine, Agriculture, Commerce and
Public Works, Public Instruction, and the President
of the Council of State. The greatest quietude has
come over the fitful spirit of the Parisians. War and
unours of war no longer agitate their minds. The
pacific assurances of the Baron de Mayendortf,
Ambassador of Russia at Vienna, that the Czar
would accept the modifications introduced into the
note of the four powers by the Sublime Porte, have
gained credit in Paris, everywhere except upon the
Bourse. The fear of a season of scarcity has sub-
sided into an easy nonchalance. The political world
is absent. Public functionaries are bathing and
water-drinking, or paying their court to the Emperor
at. Dieppe. The opening of the shooting season
claims As share in the momentary abandonment of
Paris to the English, for you see them everywh►rre,
and hear their just though comical remarks in their
native tongue on every side.
M. Troplong, President of the Senate, has written
a letter to the Emperor to call his attention to the
hardship and vexation caused to the country people
by the orders issued by some prefects in the depart-
mutts for the closing of public-houses and other
similar annoyances. M. Troplong, with the con-
currence of several deputies of the Imperial party,
points out the impolicy of these proceedings affecting
that part of the population the most warmly attached
ta the dynasty of Napoleon.
The splendid hotel of the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, on the Qusi d'Orsay, is now taken possession
of by M. Drouyn de Limp'. This fine building
presents seine interior disadvantages, perhaps here-
after to be easily remedied. The cabinet of M.
Thouvenet, principal secretary, is situated so far
from that of the minister, that he will have to mount
and redeseend one hundred and fifty steps every
time he may have to transact business with his
chief, whom he is obliged to see several times (luring
the day. The architect, without malice, has applied
the system of the treadmill to diplomacy. The
drawing-rooms cannot be thumbed this winter. The
official receptions will be, therefore, necessarily
restricted to some hundreds instead of thousands of

guests.
Several of the " Conseils (liniTaux " have made a
formal demand that a national recompense be offered
of one million of francs to the person who shall find
• remedy for the disease of the vine known under the
appellation of °Mhos. In Algiers the growth of
cotton is making great, progress. Tobacco, also, is
very flourishing: the crop of Issll promises to give
six millions of pounds, valued at two millions of
francs. Dr. Viron's memoirs are to appear on the
Ist October, and are expected with much curiosity.
The following account of the origin of the emirate-
bonnet is given in the "Anecdotes du temps de la
Restauration":—A distinguished writer, M. Latenche,
one of the editors of the journal Undependant,
visited one day the exhibition of pictures in the
Louvre : he stopped before the portrait of a child
holding in its hand a nosegay of blue flowers. His
imagination is struck, and he gives an animated
description of it in his newspaper of the next morning.
The day after a crowd of amateurs and others rushed
to see this picture; on all sides it is asked who it was
meant to represent? A German present explained
that the flowers signified " Forget me not." These
words sufficed to typify the portrait : " It is the King
of Rome !" cried they on all sides. Enthusiasm
manifests itself ; the police cause the salon to be
cleared, and the next day the Independout was sup-
pressed. This portrait, on verification, turned out to
be that of a son of a counsellor of the Bavarian em-
bassy. A newspaper was thus annihilated through
an error of the public. Some days afterwards, on
the strong remonstrances of the Count de Boisgelin.
Louis XVIII., struck with the injustice committed
towards the journal, which, besides, he read himself
with pleasure, gave to the proprietors a new autho-
risation, and himself baptised the new publication
Le Coustitutionuet, the name which it bears to
this day.
A general meeting has been held of the directors
of the principal railroads of France. They have come
to the determination of reducing the charges of trans-
port for corn and Rour, Sr., to the lowest possible rate,
thus joining iu the attempts of Government to diffuse
alimentary produce as tyidely and generally over the