The Press.
London, England, 1858-11-13 00:00:00

THE PRE SB, /4ovEmßpl 1, 18_,58.

is it only the Emperor's purse that bleeds: the
guests themselves have to buy uniforms of green and
gold for the hunts, and the ladies are required to
appear in two new dresses a day.
It is said that the Emperor and Empress will most
likely prolong their stay at Compiegne to the beginning
of next month, and that it is not unlikely that they will
afterwards spend some little time at St. Cloud before
taking up their residence at the Tuileries. As the
absence of the Court from the capital at this season
checks trade, traders grumble a little against their
Imperial Majesties. But the fact is that the Empress
does not like the Tuileries as a residence, and that
she always comes to Paris with a sinking heart, for,
says her Majesty, "It is at Paris only that the
Emperor is ever fired at !"
The Roman priesthood in this city, and especially
the Jesuits, are making more energetic efforts than
ever to gain converts ; and they do not disdain
worldly temptations as well as spiritual persuasion—
in fact, generally speaking, they place greater reliance
on the former. To very poor people timely donations
of cash, blankets, clothing, food, are powerful incen-
tives in awakening convictions ; clerks, professors,
and such folk are bought by the promise of well-paid
employment ; wealthy marriages catch the more
ambitious; and the vain are secured by the promise
of decorations, or honours, or introductions to Arch-
bishops and Cardinals. Another plan is also
employed : Catholic board and lodging houses
are established in various parts of Paris, at
which what prospectuses call " excellent accom-
modation," with reading-rooms stocked with news-
papers and books, and gay sprightly company, and
even billiards, can be had for a very moderate sum
per month—sometimes even, when a convert is hoped
for, gratis—and in these houses, which for the most
part are conducted by priests not in priestly costume,
or by men who are devoted to them, the minds of the
lodgers are constantly acted on in the most artful
manner, until at last the lodgers, either from convic-
tion, or laziness, or interest, become formal observers
of the rites of Catholicism, and, what the Popish
clergy prize still more highly, mere dependants and
tools of the priests.
The Government is about to increase the police
force in Paris by about 2,000 men ; but a great por-
tion of them will be required for the suburbs beyond
the octroi walls which ate, in execution of a project
long talked of, very shortly to be added to Paris.
The Parisian police is now organized on the plan of
that of London, and is a well-conducted body. It
was the Emperor who caused it to be modelled on
our plan.
The French Government has received despatches
from its admiral in China, stating that lie had sent
an ultimatum to the Sovereign of Cochin Chinn,
notifying that if his Majesty did not comply with all
his demands in a week he would march on the
capital. _ _

PS. As I write I learn that the latest chances are
that Count de ➢lontalembert will be prosecuted, but
on charges much less grave than those originally
contemplated; CO that he may escape with only a
slight fine.

foreign intb colonial latelligente.

FRANCS.
LETTER OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON.

The Moniteur publishes the following letter' which
the Emperor has addressed to his cousin, Prince
Napoleon, Minister of Algeria and of the Colonies :
St. Cloud, Oct. 80, 1838.
__ _ _

My Dear Coasin,—l have the liveliest desire that—ac
the moment when the difference with Portugal, relative to
the Charles• Georges, has terminated—the question of the
engagement of free labourers on the African coast should
be definitively examined and finally settled on the truest
principles of humanity and justice.
I energetically claimed from Portugal the restitution of
the Charles-Georges, because I will always maintain intact
the independence of the national flag ; but, in this case
even, it was only with the profound conviction of my right
that I risked, with the King of Portugal, a rupture of
those friendly relations which I am glad to maintain
with him.

But as to the principle of the engagement of the negroes,
my ideas are far from being settled. If, in truth,
labourers recrolted on the African coast are not allowed
the exercise of their free will, and if this enrolment is
only the slave trade in disguise, I will have it on no terms,
for it is not I who will anywhere protect enterprizes eon•
trary to progress, to humanity, and to civilization.
I beg you then to seek out the truth with the zeal and
intelligence which you bring to bear on all affairs about
which you employ yourself.
And as the best method of putting a term to what is
a continual cause of dispute would be to substitute the
free labour of Indian coolies for that of the negroes, I beg
you to come to an understanding with the Minister for
Foreign Aff.irs to resume with the English Government
the negotiations which were entered upon a few months ago.
On this, my dear cousin, I pray God to have you in his
holy keeping. NAPOLEON.

THE FUNERAL CAR OF NAPOLEON I.

The Moniteur publishes the following :—The
funeral car of Napoleon arrived on Friday morning

in Paris. General Sir J. Burgoyne, charged by
Queen of England to proceed with it to the Invalidei,
and deliver it up formally, was in attendance. At a
quarter to one, General Count d'Ornano, the governor,
and his staff, descended into the courtyard, to meet,
Marshal Valliant, Minister of War. In a few minnie,
after, the English general and Prince Napoleon, who
had come from Compiegne expressly for the art a.
sion, arrived, and the ceremony of reception took
place in front of the church, where the car had been
placed. Sir J. Burgoyne delivered the following
address:—

Her Majesty the Queen of England being desirous of
offering to his Imperial Majesty a relic which she knows
to be interesting to France, has charged me to bring to
Paris, and place at the disposal of the Emperor, theft:men'
car on which were conveyed to his first tomb the mortal
remains of the illustrious founder of the Napoleonien
dynasty. The almiration which I feel as a soldier for the
exalted genius andlexploits of that great warrior has cause,'
me to feel the greater pleasure at the choice which my
gracious Sovereign has made of me for the accomplishment
of this honourable mission.
Prince Napoleon replied :

General,—l receive, in the name of the Emperor, the
precious relic which the Queen of Englund has sent to him.
I receive it as a testimony of her desire to efface the poignant
remembrances of St. Helena, u a pledge of the friendship
which united the two Sovereigns, and as a proof of the
alliance which exists between the two nations. May this
alliance long continue for the happiness of the human race.
May it reserve for the future u great results as those
which it has already produced! I am charged by the
Emperor to inform you, genet al, that he particularly appre.
ciates the choice which the Queen has made of yon for
this mission. We are happy to have to thank one of those
glorious chiefs of the English army, by the side of whom
we have fought, and for whom we have retained such a
high esteem.
The short ceremonial then terminated. The car is
to be placed in the Chapel St. Jerome, by the side of
the mortal remains of the great man which had been
conveyed on it to the tomb.

M. DE MONTALEXBERT'S PROSECUTION.

It is reported that the magistrate appointed to ex.
amine the charge against M. de Montalembert has
decided that the incriminated article does not bear
out the charge, and that he will consequently issue a
declaration that there aro not sufficient grounds for a
prosecution.

THE FRENCH PRESS.

Since the accession to office of M. Delangle,
Minister of the Interior, the French press enjoys a
greater degree of freedom than it did previously, as
is manifest from the independence with which seversl
of the journals have lately treated important matters
of internal policy without having been interfered with
in any way or visited with avertissements.