The Press.
London, England, 1858-08-07 00:00:00

THE PRESS, AUGUST 7, 1858.

The benediction and inauguration of the railway will
take place in the presence of their Majesties.
All the land and sea forces will be under arms : they
will be placed in rank from the railway station to the Hotel
of the Prefecture. The arrival of their Majesties will be
announced by a salute of artillery.
All the ships of the squadron, as well as the forts of the
road, and Forts Ouglet and L'Amiral, will be decorated
with Bags ; all the buildings of the port will also hoist their
respective flags.
On the arrival of their Majesties at the Prefecture the
Empress will receive the wives of the principal officials,
and the young la lies deputed to offer her Majesty a corbeille
of flowers and lace. . .

The public offices, the ships of the squadron, and the
breskwster will he illuminated every evening during the
stay of their Majesties.
The officers and public functionaries are requested to
illuminate their residences and decorate them with flags.

AUGUST 5.

This day being reserved by the Emperor and Empress
for the reception on board the Bretagne of her Majesty the
Queen of England, a future order will be issued as to the
proceedings of the day.
The regatt* will take place in the road of Cherbourg, in
he presence of the united naval forces and the Royal
Yacht Squadron.
AUGUST 6.

This day their Majesties will visit the ships of the
squadron in the road, and land on the breakwater.
AUGUST 7.

Their Majesties will leave the Hotel of the Prefecture
in the morning, and pass through the town and environs.
it noon their Majesties will proceed to the military port
to open the grand inner basin of the works.
In the evening a ball will be given to the Emperor and
Empress by the town of Cherbourg at the How' de Ville.
AUGUST 8.

At nine o'clock in the morning the Emperor will inau-
gurate the equestrian statue of Napoleon.
The departure of their Majesties is fixed fur two
o'clock p.m.
The remainder of the programmes contained the
special regulations and orders to the officials relative
to this ceremony, which was the last of the celebra-
tions.

Another programme, published by the Munici-
pality, detailed the popular fetes that were to be
given in honour of the imperial visit, and the part
the Municipality was to take in the other ceremonies.
The mayor of the town issued the following
address to the inhabitants :

Fellow• citizens,—ln 1842 we requested the Emperor to
grant a railroad to our district. Our request was granted,
and now his Majesty comes to inaugurate this great road,
which unites our town to the metropolis. The third
dock of our military port is finished. The Emperor will
preside at its opening, and thus crown the completion or
this magnificent arsenal, which excites the admiration of
the whole world. His Majesty will also inaugurate the
monument you have raised to Napoleon 1., and, by his
presence at this imposing solemnity, add to the splendour
of the homage you have paid to the powerful founder of
the Napoleon dynasty. The Empress, his noble partner,
the august mother of the prince on whom rest the dearest
hopes of the country, deigns also to visit us. If the eyes
of France are at this moment fixed on Cherbourg, it is
because every town wishes, like our own, to enjoy the
happiness of possessing the Sovereign who has raised so
high the glory of out arms, and secured the prosperity of
the country; it is because Cherbourg is now the town
privileged above all others. Need I excite your enthu-
siasm? No; I know your patriotic sentiments, and I
know, in anticipation, that everywhere on their passage
their Majesties will be received with fervent acclamations,
the sincere proofs of your devotion to the empire. Your
houses will be decorated with Hags and illuminated
during the whole sojourn of our august guests. We all
know what we owe to the Government of the Emperor,
and we shall feel happy to be able on this great occasion
to offer him abundant proof of our affeciion and grad-
tnile. Vire l'Empereur ! Viva l'lmperatrice ! Viva le
Prince Imperial!

LODE, Maley.
The following general remarks we take from a
morning contemporary of Friday :
It is said 40,000 passports have been granted in
Paris for Cherbourg. A person► who was at the Pre-
lecture on Monday estimated the number of persons
waiting for passports at 7(NO. It was stated yester-
day that there were 60,000 strangers in Cherbourg,
whose ordinary population is under 20,000. The
visitors, especially the Parisians, seem to be making
the most of the opportunity of floating on salt water.
The admiral's fine vessel, the Bretagne, at anchor
between the Arcola and the Eylau, is an object of
great attraction, and is daily surrounded by a crowd
of [boats. The traffic of small craft between the
breakwater and the port is prodigious. Upon the
former the breeze blew fresh a day or two ago, and
ladies who landed are described as liming been sadly
afflicted, or at least disconcerted, by the eccentrici-
ties of their crinoline—an awkward style of garment
on an elevated perch in the middle of the waves,
with a capful of wind blowing. A letter of the 3rd
says that twenty English yachts had arrived in the
previous night. The town, according to all accounts,
seems to have made every exertion to look its best.
The inhabitants, of course, are defighted, and are
evidently resolved to make the most of the occasion.
Men, women, and children, active and persevering
touters, pursue the freshly-landed stranger with their

obliging offers of lodgings. All sorts
and kitchens have been turned into
and are offered at the moderate rate
napoleons for the period of the
evening of the 3rd (the date of my
the English element was beginning
very perceptible in the throng. No
tained that great enthusiasm would
on the arrival of the Sovereigns, aril
reception was reserved both for the
Emperor. Notwithstanding the imi
Cie naval uniform made itself very
Boats were continually landing partie'
sailors from the ships of war. The
ing seemed to prevail between till
French sailors.

The following account of Cherbourg
given by the Moniteur de la Flotte, is
opportune
The first sovereign whose presence
clearly known was Harold, King of Denmark.
Conqueror was there several times. Her
England and Duke of Normandy, visited •..1
court, in 1110. The Empress Queen Nlathiltle,
Henry 1., and widow of the Emperor Hr
the coast of Cherbourg in 1115, after ,
during which she made a vow to raise
Virgin wherever she might first touch tt
the origin of the Chapel of Notre Dame di
destroyed when the maritime port was i
placed under the same name by a parish
menced in 1850, and not yet finished.
1181, King Henry 11. of England paid
bourg. St. Louis honoured the town „.
in the early part of April, 1256. He pegged
Easter at Avranches and at Mont Saint.
it was visited by Philippe-le-Hardi. &h.
land presented himself before Cherbourg
siege to it, but he did not enter the place.
Bad, King of Navarre, who had the provin-
as his apanage, visited the place twice—it
there two months, and in 1366, to relieve
from feudal servitude in giving them th
baron. During his first residence he was
1. of Lusignan, King of Cyprus. Hem
landed at Cherbourg in 1420. This strong
was long in the possession of the English,
them on the 12th of August, 1450, and
ever since under the authority of the
Francis 1., accompanied by the Dauphin,
11., visited it in 1532, and remained
Joseph 11., Emperor of Germany, and k
Antlittette, going through France incogie
name of the Count de Falekenstein, visite('
September, 1781. It is stated, says 3,4,,
that in walking in the port of Cherbourg,
who accompanied him was pushing the p.
the Emperor said, " Be quiet, sir; it does
much room for a man to pass." The k
breakwater was decided on in 1781. Loin;
the works in 1786; he arrived on the 22r
on the 26th. Another great work, the •
military port, consisting of vast docks ;
depth of eighteen metres, was decreed
having resolved to inspect this colossal .
Cherbourg on the 26th May, 1811, accoml
Empress Maria Louisa, Prince Eugene, •
suite. He remained there till the 30th.
Maria Louisa, Regent of the Empire,
bourg in 1813 to preside over the inaugut
military port. Her Majesty arrived on the
and stayed till the let September. Charles X
royal family, banished from France by the n
July, embarked with their suites at Cherbourg
August, 1830, in two American packet •
Britain and the Charles Carrel, which
Havre. Don Pedro 1., Emperor of Brazil,
press his consort, daughter of Pnnce E;
being expelled from their States by .
taken to Cherbourg in the English frigatt.
landed on the 10th June, 1831, with a small
daughter Donna Maria, win) died Qnr
having been brought to Brest by the stet
rejoined them on the 23rd July. Dal
proceeded to Paris wit), his family, and
Louis Philippe visited Cherbourg on the
1833, with his :was the Duke de Nemours
de Joinville, accompanied by Marshals
and Admiral de Rigny. Qneer. Mane
d'Aumale and de Montpensier, the Prit
Clementine, and Madame Adelaide, b
arrived there the same night. The royal
at Cherbourg four days. Lastly. the Ei
sident of the Republic. honoured the to.
in 1850. He made his entry the sth
evening, and remained until the morning
having examined the breakwater and anew

CABINET Cousms were held on
Tuesday at the official residence
of the Exchequer, in Downing•street
present were :—The Earl of Derby,
11. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor,
Salisbury, the Earl of lisrdwicke,
Walpole, the Earl of Malmesbury,
Lytton, General Peel, Sir John
Stanley, and Lord John Manners.
Mu. GEORGE F. WILBRAHAM, the
Cheshire, has appointed this day for
for North Cheshire. Mr. Wllhrahar
of the late member, is the only
field.