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LONDON, MONDAY, SEPT. :8.

Wniti tie members of the Britiah Legislature,
loseing the cares of State to Secretaries and
clerks, are principally employed in the pursuit of
wild poultry—sow that they have almost made an
sad of their grouse, are still busy with their part-
ridges, and are just preparing for their pheasants--
the two powerful Emperors of the East and the
West are meeting for the deepatch of benison at
Stuttnattlt. We shall not affect that hominess of
penetration which enables the condeeten et the
continental press to pierce the earefsUy gneetied
secrets of • State interview, when pima,

meaning and objects it will be far history to nave&
We assume nothing farther than that it has an ob-
ject and a meaning, apart from the men grab-
Sciatica of Imperial friendship and the vain display
of Imperial pomp. Whatever may be the foibles
Of the good qualities of Loot, NAroLros, it does
not spree that he can be jeetly charged either with
simian ostentation or romantic sensibility. His

plessurri hays generally a purpose, his friendship
are not often divorced from his interests. The is-

@pectic)* of a Military Camp and the interview with•
powerful Sovereign are at all event• the TAW,
6061 of a moldier and a •tateemao. They way be as

companied by a splendour which dazzleathe
tics, and calla forth the plaudit, of the multitude—
but it would betray a total ignorance of the proved
character of this remarkable man, to suppose that

parade and popularity were the sole motives far
public appearances, so anxiously arranged and ses

cur fully rehearsed.

Foreign journalists not unnaturally revert to those
two epochs somewhat memorable in European his.
tory, when a greater NAPOLEON met another Amt.
ANDO, in conferences that in their day Axed the at-

teatime of the world. The coincidences of name•
and dates may germ to amuse • asoasstary

cariosity, but apart from tt.est

the law of contrast forms the sole connexion between
the two &rm. Vfhen, on the 25th June, 1807, the
Conqueror end the Czar first reel at Tilsit, on that
mitt in the Niemen, they mutually embraced amid
the deafening cheers of two boats, still panting
and breathless from the tremendous death-grapples
of Pultuak, and Eylan, and Friedland. The cam.
paign then just concluded had consummated what
Jews had commenced. Prussia was gone. The House
of Brandenburg, reduced to a single fortress, only
eared itself from a decree declaring that it " had
•• esssed to reign," by the formal oerion of half
its deeisices. England alone stood firm as bet own

di& spina the Conqueror, and it was mainly with
a view to prosecuting his designs against England
that NAPOLEON hod urged the personal interview
with AtaxAstika. A secret article of the nice of
Tilsit pledged the Russian Emperor to the eapport of
that Continental System which the decrees of Berlin,
of Warsaw, and of Milan were promulgated toenforce,
and which, in its ultimate results, so powerfully
contributed to the overthrow of the potentate who, in
his blind hostility against a sing le state,opposed km-
self to the program at civilisation and the universal
necesmities of mankind.

A year and a half elapsed before the next meeting
took place. The Cower of Erfurt, which opened
(as our Paris Carrespoodest notes) almost exactly
nine-and-forty years ago—on the 27th September,
1906—was an affair of considerable pomp and cir-
cumstance. Resides the two Emperors, the four
venial Kings of the Confederation of the Rhine
crowded to the levee of their lord, while swarms of
the smaller German Prince* were lost amid the
splendid host of ambemedirs and marshals and
court lackeys that thronged the ante-room.. The Con
gross lasted keg, not breaking up till the middle of
October. The precise nature of all that paned between
the two Emperors has hitherto escaped even the
industrious researches of secret history, but the main
object of the Congers has never been doubted.
NA POI. Vi IN had at that time resolved to proceed to
Spain in person, and was naturally desirous of pro-
tecting his rear by securing the support of Russia
against Austria, then meditating the hostilities which
a year later led to the campaign of Wagram, and
were terminated by the peace of Vienna. It is a
striking instance of the instability of political
fnevidships, that in the fourth summer after this
N sPOLZON was on his march to Moscow, and ens the
sixth had well commenced. ALL:IANDI.I, at the
head of Europe, was entering Paris
Truly it is a changed world since thole days of
Tilsit and of Erfurt changed that men
are an that very account all the more struck with
the circumstance that another Attt smote and
another N mum:4 should again be meeting at the
close of a recent war as the Imperial chiefs of Russia
end of France. Materially, socially, and politically,
what an alteration have these fifty years effected in
Europe ! Steam and electricity and free intercom-
smnication have transformed the whole aspect of
the material life. The great airs, with its exciting
draggles and strong passions, has given way to a
meet commonplace world. The love of glory and
the passion for freedom have alike subsided into
Inerior ; the love of gold and pleasure have risen'
We fresh prominence. The Nations in shaking off
tie tyranny of a single master took no guarantees
against the misrule of thole who were reinstated in
his stead ; and at this mamma some of the fairest
provinces in Europe look back with regret and
longing to that modified form of freedom which they
enjoyed ander the iron yoke of the first Ns rotwfr.
The ►ingular characteristic et the present European
epoch is this : that side by side with a wonderful
growth is material prosperity, knowledge, and civi-
lisation, acre has been absolutely no corresponding
development of political Guam. On the c intmry,
as we all know, the coalitional world since Min has
Mee ia a state of politisol reaction ; and the Era el

NAPOLIOM In. peasants even hes promise of ratios'
•
progress than the era of NAPOLION, I.
We have no great faith in any political prophe-
cies that take as their text the red, unt Saturnia
reyna. It requires but a brief political experime
to convince the observing that periods of the serenest
promise are often precursors of the stormiest change.
The hurricane of 1848 burst without warning upon
a golden age of prosperity and peace, and the great
industrial festival of 1851 was immediately suc-
ceeded by the Coup d'Ztat and the Russian wee.
Of all goddesses Astray Red's: is the most
fickle; she has scarcely lighted upon the earth,
before she is away again to some more congenial
region. We are told that this meeting of the
Emperors is to lead to a general reduction of stand-
ing armies. We rather hope, than believe, that
this may be true. It seems hardly to harmonies
with the recent eestablishmeut of the camp at
Chilone, and the recent declaration that Peace
is but a preparation for War. The present con-
dition of France, with a teeming population of
small peasant proprietors and no extensive outlet for
emigration, renders military service one of the most
popular branches of French industry, nor is there any
scheme for the organisation of labour so likely to
find favour with the people or the Government as
that which at once provides against the discontent of
the one and increases the strength of the other.

We are told again that in this meeting of the
Emperors there is no menace either to England or
to Austria. WllateTer we may think of the latter
part of this assurance, we are well inclined to give
implicit credit to the former. With the bulk of the

French nation the English alliance is popular, and
the Preach sympathy with our troubles in India
is generous and sincere. Unlike the great Corsican,
towhees we were always a mystery, Loan NA roLrom
blows us well. Ile bee profoundly studied all the
peculiarities of our character, and accurately
gauged the elements of our strength. We believe
him to be well aware that nothing is to be gained,
and mach to be lost, by breaking off the alliance with
England. As long as we are properly alive to the
duty of self.defence, we have little reason to dread
either infidelity or agrarian on the part of our
powerful Ally. The ease of Austria concerns us lees,
and we leave it to be dismissed by those whom it more
peculiarly affects.

6De Court.

BALMORAL. m•. M.

Mar Majesty the Qom by a Privy Council
yeerarday, et which were meat lie ?dace Cowart, Earl
OmarEhe K. 0., Praidest of the Cams% Lord Pea mars ad
Lied Kuala el Aldway. At the C email a proclaimed=
w ordered apeolatiag Wedandey, the 7th of October,
as a day of astiaal bet sad kamiliaics. Mr. C. (Saville
wee the Clerk of the Ceased ia atteadars
Ala the Cased, Lard Pasant sad lad Staley of
AIM,* h Damon! tair Oleseark.
The QUINN sad the Patoe Carat, aceorayeadd by the
Prism Kaye!, draw eat to the eftarseas.
The Masa party is the swain Included the Dachas
a Kest, Lay Augusta Baas Lard James Massy, sad
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Prrr.

TIN Qmeen red the Prince Consort, accompanied by the
Pitman Royal and Princess Alice, rode ant yastaday
ofkiresea. _

Tles Deka of Argyll arrived yesterday afternoon, and
vM ward Earl Graded's in eltersdaoco upon her Nearly.
Kr. C. Orevilis lan Helmets' yestaday.naorning.