The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-25 00:00:00

71 '1 AJ.ESTrS. VISIT Iv PARIS.

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PARIS, TAI3IIBDAY:TIGHT.
According to arrangernerea the Queen remained :et
.oh)nd this morier-e, Red -Prince Albert ceme'alone
t P. to visit the Univ, le& Exhibition. His Royal
Highness was expected at hall-peat ten, but he reached
the pa'ace about a quarter of an hour sooner. • The
Prince end his suite carne in an r. pen carriage. r •
His Royal Highness, who wore the ribbon of the
Garter, and -appeared in excellent -health and spirits; -
commenced his eternbiation-Ofehe terra reettis and othnr.
of jecte exposed in the great pass:4ge leading ti ,the
trareept. He then turned to the left to the court occie-'
pied by the gla,s and crystal of C ichy, Baccarat. and St.
Louis. Tree tier, court which his Royal Highness erize
tereo Contained -Work-boxes, necessaries, lentil furniture,
&c. TICe--neXt court; which is that of the " Artsleclue-1--
vie's," was inspected wi h much interest by the Prince:l.
—whilst in this court his Royal Highness was pined by;
the Prince Napoleon. Tne Prenceeeen 'descended an
alley, and entered by the hack theeleare-ilevaied to-the
Imperil! Pr,nting-ottii so. Hii Highness examined
interest the different prodUctions of that establishment,
His Royal Highness next passed into the silversinitife-
courie atter which, proceeding into the porcelain courti:-.
his Royal Highness noticed several objects in bisenit,e,
and thee entering the Transept examined the trophy ot-
eoreelaiii. Atter a paesirg glance at the zinc of the
.:foritagne Company, .the Prince entered the-
square of btonzesi, and made critical remarks an several
etjects.) His Royal Highness then proceeded direct to
the staircase which leads to-the Swiss Exhibition. Then
passing through the'Swies Exhibition,-the Prince pre-
ceeded to descend the bog gallery by the wall. 'Are.
rival at the salon and• boudoir of the Empress, the
Pence entered it, and expressed the highest adiniration
of the splendour and exquisite taste with which it is de-
corated; The Prince next examined the contents of the
adjacent staircase, and proceeded to ascend the gallery,.-
which is chiefly occupied by specimens of French jewellery.
Arrived nearly at the top of the gallery, the Prince,
tinning aside, proceeded to tine great staircase, arel.de.,
scending it went across the trensept to the. pourtour of
the Panorama.
The Prince did not enter the Pinorarna, but turned-
direct to the transept. Thus far his xi-it has been al-
most exclusively devoted to the French part of the Ex-
Iribiti en, his Royal Highness destined the remainder
for foreign couetries: He began with England Pass-
iug through the court conteiriing locks, and Birmingham
and Wolverhampton' gobda, his Royal Highness tie.
scowled by the alley to the Manchester court, which he
crossed rapidly., The Prince then ascended the stair-
case, and noticed rie a heeding a splendid table of New
South %Vales woods, and exhibited by the cormei-sion
nominated by the colony. This table his Royal High-
bees said be would purchase. The Austrian productions
on the top of the stairs were next visited, and the Prince
passed through the Exhibition of Turkey, end then
entered that of Tusrany. Here Prince Napoleon, being ere.
geged elsewhere, took leave itt his Royal fleglniese.
'the Prince next visited the collections of the Pontificial
States and Sardinia. Returidrig by the gallery next the
Transept, the Prince proceeded to the exhibition of the
East Indies, and examined it with great interest. The
Pr nee after, ards examined Hunt and Roskell's case of
silversmiths' productions, &e. ; Haudcock's diamonds
were next examined by hi-- Royal Highness. After a
glance at Leuchar's and De la Rue's productions, the
Prince went to the eection nccupied by English printing.
The Prince having now completed his !xaiiiiriatten of
the English pert of the Exhiletien, proceeded into that
Of Belgium, then into that of Austria ; and then into
that of Prmeia. Tile Bavarian, Wurteruberg, ani Saxon
coi:ectiene, and those of certain of the smaller G'efeetin
States were next visited by the Prince ; and he then
peoceedel into Sseden and Norway, then passing
through the Nettierlaeds, the Prince reached S witzt rlarid.
Isis if,yal Highness afterwards eeseended the staircase,
and crossed the transept to the large courts of Prussia.
The Pritice after.. ar the Austrian Courts.
With this, the visit to the'Exhibition terminated (it was
half-past one o'clock), 'and the Prince was conveyed in
one of the Imperial caiiiiget; to the Tuileries.
A number of people were in the palace during the
visit of the Prince, hut though they manifested the most
intense curiosity to eee his Royal Highness, there was

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kind greeted treStS'e- As sec Wins -wi ar:TaTiLiiitle. Make these resources
the_NationelAntliem-hedeee.ased, the Imperial qiiedr:lle eraeticatly infinite, and the problem of sueCT.-STR aefence
was formed. The Menem!' tla4red-with"'the Q reen,. is unquestionably solakVl3titAiow"ii4:this to- -tierEdOne ?-
having Prin;e Alhers end the •Prieeess tsfathiele fair Certuiely;thereeii=inti le let to he learnr,from9 -Bel-9-g-tokof
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vis; Prince aro ilen danced with Lady Cowley,respect. On tl's contrj ;
y„ vast ld yiere the s-c
Prince Adalbert_of• Baveris,_ etaildiefe opeineitee ,The • soure4 of that .fertrees, ttiej. inteitire..§4ar es we ean'ttr-
Yictoria quadrille; compered oxprei.ly by Strauss for deritand, Mive-been se:lieu/tea lobger hed:it-eet beers.
.the occasion, was .T.dayed. Her Msj4Sty Tlbe for fresh Fuppll,, ~;11,1,. there 'wa4rerliaps, owing te
Imperial party then resumed -their series, and after a • the pcdes.jou the 'artillery -of-the leet,n• sufficient
pause another quadrille was formed, M. fleessmais• and stock, but of stores and mueitions we know that core.
several 'of their Majesty's suites taking part in it. After- voys have repeatedly been brought up, and that the force
iVitas a waltz, wag, pia.”4,.
.peritsg !hiss_jeteryal our front hite-been•COristaptly renewed.' Here liesthe
Emperor signified Some ceintitand. trurkieeFet of thwileftiece:' fteisenot- eimply--iir•earthe, •
the Minister of War, and the latter went to the elfin': ".woeirsy.,eeeeeere hi
_earthwork! eberelanceeofegunet
where Amid- genie -Arisb Chiefs 'sled rhfooght one of theirs• bat ib a posiiion Commit nicafing-wit h the resources of a
over to where the Queen was seated. , The Eiesperor pre- whole-empire:7 This much, bowever, must at' the same-;
seated the bronzed son of the desert to the Queen,. and_ tineteheaeiulttel,etliat mile, by the use of eartheserks
the. Arab bending down embraced. her knees, 'After the- distinguished from other •:works of the kind could the
custem•,:f his ceuritry:that i plaap•d-lils'l4.i-Cd ors then) Rirsiians' have" constructed •• their defeneeseor repaired,
at e:itsh side:' The'Queen seemed -inncliStim,ied at the. ether!, damages so. rapidly.,
act. Their Majesties 'then • went round ,the- mouses Mr. Fergussen's theory of fortification-1i 'certainly
Then returning through the Coterie ch ii:Fetesi the whole coreplete in itself. He -proposes to build eirculee forts of
party descereled to the. ourt Louis iIV., and entering earth, and to mount them with so many guns that the
their carriages amidst trernendons acelainatiees from the
.;fire Of the feet upon any given point must be superior to
crewd, drove Off at a quarter-past elei"eii. • • _that which can be brow:rot .against it. Ileusetimes, its
To name all'the disfiiiguisheffprSerie grand short, thatthe fire of the defence can be secured in an
entertainment: would bolo give a :of all the Minister-, I ascendancy over the fire of the attacli, Now, this may
corps diplomatipc,, and all the'.per,on. di,tingnished in ~-or rimy not he feasible, but it has' certainly• not' been
Petrie, for rank, wealth,. •or talent.. One. of ehe.ioauies ..aceernplished at Sebastopol. There:the-fire:of the be..
which,.. however, wag meet frqueritly in _ every one's' siegers is undoubtedly-superior to that of the he-,ieged,
month was that of Genera,l Canrobert, who was present though not, iis. yet, en much as to- enable-them to subdue'
and attracted the greatest attention. T ' 'sufficiently the artillery of the defence. It is not by this,
.• ,•.• . • ,• • • ' or by any:other novel theory of fortification that Sebas-
tnpol his been defended, hut by the Unexampled supply
of resources at the Command of the defenders.,
The truth is, that .all the maxims and deductions of
.
military science fail of application to operate:cis so pecu-
liar as those' conduCted in the Crimea. e-Hitherto, the
number of guns which.dt wan thought practicable or ne-
cessary to bring against -a fortified place was compara-
tively"' creep 207 pieces of artillery of -all 'descriptions,
mortars and 'howitzers included, being the largest com-
putation, we believe, ever made for such a purpose. The
Austrian equipithnt for 'a siege train' reckons:l7B ; the
Prussian, 142 ; the-French. at Antwerp, had 144.
the whole, it has been concluded that 100 pieces of
heavy artillery would be as many as could be brought
into battery aeabist a fortress in a hostile country, and
it is, in fact, upon this assumption that the seperierity
of Mr. Fergusson's fert dePends, inasmuch as these 100
guns could be answered by more than twice res
Bat the Alliee at Sehastopol have not only a much
greater number than thii,,but the pieces theniselves ate
of a, larger calibre than is Usual in -battering trainee
Again, garrisons are usually of 3,000, 5,000, 10,000, or
perhaps 15,000 men-30 000 being a very large garritnn
indeed. But what has been the number of the Russians
in the Crimea I e • • '
We own ourselves somewhat at a loss to discover any
facts' Which.may be regarded as establi.hing new laws hi
the science of f.reifications generally: Earthwork. have,
no doubt, been employed, more largely and effectually
than formerly, hut they have not been built upon the
new principle or yielded ally new results. That 300 or
400 p sees ef ceneon, supported by a b-sr.ze army, should
produce a greater effect than a far smaller number, sup-
ported only by a lindied and exhaustible garrison, is '
eel ia,inly nothing extraordinary. The strength of granite
in resisting slot seems to be still uncertain, for the ex-
periments at Renareend and Seba,t-ipol appear in op,
13wsitl,in to each other ; an-I there was no trial of its
strength at S weaboro where the shel Is thrown by the mor-
ti-ir-bout.pa,ise,l clear over the beiet,Oles. We do nut, then,
see that anything has occurred to affect tee general con
clu,inns respecting the attack and defence of fortified
places. If eerthworke are employed instead of masonry,
they must either be moneted with a most powerful force
artill• ry, or they will be liable to be carried by steno.
If the artillery is so increased, so must be the garrison,
and PO intuit be the Casualties, and how are the resources
of the place to support snob exhaustion ? So long as the
operations of a siege presume the first condition of a
siege—viz., that' the garrison shall 'be confined to the
resources actually contideed in the. place at the..period of
investment—so long must the means of the attack be
superior to those of the defence, unless some species of
rainpart can be discovered which gunpowder cannot de-
stroy, and which the assailants cannot surmount. This
discovery has not, in our opinion, been made in any
form of earthworks Abundance of guns is, of cotirse
a moat valuable condition, but abundance will be of little
use ui:less it implies relative superieeily; ;tee, if this is
implied, the secret of the defence will be in the cannon,
and not in the ramp:sits mi which they are mounted.

SPIRIT OF TEE PUBLIC JaURIVALS.

( From the Times of th;s dayj

, .
There are perfstnars of stich modest pretensions-that
even if we cle 'seat think their cause very hopeful, on the
other hand we could hover have the heart to discourage
them. Of these the most inoffensive, and- with the
Most daltne, a; leatt,. to a respectful neutrality, are
those gentlemen who take up I,lse. wholes,me and con-
venient view of business. The EarlY Clasirg Atm:
ciation, 'the del-natal for a eeekly holyday or half
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holyday, and Mr. Be;therton's twelve •o'clock motion
beamcaolxllertt
of unnecessary wear and tear in all business, 1
iatbnlienentose
Tule
are movements enctsertteaoiniqyuietthearetarirseaasnot
lic or private. Everybody works too hard—either
always or 'at times ; awl the occasional recreation of
travelling 3,000 Miles; in a month may afford excitement,
but no rest either for body or mind. So we are disposed
to feel very good natured towards a proposal by an ex-
cellent young nobleman. to tone the Parliamentary see-
'lion with some. little regard to coMfort and health.
Lord Stanley gives the be possilda reasons for begin-
ning the session in the middle of November, confining
the Christmas recess between December 15 and January
15, thus gaining twolond months by the usual time fir
(peeing the session at the beginning of February, raid
for deducting.these two months from the present end of
the session—that is, fixing the prorogation at the middle
of June. He proposes, in fact, that we should continua
to give seven months a year to public business, that we
should stick close to it, and take it at a time when Na-..
tura shuts up, it stead of that when she comes out with
all her charm. Such a prepo;al is a good one, and.We,
cart only Shy we Wish Lord Stith* was in a position to'
give it effect. Nothing can be more miserable, not to
say scandalous, than the fag end of a Parliamentary
session,—houses roade with difficulty by the use of
"the whip ;" the smallest possible divisions on ime
portant questioas ; great 'eraser:s ft Kited for want.
of ',umbers and itnpetus to carry them, and jobs of all
kinds smugeled throneli Houses ties thin, too nartisan,•
too idle; or ton corrupt, to care about them. With half
the inesiness of the session still to be dene, members be-
gin to pair off on-the plea of illness or engagements, and
set cff to the country, only learning from the newspa-
pers the success of hid measures, the' failure of good
ones, and a general shipwreck of public bUsine.s—all
through the sttempt tai keep Parliament sitting through-
out the Deg Days to the beginning of September
Of course, we ourselves are only too much interested
in the success of such a proposal, Nebody can doubt
which way our opinion lies. We have deprecated a
hundred times that waste of Parliamentary time in the
earlier months of the sepeien which throws all its real
business to the end. The sight of spring flowers, of the
Lay harvest, the, glorions midsunimer days, and the
equally enjoyable midsummer nights, appeal to us as they
do to other mortals, and anything that Parliament can
do, or is likely to do, in the Six weeks or two months
after midsummer, compensates very pooey f, r the loss of
Nature in . her paltniest beers. But then conies that
painful question which has damped the zeal of reformers
from the beginning of the world—how is it to be dene ?
The proposition hi one'tO set laws to a body that itself
sets the laws ; to prescribe measares to that which
defies a 1 measure:, except the 'merest rules of
business. There is nothing so uncontrollable as the
House of Commons. Ea ery mein her of that House
may speak ten times a eight, and
.as long as he likes.
Every member may declaim for heurs on a trifle,
or say the same thine over arid over again ; and if he
deem not' care for a thin' audience, a good deal of
interruption, and a very short report in the newspapers,
there is no other cheek to his garrulity. For the first
half of the session the house will always think questions
of OA lence and other party di.cu:sionst much more
important than legitilation, so the first half will always
be so employed, leaving the actual lawmaking to the
i'u'nmer months.' The house works in summer .because
it has been idle, desultory, talkative, and quarrelsome in
the winter and spriiig. In the fable, the grasshopper
came to the ant on the cold winter's day and asked for
some food. The proaident ant asked the gresshopper
what it had -done in the spring and summer, and the
answer wag, that it had danced and sung, "You may;
go on, then, Pinging to your own dancing," said the ant.
The House of Commons dwindles into a jaled old hack,
dragging on a wretched existence from day t I day, elm-:
ply because it has mitepent its finis.' and opportnnities
in the earlier part of its career. Ahnut the beginning of
June it usually wakes to 'the consciousness of an ill.
spent life, and then sets about to make up for lost time
with frantic and generally unsuccessful energy. That is
the body which Lord Stanley eraposes to reform ; he
Would teach it so to number its days as to anply it,
heart to wisdom in winter Or spring—at the beginning
of the session, instead of the end. As it is. the House
01 Commons does what most bad or idle men would do,
if they bad the power ; prolongs its natural life a
couple of months to supply the omissions of its youth.
To come to the point, at what time and in what form
would Lord Stanley apply the remedy t It is if no use
to wait for June, because then all the work of the session
is still to be done, and it must he done at all events. eve,
if the members die for it. We car only suppose, there:
Rst‘a:isieuegurionr.leitsh we itihrenevipe7s taogesti
fore, that L -rd Stanley would draw up a number of
g
floifngt,illPsietbsrZl7'ltl;
hou:e. Deubtleis limitatiens might be made to the
power of introducing new measures late in. the Fes-
eion, and to the proposal of amendments, and to other
causes of interruption, Speeches, except on ovtraordi-
nary occasions, and except in the exposition .f.a measure
might 'be limited to a reasonable time. Abstractedly
there is no reason why the house should not take its
seven months when it pleases—begin them in Noyernher
as well as in February. and end them, in June as easily
;vein August. But suppose the session to be begun as
Lord Stanley advises, and suppose areonth'aholedav at
Christmas, a week
.at E titer, and none at Whitenntide ;
June comes, with the usual result —a. great deal to be
done ; important measures in committee, or not yet in
committee; numerous premises still unfulfilled ; supplies
still to be voted ; a budget still to be reconsidered ; a
Church rate Bill, No, 2, an Elucation Bid (No, 3); on
the list of notices ; some .revelation just made affecting
,She character of a Minister ; some negotiations in pro-
gress in a word. everything as it usually is about the
1-t of June. What will Lerd Staniey do Q We very
much fear that thaonly result of his intended kindness
would be to lengthen the session at the beginning as well
as the end ; and to, take away our winter as well as our
doubt" da'
whether amidvi
summer. If be, can really send us'all into the country
on the 18th of June he will have Achieved another We-
tflevdeensearepertioniebemPinriiisnteerl‘iinaishteerah,•
abler t but
we e rli
get the Rouse of Commons forward enough for so timely
a. prorogation. a .

lif A RKEII NE IVS.--(rirrs DAY.)

COVENT GARDEN.
Very large supplies of fruit and vegetables were on sale
to-day, and an extensive *business was transacted, as
follows .
FRUIT.—Pine apples, English, 3s to 6s per 1b; colonial
do., is to 3s each ; hot-house grapes, Is 6d to 4s Od per lb ;
foreign. ditto, Od to Os Od ; melons, Is 0,1 to 5s each;
peaches, 8s Od to 158 ; nectarines, 5s Od to 12s per dozen ;
apples, 3s Od to 6s Od per half sieve ; pears, 3s 0.1 to
tis per half sieve; Orleans plums and gram gages is 6cl to
Is per punnet; apricots, 2s to 4s par doz. ; common plums,
3s U t to 48 per half sieve ; 'cherries, 2.1 to 6d per pound;
lemons, 4s to Ss 0,1 per 100 ;.oranges, •8s to Ils per 100; fil.
harts, Os pet 100 lbs ; cohnnti, 'Os 'to• OS ; almonds,
Us to Os per lb. ; walnuts, 6d to is per 100; 6gs, 3a Od
to 6s Od per doz ; strawberries, 2,1 to 61 per pottle ; goose-
berries, is 6+l to 2s 04 per half sieve ; currants; 3s 0,1 to
Oa per half salve ; rasßberries, 2d to sa per pottle.
VEGETABLE3.—Whits cabbages, 6d to is Sd per dozen;
red ditto. 2a to 5s per dozen ; French beans, is 6.:
to 28 6,1 per half sieve ; brocoli, 01 per bund. ; potatoes, 45s
to 90s per toe ; vegetable marrow, 6,1 to is per doz. ; peas,
4s to 4s 6d per bushel.; broad beans, is Od to la 9,1 per half
sieve ; turnips, :.`4:l to cd per bunch ; carrots, 3d to *'d per
bunch; cucumbers) Os ld to 03- 9,1 each ; garlic, 6d to
Os 81 per p* ; spinach, is 0,1 to 2s 6d per sieve ;
old onions, Os Od to Os" Od per bushel ; new ditto, 1,1 to
4,1 per. bunch; leeks, 241 to 3,1 per bunch ; shallots,
4d to tid : horse-raddisli, 2s 0,1 to 4s 0. per bundle ; parsley,
to '3d per bunch ; celery, is 0,1 to is 6.1 per
bunch ; endive, ls to 28 3d per score ; beet, is 6,1 to 24
per doz. ; parsnips, Os Gd 'o Is 0,1 per dozen • small
Aitiad;A2a to 31' per punnet ; mushrooms, Is to is 61 per
pottle ; artichokes, 4s to tis per doz.i.cabbage lettuces,
,91 to' is per score ; sorrel, lid to As per half sieve ;
radishes 6.1 to 'lB per dozen hands ; tomatoes, is 011 to 2s
641 per half .fieve • chillies, Is to is lid per 100; Brussels
sprouts, 180 d to is 0:1 per half sieve; capsicums, is to 2s
down ; waln,its pickling, 61 to Is per 100; cauliflowers,
3s to 68 per doz.
NEVTGATE AND LEADENHALL.
Turkeys, Os 0.1 to Os 041; Goslings, 56 64 to 6s 6d cacti
Ducks, 2s 6d to 3s 0,1 ; tame Rabbits, Os Od to Os 041;
wild do, is to is 0 each ; Pigeons, Gd to 9.1 each
large Surrey Fowls, Os Ott to Os 0,1 ; middling, 2s Ott to
3s od • Chickens, is 941 to 2s 3d ; Capons, 3s 64,
to 43 6i ; Hares 3s 041 to 48 Od Grouse, is 61 to 2s 'd each ;
Guinea Fowls, 2a 6,1 to 3s Od each. Ostend fresh butter,
6d to 12s Gd, and English lls 6,1 to 14e Od per dozen lbs.
English Eggs, 8s Od to 9s Od ; French ditto, berOd to 7s 0
per 120.

NEWPORT.
Beef from 38 4(1 to 4a 8d ; mutton, 38 8(1 to 4s 8.! ;
Lamb, 46 8d to 58 8(1; veal, 3.4 I,od. to 4a 8(1; pork, 3s 10a
4s 6d per 81ba.