The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-30 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO FRANCE.

(From the Moniteur of yesterday.)
The Queen of England quits our hospitable
shores. Her visit will remain as one of the grand-
est events of this epoch, so abundant in new and
memorable facts. Let us salute for a last time this
august Princess, the messenger of concord and
peace. Let us salute her with her young family,
the hope of three kingdoms ; with her royal spouse,
who has so well comprehended the genius, the
manners, and the arts of France. This is not the
first time that crowned heads have visited our
country. Peter the First came here to study
civilisation, to take advantage of it against
civilisation itself ; Joseph 11. exhibited himself as
a phililosopherand as a critic, rather than a monarch.
The one and the other excited curiosity, but not
national sympathies, and the nation remained in-
different in the presence of these two travellers,
who were not guests, The presence of Queen Vic-
toria, ou the contrary, has excited the French peo-
ple ; from Boulogne even to the capital, and after-
, wards from the capital to Boulogne, she has re-
ceived from 'this olectricised people a veritable
triumph. This arises from its not being a mere
simple personal gratification which has brought
among us this illustrious sovereign. She arrived
to close at last seven ages of disastrous rivalries,
and to cement upon its basis the alliance of the two
greatest nations of the west. France and England,
since circumstances have allowed of their studying
each other more closely, feel wondrously that they
cannot dispense with one another, and that they
are nearer neighbours still by the common stock of
liberal civilisation than by their coasts. And never-
theless their sentiments had not overpast till now
the bounds of a reciprocal esteem ; they were never
intermingled either in the same policy or in the
enthusiasm of t warm friendship. reserved
It was
for the Emperor to operate a more intimate approxi-
mation. When the chiof of the Napoleon dynasty
was placed by the public voice at the head of the
country, he found the national hates, which bad
preceded him, obstinate conflicts, in which he was
not concerned, inveterate passions which were
directed against him only because he was the
highest personification of the principles of 'B9, then
ill comprehended. To-day these immortal prin-
ciples have triumphed over the opposition of
Europe, and liberal England has acknowledged
their legitimacy. The heir of the name of Napo-
leon had then no other reason for preferring
another rOle to that of pacificator, more conformable
with the greatness of his soul, with the actual in-
terests of his country, and the ideas of his age ; and,
as the Emperor had admirably comprehended that
'thi-diiiiibTe and cordial concert of France and Eng-
land consitutes the greatest force of modern times
placed at the service of the progress of the world,
he has held out a friendly hand to the English
People and ifs Government. The enthusiasm of
England has answered this appeal. She has warmly
grasped that loyal hand in hers,, because it was that
of France herself, thrice personified in the Empe-
ror, and her well beloved Queen has crossed the
Channel to bring us the expression of. the confi
deuce of a great nation with the seducti.vt:lest
accom-
paniment of goodness, grace, and the
Ma-
jesty. This was a moment awaited.. by Francs
euough
show forth her enthusiatm ; for, it is not ;
there
for the policy of princes to prepare f I
:rated by the
are none in truth which are not
?that St. Cloud
ranee to
Royal hospitality
people. It was therefore not enough
of
should worthily reply to thde
to rival London by its
Windsor. Paris has. resolvtae
spontaneous
Queen end its the popular delight
Queen Victoria has vpatrneasandeous demonstrations.
assage. At the theatre as
which has signalisedd h
n ItryPat the Holy Chapel as at
g-upo'n the Boulevards i
adthtaettehlideobPtiligadoceoedosT.foilifiethe population- as the Chamio111111;
with the acclam
outgoings hasa bi°el:ns
Mars resounding
her
aoffetthe:
every one o
army,
and each of these fetes has been an energetic mani-
festation, or of the part of aoclamation taken by
the French people, which had for witnesses the
thousands of foreigners collected within our walls
for the marvels of the Exhibition. It may be said
that for greater solemnity this fraternal alliance
has been celebrated in the presence
world represented in Parise
be acknoWledged Providence, of the whole
deuce, it must
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7-7-7 F
our
-
our epoch profolind subjects of meditation. It is
at Versailles; in-the Palaoe of Louis MTV., that
the Emperor ;\TapOleon 111. offers to the Queen of
England the most superb luagnificences of the
Court ; for her he re=animates the noble pleasures
and the long extinguished pomphs of the great King,
that haughty foe of the rieyolution of 1688. The
same day.this Queen.Oftan elevated soul was re-
ceived in the:funereal asylum of the Stuarts, which
her dynasty' replaces. She has done more, and,
surrounded by her -family in emotion, she came to
depose upon the tomb of NapOleon I. th e idea of
conciliation of which her visit is the sympathy and
the seal. Finally, France and England, which
hare filled Europe with their divisions, imstsad o
persisting, like ItorneltndaWiage, in implacable
resentments, associate trikr4blicy, their interests,
and their blood for, one of those immense causes
which decide the futtire b iiiiinanity. Such con-
trasts confound the iiiiii9fiu4i3Of men ; there re-
mains no more for tb.69iiiiitt than to bow itself
humbly before the i3tiiireMewiidera whose grandeur
is alone immutable, and which 3ubjeetts our =est
rebellious passions to the ha&ny. of
,its provicien.
tial designs."
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THE AFFAIR OFXIANGO-UDD.

The Journal, do Se. Pttothourg of. Aug. 21 pub-
lishes the letter addressed by. Admiral Dundas on
the 16th of last month to Prince Dolgorouky, the
Russian Minister of War, protesting against the
retention of the survivors of the crew of the Cos-
sack ; and also the Russian Minister's reply. The
former document has been laid before the Houses
of Parliament, but the latter is now for the first
time published. It is as follows :--
"PRINCE DOLGOBOTACT TO ,LDICIBLL DIINDAS.
" Monsieur l'Amiral,—l had the honour to restive
your letter of July 16. The explanations it contains
upon the affair of Hango-Udd far from modifying oar
opinion, serve to confirm the evidence of the principal
fret necessary to be established, for they grant, in effect,
that Lieutenant Geneste, of thp royal Navy, laded
without waiting for his character -the bearer of a flag
of truce to be legally admitted and recognised by our
authorities. •ro

"This fact is establiehealniCfrianner which renders
all further discussion on the point superfluous. I regard
it as closed between us, and this especially from the fact
that more detailed accounts' of the affair have bees
brought to the knowledge of her Britannic Majesty's
Government by the Legation of Denmark, whose inter-
position was sought by the English Cabinet itself.
"As to that which concerns Lieut. Geneste personally,
permit me to observe that .a more attentive perusal of
my communication of July 12 will satisfy you, M.
l'Amiral, that it contains no reflection in the least degree
injurious to his honour.
"The conduct of our officers is judged by the autho-
rity to which they are suberdinate ; the confidence which
we place in their veracity is equal to that which you
grant to yours. With this remark I believe it my duty
to terminate our correspondence. I once more seize the
occasion to offer you, M. l'Amiral, the assurance, &c.
(Signed) "PRINCE DOLGOROURT.
"St. Petersburg, July 25, 1855."