The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-12 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY.

Investiture of the Garter ; Grand Dress Dinner
and Ball in the evening.

THURSDAY.

By South-Western Railway to her Majesty's
Station at Vauxhall, thence to the Crystal Palace;
lunches there ; evening in State to the Opera.
FRIDAY.

To Guildhall to receive the Corporation Address;
dejettner at 2 o'clock ; return to Buckingham
Palace to dinner.

SATURDAY.

Return home.

THE APPROACHING VISIT OF THE EMPEROR
AND EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH.

WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.
It city now now be stated on the best authority, that
their Imperial Miijesties the Emperor and Empress of
the Franck will arrive at. Windsor, by_the Great Western
Itailwi.y, at six o'clock next Monday evening. The
august visitors will be received by a guard of honour
composed of the 94th Regiment of the line, now quar-
ter-A at the Sheet-street Barracks, a company of the
Foot Guards, who are expected here every day from the
Tower, and by a detachment from the Rifle Rrigade,
who will also arrive hero in the course of the present
week.
The Mayor of Windsor (John Clode, Esq.) will have
the honour of receiving the illustrious visitors on their
arrival at the terminus in the Royal borough.
The Castle officials will be in attendance to conduct
the Emperor and Empress to her Majesty's waiting-
room, which is beautifully fitted up in the Arabesque
style, and afterwards to the magnificent apartments pre-
pared for them at the Castle.

On emerging from the railway station their Imperial
Majesties will pass through a triumphal arch erected at
the junction between Thames-street and High-street.
There will also be another triumphal arch, erected in
Caqle-street, under which the Royal carriages will pass.
The Castle-green, immediately beneath the Castle
walls, opposite to the establishment of Mr. Layton, con-
fectioner to the Queen, will be furnished with thousands
of seats, which will extend as far as Henry the Eighth's
gate, for the accommodation of the public—tickets being
previously granted by the committee.
On the arrival of the Emperor and Empress at the
Castle they will be received at the grand entrance with
every mark of respect by her Majesty the Queen, his
Royal Highness the Prince Concert, and by the brilliant
circle of visitors invited to do honour to the auspicious
occasion.

Ou Tuesday next the mayor and corporation, in their
official robes, which they have recently resumed, will
present an address of congratulation to the Emperor
Napoleo❑ 111., and afterwards participate in a public
dinner of the inhabitants, to be given at the Town
Hall.

There will be state dinners at the Castle on every
evening after the Emperor's arrival ; and subsequent to
the investiture of his Imperial Majesty with the Order
of the Gartar, on Wednesday, a magnificent banquet
will be given, at which the elite of the kingdom will be
present.

- There will be a review of the whole of the household
troops. The 2d Life Guards are at present in garrison,
but the Ist Life Guards and the Royal Horse Guards
(Blue) are expected next Monday, and will be billetted
for two or three days on the inhabitants.
The Hen. and Very Rev, the Dean of Windsor, who
is brother to Lcrd Cowley, the British ambassador at
Paris, ha 3 placed his residence in the Cloisters at the
service of a portion of the Eniperor's suite, and great
preparations are in progress to re-decorate the ancient,
but not the less comfortable mansion.

The pr.eparations at the Castle are by no means com-
plete, no less than 300 workmen being still engaged. It
is supposed that the visit of the EnTperor and Empress
will be the grandest affair ever witnessed in this borough
since the installation of his Grace the Duke of Rutland,
in the year 1805—just half a century since.