The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-18 00:00:00

VICTORIA'S VISIT TO PARIS.

( From the Times of this day.)
Various and checkered beyond the ordinary lot
of those spots of earth which man has chosen for
his habitation have been the destinies of Paris. The
mud village of Julian the Apostate was not more
different from the pompous capital of Louis XVI.,
nor that capital from the beautiful city that now
spreads itself over the valley of the Seine, than are
the circumstances of this day from any which have
preceded them during the long annals of French
and English history. English Kingshave, ere now,
swept along the street of Paris, but they came to
claim a kingdom which they could not hold, or in
triumph for victories to be speedily and bloodily
avenged. It is a curious fact, that never since
France was consolidated into one nation—and be-
fore that time Paris had no right to the title of the
capital of France—has an English monarch entered
her gates in peace. Henry V. went there, indeed,
to celebrate his short-lived triumph, and Henry
VI. to assume a crown, which soon glided from
his nerveless grasp. Charles 11. was there as an
exile and a fugitive, and James 11. concluded his
! dishonoured life under the shelter of the power of
the Grand Monarch. Now at last, in the fullness
of time, we witness a spectacle which our rugged
forefathers probably never desired, and which we,
however anxious, could never have hoped to see—
the interchange of offices of the most cordial friend-
ship, marking not only the sincerity of individual
regard, but the union of two great nations, never
hitherto wont to interchange other courtesies than
those which diversified the brief intervals of a
conflict extending, with little intermission, over a
period of eight hundred years. Ten years ago in-
deed Queen Victoria met at the Chateau d'Ett the
then Sovereign of France, but the happy omens of
that day were clouded shortly after by events which,
thought they did not shake the amity of the two
nations, introduced a coldness between the two
Royal families never wholly removed during the
remaining days of the dynasty of Orleans. It is,
with no such misgivings that Queen Victoria goes to
return the visit so Royally paid her a few mouths
ago by the present Emperor of France. The ener-
getic support which France has so nobly and unflinch-
ingly lent us in so many common dangers, the vigour
and good faith with which she has performed all,
and more than all, which could be expected of her
by the most exacting sally ; the noble and mag-
nanimous policy which her Emperor has pursued
in the face of all Europe, and in marked contradis-
tinction to all its other Imperial rulers, forbid us
for a moment to entertain the idea that the time
, will ever come when so much common glory,, so
much mutual esteem, will be forgotten, and. the
days of old jealousies and animosities return upon
us.

It were curious to speculate with what feelings
and with what emotion the illustrious lady who
will this day enter Paris will view that beautiful
capital of which she must have heard and thought
so much, but which alone, amid the brilliant circle
in which she moves, she has by her exalted rank
been prevented from visiting. The enormous
facilities for travelling now possessed by all ranks
have introduced a singular anomaly into the posi-
tion of crowned heads. We do not speak of the
petty Princes of Germany, who seem to be for ever
on the wing from the Court of one patron to that
of another, but of Sovereigns like the Queen of
[ England, whose movements aro great historic
events, not to be lightly undertaken, nor accom-
plished without the utmost care and forethought.
Such personages are singularly placed. Living in
the utmost splendour and surrounded by the most
dazzling magnificence, they are yet debarred from
those spectacles of. beauty and grandeur which
foreign lands afford, and which are open to so many
thousands of their subjects. The taste is formed
and its gratification withheld, and it is therefore
probable that no one ever entered Paris with a
mind more trained to admire its innumerable beau-
ties and attractions, and to appreciate the spectacle
so long withheld of an elegance and splendour for
which the world knows no parallel, than the Queen
of England. The time chosen for the visit is as
auspicious as all the accompanying circumstances.
The weather is splendid, and the period of the
[ , year promises to us as long a continuance of bright
1 suns and blue skies as consists with the variable

temperament of a northern climate. Both countries
are cheered by the prospect of an abundant har-
vest, and the gratifying copsciousness that their
material prosperity is so- firmly based that war it-
self with all its miseries has been unable to shake
it ; above all, just at this auspicious moment the
thick and threatening clouds which have hung so
darkly over the commencement of the campai2n
have rolled away, and eucces, so long waited for
and so niy in her approach, has conic at last in full
radiance. From the Baltic and the Bhtek Sea ar-
rive almost simultaneously tidings of two great
victories; and what was perhaps, under the cir-
cumstances, most to be desired, France has the
honour of a share in both, while England can only
claim part in one. On the island fortresses of
Sweaber,, the English and French navies have de-
molished with incredible ease, and without loss,
the arsenals and storehouses in which Russia bad
treasured up those vials of wrath which she was
one day to empty on the heads of her Scandina-
vian neighbours, and on the hanks cf the Tcher-
naya French and Sardinian valour has driven back
the fierce attack of Liprandi with little loss, and
yet with terrible slaughter.
It is in the moment of triumph, in the first
blush of victory, when it is beginning to reward
on a scale more commensurate with the merits of
the allies so much devotion and so many sacrifices,
that Queen Victoria enters Paris a memorable
personage, with whom the French nation may as-
sociate success and glory, and the idea of a peace
which such successes must, one would fondly hope,
restore to us. In this symbolical union of the two
peoples, this interchange of acts of courtesy and
friendship between the two greatest Sovereigns of
the world, we see the germ of a state of things
which we cannot contemplate without a feeling of
thankfulness that we live in these latter times, al!cl,
not in those which have gone before us. It is said
that between England and America the ctinhmeumno"sYt
of interests and the mutual interchange
amicable relations have rendered war. .
imPbetween
the same state of feeling is rapidly t!rissina
gre assisted
England and France. Teir enterprises
are endea-
of
tessible :
by our capital, and ours by theeirirs
admirable method
each other
vouring to learn from them
t.ion—.they are
improvements as
tfshesourprri:cti'sacai genius of the
forwodme rbyuo
caonndt enwtontodedle.fruilvep
may have been tested by
learn from
without prejudice, happy to
envy, and with only
nation. We are hapw,
ms to be •
inseparable from
so much rivalry as see
at the bands of
mutual esteem.
ea
salutationto-day a
moment that her
We do not doubt for a
epsety wi
people
and Cordial
as gracious as that which.
ol will
Pr eacrei isv
met s
every-
where accompanied the Emperor and Empress
of France in their recent visit
to
London. While
terror and dismay are shaking all souls in St. Pe-
tersburg—while the Russian fie t ' t e is remblingbehind
its granite bulwarks at the • •
of the victori-
ous allies—and the garrisonapproachis •
of Sebastopol reeling
under the blow that it has received, b
England
and France can find just • time to keep high holyday,
not at the biddin,,,o.
of a despotic tyrant, who forces

his people to be gay in order to relieve his terrors
and conceal their despondency—not at the prompt-
ing of a frivolous spirit, which seeks for shows 110
spectacles to drive away serious thought—but iu
the full consciousness that they have solid reason
goodness of their cause, in the
unionto
of
tilnieir the
counsels, in the success of their
arms, in the prospect of an honourable peace, and,
above all, in the firm persuasion that they have at
last inaugurated an alliance destined, as they hope
and believe, to endure as long as the war and dis-
cord to which it has so happily succeeded.

Co WES, ISLE OF WIG H 17.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

- - -
DEPARTURE Or TNE QUEEN FOR FRANCE.—Her Ma.
jesty and suite embarked on board. the Victoria and
Albert at 6,00 p in., under a Royal salute from Cowes
Castle. The Victoria and .61!bert,'Osborue, Fairy, Elfin,
Vivid, anal the Trinity Rteamer :Vera at anchor durine
the embarkation in Oe' or le Pay. Her Majesty d nee e*
hoard at 8 p.m., and the Royal squadron leave at 4 t4.na.
to-morrow.

ROYAL YACHT SOJAE:IO REGATTA.—The match for
Her i'llajsfy's Cup, value 100 coos., came off this day.
The vessels were started at 10 a.irt., with a pleasant
breezy from the eastward ; in tee afternoon the wind
shifted to S.W. Course, "The Queen's Course." The
following yachts started, and, after a most exciting race,
came in in the following order :
h. in. a. Tons.
6 55 O...Bacchante, cutter-80_11. B. Jones, Esq.
7 4 o...Aurara, cutter ...... 60... Le M. Thoinas, Esq.
7 4 o...Lavercck, cutter ...72—Capt. C. H. Williams.
Gondola, cutter _87...Th05. Hughan, Esq.
It was a close match between the first three. The Bac-
chante carried away her topsailyard, and the Gondola
her topmast ,• the latter not yet in.
The R.Y.S. Club dinner was badly attended, there
being only 32 gentlemen present ; but the ball was a
bumper, the company numbering upwards of 200.
R.Y.S. INTELLIGENCE. Arrivals—Aug. 10. Bac.
chante, cutter, B. H. Jones, Esq., from Liverpool ;
Stella, cutter, R. Frankland, Esq.. from Corunea.
11. Beatrix, schooner, Sir W. P. Carew, Bart., Ply-
mouth ; Wizard, cutter, Wm. Delafield, Esq., Eastward.
12. Gipsy Queen, schooner, Sir H. B. Hoghton, Bart.,
Liverpool and other ports. 13. Caprice, yawl, H. B.
Baring, Esq., Dieppe. 14. Capricorn, schooner, Vice-
Commodore C. R. M. Talbot, Westward. 16. Hornet,
schooner, John Naylor, Esq., Liverpool. Sailed—Aug.
10. Lancashire Witch, schooner, Lawrance Palk, Esq.,
for Torquay and other ports. Yachts at and about the
Station—Alarm, Capricorn, Zara, Brilliant, lone Gipsy
Queen, Claymore, Gloriana, Shark, Beatrix, Wildfire,
Cecile, Wizard, Stella, Laverock, B:scchante, Aurora,
Spider, Dryad, Plover, Gossamer, Caprice, Gondola
Miranda, Irene, Hornet. Royal Yacht Steamers—Vic-
toria and Albert, Fairy, Elfin.

MILITARY SPECTACLE AT CREMORNE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

consider it a duty I owe to myself, to the
patrons of the Wellington Fete, and t o my very liberal
patrons, the public, to address you oil this subject, as
censure has been prematurely and unjustly cast upon
me by the reporter of the Times in regard to the acci-
dent which occurred during its portrayal, and strictures
made which I conceive to be quite uncalled for, either
by my intentions, the fête itself, or the unfortunate
casualty which attended it.
Upon his Royal Highness Prince Albert condescend-
ing to visit Cremorne Gardens, acoampanied by the
Royal Princes, I felt desirous to testify my gratitude
for the honour, and gladly availed myself the op-
portunity afforded me by the advertisement of the
Wellington College, of which his Royal Highness is
president, setting forth its claims upon the public for
additional subscriptions. His Royal Highness was good
enough to express his approbation of the suggestion, and
this step being decided, the next was to fix upon a sub-
ject which would best answer the desired end ; and it
struck me that to set before the public a vivid panorama
of Sebastopol, and to show by a life-like representation
the difficulties which surround our oven army and those
of our brave Allies in their repeated attempts to sub-
due the Russian stronghold, together with the suc-
cesses which they have achieved, would insure what I
was anxious to gain for the fete, viz., illustrious
patronage, military countenance, and public support.
With these intentions I sought the best authority, en-
gaged the necessary talent, and in fourteen days sub-
mitted to public approval a military spectacle, which
with one exception only, has been universally admired,
and by means of which I am in the proud position of
being able to hand over above 1,000/. to an institution
founded in honour of the Great Duke, and for the support
of the orphan sons of men who, in "Glory's foremost
rank," shed their Wood upon the " battle-field."
Fur the accident, which I much deplore, and which
marred the whole tableaux, neither I nor any of my
establishmont are in any way responsible. Every precau-
tion was taken to prevent any, even the slightest, disas-
ter ; and had the soldiers, during a momentary enthusi-
asm, not acted contrary to previous directions and posi-
tive orders, given at rehearsal and repeated at the time,
neither this casualty nor any other would have occurred.
In conclusion, I am happy to inform you that the in-
juries sustained by the soldiers have been much exagge-
rated ; that the sufferers are fast recovering ; and that,
in deference to public opinion, so decisively expressed, I
shall have the pleasure of repeating the spectacle on
Monday next, relying entirely on my own resources for
effectively carrying it out.—l am yours, &c.,
F. B. SIMPSON.
Cremorne Gardens, Aug. 15.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DA Y.)

COVENT GARDEN.

We had an extensive business doing in to•day's market
as follows :

FRIIIT.—Pine apples, English, 3s to Cs per lb; colonial
do., is to 3s each ; hot-house grapes, 2s Od to 5s Od per lb ;
foreign ditto, Od to Os Od ; melons, is Od to 5s each;
peaches, 8s Od to 15s ; nectarines, 5s Od to 12s per dozen ;
apples, 2s Od to 4s Od per half sieve ; pears, 2s Od to
5s Od per half sieve ; Orleans plums and green gages 2s to
3s Od per punnet ; ditto, Os to Os Od, and common plums,
4s 0.1 to Os per half sieve ; cherries, 2d to 6cl per pound;
lemons, 4s to Ss Od per 100 ; oranges, 7s to lls per 100; fil-
berth, Os per 100 lbs ; cobnuts, Os to Os ; almonds,
Os to Os per lb. ; walnuts, 6d to 1s per 100; figs, 3s Od
to Gs Od per doz. ; strawberries, 2(1 to 6cl per pottle ; goose-
berries, 1s 6(1 to 2s Od per half sieve ; currants, 3a Od to
4s Od per half seive ; raspberries, 2d to 6(1 per pottle.
VEGETABLIM.—White cabbages, 6.1 to is 3d per dozen;
red ditto, 2a to 5s Od per dozen ; French beans, is 6d
to 2s per half sieve ; brown, Od per bundle ; potatoes,
Os per ton ; vegetable marrow, 9(1 to is per doz. ; peas,
2s to 4s 6(1 per bushel ; broad beans, is 3d to is 9cl per half
sieve ; turnips, 2d to fid per bunch ; carrots, 3(1 to 6(1 per
bunch ; cucumbers, Os Icl to Oa 9d. each ; garlic, 6d to
Os Sd per pcund ; spinach, is Od to 2s 6d per sieve ;
old onions, Os Od to Os Od per bushel ; new ditto, 141 to
4(1 per bunch; leeks, Od. to Od per bunch ; shallots,
4d. to 6d ; horse-raddistr, is Od to 4s Od per bundle ; parsley,
2tl to 4(1 per bunch ; celery, Os 8,1 to is 4cl per
bunch ; endive, ls 3d to 2s 3d per score ; beet, is 6d to 2s
per doz. ; parsnips, Os 6d to is Oct per dozen ; small
salad, 2d to Od per punnet ; mushrooms, Bcl to 10d per
pottle ; artichokes, 4s to fis per doz. ; cabbage lettuces,
9d to is per score ; sorrel, 6(1 to is por half sieve ;
radishes 4cl to Oa per dozen hands ; tomatoes, 3s Od to 4s
Oil per half sieve ; chillies, is to la 6(1 per 100; Brussels
sprouts, is Od to 2s Od per half sieve ; capsicums, is to 2s
per 100. ; rhubarb, 2d to 6cl per bundle ; sea kail, 6d to
is Od per punnet ; asparagus, is 9,1 to 4s Od per bundle ;
now potatoes, 2s to 5s per c fv. ; cauliflowers, is to 38 per
3 dozen ; walnuts for pickling, 6d to is per 100.

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.
Turkeys, Os Od to Os Od ' • Goslings, 5s 6,1 to 6s 6d each;
Ducks, 28 6d to 3s Od ; tame Rabbits, Os Od to Os Od;
wild do., is to is ed each; Pigeons, 6d to Sd each;
large Surrey Fowls, Os Od to Os Oci ; middling, 2s Od to
3s Od • Chickens, is 9d to 2s 3d ; Capons, 3s 6d
to 4s 64.1. ; Hares 3s Oa to 4s O 1; Grouse, 2s Od to 5s Od each ;
Guinea Fowls, 2s 6d to 3s Od each. Ostend fresh butter, 11.8
6,1 to 12s 6d, and English lls 6cl to Its Od per dozen lbs.
English Eggs, 8s Od' to Os Od ; French ditto, 5s Od to 78 Od
per 120.

NEWPORT.
Beef from 3s Bcl to 4s 6d; mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ;
lamb, 4s 6cl to 5s 8d; veal, 48 Od to 4s 10d; pork, 48 Od
to 4s 6d per Sibs.

WHITECHAPEL.
Beef, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 48 8d ; lamb,
4s 4d to 5s ; veal, 38 8d to 48 10d ; pork, 3s 6d to 4s 6d,
per 8114. by the carcase.
BILLINGSGATE.
Turbots, 2s 63. to 15s ; Brills, is Od to & each ; Salmon,
Is to is 3d per lb ; Cod Fish, 18 to & Od each .Soles ,
3d to is Gd per pair; Eels, &i to 1503 per lb; Lobsters ls to
3a Gd ;, Crabs, 63 to 3s Od ; Whitings, 3s Od to 7s era,
is
;
Common Oysters, 12s to 205 ; Natives, 50s to - -s per bsh ;
Mackerel, 40s to —s per 100; Smelts, ls
toldto Os per doz ;
Skate, 63 to Od per lb; Shrills, ls 6d. 6d. per gallou.
•
Bloaters, is Od to 2s Od per oz. ; Fresh Herrings, 5a Oa
Haddocks, 58 to 12a per
bushel 6s per 100. ; Scotch do., 6cl; Sprats, 8s Od to Os Od per
bushel ; Doreys, is Od to 78 each ;
doz. ; pike 6d ; Sturgeon, 6d per lb ;
Prawns, Od ,01'66:
Mullets, 6d to 15 6d ; Plaice, 4d to is each ; Haibut Gcl
lb; Flounders, 1s to is Gd per dozen. per
BREAD.

The Price'
of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from
iod to 10,41; of household ditto, 84d to 91d per 41b loaf.
HIDES AND SKINS.
Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, Sid to 3bl ; 641 b to 721 h, Sid
to nd.; 721 b to son, 4d to 4ia ; 8011; to 881 b, 4id to 4id ;
i;81b to 961 b, 4Ad to thl ; 961 b to 1041 b, Odto Od ; 104
to 1121 b Oct to Od ; upwards, Oct to Od ; Horse hides, 514
5d to Os Ott ; calf skins, light, 2s Od. to 33 Od ; ditto, full,
6s Od to Os 6d ; Polled Sheep, 28 Od to 2s 7d ; Kanto, Oa
Oct to Oa Od ; Half-breds, Os Od to Os Od; Downs, is 6dto2s Od ; Lambs, 2s 4cl to Ss 8d ; Shearlings, is 4d to is 11d.
HAY MARKETS.
SlarrRVIELD.—Old meadow hay, 41 Os to 6/ 10s ; new
ditto, 41 Os to 51 183; old clover, 4/ 5s to 61 15s ; new ditto
4/ Os to 61 Os ; and straw, 114 s Od to 119 s Od per load.
A moderate supply and a middling demand.
CIIMBERIAND.—OId meadow hay, 4/ Oa to 6/ 12s ; new
ditto. 41 Oa to 5116 s ; old cloves, 41 Os to 6/12s ; and new
ditto, 4/ Os to 6/ Os; and straw. 11 5s to 1/ lOsi per load.
Trade steady, with a moderate supply of hay in tke market.
WHITICOHAPEL.—OId meadow hay, 4/ Os to 6i 103 ; new
1
ditto, 41 Os to 61 Os ; old cloves, 4/ 5s to 61 15s ; new
ditto, 4/ Os to 61 6s; and straw, 1/ 4s to 1/ 9e per la
...
Both hay and straw moved off steadily, at our quotations.

THE HARVEST.—DUBLIN, Friday Morning.--Under
the influence of perhaps the most Tenial weather that
has Fet in for many years in the right time iaid in the
"right place" the prospect of the harvest is lievery day
becoming brighter, and producer and consiamer are
hopefully expecting a return this season of x.iore than
average abundance. The reports of the condition of the
crops from all quarters of the country are of the sipos.t
cheering description, and, as appearances,
so. far,
cate a continuance of the present glorious wooLher, it la
play
probable that the sickle will be in full before the
lapse of =other fortnight, or even less.