The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-21 00:00:00

ITALY.

A letter from Geneva of the 16th states that the
old soldiers of the 4i epublic and of the Empire,
now residing in that canton, assembled as usual
on the 15th to celebrate the St. Napoleon. More
than 200 persons, among whom was General Du-
four, sat down to dinner. M. Zanole, who was in
the chair, proposed a toast to the memory of the
august chief of the Imperial dynasty, and another
to the health of the Emperor Napoleon 111., which
was drunk with the most enthusiastic applause.
The success of the Allies in the Crimea was also
proposed, and received with all due honours.
The Opinione, of Turin, announces that General
Garibaldi, who defended Rome against the French
in 1849, has obtained from the Piedmontese Go-
vernment his nomination as captain of the first
class ; in consequence of which he has been en-
trusted with the ultimate command of the Ligure
and Salvatore steamers, belonging to a private
company.

lIER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO PARIS.

(From Mcssengcr.)

The Paris papers are naturally occupied with
copious details of the interesting event of Saturday
in the arrival and reception of the Queen of Eng-
land, to the necessary exclu,ion generally of lead-
ing political or other matter of less present impor-
tance: The Pays alone, with commendable tact,
turns the fortunate circumstance of the day to ac-
count in an article of reminiscences and roll ctions,
in happy combination, which it is calculated to
suggest. It says :

"At the moment in which we write an immense fact
has taken place in the history of our time. Paris entire
is all about and astir to welcome with its enthusiastic
acclamations the Sovereign of the three kingdoms. A
prodigious cone urse of strangers has invaded its boule-
vards and pours in from all its streets. The flags of the
two nations mix together in the air over a space of nearly
three leagues. Never has human power been sa;uted
on its passage with more sympathetic greetings. Never
has the meeting of sovereigns given to the world more
radiant hopes. That which is passing is not in fact a
vein spectacle. There is in this unanimity of asimeted
neavement of sentiments, of spentanei us enthusiasm,
a different thing from a curiosity satisfied. Nations no
longer content themselves with woat attracts the
eves. Their interests, their convictions, their need of
civilisation and progress aspire to mere solid guaran-
tees. The nations of modern times require acts which
shall not he sterile. manifestetiene which bear their
fruits, material greed, urs winch at the same tine are
moral grendeurs. The entry el the Queen of England
into Paris Is of this number. The national eagerness Of
which she is the olject has nothing comparable to it in
the history of the two peoples. It is the (nowt complete
triumph of the policy of civilisation inaugurated at Bor-
deaux in a famous speech it is the realisation tee most
lifelike, the most wiexpected, the most marvellous of
that programme sf the new which has re-assured Europe
and the world —‘ Toe Empire, It is peace.' Let, us re-
call, in fact, the strong distrust which separaeed us from
England scarcely four years since. Unfortunate pre-
judices had succeeded leading the British press and
opinion astray upon the glorious legitimacy of the new
Government. They doubted our dignity, our good faith,
our sincere love of peace and of the independence of
States. A kind of moral crusade was preached on
ate other side of the Channel against our pretended pro-
jects of invasion. France has answered these suspicions
only by the moderation of her external policy and the
prudent hardiness of her internal reforms. It has not re-
quired a long time for the most practical people in the
world to comprehend that this work of re-organisation
excluded every idea of conquest, and that peaceful civili-
sation had not a more powerful auxiliary than the Napo-
leonist empire re-elevated by popular suffrage. To-day
the union is complete, indissoluble, and invincible.
That England, so proud of her traditional liberty, so jea-
lous of her privileges and of her influence over the rest
of the world, arose one day as one man to welcome with
her hurrahs the nephew of her most terrible enemy.
The sovereign of three kingdoms and of 200 millions of
subjects has held out her hand to the proscript of the
dayebefore, become the glorious elect of a rival nation,
and has not hesitated to give him, in the sanctuary
of the Knights of the Garter, the place which
before was filled by the autocrat of all the Rua-ia,s.
Already the friendship of these two peoples was sealed
on the same fields of battle. The heroism of their sol-
diers had dissipated the last antipathies and excite I mu.
tual devotedness. That which is now passing is but the
consequence of two years of political and miliiary con-
fraternity. The entry of her Majesty Queen Victoria
into Paris effaces eight ages of mutual hatred, and com-
mences.the new era of the pacification of the world
Such is the real signification of this till now unheard of
fact, of a Queen of England receiving the hospitality of
France and of the Emperor, and traversing our gar-
-iaisheti)oulevards amidst enthusiastic hurrahs from two
millions of breasts. That is a great epoch which wit-

xtesseazuch spectacles. - _
Moral progre4s _ is on a leVel
with industrial progress. The sentiments of the two
peoples are mingled together, like their interests, like
their gigantic enterprises, like their military glory, like
all that constitutes the life and splendour of indivi-
duals and 'of societies. Rirone excited could not
believe in this intimate solid-srity. Russia had never
even conceived an alliance possible, and it was there lay
the capital error of the Etuper,r Nicholas. What will
Russia, what will Europe say, "n herring the marvellous
recital of these fetes t All eyes are at this moment
tui'Utql towards Paris. Htr Exhibition at tracts in '1 riads
of peoples ; the character of her government has con-
quered general respect for her : theexistingwartiveiihet
all the pre-tige of glary ; foreign kings have already come
to render hoinal,e to her genius ; there was waning to
this unique coneour-e the presence of the heiress of
Edward 111 and of Henry V. The heart of civilisation
beats to-day to the heart of France. We have for us the
right which emanates from God, and the force which
comes from the two peoples, We offer to interests, as
to principles, the guar:l.:tee of our alliance and the co-
operation of our solidar ty. Europe will comprehend
that the-time of antiquwed suspicions hiss passed, and
that Tinning can hencefoith prevail against the united
standards of France and Ea :Mod."

A very c•irious and highly interesting volumo of the
works of the late Madame Girardin is about to be pub-
lished.