The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-16 00:00:00

PROGRAMME FOR THE WEEK.

On Tuesday there will be a review in Windsor Park,
and a grand banquet at the Castle in the evening.
On Wednesday there will be an investiture of the
Garter, and afterwards a grand banquet, at which seve-
ral of the knights of that illustrious order, and their
ladies, with the great officers of State, will be present.
On Thursday the Emperor will take his departurefrorn
Windsor by the South Western Railway for Bucking-
ham Palace, where he will receive the corps diploma-
tique, after which he will proceed to the Guildhall to
receive the address of the corpor Ilion and the freedom. of
the City. He will return by Cheapside, Fleet-street,
Strand, Pall-mall East, Regent-street, Piccadilly, to
Hyde-park-corner, and Constitution-hill. In the even-
ing their Majesties will accompany the Queen to the
Royal Italian Opera.
On the Friday they will accompany the Queen to the
Crystal Palace at Norwood. In the evening there will
he a grand party, ball, and concert at Buckingham
Palace.
And nn Saturday the illustrious visitors will take their
departure for France.

THE CRYSTAL PALACE.-THE IMPERIAL

VISIT.

The arrangements at the Crystal Palace for the re-
ception of her Majesty and her imperial guests on Fri-
day next are in rapid progress, and will, when com-
pleted, be in every way worthy of the occasion. Sir
Joseph Paxton and his numerous staff are indefatigable
—fresh walks are being prepared, trophies erected,
orchestras arranges, and handsome balconies are in
course of construction. A magnificent suite of recep•
tion-rooms has sprung into existence at the Queen 's
entrance, almost as if by magic, doing infinite credit to
the taste and judgment of Mr. Crace, to whom their
'preparation has been entrusted, and to the liberality r I
the directors. They consist of one magnificent saloon for
the royal and imperial visitors, handsome reception-rooms
for the suite, and dressing•room replete with every toilette
luxury for the ladies. We have seldom seen a handsomer
interior than that presented by the royal saloon. The
decorations are of the Renaissance period, resplendent in
gold and colour, relieved on a dark chocolate ground,
and having the centre of the ceiling painted in a high
style of art. The tables, chairs, and mirrors are of pro•
portionate magnificence, and cannot fail te meet the ap-
proval of our illustrious visitors. The apartments for
the equerries and dames d'hortneur are plainer in their
decorations, but still extremely elegant, and the boudoirs
have been arranged more with a view to convenience and
utility than decorative effect. In the large space recently
occupied as an experimental picture gallery a luxurious
buffet will be spread, capable of entertaining sixty or
seventy persons, and to which only the royal and imperial
party, the more distinguished members of the respective
suites, and the forei;n ambassadors will be admissible.
The arrangements for general visitors on the 20th con-
template only season ticket holders, shareholders, and
exhibitors. Te the two latter classes easels of admission
will be sent, and the tickets will admit the first-named
RS usual. To those of the public who, not being ticket-
holders, may wish-to be present on the occasion of the
imperial visit, tickets for the unexhausted portion of the
present year will be issued at the rate of one guinea
each, and should the purchasers wish to renew them at
the end of the month a further charge of one guinea only
will be demanded, so that persons availing themselves of
this privilege will be in a slightly better position than
those who had taken their tickets at the commence-
ment. It is expected that the extraordinary interest
of the occasion and the reduction in price will
create an immense demand for tickets. As may be
seen by the advertisements, the grounds will be open
from ten in the morning, but the interior of the build-
ing will be closed to the general public until the royal
party have retired to luncheon, when the doors will be
thrown open. It is hoped that under these circumstances
the public will be their own police, ranging themselves
decorously on each side of the nave and transept, in
which case every one will be gratified with a sight of
our illustrious guests, while the latter will not be in-
commoded or annoyed. Proper steps will of course be
taken by the authorities to carry out this arrangement,
but the friendly co-operation of the public will wonder-
fully facilitate their success. There will naturally be a
lively curiosity on the part of the latter to see the Em-
peror and Empress, but as the company must be, from
the terms of admission, comparatively select, there are
many reasons to expect that that curV•ity will in no in-
stance be permitted to transgress ties bounds of polite-
ness and good taste. Those who come early will have
their patience somewhat taxed, as they will hardly gain
admission to the interior before half-past one o'clock, but
the basement storey will be thrown open, and amply sup-
plied with refreshments, under the directionexperienced
of Messrs. Staples, who will make sufficient
arrange-
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for the refection of the expected influx of ,
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the unrivalled prospect, in' theiran turn may be seen
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to inform you that the Prefect of the Seine has sent me
a telegraphic communication, stating that by permission
of the Emperor of the French he is about to visit your
chief magistrate, and pay a compliment to the corpora-
tion of London, and he intends to remain here do, Ina
the period of his Imperial Majesty's stay in this country. -
(Hear, hear.) It is a peculiar incident, and must, I fel
assured, be most highly gratifying to every member of
this court, that not only the Emperor of the French but

Within a few hours from the publication of these lines
the Emperor of the French, accompanied by his consort,
the Empress Eugenie, will have landed on the shore of
England ; and the govereign in whose eventful career
the people of this country take an interest not inferior
to that which may be felt by his own subjects will be
the visitor of our Queen and the guest of this nation.
It is understood to be the express wish of the Emperor
Napoleon himself that this visit should bear all the
marks of a public and national event. With great judg-
ment and manly feeling he has notified his intention to
show himself to the people of England, and to respond
in his own person to those demonstrations of hospitality
and confidence which are weil calculated not only to
do him honour, but to strengthen the principles of the
great alliance. Never was there au occasion on which
the splendour of the Court—the pomp of ceremony
—the chivalrous traditions of an order of knight-
hood which has been proudly warn by the greatest
personages of modern history—the acclamations of
the people assembled before the great Palace cf
Modern Industry,—and the quaint hospitalities of the
first city in the world, could more properly be applied
than to give solemnity and magnificence to so extraer-
dinary a meeting. The character of the personates who a
we :are about to receive, and the circemstances of the
tine, give an unexampled interest to such an occurrence.
It is Lot merely a great potentate like the late Ernpue.r
of Russia, or a king like L ,uis Philippe, who professed
to cultivate a persot al intimacy with the Queen of Eng-
land and her family, that the ancient halls of Winds ,r
will this day receive. Louis Napoleon returns to this
country, elected to supremo power by 8,000,000 of
Frenchmen, holding in a steady grasp that sceptre which
has so often slipped from the hands of the sagacious and
the strong, and using the power of France for purposes ,
and objects identical with our own. His person, his '
habits, and the incidents of his life are familiar to all
of us ; and, though he has sometimes met with stout
political opponents among those who were best ac-
quainted with him, no man who has lived in his inti-
macy ever withdrew from him his personal regard.
The Empress Eugenie, like himself, has mingled in Eng-
lish society ; she received her education inEngland, and

is herself the daughter of an old Scottish house, which
connects her mole nearly with the people of Great
Britain than if her pedigree was derived from the Haps-
burgs or tha Bourbons.
These personal considerations, however, sink into
comparative insignificance when compared with the
political alliance of which this meeting is the symbol.
Other rulers of France have sought by diplomatic means
to establish an alliance between the former rivals of
Western Europe ; and the fault was not ours if those
combinations did not produce all the results once antici-
pated from them. Bat the present Emperor of the
French has converted this union into an offensive and
defensive alliance : he has sent his ships into action at
the same instant and in the same cause ; he has con-
founded
the ranks of the two armies, fighting side by
side, until it became hard to distinguish the Zouave fi on
the Guardsman in the front of battle ; and he has nun- j
gled the standards of the two nations ab )ve the same
trophies of victory. Hostility, jealousy, rivalry, and
prejudice have melted away in the presence of danger
and by the light of war ; and the events of the past year
have created ties, both personal and national, between
the people and the armies of the two nations, which may,
we hope, be regarded as indissoluble.

At this moment the salutes which are echoed along
the Downs and the white cliffs of Dover, in welcome of
the Imperial squadron, reverberate in unison with the
sullen fire of the lines about Sebastopol ; and the na-
tional ensigns, profusely mingled on our public buildings,
our streets, and our palaces, do but represent those en-
signs of war which are flying side by side upon French
and English vessels in every sea and in every port of the
globe. The arrival of our Imperial guests may com-
plete, but it does not inaugurate the alliance ; for
the welcome of London and the festivities of Win d-
sor were anticipated in a more heroio mood by
the joint contests of the Alma and of Inktrinan.
The decisive success which will yet, we hope,
crown our united efforts is still to come ; but it is
no mean harbinger of that triumph that the same union
exists in the court as in the camp, among the people and
in the army.

Her Majesty and the Prince Consort have evinced in
the strongest wanner their desire to receive the Emperor
and the Empress with every mark of consideration, and
to celebrate this visit with the utmost magnificence ;
and on such an occasion we did not depart from the
usual deference paid in this country to the Crown, by
stating that the arrangements have been made under
the personal direction of the most illustrious personages
in the realm. On their landing—which will take place
this morning at Dover, under a salute from the powerful
squadron assembled in the Downs under Vice-Admiral
Sir Thomas Cochrane—Prince Albert will receive the
Imperial visitors, who will forthwith proceed by the
South-Eastern Railway to the station at the Bricklayers'
Arms, where they are expected t, arrive soon after
four o'clock. Her Majesty's carriages, with an escort,
will be in attendance, and the cortege will pass over
Westminster-bridge, through Whitehall, Pall-mall, and the
Parks, to the Great West ern station at Paddington, whence
a special train will convey them t) Windslr. His Ito.
perial Majesty appears to have chosen this mode of
entering the metropolis with more solemnity than had
at first been intended, in order at once to testify that,
while he is the guest of the Queen, he throws himself
with entire confidence upon the hospitality of the En,-
' lish people. In that confidence we are perfectly assured
that he will not be mistaken, for on this side of the
Channel we see in the Emperor Napoleon nothing but
the representative of France, and a Prince who has cul-
tivated with the utmost sincerity and energy the alliance
of this country. It is true that we glory to afford an
indi,criminate shelter and protection to political partisans
of every shale and of every land, and that the Emperor
of the French may meet in the streets of London with
Republicans and ' Royalists, with anarchists and with
Princes, who receive in turn that asylum which Prince
Louis Napoleon long enjoyed. It is true, also, thatitas
people ever jealous of its own liberties, and ever
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