The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-21 00:00:00

THE EMPEROR AT WILHELMSHOHE.

A correspondent of the Times sends the following
respecting the captive Emperor :—The hospitality once
shewn to Prince Louis Napoleon in England seems likely
to be repeated towards the dethroned Napoleon 111.,
for the Duchess had hardly departed when Lady Cowley
arrived. It is a touching proof of the fact that the
esteem which Lord Cowley enjoyed for so mnny years
at the Tuileries as the Ambassador of:the Court of St.
James's, and the close friendship which consequently
sprang up between his own and the Imperial family
have not vanished or been obliterated by the misfortune
which has now befallen the Napoleonic dynasty. In her
emergency the Empress Eugenie appeals to the friend-
ship of Lady Cowley, and the latter con-
sents at once to be a messenger between the
wife and the husband, so distant from each other.
The Countess came early in the morning, and having
alighted at the hotel, she went at once on her mission to
Napoleon. What a heart-stirring meeting it must have
been ! After remaining at the Palace for several hours
her ladyship returned to the hotel, and, having partaken
of a hurried dinner, returned on her noble errand by the
Frankfort train, unmindful of the fatigues of a wearisome
journey. As to the present life of the Emperor, it is
marked by the same uniformity I have mentioned already
in my former letter. Re is taking his regular walks In
the close vicinity of the Palace. Only once last week he
had a two hours' drive by a road leading through the
neighbouring villages Kirchditmold and Harleshausen, re-
turning by way of the Rasen-All4e, a r3ad formerly kept
for the exclusive use of the Elector, and connecting Wil-
helmshohe with the hunting castle of Wilhelmsthal, five
miles distant. The party consisted of nine, all of them
being French, Raimbaud, mounted on horseback, riding
in front, and Comte Davillier at the side of the carriage.
The Emperor with the rest was seated on a char-a-banc,
drawn by four horses. To amend his equipage a few
days ago a Royal carriage was sent over from Berlin,
together with a team of six beautiful black horses.
Inside the palace there are many memorial signs
of the past. In the billiard-room stands the identical
billiard table of his Royal uncle, as also the cues with
the initials "J. N." engraved upon them. Leaving
the ante-room, where the rules of the game, printed in
French, are still hanging, he may enter the front vesti-
bule, and, looking down on the lovely valley before him,
his eyes may chance to rest upon an inscription on the
glass panel, cut with a diamond ring by some attendant of
King Jerome, " Vive le Roi I" with the retort underneath,
" Le Roi est disparu, vive l'Electeur !"

SOMETHING IN • A NAME.—Baron Moltke, a
Danish nobleman,recently attached to the Danish Embassy
at• Paris, was assaulted at Grouville last week when about to
embark for Jersey. His name having become known to the
populace:they immediately concluded that he was aPrussian,
and it was asserted that he was a relative of the general of
that name. He was surrounded and seriously threatened,
and, but for the interference of the authorities, would
have been ill-treated. Foiled in this attempt, the mob
endeavoured to prevent the shipment of the baron's horses
six in number, and it was only after some considerable
trouble that the embarkation was effected.
Comma.—Mr. Commissioner Kerr has had before
him, at the Central Criminal Court, London, no fewer
than seventeen cases in which the persons were charged
with offences against the Mint, revealing the vast extent
to which the counterfeiting of coin is carried on in
this country. Two were found not guilty, and
the remainder were sentenced as follows :—William
Johnson (28), bricklayer, uttering counterfeit coin, five
years' penal servitude ; George Rumball (22), potman,
uttering, twelve months' hard labour ; Ellen Carpenter
(18), spinster, uttering, six months' hard labour; George
Jones (18), labourer, uttering, five years' penal servi-
tude ; Oliver Neil (33), labourer, having counterfeit coin
in his possession after a conviction, five years' penal
servitude ; Mary Ann Ward (39), widow, uttering, nine
months' bard labour ; Wm. Jackson, alias Davis (24),
carpenter, feloniously possessing a machine for making
counterfeit coin, five years' penal servitude ; William
Batcheldon (40), labourer, uttering, five years' penal
servitude ; Adam Mach (32), porter, uttering, five years'
penal servitude ; Julia Hart (23), spinster, uttering, five
years' penal ,sevitude ; Wm. Smith (17), printer, uttering,
six months' hard labour.

MAILS FOR PORTIMAL.--ln consequence of the
delay which now takes place in sending through France
the mails for Portugal, temporary arrangements have been
made for forwarding mails to Portugal via Southampton
by the packets of the Peninsular and Oriental Company,
sailing every Saturday with Indian mails, which, by per-
mission of the directors, will call off Lisbon for the pur-
pose. Mails for Portugal will continue to be forwarded
by the ordinary route through France, between Saturday
night and Wednesday night inclusive, but all correspon-
dence (not specially addressed via France) posted or
received in London between Thursday morning and Satur-
day morning will be forwarded by packet to Lisbon.