The Sun.
London, England, 1870-07-26 00:00:00

GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING CONTINUED: LONDON, 7 UESDAY, JULY 26. 1870.
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suits. suits. Suits. Trousers. Trousers.
ACCORDING to one of those astounding Confidences
245. 245. 10s. 6cl. 15s. for which the Daily Telegraph has latterly been so
28s. 28s. 12s. 6d. 16s. 6d. remarkable, the Emperor NAPOLEON has been
365. 365. 14s. 18s. making a clean breast of it again, in the very nick of
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time, to "Our Own Correspondent "1? Well, it may
40s. 425. 15s. 6d. 21s.
be, of course, that highly-favoured individual, that
. 455. 48s. 17s. Thl. 24s_ intimate of CESAR, that hobber and nobber at the
655. 525. 20s. 265. palaces of St. Cloud and the Tuileries, but at any rate
Also at Also at Also at Also at this time he calls himself "An Englishman." Who-
other prices. other prices. other prices. other prices ever this informant of the Telearanh may be. whether

for which the Daily Telegraph has latterly been so
remarkable, the Emperor NAPOLEON has been
making a clean breast of it again, in the very nick of
time, to "Our Own Correspondent "1? Well, it may
be, of course, that highly-favoured individual, that
intimate of CESAR, that hobber and nobber at the
palaces of St. Cloud and the Tuileries, but at any rate
this time he calls himself "An Englishman." Who-
ever this informant of the Telegraph may be, whether
the friend himself, or merely the friend of the friend,
by one or the other or by both—for the communica-
tion we are referring to tells us distinctly there were
two of them—by a correspondent or ths correspondent
of Jupiter Junior, NAPOLEON 111. has once more
been interviewed.

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Scene, the Palace of the Tuileries. Date, Friday,
the 22nd instant. Present, "a friend and myself,"
and, as a matter of course, the EMPEROR. The
informant of the Daily Telegraph is anxious
above all things, however, to let every one of
us know at once that that is b 3 no means an excep-
tional incident with him—that he is by no means
unaccustomed to private speaking thus with his
Majesty of France—that his elbows have before now
rubbed the lintel of that sacred Cabinet, and his
knees the under surface of the imperial
mahogany, or, being imperial, is it rosewood?
With charming ingenuousness he lets us into this
secret quite incidentally. " When last I spoke with
him," he says (observe the careless ease of the im-
plication !) " about five months ago, he looked care-
worn and haggard, with a complexion more than
usually sallow and ash coloured." Is not this the
very tint, by the way, that Mr. KINGLAKE deepens,
in the fourteenth chapter of the First
Volume of his " History of the Crimean
War," into a greenish colour, wishing us
there, however, to regard it as an indication rather
of fear than of dyspepsia ? With an outspeaking
frankness yet more charming—shall it cruelly be
called by anyone bounce ?—he says point blank, " I
have known the EMPEROR for many years, and have
seldom seen him looking better." Here in effect is
his photograph in less than a dozen words—" Yes-
terday "—the Englishman, recollect, dates his letter
as to his interview with the EMPEROR on Saturday—
" yesterday his face looked fuller, his eye
bright, his cheek healthy." As to the
conversation which then took place between them,
the interviewing Englishman tells us that he
pointedly inquired of his friend, the interviewed Em-
peror, whether the purport of their conversation
should be proclaimed a haute voix, or from the
house tops. To its being so regarded and so dealt
with, the Emperor assents, with a sort of aplomb, or
what Mr. BRAHAM would have called " entuzzi muzzy."
He clearly was desirous of a platform, as it is called,
in America—a tribune as it is called in France—from
the 'vantage ground of which he might set forth his
own views when thus interviewed. Quoth theErapEßore,
among other things on this occasion—" One fortnight
before the utterance of the Duo de GRAMONT
in the Corps L6gislatif—which utterance has, as it
seems to me, been so unjustly reflected upon by the
English press—l had no notion that war was
at hand, nor am I, even at this moment,
by any means prepared for it." Clashing rather
oddly, this last remark, with M. ROIIHER'S allusion
the other day in his address to the EMPEROR as to the
four years during which the latter had been pre-
paring his armaments I Meanwhile, says the
EMPEROR, France has slipped out of his hand, " I
cannot rule," said he, " unless I lead." As proof of
which, he goes on astoundingly to add that he leads
now by being driven forward ! " I have no
choice now but to advance at the head
of a public opinion which I can neither
stem nor check." A cold-blooded bystande r
might here say "Methinks the EMPEROR cloth
protest too much !" He explains immniediately
afterwards, however, what the revealed outline of
the secret treaty just now given to the public, has
made yet plainer, and has certainly corroborated—that
for his assent to the war of spoliation in 1866 in
Germany he was prepared to accept Luxembourg,
just as at the end of the war of spoliation in 1859
in Italy he accepted Nice and Savoy. The words
uttered in the interview, and inserted in the Treaty,
as the Englishman, who is our authority for the
former, in his capacity as reporter, says "must speak
for themselves."