The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-02 00:00:00

BOULOGNE.

There was no public reception in Boulogne, the
general wish being to get to Paris as early as possible,
and the state of the weather during the voyage across
had rendered many of the company rather indisposed to
encounter a ceremonial immediately on their escape from
the sea. The vessel that brought torward the first party
was the Princess Helena, and she left in the harbour
two others, the Lord Warden and the Princess Clemen-
tine, steam up, and gaily decorated with flags, ready to
carry over the remainder of the invited guests. The
vessels drew alongside the quay at two o'clock amidst
the cheering of the crowd. The quay was gaily deco-
rated with flags, and a guard of honour was in waiting.
An ornamental gangway was run on deck, and the
guests, with the Lord Mayor at their head, received
the congratulations of the municipality.
Among the company by the chief train and first boat
were—
Lords Albermarle, Wharncliffe, and Ebrington; Hon.
Messrs. Fitzroy and Scarlett, Messrs. Paxton and the
•Recorder, Sir J. Rennie, Sir J. Musgrove, Mr. Smith,
Alderman Moon, Messrs. Wentworth Dilke, Cole, and
Scott Rtissell, Alderman Humphery; Messrs. Sallan-
drouze and Macgregor, M.P., Alderman Sidney, Alder-
man Wire, Alderman Hooper, Alderman Carter, Sheriff
Carden, Sir G. Hodgkinson, Messrs. Swift, Bright, and
Du Pont, Captain Owen, H. Crossmam, H. Du Cane,
Mr. Barber and lady, Deputy Harrison, Messrs. Cubitt,
M.P., Sams, Locke, Dennock, Barnes, Wilkes, Professor
Ansted, Professor Owen, Mr. Routledge, Dr. Boyle,
Deputy Obbard, Messrs. Bennoch, Farrer, Nicholay,
Garrard, Spicer, Wallace, and the representatives of the
London press.
Our Boulogne correspondent writes as follows:
BOULOGNE, Ana. 1, 2.50 P.N.

At half-past two o'clock to-day the Lord Mayor of
London, with several Commissioners of the Urreat Ex-
hibition, and the various gentlemen whom the munici-
pality of Paris had invited to partake of their hospi-
pitality, arrived in this town in the Princess Clementina,
from Folkestone. Mr. Barnard, the agent, in Boulogne,
of the Folkstone Railroad, had, at his own expense,
decorated the landing-place with a triumphal arch
of various coloured flags, which looked very
gay. The sous-prefets, British Consul, Mayor of
Boulogne, M. Fontaine, with some of the chief
gentlemen of the town, M. de St. Paul, chairman
of the Boulogne. and Amiens Railroad, with some of
his colleagues, received the gentlemen on their landing,
where a lieutenant's guard of troops of the line, headed
by the Commissary of Police and a guard of douaniers in
full costume, with the heads of the customs' department,
did honour to the occasion. After the usual wel-
comes, compliments, and introductions, the invited
stepped into the railway carriages and conveyances pro-
vided for them, and drove to ;he terminus of the rail-
road, which deserves a particular description.
The directors of the Amiens and Boulogne Railway
had determined, at their own expense, to prove to the
invited guests that all France felt disposed to meet them
with true cordiality. Accordingly, they commanded M.
Jallot Thaboreux, of Paris, to decorate the large saloon
of the terminus in a manner fit for the reception of the
guests whom they honoured, and whom they invited to a
dejeuner after the fatigues of their journey; and M. Polot,
the restaurant of the Rue Vivienne, was ordered to provide
in his recherche style a hot breakfast that should not be con-
demned even by u London alderman. Both did justice
to the orders given. The large saloon was covered with
white drapery, tastefully inlaid with crimson, with
crimson curtains to the various windows. A large mir-
ror behind the chairman, decorated with flowers, re-