The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-21 00:00:00

NICE.

The following is a list of the advantages which
have been accorded to Nice by the Emperor during
his short stay there. One or two of tho items have
been already mentioned :-1. The improvement of
the road from the Var to the Col de Tenda, crossing
through Nice, has been decided on. The road will
be carried along the right bank of the torrent
Paillon, and a bridge is to be constructed opposite
the Place Napoleon. The total expense is estimated
at 1,200,000 f., of which the State will furnish one
third. 2. Exoneration from the payment of 50,000 f.,
which the town was to have furnished for the pur-
chase of the Imperial College. 3. The Emperor
has ceded to the town of Nice for a prefecture the
Imperial Palace which Victor Emmanuel had made
over to the civil list. This donation is estimated
in value at 400,000 f, The Emperor has also ceded
to the town all the ground belonging to the Palace
as far as the Place St. Dominique, to serve as the
site for the construction of an hotel de Tulle and a
building for the archives. 4. The Empress left a
SUM of 10,000 f. for the Salles d'Asile. 5. Another
large sum was left with the Prefect for the poor.
6. The Emperor has ordered the survey for a road
between Nice and Villafranche, as far as St. Hos-
pice. This road will form a part of the imperial
highway leading from Antibes to Genoa, between
Nice and Beaulieu. The whole of these favours
together represent a sum of nearly one million
francs, for which Nice is indebted to the imperial
munificence. Add to the above the two millions
which the embankment of the Var will cost, and
which is to be defrayed by the State ; also two
millions which will be expended in the formation
and keeping in repair the imperial road from Nice
to Barcelonnetta by the valley of the Var, and an-
other million to be paid by the State towards the
works for the departmental roads, and it will be
seen that the arrondissement of Nice will have been
a very considerable gainer by the annexation.

A passenger, on arriving the day before yesterday
at the railway terminus in the Rue d'Amsterdam, found
that he had lost his pocket-book containing 4,600 f. in bank-
notes and somo papers of value. Fortunately the book was
found at the Rueil station by an honest porter who delivered
it to the station master. The latter made inquiries which
led to the discovery of the person who had lost the property,
and the porter was sent to deliver it to him. On receiving
the pocket-book, the owner carefully examined it to see
that its contents were all safe, and then generously gave
back sf. for the finder. "It was I, sir, who found it," re-
plied the man, "and you will please keep your 5f., and hand
them over in my name to the subscription in favour of the
Christians in Syria."
ELEGANT EXTRACT FROM AMERICAN LITERA-
TuRE.--The following choice bit is too good to be lost in a
New York journal, and we accordingly transplant it to our
flowery columns, in order that the whole world may enjoy
the rich boaquet of it :—" Male Gossips.—A female gossip
is bad enough in all conscience; but a male gossip is, by
all odds, the more detestable of the two ; spending his
time in collecting, from street-corners, saloons, and busi-
ness places, all the parentheses of small talk, to scatter
broadcast wherever there is a field to sow mischief. The
male gossip is always a coward. ** * The toe of n boot
is the best thing with which to point the moral and adorn
the tale' of this venomous animal." The above is signed
" Fanny Fern." We always had our doubts as to Fanny's
sex, but after the above choice specimen, -No are now
morally convinced that Fanny is decidedly no gentleman.
The difficulty then remains :—Being no gentleman, is she
a lady ?—Punch.