The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY: EVENINC, AUGUST 21, 1858.

THE QUEEN IN GERMANY.

FROM THE COURT NEWSMAN.
POTSDAM, AUG. 17.

CHINA.

Her Majesty the Queen and the Prince Consort,
with the Prince and Princess of Prussia, came to
Potsdam from Babelsberg yesterday morning at ten
o'clock, and proceeded to the railway station, when
the whole of the suite of her Majesty and the Prince,
as well as of the Prince and Princess of Prussia,
were in waiting to receive them. The Royal party
then travelled by special train to Berlin, where her
Majesty was welcomed by the military and other
authorities of the town.

(By Electric Telegraph.)

"PARIS, SATURDAY, AUG. 21, 9.30 A.m.
" The Moniteur announces that a treaty has been
concluded with China.
" The ports are thrown open.
" The Christian religion is allowed to be freelly
practised.

Several of the Royal carriages were in attend-
ance, and her Majesty, with the Prince Consort,
drove immediately to the Palace of the Prince of
Prussia, and here the Prince and Princess Frederick
William, who had preceded her Majesty in their
carriage to Berlin, awaited the arrival of their Royal
parents.
A considerable time was occupied in viewing the
apartments and various works of art and vertu
of this sumptuous Palace, and then the Royal party
proceeded to inspect the still unfinished Palace des-

" Foreign consuls and diplomatic agents are ad.
mitted to Pekin.

"An indemnity is to be paid to England an 4 to

France."

COLLISION ON THE ATLANTIC

BETWEEN
THE EUROPA AND ARABIA.

NO LIVES LOST.

tined for the residence of the Prince and Princess
Frederick William. This Palace, which is far
advanced towards completion, combines, in an emi-
nent degree, comfort with the usual grandeur of a
Palace, and promises to be a remarkably agreeable
residence. Every part of it was minutely examined,
and in most of the rooms specimens of the intended
furniture were exhibited, so that the Queen and
Prince might form a correct idea of all the details of
the future residence of their daughter and son-in-

The directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Company
having received from Newfoundland the following
intelligence, have felt it their duty to publish it, witli
a view to allay the anxiety of the friends of the pas-
sengers by the Europa and Arabia. Further parti-
culars have been asked for, and will be published if
received : _ _

---
" The Europa and Arabia have had a collision
One of them has put in to St. John's, Newfoundland
No lives lost. All well."

From hence the Prince and Princess of Prussia
conducted their Royal guests to the King's Palace,
where, after the splendid apartments had been
visited, a collation was served to a large and dis-
tinguished party.
The weather in the afternoon was, unfortunately,
very unfavourable, the rain falling heavily ; and
from the King's Palace the Royal party returned by
railway to Potsdam, and thence to Babelsberg,
arriving at the latter place a little after six o'clock.
There was no party either to dinner or in the
evening at Babelsberg yesterday.
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FURTHER PARTICULARS.

" The Arabia was in collision with the Europa, off
Cape Race, on Saturday last. The Arabia was on
her way to New York, and is slightly injured ; the
Europa lost her bowsprit and cutwater stern spring.
She will remain in St. John's ten days from the 16th.
" The Persia calls at St. John's for mails and
passengers. No loss of life or limb."
The message asking Newfoundland for further
particulars was despatched from London at 5 p.m
last evening (Friday), and the above reply was re-
ceived back from Newfoundland at 7.30 p.m.
GEORGE SAWARD, Secretary.
22, Old Broad•street, London.

AUGUST 18

The whole of the troops quartered in Potsdam
were reviewed yesterday morning by her Majesty
the Queen in front of the Palace.
The division was commanded by his Royal High-
ness the Prince of Prussia, Prince Frederick William
of Prussia leading the Ist Brigade of the Infantry of
the Guards.
The regiments reviewed were the Regiment of
Gardes du Corps, the Regiment of Hussars of the
Guards, and one of Lancers of the Guards, the Ist
Regiment of Foot Guards. Several other battalions
of infantry (Chasseurs of the Guards. Lehr Bataillon
Schnlabtheilung), and a battery of Artillery.
Her Majesty the Queen arrived at a little after 10
o'clock from Babelsberg in an open carriage, accom-
panied by her Royal Highness the Princess of Prus-
sia, and in a second carriage were the Princess
Frederick William and Princess Charles of Prussia.
Her Majesty was received by the Prince of
Prussia and the Prince Consort, on horseback.
There were likewise present Prince Charles of
Prussia (Master-General of the Ordnance), Prince
Albert of Prussia (father), Prince Albert of Prussia
(son), Prince Frederick Charles, Prince Adalbert,
the Admiral, the Count of Flanders, Field Marshal
Wrangel, Prince Radirivil, Commander of the 3d
Corps d'Armee, and the Prince of Wurtemberg,
Commander of the Guards.

THE IMPERIAL PROGRESS IN

FRANCE,

:FROM SPECIAL REPORTERS OF THE MORNING POST.

Her Majesty with the Royal Princesses drove
down the line, attended by Princes and General Offi-
cers on horseback, and returning, took up a position
opposite the centre of the line.
The troops then marched past her 'Majesty, the
Prince of Prussia leading them. The Infantry
marched first in open column of companies, and then
in column of grand divisions. The Cavalry walked
and trotted past.
--

The appearance of the men and the extraordinary
precision of their movements was the subject of
universal admiration.
As soon as the troops had left the ground the

Queen entered the Palace of Potsdam, and was con

ducted by the Prince and Princess of Prussia to view
the rooms formerly occupied by Frederick the Great,
and in which no alteration has been permitted to be
made since the death of that celebrated Monarch.
On her Majesty returning to the Grand Hall the
whole of the Generals and Field-Officers who had
taken part in the review had the honour of being
presented to her Majesty. Her Majesty then went
to see the tomb of Frederick the Great at the Garni-
son Kirche.

In the evening there was a grand dinner party at
Babelsberg, after which Madlle. Meyer and Mr. Sab-
bath had the honour of singing before the Royal
party. Mr. Taubert accompanied them on the piano,
and also played several pieces of music.
Her Majesty and the Princess Frederick William
appear to be in the enjoyment of excellent health.

His Excellency the Bavarian Minister and the
Baroness de Cetto left the Bavarian Legation yesterday,
accompanied by their family, for Brighten.

_ .
The Duchess (Dow.) of Somerset entertained his
Excellency the Ambassador of France and a select circle at
dinner, last evening, at her grace's residence in Park-lane.

The Duke and Duchess of Hamilton will leave
Hamilton Palace early next week for Brod.ick Castle, in
the Isle of Arran, where the noble duke inteads to receive a
shooting party.
The Duke of Richmond's party have had excel-
lent epert since the commencement of grouse shooting on
his Scottish moors. The circle assembled there comprise
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Earl of March, the
Earl of Coventry, Lord A. Gordon Lennox, Col. Jebb, Col.
Napier, and Mr. Cox.
A PECULIARITY IN THE WORKING OF THE
ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.—There will be one peculiar fea-
ture in the working of the Atlantic telegraph to which we
think sufficient attention has not even yet been drawn, not-
withstanding our own special allusion to It on a former
occasion—that is, the alternate transmission of positive
and negative electricity along the wire. Positive and nega-
tive electricity are doubtless as complete counteraceives to
each other's influence as are cold and heat. We have re-
peatedly pointed attention to the probability that positive
electricity is more analogous to Cold, negative electricity
to heat. In noticing some time before this peculiar mode
of working the Atlantic telegraph was thought of the phe-
nomena exhibited by a small portion Of the old submarine
wire removed from one of the British Channel lines,
which was exhibited at the Society of Arts, we
pointed out the curious fact that the copper wire
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preventing such disintegration; and we are persuaded that
it will prevent it in the case of the Atlantic telegraph, and
that other advantages will be found to flow from this mode
of working the line. Yet we are not aware whether any
such advantage as that indicated has been thought of in this
case; but it looks as if such were one of the purposes of the
resolution came to.—The Builder.
A SPANISH BANDIT.—A letter from Seville says
—" The famous Andalusian bandit, known by the nickname
of Muselina, of whose exploits every traveller in the south of
Spain has heard, has just terminated his career in a very cha.
racteristic manner. During the last month the police and
soldiers have been upon his trail, but his wonderful power of
disguising himself, and his numberless hiding-places,
afforded him the means of eluding them and com-
mitting fresh crimes. But his time had come. He was
recently traced to his birthplace at Estepa, where he
had retired with the booty he had collected in the neigh-
bouring province of Cordova. On the morning of the
7th, a detachment of the civil guard, the gendarmerie of
Spain, searched the bandit's and several other houses in that
village, hut without success. A spy of his who had been
bought over by the authorities insisted, however, that he
must be in the place, and accordingly the officer in command
of the guard, Don Francisco Lasema, sent away all his men
except foal-, and resolved to make a new search of th
hie
bandit's house from garret to cellar. Leaving two of
guards at the front door and two in the yard, the officer
entered, and finding a female who resided with Muselina
he requested her to show him through the housed Which
she did with a politeness that boded nothing g. O
arriving at a low windowless room on the ground floor
he went in alone. The door was immediately shut
from within, and a pistol discharged at him. Fortunately,
his face was merely singed, and he fired in his turn, but
without effect. A desperate fight then took place in the
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LATEST INTELLIGENCE and greatest of the champions of Chivalry, the fellow-
soldier of our Black Prince in the war of Spain
which ended in the death of Peter the Cruel. It
',vas even here that the same great warrior, Du

Guesclin, wooed and won his first lady-love; and
here it was, even on the very spot where a throne of

state was erected for Napoleon 111., that the Breton

champion struck down in a single combat, a l' outrance,
a wicked and perfidious knight, yclepet " Thomas of
Canterbury." Dinan is no less remarkable for the
beauty of its position, the picturesque scenery that

surrounds, it, the Rhine-like features of its river
Rance, the charms of its ancient ramparts and well-
planted fosses, and the number of its antiquities, than

it is for a construction of modern times—a viaduct
of nine arches, which spans a deep valley and con-
nects two steep hills together, a work of the present

day, that in its grandeur of design equals any memo-

rial of Roman skill and perseverance.
Dinan is a very charming place to live in; but, in
a political point of view, it is a place of not the
slightest importance, and when the Emperor marked

t down in his itinerary as a town to be visited, the
savour must have been designed as a compliment to
,ta historical associations, and a tribute of respect to

the memory of one of the most distinguished warriors
of France. Dinan is so very small a town that it

may be said to have but one good street—that which
runs from its Porte de Brest to the Porte Saint Louis
—the Place du Guesclin forming the only wide
space in that single street. As to the other streets,
they are narrow lanes, rendered still more confined
by the ancient houses of which they are composed,
and those in the true antique form are so constructed
that the second story advances much further into
the street than the basement story, which is erected

on pillars, so as to afford the passengers a covered
way, and protection from the weather. Knowing
the impossibility of this little town affording room
for any considerable multitude within its walls, I

was curious to learn what arrangements could pos

sibly be made by the local authorities to afford at
the same time a passage for the Imperial cortege, and
give to the population the opportunity of exhibiting,
by their numbers, their devotion to the Imperial

dynasty.
The difficulty has been solved in a manner cre-
ditable to the ingenuity of the Prefect and Maire

of Dinan. By an order which they published
some days previously, all the interior of the little
city was reserved for its citiaens and the communal

ST. MALO, AUG. 18.
The Imperial cortege arrived here at five o'clock
and was received with great enthusiasm. The cere.
monies were the same as elsewhere ; arches of
triumph had been erected, and the delivery of the
keys, the presentation of bouquets, and the recep-
tion of the municipal and religious authorities, duly
took place. Cannon announced the arrival of the
Emperor, and the bells rung a merry peal as a wel-
come. All these things have occurred at every
town that has been visited, but here it had a fresh
interest, owing to the peculiar aspect and position of
this city. The high ramparts, with their watch-
towers and battlements, were lined with the people,
and as we approached, one might have supposed
that an invading army was advancing to storm the
city, for the Emperor's carriage was followed by a
mass of human beings, pushing and crowding along
and shouting as they advanced. Cannon were boom-
ing, the soldiers lined the walls and the streets, the
trumpets were sounding, and the drums beating to
arms, officers shouting, and, amidst all this din and con-
fusion, the resemblance to war and its strife was striking.
Still nothing eould be further from its reality, and the
good citizens only thought of rejoicings and merry-
making. St. Malo is quite an important place, and
has a population of 10,000 inhabitants. About the
end of the sixth century, Mato, a monk, ex-
pelled by the Saxons from Great Britain, settled ono
a small island near the town of Alet. The Aletiens,
attracted by his zeal and his virtues, made him their
bishop; but he was soon forced to retire to Saintonge,
owing to the jealousy of the neighbouring nobles. A
church was erected after his death on the island of
Aaron, which island became the refuge of the Ale-
tiens, whose city was ruined by the Normans. The
Bishop of Alet, Jean de Chatillon, obtained from the
Pope the right of transferring hisdiocese to St. Malo,
and the city was called from that time St. Malo. It
has played an important role with its maritime force,
which, on several occasions, was in collision with the
English, who, in 1693 and 1695,bombarded the town
without success in taking it on either occasion. It
has always been a very important seaport, but much
more so in 1750 than at present, as the city then
armed 600 vessels, with 50,000 men. In 1806 and
1807, 39 corsairs belonged to this port. It was the
birthplace of the celebrated Duguay Trouin, and the
no less celebrated Surcouf, the corsair. At the pre-
sent day St. Malo has lost much of its ancient power
and wealth, and unless the Government constructs a
basin, which is much needed as a refuge for vessels,
it must continue to decline. The inhabitants are full
of hopes as regards this much-desired improvement,
now that the Emperor is here, and can judge of its
necessity. The place has a most romantic look, and
its narrow streets and very high houses seem swarm-
ing with people—the space for building was limited,
and so they made up in height what they lacked in
breadth. The walls around the city are very high
and very old, and almost each tower, and, for that
matter, almost each stone, has its legend attached to
it. The inhabitants are proud of the ancient glory
and power of their native place, and are ever ready
to recount all they know of its bygone splendour to
any one that will listen to them. St. Malo was
visited in 1526 by Francis 1., in 1570 by Charles
11X., and in 1843 by the Duke de Nemours. The
city gives a ball to the Imperial visitors, and to-
morrow at 10 o'clock they take their departure for
Rome's. The result of this visit will be the
strengthening to a great degree the popularity of
the Emperor, who has been so well received here
—in fact, it really seems that the farther on he
goes the greater is his success, and the feeling
evinced is evidently sincere and cordial. An im-
mense crowd has managed to get into the ball-
rdom—so great, that when I attempted an entrance
I found it almost impossible, and, having peeped
over- people's heads and observed that the rooms
were splendidly decorated, and that the ladies pre-
sent were in the most recherche and elegant toilettes,
I took my departure. Yesterday and to-day it has
rained, but still at St. Brieuc, as well as here, the
rain ceased at the right momentto favour the entrance
of the Imperial train. I see that in a short time
they are to have a railroad to this place ; in fact, the
grading is under way, and once the rails
laid, this interesting and romantic place will
no doubt be visited by many who now dread
the journey in the diligence. On a rock
some distance from the town, and in the sea,
is the tomb of Chateaubriant—
a simple column
surrounded with a small iron railing, and only bear-
ing the following inscription—" Here lies a Chris-
tian." At high water the rock is surrounded; but
at low tide one may walk across the sands to the
tomb. I was anxious to see it, and as the tide was
coming in, I waded to the rock, saw the tomb, and
then hastened to return in like manner, are the waves
should have risen too much to allow my passing
back in safety. I see that quite a number of English
persons of both sexes are here. The sea-bathing is
said to be very fine, and the beach a smooth one.
At the ball I saw a number of officers in their
uniforms, accompanied by Albion's fair daughters.
DINAN, AuG. 19.
The prettiest town in all Brittany is Dinan, in the
department of the Cotes du Nord. It is a place that
cannot fail, from its historical recollections, to be in-
teresting to an Englishman, for the armies of Eng-
land have, in former times, fought beneath its walls,
of which so many fine specimens still remain. It
was, too, the favourite ville of him_who was the last

delegations, and the whole of the Place du Guesclin
was arranged as if it were a reception-hall, where,
upon a throne, erected in the open air, and covered
over with a canopy of crimson velvet and gold, it
was intended that the Emperor and Empress should
seat themselves, and there receive deputations from
the clergy, and then see pass before them, as in re-
view, all those who had travelled from a distance,
and acted as the representatives of the various loca-
lities to which they were attached. Had not the
inclemency of the weather—a down-pouring shower
of rain, which overwhelmed Dinan at the time the
Emperor stayed within its walls—interfered with the
arrangements, this little city would have afforded
something like a revival of the Breton assemblies in
by-gone times, when its kings, Salomon, and Hoel,
and Conan, and Alain, sat in the open air, with their
councillors of state around them, and the people
witnesses to the manner in which they administered
justice, and devised enactments for the benefit of the
commonwealth.
This pretty picture, and, as I believe, uninten-
tional revival of a representation of the condition of
Brittany when its native kings had freed their coun-
try from Roman dominion, and were successfully
defending it against Frankish aggressors, was com-
pletely marred by a chance shower of rain.
This, and all the other arrangements made for the
reception of the Emperor, reflects the very highest
credit upon the authorities at Dinan.
The Porte du Brest was the gate through which
the Emperor was to pass into Dinan. This is a very
ancient gateway, flanked with two towers, and all in
a state of perfect preservation ; upon this occasion
its ivy-covered and wild-flower-decked walls were
made to assume quite a holiday appearance. On the
topmost point of the venerable fortification which de-
fended the gateway was erected a golden eagle with
outstretched wings, and beneath this eagle was a bust
of the Emperor, whilst a motto, which ran across
the entire of the battlements, was inscribed in large
golden letters, " Honneur et Patrie," and beneath
were arranged in various forms the flashing standards
of the Empire, and the portals of the gate were
wreathed with laurel. Upon passing this gate, the
spectator found himself in presence of the Mairie,
newly decorated for the occasion, and as far as the eye
could reach it was dazzled with tri-colored flags, which
fluttered from the balcony of every house. Beyond
the street in which was the Mairie was to be seen the
wide space of the Place du Guesclin—which is divided
into two parts, one completely open, the other an
enclosed terrace about three feet higher than the rest
of the square, covered with umbrageous trees. In
the lower part of the square were constructed two
pyramids about thirteen feet in height, and composed
from top to bottom of the richest plants of the
sweetest odour and the most brilliant colours. Be-
yond these was the canopy of gold and crimson, and
beneath it two thrones for their Majesties. Here ad-
dresses were to be presented to them, and here were
collected the young ladies who were to offer a
bouquet of flowers and an album to the Empress ;
and here, too, were the little children of various
schools arrayed in white, and their hair decked with
wreaths of roses, who were to represent the reli-
gious institutions of those female communities who
devote themselves to the instruction of the young ;
and here, too, were the clergy of Dinan and its
neighbourhood under the leadership of M. Brageuil,
the rector of St. Sauveurs, a gentleman greatly re-
spected, and who has been at all times, and under
the most adverse circumstances, a decided adherent
of the Napoleon dynasty—for he is old enough to
recollect the time when, in the prison of Dinan. (a
magnificent piece of ancient fortification, once the
favourite residence of the Duclless-Queen Anne of
Brittany) there were no less than seventy-six clergy-
men incarcerated for refusing to subscribe to " the
Civil Constitution of the Clergy," devised by the
regicide republicans, and every one of these clergy-
men afterwards either banished or decapitated.
In front of the clergy; and all along the right hand
side of the town, as it is entered from the Ports du
Brest, were the communal delegations, with banners
denoting the difkrent localities they represented, and
as there are no soldiers in so small a town, the line
for the procession was maintained by the civil force
—the pompiers, and a few gens d'armes. Outside of
the Place du Guesclin, and fronting a passage leading
to the lower prison of Dinan, was a decoration of a
novel character—the first of the kind that presented
itself to the view of the Emperor, and therefore
entitled to something more than a passing notice.
This novel decoration consisted of an obelisk, on
one side of which were the eagle and tri-colors of
France, and on the other the crown, and royal
standard of England. Beneath were united, as with
a link of gold, two shields, the one representing the
imperial arms of France, with the words "Vive
l'Empereur !" the other, the royal arms of England,
with the words " God save the Queen !" In front
was a richly-decorated tablet, on which appeared, at
the top, the names, " Napoleon, Victeria," and at the
bottom, "Eugenie, Albert," with these words in the
centre, " Pace et concordia.." On both sides of this
was placed a parterre of the finest flowers that the
gardens or hot-houses of this part of France can pro-
duce, and behind the parterre were arranged seats,
exclusively occupied by English residents of Dinan
and its neighbourhood.
There are, I believe, in Dinan and its neighbour-
hood more than two hundred families of British sub-
jects, English, Irish, and Scotch, and this decoration
or testimonial has been, lam aware, the cause of
some discussion, if not dissension, amongst the Eng-
lish. One party, the majority, by whom it has been
erected, considering it proper to imitate the example
of their Sovereign, who, in visiting Cherbourg, tes-
tified her friendship fvr the Emperor, and showed her