The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-03 00:00:00

the expectation of that functionary that the illumi-
nation will not be confined to the public establish-
ments, but that it will be general—that all who are
householders in Cherbourg will adopt this mode of
testifying their satisfaction at seeing the Emperor in
the midst of them. I believe, from what I have ob-
served, that this expectation will not, in a single in-
stance, meet with a disappointment.
Thus far we have in detail the proceedings regu-
lated for the first day of the visit of the Sovereign of
France.

Upon the next day, the sth, her Majesty the
Queen of England arrives in Cherbourg harbour;
end the official programme thus notifies the fact :
" Their Majesties, the Emperor and Empress, have
reserved to themselves this day for the purpose of
receiving on board the ship, the Bretagne, her
Majesty the Queen of England. An ulterior order
will make known the regulations to be adopted if
requisite to do so. There will be a regatta in the
road of Cherbourg in presence of the united ships of
the French and English marine and the Royal Yacht
Squadron. This regatta is to take place in front of
the Quay Napoleon, and a specious programme will
give in detail the course of proceedings."
Such is the official reference to the proceedings of
the sth of August—the day of the Queen's Visit.
The 6th of August is to be devoted by their
Majesties the Emperor and Empress to proceedings
in the road of Cherbourg, to an examination of the
breakwater, and visiting the vessels composing the
Imperial Squadron.
Whilst they are thus occupied the citizens of
Cherbourg are to be amused with public sports and
games, the organisation of which is confided to the
Municipal Council, and the details of which are to
be announced in a local advertisement. At two there
is to be a gratuitous spectacle at the theatre. At
three there are to be balloons, with parachutes, from
which will fall flowers, standards, toys, &c.
At nine o'clock the same evening there are to be
fireworks upon the Place Divette, by the celebrated
Ruggieri, pyrotechnist to the Emperor.
On the 7th of August the Emperor and Empress
will leave the house of the Prefect at an early hour
in the morning, and will make a promenade in all
parts of the city, and, so far as they possibly can, in
the environs, so as to be back precisely at 12 o'clock,
when they will enter the port by the southern gate,
where they will be received by the officers and em-
ployees of the marine. Upon their Majesties descend-
ing from their carriage, there are to be three salvos
of artillery. Their Majesties will then proceed to
the Arsenal, through a line composed on the one side
of the troops of the Arsenal, and on the other side of
the workmen, banded together according to the dif-
ferent ateliers in which they are engaged. The
floating of the fine vessel, the Ville de Nantes, will
then commence. During the time that will pass be-
tween the first immersion of the vessel and its final
launching, the Emperor and Empress will visit the
different workshops of the arsenal—all the operatives
will be engaged at their usual labours during this
inspection—hut on the appearance of the Emperor
in each department all labour is then to cease, so
that each operative will have full opportunity of
seeing and being seen by his Sovereign.
The regulations set forth to prevent any person un-
connected with the arsenal, and not in military or
marine uniform, from being present arc most minute.
I have seldom read any regulations more strict for
the purpose of excluding the possibility of an un-
invited stranger being a spectator of proceedings
in which he could have no other interest beyond that
of indulging his own curiosity.
It is supposed that the immersion of the Ville de
Nantes will be completed by six o'clock, when the
launching and benediction of the vessel will take
place.

- The same evening the ball of the city of Cherbourg
to the Emperor and Empress will take place,
and a notification is to be published stating
the route their Majesties will take both in going and
returning from this entertainment, which will be on a
truly magnificent scale.
I now come to the last day of their Majesty's visit,
the Bth of August. The climax, the grand coup of
all the doings and festivities of Cherbourg, is to be
the inauguration of the equestrian statue of Napo-
leon the First. It is to take place at half-past nine
in the morning. At this ceremony is to be congre-
gated all the forces Row in Cherbourg. At eleven
o'clock their Majesties will hear a low mass at the
Church of the Trinity, and at half-past two they
will leave Cherbourg ; but the precise plan on which
their separation from the loyal citizens of Cherbourg
is to occur has not yet been determined upon. It
will be made known by a special order.
It is notified that during the stay of their Majes-
ties in Cherbourg the officers of the marine and
army are to be invariably en grande terme d'hiver.
To these regulations is to be added one which
does not come in an official form, namely, that the
Emperor and Empress are to give a public reception
to the Mayors of all the communes of the arrondisse-
mcnt—cach commune having a banner surmounted
with the imperial eagle, and inscribed with the name
of the commune to which it belongs. Each Mayor
will be accompanied by the municipal adminjstra-
tion, and by the old soldiers of the Empire dwelling
in each commune, wearing the St. Helena medal.
Each parish will have at its head its rector and
curates, and those clergymen appointed to assist the
Bishop of Coutances in the solemnity of the bene-
diction of the railway from Cherbourg to Paris.
A semi-official notice forbids the throwing of
flowers, garlands, or bouquets into the carriage of
the Emperor, as they might cause accidents ; and it
is requested that petitions may not be personally pre-
sented, as her Majesty's Secretary will attend at the
Prefecture, and receive them, Ibr the purpose of
bringing all such documents under the notice of the
Emperor or Empress—whichever of them may be
specially addressed.
Having thus given you an abstract of the official
and non-official programmes, I turn to matters
which are connected with the same subject—the
Imperial and Royal visit—and which are at this mo-
ment topics of observation in Cherbourg. One in-
genious gentleman has, I find, calculated that there
will be five thousand discharges of cannon fired in
the road of Cherbourg, each time that their Majes-
ties will go out into the harbour, and as all the ves-
sels of war fire by broadside, the public is invited to
calculate the force of the detonations. This is a
matter on which the public has already had some
experience, for on last Friday evening the fleet was
practising with a few broadsides, and lam assured
that the effect en some of the houses looking out
on the grand war-ship basin was to smash the
glass in several windows. What will happen
in Cherbourg if the casements are not left open may
thus be easily anticipated. None will, lam sure,
be more delighted with the result than the honest
glaziers of Cherbourg.
A local paper of Cherbourg contains the following
paragraph, on which it is necessary to make an ob-
servation. It is an illustration of the different way
in which buyers and sellers are disposed to regard
the same subject.
The Cherbourg paper says :—" There arc from
four to five hundred apartments, at the least, adver-
tised to be let in Cherbourg for the fetes. The
price of these, which has never been so high, as has
been reported, has been considerably diminished, and
lowers each day as the number of lodgings increase."
The writer of this paragr ah has not informed the
public what he considers a high price ; but this I
can say, I have been asked a scandalously high
price, and have had to make my way to a distant part
of the town before I could procure any suitable resi-
dence—and even then have had to pay by the day
• treble what would be demanded for the same accom-
modation in the same locality for a week, and even
such I could not get until I had paid in advance for the
full term. All strangers of all nations are mulcted
by the astute Norman, but beyond all others those
who speak French with an English accent. It is a
species of French patriotism to charge the English
twice as much for the same article, as would be
charged to a Frenchman. Ido not affirm this pecu-
liar development of nationality, as the result merely
of my own experience. Its accuracy is recorded by
a very popular French author, M. Feval, who in-
troduces in one of his novels a character to which he
has given the name of M. Benoit, whom he de-
scribes as a man who lived by letting lodgings, and
whose trade-principles are thus explained :—" Les
Anglais devaient payer un tiers en sus parce que M.
Benoit etait bon patriote.
The Cherbourg letters-of-lodgings seem to be in-
fluenced by the same want of conscience of which
the thrifty iliallieorn boasted, when reproached for
his ingratitude for favours already received :
" Would yeu have
A citizen book those ? Thankfulness is
A thing we are not sworn to in our indentures;
You may as well urge conscience."

One result of the enormous prices asked in Cher-
bourg has been to force numbers to seek for apart-
ments in the neighbouring hamlets and villages—
persons finding it cheaper to take up their abode in
the neighbourhood of Martinast, Couville, and even
so far away as Valognes, and pay for voitures daily,
than to be mulcted by the remorseless charges sought
to be extorted from them for dwelling in Cherbourg.

THE AMERICAN MAILS.--LIVERPOOL, July 31
—The British and North American royal mail steam-
ship Niagara sailed from the Mersey at a few minutes before
one o'clock this morning for Halifax and Boston, with the
weekly mails, 103 passengers, and a full cargo of manu-
factured goods.

THE FETES AT CHERBOURG.—LIVERPOOL, Mon-
day.—The Dundalk and Midland Steam Company's steamer
Independence, sailed from the Mersey for Cherbourg this
afternoon with 78 passengers. It is intended that the In-
dependence shall accompany her Majesty's fleet across the
Channel to France.
A supplement to the London Gazette of last Friday
was issued yesterday. It contains certain orders in Council
issued at a Court held at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, on
the alst