The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-01 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY, 6 P.M.
According to a letter I have received from Berlin
the visit of her Majesty and Prince Albert to
Prussia has laid the foundation of important political
ties. It is also added that the Prince of Wales may
become the husband of the Princess of Saxe-
Meiningen.
The Emperor of Russia is ever employed in pro-
moting the emancipation of the serfs. The Czar
uses his personal influence with the nobles to ac-
complish this end. 200,000 individuals belonging
to the Imperial palaces of Russia have lately been
made entirely free. It is reported that efforts
are being made to bring about a recon-
ciliation between Austria and Russia. It is even
said that the Emperor Alexander will visit 'Vienna.
The reconciliation of Russia and Austria is only a
question of time, and must of necessity take place.
Austria will approach Russia in proportion r. 9 the
Anglo-French Alliance becomes consolidated and
permanent.

Mazzini's organ, the Paha (lel Popo has ceased
to appear in Genoa.
The Queen of England and the Prince Consort
left the palace of Babelsberg at eight o'clock in the
morning of the 28th ult., and proceeded to the rail-
way station at Potsdam, accompanied by the princes
and princesses of the Royal family. Having taken
leave of their Royal Highnesses, the Queen and the
Prince proceeded in a special train to Magdeburg, at
the station or which place her Majesty and his Royal
Highness found the Grand Duke and Grand
Duchess of Saxe-Weimar waiting to receive them.
The Queen and Prince breakfasted with the Grand
Duke and Grand Duchess, and afterwards proceeded
to Deutz, opposite Cologne, where they arrived at ten
minutes to ten in the evening.

The Union gives the following account of the
arrest of some Protestants at Alauberge, to which I
have already referred :—" In the town in question
there was a military sub-intendant, a zealous Pro-
testant. This functionary, being desirous to open a
place of worship in the town, where there never had
existed any Protestant congregation, succeeded in
collecting a certain number of signatures, and went,
to the mayor in order to obtain the requisite permis-
sion to assemble with the persons who had given
their signatures and a Protestant minister. The
mayor granted the authorisation ; but the Prefect of
the Nord, being informed of all the circumstances of
the case, revoked the mayor's decree. Notwith-
standing this, the military sub-intendant and the
Protestant minister persisted in holding meetings for
the purposes of worship with some workmen. The
prefect caused the house of meeting to be surrounded
by the police, and the persons within to be arrested,
including the sub-intendant and the minister. It is
probable they will be prosecuted for holding illegal
meetings."

I am quite convinced the central authorities in Paris
will uut countenance the persecution of Protestants
in any part of the empire. Already the question
occupies the serious attention of the Mini,ter of the
Interior.

The Duke de Malakoff', who intended to leave Paris
to-day for London, has detemined to remain a few
days longer amongst us.
The Imperial Prince will not accompany the Em-
peror and Empress to Biarritz, on account of a pre-
vailing epidemic which has carried off many children
in that district.

Lord Palmerston, who is on a visit to Earl Cow-
ley, will not return to Paris before Thursday next.

_ - The Debats devotes a long article to the criticisms
on Cherbourg which have been indulged in of late
by English orators and journals. Our contemporary
endeavours to trace the source of the carping tone
generally adopted by the FAid critics; perhaps it has

not erred in attributing it to the causes detailed in
the following passage :
"Thus we see that the criticisms indulged in by the Eng-
lish on what they have seen at Cherbourg only relate to
trifles, and need not disturb eithor cur vanity or the coati-
;fence we have in our navy, both as regards our ships and
our crews. These criticisms are evidently stamped with pre.
meditated ill-humour, which, if we wish to be just, we may
attribute to the ill-natured tone of many publications
which have appeared here for some time past, and especially
since the Indian outbreak. The embarrassments of the
English have been both unjustly and unreasonably rejoiced
in ; the question of the dismemberment of the British Colo-
nial Empire has been discussed in French publications;
things have been said which M. de Persigny noticed the
other day in his speech to the council-general of the depart-
ment of the Loire; and lastly, many a pamphlet has re-
peated under every possible shape, that steam had thrown a
bridge over the Channel, and that Cherbourg had email-
nentalised England—a barbarism which is not only a sole-
cism in language, but also a fault against common sense.
All this of course could not but be unpalatable to the Eng-
lish, and must inspire them with those feelings of resentment
which we have traced in what they have said or written on
our navy. It is not in these reciprocal exaggerations that
the truth on Cherbourg can be found, and we shall seek it
elsewhere."

PARIS BOURSE.—The market has been more
settled to-day, and prices have been steady. Forced
purchases have continued in Rente. The option of
premiums was effected on the Rente Three per Cents.
at 701 r. 85c. Threes have varied from 70fr. 95c. to
70fr. 85c.; Mobilier, 782 fr. 50c. to 787 fr. 50c.; Aus-
trian, 652 fr. 50c. to 655 fr.; Orleans, 1,352 fr. 50c. to
1,355 fr.; Lyons, 825 fr. to 827 fr. 50c. ; Eastern,
725 fr. to 727 fr. 50c.; Northern, 957 fr. 50c. to 9601 r.;
and Southern, 557 fr. 50c. to 560 fr. The market
became firmer towards the close, when the following
were the quotations :

Fr. Ct.
4 per Cents... 97 75
Do. end of month 97 75
3 per Cent 7l 15
Do. end of month 71 40
Bank Shares

Credit Mobilier. : 800
Do. Account..... 800

RAIL
Cash

Fr. CI
Credit Foncier 625
Belgian 41
Piedmontese 5,
Roman.—
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt

'AYS.

90 75

92 75

Orleans
Northern
New ditto
Lyons & Mediterranean
New ditto ..
Geneva
Midi
Western ..
Eastern
Grand Central
Sardinian —
Austrian

—Fr. Ct. Account—Fr. Ct.
,355 .. 1,355
960 • . D6O
810 .. 810
825 .. 828 75

615 -
558 75
630 -
....... 727 50

Gl2 50
557 50
627 50
730 -

ENGLISH CRITICISMS ON CII.E.RIdOTIRG

The Journal des Debate, which no one will accuse of
viewing matters exclusively from a French point of view,
devotes four columns in its publication of yesterday to a
defence of the French navy and of French matters in
general, in answer to the published attacks of English
sightseers at Cherbourg. It tells us that, coming as
we did as invited guests, it would not have been
polite to have sent us home with our feelings hurt
and our vanity wounded. And as the simultaneous
presence of the squadrons of both nations at Cherbourg was
certain, in spite of every care, to suggest invidious compari-
sons, the Debatshas hitherto reserved its remarks, and, like
the French at Fontenoy, it has chosen to say—Messieurs
lee A nglais, tirez les premiers.

It thinks the English have fired first and without doing
much damage. They left Cherbourg, it says, as women
leave a ballroom, each one believing she carries away the
palm of beauty and elegance. The Debate thinks this only
natural and only what it expected; but it fancies that our
pretensions to superiority, based on such frivolities as the
famous exploit on the truck of the mainmast, might have
been expressed with more courtesy and with more respect
towards an allied and friendly people.
Believing that the French ships of war do not in the least
suffer in comparison with the English, the Debats does
ample justice to our private and merchant marine. It con-
fesses its envy at the superiorite eclatante of the British
flag as displayed in the waters of Cherbourg by the yachts
of our gentry and the magnificent steamships of our rich
and powerful navigation companies. It cannot, however, for-
give Mr. Roebuck for his gross impoliteness in calling French
women plain; and with respect to the speech of Mr. Lindsay
at Tynemouth it has the following remarks :—" During the
trip to Cherbourg Mr. Lindsay was the envy and admiration
of poor sea-sick Mr. Roebuck. But how did it happen that
this practical sailor, Mr. Lindsay—this consummate nau-
tical authority, could laugh at us, because our vessels in
saluting only manned the yard, One would imngiue that
an old salt like Mr. Lindsay would have instantly
guessed the technical reasons why it could not be
otherwise. Whilst the English crews were kept to
their ships, and had plenty of bands to be sent
up the masts and,the rattlins, or to man all the yards, a
great part of our ships' companies were employed in
numberless duties on shore. Besides, whilst the Eng-
lish fired salutes of only 21 guns, requiring only five
men to each gun to do it with all requisite regularity,
our ships fired a succession of salutes of three discharges
each gun, employing at least four men to a gun, and
this would confine to the batteries at least 360 men in a
90-gun ship like the Arcole, the Eylau, or the Napoleon,
&c. This, we think, could have been no secret. The dis-
charges of artillery so loudly informed everybody of the fact
that it is difficult to conceive how a man of Mr. Lindsay's
experience could not have taken notice of it. On the other
hand, to be just with Mr. Lindsay, we will admit that the
English sailors in their summer attire, in white shirts and
trousers, made a gayer display on the rigging than our
sailors on the yards. A few heavy showers that bad fallen
advised the adoption of woollen clothes for our men, who
had active service to perform in the roadstead, and who
might find themselves far from their lockers. We
will also confess that the blue lights of the Eng-
lish were brighter and lasted longer than ours, and
that signal rockets, particularly the ones fired by the
Queen's yacht, were more brilliant than those of our ships.
But what is the importance of such details ?" Again it says
" Alcorrespondent of the Times calls the Ville de Nantes a
sailing ship, abhough, whilst on the stocks, the part which
was surely most visible to the regard of the multitude was
her stern, with a hole in the keel for the reception of the
screw. Mr. Lindsay characterised our vessels as poor ships,
the correspondent of the Times improves upon this, and eat
them all ugly, the Bretagne an ugly ship, the Eylau an
ugly ship, the Arcole, ugly ship, the .Napoleon, ugly ship,
ugly, ugly, nothing but ugliness. It appears, however,
that English naval officers are of a different opinion, parti_
cularly Admiral Napier, who on this point has with such pre-
cision called Mr. Lindsay and the correspondent of the
Times to order and justice."
The writer in the Debats afterwards alludes to the ad
mi-
ration excited by the Napoleon in 1853 in Besika Bay
among all the officers of the squadron commanded by
Admiral Dundas, when that vessel, on a day of vexation
for the English officers, triumphantly towed a three-decker
against the current in the Dardanelles by the side of an
English steamer that had tried the task in vain.
He then remarks on the well-known beauty of the
models of French ships, and on out' navy having copied them
in so many instances. He concludes with expressing
an opinion that the criticisms of the English on what they
saw at Chet bourg relate only to miserable trifles, and should
in no way inspire inquietude to French vanity, or the confi-
dence the French have in their ships, their men, or anything
else. The Debats charitably attributes our exaggerated and
ill-humoured criticisms to a revenge on our partsfor thestupi-
dales which have been written in the French press on our

Indian embarrassments, as well as for the menace which
has appeared in myriads of French pamphlets in the shape of
allusions to the bridging of the Channel by steam and the
continentalisation of England; and finally for there having
been permitted in France such things as M. de Persigny
referred to the other day in his speech to the Council-
General of the Loire.

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THE REPRESENTATION OF DUMBARTONSHIRE.—
a-Dauillito Mail says:—It is rurnoured
retire into private life. In
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e-itttisils
about
the event of Mr. Smollett's retirement, Mr. Archd. Orr
Ewing, of Leven Bank, has been named as well qualified to
fill the office. Mr. Ewing has for many years taken a
prominent part in matters effecting the well-being of the
county, and by his exertion, has done lunch to promote its
social and commercial pt asperity.
THE FIRST or SEPTEMBER.—The Essex Herald
says :—The first day of partridge shouting "the glorion3
first," looked forward to with so much interest by our sport-
ing friends, holds out, we learn, excellent promise of sport in
this county. From the favourable hatching season and fine
summer the coveys are plentiful and large ; and though it is
said the birds are likely to be found rather wild and strong
on the wing, this, with the good shot, will increase the in-
terest of the pursuit, and afford scope fin. the display of the
sportsman's skill. The poachers, it is titre, have had rz,,..acr
au unfair start from the early harvest and tine cleating of
the fields • but timely precaution lass been taken by the very
general hushing of the stubbles; and it will be found, we
hope, that the contraband net has not. seriously robbed the
gun and the legitimate game bag. Knights of the trigger,
says the Sussex Advertiser, are all on the qui vine, looking
anxiously forward to the approaching time for slaughter.
There are plenty of birds, but as they are unusually strong
on the vying, aad their resorts very bare, unless the long
range is put into requisition the bags of the sportsmen will
not cut so NSPeCLAbiV An appmanol mnaaY he w 16120.