The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-15 00:00:00

Miscellaneous Foreign News.

(Front Correspondents of the Anylo-Anterican Times.)
Pau's, June 13. i
The beautiful and brilliant weather which has at
length settled steadily down upon the corn-field,
green, and sunny vines of pleasant France, gives
additional tone and colouring to the magic kaleido-
scope
at this instant pouring forth its myriad at-
tractions in Paris, where crowned heads pass over
the enchanted mirror in greater numbers than the
progeny of Banquo in " Macbeth." The Autocrat
of All the Russian has just left Paris, one shade alone
obscuring the recollection of the magnificently hos- !
pitiable reception accorded to him by Napoleon and '
the good people of Paris, viz., the cowardly attack
of which he had so nearly become the victim, and the
reflection that even in the most intoxicating
moment of human pride and power may come the
shadow on the dial, the handwriting on the
wall, and a little dust and ashes are all that remain
cy? one of earth's greatest monarchs. Perhaps a
moire magnificent and exciting spectacle was never
offerer to human eye than that presented by the
brilliant scldiers of France, who to the number of
60,000 men, horse and foot, defiled in glittering
squadrons over the verdant race-course of Long-
champs in the presence of a countless multitude of
every rank, age, and station. A more impressive
warning could not have been conveyed. The con-
duct of the Czar, however, on that trying occasion
was most admirable, not only as evincing the
greatest personal coolness and bravery, but as ex-
pressing a steadfast belief in the protection of that Pro-
♦idence who holds the lives of monarchs in the hollow
of His hand. In fact, since his arrival the Emperor of
Russia has done everything in his power to con-
ciliate the regard and esteem of the Parisians,
be has visited the public and charitable institutions,
leaving behind him not only the remembrance of his
kindness and affability, but in every instance more
substantial marks of his consideration ; and although

the papers have not been able to announce the exact
amount of the donation left for the benefit of the
poor of Paris, it is said to be an amount truly royal.
Mons. Raimbeaux, the officer whose horse was struck
by the ball of the assassin as he spurred forward to
intercept his aim, has refused an offer which has
been made to him of 16,000 roubles. The Empress,
however, has presented his wife diamonds to the
value of 300,000 francs, accompanied with a press-
ing invitation from the Czar to visit St. Peters-
burg. It is said that all the various directors of the
establishments visited by the Czar will receive deco-
rations, whilst he has presented the Grand Cordon
of Saint Anne to all the Generals of Division, and
the Grand Cordon of Saint Stanislaus to all the
Generals of Brigade, who commanded at the review
of the 6th of June last.
Numberless addresses have been presented to
both Emperors in token of the general feeling of
joy at their deliverance from the murderous attempt
of Berezowski, which has also been disavowed by
large numbers of Poles. It is sincerely to be hoped
that the isolated attemt of a young man, led astray
by mistaken patriotism, and influenced also by
personal family suffering, will not serve to rivet
more closely the chains of that unhappy country,
and that the Czar will evince his clemency by
sparing even Berezowski, though, as in the case
of Edward Oxford, who, it will be remembered,
attempted .to assassinate Queen Victoria, we
should advise a salutary reclusion in a fitting
Maison de Sante. The arrival of His Sublime
Highness the Sultan is fixed for the middle of July.
The demand of Young Turkey for a National
Assembly has been rejected, and the chiefs arrested.
Three Turkish and two Greek journals have been
suspended. On the occasion his Highness will be
attended by Lord Lyons, the British ambassador,
M. Bouree, French ambassador, and Kiouf Bey,
the latter as aide-de-camp and pacha. The Sultan
has contracted a loan of several millions for his
expenses in France, and comes attended with a
more numerous following than a Highland chieftain
of the olden time. The Emperor of Austria will
arrive at Paris from the 20th to the 22d of the
month. He will be accompanied by the Empress
and the Baron do Beust, the Prime Minister.
The Spanish Embassy has also received an official
despatch, announcing the visit of Queen Isabella
as soon as the Cortes have suspended their sittings.
It is probable the Queen will arrive during the first
part of July.
A telegraphic despatch, announces also the
departure of the Viceroy of Egypt from Alex-
andria, attended by Raghel Paella and Messieurs
Outrey and Lesseps, in the steam yacht the .3lah-
russa.
Much interest is excited at this moment at the
exhibition by the panorama of the proposed canal
now being carried out across the Isthmus of Suez,
with the view of connecting the Mediterranean and
the Red Sea, in which M. de Lesseps takes a warm
interest.
It is said that a visit from the Queen of England.
is decided in principle, though not in fact, and will
only be finally resolved on at the return of Her
Majesty in June to Windsor.
The Persian Exhibition is now opened after a long
delay, and the magnificent fabrics of the hand-
woven carpets attract universal attention, as does
also a very striking likeness of the Shah, by Hannah
Guyard, and a painting, an enamel, bearing the
inscription " Khadija."
'The last visit of the Czar ere his departure was
paid to:the Palace of Fontainebleau, so full of his-
torical souvenirs of the Sovereigns of France, and
more especially of one, the mightiest perhaps the
world has ever produced. Between noon and one
o'clock the Emperor and Empress of France, with
their Royal guests of Russia, the King of Prussia,
the Prince of Hesse, &c., arrived in the carriages
of the Court at the Lyons station in order to reach
Fontainebleau by rail. As usual an es?,ort of the
Cent Gardes and Lancers prec_tded and followed
the Royal cortege.
After a visit to the Chateau, the Royal party left
at half-past five o'clock. At half-past six the train,
after having passed the Central Railway and La
Villette, arrived on the Eastern line, a special train
waiting in the route to Strasbourg to convey the
Emperor to Kehl. The Imperial wagon was ac-
cordingly stopped by the side of a tent which had
been erected, and the Sovereigns made their final
adieus after a long and fraternal embrace, the
Cesarewitch, however, returning with his royal
host to France for the purpose of shortly visiting
London.

It ends the visit of one of earth's greatest mo-
narchs to the capital of the civilised world, and there
can be no doubt that his short sojourn has gained
for him golden opinions not only in Paris, but in all
France. We are not apologists for despotic mo-
narchs, and the misfortunes and sufferings of that
helpless country, Poland, are too well known to need
comment. It remains, however, to analyse the
sources of these misfortunes, of these sufferings, and
to judge then in how far the conduct and Go-
vernment of the rn
Czar has been productive of
them. There is, at all events, a well-known axiom,
audi alteram partem, and, as the Czar has shown
himself a brave fellow, we say, at all events, let him
have fair play. Besides we, ourselves, vowhae had re-
cently too much to deplure, even in our n free
country, from the diabolic crime, which there, un-
happily, succeeded, not to condemn, in the most
emphatic language of denunciation we possess that
bloody and cowardly principle which seek to find
in assassination a remedy for public or private woes
or wrongs. We congratulate cordially the Em-
peror on his escape, and we sincerely trust that the
interpositionh of Providence on his behalf will induce
Lind to regard with clemency, not only the wretched
and misguided author of the unfinished crime, but
also the unhappy and high-spirited nation to which
be belongs.

Great attraction and heart fluttering has been
caused this week, especially amongst the gentler
sex, by the balls given respectively at the Tuileries
and the Hotta de Ville. As we have so often, how-
ever, given a description of State balls, with their
glittering uniforms and orders, gorgeous dresses, &c.,
we shall content ourselves with remarking that
among the few Americans who attended at the
Hotel de Ville we noticed General Starring, United
States Army; Colonel M'Clure ; Mrs. Bainbridge
Smith, New York ; Alias Vance, Tennessee. Pre-
sent at the Tuileries were General Dix and family,
lion, John Sherman, Col. and Mrs, Norton, Mrs.