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improvement upon its previous practice in 1
the Wednesday's rehearsal, and if " eccentricities"
are abandoned, and a somewhat closer attention paid
to signals, the " waltz of the fleet" round the pivot
on the review day will be a spectacle well worthy
travelling 1,000 miles to see. On nearing the Nab
light-ship the lines of ships were again wheeled out-
wards, and a course laid out to the S.E. at half-
speed, the " irrepressible" sloop again soon after the
start in the new direction butting with her stern
back upon the Valiant's stem, and forcing her out
of the line, until the Admiral's signal to the frigate
to " keep place" put matters straight. The Daphne
immediately afterwards received a similar cautionary
message, and deserved it. The three turret-ships, the
Royal Sovereign, Prince Albert, and Wivern, kept
their stations better than any three ships next to
each other in the fleet, and the hydraulic Water-
witch held her berth capitally astern of the twin
screws. The weather had now approached the sum-
mer aspect of Wednesday, and the sun shone as
brightly as then on the lines of ships as they stood
out into the Channel, each ship at a cable's distance
and with about three cables' distance between the
two lines—a splendid and unparalleled display of
naval magnificence and power. The fleet continued
its course thusuntil 2.25 p.m., when the course was
changed 16 points by signal, and the fleet wheeled
again to port and to starboard in its respective lines,
bringing the ships' heads to about N.W., and for
the Nab light on its return towards Spithead. Signal
was then made to double the distance between ships
from one to two cables' length, and to return under
steam at five knots' rate, or at the same rate under
steam and sail, at the option of commanding officers
of ships. Topgallant and royal yard men sprang
aloft, and laid in close in the tops in readiness for
the next order. "Away aloft," " Let fall," " Sheet
home," rapidly followed, and all plain sail was soon
crowded on each ship, the Valiant on this occasion
being the smartest ship with the flagship second by
a very few seconds. From the order being given on
board the Valiant, " Away aloft," until all the
royals were fairly set, the time was 1 minute 48
seconds. Many other ships in both lines may have
been within a second or two of the Valiant and N ic-
toria, but the times of all the ships could not be
taken from one point in the fleet. All did their best
in this competitive struggle aloft, and if all were not
winners they at least deserved to be so. The Sutlej
made no sail, having no yards aloft above her top-
sails ; the Mersey set no foretopgallant sail or royal
at the same time as the other ships, owing to her
accident, but soon after the other ships had done
aloft and coiled down ropes, she bad made all right
again, and got all sail set like the rest. The Royal
Sovereign and Prince Albert, of coarse, scorned the
use of sails as contrary to their principles. All the
other ships had set their fore-courses, three topsails,
topgallant sails, and royals and their jib and flying
jib. The day's exercise was now over, and the fleet,
in all the beauty of swelling canvas, supplemented
by steam at its lowest grade of power. Slowly the
fleet moved in for the anchorage, the wind falling
very light, the Nab light being passed by the stern-
most vessel at 4.40 p.m. From the Nab the majority
of the ships held their way in under sail only with
just occasionally a turn or two with their screws to
keep position, until passing through St. Helen's
roads, where a general signal was made to
shorten sail to topsails. Under their topsails and
steam the fleet continued its progress towards Spit-
head. At 5 p.m. topsails were furled, and the Vic-
toria dropped anchor to her old berths soon after-
wards, the remainder of the fleet picking up their
berths in succession as they arrived in the anchorage.
The squadron under the command of Rear-
Admiral Warden, consisting of the ironclad i\lino-
taur, Bellerophon, Lord Clyde, Achilles, and Pallas,
with the unarmoured screw frigates Liverpool and
Phcebe, will have joined at Spithead by the time
his report appears in print.

SOUTHAUPTON, Friday

This port contributes no mean addition to the
steam flotilla which will be assembled at Spithead on
Wednesday next, to witness the great naval Review
arranged to come off that day in the presence of her
Majesty the Queen, the Sultan of Turkey, the
Viceroy of Egypt, and other illustrious personages.
Between 20 and 30 steamships of various rates of
tonnage, belonging to the mail and other shipping
interests associated with this port, will be present on
the occasion. Five of the large vessels of the Penin-
sular and Oriental Company have been chartered
by the Government—viz., the Syria, to be appro-
priated to the House of Lords ; the Ripon, to the
House of Commons; the Tanjore, to the members
of the Cabinet, foreign Ministers, &c.; and the
China and Bangalore, the special appropriation of
these two not being yet publicly known. The three
first named will go down to Portsmouth on the 16th,
there to embark the distinguished company assigned
to each, and the China and Bangalore will, as at
present arranged, leave the Southampton Docks on
the morning of the review. The Royal Mail Com-
pany send two of their noble vessels, the Seine and
La Plata, the former devoted to the company's
shareholders, and the latter to the directors, man-
agers, and others. The flag of the Union Company
will be represented by two of their steamers—viz.,
the Cambrian, with the directors and the (
share-
holders, and the Anglian, chartered for the occasion
by a private firm. The South-Western Company
contribute four of their fleet, the Brittany, Casarea,
Southampton, and Despatch ; the British and Irish
Company two, the Lady Egliuton and Lady Wode-
house ; and the Southampton and Isle of Wight
Company four, the Vectis, Medina, Lady of the
Lake, and Lord of the Isles. Among the miscel-
laneous steamers advertised for the occasion from
this port are the Southampton, the Salisbury,
the Boston, the Zaire, the Annette, &c. ; a
steamer of 1,000 tons named the Himalaya, has an-
chored in the river this afternoon, reported to be
destined for the same uses ; and the Thetis is adver-
tised to leave Portsmouth or Southampton with
passengers for the review ground. Other arrange-
ments are in progress, and there will in all pro-
bability be at least thirty steamships from this
port at the great nautical gathering on Wed-
nesday. Special trains to and from Portsmouth
are to be laid on from this•and various other towns
in the district. The steamboat fares for the day
range from 10s. to £2 25., some inclusive and some
exclusive of wines and provisions, and most of the
vessels will remain to enable those on board to wit-
ness the illumination of the fleet at night.

The Standard says :—" Letters from Rome give
a glowing account of the manner in which the Pontifical
Treasury is being filled. They state that the foreign
bishops have presented to the Pope the extraordinary
sum of 7,500,000 f. (X 300,000 sterling) in money, be-
sides other precious gifts. The bishops of Canada
brought a silver model of a ship, the sails of which
are composed of bank-notes of various countries, and the
cargo of golden coins of every nation. The Bishop of
Mexico presented his Holiness with an offering of 80,000
piastres, and one English prolate alone gave him 2,500,000 f.
Various and amusing are the stories told relative to the great
religious festival. One very old bishop, supporting himself
on an immenso walking stick, persisted in being pre-
sented to the Pope, contrary to etiquette, with his friend
the stick in hand. On approaching the representative of
St. Peter, ho excused himself, on account of the poorness
of his district, for not being able to make a better offer-
ing to his holiness than the stick in question. On
inspection
, not knowing
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Rome, andops, meeting
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(From Correspondents of the Anglo-American Times.)
PARIS, July 11.
The fate of Maximilian has thrown for the time
a shadolff on the brilliant atmosphere of Paris and
its festivities, though that it will be of no long dura-
tion is sufficiently manifested in the ordonnance for
the mourning of the Court, which will last for thirty
days, and be, for the first fifteen, what is called
deep mourning, for the remainder of the period of a
lighter character. The French press, as indeed also
that of the civilised world, is unanimous in its exe-
cration of the cowardly assassination, though I ob-
serve it abstains almost exclusively from consider-
ing the political bearing of the late Archduke's
connexion with Mexico. It is said, however, that
Maximilian, prepared for the worst, had made ar-
rangements for the publication, after his death, of
his history in connexion with the Mexican
Empire. It would be a loss of time to seek
to analyse the motives which have influenced
Juarez and his party in the commission of this
cruel and impolitic execution, or to search
for them further than in the well-known baseness,
cowardice, and revengeful character of the Mexi-
cans, but it is possible they may have remembered
in the case of the Emperor Augustus I. (Iturbide),
who was shot in a similar manner in 1824, that, sub-
jected only to the punishment of banishment on the
occasion of his first capture, that Prince returned a
second time to grasp at the visionary sceptre which
only allured him to his ruin. The policy of the
Americans in reference to Jefferson Davis bears a
marked and striking contrast to that of the Mexi-
cans in regard to the Emperor Maximilian. The
Republic of America, however, is great and real,
that of Mexico paltry and a sham. Whatever may
be the ulterior result of the Mexican anarchy, and I
think it extremely probable that it will be to fall
under the power and control of America, no nation
will recognise them, or lift a sword in their de-
fence. lam of opinion that such a subjugation
would be beneficial not only to themselves,
but to the interests of humanity in general.
lam not one of those who shrink with horror from
the idea that America will one day become, if in-
deed she be not already, the most powerful nation
in the world. I believe in fact that it is impossible
for events to fall out otherwise, but I do not for all
that believe in another invasion of the Huns, nor
that an American President will be found to play
the part of a modern Attila. I shall not, however,
pursue farther the consideration of a question which
has been so ably disposed of in your admirable lead-
ing article of last week. The affair of Berezowski
presents no additional features or discoveries, and
it is probable that the account given by the mono-
maniac is a true one. The Russian journals are
pressing strongly the advisability of the immediate
denationalisation of the Polish provinces of Lithua-
nia, Volhynia, White Russia, the Ukraine, &c., and
indeed it is difficult to see what wiser course can be
adopted. The day hs gone by when the na-
tionality of Poland could beprotected with effect, and
as in the case of Ireland in regard to Great Britain
the best protection that could be accorded at present
to the Poles would be a more complete participation
in the national privileges of the great empire, with
which even now they are almost blended and lost.
Germany still appears to regard with jealousy the
coquetting of Russia with the slave States, and it is
probable that no end of territorial disputes will
arise from time to time amongst her own petty
princes, who regard in each instance perhaps three-
fourths of their principalities as their own personal
heritage and property, whilst the fourth part ap-
pertains to the State. This position of affairs tends
to raise various knotty questions, of which it is not
at present easy to see the arrangements. What
is done, however, in the case of Nassau,
Electoral Hesse, and Hanover will probably
guide the course of precedence in other in-
stances, whilst the collective guarantee of the
Great Puissances will prove a safeguard against
endangering the peace of Europe. According to
the Paris journals his Highness the Sultan, who
appears to enjoy with great relish the manners and
customs of the unbelievers, has been particularly
struck with the excellence of two things in Paris,
its cuisine, and the universally excellent manner in
which not only the bourgeoisie, but even the lower
classes, are shod, especially as compared with his
owu subjects, who either wear papouches (slippers)
more or less dilapidated, or go entirely barefoot.
Whether the Padishah will import into Turkey a
cohort of French cooks and cobblers, or simply
content himself with administering the bastinado
to his own artistes on his return, I cannot say ; it
is evident, however, that either bedridden hussars'
recipe for cream tarts of pepper notoriety must have
been lost at Bagdad, or that the aforesaid tarts will
not bear comparison with the chefs d'auvre of the
chef of the Elysee.
It is a wonder to me that amongst all the various
so called guide books which have been published of
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fearsrtoiis are both excellent and abundant, and the meat
exposed for sale, in one butcher's shop especially, I
have never seen surpassed in quality, even in the
displays of England. A well-filled butcher's shop
is always an interesting object to most folks, but
one which is at the same time a work of art is some-
what of a curiosity. Figure to yourself a corner
establishment, extending each way some 200 yards,
the ceiling decorated in the highest style of art,
with double cornices of white and purple marble,
the walls composed of marble panels, the flooring of
encaustic tile in mosaic, the comptoir of white marble,
supported by gilded statues, and in the middle an
immense fountain of black marble, a statue of
Cupid filling the basin with water, from which,
under groups of water lilies, peep the noses of—
guess gentle reader—some dozen of huge prepared
calves' heads, and you have the outline of such a
butcher's shop as one does not see every day, and
one which is, in fact, unique even in Paris. But I
commenced with the view of giving the visitor some
hints as regards Paris. His first care is generally
his lodging, and if he should happen to be a student
not overburdened with the riches of this world, it
will be interesting to him to know that there is a
company in Paris who have at their disposal 20,000
apartments for natives of all countries, at a cost of
one franc per day ; the company may be inquired for
at all the railway stations around Paris, and the
name of the managing director is M. Jules
Conder, 19, Rue Royale, St. llonor6. So much
for hint the first, but as I cannot devote the
whole of my letter even to a subject so interest-
ing as that of a practical guide in Paris, 1
will resume it in my next by endeavouring to give
some outlines of how one may live inexpensively,
even in Paris, and during the period of the Exhi-

bition.
The Imperial Commission has announced a series
of concerts, or rather competition, on a gigantic
scale, no less than 4,000 executants being engaged
in the affair, which will take place on the 14th,
15th, 16th, and 21st, the last being devoted to an
international competition between the regimental
bands at present in or about to arrive at Paris for
that purpose.
Accounts from Rome state that it has of late been
filled to overflowing during the celebration of the
Papal Centenary by the peasantry of the neigh-
bouring districts. Pius IX. has received no less
than 501 dignitaries of the Catholic Church. his
Holiness, who is seventy-6ve years of age, never-
theless chanted the solo of the celebration hymn,
and it is said that his voice is so sonorous as to be
clearly distinguishable above all the others.
Amongst other divertissements of the Fetes, the
Prince de Boyhere revived the chariot races of the
ancients, though I am informed that the racing
lacked considerably the Homeric energy of former
ages. The Prince Imperial left Paris for Bagueres
ptiroenssoaccompanying him
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The Sultan left Paris on Thursday
last for Eng-
land. On the occasion of his visit to the hospital
des Invalides his Highness decorated with the
Turkish Order of the Medjidie the oldest soldier
present, who was summoned before him for that
purpofio, The Palace of the Elysee during

and the Grand Cordon of the Legion of
Honour. The Emperor wore his usual field-
marshal's attire, with the red and green cordon
of the Turkish Order. Amongst the staff [ noticed

the stay of the Commander of the Faithful,
with its crowds of Turkish officials, gave me
rather the idea of the Sultan's own Palace
at Constantinople slightly modernised—an effect
increased in a somewhat ludicrous manner by an
enterprising French tradesman, who opened a shop
directly for the sale of an immense number of red
fez, which he displayed upon wooden heads ; the re-
sult of his speculation, however, is beyond my
cognisance. The affiux of royal visitors to Paris
still continues. Among the late arrivals here have
been Prince Nicholas of Montenegro and the Grand
Duke of Saxe Weimar, the latter travelling under
the incognito of Count Letti. The King of Bavaria,
Louis the First, is expected shortly ; as also the
Queen cf Prussia. Her Majesty the Empress has
declined an invitation from Queen Victoria to
honour with her presence the naval review at Spit-
head to be given in honour of the Sultan, but it is
said she will pass a few days with her Majesty in
the privacy of Osborne. The death of the Emperor
Maximilian is, of course, the cause of the refusal.
I was much struck the other day, and I must add
also somewhat annoyed, to find that amongst the
names of exposants decorated on the occasion of the
distribution of the recompenses that of no one
Englishman is to be discovered. I learn, on inquiry,
however, that this is owing to the express demand
of the English Government, which does not wish its
citizens to be adorned with foreign decorations.
I think this proceeding somewhat arbitrary on the
part of the Government, which might, at least,
have left the matter to the discretion of those to
whom the honour might have been offered.
The Exposition has given rise to many amusing
incidents. At the Palace of Versailles the other
day two peasants were discussing the wonders
they had seen in Paris. " I shall never be able to
tell my wife all I have seen here," said one. " Bah !"
said the other in reply. " Nothing more simple. I
shall say to mine when I get back, 'Figure to yourself
paradise. C'est beau n'est ce pas? bien beau. Eh
bien,—the Exposition, Paris, Versailles, and what
I have seen is bien plus beau encore." If his wife,
thought I, will be satisfied with that definition she
won't be difficult to please, that's all. On another
occasion Mademoiselle Schneider, who takes so ad-
mirably the role of the Grand Duchess de Gerolstein,
in that amusing burlesque at the Theatre of the
Varieties, presented herself in her carriage at one of
the entrances to the Exposition sacred only to the
admission en voiturc of princes and princesses. This
was respectfully represented to the fair applicant.
" Place then," was the reply in the young actress's
most telling manner, " for I am the Grand Duchess
de Gerolstein." The guard was done for, and the
gate rolled upon its obedient hinges at once. The
Empress Eugenie herself at another time was not so
successful. Her Majesty, wishing to preserve an
incognito, presented herself at the door of the Expo-
sition of the Isthmus of Suez before the proper
time of its being thrown open to the public.
Entrance was refused by the doorkeeper. "But I
am a friend of M. de Lesseps," insisted her Ma-
jesty, who wished to preserve her incognito, if pos-
sible. " That's what they all say," replied the Cer-
berus with a laugh ; " everybody is a friend of the
directors, but you won't pass for all that." "If
I were to say that I am the Empress," said her
Majesty. " I shouldn't believe that either," returned
the imperturbable doorkeeper, and it was not
without considerable difficulty that her Majesty
could finally obtain an entrance. In spite of his
brusqueness, however, the Empress would not per-
mit the discharge of the too zealous servitor, who
will doubtless be more circumspect for the future
ere he again refuses the entrée to a friend of the
Baron de Lesseps.
The grand attraction at the present moment is
the International Regatta at the Basin of St. Cloud,
about seven miles from Paris, and perhaps the
most beautiful locality that could have been selected
for that purpose.
There are various, there are several methods of
reaching St. Cloud. The railway, the numerous
little steamers which flit up and down the Seine
like fire-flies, or the American horse railway, which
has been laid down in a parallel line with the river,
and which is traversed by immense omnibuses
drawn by three horses, and capable of containing
about forty passengers, a raised iron flange on the
wheels fitting into the railway sunk in the Boule-
vard. The whole route is one of the most
picturesque in France, and the park and palace of
St. Cloud thrown open to visitors on the occasion.
Amongst the most beautiful of the royal pleasure-
grounds, the playing of the fountains, forms one of
the principal attractions of the good people of
Paris, and albeit devoid of the natural grandeur
of the waterfalls of Scotland and Ireland—leaving
Niagara out of the question—there is yet great
artistic beauty in their fantastic arrangements. On
Sunday last the scene in the park was perfectly in-
describable--the concerts, the various military
bands, the ball by night, the illuminations, and the
immense crowd reflecting by the weird light of the
parti-coloured fires, the varied hues of a gigantic
tulip bed, made up an ensemble easier to be ima-
gined than described.
The prizes of the first two days' sport (French
boats and regulations) have been carried off by the
Paris Rowing Club.
On Monday the regattas were continued, but it
was evident that with the Sunday they had lost
their charm. The tribune, with its throne tent, was
but scantily filled ; the same might be said of the
three marquees placed side by side, and adorned
with the drapeaux of the various competing coun-
tries ; a long narrow pavilion facing the basin, and
over which, the French tricolor waved exclusively,
was equally deserted, and the little activity at all
manifested,was in thevicinityof the luncheon tent,over
which the English Union Jack waved conspicuously.
The honours of this day were reserved for the Cana-
dians, who carried off two prizes, a first and third of
the value of 3,000 and 1,000 francs respectively.
On Tuesday the scene of the regattas had sunk still
lower with the Parisians as an attraction ; and al-
though about two o'clock the Sultan and his suite
dashed over the long bridge in four large open car-
riages, drawn each by four horses, and conducted by
two postilions in the Imperial livery, his Highness
did not approach the scene of the aquatic fete.
It was probably his farewell visit to the Empe-
ror and Empress ere he left on Thursday.
The Turks, to the number of from 30 to 40, ap-
peared in the highest spirits, and it is probable that
no more picturesque excursion has been afforded his
Highness the Sultan, than a visit to St. Cloud. The
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cent park, with its huge clumps of trees cut in
squares, carpeted with bright green turf. The
fountains, its chief attraction, lie against the slope
of the hill, and descend from a double triumphal
' arch, surmounted by statues in a series of sloping
terraces and basins, ornamented with every variety
of grotesque monster in bronze, which produce the
effect so pleasing to the Parisians, viz., the spouting
of the waters. Towards the entrance of the park
a number of lilliputian shops and bazaars have
crept in, which add greatly to the accommodation
of visitors. Lower down the stream, and in a
green meadow by its margin, has been fixed the
head-quarters of the regatta. Whether, however, the
distance is too far for the Parisians, or whether
aquatic sports are not greatly to their taste,
certain it is that, the , as regards attendance,
Inter-
national Regattas have been a most complete
failure. The races f
121 Tuesday were most unin-
teresting, and the editor of Bell's Life present,
looked particularly out of his element ; however I
shall resume this matter again in the course of my
letter.

he Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Prince Napoleon, the

Sultan's young son, the Duke of Aoste, the Prince
de Montenegro, and a crowd of marshals and gene-
rals, amongst whom appeared several Arab chiefs.
On the evening of the same day the Sultan attended
a grand ball given in his honour at the Hotel de

Ville 7 • his Highness remained for forty minutes, and
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on retiring expressed his warmest thanks to the
Prefect of the Seine through the me lium of Fuad

Tach, shaking his hand repeatedly, as also that of

M. Blanche, secretary-general. For the benefit of

persons intending to visit Paris, I may mention

,hat the railway lines have determined to make re-
urn tickets available by ordinary trains, of course

within the period of time allowed by the billet.
One of the latest visits paid by the Sultan in
France was to the Military School of St. Cyr. The
Inspector-General, M. de Martimprey, and the
General Commandant of the School, M. de Gondre-
court, came from Versailles, at the head of the en-
tire section of cavalry, to receive and form the escort
of his Highness. The Sultan witnessed with great
satisfaction the various manoeuvres of infantry and
cavalry, which were executed in his presence, and
paid especial atttention to the mechanism of the
Fusil Chassepot, with which the Tirailleurs exercised
before him. During the Sultan's visit, which lasted
upwards of three hours, an incident occurred worthy
of mention. Amongst the officers of his Highness's
suite there happened to be a young man of Greek
origin, who had received his military education at

the school of St. Cyr. He demanded and received
permission to re-enter for the moment his ancient
battalion, where he was received with acclamations,
afterwards going through the various exercises in
company with his ancient comrades. The Sultan, who
expressed the highest satisfaction at his visit, as
well as at the high state of military perfection shown
by the school, made himself acquainted with the
minutest points of its management, decorating with
the Order of the Medjidie before his departure all
the Imperial officers and chiefs of the different
services. This week have been distributed at the
Palace of the Champs Elysees, under the imme-
diate presidency of the Emperor and Empress, the
recompences awarded to the different musical
societies who have come to Paris for the interna-
tional competition. Their Majesties were accom-
panied by the Princess Clotilde, the Princess Murat,
the Duchess de Mouchy, the Prince Abbe Bona-
parte, and the Princes Murat. The two grand
prizes have been decreed, the one for the Musical
Societies of France to the Imperial Society of Lille;
that for strangers, to the Tonic Sol-Fa Association
at London. The two crowns of gold were presented,
that to the leader of the Society of Lille by the Em-
press, the other by the Emperor to a young English
lady, conducted by R. Laurent de Rille, whose name
was not given. After the departure of the Sove-
reigns the remaining prizes were bestowed by their
Excellencies M. de Torcade Roquelle, Minister of
Commerce and Public Works ; Marshal Vaillant,
Minister of the Empress's Household ; and M.
Duruy, Minister of Public Instruction.
Amongst the Americans of note who attended
the dinner at the Grand Hotel to celebrate the
anniversary of American Inchendence were Go-
vernor Bartin, Pennsylvannia, Hon. S. B. Ruggles,
Elliot C. Cowdin and Frank Leslie, New York,
U.S. Commissioners to the Exhibition ; Rev. Dr.
Eldridge, Rector of the American Chapel ; Hon.
John W. Forney, M. Dockerty of Philadelphia, and
Judge Mason, Pennsylvania.
The Americans present at the Grand Masonic
Banquet were brethren William Marshall, P.
Wilder, Grand Lodge of Massachusetts ; Guild,
Cook, Hill, Usher, Forristall, and Cummings.
At the late reception given by Col. and Mrs.
Norton to the United States Commissioners were
present—the lion. Samuel B. Ruggles, President
Barnard, Professor Moore, Messrs. William
Cowdin, Freeze, Usher, Valentine, Professor Cleve-
land, Major Poussin, Mr. and Mrs. M'Cormick, Dr.
Temple, Dr. and Mrs. Stearns, Mrs. Tomlinson,
Mrs. and Miss Coyle, &c.

PARIS, 11th 'July, 1867
I have this week been requested to solve a pro•
blem, and to give a conscientious opinion on a poin
which I have frequently eluded, though, be it said,
fashion writers have consciences, and can divide
arguments into separate points, as they can discern
Malines point from Alencon. lam called upon to
give my appreciation of the moral influence of our
present fashions on society, and therefore state at the
very onset, that there is no morality in them at all.
Many may think this is a very superficial answer,
but I inquire " Why should our morals be dressed
up in the newest Paris styles? Why should they
be thrust into inconvenient fourreaux, where they
can find no more expansion than in umbrella cases?
which receptacles, by the way, are tighter fits for
that certain stiff kind of morality which so many
profess, than the fourreaux without sleeves which
are now worn on all occasions, and especially on
the 2d of July, at Baroness de Rothschild's dejeuner
au Chateau de Boulogne. Why again should the
bitter enemies of all vanity look for contrition out
of sackcloth, the very material made by nature
herself apparently for all uncomfortable purposes, of
which it may not be derogatory to say that repent-
ance is one. To be contrite in new Chambery
gauze, trimmed with satin roll and crystals, or to
practise compunction in a plain white muslin that
costs 1,700 francs, is almost as impossible to female
instinct as it hasbeen for Victorien Sardon to prove
that his comedies are improving French society.
It does not ensue from the above that light lite-
rature and fashionable pursuits are the leading clue I
to that distant region we have all heard of, and
which the tutors of our childhood affirm is situated
in the hottest part of the known world. My opinions
may be advanced, but I maintain that a moderate
respect for fashion renders home happy. Where is
the girl who does not love of all things the
Fred r) ndec
naai
pretty white Chinese foulard, which brother Fred
smuggled home for her on his return from India,
and which she always will wear looped up with
and blueno one
n(the a
nvery t
anotherlast n o v
likeel novelty in
t ? ais
wouldn't
in P
smuggling it back again, in order to escape the
heroic enthusiasm of his sister's approbation.
Where is the father who does not love to toss up
his last baby, chuckling, as mamma says, "like a
cherub," all in a cloud of white Valenciennes?
Mammas who have not studied Rubens fancy that
cherubim sing eternally in white lace.
Where is the husband who does not like to see
his bride in her new home seated in a boudoir fur-
nished h la Parisienne, and wrapped in a sultans
neglige of his own selection?
I do not mean that our Benoitin styles embellish
life, but life is embellished by subdued refinement
at home. If there are funds to be outlayed in the
furnishing of a house, elegance, art, and use com-
bined should be kept in view. For instance, I know
of a young couple whose honeymoon will long be
prolonged by judicious expenditure at home. The
boudoir has nut-wood furniture, covered with
medallions on blue ground ; the bed-room is papered
with lilac and roses on white, the same chintz to
match, and plenty of Swiss curtain hangings. A
purple drawing-room, with gilt wood, is carpeted
with purple violets, on green ground. the dining-
room, of old oak, is studded with steel rails.
Flowers, grasses, bronze, and crystal are the only
tolerated ornaments. " But women of taste are so
hollow," do I hear some readers argue, and really
there is some truth in the objection ; but many also
exist who are hollower still, and have no taste at all
—they are caverns in which roomy emptiness is
deposited.
The great complaint against Parisian ladies is
unfounded ; they are not all silly wives, glorying in
diamonds and cashmere.
How many with small means are fashionable and
profound economists, turning every thread to ac-
honour of count, defeating cracks in gloves, changing
On Tuesday, at four o'clock, in
the Sultan, the Emperor passed in review, at the old trimmings into new, perpetually bent on
unaccountable facility of making some-
ps
that
Champs Elysees, the troo of the Imperial Guard
A stain or a
thingpretty out of nothing.
with several
and the first corps of the army,
crease on an English lady s attire are beneath
battalions of cavalry and twenty batteries, making
her notice, but one
or either on the cheapest of
up a total of • from 45,000 to 50,000 men. At
dresses makes a Frenchwoman unutterably wretched.
half-past three the Emperor and his Imperial guest
Anything thatdestroys harmony or denotes care-
.thus it
made their appearance at the head of a bril-
lessness is considered ill taste, and us is mere
Haut staff. The
,Sultan, who was mounted on a
worthless combinations present a pleasing
.effect. A
beautiful grey Arab, wore a magnificent uniform
line has W be drawn, therefore, ere faflionft are
of blue, almost mend with -gold embroidery