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

Miscellaneous Foreign News.

(Front Correspondents of the Inylo-American Times.)
PARIS, June 13.
The bezutiful 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 Russias has just left Paris. one shade alone
obscuring the recollection of the magnificently hos-
pitable 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
and a little dust and ashes are all that remain
of o.rie of earth's greatest monarchs. Perhaps a
more magnificent and exciting spectacle was never
offered to human eye than that presented by the
brilliant soisliers 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 steadfastbelief in theprotectiou of that Pro-
vidence who holds the lives of monarchs in the hollow
of Isis 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,
he 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 rouble. 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 attempt 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
Matson 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 de Beast, 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 Pacha and Messieurs
Outrey and Lesseps, in the steam yacht the Mah-
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 esrecially 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 escort of the
Cent Gardes and Lancers prec,;ded 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 bad
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 Czar has been productive of
them. There is, at all events, a well-known axiom,
andi alteram parteni, and, as the Czar has shown
himself a brave fellow, we say, at all events, let him
have fair play. Besides we, ourselves, have had re-
cently too much to deplore, even in our own 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 asslssination a remedy for public or private woes
or wrongs. We congratulate cordially the Em-
peror on his escape, and we sincerely trust that the
interposition of Providence on his behalf will induce
him 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
he 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 Hotel de Vile. As we have so of ten, 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 Vile we noticed General Starring, United
State 9 Army; Colonel M'Clure ; Mrs. Bainbridge
Smith, New York ; Mi3s Vauce, Tennessee. Pre-
sent at the Tuileries were General Dix and family,
Hon. John Sherman, Col. and_blss. Norton, D4re.

Hewitt, of New Orleans; Mrs. Murray Smith, of
Alabama ; Hon. Fernando Wood, President Bar-
nard, Columbia College ; Hon. Samuel B. Ruggles ;
Col. Bowen, Chicago ; Frank Leslie, New York ;
M. Seymour, New York ; Hon. H. S. Sanford,
United States Minister ; Col. Heine, United States
Army ; Mrs. Bainbridge Smith, New York ; Miss
E. B. Vance, of Tennessee, &c., &c. _ _

The English charity-ball, given on Tuesday
night, at the Grand Hotel, for the benefit of the
poor of London, must not pass " unnoticed by,"
for it well deserves mention.
The two magnificent saloons of the hotel were
thrown open, and beautifully decorated with the
flag of England and lovely flowers, while a full
band of music was placed oa a raised platform at
the back part of the dancing hall.
At half-past nine o'clock the guests commenced
to arrive, and later, ou the entrance of Lord and
Lady Cowley, accompanied by the lady patronesses,
the band played " God save the Queen," all the
persons in the room standing during the perform-
ance. Among the distinguished persons present
may me mentioned Prince George, of Meck-
lenburg, Prince Achille Murat, Princess Ezen-
micheff, Lady Wellesley, Earl and Countess Cow-
ley, Earl of Brownlow, Lady 011iffe, Lord and
Lady 'llynne, Duke de Vallambrosa, Duke de
Praslin, The O'Gorman Mahon, and others.
There were present also quite a number of
American ladies and gentlemen. The belles of the
evening were two English and three Ameri-
can ladies. The two who carried the palm of
beauty among the English were, indeed, beautiful,
and the adoration which they received was most
certainly due. I ought not, being unable to give
their names, or sufficiently conversant with the
toilettes of the fairer sex, to attempt a description of
their mode of dress, which was such as to add
greatly to their charms. The three American ladies
who upheld the reputation of their country for
beauty were Mrs. Ronalds, of Boston ; Miss E. B.
Vance, of Memphis, Tennessee ; and Miss Carrie
Sims, of Alabama.

I remember well every graceful line of each dress,
and the tastefully selected colours, but my pen is
unequal to the description, and I will not detract
from the pleasant recollection by the attempt.
Other Americans present were—Dr. J. Marion
Sims, Dr. Pratt, Colonel Vance, Mrs. Pratt, Mrs.
Sims, Miss Sue Vance, Mrs. and Miss Hitchcock,
Mr. and Mrs. Myers, Mrs. Gowen, Miss Gowen,
Miss Carera, Miss Noble, and a few more, for
which we have not space. The ball was kept up
until four o'clock in the morning, and one and all
unite in pronouncing it a most delightful en-
tertainment.

ROME, May 27.
From the province of sculpture, where form is
all, entering that, where colour adds its beauties and

difficulties, let me begin with the studio of Mr. Free-
man, one of those longest resident at Rome, and
who is still busily adding to the products of his
pencil. I must pause to notice that his name is one
of several unreasonably omitted in Murray's hand-
book. That list is so inadequate as to demand re-
vision, which it is to be hoped it may receive. Mean-

while Americans who would know what their coon

trymen can show worthy of examination would do
well to consult the lists at the bankers or reading-

rooms rather than that of Murray. Artists whose
arrival is recent, and whose stay is uncertain, have
of course no expectation of mention in such a work,
but in the case of one who has been located here for
more than thirty years, an omission is equivalent to
condemnation, which his works certainly do not
deserve.

To return from this digression, I would refer to
the large picture of a Tuscan peasant gathering
grapes as a pleasing representation of one phase of
Italian life. The colouring is extremely brilliant ;
the face is perhaps not enough idealised, but is for
that reason more true to character ; it is that of
such a peasant as the traveller constantly sees.
The Marys at the Sepulchre, a picture well con-
ceived, but inferior in execution to the artist's best
manner, is now about to be sent to America.
Still in progress is a picture suggested by the
well-known passage in " Uncle Toby," " the accus-
ing spirit who flew up to heaven with the oath
blushed as he gave it in, and the recording angel
as he wrote it down dropped a tear upon the word
and blotted it out for ever." The painting promises
to realise singularly well the idea of a paragraph
with the feeling of which every one must be touched, 1
whatever criticism he may pass upon its theology.
The Savoyard Boy in London brings Italy and
Ireland into the edge of Cheapside. In the back-
ground the ever-rushing crowd, and the Cathedral
spire dimly seen through a London fog ; in front,
the Italian boy, his black locks drooping over his
ruddy face as his head reclines in profound slum-
ber, while a little Irish child, with the blond com-
plexion of the north, is seated on the pavement
watching the sleeper with timid pity and wonder ;
on the wall above are placards which appeared
there when the war in America, of which they tell,
was raging.

Still another unfinished picture of the Fisher-
man's Wife watching in the storm appears calcu-
lated to be very successful. The babe in the cradle
sleeps tranquilly while the storm rages with rising
fury. The hand of the mother just touches its form
with an instinctive care, while her looks and
thoughts are far away from the child and the
storm, striving to reach one little bark which bears
life's best hope.
But, in the judgment of the wrier, the finest
thing iu the studio, and a real gem, is a picture
called Young Italy. It is a painting of an Italian
child, so life-like that it must be a portrait, so
intellectual that it cannot be a real face just enough
idealised. Full of life and merriment, yet for the

moment abashed and shy, she shades her eyes with
one chubby hand in the attempt to execute the
difficult feat of seeing you without having seen her.
The complexion and costume are childish and
rational without being a whit exaggerated, and the
finish of the whole is very complete and consistent.
A large and fine picture of the Valley of Mexico,
displaying the mountain ranges and the city, which
are the house of the American " sick man," whose
complaint differs from that of his relative in Eu-
rope, in being of the frantic and delirious rather
than of the somnoles3ent type; a Sunset on the
Campagna, very rich in colouring, the higher clouds

perhaps a trifle herd ; a Harvest Scene, also on the
Campagna, full of bright light and life, and of the
expression of Italian customs and character cen-
turies behind the age ; a brilliant Vintage Scene ; a
group of Stone Pines in the Barberini Valley, fine
in perspectiie, and in what I must venture to term
silent colour, the light which sleeps, as it were, on
every object in a still summer noon ; Views out of
the Porta Salara and over the Lake of Abano adorn
the studio of Mr. Chapman.
Mr. Coleman has many fine views from different
parts of the Cornice Road, all careful studies and
satisfying expressions of colour, pictures which may
be seen often without being exhausted. To specify
one of many, the Mother and Child resting by the
sea, especially pleased me for its representation of
scenery, of national character, and of the realities
of human life and feeling.
In the same studio Mr. Butler, who has given
one arm #o his country, is engaged upon a Cam-
pagna Scene, where the genuine shepherd, true to
the fact, seems trying how long it is possible to live
without thinking, leaving the exercise of intellect
and the care of his charge to a most wide-awake,
important, and dangerous-looking dog, which keeps
watch at his side. It is to be hoped this may be
followed by many others, equally successful, from
the hand of the same artist.
Initial, w!lo has been but a few months at
Rome, has found that time long enough for very
many representations of Roman life, executed with
a rapidity which would seem impossible from a study
of the results. Most pleasing to the writer is one
christened " Sunny Thoughts," a sweet child lean-
ing from a window, with serious but happy thought
in her deep blue eyes, innocence and cheerfulness
in every line of her face, all according well with
the bright light which falls over the golden hair and
over the vine-leaves drooping from the easement
above.

Two views of the ruined theatre of Taurmena, in
Sicily, painted by Mr. Hotchkiss, afforded me much
pleasure. . _
The pictures are similar, without being identical.