The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-15 00:00:00

Napoleon 111, and the Parisians.

The Emperor has of late adopted a Haroun-al-
R•ischid sort of habit—i.e., of going about alone,
on
foot
or in a private
surroundings, brougham which is very
great sticklers
to
all his
for etiquette, and still more so to the Prefect of
is
distressing
Police, who objects—very naturally—to his Ma-
jesty going out unattended. The other morning,
says the Paris correspondent of the Standard, he
walked down the Tuileries, crossed the river, and
literally " beat up" the Foreign Minister, M. de
Moustier, who was surprised at the unexpected
honour paid him. His Majesty, however, was
bent on business ; the Turkish Ambassador was
summoned, and a long conference ensued, the re-
sult of which may possibly shortly appear in the
Moniteur.

On Wednesday their Majesties drove in an open
caleche through the Faubourg St. Antoine, and
were received with enthusiastic acclamations. On
the following day the Emperor and the Prince
Imperial drove out in a private carriage, and
visited the Imperial stables on the Quai d'Orsay.
His Majesty and the Prince afterwards walked
down the Avenue Rapp as far as the Champs de
Mars, where they again got into the carriage.
" His Majesty's health," we learn from the Pays,
" has greatly improved since his return from Com-
piegne, so that every day he attends to business for
some hours, and goes out daily either on foot or in
a private carriage, and although there is nothing
in his equipage to attract attention he is speedily
recognised, and receives the most respectful marks
of sympathy.

There is a rumour, according to the Salut Public
of Lyons, that M. Edmond About is to be made a
prefect.

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITIITION.—His
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has signified
his intention, through Gen. Knollya, to take the chair at
the forthcoming annual meeting of the Royal National,
Lifeboat Institution, which is expected to take place about
the latter part of the ensuing month. The Prince and
Princess of Wales have always manifested considerable
interest in the great and national work of the Lifeboat
Institution. On the first arrival of the Princess in her
Majesty's yacht, in Margate Roads, the lifeboat of the in-
stitution on that station gave her royal highness the
earliest welcome to the shores of England. Again, the
Manchester branch of the institution, on the representa-
tion of the Rev. E. Hewlett and R. Whitworth, Esq., re-
ceived permission from his royal highness to name ono of
their nine boats the Albert Victor, after his eldest son.
Since then that lifeboat has contributed to the saving of
31 shipwrecked persons. The city of Bristol, through
Admiral Tryon, about three years ago, presented to the
institution the cost of a lifeboat, and decided to name it
the Albert Edward, after the Prince of Wales. The life-
boat was stationed at Padstow, on the coast of Cornwall.
'rho following winter, during a fearful midnight storm,
the Albert Edward, was happily the means of saving,
under Providence, 17 poor fellows from an inevitable
death from the barque Juliet, of Greenock. Her Majesty
the Queen is also a warm friend of the institution, and
sends it every year a subscription of £5O. Thus
this great and philanthropic society, which last year con-
tributed to thu saving of nearly 900 lives from a watery
grave, receives the support and sympathy of all classes of
the community, and is thereby enabled to accomplish suc-
cessfully and energetically, the national work it has un-
latali:n to do on behalf of our shipwrookod sailors.