The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-03 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Sunday Evening.
There was a Cabinet Council yesterday at the
Tuileries, at which the Emperor presided. The
Empress also was present.
The Moniteur states, but not in its official part,
that the exchange of the ratifications of the treaty
regulating the situation of the Grand Duchy of
Luxemburg took place in London on Friday.
Princess Marie, Infanta of Portugal, the wife of
Prince George of Saxony, has been happily delivered
of a daughter.
The last bulletin of the physicians in attendance

upon the Archduchess Maria, of Austria, is very
satisfactory.
The Prussian Chamber of Deputies has agreed to
the second reading of the bill for the Federal Con-

stitution by 227 against 93. The Progressive party
again proposed a resolution for the rejection of that
Constitution. The orators of the Liberal party
supported it.

The Parisians were in a state of unusual excite-
ment yesterday in consequence of the arrival of the
Emperor Alexander. Even the Exhibition was de-
serted for the moment, and every body rushed to
the Northern Railway station. PI Worms were
erected within the station for the accommodation
of many hundreds of persons. The 2d batt Ilion of

Foot Chasseurs and the 4th and 15th Regiments of
the Line, under the orders of Gen. Soumain, were
either within the station or formed in line as far as
the boulevard de Strasbourg. The Emperor was in
waiting to receive his guest, and immediately on
the arrival of the Emperor of Russia they got into
a State carriage, which was in waiting, and pro-
ceeded to the Tuileries together, escorted by a squad-
ron of Lancers. Twelve carriages were provided
for the Emperor's suite. The Emperor Alexander

11. reached the station, which was beautifully
ornamented on the occasion, within a few
minutes of the hour appointed. His recep-

tion there and everywhere upon the route
was one of wild and heartfelt enthusiasm. He
is accompanied by his sons, the Czarewitch, or
Hereditary Prince Alexander, the Prince Wladimir,
and M. de Gortschakoff, his First Minister. The
Emperor was born on the 20th of April, 1818, and
is consequently 49. He succeedel his father, the
Emperor Nicholas 1., on the 2d of March, 1855.
He was married on the 28th April, 1811, to the
Empress Marie Alexandrowna, born on the 2d of
August, 1824, daughter of Louis the Second, Grand
Duke of llesse Darmstadt. On arriving at the
Tuileries the Emperor paid a visit to the Empress,
and the Royal party and suite then proceeded to the
Elysee Bourbon, which has been prepared for their
reception. At every point on the way the crowd

was very great, and the cheering loud and incessant.
the procession went along the Rue de Rivoli, and
from thence passed through the Avenue des Champs
Elysees and the Avenue Marigny.

Among the ornaments of the station were Rus-
sian and French flags. The saloons were tastefully
decorated with green velvet embroidered with gold.
Some 3,000 persons were accommodated.
Baron Andre du Budbcrg, Ambassador Extraor-
dinary and Plenipotentiary from the Court of
Russia to Paris, went to Verriers (Belgium) to meet
the Emperor. The imperial train was driven from
the French frontiers to Paris by M. Petiet, chief
engineer of the Northern Railway. The Emperor
Napoleon was accompanied to the station by the
Ministers, Marshals of France, and a splendid staff.

The chief officers of his household were also present

to do honour to the arrival of the distinguished
guest. Splendid weather added to the eclat of this
great incident.
It is now a century and a half ago, in 1717, since
the Sovereign, who is considered as the founder
of the Russian Empire, visited Paris. The Regent
of France received Peter the Great with all honour
and courtesy. The latter was then in full vigour,
being 45. He remained in Paris fOr several
months, having arrived in May and did not leaTe
till August. While in Paris the Emperor seemed
to wish to study everything, particularly matters
relating to the army. His first visit was to see the
old wounded warriors of Louis the 14th. He went
to the invalids the next day after his arrival. The
old warriors now in that establishment must often
amuse themselves with anecdotes which tradition
has transmitted relative to his visit. *He went into
the dining room while the soldiers were having
their dinner, chatted and ate and drank with them
in the most courteous and affable tretnncr. Before
leaving the Emperor filled a tin goblet with wine,
and drank to the health of the soldiers, an act
which elicited the most enthusiastic applause.
The Emperor afterwards paid several other visits
to the invalidA, an example which has been fol-
lowed by most of the monarchs who have since
come to Paris.

A strange story is told about a pike, which seems
very like a whale. It is recorded in the Leinan,
a newspaper of Thonons, a fisherman there had a
small boat built, which is towed with great docility
by an enormous pike, which, however, occasionally
takes a few leaps and plunges during his progress.
The pike is enclosed in a net fixed by a rope to the
head of the boat, which he tows at a dashing pace,
the course being governed with accuracy by the
helm, so that tt.e fis:i cannot deviate from it. The
writer of this paragraph about the fish admits that
it has a:spice of the duck (a canard) about it.
Although the thirsty souls a; the exhibition have