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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 17, 1858.

on a capital charge, or on one involving penal servi-
tude for a protracted term. Bail may be refused
unless he has the means of applying to a judge in
chambers—a costly proceeding, which few of the class
implicated can sustain. He may then, even lefore trial,
endure a punishment more severe than would be
adjudged after conviction ; besides, his name, fame,
and reputation will be permanently damaged. The
0( 71oXXot will be satisfied with his committal, and,
with the usual charity displayed towards unfortunate
parties, will assume that the charge was well-founded ;
while policemen, who generally manifest a quick and
technical sense of guilt, will, in the event of his
being again in trouble, assure his Worship that the
prisoner had been charged with felony, and ac-
quitted "on a point of law"—thus creating the
~;reatzst odium against an innocent man, and raising
in unine prejudice where there should be nothing
of the kind.

Criminal laws are established not so much for the
punishment, or even the reformation of the guilty,
but for the protection and security of the innocent.
Where the guilty man escapes with comparatively
trivial inconvenience, the law has done no good, but
it has done no harm. It has failed iu its intended
object, and that is all. But this could
scarcely be said in the case of a misde-
meanour, rendering a party liable to two or
three years' imprisonment, with hard labour. If his
offence were really serious, the judge could award a
heavy penalty that might be regarded as an adcquate
expiation in almost any case. The committal for

misdemeanour, in even a doubtful case, could scarcely
be wrong. But, on the other hand, when either an
innocent man is unjustly convicted, or a party respon-
•4ible for a trifling offence subjected to an undue
punishment, it does the very thing it was intended to
avert. It is the scourge of the innocent, a terror
riot merely to evil-doers, but to others of unblemished

reputation, and it lessens the odium attached to real
crime, when it is seen how lightly persons who have
done nothing to forfeit the sympathies of their fel-
low-men, may be inculpated through the blunders of
chick-headed J. P.'s.
Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK is entitled to the thanks
and gratitude of the community for the sound and
wholesome advice which he tendered to the provin-

cial DOGBERRYS. He has given unexceptionable
evidence as to the necessity for the appointment of
public prosecutors, duly qualified to ascertain the
real nature and extent of any charge that may be
preferred, and who will at the same time protect
the rate-payers against undue charges, and her MA-
JESTY'S subjects from frivolous and unfounded accusa-
tions, involving great annoyance and inconvenience

in the first instance, and too frequently, permanently
ruining the prospects of the party who has had the
misfortune of being brought before an ignorant or
conceited magistrate. The question is well worthy
of the consideration of the law officers of the CROWN,
and should the Attorney-General provide a suitable

remedy, he will materially add to the well-merited
reputation as a legal reformer which he has already
so deservedly attained.

The Dramatic College has a fair prospect of more
than realizing, and that very speedily, the hopes of
its generous originator. By a graceful act of Royal
munificence, her MAJESTY, in the midst of her holi-

day rambles in Germany, could spare a kindly
thought for the benevolent enterprise—intimating
her pleasure to be the Patroness of the Institution,
and forwarding from Potsdam one hundred guineas
as her first donation. Meanwhile, the members of
the profession the project is designed to benefit, have
not merely evinced a readiness to co-operate, but
have evidenced an energy in co-operation such as
augurs happily for the growth and development
of the genial idea which first suggested itself to Mr.
HENRY DODD in the present, as its very fellow had
done to My. EDWARD ALLEYNE in a former, genera-
tion.

It will be remembered by all those who have taken
any interest whatever in the undertaking, that it
may be said to have virtually commenced, as it were,
but yesterday. Nevertheless, already the subscrip-
tions actually collected amount in their aggregate
value to £4,330 sterling. Beyond which the
promoters of the Dramatic College have
assurance of a yearly income of £216 in the
annual contributions even now guaranted. The
managers especially have been bestirring themselves.
Mr. KEAN and Mr. SAINTON have each of them
promised houses. There is the prospect before us
of a series of benefits at four popular theatres—the
Olympic, the Surrey, the Adelphi, and the City of
London. Stone for the facing of the hall and the
houses, stone for the projected schools, has been
promised, moreover, by that excellent actor,
manager, and gentleman, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Even
the Italian singers have swelled the lists of sub-
scription. Individual benefactors not belonging to the
profession—amateurs, influenced by a fellow-feeling,
have come forward, each with thebenignant thought of
some kindly presentation—a clock, a cup of comfort,
some homely gift or some generous luxury. At this
rate the Dramatic College will soon be in a flourishing
condition. May it prove so; may our hopes in its
regard to the full be realised.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.

TO TLIE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—I have the pleasure to inform you that the

line from Valentia to Newfoundland is now working
satisfactorily both ways. The following message was
despatched yesterday evening from the Directors in
England to the Directors in America :—" Europe
and America are united by telegraph. Glory to God
in the Highest; on earth peace, goodwill towards
men." This message, including the addresses of
senders and receivers, occupied 35 minutes in trans-
mi,sion, and consisted of 31 words. Immediately
afterwards a message from her Majesty the Queen
to his Excellency the President of the United States,
consisting of 99 words, was received by Newfound-
land in 67 minutes. Both messages were repeated
back to Valentia to test their accuracy, and were
found to have been taken with great exactness. Of
course, unless permission were given, the contents of
her Majesty's despatch cannot he made public,
This morning we have the following message, the
last 38 words of which were received in 22 minutes
from Mr. Cyrus W. Field, who is at Newfound-
land :

" Cyrus W. Field, Newfoundland, to Directors
Atlantic Telegraph Company, London.—Newfound-
land, Monday.—Entered Trinity Bay, noon of the
sth. Landed cable on the 6th. On Thursday morn-
ing ship at once to St. John's. Two miles of shore

cable, with end ready for splicing.
" When was cable landed at Valentia ? Answer
by telegraph and forward by letters to New York."
It will thus be seen that the line is now capable of
being worked with perfect accuracy, and the com-
pany will now proceed, as rapidly as is consistent
with the establishment of a proper system, to make
the necessary arrangements for opening the com-
munication to the public, in doing which, however,
some delay must necessarily occur.
Yours truly,
GEORGE SAWARD, Secretary and Manager.
Chief-office, 22, Old Broad-street, London.

THE IMPERIAL PROGRESS IN

FRANCE.

LORIENT, AUGUST 14.

I have not, until to-day, been able to renew my
correspondence describing the fetes in honour of the
Emperor, which I had concluded at Cherbourg,. in
the hope I should resume it at Quimper. This I
found to be impossible. On my way from Rennes
an unlooked-for interruption occurred, which I shall
describe more fully at the conclusion of this letter.
The Emperor and Empress arrived yesterday
evening at Lorient from Quimper.
From one of the most ancient towns in this land of
antiquities and traditions they, reached Lorient, the
most modern, I believe, of ale" cities of Europe.
Lorient is a place without a name 'in mediaeval geo-
graphy. Martiniere, the most ponderous, and (it may
be added) the most precise of all writers on such
matters, knew little or nothing of this place. It was
created for the East India Company of France—
flourished when the affairs of that association were
thriving, and it has dwindled away as the Company
declined in wealth, commerce, and influence.
Through its own port—Port-Louis—trade was car-
ried on, shipping despatched, and the productions of
China and India imported into France. The conse-
quence of this change in its condition is to impart to
Lorient a very peculiar aspect. It is like the poor
descendant of rich and highly respectable ancestors.
It retains all the outward show of former greatness
—has still a very new appearance, but has a sad, de-
serted look, ag if the means whereby it had once
prospered had utterly vanished. The houses are
richer than their inhabitants, and both are ill-asso-
ciated together. The quays are very fine, but there
is nothing doing on them. The custom-house is good,
but the revenue officers sit with their hands in their
pockets. The streets are splendid, the squares mag-
nificent; but they seem to have got into the posses-
sion of persons who had no right to them, and who
were, from want of funds, unable to retain them or to
leave them. Lorient has, plainly and unmistakeably,
gone down in the world; and if the,Emperor Napoleon
111. can impart new life to its trade, render to its port the
importance that should belong to it as one of the five
great harbours of France; if he can entice foreigners
to import, and restsre to Lorient that traffic for
which it is, by position, perfectly well suited, then a
miracle will be achieved by him quite equal to any-
thing yet accomplished since, as ruler of France, he
has devoted his energies to the welfare of the people
and the prosperity of the nation.
No doubt, the Emperor has come here to see what
can be done ; and the manner in which he was re-
ceived by the inhabitants of the city, and the popu-
lation of the rural departments, was such as could
not fail to make a lasting impression upon his mind,
and to give an impulse to the desire he must enter-
' tain to promote their interests.

All the city of Lorient—every house in each of its
well-arranged streets—was decorated in one way or
another to welcome the Emperor and Empress. Some
hung the tricolour flags from their windows, others
had their houses decorated with wreaths of flowers,
and all contributed to the erection of triumphal
arches.

In the programme which was published setting
forth the manner in which the Emperor was to be
received in this city, certain regulations were laid
down, and which, I may observe, were strictly ad-
hered to. I refer now to them so that you may at
once learn what occurred within the municipal pre-
cincts of Lorient.

At a quarter past four o'clock their Majesties were
received at a triumphal arch, a very beautiful object
erected at the entrance to the town—dividing the
high road from a shady avenue of trees whic'i led
up to the first gatt.. of the fortifications surrounding
the city. It was under this arch that the sous-
Prefect and the Maire, at the head of the Municipal
Council, presented to the Emperor the keys of the
city.

Between this triumphal arch and the outermost
reural fortifications
deputations,
arranged
lineb barrier
oi ef the r of t hsoldiers
doublenn d
sailors of the Empire, bearing their St. Helena
medals, the pompiers, the douaniers, the scholars of
the college, and the children of the commercial
.chools. Here was gathered together a most extra-
ordinary and interesting collection of persons—here
were the fishermen, sailors, and peasants of Gostel,
of Quever, of Clequet, and Pontocorff; and never
were more strange figures looked upon, nor more
(nitre habiliments beheld. All were in holiday
garb,
and such a garb ! The old and the young men wearinc,
low, round crowned hats, with brims varying in breadth
from six to nine inches—all with their long, lank hair
hanging down at least half a foot on their backs.
Their coats with the gloss of newness upon them,
and yet in cut and form more quizzical, quaint, and
old-world-like than anything one can suppose to
hare been worn by the illustrious Rip Van Winkle,
when lie was in all the fervour of his primal
juvenility. To have an idea of these strange coats
and bow they fitted the wearers, one must suppose
that each had got a little boy's jacket on him, and
that he had widened the sleeves without lengthening
them ; and then that he had joined the skirts of a
man'ss coat to the body of the boy's jacket. The
effect pro'luced was, that each appeared to have on
him something that did not belong to him—the
hands and wrists of all being bare, and the waists of
each behind appearing to begin on the broad of the
back. To impart additional lustre to such coats,
some were covered with three rows of buttons—
bright brass buttons, or snow-white broad plasters
' of mother-of-pearl—some had insertions of red cloth
cut in triangular form running 'round the border, or
inserted at the waist ; and beneath this was worn
either a little vest, or the white
shirt, without any
other covering, was exposed. Around the waists of
most were scarfs of different colours, some of mere
check, others of green, others of orange, whilst the
trousers of all were singular specimens of the tailor-

ing art—for they were wide as if they had been mad.
for giants, and in length only intended for middle.
sized men—some reached no farther than the calf f

he leg—few descended so low as to be within an inch

of theaukle. Amid these curious costumes there were

some that appeared to be a most extraordinary com-
bination; for you could not tell whether the wearer
was a sailor or a farmer, as, in addition to the in-

variable broad-bi unwed hat, broader tiban any eve,
yet worn by a Quaker in England (except by a

play-actor personating a Quaker), there was the blue
wide jacket of a mariner, and underneath the tight
white-cord knee breeches,black stockings, and heavy

shoes of an agriculturalist. Amid this curious col-

ction of Alorbihan dresses, it was, however, a spec-

acle as interesting as it was unexpeeted to observt

hat many bore Upon their breasts the medals of

Queen Victoria, they having been soldiers who had
distinguished themselves by their valour in thf•
Crimea, or had, as sailors, been engaged with tin

English fleet in the Baltic; and now reappeared in
their native costume, joining with their fellow-
villagers in the demonstration of devotion and at-
tachment to the Emperor.
Wext to these in position were the scholars of the
college, in their handsome blue and gold uniform,
and headed by their grave professors. On a line with
them, on one side, shaded by the high um-
brageous trees, were the boys of the Christian Bro-
thers' communal schools ; and opposite to them little
girls, in hundreds, watched over by that order of
nuns which is known in this department by the de-
' signation of " Sisters of Providence"—all, boys and
girls, well-clad, and from their looks plainly well-
fed ; and all enjoying, as children only can enjoy it,
an entire day devoted to amusement.
Through these primitive and truly happy-looking
groups of peasants, scholars, and children, carrying
banners of the most gorgeous colours, green, pink,
blue, and orange, the Emperor and Empress passed
the outermost barrier of the fortifications, on the
glacis of which the troops of the garrison were
drawn up.

It was here, and only here, that the line was kept
by the troops. Outside the barriers the people them-
selves had managed everything, and maintained due '
order ; but from the barrier to the Marine Imperial,
the mansion assigned fbr the residence of their
Majesties, the streets were lined by soldiers.
At the first barrier the commandant of the garri-
son, accompanied by his staff, presented the keys to
the Emperor. At the city gate their Majesties were
received and welcomed to Lorient by the Maritime
Prefect, accompanied by the heads of the marine and
the captains of ships ; and then, the instant the Em-
peror had passed the gate, and was within
the city, the joy-bells of all the churches began
ringing, and loud discharges of artillery were for the
first time heard.
The gate by which the Emperor entered runs in a
straight line up to the church of St. Louis. The
street through which it passes is galled the Rue de
Morbihan, and as it is about half the length of the
Strand, in London, and the ground rises by a gra-
dual ascent to the church, and as every house was
decorated with banners or adorned with flowers, and
every window and standing-place filled with joyous
spectators, to whom this day was an epoch in their
lives, so unaccustomed are they to public spectacles,
it may well be surmised how•magnificent was the
coup d'ced presented to the view of their Majesties, espe-
cially when with it was united the fact of those exhi•
lirating acclamations that rang around them, and
assured them that this part of France, which boasts
of being "more Breton than the Bretons them-
selves," was giving to them their loyalty and their
love ; their devotion, and that unflinching determi-
nation which had won for their ancestors the charac-
ter of resolute, dogged, unassailable, unimpression-
able, and unswerving obstinacy.
Upon reaching the church of St. Louis, their Ma-
jesties were received by the rector and clergy of the
parish, in their full canonicals, and by them led
within the rails of the sanctuary, where had been
erected, on that which is called "the Epistle side of
the Altar," a splendid canopy, covered with gold
and velvet, and having two throne-like chairs of
I crimson velvet and gold, and in front two magnifi-
i cent prie dieux, composed of white satin and massive
gold embroidery. There, whilst prayers were say-
ing, and the hymn Fac Saloum Imperatorem was
sung, the Empress was observed, as she was kneeling
to cover her face with her hands, as if shaken with
some strong emotion.

At the conclusion of prayers the imperial cortege
passed the Place Bisson, where is erected a statue to
the naval hero of Morbihan, who set fire to his vessel,
and so destroyed himself and his companions sooner
than yield himself and them prisoners of war to the
Mahomedans. From the Place Bisson the cortege
next passed through the Cours de la Bove and the
Rue du Port, and so arrived at their residence, for
the moment, the Prefecture Maritime.
On arriving the Empress was complimented by
young ladies of the first distinction in the depart-
ment, by offering to her a basket of flowers; and
then took place the presentation of the wives and
daughters of the principal functionaries to her
Majesty.
At five o'clock the Emperor received the principal
authorities of the town, religious, civil, maritime, and
military ; and at half-past seven his Majesty enter-
tained at dinner the heads of the various depart-
ments, both in the city and the harbour.
an account of the reception
of Ihave thus g
the Emperorn
and of the entire day's
h;en Lyooruient,
proceedings ; but previous to their occurrence I was
an eye-witness to something which was not in ac-
cordance with the official programme, and had not
been deemed even worthy of the slightest notice in
that document. It was the manner in which their
Majesties were welcomed into the village or hamlet
of licentreck.
The village of Kcentreck is about a mile or a
mile and a half distant from the city of Lorient,
and, judging of its prosperity by its new and splendid
church of St. Christopher, in stone as white as
marble, and decorated with several beautiful statues,
it seems to be as thriving as the city, of which it is a
suburb, seems to be the very reverse..
At this place there was erected (as in every village
I passed through) a triumphal arch. On that of
Kcentreck were these few words—" Les babitans de
Kcentreck a leur Majest6s Imperiales." Here there
was not the appearance of a single soldier or germs
d'arme, and here so admirable was the order, and so
cordial the spirit of the people, that the line was per-
fectly preserved, and a wide space in front of the
church maintained. In that space were collected
(for the purpose of forming a little procession, and
the parish priest having the opportunity of speaking
a word to the Emperor) about 20 young girls, from
seven to 14 years of age, all dressed in white, and
the younger amongst them wearing wreaths of
flowers around their hair. These children had two
standards with them—one a cross, composed of white
roses, and the other with a banner bearing the image
of " Our Lady of La Salette."
- - -

The moment the escort of their Majesties was
seen, the bells rung forth a clamorous peal of joy,
and at the same instant the Hussars in front, who
were riding at a rapid pace, halted, then walked their
horses slowly ; and when the Emperor's carriage
came opposite to the group I have described, he
beckoned them to advance, and at the same instant
the escort behind, as before, left the Imperial car-
riage, and then, with the group of maidens, came for-
ward the rector in full vestments, and the priests in
white surplices. The Emperor was wholly and com-
pletely in the midst of the people. I could not hear
what was said either by the Emperor or the rector ;
but this, I must own, appeared to me a still more
interesting scene than any I had yet witnessed,
for there were the Sovereign and the people
together—both manifestly greatly delighted with
each other. For full four minutes they were thus
united—with the troops in front and rear away from
them, and with the carriage at last on all sides sur-
rounded by the multitude shouting, with all their
heart and soul, the phrases which, in describing their

Foes, may now be stereotyped—" Vive l'Empereur,"
' Vive l'lmperatrice," " \rive le Prince Imperial."
Here were the pure Bretons—every man of them
a peasant tilling the ground, or living by his inces-
sant toil as a fisherman, and exhibiting in their
tumultuous joy the proof that he who was now
mionn.st them—one of themselves—was not only
idepted from the love that was ly,Tne to his great
predecessor, but that he had himself proved worthy
)f their choice, and now fittingly occupied the posi-
riot' to which their voices had elevated him :

Nobility claimed by the right of blood,
Shows chid-1y that our ancestors deserv'd
What we inherit ; but that man whose actions
Purchase a real merit to himself,
And ranks him in the file of prais e and honour,
Creates his own advancement."

In all the incidents of these files that I have, as
yet, witnessed, there was not one that struck me as
showing more completely how the Emperor Napo-
leon 111. has won for himself, by his own acts, his
own merits, and his own policy, a permanent hold on
the hearts of the people.

During the entire of this day their Majesties have
been engaged in making a tour of the city—the Em-
press visiting the various schools and hospitals of
children and females. They subsequently went out
to Port Louis to see the launching of a vessel, the
Calvados, and in the evening attended a grand ball,
given in a building erected in the Place Napoleon,
and capable of containing, as I am told, 1,800 per-

iODS.
The proceedings of to-day I can thus but briefly
notice, as it was an utter impossibility for me to wit-
ness them, I have been so harassed and annoyed by
the blundering, the stupidity, and pettifogging malig-
nity of' the police authorities.
It is not an agreeable matter to have to attend to
one's self in a letter which should be devoted to
other more important and interesting topics; but in
this case the necessity devolves upon me to do so,
as I have been prevented from discharging the duty
I undertook to perform for the Morning Post.
It is, I think, one of the many profound and saga-
cious observation that are attributed to that great
genius, the father of " Tristram Shandy," that a
man's Christian name is calculated to have consider-
able influence upon his progress through life. Within
the last two days I have had some bitter experience
of the justice of that observation. My godfathers
and godmothers being very pious Christians, selected
as one of the most fitting baptismal appellations to
bestow upon me, one which is also that of a truly
illustrious saint who took an active part at a certain time
in promoting one of the Crusades of Christendom
against the ferocious, unbelieving, and persecuting
Turks. Unhappily for me, this good Christian name
has of
.late years become a very bad sirname, and
amongst others it is borne by one of the persons who
at a certain time was more than suspected of having
had a preliminary knowledge of the truly infamous
and detestable Orsini-attempt upon the life of the
Emperor.
That name was, amongst others, in my passport,
when I reached Auray in the diligence, on my way
from Rennes to this place. The moment the gens
d'arme saw that terrible name, he picked a hole in
the document, as not being en re; le, and I was at
once taken, bag and baggage, before the Juge de
Paix, of whom it may be said that it would be a very
bad translation to say that his title was equivalent
with that of "justice of the peace." A more obsti-
nate, self-opinionated, pig-headed old gentleman it
was never before my misfortune to encounter. He
insisted that the second of my Christian names was
my sirname, and that my sirname was something in
English which he could not understand ; but that,
he was sure was intended to disguise some great
wickedness or another, of which he had the very
worst opinion, because it was to him absolutely in-
comprehensible. It was in vain I showed him docu-
ments proving myself to be a correspondent of the
Morning Fost, that' I referred him to names and
circumstances to testify to my identity. With this
old gentleman every additional fact was nothing more
nor less than part of a well-arranged scheme, and,
instead of enlightening him as to my innocence of all
plots and plotters, was but a new corroboration of his
own unjust suspicions. The only favour he would
concede to me was to be permitted at my own ex-
pense (instead of tramping on the road the next day
or the day after that, carrying my own cloak and
carpet-bag a distance of some seven or eight leagues
from Auray to Lorient), to go in a voiture, guarded
by two gen-d'armes. Accordingly, having paid 25
francs for a voiture, and 16 francs for the two gen-
d'armes, I was removed, after a custody of nearly
four hours in the police prison, to the voiture ; and
at the end of a journey of five hours conducted be-
fore the Procureur Imperiale—a middle-aged, testy,
saucy-looking personage, who was in such a hurry,
and in such a state of excitement at that second un-
happy name in my passport, that he would scarcely
listen to any explanation on my part, he acting all
through this brief interview on the grand discovery
he had himself made out of his own head, that I was
as much a Frenchman as himself, and, if I liked it,
could speak French with the same accent—that, in
short, I was not, and could not have any claim to be
called a British subject. He condescended to take
two documents from me, and said he would see the
British Consul—who, by the way, is not an English-
man, but a Frenchman—that if he could see him
he would return in an hour, and
-•that if not, I must
remain a prisoner for the night.
And a prisoner for the night I did remain in the
Maison d Arret. Of my treatment there I make no
complaint, for I was put into a clean, tidy room, and
was served with everything I required ; so that I can
say, from my experience both of the police gaol at
Auray and of the prison at Lorient, that if all other
places of incarceration resemble them, they reflect
very great credit on the French authorities.
For full twenty-four hours I was kept a close
prisoner—se; close, that in the police-office I was
refused the use of pen and ink ; and in the prison,
though allowed to write as much as I liked, I could
not despatch a letter without the certain conviction
that every line would be read by the Procureur
Imperiale, and it would depend upon his pleasure
whether or not what I had written should pass
through the Post-office.
At the end of the 24 hours my complacent and
truly good-natured gaoler came up to my room to
inform me he had received an order for my release ;
but to myself directly there was sent not one word
of explanation from the Procureur Imperiale. I
thought, and still think, that the liberty of a British
subject is a matter of some little consequence, and
that it should not be lightly interfered with, and
therefore that he who had deprived me of it unne-
cessarily, as was proved by his putting an end to my
duresse, was bound to say something in the way of
explanation or apology. Such, however, is not the
Procureur Imperiale's notions of duty or courtesy.
Ile put me into a prison, and he let me out again,
acid there he let the affair rest.
Whilst in prison, I amused my leisure hours by
writing, amongst other things, a protest, which I
ntended to read in presence of the Procureur Im-
periale. That protest I delivered to the British
Consul, he fixing 11 o'clock to-day to see me, and
speak with me abo it it ; but although I have called
tour times at his bureau during the day, I have
never been able to see him. Let me again remark,
the " British" Consul in Lorient is not a British sub-
ject.
But let it not be supposed that with my arrest and
my imprisonment my troubles are at an end. Wish-
ing to engage a place in some voiture or diligence
to-morrow to give an account of the proceedings
both at Auray and Vannes, I knew it was necessary
to provide myself again with my passport. I there-
fore called upon the Procureur Imperiale who had
taken it from me, and he sent me to look for it from
the Pulize Commissioner, who gave it back to me
with the document verifying that I was the bearer
of it. He restored me my passport, but refused to
vise it, so as to give me permission to travel ; and
his refusal he placed upon two grounds—first, that
the seal impressed upon it was not a seal in wax or
in ink—that it was an engraved coat of arms (such, in

fact, as are on all Lord Malmesbury's passports);
and next, that it was a passport one fortnight old !
that it was dated the Ist August, 1857, and should
have teen renewed on the Ist Au ,gust, 1858; and
that, in short, without my passport being used here,
and he would not vise it, or without my getting a
passport somewhere else, I could not leave Lorient
at all ! He was kind enough to suggest Dunkirk,
where I got this unlucky passport originally from

the late Consul, Mt.. Kerr, and fo: which I was
never before asked until I reached Cherbourg, where
;t passed muster, and until now that it, and my
" second name," brought me into all this trouble.
Finding the officials here thus disposed to harass
me, first because I have an unhappy name, and then
to take advantage of a miserable quibble, because
that unhappy name has put them on a wrong scent,

I have addressed a letter direct to the Emperor him-
self, hoping it may be permitted to reach him. If it
dues, my next letter will be addressed from Auray ;
and if it should not, then you will understand why
there is a discontinuance fur the time in my corre-
spondence.

The arrival of the Emperor was the signal for the
same enthusiasm, the same loud shouts, and need no
description. Last evening the town was illuminated,
and this morning, the Emperor having reviewed the
troops, while the Empress visited the Asylum and
House of Charity, their Majesties then got into their
flue barge, and were towed by the Imperial yacht
" Reine Hortense " to Port Louis, a town of 3,000
inhabitants, just opposite Lorient, on the other side
of the bay, and were received in grand state by the
authorities and the people. The keys were presented,
and the Mayor having made a speech, to which the
Emperor answered briefly, the Imperial cort4;re
continued on through the town to visit the citadel,
which faces the sea, and which, on this occasion, was
a place that attracted universal interest. In this
fortress the Prince Louis Bonaparte, in 1836, was
confined, previous to his being sent to tlik United
States, and the rooms he then occupied were pointed
out to the Empress by him. What a phase in this
great existence ! No drums were then beaten; no
flags were flying, and the heavy doors closed upon
him with a clang; harsh looks met him on all
sides, and the poor prisoner was guarded so
strictly that at no time was he left
alone. To-day banners were waving in the breeze
drums were beating, cannons thundering their wel-
come, and, above all, the loud, frank, heartfelt shouts
of the people were ringing in the ears of him who,
now the Chief of this mighty country, surrounded
by his brilliant staff, marshals of France bowing at
his side, and with his gentle and beautiful partner in
all this glory leaning upon his arm, gazed with
earnest eye upon that spot. No need for saddening
reflection ; the dream of his boyhood, the fixed pur-
pose of his manhood was accomplished, and any one
looking at that moment upon Louis Napoleon
must have felt the moral force of the man
and respected his energy and determination.
It was easy to perceive that the same idea was in the
minds of all that witnessed this touching incident,
and the loving manner and affectionate look of the
Empress, as she pressed close to her husband, seemed
to convey a consolation for the past and a feeling of
joyful pride for the present. Those who so systema-
tically detract from the merit, and so readily find
fault and attribute bad motives to the Emperor of
the French, could not have repressed a feeling
of respect for him had they been preser.t
to-day. The old woman who was his ser-
vant during his detention is still in the
fort, and was an object of curiosity to
the many strangers present. The Emperor
walked on the ramparts accompanied by the Empress
and their suite, and his Majesty amused himself try-
ing his hand gunning at some cannons of large calibre
were loaded and pointed by him, and a new sort of
bullet was shot by him at a mark at some distance—
the aim was good and the object struck by the
bullet. Their Majesties then returned to the Im-
perial rendera, and after a short respite from their
labours they again embarked in the barge, and, cross-
ing the bay once more, they went to witness the
launching of a vessel. The ceremony accomplished,
amid the loud cheers of the spectators, their Ma-

jesties returned to dine, and to-night they go to the

I forgot to mention that some dozen of young
ladies dressed in white, with violet scarfs, were in at-
tendance to present to her Majesty a bouquet, and
one of them to make a speech. These young ladies
had a bad time of it, as the wind was blowing very
hard, and their light white gauze dresses behaved in
a most unruly manner. The constant attention re-
quired to preserve strict propriety prevented these
poor girls frim acting with the self-possession they
would probably have otherwise shown, and the cere-
mony of presenting the bouquet and making the
speech was rather a failure. Still the kind
manner of the Empress and her thanks
seemed to recompense amply the ladies
for the slight annoyance caused by the fresh breeze.
Their Majesties were also much amused by some 50
little boys dressed as sailors and bearing small ban-
ners. These young ones shouted longer and with as
much fervour as any of the crowd, and the Empress
caressed many of the little bright-eyed fellows, who,
though so small, made a deal of noise. The bag-
pipes added their atrocious squeak to the din, and
those possessing nerves must have wished the surly-
looking performers thereon a thousand miles away.
One thing is evident to all—the heartiness of the
greeting these people extend to their Sovereign.
This morning, at the review, a great many persons
who had been recommended by their officers or the
civil authorities were decorated.

PARIS, AUG. 16

The Plenipotentiaries met again to-day at the
Hotel of Foreign Affairs, but I know not if they
put their signatures to the protocols.
As usual, the Indian news from French sources is
by no means so favourable as the English telegra-
phic intelligence would lead us to suppose. Sir
Colin Campbell is said to have demanded large rein-
furcements.

The visit of Queen Victoria to Cherbourg and the
Prussian Court continues to excite great interest in
that wide district of Central Europe known by the
general name of Germany. The newspapers of
Vienna and Berlin, officially inspired, regard with
satisfaction the meeting of European Sovereigns as a
guarantee for peace at all times. But the presence
of the Queen and the Prince Consort at the Court of
Berlin is thought to be an event of political import-
ance, since it is hoped a very short period will
elapse before the Prince of Prussia will assume
powers in the State which hitherto he has jea-
lously avoided, out of delicacy to the
King on the one band, and a sort of dis-
like to responsibility ; indeed it is said the Prince
of Prussia would willingly allow the crown to pass
over his head to his successor. The Cabinet of
Berlin know not how to act; their position is very
delicate ; the business of State halts, and the
country grows impatient at a stagnation which has
now lasted so many months, during which period
a financial crisis added to confusion and want of
confidence. Prince Albert is regarded as the me-
dium by whom some final arrangements may be
made for a permanent Regency. The desire to
stand well with France appears to be a universal
feeling in Prussia ; the more so as the relations of
the former country with Austria are such as indicate
that neither the Emperor of France, his advisers,
nor the people of France, have any desire to be on
very intimate terms with a power, the policy of
whose rulers is always rather directed by trick-
ery than guided by principles. Austria, oddly
enough, is still more interested than Prussia in
maintaining the Anglo-French alliance, because
it is argued at Vienna that no European con-
vulsion can possibly take place whilst England and
France are on good terms. The Austrian journals,
therefore, condemn such of your contemporaries as
pander to the passions of the vulgar mob at home by
periodically insulting France. This feeling is becom-

ing general throughout the Continent, and the Press of
England, once respected, is losing much of its weight
aboad, because one or two of your contemporaries
insist on supporting their own blunders about France
and passing eiints by detraction and abuse.
A popular English writer has reminded us that
" Shakspeare has declared detraction less excusable
than theft, and ;;11nder amongst uncivilised men is
considered worse than murder." Time will correct,
with silent contempt, the detraction and slander of
these who seek to weaken the growing good-feeling
which all honest men wish to maintain on both sides
of the Channel ; a sentiment in which the people of
the Continent universally participate, if we may
judge by the tone of the newspaper press through-
out Europe.

I have received communications from Naples, dated
August 13. The victims of .Mazzini, and the heroes of
the Sapri expedition, are in irons, and on their way
to the penal islands. I presume the British public
must be tired of hearing that injustice and persecu-
tion arc the order of the day in Naples, now as of
old. The lawyers who defended the prisoners dur-
ing the Salerno trials are being annoyed by the
police. Some " influential person," says the letter
before me, hinted to his Majesty King Ferdinand the
possibility of renewing relations with England.
_ _ _

Rene ! bene !" grunted the King through his nose.
"lean do very well without either an English or French
Ambassador at Naples." There is some truth in
Ferdinando's reply. He can do very well without
an envoy from either France or England, since he
has no intention of allowing the Western Powers to
have the slightest influence in the kingdom of the.
Two Sicilies. The consular agents of any Power
are, in fact, all that is now necessary for Naples ;
and it would be well if each of the powers friendly
to England and France were to suspend diplomatic
relations with a court which scarcely belongs to the
family of European civilization.
The passing dull days of the political year are
sought to be animated with political pamphlets,
bearing such titles as "Napoleon et l'Angleterre,"
" Napoleon et les Principautes," " Cherbourg et
l'Angleterre," &c. They are legitimate book specu-
lations, and nothing more.

The banquet given by Count Walewski, the
Minister of Foreign Affairs, on the occasion of the
Emperor's fete, was attended by the Pope's Nuncio,
the Ambassadors of England, Austria, and Russia,
Fuad Pacha, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey,
the Cabinet Ministers, the members of the Commis-
sions of the Principalities and the Danube, General
de la Hitte, M. de Parieu, Vice-President of the
Council, M. de la Gueronniere, Councillor of State,
and the principal functionaries of the foreign depart-
ment. The Pope's Nuncio proposed a toast to the
Emperor, and Count Walewski responded by one to
the Sovereigns and Governments friends and allies
of France.
The subscriptions for purchasing the Protestant
chapel at Paris have, during the last few days, aug-
mented. Mr. Brassy has given £lOO, and Earl
Cowley collected £45 at Cherbourg. Some few names
have also been added -of late to Messrs. Galignani's
list of subscribers. The Revue des Deux Iliondes has
the following interesting Article :
" We cordially approve of the great political act which
has just been accomplished at Cherbourg. We are sincere
partisans of the English alliance. We witnessed with sor-
row the want of tact and the painful incidents which shook
that alliance at the commencement of the present year, and
we remark with delight the generous effort which has just
been made at Cher beurg to re-establish in the face of the
world the good relationship between two nations who may be
powerful without having to make any mutual sacrifice of in-
dependence. We consider this effort to have been perfectly
sincere on both sides. Facts,' accordiug to the just remark in
the Imperial toast, 'speak for themselves.' The presence alone
of Queen Victoria at Cherbourg, in spite of the murmurs
which the journey of her Majesty excited among a portion of
her subjects, is a striking testimony of the value which the
heads of the British Government attach to friendly relations
with France. As to the French Government, the language
of the Emperor Napoleon 111. on such a solemn occasion
needs no comment. If barrack politicians had ahead/
' greased their boots' far the passage across the Channel,
their over-zeal has been decidedly disappointed. The intel-
ligent and enlightened declarations of the Emperor have
completely blotted cut what is called in England the ad-
dresses of the colonels.' "
The Revue then proceeds to discuss the practical
merits of the Cherbourg fortifications :
" We shall not presume to offer an opinion on the value
of Cherbourg as a naval fortress. We arrived there under
the impression of the well-known words of the Emperor
Napoleon, comparing the works of Cherbourg to the
Pyramids of Egypt and to Lake Mceris, and of the,
clamours of some English journals which represented
that port as a position of attack against England. An in-
spection of the place and the judgments we have
heard expressed by military and naval men have, We
must avow, singularly modified that impression. Cher-
bourg is a wonderful and admirable work, but as a military
position it evidently bears the mark of its artificial origin'
When Louis XVI., after the war of American independence!
which was so glorious for the French navy, was prefers
at the sinking of the first cones employed in the construe'
lion of the breakwater, the site of that erection was chosen
in correopondence with the means of attack and defence
employed at that period. Neither the gunboats nos
constructed nor the long-range guns such as are ne,
,;
adopted were then known. Experience had made
but little progress in such matters when the works
were resumed and continued by Napoleon. The re-,
suit of this is that whatever may be the strength 01
the batteries and of the fortifications of Cherbourg, ,tbZ
breakwater, if the present means of attack be taken W..'
account, is at too short a distance from the port and fref,
the dockyard. This circumstance unfortunately deprives
Cherbourg of a great part of its force. It is evident, in the
hypothesis of a naval war, that the struggle for the rule of
the sea will be conducted on very different terms than in the
past. In case that the dominion of the seas should not be
possessed by France, it would be a serious imprudence 01;
her part to concentrate her principal naval resources e:
Cherbourg. Her squadrons would be in safety only e"
Toulon or at Brest. The same reason deprives Cher;
bourg of that power of aggression against Engle!:
,16
which has been so loudly denounced by the El 3
lish press. Before assembling at Cherbourg 'd
fleet necessary fer embarking an expedition against Engle°,
it would be necessary at least to risk an irreparable disaster
by solving in the Channel, against the English squadrone,
the question of the empire of the seas. Cherbourg is lir
doubtedly a great defence for France, and no English squa-
dron:
would attempt to insult it; but there would be se Ina,:
rashness in collecting there the means for effecting a lan'
ing in England that it can never have the offensive charge'
ter which has been attributed to it. Such are the ccucl"
sions which are left in the minds of those who have seen the
place, and it is this opinion which has been carried back t_
England by the visitors from that country. We thereforee
hope that the alarm recently excited by a portion of tb
press in England will be soon dispelled."
The following reflections on the tribe of parnpir
leteers which has sprung up lately in Paris is worthy
of extract :
"We cannot express sufficient contempt for those
pamphleteers who speculate on old prejudices, and wbfw,,
choose the very moment when the two Governaie
so solemnly protest in favour of the alliance to deceive
public opinion in the two countries, to excite reciprol.
cal mistrust, and to inspire doubts in the sincerity of
the great acts of which we have just been witnesses. The
proceedings of the authors of the pamphlets to which vl
allude are as revolting as their calculations are disgracefo'
They transform pretended conversations at St. Helena into
a sort of political Koran ; they profane the memory of the'.
prophet by attributing: to him all kinds of absurd and 00;
reyphal divagations, on the faith of domestics who passe'
themselves off to the world as his posthumous secretaries;
They seek to stupify France by an absurd glorification e,.,1
herself, which would lead us, if we were to tolerate it, to
the infatuation which has led the Turks and Chinese to per:
suade themselves that they are the first people in the woo;
Under favour of these gasconades they preach to France
sort of Islamism against England. The Government has ros?!...
singular and compromising friends. For want cf sufficient "
berty of the press, men of business, so prompt to take alarl9,
foreigners who are ignorant of the origin of these warlike in:
spirations, regard these shameful pamphlets in a serious
light. The latter would not even give the Government ill
trouble of a disavowal, were the currents of serious opinion
lift with open confidence to their natural movement." tQ
Surely some of these remarks might be applied
one or two prostitutes of the political prega. iu EDO'
land !
PurtsßdaoyurthslaLs—gTohnee soenttlewmeleln, t
aonfdthperSichesarebsev;e
ac-
count o-
nd.
improved. Rente has also been in good dome- f
Threes have been done at 69fr. 15c. ; liobilte
varied from 697 fr. 50c. to 692 fr. 50c.; Orlespe,
1,305 fr. to 1,310 fr. ; Lyons, 800 fr. to 807 fr. gic";
Southern, 538 fr. 75c. to 542 fr. 50c. ; and AustriAll
640 fr. to 645 fr. The market continued firm to the
close, when the following were the last quotations

Fr. Ct.
41 per Cents... . 97
Do. end of month
3 per Cent. 69 50
Do. end of month ' 60 15
Bank Shares .... 3,150
Credit Mobilier.. 695
Do. account..... 685

Orleans
Northern
New ditto

RAIL'

Lyons & Mediterranean.

New ditto

Cst ah.

Geneva
Midi
Western .
Eastern
Grand Central
Sardinian
Austrian

Ct.
Fr.
Credit Foncier 610
Belgian 41 • • 99 73
Piedmontese 5... 89
Roman..... 90 Ig
Austrian .
Spanish Threes . •••••
Home Debt....

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,3C5 , 1,312 50
950 ..047
802 .. 805
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PAINFUL CASE.—We learn from the Scotsman °I
Saturday that the Hon. W. Yelverton, captain in theft °YIV
Artillery, commanding at Leith Fort, was, ou Thursdkr_
evening, apprehended on a warrant issued by the Procurato:
Fiscal, and lodged in the Calton gaol, on a cktarge of higaul,
the circumstances of the case being, we believe, not ii.e°,l
peculiar than paihful. The hon. captain had just conc:uq:
the business of a district court-martial at Piersbili when tr_
sheriff's officers arrived with the warrant. One of the...e
officials, we believe, left Edinburgh on Friday for Ireland!
with a view to obtain the witnesses necessary to substantiate
the charge.