The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-05 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS; AUG, 4

Prince Jerome arrived at Havre the day Ir)clor.
yesterday, awl proceedcd at once to the Hotel l'idb-
eati. Six carriages and 14 horses were forwarded
from Paris for the service of the Prince.

Count Walewski, the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
has left Paris for Cherbourg, to be present at the in-
terview between the two sovereigns.
The Marquis Antonini, who filled the post of
Neapolitan Ambassador at the Court of the Tuileries
prior to the rupture of diplomatic relations with the
Two Sicilies, has arrived in Paris.
The Grand Duchess Helena of Russia arrived at
Ostend on Saturday evening. The Prince of Prussia,
whose arrival in that town has been announced,
rises very early, and takes a walk on the beach. The
prince also passes the greater part of the day by the
sea side. H.R.H. devotes three hours every night to
business.

The Emperor and the Empress arrived at
Mantes on their way to Caen at ten minutes
after eleven. .The Prefect of the Seine-et-
Oise, General Dubreton, and the mayors and
authorities of the neighbouring communes, received
their Majesties, who were greeted with the loudest
acclamations by the people. At Evreux their Ma-
jesties arrived at half-past twelve, and proceeded to
the Prefecture amidst cries of " Vive l'Empercur !"
and " Vive l'lmperatrice !" " Vive le Prince Impe-
rial !" The town was dressed out with flags. At
Liseux their Majesties found at the railway station
the authorities in waiting, as well as an immense
crowd, who hailed them most enthusiastically. At
Caen the authorities met their Majesties at the railway
station, and the Imperial cortege afterwards pro-
ceeded to the hotel of the Prefecture through the
whole of the town, which was splendidly decorated.
The Emperor was dressed in the uniform of a geaeral
of division, and wore the grand cordon of the Legion
of Honour. With the Imperial suite there were also
in the Imperial carriages Lord and Lady Cowley,
Viscount Chelsea, the Hon. E. Monson, Lieut-Colonel
Claremont, and Mr. Faulkner Atlee. Their Ma-
jesties showed themselves several times in the balcony,
and the enthusiasm was unbounded. At nine o'clock
their Majesties proceeded to a grand ball at the
Hotel de Ville, amidst the acclamations of the crowd.
Marshal Magnan has accompanied their Majesties:as
far as Caen, which lies within the limit of his mili-
tary command.

Among the number of the stations on the Mul-
hausen railway at which the Emperor made a short
halt on his return to Paris from Plombieres was that
of Nangis. A number of old soldiers who had
received the St. Helena medal were ranged
along the quay. Among them was one who was
conspicuous from the Cross of the Legion of Honour
on his breast, and from having a sheet of white paper
round his hat bearing an inscription, but which could
only be read by those in the first carriage, which
stopped exactly opposite to where the man stood, and
too far off from the Imperial carriage to be seen by
the Emperor. The words inscribed on the placard
were the Hell-known historical sentence as connected
with the history of Napoleon 1., of " Quand bien
n-reme vous seriaz le petit Caporal, on ne passe pas,"
and it was this very man who uttered the words in
question. His name is Jean Coluche, and he was born
on the 31st March, 1780, at Gastin, in the canton of
Nangis. He entered as a conscript, in the year '9, the
17th Regiment of L'ght Infantry, in which he made
all the campaigns of Prussia, Austria, Spain, Portu-
gal, France in 1814, and Belgium in 18]5. He was
present at the battles of Jena, Eylau, Warsaw, Ess-
ling, Wagram, Arcis•sur-Aube (where he was seri-
ously wounded in the head), and lastly at those of
Ligny and Waterloo. In 1809, after the sanguinary
battle of Ehersberg on the Traun, Coluche was placed
as sentinel before the door of the house occupied by
the Emperor, with the positive order to let no one
go in. In the evening, when the Emperor Napo-
leon was about to enter the building, Coluche, who
did not know him, received him with the words, " On
ne passe pas," and seeing that the person persisted
and paid no attention to the notification, he energe-
tically added, "If you advance another step I will
pierce you through the body !" and it required the
intervention of the officers of the Emperor's staff to
make the sentinel give way. A few minutes after
Coluche was called into the presence of Napoleon,
who said to him, " You may attach a red ribbon
to your button-hole, for I give you the Cross.'
Coulche has for many years been living in his native
village, where, notwithstanding his great age (78
years), he works as a thresher. He has no pension,
and when unable to work, his only resource will be
the income attached to the cross.

The following advertisement is from the Calais
illoniteur :—" Wanted drecly low Inglish man, on for
office ant nother for Servant. S'adresser h Mr. Leo-
pold Rossell, rue Neu e, No. 93, a Calais."

Marshal Canrobert has permitted the distribution
of the "Po6sies Guerrieres" of M. Belmontet among
the soldiers of the camp of* Chalons.
In the last sitting of the Municipal Council of Paris,
the Prefect of the Seine read a report on the ques-
tion which has long been under consideration—of
increasing the supply of water to the capital. It re-
commends that the waters of a little river collet' the
Somme-Sonde, in the department of the Marne,
should be brought by canal to Paris ; but states that
difficulties would perhaps arise in consequence of the
inhabitants and authorities of the department strongly
protesting against being deprived of any portion of
the water of their river. It was decided that nego-
tiations should be entered into on the subject.
The Moniteur publishes two Imperial decrees
founded on reports from Prince Napoleon, Minis-
ter of Algeria. One includes the service of Public
Instruction and Worship in that colony in the at-
tributions and under the authority of the Prince ;
and also provides that decrees nominating the
Bishop of Algiers, and nominating or dismissing
the rector of the academy, shall be published on
the collective proposition of the Prime Minister of
Algeria, and the Minister of Public Instruction.
The other decree authorises the formation of a
village of 70 houses to take the name of Temel-el-
Had,
in the sub-division of Nulramah. Land to the
extent of 958 hectares (21 acres each) is attached to
this village.

Paws —BoußsE.—The market has been very inani-
mate ; railway shares have been offered with a gene-
ral fall of prices. Threes have been done at 68fr.
40e. and 68fr. 353. ; Mobilier varied from 615 fr. to
617 fr. 50c.; Orleans, 1,262 fr. 50c. to 1,`,165fr. ;
Lyons, 765 fr. to 766 fr. 25c.; Southern, 510 fr. to
512 fr. 50c.; Eastern, 647 fr. 50c. to 6501 r.; and
Northern, 912 fr. 50c. to 915 fr. The following are
the last quotations:—

Fr. Ct. Fr. Ct.
41 per Cents... . 96 40 Credit Fonder 602 50
Do. end of mouth 06 40 I Belgian 41
3 per Cent 6B 20 Piedmontese 5,..
Do. end of month 68 40 ' Roman.....
Bank Shares
Credit Mobiller.. 620 Spanish Threes
Do. account..... 621 I home Debt

89 50
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91 50
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