The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-24 00:00:00

Miscellaneous Foreign News.

(From Correspondents of the Anylo-American Times.)
PARIS, June 20.
My classical lore sometimes gets jumbled together

n the most admired confusion, especially when I

pass the ancient arches which now bear the respec-

tive names of the Porte St. Martin and the Porte

St. Denis, when I am apt to confound the Sequani
Allobroges, &c., with their more modern descend-
ants, particularly after a late dinner. If I mistake
not, however, there was a certain Polycrates, King
or Tyrant of Samos, who had arrived at such a
height of prosperity that when he threw into the
sea one of his most valuable jewels, in order to
change his luck, a fish was polite enough to return
it to him, taking the trouble, for that purpose, to

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swim ashore with it in his mouth. I have been led

into this allegory by considering at the present mo-
ment the prosperous and prominent position of
France, though I by no means wish to continue it

so far as to hint at the probability of a reverse of
fortune. Au contraire, 1 think that France, secure

in the guarantee given by the Great Powers, in
which even England, though wishing to mix as
little as possible in Continental affairs, has con-
sented to join ; doubly fortified, also, by the
amicable conferences which the occasion of
the Universal Exhibition has enabled the Em-

peror Napoleon to exchange with nearly all the
monarchs of the civilised world ; relieved not only
from the dread of an immediate but also of a con-

tingent war, (for the Gazette de la Bourn states as
a fact that the Emperor of France will return in
October next the visit of his Royal brother of Prus-

sia), and public opinion, as regards a detestation of
war, has not only been manifested in the im-
mense popularity of the Exposition, but even
more practically in a proclamation forwarded
throughout the Continent by the committee of the
English Reform movement. France, we say, thus
freed from the possibility of any disturbance
abroad, her people occupied at home in enter-
taining all the other peoples of the known
world, her honour and her interests secure, has
now the leisure to regard her own internal im-
provements, and may look forward to greater
prosperity than she has ever yet known. The Expo-
sition still continues to maintain its popularity with
all the world, and whilst amongst the great
ones of the earth, sovereign succeeds sovereign,
in like manner deputations of working men of all
nations, chosen by their fellow-countrymen, and
workmen for their superior tact and ability, are
daily seen deriving information and experience from
a practical contemplation of the vast stores of in-
struction garnered within the walls of the Palace
of 1867.

The limits of my present letter will not permit
me to notice more fully this week the various
attractions of the Exposition. I hope, however,
shortly to devote one-or two to that especial pur-
pose. The consideration of that most important
matter, an assimilated national decimal coinage,
was commenced on the 18th inst., the Baron de
Moustier presiding over the deliberations. The
following countries were represented there—Eng-
land, Austria, the Grand Duchy of Baden (whose
sovereigns, by the way, have arrived at Paris in-
cognito, under the unassuming titles of the Count
and Countess of Ebernstein), Bavaria, Belgium,
Denmark, Spain, United States, Greece, Italy, the
Pays Bas or Low Countries, Portugal, Russia,
Sweden and Norway, Turkey, and Wurtemburg.
The Viceroy of Egypt, whose arrival we an-
nounced in our last number, visited the Exposition
for the first time on the 18th inst. His Highness
has a special pavilion close to the Temple of PhilEe.
One of the apartments contains a plan, in relief, of
Lower Egypt. This is the only one open to the
pubic, the others being appropriated to the spccial
service of the Viceroy. It would be a loss of
time were I to attempt to describe every Eastern
palace or pavilion erected within the limits of the
Exposition it will be sufficient, therefore, to say
that the pavilion is an exact reproduction of one
in which Ismail Pacha, the present Viceroy, first
saw the light.