The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-24 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY, &c.

OSBORNE, July 23.
The Empress of the French arrived yesterday
afternoon on a visit to the'Queen.

Her Majesty is attended by the Duchess do
Bassano and the Count do Brissac.

The Queen, accompanied by the Empress, drove

out this morning.
Prince and Princess Leiningen dined with the
Queen yesterday.

THE EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH.

COWES, July 23.

The Empress Eugenie leaves Osborne to-morrow
afternoon for Brest. From thence she goes to
Cherbourg and Havre, weather permitting, where
the Emperor will meet her.
To-morrow morning the Reine Hortense will
steam to Portsmouth to embark the Duchess A'Albo
and her brother, the Empress's cousins, from South-
sea pier. The yacht will then return to Cowes, and
the Empress will take leave of the Queen. The
visit has been strictly private.
The Emperor will probably visit London nest
month.

FRENCH THEA7RICALS.

LORD DUNDREARY.—The appearance of this dis-

tinguished foreigner in the very midst of foreign
players has caused great contention amongst the
critics. There are some few who are mightily en-
raged at his impudence in presuming to play in
Paris. One who would perch on the very pinnacle
of fame, were his abilities equal to his pretensions,
says that he does not understand one word of
English. He has not been to see Sothern, nor
does he mean to go, and having thus prepared
himself for elaborate criticism, he falls to and
abuses the English play and players. Another com-
plains that he is the most affiche of acteurs, that he
can't turn without seeing Dundreary grinning at him
through his lorgon ; he even saw his portrait pasted
on the walls of the cemetery. But after all, they
have not treated him uncivilly ; they who have been
to see him admit that his inimitable acting made
the language in which he clothed his confused
ideas indifferent to them. They were unable to
follow him into his dreamy perplexities, but they
screamed with laughter, and felt that they would
like to see him again. M. Theophile Ganthier
considers him a " sort of snob escaped from
Thackeray's book and clothed in a snob's skin, which
fits him like a glove." Now this is precisely what
D undreary is not; there is nothing snobbish in his ap-
pearance, dress, manners, or above all in his nature
His intelligence hovers amidst those indistinct
species which puzzled Buffon whether to place in
the animal or vegetable kingdom. But Sir Piercie
Shafton was an ass. The fair Molinara even

laughed at his insufferable conceit, as Dulcinea at
Don Quixote, he also was a foolish fanatic ; yet
they were gentlemen to the heart's core, gentlemen,
as Bayard himself, and you might as well compare
them with the men in armour at the Lord Mayor's
show as with the Waggles, the Pontos, and the
other snobs pilloried by Thackeray. When French-
men attempt to swim out of their own waters they
get out of their depth. M. Paine has devoted more
time and attention to our literature than any other
of his countrymen, perhaps, yet how miserable
are his mistakes about our national characteristics.
M. de Tocqueville alone, in his letters to Lady
Theresa Lewis, proves his mastery over our verna-
cular and manners, but he stands nearly alone in
his glory, if there be any glory in the achievement.

The others who meddle with us assimilateDundreary
to a snob, as they would Mary Stuart to Mrs. Fry.
This drawling, drivelling peer is too much of a gentle-
man to hesitate in offering precedence to the softer
sex. He will learn with pleasure that those sunlit
tresses, which he " considers "just like theweed with
the moon thining on them," and the other attractions
of his destined bride, have made as deep an impres-
sion on the Parisians as on him. They are all mad
about Miss Rose Massey, the Mary Meredith of the
play, and they are fortunately impervious to the
deficiencies of the performance. An illustrious per-
sonage fancied that he had not only emptied all the
vials of his wrath, but that he had even broken the
bottle, when he called us a " nation of shop-
keepers." Pitt retorted by calling the Gauls a na-
tion of actors. Each, doubtless, thought that he had
hit the other very hard,but for our part we see nothing
so very disgraceful either in the counter or the
sock and buskin. Moreover, do we not see one
duke selling champagne, another selling coals, others
retailing their pines and pheasants, and some selling

that which should be unsaleable ? And has not a
great authority told us that all the world's a stage,
and that we are all players ? Pitt seemed to agree
with the chimney-sweep who rebuked his fellow'
sweep for laughing at Charles Kemble : "You don't
know what you may come to yourself." lAre rise,
however, from our visit to Lord Dundreary, stung
to the quick with the justice of Pitt's observation•
The French are a nation of far better actors than
the English.

Blondin has been compelled to break his engage"
meat at Asnieres from causes not very creditable to
his rivals. On closely inspecting his rope the other
day he discovered that it had been sawn asunder,
so that one fibre only remained, which his weight
would have broken. But for the timely discovery
this diabolical attempt would have succeeded, aria
the visitors to the Paris Cremorne would have been
horrified by a repetition of the frightful disaster at
the English Cremorne and at the Hippodrome.
Mme. Ristori has left Paris, where she has been
studying the role of Marie-Antoinette. Two daYs
past she visited the chapel and the cell in the Con-
ciergerie where the ill-fated Austrian lady was
immured. The genius loci yet flits about those
gloomy precincts, and will doubtless inspire the
great tragedian, and identify her with the
wrongs and woes of the Bourbon, as she has made
of those of the Scottish Queen.

BELGIAN VOLUNTEERS AT MANCHESTER A 1419
DERBY.—On Monday upwards of 40 of the Belgian
Garde Civique arrived at Manchester by train, at three
o'clock, from Lon lon. They were met at the London"
road Station by Messrs. Malcolm Ross (President of the
Chamber of Commerce), Louis Bebrins, Dr. Roylei Vr.
Gompertz, and other members of the reception committees
and a number of the Manchester volunteers. The rifle!,
volunteers forming the guard of honour consisted of 20'
officers and men of the Ist Manchester, under the n°l3„:.;
wand of Captain Philips ; 200 officers and men of the '-
Manchester, undel Captain Statham ; 100 officers and roe!
of the 3d Manchester, under Captain Shaw; and in
adal-
tion to these there were present a battery of the 19th Lan-
cashire Artillery, under the command of Major Prest°ll;
They were marched to the Town-hall, whore they wera-
received by the ox-mayor (Mr. Alderman Bennett), an
partook of a cold collation. Although the rain fell heal'',
thousands of spectators lined the routo from the rail"'3,,,g
station to the Town-hall. Another party of Belgit''':„,
visited Derby the same day. They wore escorted 11.°--f
the railway station to the Guildhall by a guard of hoee
.
of local volunteers, the band playing the Brabaqouns,
The Belgians were enthusiastically received by the tovry a
people, who thronged the line of march and cheer
incessantly.
Extract from the Moniteur, Paris, July 16.--"
Wheeler and Wilson Company, of New York, inntlfc,i
turers of American sowing machines, have just rece"- p a
the gold medal at the Exposition Universelle, for the Vfol.
construction of machines; the new improvement s
making button-holes, applicable to their sewing manbili,e„s.
also, for their machine especially for making button-ntt,t
This award is accorded for the great development t,'os
Messrs. Wheeler and Wilson have given to the B°7loo
machine industry, in bringing their machines to the cli,c)ol 3
of all, by their cheapness and solid construction, 1".0,1
allows their employment with satisfaction in families
with groat advantage in shops.
VilOart
" THE CURATE'S DISCIPLINE," by Mrs. ---- ss
(Hurst and Blackett), is a very good novel. The authin;ea
has contrived a most dramatic plot, and she has deli to
it with much ingenuity and cleverness. Nor is it 1_ the
action of the story alone that reason is found toprais7ioo4
authoress. She has taken great pains with the &lineal:0o
of all her characters, and in some of them she ha° and
markedly successful. Mrs. Eiloart writes vigorousll

with a keen souse of humour."—Star. a clai
THE CHANCERY VACATION JUDGE.--Ye—eirdUa
it was announced that Vice-Chancellor Malins
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the vacation judge in Chancery, and not the Igastc/r
Rolls as was supposed.