The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-10 00:00:00

BONAPARTE—they harmonize well together as such.
But if the French SOVEREIGN meets his
brother monarch claiming the world's homage
as NAPOLEON the Third—the Swedish Sovereign is
there, parvenu though he is, BERNADOTTE though
he is, descendant but a generation or two back of
an obscure advocate of one of the provinces of
France, as his Majesty CHARLES the lifteenth !
Not satisfied, however, with the friendly intercourse
established between the Court of the Tuileries and the
Courts of so many of the European monarchies, the
French Em PEROR is still striving'apparentlfto bring.
himself into direct personal communication with
the other reigning sovereigns. He holds out a hand
in one direction to King WILLIAM, in another to
Queen ISABELLA. It is significant that both his
Prussian and her Spanish Majesty evince a coy
reluctance to respond to these proffers of more
intimate friendship. After the most confident
intimations have gone the rounds of the newspapers
all over Europe to the effect that the King of
Prussia is about to become the guest of the
French Emperor at the camp at Chalons
—it tarns out that this semi-official state-
ment is nothing less, after ail, than a deliberate
mis-statement. All the courtesy that the King of
PRUSSIA can vouchsafe is a holograph letter
addressed to his Imperial Majesty of FRANCE, in
excuse of course, or explanation, and as a prelimi-
nary, it is stated, to an interview that is to take
place between the two Sovereigns—not at Paris,
not at the Camp of Chalons, but—somewhere
on the frontier of France about the sixth
day of October ! As to the Queen of SPAIN,
the response made by her to the friendly -advances
coming to her from the direction of the Tuileries,
appears to have been even more uncomplimentary.
It is pretty confidently asserted that Queen ISA-
BELLA has no ambition whatever to obtain
the privilege of an interview with the Impe-
rial MACHIAVELLI, somewhere or another at
the foot of the Pyrenees. All these courtly
advances made by the reigning French EMPEROR
to the surrounding European Sovereigns, and all
these particularly discourteous replies made thereto,
and therefore by the latter, being—as we cannot
but think—singularly significant ! The advances
savour somewhat of the parvenu, the rejections or
evasions of those advances, of the suspicion with
which that parvenu is still (nay, if possible, more
intensely than ever) regarded. It tells a tale, that
persistent suspicion. It speaks of the tortuous
policy of which it is the comment and of which it
is the repudiation. It is the natural result of the
revival of an empire, in regard to which its
reviver announced upon the eve of its inauguration,
" C'est la paix"—following up that solemn declara-
tion by War upon War. It is the sequence, the inevi-
table sequence to a campaign, opened as the Italian
campaign was opened—in regard to which, see the
Milan proclamation! And closing as the Italian cam-
paign closed—for which see the record of the impe-
rial tete-a-tete at Villafranca. It is the consequence,
this persistent suspicion, of the emancipation of
Lombardy by the glorious sword of France, for a
paltry "consideration "—that is, in return for the
cession of Nice and Savoy to the dis-
interested Liberator! It is a necessary ac-
companiment this ineradicable suspicion
—a necessary and wholly unavoidable
accompaniment, of these yet reiterated and sinister
rumours as to the intended evacuation of Rome at
last by the French army, in return for, or rather
simultaneously with, the yet further cession of the
magnificent Island of Sardinia, the cynosure of the
whole Mediterranean.