The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-18 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.
The Moniteur publishes a decree promulgating
convention recently concluded between France
and England relative to the settlements of Per-
tendic and Albreda, on the coast of Africa.
The experimental squadron under Vice-Admiral
Trehouart has returned to Toulon froni the Iles
d'Hyeres. Among the vessels composing it Are the
following flue screw line-of-battle ships :—tbe Bre-
tagne, Tourville, Ulm, Arcole, Agtsdas, and Aus-
terlitz. Admiral Trehouart has hoisted his flag on
board the Bretagne Admirals Lavaud and Pellion
will hoist their flags on board the Tourville and the
Ulm. The Grand Duke Constantine will be received
at Toulon in his quality of Grand Admiral, and
it will, therefore, be the naval authorities alone
who will do the honours. It is only at Marseilles
that the Grand Duke will be received as a member
of the Imperial Family of Russia, by the officers
of the household of the Emperor, who will accom-
pany him to Paris. Count Paul de Kisseleff, the
Russian Ambassador at Paris, will meet his Impe=
rial Highness at Chalons. About the 15th May
the Grand Duke will leave Paris for Bordeaux, to
be present at the launch of a frigate built at that
port on account of the Russian Government. After
a short stay at Bordeaux, the Grand Duke will em-
bark on board the lteine Hortense yacht to visit
La Rochelle, Lorient, Brest, Cherbourg, and Dun-
kirk. kirk. From the last-named port his
Highness will proceed to Calais, and thence by land
to Belgium.
Preparations have been commenced at the Hotel
de Ville for the fete which is to be offered to the
Grand Duke Constantine on his arrival in Paris.
The principal attraction of the entertainment will
be a drainatic representation similar to that offered
to the Plen;potentiaries of the Peace Congress.
The programme has not been yet decided on, but ,
the performance will consist of a comedy, part of a
ballet, and one act of an opera. The theatre will
be erected in the Galeria des Fetes, the pirterre
being reserved, as on the occasion just alluded to,
to the high dignitaries of State and the members of
the great constituted bodies. The rest of the seats
will be open to the persons invited, about 800 in
number. This fete will take place about the 2d or
3d May.

The Emperor, accompanied by an aide-de-camp,
left the Tuileries about three o'clock yesterday
afternoon, and drove in an open carriage and
pair along the Rue de Rivoli, towards the Bastille.
When at a short distance from the Hotel de Ville
the horses, being frightened by the drum of a de-
tachment of troops passing, ran on the foot pave-
ment, but were stopped by a hoarding in front of
a house in course of construction. One of the reins
broke at the mpmeut, and the wheels of the car-
riage became locked on the pavement. The inci-
dent was happily attended by no other result than
a slight delay. A considerable crowd surrounded
his Majesty in the most respectful attitude, and
warmly expressed their congratulations that no-
thing serious bad occurred.
The Neuchatel question is not yet over. A pro-
tocol, or whatever name such an authority as M.
Benedetti or M. Feuillet de Conches would give it,
is drawn up, or very nearly so. The exact terms
of it are unknown, but the sense is to be this :
The Representatives of the four Powers declare
that they have done their best to effect an ar-
rangement between the Helvetic Confederation
and Pruisia,. an arrangement which, in their