The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-15 00:00:00

TILE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—In your number of to-day I saw something
about the fearlessness of the Emperor Napoleon,
and how he goes out without any attendants. The
following, which happened to a friend of mine in
Paris, will surprise not a few. My friend, who
resides in Parig, went to meet an_old schoolfellow
of his at the Marseilles station about 9 p.m. Being
disappointed, and seeing that the weather was very
fine, he walked quietly towards the Boulevards des
Italiens. Before he went very far, and in one of the
worst parts of Paris about that quarter, he met
smnebody whose face he thought he knew, and
turning and looking attentively at him he was sur•
prised to find that it was the Emperor. He was
so astonished that he stood motionless, and when he
(the Emperor) was almost out of sight two aides-de-
camp passed him, when no doubt remained of the
fact. It is thus that this man risks his life, and
although I admire it myself, I cannot help thinking
that sometimes he overdoes it.
Monday Evening. CANTAB.

The Archbishop of York entertained a select family
party at dinner on Monday last, at his mansion in Bel•
grave-square.

The Duke and Duchess of Cleveland are expected in
town to-day, from Raby Castle, Durham, for the season.
The Marchioness of Clanricarde and Lady Harriet de
Burgh arrived in town a few days since from visiting
Mr. and Lady Margaret Beaumont, at Bywell Hall,
Northumberland. The noble marquis arrived in town
on Monday, from Ireland.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford arrived at
Stafford House a few days since, from Lilleshall, Salop.
The Countess of Shaftesbury and Lady Victoria
Ashley will leave town to-day for St. Leocard's•on-
Sea.' The noble earl leaves town to-morro ov for St,
Giles', Dor2et.

The Elrl of E4linton has left town for Brighton
fora week or ten days. The Misses Cockerell remain
in town.
The Earl and Countess Grey are staying on a 'VW t
with Fiances Countess Waldegrave, at Strawberry-hill,
Twickenham.
The Earl and Countess of Zstland are expected to
return to town on the 28th instant, from Aske Hall,
Yorkshire.

yi,count and Viscountess Eofit:ld and family are ex-
pected in town in a few days, from Wroth= Park, near
Barnet, for the season.

Lord and Lady Walsingbam are staying at Merton
Hall, Norrolk, and will not return to town until the
middle of next month.

Lord and Lady Olivia Ossulstou arrived in town last
evening, from Brampton Park, Huntingdonshire.
Lord and Lady Calthorpe and family will leave town
to morrow, for the Isle of Wight, for three weeks.
ART TREASURE EXHIBITION. —The Manchester Com-
mittee has arranged with Messrs. Colnaghi to produce a ,
photographic series of she Treasures of the Exhibition.

13IRTB

rNCESS.

(From the London Gazette Extraordinary, Tuesday,
April 14.)

Her Majesty and the infant Princess are, God be
praised, both doing well.

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 14th
day of April, 1857, by the Lords of her Majesty's
Most Honourable Privy Council.
It is this day ordered by their Lordsbips that his
Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury do prepare a
Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty
God for her Majesty's safe delivery of a Princes& ;
and that such Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving
be used in all churches and chapels in England
and Wales, and in the town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, upon Sunday, the 19th day of this instant
April, or the Sunday after the respective ministers
of such churches and chapels shall receive the
same :

And it is hereby further ordered that her Ma-
jesty's printer do forthwith print a competent
number of copies of the said Form of Prayer and
Thanksgiving, that the same may be forthwith sent
round and read in the several churches and
chapels ill England and Wales, and in the town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed.

C. C. GREVILLE.

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 14th
day of April, 1857, by the Lords of her Majesty's
Most Honourable Privy Council.

It is this day ordered by their Lordships that
every minister and preacher, as well of the Esta-
blished Church in that part of Great Britain called
Scotland as those of the Episcopal Communion
protected and allowed by an act passed in the
10th year of the reign of her Majesty Queen Anne,
entitled " An Act to prevent the disturbing those
of the Episcopal Communion in. that part of Great
Britain called Scotland in the exercise of their
religious worship, and in the use of the Liturgy
of the Church of England; and for repealing the
Act passed in the Parliament of Scotland entitled
An Act against irregular Baptisms and Mar-
' riages,' " do, at some time during the exercise of
Divine Service i►i their churches, congregations, or
assemblies, on Sunday, the 19th day of this instant
April, or on the Sunday after the Ministers or
Preachers of such churches, congregations, or
assemblies, respectively, shall be enabled so to do,
put up prayers and Thanksgiving to Almighty
God for her Majesty's safe delivery of a Princess.

C. C. GRE VILLE.

was issued Vais morning :
bulletin of the health of the Queen
The following"
Buckingham Palace, April 15, 1857,
Nine a.m.
" " The Queen has passed an excellent night.
Her Majesty
on favourably, and the Infant Princess are going

"JAMES CLARK, M.D.
" CHARLES LOCOCK, M.D.
"ROBERT FERGUSON, M.D."

The ship Light of the Age, which arrived yesterday,
after a quick passage of 78 days, from Sydney, has
brought a valuable cargo of wool.
PRICE or GOLD.—The quotation of go'ld at Paris is
about 6 per mille premium, and the ehor t exchange on
London is 25.25 per 1/. sterling. On c nuparing these
rates with the English Miut price of 3/. 17s. 301 d per
ounce for standard gold, it appears thrrt gold is nearly
3-10ths per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By
advices from Hamburg the price of gi Ad is 424 per
mark, and the short exchange on Lone lon is 13.4 per
1/. sterling. Standard gold at the Engli. ih Mint price is
therefore about 2.loths per cent. deare r in Hamburg
than in London. The course of exchaog eat New York
on London for bills at 60 days' sight is 108,f per cent.,
which, when compared with the Mint p ar between the
two countries, shows that the exchange is against Eng-
land ; but, after making allowance for i :barges of trans.
port and difference of interest, the preser:t r ite leaves no
profit on the transmission of gold eit'Pesr -way between
England and America,

(From the Court Circular.)
BUCKINGHAM PALACE, APRIL 14.
At 15 minutes before 2 o'clock p.m. this day the
Queen was safely delivered of a princess.
There were present on the occasion in her Ma-
jesty's room his Royal Highness Prince Albert, Dr:
Locock, Dr. Snow, and Mrs. Lilly, the monthly
nurse. In the adjoining apartment?, besides the
other medical attendants (Sir James Clark and Dr.
Ferguson), were the Mistress of the Robes, the
Lady in Waiting on the Queen, and the following
officers of State and Lords of the Privy Council—
viz., his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Palmerston, Sir G'.
Grey, Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Secretary Labou-
chere, Lord Panmure, Sir C. Wood, the Bishop of
London, and the Marquis of Breadalbane.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, ac-
companied by the Princess of Hohenlohe-Langen-
burg, arrived at the Palace shortly before two
o'clock.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert went about 4
o'clock to the Privy Council-office, and was present
at a Committee of Privy Council, the other Lords
present being the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Pal-
merston, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George
Grey, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord Patimure,
the Bishop of London, Sir Charles Wood, the
Right Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Marquis of
Breadalbane.

At the Council a Prayer and Thanksgiving was
ordered for the safe delivery of the Queen, to be
used next Sunday during divine service.
Mr. Charles Greville was Clerk of the Council in
Waiting.

The Turkish Ambassador and Madame Muslims,
the French Ambassador and Countess Persigny,
the Bavarian Minister and Baroness de Cetto, the
Prussian Minister, the Saxon Minister, the Aus-
trian Minister and Countess Apponyi, the Russian
Minister, and other members of the diplomatic
corps, called at Buckingham PalaCe, where the
following bulletin was exhibited :

" Buckingham Palace, April 14, 1857, 3 p.m.
" The Queen was safely delivered of a Princess
this afternoon at 45 minutes past 1 o'clock.
"Her Majesty and the infant Princess are well.
"JAMES CLARK, M.D.
" CHARLES LOCOCK, M.D.
"ROBERT FERGUSON, M.D."
Many of the nobility and gentry also called to
pay their respects during the afternoon. Among
them were—The Duchess of Inverness, Lady Cran-
worth, the Right Hon. M. T. and Mrs. Baines ;
the Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, Earl and Coun-
tess of Elgin, the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough,
Etrl and Countess of Shelburne, Countess of
Malmesbury, Dowager Lady Cowley, Mrs. Gerald
Wellesley, Lady Cremorne, Lord and Lady Rokeby,
Sir Geo. and Lady Couper, Miss and Mr. Couper,
Mrs. T. M. Biddulph, Captain and Lady E. de
Ros, Captain and Mrs. Denman, Mr. Whateley,
Q.C., and Lady Henry Churchill, Earl and Coun-
tess Desart, Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford,
Viscount and Viscountess Folkestone, Hon. Lieut.-
General and Miss Cavendish, Lord and Lady
Marcus Hill, Mr. and Mrs. W. Gladstone,
Hon. Mrs. Grey, Sir B. Hall, Lieutenant-
General Sir George Bowles, Colonel and Mrs.
Gordon, Sir A. and Lady Woodford, Lady A. M.
Dawson, Sir P. and Lady Grey Egerton, Lady M.
Hood, Earl and Countess of Albemarle, Earl and
Countess of Airlie, Dowager Lady and Miss Lyt-
telton, Mr. and Mrs. Farquharson (of Invercauld)
the Earl of Caithness, Sir C. and Lady M. Wood,
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, Viscount
and Viscountess Eversley, Sir George Grey, to-
gether with numerous others.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, APRIL 14.
This afternoon, at a quarter before 2 o'clock, the
Queen was happily delivered of a Princess, his
Royal Highnass Prince Albert, several Lords of
her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council,
and the Ladies of hor Majesty's Bedchamber being
present.

This great and important news was made known
to the town by the firing of the Park and Tower
guns, and the Priiy Council being assembled as
soon as possible thereupon at the Council Chamber,
Whitehall, it was ordered that a form of thanks-
giving for the Queen's safe delivery of a Princess
be prepared by his Grace the Archbishop of Cat-
terbury, to be used in all churches and chapels
throughout England and Wales, and the town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, on Sunday, the 19th day of
April, or the Sunday after the respective ministers
shall receive the same.