The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-28 00:00:00

S'E P.;r.E7e1711.P R. 28,, ~-1857

Prussia shall come hither to greet the Emperor
Louis' Napoleon in the name of the King, his 1
brother, for it had hitherto been understood that
he would pay his respects to the French Emperor
in his haracter of Military Governor of the Rhenish
Provinces only, when the latter should touch upon
Prussian territory on his return homewards.
The reasons that were hither-o supposed to have
deterred the Empress of Russia from accompany-
ing the Emperor hither, were stated generally to be
questions of etiquette, a phrase which says nothing
of itself, and leaves everything to be guessed ; at
any rate, they were certainly not political, and,
with reference to her husband's-wishes and interests,
not very politic. She was assumed to have taken it
very much amiss that the Emperor Louis Napoleon
should have decided to fix the meeting to take place
at Stuttgart, rather than at the Court of her brother,
the Grand Duke of Hesse, with whom she has been
staying hitherto. She was also supposed to object to
meeting two persons who make so little scruple
of admitting that they are parvenus, as the
Emperor and Empress of the French do. Those
still closer initiated in the intimate gossip of the
Grand-Ducal Court of Hesse ascribed her unwil-
lingness to accompany the Emperor to other causes.
Whichever, if any of them, may have.been the cor-
rect reason, her scruples have at length been over-
come, and she is to arrive to-morrow. The Queen
of the Netherlands (daughter of the King of Wur-
temberg by his first wife) with . her son, Prince
Alexander, Prince Angustus of Wurtemberg, who
has just received the commend of the Third
Prussian Army Corps, and the Grand-Duchess
Helena, the sister of Prince Frederick of Wur-
temberg, have arrived here, on a visit to this
Court, together with many smaller personages.
Prince Gortschakoff, who accompanied the Emperor
hither yesterday, bas had apartments assigned him
in the King's old Palace. Count Nesselrode and
Count Kisieleff have been obliged to put up with
ordinary hotel accommodation, for the Crown
Prince's villa at Berg, where the Emperor is stay-
ing, is much to small to house any more than those
who belong to the immediate family circle.
' In consequence of the Empress's approaching ar-
rival, as it is understood, the ball that was to have
been given to-night by the Minister of Foreign Af-
fairs in honour of the distinguished diplomates now
here, Gortschakoff, -Nesselrode, Kisseleff, and Wa-
lewaki, has been put off till to-morrow.
At 8 o'clock this evening the King and la's Im-
perial guest drove out to the soiree given by the
Crown Prince in his villa at Berg, which was bril-

liantly illuminated on the outside in a manner well
fitted to show off to advantage the architectural
beauties of the building. Toe road winding up to
it in a serpentine line around the mountain on which
it is situate, was lighted by a row of Chinese lan-
terns along each side, and all along the tortuous
windings of the road leading through the royal
park towards the Crown Prince's villa there were
cable-like torches placed at intervals, and flaringan
uncertain lurid light from high iron cressets on the
foliage of the trees and the groups that surrounded
them. In the royal park it was pleasing enough
to see the brilliant equipages dashing along through
the constantly alternating darkness and light, and
then to distinguish their lamps winding up the
mountain at Bet g between the double row of many.--
coloured lamps ; but the whole illumination of the
Crown Prince's villa was outshone and eclipsed by
a sheet of lights that was spread down one side
of the mountain, where a garden for public resort
and amusement has lately been opened in connex-
ion with a very extensive bathing estabishment
supplied by a most plentiful mineral spring.
Here not only did the buildings of the esta-
blishment form an extensive frame-work for the
lights, but every terrace cut along the face of the
declivity, and every path laid out over the side of
the mountain, was marked by rows of lights ; eyery,,
grass plat was studded with artificial glow-worms,
and the clusters of trees were turned to account as
supports for festoons of lamps and Chinese lanterns.
With the addition of Bengal lights, Roman
cindles, and lecketi let off occasionally to light
up for an instant the surrounding masses of moun-
tains looming in the distance, the SC2IIO was
highly effective at &stance, but a near inspec-
tion brought to -view trio thz:nricra 211--rerms intfing
about the gardens that were neither forms of light
nor beauty, but very plain homely Wurtemburgers,
and moreover introduced the olfactories to • a
mixed odour from the fat burning in
the myriads of lamps, Wurtemberg tobacco,
and wretched beer, that was far from perfume.
This fearful consumption of tallow and fat in com-
bustion was got up regardless of expense by the
proprietor, who is the Crown Prince's head gar-
dener, in honour of the meeting of so many
crowned heads at the elegant villa that overLoks
the establishment, and accordingly the front of the
building, bore in brilliant transparency the initials
W.A.N.K. —King William of Wurtemberg, Em-
perors Alexander and Napoleon, and Crown
Prince Karl.
Yesterday evening the King and Queen of Wur-
temberg, with the Queen of the Netherlands, occu-
pied a proscenium box at the performance of the
French company now here; the Emperor Alexan
was present in the opposite box with the Crown
Prince and Princess. Here, again, the Emperor
Alexander figured only as a private guest related to
the royal family ; the State loge in the middle of
the first tier was not used, but will next Sunday
contain the whole party from both palaces, on
which occasion Balfe's opera of the " Bohemian
Girl" is to be played as n gala performance under
Kucken's direction. After the play was over yes-
terday evening the Emperor of Russia drove for
some time about the town in an open carriage.

FRANCE.
PARIS, SUNDAY.

Advices from Toulon stite that the Requin
State steamer, after having been handsomely fitted
up, has proceeded to Marseilles, to be placed at
the orders of Prince Napoleon, who is about to
make an excursion to the East, and particularly to
the holy places at Jerusalem.
BOURSE, Sept. 26.—The following were the last
quotations :
Cash. fr. End of Month.
44 per Cents
3 per Cents 6B 68- 25
'
Bank Shares 2,810 Credit Fonder ,--
Credit Mobilier an Roman —
Do. Account 920 Austrian -
Belgian 4i ... Spanish Threes —--
Fiedmontese (5) 9O -- Home Debt -

RAILWA.YS—FOI3, CASIL
fr. c. fr c.
Orleans 1,400 Western
Northern 1—
Lyons and Med 8;0 New Ditto 3—
New Ditto B7O Grand Central
Geneva — Sardinihn
Midi

A letter from Senegal says that the French
authorities, powerfully aided by Tamsir Amat,
chief of the Mussulman religion and deputy mayor
of St. Louie, have, after long effort', succeeded in
inducing the non-Christian black population,
throughout all the French territory, to declare to
the local authorities tLe births and deaths which
take place • amongst them, so as to have them
registered in the French form.

The Emperor of Russia, in returning to Berlin,
is, says tho Augsburg Gazette, to pass through
Nuremberg, to review there the regiment of Light
Dragoons, of which he is the honorary colonel.

The King of Saxony, in superintending some
military manceuvre3 near Dre-sden on the 22d, had,
by a sudden movement of his horse, the muscles of
his left leg strained. His Majesty suffered i o
much that he had to be removed from the animal's
back and conveyed to the chateau of Pilluitz. The
day after the King was . able to leave bis bed, but
the physicians have prescribed a few days' repose.

A letter from Copenhagen, of the 21st says :
" The King on Saturday left his summer residence
of Skodsborg for Elsineur, where a steamer was
ordered to be in waiting to convey him to
Fredericia ; but the bad weather prevented him
from leaving until next day. At Fredericia, his
Majesty was received with great cordiality. M.
Unsgaard, the Minister of the Interior, has not ac-
companied the King, but M. Lundbye, the
Minister of War, was waiting at Fredericia to re-
ceive his Majesty, and M. Wolfhven, the Minister'
of Schleswig, has gone to join his Majesty there.
It is said that the King will probtbly go to Hoi-
st:in to attend the inauguration of the railway
from tetzkoe to Gluckstadf, which is to tithe
place on the 6ih, the anniversary of the King's

bir(hday. Before his departure the King signed
a rescript authorising the Council of Ministers to
take measures to prevent the spread of cholera.
The malady, however, is beginning to lose its in-
tensity, and no new case has taken place during
the last few days. The small port of Korsoer, of
which the population is only 2,000, has had 228
cases, of which 132 were fatal. In several pasts of
the kingdom, however, dysentery is making nume-
rous victims."

The. King of Holland has selected from the list
of names sent in, Baron Van Golstein to be presi-
dent of the Second Chamber of the States-General.

The Madrid journals of the 22d contain no poli-
tical news. 'The Prince of Orange had taken leave
of the Queen, and left for Valencia. Her Majesty
conferred on him the Grand Cross of the Order of
Charles 111.

The Corriere Mercantile, of Genoa, of the 24th,
announces that a certain number of refugees have
been ordered out of Piedmont.

Naval and Dlilltary Intalligenee.

The freight ship Damietta arrived at Woolwich
on Saturday from the docks to embark stores and
ammunition for Simon's Town. The freight ship
Albion commenced shipping military stores on Sa-
turday from Woolwich Arsenal for Jamaica, and
the Margaret Thompson for Bermuda; the Britan-
nia for Gibraltar, the Madras for Sierra Leone,
and the Isabella Blyth for the Mauritius. The
above-named vessels are in the London and Vic-
toria docks. The troop transport Southampton is
ordered down to Gravesend, and will embark on
the sth proximo a company of the 7th Dragoon
Guards for India, together with ammunition and
stores from Woolwich.

The hired screw steamship Ireland, with 14 offi-
cers and 300 rank and file of the 98th regiment,
from Portsmouth for the East Indieq, was off Ply-
mouth at noon on Friday, all well.
The screw steam frigate Chesapeake, 51, Capt.
Rundle B. Watson, from Portsmouth, arrived at
Plymouth Sound on Friday, and was appointed to
sail on Sunday for the East Indies.
The screw steam sloop Conflict, 8, Commander
Courtenay, went out of Plymouth Sound on
Thursday afternoon, and made a satisfactory trial
of her engines..
The screw steamer Doris, 32, having received
her engines, was unlocked at Keyham, on Thurs-
day.
The Brazilian CorVette Imperial Marinheiro, 16,
Captain Torris e Alvin, from Algiers, September
3d, and Gibralter, 15th, entered Plymouth Sound
yesterday morning. She has been cruising in the
Mediterranean, and* after inspecting Plymouth
will visit Portsmouth and all the other first-class
ports. _ _

Oar Portsmouth correspondent reports a desire
on the part of the officers and men of the fleet to
contribute one day's pay each towards the fund for
the relief of the sufferers by the mutinies in India,
a desire most laudable and honourable to all Qon-
cerned, and one which will realize a handsome
addition: to the fund.

The gear for the trig sail of the line ordered to be
prepared, as reported by our Portsmouth, cor-
respondent some time since, is nearly complete.
The ships thus believed to be intended for the
Channel fleet next year are the following :

Guns. horse power.
Duke of Wellington ... ... 131 700
Mai lborough ... 131 800
Royal Sovereign ... ... 131 800
Victor Emmanuel ... ... 91 600
Car 91 ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 400
Hannibal ... ... 91 450
These, it is believed, will be the chief members of
any channel squadron commissioned, and the
necessity for recruiting in' the navy has became as
necessary as in the army, for the Chesapeake left
on Thursday without her full complement, and the
Ganges, 84, flagship of Rear-Admiral Baynes,
C. 8., for the Pacific command, is hors de combat
at Spithead from the same cause. Men won't
enter, and boys are not very likely to be picked up
if the 2/. for their outfits is insisted upon as
necessary to insure entry if found otherwise quali-
fied.

The Diadem, 32, Captain Moorsom, C. 8., has
got nearly her complement, and among them some
,vory gpod seamen.
The recruiting sergeant may be seen and the
fife and drum heard in the town and outskirts of
Portsmouth at almost every hour of the day. The
Artillery seems the most successful corps.

THE GOVERNWENT AT CALCUTTA AND THE
INTERIM-0 oM Ai A N.D Elz- C HIEF.