The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-26 00:00:00

THE MEETING OF THE EMPERORS

OF FRANCE AND RUSSIA.

The following telegraphic despatches have been

received :

STUTTGARDT, SEPT. 24.

The Emperor Alexander arrived here at four
o'clock. His Majesty was received by the King
of Wurtemberg at Feuerbach, the station nearest
to this place.
Prince Gortschakoff accompanied the Emperor.
On his arrival at Carlsruhe the Emperor re-
ceived the compliments of the Grand Duke of
Baden.

STRASBURG, SEPT. 25.

The EmperOr Napoleon set out this morning
at eight o'clock, accompanied by his suite and the
local authorities. The people saluted his Majesty
with enthusiastic acclamations from Strasburg to
Kiel.

The Emperor will breakfast at Baden, at the
residence of the Grand Duchess Stephanie.
He seemed deeply impressed by the welcome re-
ception given him by the population of Alsace.

STUTTGARDT, SEPT. 25.
The Emperor Napoleon arrived here this after
noon at half-past four o'clock.

The Eiug of Wurtemberg received him at the
railway station and conducted bim to the Palace,
where they were immediately joined by the Em-
peror of Russia.
Contrary to all expectations, the Empress of
Russia will join the party to-morrow.

PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.

The Milan Official Gazette expresses the satis-
faction of the Austrian Government with the
meeting of the Emperor of the French and the
Czar.

It says that the Czar made the first overtures
for a meeting with the Emperor, and that the
latter would make no promise till he had ex-
plained. to Queen Victoria at Osborne the motives
and purpose of his visit to Germany.
The fact of the interview being sought by the
Czar (says the Gazette) is sufficiently shown by
his taking a journey from St. Petersburg almost
to the frontiers of France to effect his object.

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY.

The Emperor left Luneville on Thursday at half-
past 12 o'clock, after having passed the division of
cavalry iu review, and arrived at Strasburg at 3.
His Majesty was received at the railway station by
General Reibell, in command of the Gth division,
the prefect, the mayor, and the principal authori-
ties. His Majesty, after having received all the
mayors of the department who had assembled to
pay their respects to him, mounted his horse and
proceeded to passs in reveiew, on the Place Kleber,
the troops of the garrison. The streets were
crowded to excess, the houses were all dressed
out with flowers and flags, and the enthusiasm
was universal. At the review, the reception
given to his Majesty by the soldiers was
not less marked. After the troops had filed
off, the Emperor went to the prefecture,
and received the deputies of the department and
all the civil and military authorities of the place.
At five o'clock, the Grand Duke of Baden arrived
to pay his respects to his Majesty, and invite him
to make a short stay the next day at Baden. In
the evening, there was a grand banquet at the pre-
fecture, to which his Majesty invited the principal
authorities ; and afterwards the Imperial party
honoured the theatre with their presence.
It is believed that the Emperor will return from
Germany by Forbach and Metz. This latter town
has voted 30,000 fr. towards the expense of properly
receiving his Majesty, who is expected to arrive
there it :the evening of the 28th.
At the sitting of the Court of Assizes Thursday,
in the case of the Northern Railway robberies, the
public prosecutor addressed the jury in support of
the indictment. M. Lachaul afterwards pleaded
for Carpentier, representing him as a victim of the
passion for gold and for Stock Exchange gambling
which characterises the epoch. He deplored that,
at the early age of 25, the " fearful responsibility"
of the post of cashier of a great enterprise like the
Notthern Railway had been imposed on him. He
had at first only taken shares in the belief that by
the use of them he might realise a large fortune,
and his firm intention had been to restore
them. The learned advocate passed in review
all the facts regarding the prisoner, represent-
ing them in an as favourable a light as possible,
and concluded by imploring the indulgence of
the jury. In the course of his speech the learned.
gentleman made some sharp observations on the
manner in which the advocates employed by Car-
pentier in the United States had acted, and said
that their " wretched subtleties" and mode of ad-
vocacy had so disgusted the prisoner that he had
resolved to give himself up to the justice of his
country. During all the time the counsel was
speaking, Carpentier wept bitterly. M. Desma-
rets pleaded for Grellet,
.2nd dwelt particularly on
the fact, as an extenuating circumstance in his fa-
vour, that he had made the fullest disclosures. M.
Dufaure then proceeded to address the jury for
Parod, and he had not concluded when the Court
rose. _

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The Siecle pays the following tribute to the ser-
vices rendered by England to civilisation :
" We must say to the merit of England that she the
arst renounced European conquests. She transferred
her ambition to other climes, and has had the immense
honour of giving birth to one of the greatest nations of
the world—to America, the land of liberty par excellence.
Her conquests have always almost been conquests of
commerce and civilisation. Russia, Austria, Prussia,
have extended their dominions at the expense of free Eu-
ropean nations whose nationality they have destroyer!,
whose development they stifled. The English have not
committed this crime. In this respect they resemble
France and have nothing to restore. They have sought
for the elements of their expansion beyond Europe.
They have peopled the solitudes of America, and have
called to life the new world .of Meeania. f, in be-
coming masters of India by the course of events, they
have not changed its condition, we must likewise take
into account time and the immensity of the difficulties.
But they have effected great deeds in India, and in
order to appreciate English rule in that peninsula, we
must reflect on its condition previous to the conquest,
when millions of men perished in religious wars, as in
the rise and decline of empires. Tee massacres which
now inspire horror in all Europe would have been con-
siderel mere pastime before the advent of British rule."
Our contemporary concludes by stating that the
greatne3s of England forms, at the present mo-
ment, one of • the conditions of universal security,
and that her disappearance from the rank of great
nations "would produce an inconceivable cat A-
clysin, for barbarism would rise to life in a thou-
sand points of the globe and destroy commerce for
centuries to come.'
BOURSE, Sept. 25.—The following were the last
quotations :
Cash. fr. End of Month.
44 per Cents
3 per Cents 67 70 67 75
Bank Shares 2,805 Credit Foncier 560 --
Credit Mobilier BB7 50 Roman
Do. Account 895 Austrian - -
Belgian 4 - Spanish Threes —
Pied montese (5) — Home Debt