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

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 teen 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 Augustus of Wurtemberg, who
has just received the commond of the Third
Prussian Army Corps, and the Grand-Duchtss
Helena, the sister of Prince Frederick of Wur-
temberg, have arrived here, on a visit to this
Court, together with many smaller personages.
Prince G-ortschakoff, who accompanied the Emperor
" hither yesterday, has had apartments assigned him
in the King's old Palace. Count Nesselrode and
Count Kisseleff 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
bon given to-night by the Minister of Foreign Af-
fairs in honour of the distinguished diplomates now
here, Gortschakoff, Nesselrode, Kisseleff, and Wa-
lewski, has been put off till to-morrow.

At 8 o'clock this evening the King and his lm-
pefal 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. T, .e road winding up to
it in a serpentine File around the mountain on which
it is situa`e, was lighted by a row of Chinese lan-
terns along each side, awl 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 flaring an
uncertain lurid light from high iron cressets on
.the

:bliage of the trees and the groups that surrounded
them. In the royal park it was pleasing enough
to see the brilliant equipapes dashing along through
the constantly alternating darkness and light, and
then to distinguish their lamps winding up the

mountain at Berg between the double row of many-
coloured lamps ; but the whole illumination of the
Crown Prince's villa was outshone arid 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 ; every
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
candles, and rockets let off occasionally to light
up for an instant the surrounding masses of moan-
tains looming in the distance, the scene was
highly effective at a d'stlnc2, but a near. inspec-
tion brought to view thousands of forms flitting
about the gardens that were neither forms of light
nor beauty, but very plain homely Wurtemburget
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 overlooks
the establishment, and accordingly the front of the
buildian., bora 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
FL each company now here; the Emperor Alexander
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
Gill" is to be played as a gala performance under
Kuckeu's direction. Afrer 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.

Advicei from Toulon st Its 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 hbly placo3 at Jerusalem.
BOURSE, Sept. 26.—The following wore the last
quotations :
Cast'. fr. End of Month.
4i per Cents
3 per Cants 6B 68 25
Bank Shares 2,810 Credit Fonder 7
"Credit Mollifier SiLIS Roman
Do. Account 920 Austrian
Belgian' 4
Fiedmontese(s) 9O Home Debt -