The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-28 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, July 28.
11.1.11. Prince Napoleon arrived in Paris this

morning.
A communication from Plombieres says :--" The
Emperor is completely installed here, in the Hotel
Napoleon, nearly all of which his Majesty occupies
with his suite. The large room on the ground floor
remains for the accommodation of the bathers, who
are accustomed to assemble in it to play, converse,
and perform musical pieces. For the service of the
Imperial visitor only one small room on this floor is
reserved for receptions. On the story next above
are the dining-room, the salon of the officers in at-
tendance, the private apartment of the Emperor,
his bedroom, that of his private secretary, and other
chambers, all newly fitted up. The E:nperor walks
out every morning in the park, and has already
visited the various parts of the town and the church.
The whole place has been, as it were, transformed
for his reception, but for those who are not of the
Imperial suite prices are fabulous. There are, how-
ever, here at present crowds of bathers."
BOURSE, July 27.—Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :-
4} per Cent.
End of month... Ital,an Loan
3 per Cent
End of month 69 95 Mexican Loan 23 50
Credit Mobilier 264 Do. Bonds
End of month... 265 Spanish Threes
Credit Foncier ...1432 Home Debt —
End of month... Deferred 3l 25
RAILWAYS. Cash
Orleans
N orthern 1153
Lyons and. Mediterranean
Southern..... 570
Western
Eastern . . 557
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 4Ol.
North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman 43

LORD LYTTON AND MR. LONGFEL LOW. —An
absurd paragraph has recently appeared in reference
to Lord Lytton and the author of " Evangeline."
It is evidently based upon some ridiculous story
fabricated originally in an American newspaper. It
relates a wholly apocryphal anecdote about Pro -
fessor Longfellow having been rebuffed very dis-
courteously by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton (as our
great Novelist, Poet, and Dramatist was then
called) upon the presentation to the latter of some
letter of introduction by the American Poet,
then on his third visit, six-and-twenty 'years
ago, to England. The whole account, from
beginning to end, is simply a flagrant untruth.
No such interview ever took place. No such letter
of introduction was ever written, presented, or re-
turned. At the time mentioned, namely, six-and-
twenty years ago, Sir Edward Lytton had no town
house in London, and, in point of fact, was sojourning
abroad—in Germany. It may be interesting to add
now that, upon the occasion of Mr. Longfellow's re-
cent stay here in London, the two great authors met
for the first time, to their mutual satisfaction, and
that the American Poet would have been a guest of
Lord Lytton's down at Knebworth, had the for-
tner's engagements admitted of his taking such an
a lditional excursion down into Hertfordshire.

A Madras paper observes :—" The Englishman
states that it is the current opitiion that the
Russians mean to advance on India. Their ex-
penditure amounts to millions, and their accumu-
lation of stores is vast.' There is a close alliance
between Shere Ali and the Russians, and the Per-
sian Government is also in the league. They have
got Turkistan, and nothing prevents them coming
to Cabul. Shere AU, the Shah of Persia, and the
Russians ! A formidable triumvirate ! Neverthe-
less, we think our contemporary is raising the cry
of ' wolf' without cause. We shall doubtless have
to tackle the Russian Bear, sooner or later, but not
quite yet."
it is said, although we cannot credit the report,
that there are more than 15,000 brothers and
sisters connected with " Father Ignatius's" order
of St. Benedict, and that " Father Ignatius" has
recovered possession of his monastery at Norwich.
—Rock.

A writer in the Hants Advertiser states that six
acres of wheat in the neighbourhood of Southamp-
ton were cut on the 6th instant, and a portion of it
thrashed and ready for the miller by the 16th inst.
Another writer in the same journal says that in
Hampshire there will be an average crop of peas,
winter beans, potatoes, and mangold wurtzel, that
the wheat crop will be an abundant one, that the
hay crop is short, and the swedes a failure.
THE MANSION HOUSE.—Her Majesty's Ministers
are to be entertained to-morrow evening by the Lord
Mayor and the Lady Mayoress at a banquet at the Man-
sion House. It is the customary entertainment given by
-the chief magistrate of the City for the time being, regard-
less of political considerations, to the Government of the
day, whichever party happens to be in power. For once,
however, the Lord Mayor and the Ministers belong to the
same political section, a circumstance which, as respects
the Conservative party, comparatively seldom occurs. On
this occasion about 200 guests have been invited, and
among the Cabinet Ministers who have accepted the in-
vitation of the Lord Mayor are Mr. Disraeli, the Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer, Mr. Gathorne Hardy, the Duke of
Buckingham, Lord Stanley, Sir John Pakington, Sir
Stafford Northcote, and L ,rd John M inners, with many
of the rank and file of the party besides. As usual, the
dinner will be served In the Egyptian Hall. The Lord
Mayor and the Lady Mayoress win receive the company
in the saloon of the Mansion House, and proceed thence
about 7 o'clock to the banqueting-hall.
An official programme of her Majesty's journey
through France appears in the Paris journals. According to
this the Queen will arrive in Cherbourg on the evening of
Aug.s, and will leave immediately for Paris, which she will
reach at six o'clock in the morning. She will spend that
day in seeing Paris, and will be privately received by the
Empress. At half-past seven a special train will convey
her Majesty and suite to Geneva. The most complete in-
cognito will be observed. No apparent preparation will
be made at the railway stations, and no official authority
or deputation will be admitted to the presence of the
illustrious traveller.

THE SLAVERY TO SMOKE.—Mr. Sheridan's clause
in the Railway Bill compelling the companies to put
smoking carriages on to every train is vary well in its
way, but it is to be hoped that the concession to smokers
will not be carried out so generally as it is done on the
South-Western line. There it is almost impossible to fin 1
room in a carriage in which tobacco is prohibited, so largo
a portion of the train being set apart for the gentlemen
who cannot go live or six miles without a ppo or cigar.
On this line the article used is generally a pip, and the
tcitacco smokid therein is not always of th 3 mildest or
:nost fragrant kin", so that if a pAssenger is driven by a
crowd into a smoking carriage he is not likely to have a
very pleasant jeurn:T. The slaves of tabacco ought to be
oroperly aceoniatolated, but tb?.ro is uo good cause why a
train should be turned into one great smoking I 00111.
As/I-Mall Gazette.

NOVEL PEDESTRIAN FEAT.—OiI Monday a Man
named Wigley ran, walked, wheeled a barrow, trundled a
hoop, and hopped on one leg over a distance of five miles,
in separate feats of a mile each within one hour, for £2O,
and won with two minutes to spare. The feat was per-
formed on Wandsworth-common.

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