Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-10-08
MISCELLANEOUS.
Correspondence crthe London Times.
The FreAch President at CherbOurg.
CnERBouRo, Saturday, Night.

The spectacle Of to-day was perhaps
one of the most splendid of It's kind that
has been ever witnessed. Nothing short
Of the terrible glories of actual warfare
could have exceeded it, and, without being
an alarmist, may safely say that the ei-
feet made ON the mind of an ,Englishman
by such display of force and power on
tue part Of an ally who has been our bit
terest foe in times gone by, in port al
most impregnable, and within few hours
sail of the shores of Great Britain, was
not calculated to put him at ease. AT
g o'clock, as usual, all the yachts and the
men Of war dressed" land in justice to
our counrymen must say that they have
added in no small degree TO the magnlii-
cence of the whole sight,) the yachts
which stud the port and roads in every dl-
Iecton presented public network of rain
bows, and offered some contrast 10 the
comparatively scanty display of bunting
on board the men-of-war. The harbour
was alive with boats, and all the landing
places were crowded with officers landing
and embarking-every sortof watery con-
veyance, great hulking barges, trim gigs.
Jolly boats, and dingies, being as busy as
oars could make them, in bearing of car
goes of officers in full uniform, and LADIES
in the best attire that French taste could
devise. Here you might see some inTe
pid vachiman, in the smallest of puns,
filled with most ominOus-lOOking hampers,
nearly smoothered amid the crowd of
man-0f-war boats, and shouting in the
most thoroughbred English-French to the
grinnng seamen 10 make way for HIM in
sanity there shore-boat filled TO sink
ing with people, who were too happy in
their ignorance to feel any doubt as to
theirsaGeiv. crawled out towards the roads.
On all sides lowered TIE Norman caps of
she peasant girls and townswomcn around
you, iutcrmiXcd with shakoes and helmets
or little shiny tarpauling hats surmOunt-
lng the face of some honest B'iton. All
the population and all the strangers were
crowded on the piers, and packed so thick
ly YOU could scarcely let pin fall between
them, though those said piers take good
long stretch out into the salt water. The
drums ratlled away i'll every street, beat
ing rhe .2SStmGlce Of the National Guards,
aud the trumpet blast calling 10 horse
sounded necessarily through the air sum
monirg big Numbering dragons from ,he
comforts, OF their early cup of coffee and
petit rfrre cf Cognac, whilst hayOncts
glistrned brightly above the heads ut the
multitude. or the infantry wheeled ahrui
30 their different quarters apparently quite
indifferent whether they forced the umol-
Tending citizens into the tide or not; hui
fierce as these gentlemen look IN thcir
yellow tull,d >hakoCS, scarlet pan,aluvns.
red cpaulctrcs, and hairy faces. 4 mere q
bliging. coed tempered set cf fellows /:
would Le impossible to meet, aid vi Il
the exception Of HE gensdarmciit, VIC
z cannot easily get over the bully ing hahi
and the roughuess of old soldiers. there i.
but one opinion among the strangers mere
as 10 the courtesy and poiiiencss of al
grades of the military. The sailors seem
10 think our English blunmess is dcsira,
: bic but it docs not sit well on Frenchmen
s and though the officers are verv civil. and
take great pride in showing ,heir ships
they are scarcely such favouritcs as The