Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-09-07
DAILY EVENING STAR.
Foreign Correspondence.

I'VE are indebted to the publishers Of
the Republic for the following very in
teresting letter.
PARIs, August %, 1858.
The Emperor announced that it was
his desire to visit Dieffe, without eclat,
state or vocation, and as you might ex-
pect, from what you know of Louis Ma
poleon's shrinking and retiring DISPOSE
ton, he caused the excursion to the sea-
shore to be solemnity on an equal scale
of grandeur with coronation, or return
from victory. He had an imperial car,
furnished with albums and engravings on
steel; the directors of the railroad, two
of them Englishmen, who had come from
London on purpose, bowed him into his
seat the six ministers stood upon the
steps Of the gateway to the park the
engineer was the Count de Lapeyriere,
and the stoker, a gentleman with waxed
mustache. The train overlook the ex-
press near Rouen, and faced it off on to
switch-a pretty indignity to put upon
cars carrying the mail. At Dieff;, the
Mayor gave his Majesty the deed by
which the city made him a gift of the
Hotel de Vile; NJ. Viscarti, the Archi-
tect of the Louvre, explained the changes
and adaptations he had made in the
building; then the sub-prefect bowed
and murmured his obSequiousness the
band of the regiment on duty burst into
Queen Hortense's March; seventy-four
in the Dieffe ready fred a salute; his
Majesty decorated nearly every body, and
then nearly every body illuminated his
windows and hung out transparencies,
transparent is the work. There would
also seem to have been shouting and toss
ing of bouquets. This was on Saturday.
Yesterday, Sunday, we learn by telegraph,
their MajeSties attended mass, and after
wardsplayed billiards. Theimperialyacht
La Refine Hortcnsc, will take them on a
cruise i'll the channel to-day or to-mor-
row, and then the Emperor leaves for the
camp Of Helfaut, and the principal cities
of the Department of the Nord. He then
returns to Dicffe, and brings the Empress
back to Paris. This is travelling, think
you will acknowledge, with a good deal
of pomp and circumstance and yet the
Pays would have us believe that bis Ma
jesty is maintaining strict incognito
The Moniteur publishes another decree
for the admission of breadstuffS. Grains
and wheat imported by land or water, by
French or foreign ships, will only pay,
up to December 81, the minimum of the
duties fixed by the law of 1882. Rice,
dried vegetables, &C., imported in the
same way, will pay only five cents on
every two hundred pounds. Ships arriy-
ing with loads of the above specified ar
ticles, will pay no tonnage duty. In
connection with this subject, | may say
that it is rumored that several German
governments have prohibited the export
alton Of breadstuffs, but the story appears
to be unfOunded, or at least premature.
Bread here continues at the high rates of
the past month, and it is not likely at
present that it will fall.
The King Of Naples, too, has issued a
decree from Ischia, the Sth of this month,
taking off all duties on corn, barley, oats
pulse and -four, until the 31st of Decem-
Der.
The Orleans confscation decree of Jan
uary. 1852, was carried into execution
last Wednesday, at the Hotel de Vile, by
the sale of part of the domain of Nevillez,
near Paris. What was sold was divided
into fourteen lots. and the competition
was quite animated The sum obtained
was 100000 francs, being 10000 francs
more than the asset price. A German
journal publishes protest of the Orleans
princes against the sale.
France seems to be desirous of paying
attention to Lieut.. Maury, though he is
not in the country. The Moniieur an
nounces that work, entitled Maury's
Sailing Directions, was published at Wash
ington in 1851, intended, especially, for
the guidance of whalers; that it's charts
and statistics are in the highest degree
useful, and that a copy of the work is de-
posted in the Ministry of Commerce,
where all interested may consult it.
Queen Christina, of Spain, left Paris
for Havre on Friday. | am panied to say
that the train in which she was was de-
tanned an hour and half on the way bv
a refractory rail. The PGtrie is indig-
nant that any rail should be permitted to
become an obstacle in the way ofa Queen
Mother.
You will have heard that Mr.. Sandford,
our charge d'Atfaires, was present at the
official fete-day reception, in citizens
dress: and that the innovation caused much
sensation. and was the topic of much COM
ment. That this gentleman s simple cos
tune should attract attention and elicit
favorable notice among the spangles and
fnery of the Emperor s encourage, was too
much for the Constitutional, and so it
boldly denied Mr.. Sanford's existence
declared that there was no such person
here, or that he had not arrived, and that
"that is the sort of story that the CORES