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The French Emperor and Empress.

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The following interesting sketch of Louis
Napoleon, and the Empress Eugenie, we cx'r,ct
from a recent letter of the Paris correspond
cnt Of the Carolina Times:
1t is not hard to get sight of Loui, Napoleon
for being so recently elevated to the throne,
lie has not vet learned 10 sacrifice his own
lie may been seen nlm"st any day with the
Empress. riding in the Champs Elysces. My
first view Of him was the beat 1t was at the
close of the carnival, md singular procession
parnded The streets known ns heaA''Bocuf
Grass" Itwas q singular medley of cavalry
music, men in fantastic dresses of the Middle
Ages aud hold looking females gau,lily dress
cd and painted, the whole conducting about
the city two huge foNcn, decorated with rib.
bons aud drawn in cars This ridiculous af-
fnir. which thought had been gotten up for
the amusement of those making up the pro
ccssion, turned out to be n sort of national af.
fair in the end for after parading the city for
three days, followed by n promiscuous crowd,
it was grnvcly reviewed by the Emperor in the
yard OF the Palace of the Tuilcrics. Passing
along heard the music and saw the crowd
rushing into the Palace yard, and usual |
followed suit. Several thousand persons were
gathered before the balcony where the E,npe-
ror and Empress were standing, and before
which this stupid exhibition Of fnt beef WAS
passing and rcpassng l managed to get
very and to takca good look Mt their
Majcsties. His busis exhibited on the
coins amp elsewhere, arc quite accurate like
ncsscs of him md show the two most striking
features of his face to be long nose and big
moustncEc. The Empress is IL beautiful little
woman, and seemed to command the interest
OF the crowd much more than Napoleon. Just
rs the procession left, the whole crowd press
ed up to the balcony waving their hats and
crying "Nivc PEmpcrcour,' "Five pEmpc
rott tpl, oo1,n
with many bows. When the Empress was
disposed to leave, the crowd repeated their
shouts, 'Fivc rEmperatricc," and upon her
turning once more I" bow to them, they clam
orcd Justify for sight of the Prince. She
bowed gracefully to the crowd and pointed to n
window below. AROUND which ac al gathered,
and soon chubby little baby was held up by
its nurse, nt the window, and then what a
yell arose! Fivc lc Prince "Vive le Prince"
was shouted by the gathered thousands. The
nurse evidently understood the business, for
Just rs the clnrnor began to subsile che took
hold Of the arm of the Prince md waved it
to the crowd. and then carried its hnnd to its
lips and its heart This made the crowd %
into sl'a,nis Of delight and after yelling until
they were tired, nll hands left.
There is something extremely pleasing in the
appearance of the Empress. The portraits to
DC seen of her, usually give sleepy unn,cnning
look about her eyes, which she does not really
have. Her eyes and indeed her whole fnce
arc indicative of great intelligence and bencv-
olcnce. She seems universally popular, and
while the Emperor is never spoken of with
enthusiasm, the Empress is equally alluded to
with expressions of kindness and admiration.
This, no doubt, is owing much to her extreme
affabiltv. She rides out great deal, but. has
n smile and bow for all. She is the only
piece of royalty that have yet seen, that
take off my hat to, with pleasure. She seems
to miss seeing no one and you are Ger nin to
he greeted with smile aud n bow But. in
the matter Of bows, DC, it seems the Royalty
must have some rule on the subject. Queen
Victoria, when I saw her, rode smlkily along
seeing no ono, while Prince Albert has rs mucl,
rs lie could ,4lo to do the polite thing. Louis
Napoleon, rides granlly along. looking unupv-
cil with folded arms Mt the uncovered heads
around him, while his pretty little wife is
kept busy answering for him. Within n few
weeks, a. large band of conspirato.s, to tho
number of thi rty have been arrested, who, il
appears. we're banded togcthcr for the destruc.
tlon of Napoleon and family. sIfiis has made
them extremely cautious about the Prince
Napoleon and Eugcnie still continne their rides
Will, simply their Outrilcrs, but the Prince is
meyer sent out now without being carefully
guarded. Only yesterday. saw the Prince
or rather, saw what wus said to be the
Prince, riding ont Neither the Prince, his
nurse nrthe maids of Honor, that usually nc
compnny.li him were visible--fpr before, behind
and on each side were heavy body Of cavaI-
ry will, drawn swords. :, As they dashed along
with the clattsr of their armour and the tramp
of their horses, it sounded far. more like the
thnn,lrr Of an onset in battle, than the pleas
ure ride Of Prince.