New-York tribune., 1867-07-25
yIon Oar speeial CoITe.pondent
LoNDoN, July 10, 1867


.GENCE
yIoB Oar Special Correspondent
LoNDoN, July IS, 1867.
The reception of the Sultan yesterday was as
English, in other words as ugly, externally as a
reception could well be- saw him enter Paris, and
the contrast between the that occasion and
on this were truly remarkable, the Prince Of
Wales, who witnessed incog. the Paris affair must
have deeply felt There was, indeed, something
elegant in the reception in the Charng Cross
Station and the big hotel was finely decorated,
but from that point all the way down to White
hall there was nothing more impressive for the
Oriental imagination than the crowd which had
been standing for over an hour the boiling,
sultry weather, taking Turkish bath in honor of
his Highness counted about 10 fags among these
there single crescent-all the rest crosses,
chiefly ST. Georges At intervals there were mounted
Life Guardsmen, who amused themselves by back
ing their horses on the toes of the crowd. There
was band which played quadrille music, much to
the edfcatiOn of the boys on LandseeTs lions. There
being but one set of grand coaches in LOndOn-th0se
which appear in the Lord Mayors show each year,
which are gaudy limitations OF the royal ones
that same unfolding picture of the Lord Mayors
show which has been hawked about the
streets these many years as view of that civic pro-
cession was sold now as view of the present cor
tege, and il really was something ike the tail Of
Lord Mayors show. The Sultan sat in a coach drawn
by two hOrses-twOl and in Paris il was eight-with
from the crowd were There he isp That's
himp There were several rows about stand;
Ing-places as he passed, and when one
thipks of that moving forest of banners, that
wonderful music that hOated around and beneath
him all the way, that peaceful brilliant crowd, the
singing fountains and columns and gardens of the
Tuileries and the Champs Elysees, this almost
seems like sudden descent from salon to a cellar.
Nevertheless when the Sultan gets out of our dismal
streets passes the high dull walls that shut out the
people, when be gets into the English courts and
drawing-rooms and sees the ladies and their dia-
monds, and sees the banquets of the nobility, he will
not find them shabby. Paris with all its
glory has not such an inside as London. The
he is entertained in Buckingham Palace in
unopened since '53; he is by Allahs
will. to go through certain pTedestined luncheons
beginning with one at Windsor Castle tomorrowl
dinners, and so on, and he is to the opera Ma
saniellO at Covent Garden, and hear a Turkish hymn
sang TO Turkish words; he rs to see the Geological
Gardens and the Crystal Palace fountains illumi-
mated he is TO grand review of troops This
last is the point in which England bopinQ 10 snr-,
pass the French display Of last week. Last evening
while he was dining, a band performed barcarOlle
composed by himself One wonders what would be
the effect Of all this upon. Abdul Aziz were he a
philosopher; but he is nothing OF the kind On the
contrary, he is rather heavy stupid little man. who
says little for the very best of reasons fhe Yceroy
f. 8f Egypt, who Is, wandering about the parks IN
sadly eelipsed condition, IL man OF real intelligence
and even OF considerable culture; but the Thames is
perfectly safe from ignition so far as the Sultan is
concerned. ..rH
On Wednesday evening Mr. George Smith (of
smith, Elder a. Col the proprietor of the very sue
eessim fdu Nal Gazette, gave magnificent dinner
% the friends and contributors Of that Journal The
affair took place at Greenwich, and was something
after the fashion of the annual Ministerial White
bat Dinner; The English people are very fond
OF these hsh dinners, and they arc served with
gTeat elegance The party assemblies in room