The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-10-27
English Ideas of the Visit and Its Results.
From the Lonaon Times. Oct. 1871


The 800 600 sous which make up the motley and
mongrel population OF Constantnople have outlived
grand day. The Empress OF the French has made
her appearance among them. Inc Imperial Eagle"
bearing that exalted lady folded his wings on the
Bosphorus on Wednesday. There IL enough
IN the laconic account OF the Empress' arri.
tue scene with sufficient yyidness TO the
dulles imagination. me Empress yacht,
been met, as II was intended by the Grand Nizier
and his star OF officers at the Dardanelies steamed
lelsurety In from the sea OF Masmora, rounded the
Seraglo Point attended by large retinue of boats
auen with foreign diplomatists and Ottoman dignIta-
RES ana by powerful escort OF TURKISH iron-cads
and steeTed into the strait, leaving Scutarl on her
right, and on the left the triangular mass OF STAN
bout, reclining like fallen pyramid on the water
with the separate suburbs Of Gaata and Pera racing
IL athWatt the beautiful basin OF the Golden Horn
on through TINS singular confluence OF three seas
~ SIGHT OF panorama OF towers domes and
expresses, constituting the most picturesque site in
Inc word-on giined the imperial lady from the
West past all the splendor ana quaintness OF that
Eastern scene till the Aige came 10 ner m0orings at
the Begierbeg Palace, the Empress appointed
dence, beyond Scutarl, and nearly opposite to
the sultan's own abode OF Doimabachtsche.
AT Hegterbag the Empress was received uy
the sultan IN caque, also specially con-
structed for bis guests use-a forty -oared barge
surrounded By canopy, at The mere fringe ana
tassels OF which 200 Turkish women, skilled In
golden embroidery, have been at work or months
and Wtn massive silver dove at the PROV, concern
ing The weight ana value OF which almost fabulous
accounts are gwen. There was sensation enough
even Tor an Empress As the coGntenance OF the
Empress heame1 with her ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF the
chant with winch the Catholic school girls greeted
her--tneir shrli hymns strangely bending With the
boom OF the salute gun lrou the seven Towers
and the Admiral frigate-as she leaned on
the arm rendered by the Sultan, IN gal
ant compliance with European usaQes-as she.
AFTER sunset, gaZed the blaze vi light IRON every
mast and from every mInaret, bia1o spreading ali
the da.a from the Sea OF MarmOra to the Black
sea, an illumination, we are told. outdOing every
Thing that Paris, even Rome, ever eXhlbited-who
can tell now busy the imperial ady's mind may have
been With the contrast between that gorgeous reality
ana tie Arabian Nights dreams OF her whole life
time, between the living evidence OF Mussulman
pomp aud power before her and the dim recollec-
lions OF that same Mussuiman magnilcence cum
berng the ground win lts wreck on the heights OF
her naive ufduaaag
- Pat however disastrous may be the imme-
date effects Of the too generous hospitality OF those
Eastern pote1tales on their exhausted treasures,
AMI Whatever influence their boundless prodlgallty
may have in sinking their funds IN the European
money markets, IL would not he right to account
their impruviaencc as mere dead loss to their SUD
ject No trlning amount OF Western gold Will find its
INTO the ills OF shop and stall keepers at Eastern
bazaars and, what Is OF more moment full tide OF
Western LIE, both industrial and intellectual, VIII
flow into those comparatively stagnant pools OF
STEAMBOAT ana CAIRO. Already the necessity OF allow
lug free iugress TO the Agle had been the Occs sion
FOR opening the DardaneleS and Bosph0rus or night
navigation 10 all the merchant vessels OF the world;
and IL not unlikely That the light OF the animated
cOuntenance OF The Empress Eugene, with her
ladies' OF honor she paid her visit to the Sutana
Naide ana the other secluded inmates OF the
Seragho, may determine a revolution which has long
been maturing, revolution which Is to do away
with the mystery and coquetry of the Nasnmavk,
and TO allow Eastern beauty TO shine forth IN its
unveiled DFllllanCy in the suns light.