Year: 1862

1 The Paris correspondent Of the New York
Journal Of Commerce wrote as follows on the
10Th Of August;


We are in the midst OF the national fete o
the St. Napoleon, the only festival for the due
celebration of which, as the M0nitear officially


informs US, tine Minister Of the Interior, and no,
Minister of War, undertakes to supply gun
powder. To judge by the thunders which
awOke US from our morning sumbers at six
o'clock, the supply must have been of unlimited
extent for the guns Of the Invalides and to
judge by the preparations making for the fise-


works this evening, at the POnt De Jean and the
Place du ITone, there is intended to no lack OF
the same noisy material tonight. The whole
city, too, is decked out in its gayest apparel and
on all sides preparations have been made for the
amusement of the population. The day begins


of course, with masses and Te DeHHs at Notre
Dame and all the churches, which are consist
emily followed up by the opening Of the thea


ters gratis to audiences which may be safely
pronounced to be more numerous than select.
These representations take place at one o'clock,
and if any one desires to become acquainted
with the sort Of population which Paris is able


to supply fer this national tesivity, he cannot
do better than place himself Tor half an hour as
a spectator before the doors of one of the thea


ters. For the thousands who are unable or ma
willing to enter, there are plenty Of 0pea air
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on the water, mats dc oGcagHe aud hundred
similar entertainments and occupations


At night the iluminstions promise to be more
than usually splendid and effective. More than
10000 gas lights of various descriptions have
teen distributed over the Place de Ia Concord


and its fountains and along the entire avenue OF
Champs Elysees, as far as the Arc de PEtoile
and besides these, all the principal editices OF
the city and many of the leading th0roughfares
tor ,ra1f 81,
oad empire does not do much to enlightsn tbe


minds of its subjects Internally, no 0ne can &C.
cuse it Of parsimony as far as external bdliiaucy
is concerned. In the midst Of all this jubilation


which is going or as l write, there is just ons
serious thought aud object OF interest connected


with the fete and that is, whether the Emperor
intends to take advantage OF the official Teeep-
tionS on the occasion to say few words of his
imperial mind on the subject Of Rome OF any


other question. There is an Impression that be
does intend doing so and perhaps a this very
moment the dicta are passing lis lips. Ii so,
shall endeavor, If possible to transmit them 20
you in 3 postscript should they become public
before this letter is mailed. That they viii re-
main closely locked up in the imperial bosom
until the very moment of utterance, is a fact of
which no one can entertain q doubt who has
studied the character Of the ruler Of France tcr
the last ten years.


We have some tidings, but more uncertainty
respecting Garibaldi. A sort Of reneOntre has


taken place between his volunteers and the
regular troops but | confess that fOr my own
part, am still indisposed to regard she occur
rsnces taking place in Sicily in very serious
light A friend well acquainted with Gaubsldi,
and whe only recently parted iE0m him, assures
me thst he left him under the impression that the
sx-DictstOT was acting only as al agitator and
not an aggressoT; that his present object was
only to prevent the Roman question from slum-
bering, not to solve it by force; and he even
went so far as to expresses his conviction that
Rstazzi and Garbaldi perfectly understood each
other.


At all events Garibaldi seems to have declared
that nothing shall induce him TO enter into a
conflict with Italians and that his motto is still
Italy and Victor Emanuel ~ The mad al
dress said to have been made by him to his vol
unteers at Raccs-Palombs, in which he declares
himself ready to march against the govern
ment of the King, against France, and, rather
than yield, destroy the Italy he has created =
certainly wears the appearance of exaggerstion,
and, at all events, requires confirmation But


the sensation is undoubtedly great, and the Ital-


ian securities are declining rapidly under its
influence


The Emperor is preparing to quit Paris for the
camp of Chalons. Yesterday be reviewed, on a
grand scale the regular troops aud the National
Guard, amidst vast assemblage OF people. The
Empress proceeds almost Immediately to Biar-
ritz, where the Emperor will shortly join her.
The fashionable and political season of Paris


both close finally with the fete of to-day, and
every official person is preparing to leave the
capital. Business of sll kinds is equally at a
stand-still, and stagnency viii be the order Of
the day for the remainder of the autumn.