LITTELL'S LIVING AGE. —No. 593.-6 OCTOBER 1855. From the Times and its Paris Correspondent. THE QUEEN AND THE EMPEROR. be expected of her by the most exacting ally; the noble and magnanimous policy which her Emperor has pursued in the face of all EuLondon, 18th, Aug. Saturday. rope, and in marked contradistinction to all its VARIOUS and checkered beyond the ordinary other Imperial rulers, forbid us for a moment lot of those spots of earth which man has chos- to entertain the idea that the time will ever en for his habitation have been the destinies come when so much common glory, so much of Paris. The mud village of Julian the mutual esteem, will be forgotten, and the days Apostate was not more different from the of old jealousies and animosities return upon pompous capital of Louis XVI., nor that cap-us. ital from the beautiful city that now spreads It were curious to speculate with what feelitself over the valley of the Seine, than are ings and with what emotions the illustrious lady the circumstances of this day from any which who will this day enter Paris will view that have preceded them during the long annals of beautiful capital of which she must have heard French and English history. English Kings and thought so much, but which alone, have, ere now, swept along the streets of Par- amid the brilliant circle in which she moves, is, but they came to claim a kingdom which she has by her exalted rank been prevented they could not hold, or in triumph for victories from visiting. The enormous facilities for to be speedily and bloodily avenged. It is a travelling now possessed by all ranks have incurious fact, that never since France was con- troduced a singular anomaly into the position solidated into one nation-and before that time of crowned heads. We do not speak of the Paris had no right to the title of the capital petty Princes of Germany, who seem to be of France-has an English monarch entered forever on the wing from the Court of one her gates in peace. Henry V. went there, patron to that of another, but of Sovereigns indeed, to celebrate his shortlived triumph, like the Queen of England, whose movements and Henry VI. to assume a crown, which soon are great historic events, not to be lightly unglided from his nerveless grasp. Charles II. dertaken, nor accomplished without the utmost was there as an exile and a fugitive, and James care and forethought. Such personages are II. concluded his dishonored life under the singularly placed. Living in the utmost splenshelter of the power of the Grand Monarch. dor and surrounded by the most dazzling magNow at last, in the fulness of time, we witness nificence, they are yet debarred from those a spectacle which our rugged forefathers prob- spectacles of beauty and grandeur which for ably never desired, and which we, however eign lands afford, and which are open to so anxious, could never have hoped to see-the many thousands of their subjects. The taste interchange of offices of the most cordial is formed and its gratification withheld, and friendship, marking not only the sincerity of it is therefore probable that no one ever enindividual regard, but the union of two great tered Paris with a mind more trained to adnations never hitherto wont to interchange mire its innumerable beauties and attractions, other courtesies than those which diversified and to appreciate the spectacle so long withthe brief intervals of a conflict extending, held of an elegance and splendor for which with little intermission, over a period of eight the world knows no parallel, than the Queen hundred years. Ten years ago indeed Queen of England. The time chosen for the visit is Victoria met at the Chatteau d'Eu the then as auspicious as all the accompanying circumSovereign of France, but the happy omens of that day were clouded shortly after by events which, though they did not shake the amity of the two nations, introduced a coldness between the two Royal families never wholly removed during the remaining days of the dynasty of Orleans. It is with no such misgivings that Queen Victoria goes to return the visit so Royally paid to her a few months ago by the present Emperor of France. The energetic support which France has so nobly and unflinchingly lent us in so many common dangers; the vigor and good faith with which she has performed all, and more than all, which could DXCIII. LIVING AGE. VOL. XI. 1 stances. The weather is splendid, and the period of the year promises to us as long a continuance of bright suns and blue skies as consists with the variable temperament of a northern climate. Both countries are cheered by the prospect of an abundant harvest, and the gratifying consciousness that their material prosperity is so firmly based that war itself with all its miseries has been unable to shake it; above all, just at this auspicious moment the thick and threatening clouds which have hung so darkly over the commencement of the campaign have rolled away, and success, so long waited for and so coy in her approach, has PARIS, SATURDAY, Aug. 18, 6 P.M. come at last in full radiance. From the Bal- and conceal their despondency,-not at the tic and the Black Sea arrive almost simultan- prompting of a frivolous spirit, which seeks eously tidings of two great victories, and what for shows and spectacles to drive away serious was perhaps, under the circumstances, most thought, but in the full consciousness that to be desired, France has the honor of a share they have solid reason to rejoice in the goodin both, while England can only claim part in ness of their cause, in the union of their counone. On the island fortresses of Sweaborg sels, in the success of their arms, in the prosthe English and French navies have demolish- pect of an honorable peace, and, above all, in ed with incredible ease, and without loss, the the firm persuasion that they have at last inarsenals and storehouses in which Russia had augurated an alliance destined, as they hope treasured up those vials of wrath which she and believe, to endure as long as the war and was one day to empty on the heads of her discord to which it has so happily succeeded. Scandinavian neighbors, and on the banks of the Tchernaya French and Sardinian valor has driven back the fierce attack of Liprandi with little loss, and yet with terrible slaughter. It would be difficult to give an exact idea of It is in the moment of triumph, in the first Paris for the last two days, of the animation, blush of victory, when it is beginning to re- the life, the activity, which pervades every ward on a scale more commensurate with the part. Not a railway train arrives from north, merits of the allies so much devotion and so east, or south that does not contribute its carmany sacrifices, that Queen Victoria enters go of human beings to swell the population of Paris a memorable personage, with whom the the capital, and te stranger who now visits it French nation may associate success and glory, may, without leaving the Boulevards or the and the idea of a peace which such successes Champs Elysées, see the quaint costumes of must, one would fondly hope, restore to us. various remote provinces. During the liveIn this symbolical union of the two peoples, long day the streets and thoroughfares are this interchange of acts of courtesy and friend- thronged with strangers, and at nightfall it reship between the two greatest Sovereigns of quires no small exertion to make your way on the world, we see the germ of a state of things the side-paths. The beauty of the weather which we cannot contemplate without a feeling contributes to swell this ever-moving tide of of thankfulness that we live in these latter population, and the wonder is where they can times, and not in those which have gone before find lodging. As for provisions, they are rapus. It is said that between England and idly reaching a point not far removed from America the community of interests and the famine price. Classes of industry unknown mutual interchange of the most amicable rela- before rapidly spring up into existence, which tions have rendered war impossible: the same do honor to the imagination of the inventor, state of feeling is rapidly arising between and I have no doubt fill the pockets of the England and France. Their enterprises are traders. A company was started some weeks assisted by our capital and ours by theirs; we since for the manufacture of French and Engare endeavoring to learn from them their ad-lish flags, for the adornment of private houses, mirable method and wonderful power of organ- speculative innkeepers, or publicans. Light ization-they are content to derive from us carts traverse the streets laden with the trisuch improvements as may have been tested color and St. George's Cross, which you may by the practical genius of the nation. We are happy to learn from each other without prejudice, without envy, and with only so much rivalry as seems to be inseparable from mutual esteem. have had some days ago for the comparatively moderate cost of 3f., but, like every other commodity, they have risen in proportion to the demand. There are few houses from the Porte St. Martin to the Madeleine where those gloWe do not doubt for a moment that Her rious colors are not waving side by side as they Majesty will receive to-day at the hands of wave together on the hills of the Crimea, and the people of Paris a salutation as cordial and as they will soon wave on the ruins of Sebasas gracious as that which met and everywhere topol. The alliance with England is expressaccompanied the Emperor and Empress of ed in every imaginable form. The wine-shops France in their recent visit to London. While are particularly zealous in this way. You see terror and dismay are shaking all souls in St. inscribed in large letters,-"Vive l'Empereur," Petersburg-while the Russian fleet is tremb-"Vive l'Imperatrice," "Vive la Reine Victoria," ling behind its granite bulwarks at the ap- "Vive le Prince Albert," "Vivant les petits proach of the victorious allies-and the garri- Princes et les petites Princesses," "Vive l' Alson of Sebastopol is reeling under the blow liance Anglaise," and "Vive le Vin et l'Ale." that it has just received, England and France This last compliment to the favorite bevercan find time to keep high holiday, not at the bidding of a despotic tyrant, who forces his people to be gay in order to relieve his terrors age of the countries has more meaning than a superficial observer may suppose. The master of the house is an agent for the sale of Allsopp's beer, and he is evidently convinc-| back even now many centuries. Each people ed that true patriotism is best exhibited by a may look back upon them with calmness and large consumption of the national liquids of with pride, for each finds the record of its own France and England. He who drinks not is heroism and its own glory. No better occasion no lover of his country, and a teetotaller is a could have happened to repair by a cordial assopriori a traitor or a Russian in disguise. ciation between two of the mightiest Powers of the world the evil that their enmity had brought upon the world. That glorious deed the Emperor of the French and Queen Victoria have accomplished, and posterity will be grateful to them for it. Lord Clarendon observed the other day in the House of Lords, when alluding to the Union between the two countries, that there was no longer an English Cabinet and a French Cabinet, but one sole Cabinet whose members were deliberating indifferently at one The whole of Paris seems suddenly to have acquired a knowledge of the English language, for there is scarcely a shop in which the passerby is not informed that "English is spoken." This notice of the possession of the vernacular is occasionally of the quaintest kind, or ambiguously worded as the dicta of the Delphic oracle. The Englishman who has got through the elements of the tongue may guess its meaning by the help of the corresponding translation in French. But it is not rare to see our new arrivals horribly puzzled when or the other side of the Channel. From they see on the windows of an eating-house in one of the back streets such notices as this, -"Bifsticks. Rosbiff-English spoken, et cuit a point." Or, again, in a Magasin de Modes, "Dentelles et blondes-English spoken avec de broderies superbes." Or, again, “Drab bon marché, presque pour rien-English spoken, a 4 francs la mètre." Or "Bon VinEnglish spoken, a 75 centimes le litre," etc. this day, when Queen Victoria makes her en- "It is this day that the Queen of England is to make her entrance into Paris. The presence of Queen Victoria in France will be for the inhabitants of Paris, an occasion for testifying their sentiments of affection and respect for the powerful ally of the Emperor, for that Sovereign, whose vast States do not count less than 200,000,000 of subjects; in this circumstance they will be the interpreters for all the nation; the Queen will find here a welcome not less cordial, not less enthusiastic than that which the Emperor and Empress have received in London. Certainly, one of the most important facts of our epoch, so fertile in great events, will be this visit to Paris of the Queen of England, under the reign of the Emperor Napoleon; this solemn consecration of an alliance now cemented by sufferings and victories in common, and which draw closer still During the whole night the sound of the hammer and the saw has not ceased. Structures have arisen everywhere almost with the rapidity of Aladdin's palace, and at one moment the great central thoroughfares seemed as if the days of barricading had again returned. The barricades and arches are there, but how different the purpose! Lofty poles and stately columns, with flags and streamers floating in the air, and tipped with gold, and the multitudes that crowd the public places are no longer wild bands in arms rushing to shed each other's blood. Of the thousands of workmen who are employed to adorn the city and render it worthy the visit of a mighty sovereign many may have figured in other times the mutual sympathies of the Sovereigns. in other occupations than preparing for the What more striking proof of her friendship presence of Royalty. The visit of the Queen can England give us than thus to confide to of England is the seal to that alliance which us at one and the same time her well-beloved three short years ago few would have dreamed Sovereign, who is a brilliant example on the of. It is an event which will be recorded in throne of every virtue, and the young Prince future annals as one of the most remarkable who is to succeed her? France will worthily of the extraordinary times we live in. The reply to this loyal confidence. The welcome reception prepared for her is not merely an given to the Queen of Great Britain will be act of courtesy offered by a gallant and chiv- addressed also to the august spouse so intialrous people to an august lady-it is a politi- niately associated with her high destinies, and cal act of the highest importance; it is the ap- who, by the rare qualities of his mind and by proval expressed by an entire people of the his noble character, has known how to concilipolicy of its Government, and a new and un- ate the esteem and affection of the English mistakable adhesion to the English alliance. nation. From the eagerness which is maniWhile thus welcoming Queen Victoria, France fested in all classes, from the preparations celebrates the reconciliation of two powerful which are making upon the points of passage nations who have effaced in the glorious fraternity of arms the last traces of ancient hatred, whose germs are, let us hope, for ever destroyed. Those recollections seem thrown of these august guests, it is easy to discern that the population comprehends all the bearing of this great event, that it associates itself heart and soul with the sentiments of the Em peror for his faithful ally, and that the arrival of the Queen of England in Paris will be a day of rejoicing for all France." BOULOGNE, Saturday. ing upon the ears of the Royal visitors, who could now distinctly see from the deck the fine cathedral-like dome of the church in the Upper Town, and the clean stone houses of the Haute Ville. The English men-of-war now THIS event, fraught with so much interest to took up the mimic thunder, and broadside afthe destinies of Europe, has this day set the ter broadside pealed from them. The ships seal to an alliance consecrated and cemented were soon enveloped in smoke, and when it by the blood already shed in defence of civili- had cleared away and the Royal yacht had zation. The news of the glorious successes neared the squadron every ship appeared of the French arms in the Crimea, which only with manned yards. As the Victoria and Alpreceded Her Majesty's arrival by a few bert drew still nearer to the shore a long dark hours, the recent destruction of Sweaborg by streak was seen stretching along the heights the allied fleets, and the commencement of for miles to the right and left of the town. another and, it is hoped, final bombardment Then wreaths and puffs of smoke, the gleam of the Russian lines south of Sebastopol, were of bayonets, and, by and by, the distant rattle circumstances of such happy augury that the of musketry converted the long dark streak Queen seemed to bring victory and good for- into lines of French soldiery. They not only tune with her; while the glorious harvest crowned the heights, but wherever a lower weather, with its associations of plenty and ridge upon the cliffs gave "coigne of vantage abundance, gave superadded joyousness to the to a company of infantry there were drawn Royal progress. A cloudless sky, a sea re-up Chasseurs de Vincennes, or the light comsembling a glassy Inland lake, reflecting in panies of a French infantry regiment, whose every slight ripple the rays of a brilliant Au- sharp volleys alternated with the deep-mouthgust sun, a people feverish and excited with a ed welcome of the ordnance of the port. mingled feeling of enthusiasm and curiosity, When the Royal yacht crossed the bar, at 15 but offering the respectful homage of its ad- minutes to 2, loud hurrahs broke from the miration, and all the minor accessaries and crowds upon the left jetty. On the right jettokens of welcome which the boundless taste ty, along the lower stage near the water, was and ingenuity of an accomplished people one unbroken line of French infantry, who could devise have greeted Queen Victoria's entry into France. " presented arms as the Royal yacht passed. Bands of music were stationed at intervals on The Victoria and Albert Royal yacht, with both sides of the jetty, and the wonderfully spirthe Queen and Prince Albert, the Prince of ited and vigorous roll of the French drums was Wales, the Princess Royal, and the members continuous. The spectacle was now extremely of the Royal suite, left Osborne at 4.30 this striking. The quay contained an immense multimorning. She passed Cowes at 6.10, Beachy- tude. Tricolored flags and British ensigns wavhead at 8.45, Dungeness at 11.25, was sighted ed in profusion from every house, and the whole at Boulogne about 12.30, and arrived off port was gay with streamers, flags, and garBoulogne about half-past 1. A mist over-lands. Every window had its group of fair spread the channel early in the morning, but spectators. Opposite the Depôt de Bagages it cleared away as the day advanced. When was seen a square pavilion or small templethe Royal yacht had steamed to within about like edifice, open at the sides and decorated four miles from Boulogne, Captain Smithett, in the style of the loggie of the Vatican, which, who piloted her, waited a few minutes either as it appeared the most conspicuous object for the tide or for the arrival of the steamers along the quay, was correctly supposed to be forming the Royal escort, or for both, and the place where the Emperor awaited the arthen the Victoria and Albert, conspicuous by rival of his Royal visitors. As soon as the her three masts, her great size, and fine pro- Victoria and Albert drew alongside this pavilportions, steamed majestically for the harbor. ion Her Majesty appeared at the ship's side, She carried the Royal standard of England at and gracefully acknowledged the salutations the main, the tricolor at the fore, the union of the Emperor. A stage was thrown on jack at the bows, and the Royal ensign at the board, the Emperor quickly ran up the platstern. The English men-of-war forming the form, and, after respectfully kissing her Masquadron of honor were drawn up outside the jesty's hand, saluted her upon both cheeks, harbor, and formed an imposing spectacle. according to imperial and Royal etiquette and Each ship had the British ensign and the tri- the theory which presumes that crowned heads color floating at the main, and each gave in- stand in sacred and fraternal relations to each numerable flags to the wind. At 25 minutes other. The Emperor then cordially shook past one the first note of welcome was given hands with Prince Albert, the Princess Royal, by the sharp ring of a brass gun at the batte- and the Prince of Wales, and, giving his band ry on the Capecure side, and one after an- to the Queen, led her down the stage to the other the Royal salute came distantly boom-pavilion, within which state chairs were plac ed on a dais, and here Her Majesty, seated, adorned with flags, and high masts bore aloft received the congratulations of the civic au- the Imperial and Royal standards of France thorities and the English residents. After a and England. Within the courtyard were brief pause the Emperor led Her Majesty to three carpeted rows of seats for a select comone of the Royal carriages. The Princess pany, the backs of the stages being covered Royal took her place beside the Queen, and with velvet. The belfry tower over the grand Prince Albert and the Prince of Wales took entrance, the arches of the windows, and the the opposite seats, while the Emperor mount- pilasters had their appropriate standards, eaed his horse, and rode upon Her Majesty's gles, green leaves, and flowers, and initial right hand. letters in gold upon velvet. How can one At this spectacle of the Emperor himself describe the marquise, with its roof of velvet, forming a part of her Majesty's escort and its fine curtains of red velvet, its six candeguard of honor the acclamations of the multi-labra entwined and overflowing with flowers, tude were redoubled, and cries of" Vive la its exquisitely designed carpet-but a carpet Reine!" and "Vive l'Empereur !" were not worthy, as it should seem, of such visitors, mingled with the hearty cheers of the Eng- for it is covered with velvet where they are lish spectators. The French minister of to walk? The reception room was a wonder War rode at the opposite side of the Royal of French upholstery. Its walls hung with carriage, and the Emperor's brilliant staff rich red velvet, strewed with spangled bees followed. Then came a carriage containing and leopards, the openings covered with musthe two ladies in attendance upon the Queen, lin curtains and velvet hangings with golden the Earl of Clarendon, and the Marquis of acorns-its tribunes covered with velvet and Breadalbane. The other members of the embroidered with coats of arms-its twelve Royal Household followed, and the Dragoons huge vases of flowers suspended from the and Lancers brought up the rear. The road ceiling, and its one magnificent flower vase in was kept by French infantry, whose drums the centre, its richly designed carpet covering and bugles made military music as the Royal the whole space must in turn give place to the cavalcade slowly proceeded through dense marvels of the Queen's reception-room, with crowds to the railway station. Her Majesty, its door lined within with white velvet, its who appeared to be in excellent health and spirits, acknowledged in the most gracious manner the vivats of the people. The Queen wore a white bonnet and blue satin visite, and Prince Albert a Field-Marshal's uniform, with the blue riband of the Garter. The Emperor wore the uniform of a general of division, with the Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honor. walls of red and white silk hangings crimped ; its mirrors, toilet tables, couches, sofas, and chairs disposed with that taste and eye to ensemble which made the spectators wonder whether Parisian taste in decoration could greatly transcend the splendors of the Boulogne railway-station. In the station itself, where the Royal train was drawn up, were seats filled with English and French fashionables. The preparations made at the railway sta- Upon the arrival of the Royal party at the tion at Capecure to do honor to the Royal station the directors of the railroad were preguests were on a scale of surpassing magnifi-sented, and, after a short delay, the Royal cence. A sum of 25,000f. had been voted for party were ushered to their carriages. In the these decorations, and good taste as well as first saloon the Emperor, the Queen of Engliberality had presided over the distribution. land, the Prince Consort, the Prince of Wales, Two lodges were constructed at the entrance and the Princess Royal took their seats. At of the station, and between the lodges a tri-half-past 2 o'clock the train, containing nine umphal arch, 75 feet high, upon a scale of im- carriages, glided noiselessly from the station, posing grandeur, was constructed. The lower amid a salvo of artillery. Montreuil was the part of this are de triomphe was of open gilt first station decorated in honor of the visitors. lattice-work, 40 feet high, and adorned with At Abbeville, the fine cathedral of which is flowers and evergreens tastefully disposed. At seen from the station, considerable preparathe spring of the arch was a green scroll, with tions were made to do honor to the guests of the words, "Welcome to France," in large the Emperor. Two thousand cavalry and ingold letters. The arms of England and France fantry were drawn up in view of the railway rose above the scroll, and a colossal figure re-station, at the entrance of which was a large presenting the Genius of Civilization held inscription, "Welcome to France," surmountaloft a scroll with a suitable inscription. The ed by an eagle and surrounded by flags. The flags of England and France, Turkey and Mayor and civic authorities of Abbeville Sardinia, waved side by side, and shields, ban-awaited the arrival of the train at the platners, emblazonments, streamers and garlands form, and proffered their congratulations, which of flowers were distributed through the various were received and acknowledged by Her Macompartments of the gigantic structure. The jesty in a manner that won the hearts of all two lodges on each side of the arch were also Abbeville. After clearing the railway station |