The semi-official journals of Paris are in great glee at
the pro- spect of the collection of Kings who are, according to them, about to visit the Exposition. The Czar, it is said, has promised to come, and the Prince of Wales, and the King of Prussia, and, indeed, everybody except the Queen of Spain. It is to be a con- gress of Sovereigns. If these statements are correct, which we very much doubt, the exultation of the Imperialists will be shared by their master. He will at last have been received into that "European family" to which the Czar Nicholas said he should never be admitted, and which unanimously refused to give him an Empress. Hitherto no first-class Sovereign has visited him in his own house except Queen Victoria, and to gather them all at once would be a great social as well as political victory.
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