Some time since Signor 3fanin announced that he was collecting
sub- scriptions in Paris towards the purchase of a hundred guns for the fortress of Alessandria. The Austrian Charge d'Affaires raised objections, and the French authorities told him they had already ordered Signor Ifanin to relinquish his enterprise. The Morning Post correspondent at Paris says, "that when this fact came to the knowledge of the Emperor, he informed the Minister of the Interior that it was his wish that the subscriptions should take place."
The correspondent of Galignani's .3fessenger gives an account of the visit of the Emperor and Empress of the French to St. Sebastian on Tuesday. They arrived at the port with a large suite in the steamers Newton and Pelican, and were received on landing by the authorities. They walked over the town and fortress, and the Emperor read "with interest" the inscriptions in memory of the English who fell at the famous siege in 1813.
"The Emperor's simple blue frock-coat, light waistcoat, and dark trousers, gave him the air of an English gentleman, to which contributes not a little a regular English-built hat."
The only person presented to the Emperor was the British Vice-Consul, Lieutenant March. The party did not set out on their return until "the shades of night were stealing over the Atlantic."
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