France is still wildly excited over the coming Imperial visit.
The attack on President McKinley has shaken all nerves, and the precautions taken to ensure the Russian Emperor's safety are of an almost extravagant description, a sentry. for example, being posted at every twenty-five yards of the rail- way to be traversed between Dunkirk and Compiegne. It is still doubtful whether the Czar will visit Paris even for a ;day, and we fancy the pressure upon him to do so does not game from the French Government, which knows that Paris cannot be searched for Anarchists, as Compiegne has been, with a microscope. It is understood that a Russian loan, probably for 240,000,000, will be floated in France immediately after the visit, and admitted that this is one of its motives ; but Parisians expect also political and economical results. They are sure that the duties on French wines in Russia will be materially reduced, and one political consequence, it is pointed out, is nearly certain. The Triple Alliance is to be ,renewed next year, and many of the objections to it raised both in Austria and Italy will be waived in presence of the indefinite fear created by the renewed embraces between Russia and France. They are most innocent embraces, but great Sovereigns have a certain liability to accesses of jealousy,—a statement tame also of their peoples.
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