M. Loubet, the President of the French Republic, left Russia
on Friday after a most successful visit. Arriving in the Montcalm ' at Kronstadt on Tuesday morning, the President was escorted on board the Czar's yacht, and pro- ceeded at once to Peterhof, and thence by train to Tsarskoe Selo, where he was entertained at a gala dinner. On the following day be witnessed a grand review at Krasnoe Selo, and at the luncheon, as at the dinner, there was the usual inter- change of international compliments and reference to the brotherhood-in-arms of the two nations. M. Loubet's simple geniality seems to have won all hearts, and the defer- ence he has shown to the Empress Alexander is especially noted in evidence of his unfailing tact. Curiously enough, Prince Louis Bonaparte, as a Russian officer, is stated to have been on duty at Peterhof on the President's arrival. And the Kaiser, who takes such a sympathetic interest in foreign journalists, will be interested to learn that the new editor of the Figaro was "the only one of the forty foreign journalists who was in the Imperial train, who lunched there, and who is staying at Tsarskoe Selo."
