The ex-Emperor of the French arrived at Dover on Tuesday,
and was warmly received by a large mob, which appears to have been actuated partly by curiosity, partly by kindness, and partly by the reaction in the Emperor's favour caused by recent scenes in Paris. Mr. W. H. Payn, the borough coroner, apparently 'under the impression that the affair was very like an inquest on the dead, took the lead in congratulating the Emperor, reminding him that fifteen years ago he, as Mayor of Dover, had welcomed him to Dover. Punch should give us that coroner's picture. Considering that the Emperor landed fifteen years ago as a great Monarch, under all the honours paid to Royalty, Mr. Payn must have a perfect genius for bad taste. The Dover mob hustled the Emperor, of course, and the London mob crowds so upon him when he goes to mass that the Catholic priest at Chisel- hurst has to impose a fee of half-a-crown. Considering that all we now witness in France is the result of twenty years of Napoleon's rule, both the London and the Dover mobs might in mere decent respect for a fallen country display a little more self-restraint.
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