7 MAY 1859, Page 11

The Globe correspondent at Paris, in his letter dated Thursday

evens ing, thus describes the procession of the remnants of the Old Guard to the Napoleon column- " This being the day the Imperial captive died at St. Helena, about noon the Place Vendome was filled with the fragments of the old guard men of Austerlitz and Marengo, ranged before the bronze pillar. They formed into a sort of tottering column, venerable drums (rather asthmatic) in front, and moved slowly down Rue Castiglione and Rivoli (two victories on Lombard soil,) towards the Tuileries. The uniforms were various, two aged tname- lukes still extant typified the Egyptian epoch, but the turban has now no singularity since the Zouaves appeared ; the white facings, breeches and gaiters of the Vieille Garde, seemed a world too wide for the shrunk shanks' of the septuageuarians (and upwards), who hobbled on in that once formidable garb. Numbers of this veteran array were in civilian costume, some evidently of the higher rank of Paris society. The crowd looked on with too deep a feeling of veneration to disturb the solemn procession with noisy cheers; the ghosts of their grandfathers seemed to walk in noon-day."

We hear from Berne, May 5, that " the Federal Assembly, has ag- proved of the declaration of neutrality and of the measures of defence taken by the Federal Council, and has appointed General Dufour Com- mander-in- Chief of the army of Switzerland."

Some further particulars in anticipation-of the Bombay mail have been received by telegraph. Sir R. Shakspeare succeeds to Sir Robert Hamil- ton, now en route to England. Lord Clyde, when last heard of, was at Delhi, on his way to Simla. The Northam which carried the Bombay mail to Suez did not meet anywhere the Australian mail steamer.

Lord Elgin arrived at Suez in the Furious, and was carried from Alexandria in the Caradoc to Marseilles. He left that town for Paris on Thursday.