• The Motiftenr of yesterday contained a report of the
ceremonial pro- ceedings at the British Embassy on Wednesday, when Lord Cowley so- lemnly invested the French officers with the Order of the Bath. At the banquet that followed, Lord Cowley proposed "The Emperor of the French " ; and Prince Napoleon proposed this toast, "In the name of the Army, to the Queen of England." "After these words, Lord Cowley. drank to the French Forces by land and sea ; and his Excellency Count Walewski drank to the health of the Army and Navy -of Great Britain. At length the Ambassador of England, ending by a final toast, most opportune and important at the present mo- ment, proposed the speedy conclusion of peace, the legitimate 11.e that the new negotiations give to the Allies, and hi particular to the English people, of at length seeing the evils of war ended,—those evils, his Excel- lency added, of which the illustrious soldiers here preaent have been able to appreciate the full extent." The I/gni/ear remarks, that "this fete, so complete, is another link between the two armies and the two peoples," upon whose alliance "the future destiny of the civilized world rests."
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