FRANCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume V, Issue 250, 24 March 1855, Page 6

FRANCE.

Public opinion in France seems 'to be rapidly .'..•' growing in favour of England. The Moniteur gives expression to a common sentiment, in reproducing:, with the warmest reciprocation of acknowiedjrmeht':, Lord Raglan's praise of the French troops. Nor is this feeling confined to official quarters. All the journals except the Assemblee Nationals 'and the Union applaud the hearing of the English at lnkermann. All the parties except the Orleanists and Legitimists do the like. "An Anglo-Parisian," in the Times, supplies some instances: — I was purchasing a cigar a day or two since in a shop on the Bouvelards, when a cabman came in to buy tobacco. "Is it true," said he^ addressing a Frenchman, thatßooo Englishmen kept the field against 45,000 Russians until Bosquet came up, and that in company with our soldier*:, they charged the enemy and killed 9000 ?" "Yes." "Then, although I have always hated the English, and considered them false and perfidious, if an Englishman were now -to* fall into the Seine, I would jump after and try to save him, though I can't swim a stroke. Here are heroes; why the Old Guard : could never have done more; and to think they are , EugHshnien, whom I have been haling all my •■.'/."life-! -"But.it is never too late to learn." :r t ti ; Sevenii E»»lish officers, woumled at the Alma, V; lately passed through Paris, and ventured in Sf undress uniform, (their only clothes) into the *V^ruileries gardens. With shattered bodies and embroidery they looked as became gFineo who had been fighting fur their country.:

The people pressed rovmd them in all directions, and gave most hearty signs of their sympathy, desiring to shake them by their undamaged hand, for most of them had one arm in a sling, "Voiln, dcs Anglais, dcs blesses del' Alma," was heard in all directions, mingled with avoids of good-fellowship from the men, and of pity from the softer sex. 'One old man, more practical than the rest, judging from the condition of their uniforms, and their honourable scars, that they must want money, offered to supply them with anything they required, and was quite grieved that they had no occasiou to avail theni- , selves of his generosity. ! The Charivari contains a picture of a Highlander standing sentinel at his post with,a precipice and the sea immediately at his back: a French soldier and a Tartar peasant regard him from below. "What folly," says the Tartar, "to place a sentry in such a position." " There is no danger," replies the chasseur," Ces soldats la ne reculent jaraais." And this in the Charivari, written by some of the most consistent Republicans in Frauce, and so long bitter against England and all connected with her.! The Emperor reviewed the regiments of cavalry, infantry, and artillery*, constituting the new Imperial Guard on the 27th ult., in honour of Lord Palmerston. The infantry were drawn up in the avenues of the garden of the Tuileries, and the cavalry and guns in the Champs Elysees: about 12,000 of these picked troops were on the ground. The " Cent Gardes," so much talked of, appeared for the first lime on horsebuck. The Empress and her ladies watched the scene fromthebalconyin theSalles Mareschaux ; Prince Jerome and Lord Palmerston stood behind her chair. After dining with Prince Jerome on the 28th ult., Lord and Palmerston departed from Paris for London. The French legislature has been summoned for the 28 th December.