SIT OF THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS TO QUEEN VICTORIA.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume XII, Issue 1283, 18 November 1857, Page 4

SIT OF THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS TO QUEEN VICTORIA.

The Emperor and Empress left St. Cloud on e sth of August for England, via Havre. I’heir Majesties were accompanied by the Count end Countess Walewski, Generals Rollin, Fleury, ond the Princess d’Esling. The roval party reached Havre in the evening, and left immediately in the Imperial steam yacht “La Reioe Hortense ” cn route for Osborne, where they remained until the 10th of August, when their Imperial Majesties left for France. The rumours prevalent as to the object of this visit are con* tradictory, some alleging it to be quite of a private nature, while others gave it a political complexion. “ It is believed,” says the Paris correspondent of the Times, “that this visit to Osborne will not be a mere exchange of compliments, but that during the Emperor’s brief sojourn several weighty matters will he discussed between th* two sovereigns and their respective ministers. Count Walewski will accompany the Emperor, Perhaps it is-considered that the moment has come to place on a firmer footing than ever the Anglo-French alliance. It may be doubted whether any temptation would be strong enough to estrange the Emperor from the alliance, but circumstances are too grove to permit even the appearance, 1 will not say of estrangement, but of doubt on that point. That Russian agency has been busy in India is the opinion of men who are not accustomed to be led away by mere suspicion, but who profess to have good reasons for forming their conclusions. They now call to mind the dark hints of approaching danger to * one of the allies’ expressed by Russian agents and spies in Paris towards the close of the Crimean campaign. These hints were not then very clearly understood by the few whose ears they reached, or they passed unheeded.”