ARRIVAL OF THE SULTAN IN PARIS.

Grey River Argus, Volume IV, Issue 256, 3 September 1867, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SULTAN IN PARIS.

Under as fierce a sun and almost as blue a sky as that which tints the waters of his native Bosphorus, the Sultan of Turkey made his entry into Paris in the afternoon of June 29. His arrival at the Lyons railway station had been fixed for 4 o'clock, and shortly after that hour he was received by the Emperor and a small suite, composed of some of the marshals of France, and. several Ministers, with almost as much state, and quite as much military display, as the Czar himself, and certainly with all that enypressemuit with which the Emperor Napoleon welcomes his guests. The entire personnel of the Ottoman embassy was present to render its homage ; Djemil Pacha and others who had gone to meet the Sultan at Toulon having accompanied him throughout the remainder of his journey to the French capital. After the interviews and introductions had been gone through, Abdul Aziz took his seat in one of the Imperial State carriages, having the Emperor on his left hand and a couple of his own Ministers in front of him. The Emperor wore the uniform of a general of division. The Sultan was dressed in a red fez and a a blue frock ornamented with a moderate amount of gold lace, with a diamond star and the red ribbon of the Legion of Honor across his breast. Ten other State ; carriages followed, with the members of the Sultan's suite— all of the male sex. j Crowds. of people lined the route along which the procession passed, at the head of which rode several of the Emperor's equerries, then a band of trumpeters, followed by a company of Lancers ; next came the -first State carriage with coachmen and footmen in the gayest of green and gold liveries, in winch, as already stated, the Sultan and the Emperor sat side by side, and following this were the Cent Gardes, and then the remaining carriages containing the suite. Flags ] were ftying here and there along the route, "''-V,. ■-... «■ ->**-^ ■ ~ -taUW.:'^

which was densely crowded with people every step of the way from the railway station, the Place de la Bastille, and the Column of July, along the Rue St. Antoine and the Rue de Rivoli. The cortege passed through the quadrangle of the Louvre, which was packed with. Parisians in every part, the Cljasseiirs de Viiicennes keeping the line ole:vr, tlion through the Oour de Napoleon 111., and across the Place dv Carrousel, whore was collected an entire regiment of dragoons, several squadrons of the Garde de Paris, and one •or niorj regiments of the line. The Palace of the Tuileries was of corirse j entered beneath the Arc de Trioniphe, ! and the Sultan alighted at the Pavillion de l'Horloge. At the T iiileries the Sultan was received by the Empress with the usual ceremonial. He was then conducted to an apartment, where he remained some little time in conversation with the Eu.psror and Empress. Then he was takeu to the Palace of the Elyae'e, which has been set apart for him, a3 it was for the Czar. He was conveyed there in the same state as to the Tnileries,: the Emperor accompanying him, and in the evening a grand dinner was given to him by their Majesties.