Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria . ftyfrancs and under. Tn April, 1855, the Emperor and Empress visited Eng-land, and in the following August, Queen Victoria andPrince Albert visited Paris; and in each coimtry the re-ception (if the respective sovereigns was of the most splen-did, and with the people of the most enthusiastic, May, 1855, the Emperor opened a Temple of Concord,the grand Exposition of the arts and industry of all na-tions, which had the effect of attracting to Paris the larg-est number of visitors almost ever known there. Par
Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria . ftyfrancs and under. Tn April, 1855, the Emperor and Empress visited Eng-land, and in the following August, Queen Victoria andPrince Albert visited Paris; and in each coimtry the re-ception (if the respective sovereigns was of the most splen-did, and with the people of the most enthusiastic, May, 1855, the Emperor opened a Temple of Concord,the grand Exposition of the arts and industry of all na-tions, which had the effect of attracting to Paris the larg-est number of visitors almost ever known there. Parisitself too has been improved by new streets of almostunrivalled architectural splendor. In March, 1856, the conferences for negotiating a peacebetween the Western Powers and Russia opened at on the sixteenth of the same month, the Emperorwas made happy by the birth of a son and an heu to theImperial crown. The more recent history of the present Emperor ofFrance is familiar to the pul)lic mind, and hardly requiiesto be Iehearsed in fmther detail on these E y G E M D E >.5 OF TUF EUGENIE, EMPRESS OF The full-length portrait of this distiiiguisheJ ornamentof the French Court was engraved from a painting hyWinterhalter, and is accompanied by the foUowig sketch: Eugenie, Empress of France, and Countess-Duchess ofTeba, was bom at Granada in Spain, May 5, 1826. Sheis the daughter of Donna Maria JManuola Kirkpatrick ofClosebuni, Countess-Dowager de Montijos, Countess Mi-randa, and Duchess of Peraconda; member of the nobleorder of Maria Louisa, and first lady of honor to theQueen of Spain. The father of this lady had been Englishconsul at Malaga at the peiiod of her marriage with theCoimt de Montijos, an otticer in the Spanish army, belong-ing to one of the most ancient of the noble families ofSpain. He was connected, more or less closely, with thehouses of the Duke de Frias, representative of the ancientAdmirals of Castile ; of the Duke of Fyars, and oth
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