The King and Queen of Italy quitted Paris last Sunday
after a most cordial reception, marred only by the almost incessant rain. The Queen in particular seems, as usual, to have won all hurts by a bearing which, though queenly, is direct and simple. The grand features of the reception were the customary shooting party, during which endless pheasants were killed, and a grand review, arranged so that the troops most prominent should be the regiments which at Solferino and Magenta helped in the liberation of Italy. The King alluded to ,this courtesy in warm terms at the luncheon before his departure, and M. Lonbet in his reply declared that the blood shed for the same cause by French ant: Italian soldiers ought to be "a force in the cause of peace and union between the two nations." He ended by thanking the Queen "for having brought to Paris the radiance of her grace and good- ness,"—a rather fine compliment. It is said that a Treaty of Arbitration is almost immediately to be signed, and altogether the visit has been a success which stirs much depreciatory comment in Germany.
