(By Atlantic Cable.)
Leaving Rome, I have called next on NAPOLEON, at Paris. He sent word, through OLLIVIER, that be wanted to see me. He looks old. Some medical man has put forth the idea that he has BRIGHT'S disease. An English attache just asked me whether that has any reference to JOHN BRIGHT. As the latter is a Quaker, the first symptom of this disease must have been shown long ago, when the Emperor said, "The Empire is Peace." I satisfied my friend, however, that the case was not one of that Kidney.
Well, the Emperor asked me, "What do they say of me in America?"
"Sire, we think you are very wise, to accept the inevitable, and make a virtue of it."
"Wise, of course. Disinterested, too!"
"Pardonnez moi. Not ever wise, of course. Mexico was a folly, you know."
"I know; though if you were not PUNCHINELLO, you should not say it. Will my son reign in France?"
"Sire, I am not an oracle. But they have a proverb in my country, that it never rains but it pours."
"Je n'entends pas. The plebiscite was rather a neat thing!"
"Worthy of its author. The old story; heads I win, tails you lose. But, will your Majesty say what you think of the Pope?"