The Express.
London, England, 1852-10-30 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 30,

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FRANCE.
PARIS, THURSDAY Eviriieo.
The bete are now in tairoog of the lfith of De-
cember u the day for the proclamation of ttes
empire, and it is said that the Corps Legislatif will
meet about the 23th or 2tith of November. But
all this is conjecture. The President does not
give those most in his confidence any materials for
gumming what he is going to do. lie delights in
aisappointing expectation, and particularly dislikes
being thought to act upon advice. More than ever
he justifies a mot of M. de Morny, "The President is
• statue which will not stand upon any pedestal."
To-night he is going in state to the tDpen. The
performances will consist of Auber's Philtre, and the
4th act only of Moiae, it having been found impos-
sible to produce the whole opera this evening. It is
considered an act of great condeseention in Louis
Napoleon to endure this disappointment. His uncle
would not receive excuses from theatrical managers,
and when told that a new piece could not be ready by
a certain day, his habit was peremptorily to order
that it should be performed at the appointed time.
I have already mentioned that an ode to the Empire
and Peace is to be sung to-night, but I will not again
mention the name of the laureat of the occasion, for
it appears that he is young in the business, and
that his verses have thrown tho whole "en-
tourage" of St. Cloud into consternation. I have
seen some of the stanzas, and a more unfortunate
collection of strange epithets and confused metaphors
1 never read. The President is called the "artisan"
of our deliverance, while we sit under the " shade of
a conquering:olive branch." Charlemagne is said to
be "hovering" over a throne, and it is prophesied
that the poor will drink the " chalice of light and
charity to the dregs." This would never do. Another
poet was sent for at the last moment, who has out
up the original composition and made it readable,
I although very flat. In the composition as altered,
I there is an appeal to the President's clemency, which
probably will not be allowed to stand.
AbclelKader arrived in Paris at 3 o'clock to-day.
IHe is accompanied by Colonel Boissonnet, of the
French army, and two Arabs, Sidi-Allah and Kea..-
.Mehemet. He has taken up his residence at the
Hotel de la Terasse, Rue de la Riven. At present
it is said that his stay in Paris will not exceed a
fortnight.
I understand that Mlle. Rachel, the other night,
told M. Ars;•ne Honasaye that she would not recite
the ode, " L'Empire c'est la l'aix," unless some lines
were inserted in favour of en amnesty, and that
nothing but the threat to put Mdlle. Brohan in
her place, induced the great actress to give way.
The music of the ode to be performed to-night is by
M. Murk, and is said to he worthy of better words.
The exterior of the Opera-house has been decorated
with unseal splendour. Largo pier glasses, sur-
rounded with flowers, and illuminated, have been
placed on the facade of the theatre. The Rue Le-
pellctier has been strewed with sand, and is illumi-
nated by numerous candelabra, surmounted with the
letter N.
The Monileur de la Moselle gives some details
relative to the visit made by the French authorities
of the departments bordering on Rhenish Bavaria to
present their respects to the King of Bavaria on his
passing through Deux Punts. His Majesty arrived
in that place on the 21st, where he was received by
the inhabitants with great enthusiasm. General
Marey Mange, General do Weidner, the prefect of
the Moselle, the inspector-general of the 3rd arron-
dissement, the sub-prefect of Sarregnemines, and
M. Geiger, the deputy of the arrondissement, were
most graciously received by the King, who
invited them to dine at the royal table and
to accompany him to the ball in the evening.
His Majesty entered into a long conversation with
the French functionaries, who all received from him
a souvenir of their mission. The two generals were
made Grand Crosses, the Prefect Commander, and
the Sob-Prefect of Sarregiiemines, Captains Beurman
and Ph:suet Vial, of the Staff, and the Lieutenant
of Gendarmery of Sarreguemines, Chevaliers of the
Order of St. Michel, and tho Inspector-General was
decorated with smother ceder.

Tho following Mthersphed lines were received on
the 213th, by maal personages at Paris by
the post. rho paper aa whielz=gwere printed
wu edged with bile au if for

Maras de M Casjoume Fraseeiee AtiouidipiA
Patinae a Is
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Dont je prep les
Vases eaditee au Amellk
Au rani amid de way Ms,
Noir ea *scabs Nespereur.
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Qui a &Tait gammas pirir,
N'a pa supporter gone mourn,
L'operatlon ofearienue.
Man you ne perdres preeque ries,
0 you vet accident touch*,
Car ei la Mire est none an couch*,
L'Eslaat du songs set arts Wes.

PARIS. FRIDAY EYRXING.
General Dumas, director of Algerian affairs of the
Ministry a War, and several of the heads of offices
at the Ministry of the Interior, were at the terminus
to receive Abditl-Kader. It is expected that he will
remain in Paris &beet a week. He has, says the
Monit•ur, visited the capital at his own request, as
he was desirous of expressing to Prince Louis
Napoleon his gratitude for his liberty, and to renew
his oaths to the chief ,of the state. A considerable
crowd has been stationed all to-day opposite the
house, 30, Roe Birch, when he is staying, anxious
to
_get a alimpee of the Arab ehieE
The Marshal Jerdese Bonaparte, president of the'
Senate ; M. Meant the vice-president ; and M.
&t oche, have had a meeting to settle the terms of
the senalua conga turn for the establishment of
the empire. It has been often surmised
that the President, in settling the order'
of succession in the Bonaparte family would
exclude Jerome and his son on amount of the demo-
cratic career of the latter, while a member of the
Legislative Assembly. So far, however as any con-
cinema can be draws from the frailly relations
existing between Loa Napoleon sad this breech of
his family, ticrissubirgrami far • g that this
intention ale* t neglects
no occasionkr the utmost station to his
uncle Jerome, pi the President et die liesate and
his son are %guest guests at St. Quid.
A letter front Vim", ef Oat. Skop that the
Prisms Was, who hue se frepeatly bap designated
so the tette esseert et Louis Napless, will openly
phrase the Beep paths religtos iu tbe beginning
of November. Rer abjuration is to be made to the
Bishop of Brum, is the church of llorawetz, a
village beloogleg te her father, near Gross-Mese-
vitsch. Should tide news be confirmed, it will tend
to Pipe the belief that the marriage to which the
essemelea of the primes was originally an essential
pelioluery is yet ups the tops.
Rnmenrs are last that the ides of a sojourn at
Feetteiableas has been abanined ea Recount of the
amble &emery of an inbred PEW, plot and a
, eoppirsey Ice a military immersed*. Nothing in
confirmation of theme tummy is Pews with cer-
tainty beyond the fast that a considerable number of
arrests have been lately made at Foutaintika. The
persons arrested are all civilians.
A telegraphic despatch from Caen states that the
Orne and the Vire 'have overflowed, and that the
garrison and all able-bodied inhabitants of the town
I are hard at work to save the houses from destruction
by the flood.
Abd-el-Kaeler was at the Opera last night, and
visited the President in his box.

The report of a second issue of Napoleon Dock
shares is contradicted by the Adria.
The Sardinian Minister in Paris haspreaented his
litters of recall. _ _

At the Boone the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. foil
40c., and closed at 103.60; tho Three per Cents. fell
10e., and closed at 81.70. The old Orleans railway
shares rose 20f., the new 7.30; llavre roe° 6.75;
Lyons and Avignon, and Bordeaux and Cette, 7.50;
Marseilles, Rotten, Northern, Lyons, and Paris and
Caen, 2.50 each ; St. I/crier and Oray, and Dieppe,
fell 5 each.

Pehlke • Fl'As Vaa MoorbheCe. The
lowest vlciree of certainty exists with retinue
t)ie department of the Interior. For the ministry
Li Finance M. Loos and M. Veydt are both spoken
,of. It follows, from the circumstances of Its forma-
tion, that this now cabinet must occupy itself less
with legblation than with. government. The liberal
party irweidently in a majority in the Chamber, foe
all the unaided marts of the catholic party cannot
produce above 44 votes on a division. The reform
party cumbers 64 decided supporters. The 10 re-
minim votes ars those of unattached and soi•disang
Mdepeadent members, and from these has proceeded
the swims embarrassment of the King and the par-
liament. They belong, however, rather to the liberal
them to the wtiolic party.
The iseeteposidnect Bey* of yesterday evening hoc
the following
The definitive refusal of K. H. de Bronchus to the sum•
Mae that be had received is fully confirmed; but on the
ether band, it is reported that active steps are taken to-
we* tie Memation of a new cabinet, and the result is
reputed to be knows very soon. A list of names was
siseelthed yesterday on the benches of the Chamber, but we
believe that we ought to abstain from reproducinz it, our
iathsumlisa leading as to douht its entire correctness.
Amass the names cited are four with regard to which
them is a general agreement. They are those of
U. is Baron de Vriere, governor of West Flanders, fur the
Ministry of the Interior; M. le Baron Prime, Adjutant-
General of the King, formerly Minister Plenipotentiary,
for the Foreign Department ; M. Noel. Director General of
Bridges, Roads, and Mince, for the Department of Public
Works_; and M. le General Anoul, who keeps the Portfolio
of the War Department.

ITALY.
PIEDMONT.

TURIN, Oc-e. 26.
M. His de Buttenval, the French minister;plenipo-
tentiary, bas left Turin for Paris.
Count de Cavour had not yet been able to consti-
tute the new ministry.

TUSCANY.

A letter from Florence, of the 23rd Oct., states
that an attempt has been made to assassinate M.
Daldasssroni, the president of the Council of Minis-
ters. He is slightly wounded.
Lord Haden, Captain Trotter, and the other
gentlemen of the English deputation which is to
wait upon tho Grand Duke of Tuscany, in order to
obtain from him the release of M. hladisi and his
wife, arrived at Florence on the 22nd. At that date
the Grand Duke had not yet returned.

THE STATE TRIALS IN TUSCANY.
lu its sitting of the 19th, the Royal Court of Flo-
rence, having heard all the documents for the defence
of Ouerrazzi, commenced the examination of the
second defendant, Romanelli, the ex-deputy of Arezzo
to the Tuscan Chamber of Deputies, and afterwards
Minister of Grace and Justice under the Provisional
Government. The Chief of the Executive, Guerrezzi,
afterwards confirmed him in his post, and, at a later
period, sent him to Aresso, to quell the disttab-
anees which had broken out there. Romanelli,
in answer to the questions addressed to him,
declared that he had always belonged to the libe-
ral party, but denied having had any rela-
tions with Pigli, the ex-governor of Leghorn. He
then related what he knew about the events of the
Bth of February, 1849, and stated that he was'
among the deputies who remained in tho chamber
on that day when it was invaded by the mob. Ho
at first refused the portfolio which was offered him,
but eventually accepted it in the hope that ho might
be useful in introducing elements IA moderation into
the government. lie stated that all the ministerial
measures which emanated from him bear the for-
mula, "On the proposition of the minister, &e,"
and that the others were prescribed to him. Ho
denied having signed the decree which prescribed
that the name of the Provisional Government
should be substituted to that of Leopold 11. in all
public acts; and complained that this accusation
was brought too late against him, thus making it
impossible for him to call witnesses on that point.
He had signed the decree naming Guerraui commis-
sary extraordinary with full powers, because he con-
sidered him a man of moderate opinions and grelit
prudence, from the manner in which he had defeated
Mauini's plans. He thought the expedition against
Laugier would lead to a restoration, and, therefore,
countenanced it. Ho defended his circular of
March 5, 1849, in which he declared all the curates
to be held responsible for the absence of voters at'
the elections, on the ground that by forcing the
peasants to vote, he hoped to obtain a monarchical 1
assembly.

gfte Court.

WINDSOR, Orr. 29.
The following had the honour of dining with her
Majesty yesterday:—The Print, and PAIIOIOII of Holten-
late Langeshurg, the Princess Adelaide and Prince Her-
mann of Hsheolohe, Viscount Hardinge, Colonel the Hon.
C. B. Phipps, end Lieutenant-Colonel Hermann, Belgian
isrvies.
The Queen and Prince, with the Prince and Prism' of
Hohenlohe Lengenburg, drove out in an open caning*
yesterday aftarnoen, attended by the Countess of Desert,
the Hon. Flora Ileedembk and the Roc. Caroline Caven-
dish. Lord Charles Flinn and Lientenant•Colonel F. H.
Seymour wets in attendance ow heemback.
Prince Albert, esmispanied by Prince Hermann of Ho-
henlobe, attended by Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey and
Lieutenant-C.lonel F. H. Seymour, went to London this
morning by especial train of the South-Western Railway.
---
Prince Albert arrived at half-past ten o'clock, yesterday
morning, at tie New Palace of Westminster, attended by
Colonel the Hon. Charlie Grey, and Lieut.-Colonel F. 11.
Seymour.
His Royal Righnem presided at a meeting of the surplus
committee of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of
18.51. The otter members of the committee present were
the Earl of Daby, the Right lion. Henry Lebouchere, Sir
William Cubitt, Sir Charles L. E.intlake, Sir Alexander
Spearman, Mt. Coulson, and Mr. Bowring (secretary).
At 12 o'cloot a meeting of the Rigid Commission lor the
Exhibition of 1851, was held in the New Palace of West-
minster, Priem Albert presiding. The other Royal Com-
missioners priest were the Duke of Bueeleueb, the Earl
of Derby, Lord John Russo% the Right lion. Henry La-
bouehere, Sir Alexander Spearman, Sir James W. Hogg,
Dart., M.P., Sir Richard Westmeeott, Sir Charles L East-
lake, Sir Wiliam Cubitt, Sir Charles Barry, Mr. Bailey,
Mr. Coulson. Mr. C. W. Dilke, Mr. T. F. Gibson, Mr.
John Gott, Hr. Hopkins, Mr. Pusey, Mr. John Shepherd,
and Mr. Robert Stephenson. Mr. Edgar Dowries, ,secro.
tary to the Royal Commission, attended. Dr. Lyon Play-
fair was in 'Attendance. The meeting broke up at 4 o'clock,
when Prince Albert, attended by Colonel the lion. C. Grey
and Lieut.-Colonel F. H. Seymour, left on his return to
Windsor Castle.

Mr. Roes and lir. J. Troundell Gilbert, from British
Guiana, had an interview with Sir John Pakington yester-
day, at the Colonial office.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. John Masterman, M.P.,
Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P., Mr. W. Cubitt, M.P., Mr.
G. Brooke, Mr. J. 8. Noldwritt, Mr. John May, Mr. Tho-
mas Smith, Mr. A. DASTIMI3I, Mr. John Sunman, and Mr.
liagbes, had an interview with the Right lion. J. W.
iiinley yesterday at tr. Board of Trade relative to the free
adiniuion of Ostend and other foreign rabbits, and fur the
greater expedition of their delivery.
Mr. R. O. li'Donnell, C. 8., the Lieut.-Governor of St.
Viocent, had yesterday an interview with Sir John Pa-
kiVtc." Mr. Joseph Bentley had an interview with the Right
Hon. J. W. Henley at the Board of Trade yesterday.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon,
at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The ministers
present were:—The Earl of Derby, the Lord
Chancellor, the Earl of Lonidale, the Marquis of
Salisbury, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of
Malmesbury, Sir John Pakington, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, the Duke of Northumberland,
the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, the Earl of Hard-
wicke, the Right Hon. J. C. Herries, and Lord John
Manners. The council sat two hours and a half.

THE ADDEEIS.—The Standard says We hear
that the address will be moved in the House of Lords by
the Marquis of Bath, and will be seconded by the Earl of
Donouglimore." Those who wish for information about
these two noblemen and seek it in that faithful rezord of '
parliamentary characters—Mr. Days " Parliamentary Com-
panion—will find the one distinguished as " patron of
ten livings," and the other as " Lieutenant-Colonel of the
Tipperary Militia."

(PROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.)
WINDSOR CASTLE, OCTOUER 28.—This day had
audience of her Majesty, Marshal, the Duke of Terceira, on
a special mission from the Queen of Portugal and the
Algarve', to attend the funeral of the Duke of Wollingt,m,
on the part of the Portuguese army, to deliver his creden-
tials; to which ho was introduced by the Earl of Malmo'.
bury, her Majesty's Secretary of Stabs for Foreign Affair".

FUNERAL

OP THE

DUKE OF WELLINGTON.
The official programme which was published ex-
clasively in the espress of yesterday morning excited
much public interest, especially along the line of the in-
tended procession and amongst those who have secured seats
for the " sight." A few minor details mabe altered, but
taking it u a whole, the public have now before them the
substantial programme of the procession.
The funeral preparations, both at Chelsea and St.
Paul's, are being carried on with all the vigour that might
be expected from the various able hands to which they arc
entrusted. Professor Cockerel' ie in daily consultation with
the Messrs. Dowbiggin and Holland, at their establishment
in Mount-street, maturing and reducing to practical appli-
cation the designs which have already reeeiy. el the stamp
of Royal approbation, but the exact nature of which has not
as yet transpired.
In the mean time the public—especially that portion of
it which may have seen his design for the Royal Exchange
(admired by every one but the corporation comnsittee)—
may have full confidence in the artistic taste of Mr. Cock-
erel', supported, as it will be, by the exertions of a firm
second to none in the metro: olio for executive efficiency.
Some signs of preparation are already perceptible in their
extensive warehouse. Bales of black cloth are accumu-
lating, and models may be seen of the pedestals for
the eighty • candelabra with which the buoy of the
great hall at Chelsea Hospital is to be illuminated. A
ntagailleent pall of black velvet is also in course of prepara-
tion, to be decorated with the heraldic achievements of the
Greet Duke, and other appropriate emblem,. On another
funereal ornament will be emblazoned his successive victo-
ries, and the flags which are their trophies will be arranged
in appropriate devices. The eighty candelabra, painted to
imitate granite, and decorated in black and silver, will each
be filled with an enormous wax taper ; and besides these,
others of more elaborate design will be arranged immedi-
ately round the bier. The interior of the hall is just uow
• complete for' et of scaffolding poles, and the noise of the
hammer is incessant. The joists for the flooring are nearly
all laid down, and the framework upon which the wooden
' easing of the walls is to be fixed almost complete. This
lest, of course, will all he covered with black, but a pecu-
liarly lino effect will be produced by a succession of re-
cesses or niches all round, in each of which a soldier will
stand with arms reversed. The intervals will be illumi-
nated with long rows of gas jets, so that the magnificent
coup d'ecil will be at once attained on entering
the apartment. A partially covered way is being
constructed from the entrance, facing Queen's-road,
which, with the carpenters' work of the interior, is ex-
pected to be completed in about a week. The various en-
trances to the hospital are daily surrounded by curious
gazers', not the least anxious being the old pensioners
themselves, who, being at present excluded from this ball,
eagerly question everyone passing out who seems likely to
give them information. The works at St. Paul's Cathedral
are proceeding with equal energy. Two of Messrs. Cuhitts
most experienced foremen, Meson. Whatmore and Wright,
are in constant attendance, surrounded by a whole
army of carpenters and labourers. At the western en-
trance a stage has been erected, along which great beams
of timber are transported to the interior, and on entering
the nave is seen to be occupied on each side with enormous
galleries of great strength, and now nearly completed.
These will accommodate several thousand people. In the
transept, north and south, the galleries for the Lords and
Commons have been just commenced : they will accommo-
date more than five times the numbers of the two estates,
and the spare seats will no doubt be an object of sharp
contention among the friends of ,the two orders
of legislators. Hcre will bo an upper tier of
galleries elevated thirty feet in the clear, the
occupants of which must content themselves with a consi-
derably foreshortened view of the solemn pageant. As
this inconvenience would, to a much greater extent, be ex-
perienced in the Whispering Gallery, the closing up of that
part of the church can hardly be looked upon as a grievance.
&sides these, four quarter galleries arc being erected in
the recesses of the dome, but they do not form part of
Messrs. Cuhitto' contract, being erected by order of the
Dean and Chapter. No /pedal portion of any of the gal-
leries has as yet been marked off f'r the corporation of
London, but of course so important a body will be propel ly
taken care of, and at the same time it is to be hoped that
the gentlemen on whom will devolve the duty of repro-
Renting the public press on this all-important occasion will
be so placed as to enable them to convey to the vast public
without who must be unavoidably excluded from the cere
mony something like a satisfactory impression of what has
occurred within. An immense orchestra is being built, and
preparations are making for changing the position of the
organ, so as to make its solemn music have its due effect in
the service, which will be conducted by the Bishop of Lon-
don, assisted by the Than and Chapter.
The design for an important feature of the pageant, the
funeral ear, has, with the assistance of Messrs. Cole and
Maltese., been brought nearly to completion. It will bo
of imposing dimensions, being twenty-one feet in length by
eleven in breadth, the largest size which would admit of
its passage through Temple-bar. Six massive broose
wheels will be intersected with six panels of the same metal,
which, desoendiug from the platform, will reach almost to
the axles. These panels, which will each in form resemble
a shield, will be richly ornamented, and have painted on
them allegorical allusions to the late Duke's triumphs. A
second platform, rising two feet above the first, will have
its sides divided into compartments, upon which will be in-
scribed the names of the Duke's principal victories, and at
the corners will be heraldic bronze figures. Ornamental
arrangements of militery weapons surmounted by the ducal
coronet, will surround the bier, which will be nearly ten
feet high. Above all will be a canopy of rich gold tissue
supported upon halberts, so arranged as not to conceal
from view the coffin underneath. The weight of such a
structure, all of solid bronze, and reaching an altitude of
twenty feet, will not bo less than eight or ten tons. To
remedy the inconvenience that might arise from having to
lower the coffin from its great height, the bier will be so
constructed as to be removable to a smaller carriage, upon
which it will be drawn along a stage to the exact spot over
the permanent resting-place. At the proper moment the
coffin will sink through the bier into its last resting-place
by the side of Nelson's remains.