The Express.
London, England, 1863-02-17 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

MARRIAGE -OF EARL COWLEYT
DAUGHTER.
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PAWS, Moaner Brants.
This afternoon, at 3 o'clock, Earl Cowley's
daughter,, Lady Sophia Wellesley, was married at
the EritiAjkabsasy to Lord Royston the eldest
son of tins Earl of Hardwick°. The Emperor and
Empty* Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clo-
thilde, the Duke and Duchess de Horny, Count
Walewski and the Countess %Jawlike, X. Fould,
Count de Tereigny, M. Ronher, M. Rouland, and
other ministers, moat of the corps diplomatique—
among whom I observed Mr. Dayton, the American
minister—and • great many members of the
faahionable world of Paris and London, were pre-
sent on the interesting occasion. The long draw-
ing-room, in which Mr. Dickens lately gave his
lectures, was fitted up as a chapel. The Empress
was handed to the seat prepared for her in
front of the altar by Lord Cowley, and
was folloWed by the Emperor, who gave his arm
to Lady Cawley. Lord Cowley then left the chapel
Nfiete files bride, who was attended by tyre brides-
; meta enly—blith, I believe, sisters of Lord
Royston. I think I never before in my life at-
tempted to describe a lady's dress, but that of Lady
Sophia Wellesley was so little complicated in its
elegant simplicity that I will make a venture. It
was a rich white satin, trimmed with two rows of
white fur at the bottom of the skirt, and a little
collar of the same fur round the nook. The orange
dower wreath and streaming white veil completed
the attire of one of the moat beautiful brides that
was ever seen. The ceremony was performed by
Lord Cowley's brother, the Dean of Windsor,
assisted by the Rev. dr. Swale, chaplain to the
embassy, and another clergyman, who is, I believe,
Lord Cowley's chaplain at Chantilly. After the
marriage service the wedding party adjourned to
the reception rooms, where the register was signed
by the Emperor and Empress, and almost all the
company. While the signing was going on wedding li
favours of white ribbons, silver acorns, oak leaves,
and orange flowers were handed round on silver
plateaux, and everybody present, following the
example of the Emperor and Empress, decorated
themselves with the pretty emblems. The Em-
peror and Empress stayed a very long time, con-
versing without the least ceremony with Lord
Cowley's family and a great many English visitors
who were introduced to them. It is understood
that the happy couple leave Paris to-night for Fon-
tainebleau, en route for Italy.
The Minister of the Interior has not as yet
publicly rebuked the France for flying in the face
of his "communicated note ;" and the France,

emboldened by this silence, returns to the sub-
ject. It knows its place, it says, too well ever to
protest against the "regular exercise " of
administrative powers. But it will never allow
the "dignity of its devotedness to the Emperor "
—such is its forcible expression—to be lowered by
accepting in silence an insult iu the guise of a
rectification. The constitution which enables the

administration to reply to sod correct newspaper
articles, does not, the France contends, authorise it
to use offensive terms towards journalists. It
recapitulates with complacency the prelims which
it bestowed upon almost everything that M. Baroche
said, and submits that if on account of one solitary
criticism it is to be charged with " bad faith," the
dictionary of the academy must be altered, and
that expression must be held to mean " differing in
opinion with the director of the press."

If M. de la Gueronniere shall be able to main-
tain this high tone towards the Minister of the In-
rior, he will have done yeoman's service to the
press at large. Hitherto it has not been supposed
possible for a newspaper to discuss the question
whether a communique inflicted upon it wail a
" regular" exercise of the powers of the adminis-
tration or not.

The following paragraph in to-day's Moniteur
has a bearing upon the letter which M. Calzado
lately sent to the journals :
M. Calm& having tendered his resignation to the minis-
ter al state, the management of the Imperial Italian Thee-
tae has been confided protiiosatly, until the nomination of
a new director, to M. Ladies Mioo, under the administra-
tive superintendence of M. E. Mamas, Imperial Commis-
sioner for the subventioned Lyrie Theatres.

The Bourse has been heavy to-day. The new
Italian Loan was the cause generally assigned for
the disposition to sell, and I do not find that any
serious alarm is felt at the Emperor's mysterious
speech about foreign affairs. Bente fell 25c. for
cash, and 10c. for account, closing at 70fr. 35c. and
70fr. 500. Mobilier rose sa, and there was little
change in railways.