The Express.
London, England, 1852-11-15 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, SATURDAY Imam°.
Lord Cowley has gone to visit the Print* Pre-
sident at Fontambliss.
The long talked of reduction in do army is now
said to be on the eve of execution. Oommon report
goes so far as to fix the date, November 18, for the
appearance of the decree, for the retimatiss, in the
Moaieeur. If any of the kind sheald occur, it
will be merely a Mimi. For jedgiag keel all that
passes armsd me. I ma see no symptoms of any
change in the sisamelsg attitude assamed by the
gummed towards the weaker kedge powers, nor
of any meth opeatesesse alleglasee on the pert of
the people, as =Tightens', with the imposing
desdastrstion bees. upon which the
anther of the cow bee hitherto mainly relied.
Bosoms of certain eestemplated relaxations of the
present despotic system see is circulation, which I can
only attribute to electsosseriag tactics. The corps
legielatif deprived of all pewees of initiative are led
to hops that they will be at least allowed to elect,
members to explain and dolled the amendmentsl
whisk they may propose to government measures
Wire the Council of State, an extension of the
(so called) liberty of the press is spoken of. It is
gives oat that the President would bo glad to see
even the approaching change in the form of govern-
ment disregard within " reasonable limits." No
doubt he. would. A big boy at school likes to
see the fag that he bullies pat out his strength, that
when ho has beaten him to a mummy he may feel a
consiousness of superiority. But anything like low
lode liberty or fair play of any kind is so obnoxious
to the principles and practice of the present ruler of
France, that I cannot credit any reports of a substan-
tial relaxation of the system that has prevailed for
the last twelve mouths. If the Belgian Ministry, is
the new law which it has proposed against the=
thinks to act up to the expectation of the
government, it must be prepared to go a long way,
for the Issdependows of Brussels—an esaMiisgly
moderate paper, is mimed at the Paris postallee &brat
every ether day, spongy bassos it inalthe Mee
whit the journals bin dare sat eirsekte.
The inauptradea _of the Ins& railwahaterm
11 Beebe& to .111111 Mil will tabs plies ea
amt. M. Ifiagathe Mbehew of Publio Weeks. sew
at /leafingle pseud ea the osmium
The Mewing oradealeded note wears la the
Coiselautiodel: « The sesasuant climbing that
doctors who for political same may be ander the
saeveillasee of the polies shoal not be deprived of
the easseles of their electoral rights, hoe decided
that, at the next general elestion, the electors of
Oat oaterey may, hie the others, take part in the
ballet.*
Tim Amiens is Patis an requested be meet
at the seem et the Aoudad Qab, No. 10, Besbased
Meatsartn, ea 11misy and, at two o'dmit.paki,
to testify their mese of the great =time biome-
wienttheir wastry lea wataised in the recoil death
of twe of its dad lambiene *kens and to reads"
the public deft of ale to ens,
rneemey.
Tho Minister of Pablo lasteustisa has aidedsid
a circular to the adore of the mime alleges
dwidiag on the assesity of carrying out with sera-
palms exact tads the sew system of studies. The
alreolar rosesmends, above all, that each professor
shalloosfhie himself strictly to the limits of his par-
dealer propsome, and sot introduce any theories
of his own. The Mishear farther recommends that
every pried shall be provided with a day-book
is which he is le alb dew day by day, with the
date, the questiene whit be his discussed in him
ems, and the sumer in whisk his pupils have an-
swered. At the oboe of each scholastic year, these
books are to be collested, and placed carefully by in
the archives of the seller.

FONT•LtiBLEAU, Selma Events°.
Misled by an announcement in ell the Paris
newspapers that the opening of the imperial hunting
season would be celebrated by a grand court stag
hunt to-day, I came to Fontainbkau last night in
the expectation of sending you an account of the
sport from personal observation. To my great dis-
appointment I found on my arrival that the
bunt was all over. It was thought desirable to put
the population of Paris upon a false scent, and I,
having no connection with the court, cannot complain
of having been thrown out with the ruck. I now
learn that at eleven o'clock yesterday morning Louis
Napoleon left the chateau, followed by nearly 200
horsemen in the regulation costume, a green and
gold cost, a hunting cap, white buckskin breeches,
with a scarlet stripe, and bones o revers. There was
no prohibition against " tagyag and bob-tail"
joining in the fun, but owing to the studied
want of notice, not more than about fifty men
in "multi" swelled the imperial cortege. The
Princess Mathilde and eight or ten other ladies took
the field on horseback. IL Lafeuille, the celebrated
pipette from Chantilly was the huntsman. Thedeer
was uncarted about half a mile from Fontainebleau,
in the avenue of "La belle Croix." There was a
bona fide run of several boars, end according to
court etiquette the Prince was the first at the taking
of the deer, which was not effected till neer five
o'clock. If there had been any leaping in
the course of the hunt, the consequences would
probably have been diametral* not to the Prince, who
:ritemidforor:iremeners, 4
exploits
but to assay of his white
seldom extended beyond the Bela de Boalogne. But
hapOy the stag did not go bei
_tied the boundaries of
the !wed, and die sportsmen MI nothing to do but to
gallop up and down the long rides. I have not
beard that any solidest has occurred. At ten
o'clock last night the deer was killed in kennel, and
his entrails tbsteibuted to the hounds. This again
was a disappointment to the public, for it was stu-
diously given out that this sanguinary ceremony
would not take plass till this morning at nine.
Today, at 10 Adopt, the President drove thrnil the town in an open travelling carriage, dratt
post hones, and attended mama at the pariah elturch.
He was in plain clothes ; the Prefect of the Seine
and Marne sat by his side in uniform. General St.
Arnaud, M. de P•reigny, and Colonel Fleury followed'
in another carnage. The morning was very wet,
and, as the visit was unexpected, the church con-
tamed little more then the ordinary congregation.
, The main was nearly over when the President ar-
, rived, and his religious duties being finished in about
ten minutes, he proceeded to pay a short visit to the
hospital near the church, and then drove to a game
preserve in the forest, near the Obelisk, where he
I took the lead in • bates of pheasants sod
chevreuils.