The Express.
London, England, 1852-05-11 00:00:00

PAIRS

FOR TYR oovituutzirr. AGAINST.
Sir Gore Booth. lie. &ally.
Lord Newport. Chichester Fortieths.
8. Christy. J. Locke.
Sir H. Willoughby. Sir J. Romilly.
John Heald. E. J. Hutchins.
P. Bennet. J. Hardeaath.
W. Beckett. Lord M. Hill.
Lord Charles Wellesley. 8. C. Ogle.
J. Death. R. 0. Townley.
S. E. Gooch. C. Gmtfell.
F. Knight. W. Monsen.
Colonel Chatting:a. Sir G. Clerk.
0. Berkeley. .1. Williams.
Lord C. Hamilton. Hastings Reath.
Junes Baird. H. Adair. . , ..,. .
Lord Brooke. Hem. Gen. O. A.
J. 8. Dna. Hon. E. 8. B.
Colonel Forester. W. Mackinnon.
F. Villiers. H. Willyeas.
Mr. Waddington. .0= ,
Junes Ferrer. ,
Colonel Hall. .
Sir W. Verner. ,
Hon. J. P. Ma:well. i-tigii.
J. Mullinp. Hoe. J. Howard.
H. B. Colas. F. Pigott. ~
C. G. Du Pre. Captain
Hon. 0. Smythe. Hon. T. =111.16.
C. R. Colville. Admiral listbary.
Sir W. Oallwey. Sir C. Lugs.
A. B. Fuller. W. Minor.
Lord J. Chichester. G. C. Glyn.
R. Rithuds. Lord D. Stuart.
B. W. Buck. M. T. Baas.
H. N. Burroughs. 0. Ricardo.
Lord Bernard. R. M. Bedew.
Major Bererford. Sir W. P. Wood.
Admiral Gordon. A. Iladieii,
Mr. Banbury. Colonol Watkins.
Mr. Lockhart. Lord
Mr. Bell. R. D.Mangles.
OPPOSITION. GOTRILNIUMIT..
234 mambos yressist. 148 larabses peulat
41 pairs. 41
276 189

86 majority against govonimaat.

Tim Era Ilayit llostyn was shut out Men voting for
Gluistowes amanAmmt.
Wm A. eamlbell'em dm out from voting In favour of
Dirnsr maim
GANA ne•OWl gamal with Holt. F. H. F. Berkeley
In Award*e MIAs INA Clauses 7 It 8.

%MUTH% Pa.WELT.—A Prague journal states
that sa the 3rd iast. Krealit's 'tether end sixteen of his
relatives pared thresh that city ore their way to Ear
lead.

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EVENING, MAY 11, 1852

FRANCE.

THE PARIS FETES.

PARIS, Moamar Ilvaxiso.
The ceremony, so long talked of and so eagerly
expected, of distributing the eagles to tho army, took
place this day, in the Champ do Mars. Thus the
10th of May, destined by the framers of the consti-
tution of 1848 to be the goal of Louie Napoleon's
magistracy, has found him lifted to a culmination of
power out-topping the sovereignty of the legitimate
Icings of Prance, and inaugurating a new epoch of
ambition with an act which is universally recognised
as a prologue to the empire.
The weather could not possibly have been more
propitious. To a golden, cloudless sunrise, unruffled
by a breath of air, succeeded a clear noon, of delight-
ful temperature.
A vast multitude, more curious to witness The
show than attracted by enthusiasm, gathered from
day-break un the greasy ramparts, shaded by elms,
which flank the long parallelogram on the side of
the lnvalides, and on the opposite side towards (ire-
nelk. By a popular regard for the convenience of
the people on foot, the range of stands was restricted
to the southern portion of the long square towards
the Emile Militaire.
The immense area stretching for two-thirds of a
mile from the front of the Ecole Militaire to the Pont
de Jena, held the sixty thousand military actors in
this splendid pageant, and was surrounded by five
times that number of spectators. A multitude out-
numbering the population of some of the largest
capitals of Europe was crammed in the stands of the
amphitheatre erected for the occasion, or stood
densely massed on foot on the borders of the square
unobstructed by these temporary buildings. All
round the square, from space to space, were planted
masts, from whose tops streamed broad tricoloured
pennons, while half-mast high they bore a shield with
the cypher of Louis Napoleon, adorned with a group
of Sags of the national colours. The stands were
similarly. ornamented, every column which supported
the awnings being surmounted by a group of trico-
loured banners.

The end of the Champ de Mars furthest from the
river, is closed by the Ecole Militaire, a stately pile,
erected in the middle of the last century, and now
used as barracks. The whole front of this immense
building was masked by the light and elegant thea-
tre of structures erected for the President, his °me,
and the great bodies of the state and their families.
Before the centre of the facade rose, proudly pre-
eminent, the tribune of the President. This magni-
ficent pavilion, whose floor was on a level with the
first story, formed an arched portico, fifty feet in
height, and the same number of feet wide
and deep. It was hung inside with crimson
velvet, sprinkled with gold stars, and in
front curtains of the same rich material were
looped back with gold cords. The architectural de-
corations of this tribune were covered with symbols
of the empire. Above, in the centre of the entabla-
ture of the arch, shone the grand cross of the Losies
of Honour, supported on either hand by wigged vie-
tories. Groupe of banners spread from the mandrils.
The side-pieces were adorned with two dories of
Corinthian columns, supporting gilded eagles with
niches between, filled with trophies, and surmounted
by the cypher of " L.N." A broad cerpetted stair-
case, which widened at each of its two landing-places,
and was adorned on either hand with three statues,
representing Force, Justice, and Victory, amended
iutu the champ. Upon the crimson-velvet certain
were embroidered the President's arm. Ms Aida
bore a spread-eagle upon a field mare. Roma
the escutcheon ran a cord of eagles, ea
the grand cross of the Legion of Honoursg:talf
two branches of oak and olive, with entwined=
1 the whole surmounted by a calque with visor
and white plume. The tricoloured flag floated over
the tribune, above whose roof towered the dome o(
the edifice of Louis XV. Seen from the side of the
Champ the President's tribune presented two open
arakes, with similar decorations to the front. Through
these open arches you saw tho colours of the regi-
ments standing together, with their gilded eagles
displayed, massed in close perspective. Amy( time
standards moved about the high dignitaries and per-
images of distinction, with a good sprinklin4 of
ladies awaiting the arrival of the President. Con-
tiguous to the central tribune reserved for
the President and his suite were four others,
two of which, on the left, were occupied' hy
the family of the President, consisting
_of the sews of
Jamie and Lucieu, the Princess Mathaeondetbsth•
and by the wives of the ministers, mesebelo, Mask
Ms, and other high dignitaries of the dab. The
two corresponding boxes on the right contained the
diplomatic corps and their ladies. Next to this
emend group, on either side, were long galleries,
containing the Senate, the Corps Legialatif, and
the Council of State, all of whom appeared in full
thatenen TM other constituted bodies, which ap-
Twist elibidip by deputations, in their respective
iniforme, were ridged in the same portion of the
building. There wire the judges of the various courts
In their equarsicips and row, the learned bodies,
with the Institute at their bead, the civil engineers,
the masters of the Ecole Polytechnique and St. Cyr,
the consistories of the various religions professions not
petholic, of the national guard of Paris.
thasitn,ff
ot die army and navy. These long gal-
es& with seats for 720 persons,
mewl by spacious pavilions, each with aecom-
iffirimore than 400 which were taken pos-
sai* Of by the families of the great bodies of the
atia;'wo other lateral tribunes, detached from the
sad advanced before its wings, contained
citrate 1,200 employees in the different branches
of administration. Under the galleries of the
Ilitseal7nLegislatif were ranges of graduated
WNW g Into the arena, and open to the
1.11.
abwo with distinguished foreigners, the
=poet of whom were foreign military officers.
these the English red coats blazed coo
ors, and contreAed with the green uniforms of
sin. The dm* white bernous of the Arab sheik
was set off by the profusion of gold embroidery spent
won the many-coloured dresses of the north. Among
the long lines of' tribunes extending on the sides of
the vast square ;hat of the municipality, toward' the
Inealides,was the mast conspicuous. Hare wore col-
lected tba peeled of the Seine, the municipal council,
eat the prethet and commissioners of police.
The troops were drawn up on either side of the
were, in two lines, facie g each other, the infantry
the right as you entered from the Pont de Jens,
and the sway on the left. The line of infantry
yes ranged fe lions;batta the cavalry 1/uesaradrons
in close thlumne. Between title two 'and at
the distance of one-third of the whole lengt ' ' of the
Champ de Mars from the President's tribune, Mean
vast altar, raised on • breed base, and shaded by a
lofty canopy, the central object of attention. The
fifty steps of this magnificent strum, were crowded
with three hundred priests in their elk!, who assisted
et the mass. The artillery closed the Champ de
Mars on the lido of the neer, leaving in the direction
of the Pont de Jena an opening for the pump of
the Prince and his, suite. The deputations of the
different corps of the army and navy were ranged in
the void space between the lines and the Ecole 1
Mika*, under the direction of staff officers of the 1
let division of the army of Peril. .
ma President nit out from the Tuileries on horse-
back, shortly beforp noon. Ile wore the uniform of
a bent-general of infantry. Ilia only decoration
was that of the Legion of Honour, of which
ho wore the star, the broad red ribbon over Lis
breast, and the *Mill silver cross end medal in his'
buttonhole. He waa accompanied by his uncle the
prince Jerome, who were tho uniform of Marshal of
France, by Glacial do St. Arnaud, Minister of War,
General Meoen, commander-in-chief of the army of
Faris, Marshals Reille, Rarlspe, Exoplmans, and.
Vaillattt, with their aides de-aunp, and .a numerous
and brilliant staff of general officers, besides the
Prime's own military household. Particular orders
had been issued that no officer should be allowed to
join the cortege without a special invitation. A
strong escort of combing:mu hemmed, in 'the prince
and hie superb cavalcade, who were received in their
Cralong the quays by cries of " Vive Napo-
""from the crowd who lined the way. About
twenty bronze-faced Arab sheiks, wearing scarlet
scarfs over their white bernouse's, and with long
guns slung behind them, cancelling upon fiery
steeds of the Elysee, were not the least attractive
feature in the Ps MCC'S suite, and excited the admira-
tion of the multitude, Louis Napoleon rode.a superb
black boise, With gold housings. lie lOoked uncom-
monly well, and managed his steel admirably, which
chafed and pawed under him.

The Prince reached the Pont de Jena punctually
at noon. His entrance into the Champ de Mars was
announced by a salute of twenty-one guns, and by
acclamations which were drowned in the peal of the
artillery. First he gallopped down between the lines,
acknowledging, by repeatedly taking off his cocked
hat, the chorus of acclamations uttered by the
troops. On passing the altar the Prince and his
suite uncovered. When the President reached the
front of the Ecole Militaire, he wheeled to the left, and
gallopped back along the front of the cavalry regi-
ments. The cries were evidently reserved for the
filing-off. He then crossed before the artillery, and
a second time down the front of the in-
Ftristrl. When he reached the foot of the stair-
case leading up to his tribune he dismounted,
and ascending saluted, by taking off his cocked hat,
the ministers and high dignitaries, who came for-
ward to meet him down to the first landing-place.
He then took his seat in the arm-chair set for him.
On his right stood the ex-King Jerome, in the uni-
form of marshal of France. On either side and be-
hind were ranged the ten ministers, the marshals,
and admirals, the French ambassadors present in
l'aris, and the military household of the Prince. At
the beck of this platform, where Louis Napoleon was
seated, were set the stands of colours to be distri-
buted. The flags and standards were set
upright in frames of woodwork, called by
the French iji (yew-trees) so as to form
groups. The top of each flag-staff is sur-
mounted by a gilt eagle, with wings displayed, about
a foot in height. The model is exactly that of the
empire, but the three colours of the flag are not ar-
ranged as the tricolour was under Napoleon, for
then the bands were perpendicular to the staff (as in
fact the colours of the lancers' flogs are now), whereas
the colours are now parallel to the stall, and come in
the order of blue next the staff, white in the middle,
and last red. On the white portion is inscribed the
name and number of the regiment, and the battles
in which it has been distinguished. On the red and
blue are four crowns, encircling the cypher of Louis
Napoleon. The eagle, proud symbol of conquest,
borrowed from the ancient Roman standard, was
first introduced by Napoleon to replace the Gallic
cock, when he established the empire and the Le-
gion of Honour; and the part which the im-
perial bird has played in the early adven-
tures as well as late decrees of Louis Napoleon,
is too well known to need repetition here. The
ceremony of to-day is in fact a close imitation of the
Emperor's distribution of the eagles in his famous
Champ do Mai before the battle of Waterloo. Jerome
Bonaparte stood beside his brother, the Emperor,
on that occasion ; and singular must it have appeared
to him, at an interval of nearly 40 years to assist
at the solemn restoration by his nephew of impe-
rial emblem, which was shattered in that disastrous
rout. Immediately the Prince reached the platform
the ceremony of the distribution of colours began.
The colonels of the regiments stood in ranks at the
foot of the platform on which the Prince was sta-
tioned. At a given signal, the first colonel on the right
ascended the steps of the platform towards the Prince,
followed in single file by all those of the first rank.
The President, taking the colours from the hand of
the minister of war, delivered to the colonels in turn
the banners of their regiments. These officers,
descending in the same order, on reaching the ground
formed again at the bottom of the staircase. There
were 184 stand of colours, and so rapidly was this
operation executed that the distribution of the whole
did not occupy more than a quarter of an hour.
After the distribution of all the colours the colonels
of the regiments, at a given signal, reascended the
staircase of the platform all together, and stood upon
the steps while the Prince came forward and came
down to the first landing-place. He took off his
hat, and held a paper in his hand, from which he
read the following speech :
Soldiers !—The history of peoples is in great part the
history of armies. On their 'nemeses or on their reverses
depends the lot of civilisation and of the country. Con-
quered, they are followed by invasion or anarchy ; vic-
torious, by glory and order. For this reason, nations, like
armies, bear a religious veneration towards those emblems
of military honour, which sum up in them a whole pest of
struggles and of triumphs. The Roman eagle, adopted by
the Emperor Napoleon in the beginning of this century,
was the most striking signification of the regeneistion and
grandeur of Franco. It disappeared in our misfortunes. It
was destined to return when France, recovered from her
defeats, mistress of herself, should seem no longer to repu-
diate her own glory.
Soldiers!—Resume, then, these eagles, not as a menace
against foreign countries, but as the symbols of our inde-
pendence, as the souvenir of an heroic epoch, as the badge
of nobility of each regiment.
Resume, then, these eagles, which have so often led our
sires to victory, and swear to die, if need there be, to de-
fend them.

This speech was no sooner uttered than all the
colonels extended their right arms towards the Prince
and exclaimed " Nons le jurons !" "We swear it."
The President walked up again to his seat, while the
colonels, shouldering the standards, descended the
steps together and walked together towardsthe altar.
This magnificent structure was about 80 feet high
from the ground to the top of the gold cross that
surmounted the dome. The high altar was placed
upon a raised platform, 23 feet high, immediately
under the dome. Four pilasters supported the four
arches, terminating in a dome, of light and elegant
appearance, on the summit of which was a Latin
cross. Four gilded eagles occupied the angles of the
cornice above the arches. Against each Fleeter
there was a fluted Corinthian column, supporting a
statue. Level with the architrave were four nak
velvet canopies, composed of alternate broad stripes
of crimson and gold. A flight of =puked
stairs, facing the Ecolo Militaire, led up to the altar.
The priests, who were about three hundred in
number had been occupying themselves before the
President's arrival on the ground, in walking in pro-
cession about the altar, upon tho steps of which they
presently settled, like a flock of birds. The Arch-
bishop of Paris, hi his rich gold-embroidered cope
and mitre, descended the steps from the high altar,
attended by his grand vicar and clergy, to the first
landing-place on the staircase, while the colonels,
with their standards, remained grouped at the foot
of the steps. He then preached a discourse, the
length and rheforic of which, accompanied by ani-
mated gesticulations, contrasted strongly with the
brevity swisedate gravity of the President's speech.
The field at this moment presented a magnifi-
cent croup cfaa. There were the two regiments of
eteimemem and carabincers, with their their led-
er/nisi helmets and breastplates flashing back the
penlight Then the regiments of mounted chew
sews, with their neat red shako and black cocks'
feathers ; next clime the garde repUblicain, with their
red breust-facing and yellow cross-belts. The bands
stood °lose to the altar, altogether, After the con-
elusion of the archbishops' discourse the mass was
said, the host was raised, - fired, drums beat,
• and

pounded, the tt:oops' gunpNo. en 9 ted anne,
After pe

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Vincennes passed. Then the lively note of the trumpet,
corresponding to the pas gymnastigue, ceased, and
the drums began to beat as the infantry marched by.
The President removed his hat to the colours as the
regiments passed by. At this moment a lady, hold-
ing a petition, threw herself at the feet of Louis Na-
poleon, who received it and handed it to his aide-4e..
camp. The '
deputations of engineers, the municipal
guards, pompiers, gendarmes, and deputations of
gendarmes (much applauded) passed in turn. Next
came the artillery, whose complete silence produced
a deep sensation. Last the cavalry, with the Arab
sheiks, the spatial, zouavcs, and the new regiments
of guides, in their fur bonnets and green coats, with
orange embroidery.
The whole affair (as far as I have yet learned)
went off without an accident.
The address of Louis Napoleon to the army on
distributing the colours has been placarded over all
Paris.
The celebrated M. Arago, the director of the Ob-
servatory, has this morning written to the minister
of public instruction to say that ho must reiti,u to
take the oath. This event has produced a great stn.
elation in the scientific world.
The bidepeniknee of Brussels states that some
Englishmen have been arrested in Paris, at an hotel
in the Place de la Bonnie.