The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-26 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, WIDIMIDAT
The splendour of the mond ball given on Monday
night at the Tuileries is celebrated at great length
by the government journals. The Patne says that
thirty thousand applications were made for tickets,
and That eight thousand guests were p -resent. The
eireeneatance most interesting to an Englishman is
that the President opened the ball with the English
amlieseadress, Lady Cowlq, which must be inter-
preted as as attention .ft .I,bited to produce a cer-
tain diplamMis elect in the present uneasy state of
our relations/Ith France ; particularly as the Prince
did not dose at all at the precedingball. All the mem-
bers of the diplomatic corps were present, and a
great nomber of military uniforms of various
count . but particularly of Russia and England,
were aoliMd in the splendid crowd. Tho ministers
and maiden of state appeared in their new cos-
tawa bit the ouches, having only just succeeded
fa palm a dew allbated in the suit imposed by.
tlainitle 15..., were not in a condition to
opal eels ssihnosi habiliments. Meanwhile, the
ant astable esserreses at this was a violent
wad between aF a Meli aft
%Wed with eireemstaansio ult
GM
sanediel all
amid
have die/read a festive naafi a I dr Orman,.
The origin ot this indigent dlionle Is miss* e►
ported, ism mseedaathat es Ye paw of ens at
the whiebsrat WIWNIS gyp Or aims of the eters.
1 while otiose maintain that the quarrel arose from
a Aimee en political Wks. Certain it is,
that a loud sad fierce scene, in which
the coarsest Maths were interelmiled, tilled
the hill. It Tidies with emboss. The ladies, ter-
rified st the treasilematien d a Teem of the pulsar

into a
1.1 WS
and sabmgad by WIMP unviorthY
of the Imo* limrato. desk husbands ham
the ism d thin ige awl. Moony tho
patrol% having ham ounindoil Wen Osumi Ora-
'Asst. ono of the Preident's minitary honsalsold, by
his &s him ono of them woe turned out. To-day $
lad woo to hays been fought, but I have received no
inhumation as to the result.

It is to be noted at present that the deep schisms
which divide the legitimists tend to throw strag-
glers of that party into the arms of Louis Napoleon.
More than one symptom might be seen of this trans-
formation at the Tuileries ball, where it is reported
that the Dukes of Doudeauville and Bauffremont were
weent. I see to-day in the Moniker that another
legitimist of note, the Marquis de Putoret, is nomi-
nated a member of the Council of Surveillance of the
General Administration of Public Assistance at Paris,
in the room of the Duke de Mynas, resigned.
M. Charles Monginot, who was secretary to Gen.
leavaignac after the revolution of 1848, has just been
arrested at his house, and sent to Mazes prison.
The papers are much occupied with the change of
ministry in England. An article in the Pays on
this subject represents tho dangers of war with which
the inauguration of a tory policy is fraught, and
talks of Lord Palmerston, as one whose advent
to power would be the pledge of peace to Europe.
You will perceive that this compliment to the pacific
disposition of the late Foreign Secretary is diame-
trically opposed to the opinion of the Mats. The
solution of this mystery is simple. The Ifflbats is
the organ of the Orleans party, and the Pays of the
Elyske. Lord Palmerston prefers the alliance of
France to that of the northern courts, and the tories
prefer the alliance of the northern courts to that of
France. Hence, what appears pregnant with war to
the Debais is a symptom of peaoe for the Pays, and
vies-terse. The following is the piano in which