The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-25 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 25, 1855.

haps, had "left their country for their coantry'a
good,' the French metropolis and its lively popula-
tion presents at We moment an appearanes of sa-
mosai jollity and senteutompt. The latter deal seems
to care a fig for the polies, are on the best terms
sible with the soldiers, sad in the pub& plasm talk
politics with the greatest filmdom. I strongly mope*
that the chronic state of conspiraey in which Paris
is generally supposed *a assort is a awn Arnett,
and that sa long as the people have platy of work,
plenty of fit's, aid bread not toe dear, they will be
just as slimily managed as any urban population in
Europe. The politicians mayshake their heads at this,
bat nay belief in the earreetosno of my coejeetere re-
mains unshaken nevertheless. While the Chleen and
Emperor were ascending the stairs any person who
might be stationed at the top had around him on
every side a most magnificent prospect. All the other
anaemia might be men at the same time, oaly in-
Woe is &emetics is the mealier d'issasswir, and
east cowered with an asmading stream et tomdersy.

Tinware, tonnaino, Malebo, *its In ocattorill peek.
don everywhere ; mask filed the air, and the lett
of 50,000 boogies brought out everything in its lent
attractive colours. The Queen, for whom the mew
puny, although crowded to suffocation, at MO
formed a peerage. proceeded to the stile di demo,
where two rows of state chairs had been prepared,
over which was a splendid canopy having
the whole surmounted by the imperial crown.
On the first row the Queen, Emperor, Prime
Albert, the Princess Mathilde, and Prin.. Adalberto:
Prussia took their mats and on the mood the Mar-
chioness of Ely, Lady Cowley, Marquis of Breadal-
bane, Lord Alfred Paget, end the other members of
the two court. It was difficult, however, to get near
enough to disdaguish saybody, for the crowd was
terrific ; and. as for the beat, I, who have been in
many crowds, never felt anything like it. lieveral
ladies fainted, and some gentlemen looked as it they
could follow their example, the only persons who
seemed to enjoy themselves comfortably being some
half dozen of Arab Sheiks, who, as it got hotter and
hotter, wrapped themselves up tighter and tighter in
their picturesque crimson " boo:noes," and, cool as
cumbers themselves, smiled contemptuously at the
perspiring foreheads of the rest of the company.
These gentlemen managed to get abut ex-
ceedingly well without any guide or inter-
preter. They were able to take everything
coolly with the thermometer at 180, and
sometimes they sat down and sometimes they walked
majestically about, and sometimes they went to the
buffets, wavering all the time amongst themselves
with animation, but in a dialect that baffled any at-
tempt at too carious eavesdropping. It is a very
extraordinary thing how Arabs of the Desert, Ame-
rican Indians, and other rues whom we are pleased
to call half-civilised, seem to be gifted naturally with
that insperttubable self-poseseroo, the acquirement
of which is amongst us considered to be the tapirs
sites of high breeding, and only to be achieved by
the study of half a life passed amid the best society.
Oar Shea friends on this occasion did not incon-
venience themselves for a moment in attempting to
get a look at the Queen, but, being very tall men,
they looked with their goat black eyes for a moment
over the shoulders of the others. and then very
quietly retired to the fenitmsils, where, placing one
leg composedly over the other, they resumed their
diseemice-11 is to be supposed—on the po-
litics of the desert. The chamber in which
all this took place is one of the finest ball rooms in
Europe. It was here that, in 1851, the London cor-
poration dined with the Prefect of the Seine, an
historical event which cannot be too impressively
commemorated, the more especially as the next room
—the sane the tr6oe—bas its great fact, as it contains
a window from which poor Louis Seize harangued
the people with the cap of liberty on his bead. lam
mat d ammo going to invade the dominions of Oa-
Miami, a contest with whom even the great John
Murray a:pearly declined, by describing the decor-
ations of this magnificent chamber in detail; suffice
it to say that the general effect was most brilliant on
the peesest occasion, and that but for the heat, every
see would have been pleased and contented. Her
Majesty, however, bore it very well, and after a few
presentations, the band, under the direction of the
great Strauss himself, struck up • new quadrille
Ebswassr. composed expressly for the occasion, and
esrapilig French translations of English and Irish
sirs; sad the two royal and imperial personages present
formed for a duos. The Queen danced with the
Emperor, their eie-era being the Princess Mathilde
and Prime Albert, while Prince Adalbert of Prussia
and Prime Napoleon danced with two court ladies
whose fuss I could not make out through the dense
crowd by whisk the court circle was surrounded.
Her Majesty danced with mock grace and spirit,
and the Emperor acquitted himself very creditably,
but a difference of opinion seemed to arise in the
pastorale as to how it was to be danced, the result of
which was to throw Prince Albert and Prince Napo-
leon into momentary confusion, and to cause much
amusement, as well to the taseen and IStoperor as to
the company. Her Majesty was dressed in white
lace, with a splendid perms of brilliants, and looked
as well as her most loyal subjects could wish her.
The Emperor also looked in the best health and
spirits, and were a much more cheerful expression of
countenance than was commonly observed previous
to the royal visit. The Princess Mathilde is consi-
dered here to be a very fine woman; but, in my view,
she is rather masculine, and wears rather a deter-
mined expression of countenance. She was of muss
splendidly dressed, and had plenty of diamonds; but
indeed I observed that the display of brilliants was
more than commonly general amongst the company.
After the dance, which, with the French tempo, was
soon over, came the promenade through the whole
suite of rooms, the Queen and court walking slowly
along, while on each aide a brilliant line of varied
uniforms and gay ball dresses acted as the pollee of
the occasion. The Queen acknowledged every bow
most graciously, and stopped and spoke for a few mo-
ments to HoraosVernet, whose appearance in one por-
tion of the line arrested her attention. Her walk was a
bog one, and the atmosphere something like what
one might expect in the crater of Vesuvius a few
days before the eruption; but the Queen bore it well,
and went through her work from beginning to end
without the slightest symptom of exhalation. The
whole party left at about half-past 11, descending as
they had seconded, by the 'outlier ditoratiettr ; but in
this instance the public were admitted, mid all but tire
reserved pump was crowded to suffocation. With
her Majesty retired the majority of the celekaities
amongst the company, but the younger potion re-
mained, and, assisted by the inspiriting, musing of
Straw, kept ay the &see wadi a le.te hour is the

HER MAJESTY'S MOVEMENTS IN PARIS.
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PARIS. TZVIIIDAT 11•1311110.
Prince Albert left St. Cloud at a quarter past 10
this morning to pay a buinese-like visit to the Uni-
versal Exhibition alone. Hs ease in a ehari-benc,
ascompanied by the Marquis of Aberoorn and Col.
Pbippe, end without any court. He entered the
building at the principal doer in the Champs Elysies,
and was received by Prime Neyeisers, M. Fould, and
M. Le Play. He proceeded eyelemadeally to walk
round the nave, sad some of the Moral galleries, and
after having made a meat minute inspection of
a greet many stalls, he muscled to the Ileum*
where the Queen stayed so keg yesterday. He after-
wards retuned to the Palais, went up stairs, and
staid a keg while in the upper galleries. The sea-
sea-ticket holders, who alone were admitted on this
simisise, did not of course muster in anything like
ea* numbers as they did yeeterday to en the
AIN& It wee mot found mieseury to fence off the
man with ropes, which the public could not pass,
as was done yesterday. A few sergens-de-villa
kept a sufficient open space to enable his
Royal Highness to walk about freely. I hear the
demeanour of his Royal Rightism very much praised
by exhibitors. He conversed in the most sans-frioon
manner with a greet many, listened attentively to the
observations made to WU, frequently smiled, and
appeared to take a great Intelsat in all that he sew.
I am the more happy to record the favourable im-
Fordo° which his Royal Highness's conduct pro-
discoed today, from the fact that at the Opera the
other evening it was remarked that he was taciturn
and reserved. The Prince left the Palais de 'ln-
dustrie at a little before two o'clock, and went to
the Tuileries to wait for the snivel of the Queen and
the lksorts bees Bt. Cloud.
The (Wm arrived at the Tuileries at half-put 2,
half en hear later than the dm* mentioned in the
pr-game". The heat was intone at that time ;
snipe* in consequence of the heat, which many
Emit from encountering, and partly because of a
tumour that her Majesty would not leave the cool
shades of St. Cloud till the sun had somewhat abated
the intensity of his rays, there were but few people
amembled in the precincts of the Palace at the mo-
ment of her arrival. In the Place du Carrousel
where every stone was so hat that you might have
baked a loaf upon it, then were not at two o'clock
more people than usual. In the Tuileries Gardens,
as soon as the posting of a few sergens-de-ville on
either side of the grand avenue leading to the Pavil-
lon de rHorlop indicated that the Imperial car-
riages were approaching, the nurserymaids, children,
and mammas, the newspaper and novel readers, and
the ladies who delight to do crotchet work under the
chesaut trees, ran oat from the massifs, and formed
lines to see the arrival, and their numbers being bat
very slightly augmented by a few casual promenaders,
the rank was a single one, so that everybody could
see welL Their Majesties and suite arrived
in travelling carriages - and four with the
Imperial post-horses. The Queen and the Primus
Royal sat together. The Emperor was on the oppo-
site mat. There was no fourth person in their car-
' slap. After luncheon the Emperor conducted her
IMajesty to the picture-galleries of the Louvre. The
Sepal sad Imperial party entered the galleries by the
deer essamenicating with the interior of the Tuileries,
se that the public saw nothing of her Majesty's visit to
the Louvre. No person not in the immediate suite of
their Majesties was admitted to the galleries. It is
isperled and has even been printed in an edition of •
Pads Newspaper already sent into the country this
evening that, after leaving the Louvre, her Majesty
paid the projected visit to Vincennes this afternoon. It
would not even surprise me if circumstantial accounts
were to be circulated throughout Europe, describing
theisserations in the Faubourg St. Antoine, and the en-
thusiasm of the people as her Majesty pseud the
Deniers du Trone. All each descriptions, however,
will be pure invention, for up to the hour at which I
write her Majesty bad not left the Taileries. She
dines there to-day en jamille at seven o'clock, and
afterwards goes to the grand ball at the Hotel de
The Queen made two purchases at the Exhibition
yesterday. It is more than probable that she made
others, but I have only as yet heard of these two.
One was • brown cast, executed by M. De Li-
tmus, of the exquisite piece of sculpture exhibited
in the Fins Arts Exhibition, by M. Oeefe—the Bel-
gian artist—the " Lion in Love." The Queen ge-
mmed herself so much pleased with her purchase,
that M. Forth' thought it woad be a delicate compli-
ment:to send it to Bt. Cloud immediately, and she
found it in her bedroom in the evening. Her Ma-
jesty also bought (for 1,6001.) a fan made by Dunne-
trey, embellished by a painting of "Lee 'audit de
limperatrioe," the subject of which is the Empress,
when a child, distributing charity, which it was her
habit to do once a week.
I understand that Prince Albert made a great
-1 many purchases ie the Exhibition to-day.
to j

THE RETURN TO ENGLAND.
BOULOGNE-BUR-IMR, FAIDLY.
It is now officially announced that her Majesty
Queen Victoria will embark at this port on Monday
next, at 11 o'clock at night, on her return to England.
The Emperor will accompany her Majesty and the
royal party by the Northern of France Railway to
Boulogne. The hour named for their arrival here is
11 o'clock on Monday morning.
The following are the arrangements laid down
which are to conclude the splendours of this ever
memorable event, vis.:—A visit to the camps, grand
review upon the sands, grand dinner at the Pavilioa
Hotel, general illumination of the city and of the port,
departure of her Majesty at 11 o'clock at night amid
flambeaux and Bengal fireworks.
It is not generally known that the Emperor had
a most miraculous escape from destruction on the
morning of the day of the Queen's arrival. Bone
time before the royal squadron was sighted, his Im.
perial Majesty, accompanied by Marshal B•ragusy
d'Hilliers, galloped np the heights for the purpose of
having a better view of the approach of hie august
visitor. While his horse was standing quietly upon
the most elevated ground within a very short dis-
tance of the overhanging cliffs, he permitted the
mins to hang loosely upon the animal's neck,
ibis bands being occupied bolding • doable
opera glass to his eyes. The Emperor's Mantas
being wholly absorbed with the contemplation of the
Victoria and Albert, which, in the distance, he saw
approaching, and while at the oboe time eonversing
with the Marshal oa the subject, he was aroused to a
sense of the most imminent danger by the sadden
'bergamot of his hone, who made a violist lisp