The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-14 00:00:00

FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, TUESDAY Eviim'G.

We have had melancholy weather for the grand
review in the Champs de Mars. Several pelting
showers yesterday, and a drizzling rain nearly all
night, made the ground terribly heavy. !flack
clouds and almost oonetant rain have prevailed
throughout the day. Just as the Emperor and the
King of Holland crossed the bridge of Jina, at two
o'clock, the weather cleared a little, and for three
or four minutes some watery sunbeams told a fiat-
tering tale. But long before their Majesties had
finished their gallop in front of the lines the rain
came down again—not very hard, it is true, but it
was quite enough to be disagreeable. Later,
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wet became more decided, and the troops
got thoroughly drenched on their march to bar-
racks. There were unusually few spectators. The
heights of Trocadero, generally crowned on such
occasions with people thick as a swarm of bees, only
showed here and there two or three umbrellas. The
usual exaggerated statements are made as to the
number of troops in the field. The Pattie estimates
them at from 40,000 to 60,000. I believe 30,000
to be above the mark. During the review the Em-
press, the Queen of Holland, and the Imperial
Prince sat in the balcony of the Roole Militaire,
decked out with crimson hangings for the occasion.
A great many generals rode with the Emperor's
staff, and by express order they were in full dress,
with white breeches and boots d Vecuyer. The
King of Holland goes away to-morrow.
Referring to an assertion of a London journal,
that the French army will never leave Rome so
long as the present Pope lives, the Prase says :
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" We cannot believe that French policy can be so
gambling as to allow the security, union, and deli-
verance of a great people to be contingent upon the
life of a single man."
There was less business doing at the Bourse, but
the character of the market remains pretty nearly
the same. Bente rose 10e. for cash, closing at
70fr. 70c., and left off at yesterday's price,
70fr. 80c., for account. Mobilier rose lfr. 25c., and
the Italian Loan sc. The Orleans Railway rose
12fr. 50c. In the other lines there was scarcely
any change. Caisse Mirs is only lfr. lower.
The Pays and the Temps are trying hard to get

up a duel between some of their staff, but have
not yet succeeded. M. Grandgu'llot wants to fight
M. Nefftzer, on account of an article written by
Duvernois, whose quarrel M. Nefftzer declines
to take out of his own hands. K Duvernois has
challenged M. Grandgnillot, who positively refuses
to meet him. But although M. Grandguillot thinks
M. Duvernoia not worthy of his steel, a subor-
dinate writer in the Pays, named De Beaufort,
sent shim s challenge this afternoon, and the
bearers of this challenge were at once referred to
two friends of K Duvernois. An identical note
published by the Pays and Temps of this evening,
and signed by the friends of both parties,
states that M. Duvernois refuses to meet
M. de Beaufort "at present," on the ground
that K Grandguillot haying insulted K Duver-
nois, the latter must persist in obtaining satisfac-
tion from him in the first instance. The press, of
all shades of politics, Legitimist, Orleanist, and
Republican, continues to exclaim against the
servile doctrine of M. Grandguillot that a jour-
nalist's private character is to be considered
damaged by the recitals in a ministerial decree of
warning or suppression.
A *foamier named Dnvant, condemned to
death by the Assize Court of the Aisne for murder
and robbery, coolly said to the judge who passed
sentence upon him, "I appeal to the Court of
Douai !" This libel upon that court and upon
K Mirk, which raised a laugh, necessarily
involved an admission by the desperate wretch
that he was guilty.

A private letter from Pesth states that an unex-
pected political demonstration took place on the 7th at the
National Theatre. A uew comedy wu being performed; in it
occurs a scene in which one of the actors looks over an
album of photographic portraite, calling out the names
aloud as he does so. When he mentioned that of Victor
Emmanuel, a thunder of applause burst forth, and lasted
at least five minutes, the pit standing up during this spon-
taneous ovation. . .

One of the French gentlemen now visiting Lon-
don writes to a friend at Paris :—" In England the success
of a religion' society or a life insurance company depends on
its being conducted—nominally at least—by the nobility,
whose illustrious names are advertised on all occasions, and
generally all public associations are named ` I am
sure the English are an aristocracy-loving nation. If people
are not noble themselves, they want to know and mix with
the nobility. Most of my English friends (and I know many)
always contrive in conversation to make me understand that
they are acquainted with Lord N— or Sir and Milady X. Y.Z.
Mrs. M—, to whom you kindly introduced me yesterday,
sent me the following note:—' Mrs. X— presents her
compliments to Mona. Auguste and trusts he will
honour her on Wednesday next (the dinner hour is 7
o'clock), to meet Lady Mary B—s and a family circle.'
I do not know Lady Mary, nor should I have thought when
I called on Mr. M— at his office in the City that that
good-natured merchant or his wife would have troubled
themselves to ask me to meet one of the nobility of Eng-
land at their house in the Regent's-park."
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A Constantinople correspondent writes :—" This
year it so happened that the Greek and catholic Faster fall
on the same day, which only occurs once every three years,
and great and universal were the rejoicings. Amongst the
most active of the community who took part in the day's
ceremonies were the hamali, or porters—strong, muscular
fellows, who in this country do all the work of Pickford's
vans. From an early hour they might be seen in groups
in the street, dressed in their gaudy best, perform-
ing in the circle a graceful and fantastic dance,
which they went through, accompanied by music
of a spirited though decidedly barbarous character.
Later in the day they all assembled at the Grand
Champs, a large Armenian burial ground, where,
over the graves of their dead relatives, they continued
their orgies still more vigorously. The general scene was
very much after the fashion of Greenwich fair; swings,
acrobats, performing monkeys, Punch and Judy, Ac., were
at work, the three sticks a penny' alone being wanting
to make the thing complete. A pleasuat contrast could not
but be observed between these light-hearted, simple
pleasure seekers, who desired no stronger stimulants than
coffee end lemonade, and many of the lower orders of our
own community at home, whose notion of a holiday con-
sists in drinking hard all day, sod winding up with a fight
in the evening."
The Naples correspondent of the Times writes :
" At one spot where yesterday I meta host of joyous
nationals, I remember to have urged Tajsni, one of the
advocates for Sardinia, to get into my carriage ; but he was
afraid to be seen with me, and be continued his daily course
on foot, for he was exiled from Salerno, and only allowed
to come in for the trial. The last time I met him our the
road he was in deep mourning ; he had just loot his wife, •
victim to the tarbarity of the government, who refused to
grant her prayer to be allowed to breathe her native air
before she died ; and, after this touching story, he urged
me to drive on and leave him. In my hurt visit to Salerno I
visited Niootars and hie companions in their prison. Some
of them were under sentence of death, and most of them
were led out shortly after in chains at midnight and shipped
off to their gloomy destinations. Yet the true-hearted
&lonians did not desert them. There were crowds in the
streets, sod boat-loads of sympathisers on the sea. And
now Niootera is their deputy and Victor Emmanuel their
King, and I have witnessed such an ebullition of joyous en-
thusiasm as has well-nigh overcome me."
The first stone of the breakwater at Castle
Cornet, at Guernsey, was laid last week.