The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-13 00:00:00

1 health of Primo, Albert and the imembers of the

Society of Arts, in the following speech:
GINTLEMEX,—The Prinos Napoleon has deputed inland
my eolleague—M. Arles Dafour—to receive you in his
name, end hss delegated to as the honour of proposing the
health of your President. Prince Albert. and of the Society

of Arts. 'We hope that you will feel yourselves quite at
home here, sad we are sum that you share those senti-
ments which your Grueiou Quin 000demieuded toezpreee

daring oar visit, and which every Eag
must now feel on setting foot on our hospitable

1 shores. Tot who were the irrt to realise the idea of at

Universal Bzhibition mast szperience as especial satiate°.

don in contemplating the wonders of intelligence and in-
dustry by which we are at this moment surrounded. What-
ever. however. may be the results of univenal exhibitions,
they are not the extreme limit of progress is the age in
which we live. The arts, science., and mansfactuns have
their great difileultin to encounter, some of which most be
canted. and others taken by assault. They have their Me-
takhoffs and their Great Beams, bat they have also their
glorious den of victory—their Alms, Inkenneass, and
Traktin. Let us continue to much arm in arm in this
career of progress, as our brave soldiers fight side by side
for the conquest of liebastopoL
Lord Ebrington responded to the toast by thank-
ing Prince Napoleon and the Imperial Commission
for the courtesy which they had shown towards him '
and his colleagues, and terminated by proposing the
health of the Emperor, who, by his wisdom and ge-
nius had accomplished what his predecessors had only
attempted—the alliance of the two countries on the
indestructible footing of the community of their
glory and their interests. The toast was drunk with
acclamation.

The funeral obsequies of M• Binean, not lug since
Minister of Finance, took place yesterday at the
church of the Madeleine. All the ministers now in
Paris were present, as were a great number of high
functionaries, general officers, senators, deputies, and
councillors of State, as well as the Duke of Maisano,
chamberlain to the Emperor, who came in one of the
Imperial carriages. Detachments of the 15tb, 41st,
and 90th Regiments lined the aisle at both sides, in
order to render military honours to the deceased, who
was a grand cordon of the Legion of Honour. After
the funeral service, the body wu taken to the ceme-
tery of Montmartre, where several addresses were
pronounced over the tomb of the deceased.
BeHectare, the man who attempted to assassinate

the Emperor on Saturday evening, having been de-
clared mad by the medical men appointed to examine
into his state of mind, has been sent to Blatt,.
Although he was born at Rouen, his parents did net
belong to that city. Camille-Edmond-Dieudonne
Bellemare was the issue of the marriage of la school-
master of that name with a Mdlle. Bernard, of
Havre. M. Bateman quitted Rouen in 1837, and
established himself at Havre, where he opened a
boarding-school, at No. 11, Rue de la Communal,.
Some time after, M. Bellemare died, and his widow
at a later period married a M. Marie, one of her late
husband's professors in the school, and that gentle-
man succeeded to the direction of the school. In 1842,
M. Marie removed his establishment to the Rue de
l'Hopital, and has since carried it on with great
credit. After his removal his wife died, but
he brought up her eon with great care, and
gave him an excellent education. In 1848,
the young man, in spite of the exhortations of
M. Marie, and of that gentleman's brother and
sisters, who always manifested great interest in him,
resolved to leave Havre to seek his fortune. He got
a place as clerk to a huissier at Rouen. In the revs*
lotion of 1848, he frequented the clubs at Rouen, and,
made himself remarked by his eccentricities. Subse-'
goody he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment
for swindling. M. Marin heard taunting shoot him
until 1863, when he learned that he had been ar-
rested in the department of the Seine, for having
made use of seditious language and employed threats
against the Emperor. M. Marie still follows the
occupation of a teacher at Havre, and is much re-
spected.
6, We have just seen," says the Courrier de Yuri
*elite, "a Russian drum taken at the battle of the
Tohernaya. This noisy trophy has (been sent to the
Countess Ferny d'lsly, lady of honour to the Ea- ,
press, by General Fenny d'lsly, as a plaything for
his little son. A Russian drum will be a fitting toy
for the grandson of the illustrious Marshal Bugeand.
The manner in which this instrument is made dace l
not give a very elevated idea of the Russian drum-
makers, as everything about it is exceedingly clumsy."
We read in Cialiynani:
All the accounts from the departments speak of the
esthatiestic manner is which the late glorious news from
the Crimea wee received. At Rosen, the despatch was
read at the theatre amidst tr. mendous cries of Vin
Ilikaperear !" " Vivo l'Arnak !" and a number of houses
watt tfinsiasted. The despatch was also read at the
theatre at Amuse amidst the most rapturous applause;
sad on leaving the theatre a number of persona assembled
before the house at which General Thomas, who was
wounded at the battle of the Alms, temporarily resides, and
having procured ladders, they planed a flag as the house,
and illuminated the front. The appearance, of the Geaeral
at the window was hailed with loud applause.
The statement appearing in several journals that
Marshal Radetaky was the oldest general in Europe,
bee produced a letter to the Sieele, in which that
distinction is claimed by General Despeanx, of the
French service, aged 94, who entered the army in
1776, was appointed general of brigade in 1793, and
genial of division in they following year; so that
he is a general of 61 years' standing, while Marshal
Rsdetzky, aged 89, is only of 50 years' standing.