The Express.
London, England, 1862-04-25 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PAWS. Taman Ennio.
The Queen of Holland is expected in Paris at
eight this evening. The Emperor will go to the
Northern Railway station to meet her, but there
will be no official reception till to-morrow. The
Queen is accompanied by Count de Randwyck,
Grand Master of the Palace, Hardenbrock, First
Chamberlain, K de Weckherlin, Secretary of
Commands, and Madame Oudermanler and Baroness
Pabst, ladies of honour. Apartments have been
prepared for her Majesty at the Tuileries in the
Pavilion Marsan. To-morrow there will be a grand
court dinner, in oompliment to her. The King of
Holland and the Prince of Orange are not expected
till May 8. The rumour of a marriage between the
prinoe and the Princess Anna Murat is revived.
In spite of reports that the projected visit to Paris
of Prince Humbert of Italy would not take place
for fear of a cold reception by the Empress, it con-
tinues to be talked of as a probable event.
The month of May, during the whole of which
the Queen of Holland proposes to remain in France,
will be paused by the court partly at Fontainebleau
and partly at St. Cloud.
Prince Napoleon has returned to Paris from a
hurried visit to Geneva.

M. de Morny's visit to London is explained
being occasioned solely by the illness of the ambas-
sador, Count de Flahault. I hear that be stated
positively to an English gentleman on board the
steamer that the Emperor would not be able to
visit the London Exhibition.
The walls of Paris are now placarded with
gigantic bills, announcing all sorts of pleasure
trains to London fur the great event of next month.
The South Eastern Railway Company will run
express trains on and after May 1, from Paris to
London in ei hours !
While the telegraph says that K de Lavalette is
expected at Rome on Saturday, that valuable
government organ and public instructor the Pays
contains the following " Latest News," which I
send textually on the thane of your being able to
make something of it :
The rumeer is accredited for some days past that the
Marquis de Lvalette will not return to Rome. We are
unable to say what foundation there may be for this on dit.
At present it would be difficult to cite any acts or facts of
• nature to give it a character, we will not say of authen-
ticity, but even of probability. Our private information
authorises us, however, to believe that co decision on
this subject bee yet been come to.
This paragraph is a model of mystification. If
the Pays' private information be correct that it is
yet undecided whether M. de Lavalette goes back
to Rome or not, it is clearly not improbable that
he may stay hero. But observe how carefully the
Pays' language draws a distinction between the
probability reeulting from "acts and facts" gene-
rally known, and that which may be inferred from
its own mysterious oommunications.
Several provincial journals state that 50,000
furloughs for six months are about to be granted to
the army.
It is announced that K Ernest Renan, who, it
will be remembered, was suspended after his
opening lecture in the Hebrew chair of the College
of France, will resume his duties, and lecture
every Thursday on the Semitic languages, and on
Saturdays on the book of Job.
The beautiful Pni Catalan in the Bois de
Boulogne, which, in consequence of the failure of
the speculators who sunk so much money, in it
has been a desert for the last two years, was
opened for Musard concerts a day or two since,
which will perhaps go on through the season
alternating with those in the Champs Elysies.
The Bourse was heavy, but with no marked fea-
ture. The quotations of Bente and other leading
securities remain with scarcely the variation of a
fraction from yesterday. The Chinas Mires fell
nearly 40fr., in consequence of sales to realise
profits ; the last price was 1251 r.
The Court of Caseation—the three chambers
Bitting together in the last resort—has been occu-
pied this week in hearing arguments in the grease:se
of " Berthou, calling herself Herbin, v. Berthoo,"
which, as some of your readers may remember,
raises the question whether a marriage with a dis-
charged convict can be set aside on the ground that
the fact of his conviction was unknown to the other
conjunct. But for a decision against the marriage
by the civil chamber of the Court of Caseation, I
should have thought that to propound such • pro-
position was to refute it. When I noticed this case