The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-25 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARD3,TzuvarsAy EVIOIOO.
The morning papers are without interest. In the
absence of political news, the various plans of de-
oentralisation supply some of them with a subject
of discussion ; but French readers have little taste
for leaders on subject' which do not interest them,
and the journalists fill up their columns in these
days of dearth with extracts from foreign papers,
often put into the form of letters, and literary
reviews. The Emperor has contrived to secure so
'much privacy that it is only in the form of extracts
from the Swiss papers that we bear anything of his
movements. He is enjoying for a few days the hap-
piness of that return to private life which the Em-
press is always so ready to taste the sweets of. A
life of constant representation must be irksome in
the extreme to a man bred to more independent
habits. It is only education from infancy whioh
can render such an existence endurable ; and in the
Emperor's case the precautions which are taken to
secure him against assassination must add to the
feeling that he is again, as at Ham, but a state
prisoner. How much he feels this was proved to
his alarmed guardians one morning about four
years ago, when he disappeared from the Tuileries,
and was for • couple of hones unfindable. He
turned up again, however, and at the circle in the
evening everyone 'was anxious to hear what had
happened to him. He then told how in his morning
walks on the terrace of the Tuileries he had often
watched the omnibus on the Place de la Con-
corde which goes to Auteuil, till at last
he could no longer resist the temptation,
got out at the postern, and mounting on the roof
went to Auteuil and returned on the same con-
veyance. "But how did your Majesty get the
six sons to pay for your placer asked the private
treasurer who was present. " I have been planning
the excursion for a long time, and I took measures
to get them." On another occasion the authorities
of the town of Dieppe, where the Emperor and
Empress were staying, were thrown into consterna-
tion by the disappearance of both. It Wll 10 at
night. The police of surety were sent out in every
direction, the prefect was in the greatest alarm,
thinking his sovereigns were abducted, and at last
they were found seated together having a quiet
look at the moonlit sea on the end of the pier.
It is understood that to-morrow the imperial
couple will return to their gallery at Fontainebleau.
General Montebello, commander-in-chief of the
army of occupation in Rome, has been invited
there to confer with the Emperor. As the Garde-
Meublo has forwarded • quantity of furniture to
Biarritz there seems no reason to suppose that this
part of the autumn programme will be changed.
Your readers will hardly care to know that on the
occasion of the 15th 59 sub-prefectures and 16
ovaries have been made happy by the presentation
of portrait' of their Majesties.
The French papers are beginning to put forward
their appreciations of the treaty of Gastan and
Salzburg. The Patr ie professes to believe that
M. de Bismarck has been less successful than his
admirers suppose, and that the pecuniary indem-
nity stipulated for by Austria in exchange for its
rights in Lauenburg is only the smallest part of
what the present arrangement costs Prussia. The
Temps sees in the conquest of Lauenburg by
Prussia something still more menacing to that
power. While it was a question of nationalities
France had uo alternative but to leave its old ally
the King of Denmark to his fate ; but when
Prussia only consults its own convenience, and
aids a convenient little territory to its straggling
possessions, it authorises France to say that there is
such or such a position on the Rhine which suits
France, aal which abe can appropriate with the
same right as Prussia Lauenburg. "Ass France is
much stronger than Prussia this is the weak aide
of M. de Bismarck's policy. As for moral order it
is evidently foreign to the question."
Prussian officers will learn to be henceforth more
careful in the choice of the persons on whom they
try their swords. From having mistaken a Ger-
men-speaking Frenchman for a German, Count von
Eulonberg will be made to pay more or less dearly,
for a lark which if indulged in with greater discrimi-
nation would have redounded to his credit in his re-
giment, and excited no complaints abroad. The pro-
vincial papers here have taken the matter up, and the
French government will be obliged to insist on some
sort of satisfaction. A mixed commission, civil and
military, is examining the affair at Bonn. This
little incident has happened at a most favourable
moment, as it gives the French, whose nobility was
never accustomed to take such liberties, at least
with thou who were not their own vassals, an
opportunity of appreciating what Lauenburg bas
gained by the recent convention with Austria, and
what is in store for the liberated Duchies. With
the exception of Oldenburg, where the nobility are
allowed the exercise of the stick as well as of the
sword, there is no country in Europe where
their privileges bare survived ao entire as
in Prussia ; but the indiscriminate use
which 110030 of the younger members of the
higher order make of them, threatens to end
in their curtailment. Six months never pass without
some act of violence quite as bad as this, but at
places like Magdeburg or Posen they are little
talked of. At Bonn there are too many strangers,
and M. D'Eulenberg must not be surprised if, as
the evening papers announced, he is ordered under
arrest in his own rooms. It is a severe measure,
but probably the authorities found it inevitable, as
THE NEW ARCTIC EXPEDITION. it seems that our Queen as well as France has
HAMBURG, Amour 22. stirred in the matter.
The Prussian, Captain Reinhold Werner, has The Constitutionnel loses one of its best pens by
chartered a steamer of 200 tons in London for the the retirement of its theatrical critic, M. Nestor
new Arctic voyage of exploration, which, ac- Roqueplan. He has been appointed inspector of
cording to Dr. Petermann's proposal, is to books (librairie) by the Minister of the Interior.
precede an expedition upon a large scale. The He was for some time director of the Opera
steamer was expected to arrive here yesterday, Comique and of the Varidtds, and was as cele-
and will immediately afterwards sail for Hammer- bested in this capacity for his good taste and
feet, where it is hoped to pick up a crew experienced tact as for his bons mots. He was the inventor of
in Arctic navigation. This beingdone, the expedition the saying, " Business after everything else." He
will proceed to the eastern coast of Spitzbergen pos- is son-in-law of M. de Villemessant, editor of the
/ably, also, to Gillis Laud, from which point the actual Figaro.
object of exploration will be entered upou. This Baron Bramwell's dialogue with the quaker has
is to ascertain, by careful examination of the seas already been translated into almost all the French
between Spitzberg and Nova Zambia, whether Dr. papers. He may congratulate himself on having
Petermann's conjectures as to the direction of the produced as new a sensation as the great spitting
Gulf streams are comet scene in the Deuz Saws.
The funds for the exploration have been partly From Zorn= we bear that Queen Christina
raised by subscription among the Senate and leaves to-day on her return to France, for the
citizens of Hamburg ;it is believed that the amount purpose of putting a stop to the rumours that her
still waisted will soon be subscribed by merchants I Majerty was meddling in politics. It seems that

THE EMPEROR AND THE EMPRESS OF
THE FRENOH.
NEUFCHATEL, Avouart 24.

The Emperor and the EntPress arrived here this
evening, and, contrary to general expectation, did
not continue their journey to Fontainebleau, but
will pass the night hen.
As the imperial party went from the railway sta-
tion to the hotel the horses of the carriage, in
which was seated the Princess Anna, suddenly ran
away, and the carriage was violently upset. The
princess escaped with a contusion, which, although
severe, was not dangerous.
The Empress will leave to-morrow morning
direct for Fontainebleau. •

VISIT OF THE KING OF GREECE TO
CORFU.
ATHENS, 'Lamm 23.
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The king left here to-day for Corfu. It is ex-
pected that he will be absent about forty days.
His Majesty is accompanied by the Minister for
Foreign Affairs.