The Express.
London, England, 1865-11-01 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(111011 Oil OW

PARIS, TOISDAY EVENING.

The Prussian military band had a glorious
jollification at St. Cloud. Baron Taylor, in the
uniform of a member of the Institute, and wearing
all his orders, escorted M. Parloff, the band-
master, in his own carriage. The rest of the band,
some sixty in number, followed in omnibuses. At
the gates of the palace of St. Cloud the party was
received by an aide•de-camp of the Emperor, who
conducted them to the front of a balcony, in
which the Emperor and Empress, and Count de
Goltz, the Prussian Ambassador, were waiting to
hear them play. The band of the lst Regiment of
Grenadier Guards saluted them with the Prussian
national air. The Prussians played the " Reins
Hortense," and afterwards several of their own
favourite pieces. The Emperor and Empress, the
latter particularly, applauded vehemently. The
Emperor was heard to ask, " Where is the Imperial
Prince I'' and a few minutes later, the heir
apparent to the throne appeared in a
hunting dress, with bottes d retuye►, but
wearing on his head, to the great delight of the
foreign musicians, a Prussian military casque. The
concert finished, the Emperor dwoended, conversed
in German with M. Parloff and several of his band,
took up in his baud several of the brass instruments,
and remarked upon the great weight of some of the
saxhorns. The two bands were marched off to the
riding-house, where the French grenadiers, liberally
aided by the Emperor's purse and cellar, gave a
joyous banquet to their guests. Baron Taylor pre-
sided, M. Parloff eat on his right hand ; and on
either side of the chair were several French generals
and field-officers. Before dinner was over the Em-
peror, accompanied by a numerous suite, entered
the banquetting-hall, and walked round the tables
at which the members of the Prussian and French
bands were seated alternately and " fraternising."
His Majesty, as lam informed by a Prussian, ad-
dressed the jovial assembly in these very jovial
words :

Dant wades do babes ;
Der Chslopegner is sat;
Trillium sis offileetlieb.
The translation of which neat and appropriate
speech is—

You most be very thirsty ;
The Mumma, is good ;
Driik of it as yos shookL

I am a poor German scholar, but I gather from my
Prussian friend that the word ordentlich (orderly,
or as it should be) may be understood in a sense at
once hospitable and cautionary—as an injunction
to drink plentifully without transgressing the
bounds of prudence. After the Emperor left.
Baron Taylor proposed his health, and spoke of
him as a soldier who had given proofs of
courage on the battle field of Italy, but still
more on his recent visits to the cholera
hospitals. The King of Prussia's health
was next proposed, and Baron Taylor spoke of him
in connexion with the house of Hohenzollern,
which had understood and fostered the genius of
Schiller and Gotha The party, as was very
natural under the circumstances, separated, not-
withstanding the Emperor's caution, in a state of
considerable elevation ; but if I may believe Ger-
man reports, the Prussians carried their champagne
a great deal better than the French. However, I
believe all ended well.
The visit of M. de Bismarck to Biarritz cannot
fail to suggest the question whether there is any
connexity between this hospitality to a Prussian
regiment and the schemes which he is supposed to
be trying to get the French Emperor to counte-
nance. lam pretty certain that the one evect has
nothing whatever to do with the other. The latest
impression, which I trust may be the true one, is
that M. de Bismarck's attempt to make an ally

Napoleon lIL bas been afiasco--the Continental
word for failure. By the way, the French papers
announced prematurely the presence of AL de Bis-
marck in Paris on his return from Biarritz. He
has not been here yet, but is expected to-morrow.

Dr. Fevre, of Neuchatel, after having given his
medical aid to the members of the imperial suits
who were sufferers from the late accident, had ac-
companied the Duchess de Montebello and Mdlle.
Bouvet to Paris. He has just returned to Switzer-
land, having received from the hand of the Em-
press, at a dinner at St. Cloud, the Cross of the
Legion of Honour.
The distribution of prizes for the Trench national
shooting competition took place the day before
yesterday at Vincennes. The Prize of Honour was
gained by X. Vegneur, jun.,aud another, of inferior
value, by M. Victor Bailly. That awarded for
the longest distance was carried off by K Durk, of
Brussels.
♦ Granville journal states that the cholera Is
believed to have broken out though in a very mild
degree in the Channel islands, and that at all
events the French authorities have subjected some