The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-19 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARA FRIDAY Emma.
This Emperor and Empress, travelling incognito,
arrived at Strasbourg yesterday evening, alighting**
the Hotel de Paris. An enormous crowd awaited
their arrival at the railway station, although no
official notioe of the visit had been published, and
the reception, as that of majesty always is in dis-
tant provisoes, was most enthusiastic. "The
town was illuminated as if by enchantment, and
the cathedral, illuminated and lighted by a
thousand fires, presented to the eyes of the illus-
trious visitors a splendid spectacle."
The further movements of the Emperor, who is
to visit Mulhouse, as I mentioned yesterday, are a
subject of speculation, about which no one knows
anything. There are rumours that he will be at
Salzburg on Sunday, when the new treaty (or in-
strument) between Austria and Pius& is signed ;
and at the Bourse it was said that he was to have
on the same day an interview with the Emperor of
Russia at Stuttgardt. The Prance announces that
the imperial couple are going to Arenenberg, the
eountry house on the Lake of Constance which
Queen Hortense inhabited, and where the Em-
peror's youth was passed. She died there in her
son's arms soon after his escape from Ham.
It is announced on the strength of a despatch in
the Cologne Gazette that the sovereigns of Austria and
Prussia have not only agreed to temporary arrange-
ments in the Duchies, hat that they bare arrived
at something like a definite solution. According to
letters from Vienna, Prussia will administer Sles-
wig and Austria Holstein, but of what nature the
final settlement is to be, no indications have yet
reached the public. It is thought here that the
treaty, whatever it may be, is a check sustained by
M. de Bismarck, whose desire to embroil Prussia
with Austria has of late been almost publicly
avowed.
Speaking of the augmentation of the Papal
army, which has just been decided upon, to the
great satisfaction of the French government, the
Correspondence Gerittralc adds that this augmenta-
tion was proposed to the Holy Father by Mgr.
de Mdrode, and his acceptance of the proposition
may be considered a proof that he knows he can
meet the increased expense, which can only be by
an arrangement on the subject of the Pontifical
debt. This, of course, points to a continuance of
the negotiations with Florence and the probability of
their being soon suoceatfuL
The Pops is not the only sovereign who is TO-
enuring his army. The Emperor Maximilian has
opened a recruiting office here in the Faubourg St.
Martin, which is so far successful that 100 men
were forwarded to Bordeaux last week, and 50 more
in the last two days. The greater number of these
recruits are Germans.
The Thu &curs continues to engage the attention
of the public, thanks to the violence of the defence
and attacks which it has called forth. A very
angry correspondence between the editor of the
Epoque, M. Ernest Feydeau, and M. Saroey, a
writer in the Opinion Nationale, is the last math-
festation of this feeling. The piece was again
played last night with very indifferent success.
There is little stirring in Paris. Prince Net
poleon is safely housed at Meudon. Prince Met-
ternich, after dining with the Foreign Minister
on the fete day, when the nuncio, by the way,
played the part of mistress of the house, left
Paris yesterday for Johannisburg. It is stated
that Madame Duruy, wife of the Minister of
Public Instruction, has abjured protestantisni in
the church of St. Etienne du Mont. M.. Vi'alewski
has to-day published his address to the electors of
the second circumscription of the Landes. There
will be no opposition.