The Express.
London, England, 1865-05-30 00:00:00

EMPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, MONDAT Evznao.

All the evening papers call attention, in two con-
spicuous lines, to the fact that a senates constatum
is on the Senate's order of the day for to-morrow.
What can this be about ? It is most extraordinary
that, in the absence of the Emperor, it should be
suddenly necessary to make some alteration in the
constitution, and while nobody has been thinking
about it. The rumour runs that it is intended to
degrade Prince Napoleon. This is very pos-
Bibb., but it would be a most impolitic
measure, if only for the reason that it could
scarcely pass without serious opposition. All the
senators cannot be so servile and degraded as to
refuse to give • voice to opinions very strongly
felt in the country, and to sanction the doctrine
that in France in 1865 only " one will" is to be
omnipotent.
Prince Napoleon's edition of his Ajaccio speech,
in the form of a pamphlet, was seized at Bantu's,
but only, I am told, for want of a stamp which I
suppose he thought himself privileged to dis-
pense with. He will now publish a stamped
edition. He is also, it is said, about to bring out
the first volume of a history of the Bonaparte

family. It is remarked that he has not yet re-
signed his seat in the commission charged to super-
intend the correspondence of the Bonaparte family.
M. de Montalembert has just published an article
in the Corresnondant, beaded "The Victory of the
North in the United States," which the Avenir
National describes as " an act of contrition, and an
open disavowal of the fatal doctrines which formerly
led him to call for an 'expedition to Rome' in the in-
terior." The military virtues displayed by the Ame-
ricans during theirtremendous struggle of four years'
duration, seem to M. de Montalembert nothing in
comparison to their civil virtues. The citizens of
the United States did not have recourse to suicide
to get away from fear and suspense. They were
not the people to imitate those despairing sick who
prefer immediate death to prolonged suffering. He
thinks their conduct in time of trial a grand lesson
for those European nations which, though as heroic
as need be on the battlefield, are " intimidated
and demoralized by every civil danger." The
Americans have given to the world the " glorious
and consoling example of a people who saves itself
without a Cesar." The Aeenir sees in this homage
from an old apostle of intolerance a striking instance
of the power of liberal principles.
Marshal Magnan is dead, after a short illness, at
the age of 74. He was till quite lately remarkably
strong and ; nobody would have sup-
posed him to be so old. He has held the command-
in-chief of the army of Paris ever since the coup
d'etat of 1851, in which he took so large a part.
The Bourse was affected by the news published in
the indEpendance Beige, but suppressed in France,
of the Belgian legion being badly cut up by Juarez'
forces. Bente closed heavily at a slight fall, and
Mobilier declined 131 r. 75e, The Mexican Loan
!ell I.

Prince Napoleon has set out for his estate of
Prangin, in Switzerland.
A touching incident is related in conrexion with
the unveiling of the colossal statue of Dante at Florence.
The sculptor, Nut, • native of the city in which Dante
died, had his aged father livieg la Ravenna. Jost four
days before that fixed for the festival, sews came that the
old man was sick unto death. The son, with a natural
craving to see him coos more in tits and close his eyes,
would have hurried away at owe. Bat the mo-
ment was critical, and his promos in Flames
all important. There was still math to be done
which be alone could properly direct; the pedes-
tal sod its ornaments were incomplete, and bad to be tem-
porarily flashed so as to pus master at the ceremony ; the
committee for the emotion of the moooment declared it
impossible to spare the artist, and pat a resolute veto on
his departure. Natural affection had to yield to the votes
of public duty. Had the sculptor abetted himself a poet-
ponement of the celebrities, or at least some great defi•
(away, must have bees the result So poor Paul had to
replete, and his triumph as as artist, the King's faltering
words, and the mark of datinotton bestowed epee him,
; were embittered by the news of his father's death.
The Morning Herald to-day calla the President
of the United Slaw " the era's aaaary of • animal
boeire," and " • tasenleet psreasu, who has emerged from
his tailor's shop to dictate terms to Boom." Am extraor-
dinary result is to fellow an alliance of England with Freon
against Americo. " Wine athaeked let es strike together,
sad strike hard, so that this pluelant of • resuseiteled
republic may vanish agate, and dhopeac ones and for ever
from the face of the math."
A Pacific Pearl Company has been formed at
Now York. the eaOlal at whisk is 1,000,000 dollars. The
cowaremy purpose Gibing ler pearls tad pearl shells as the
Pacific oast Their operations will he tarried cm* 'mates of
• snaiterise 'apiary. Pearl *May •based is the Golf
of Gators* and it has been fished by the natives for 100
years. The most wetly pearls i• the world cep from the
()atomise Galt. —Panama paper.