The Express.
London, England, 1853-02-01 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS. MONDAY Evssixo.
The great fate of yesterday has happily passed off
without any public accident, or even serious incident,
considering the immense assemblage that had been
drawn together. This morning's Moniteur concludes
a lung official account of the religious ceremonies, by
saying that the very heavens favoured this Imperial
fete ; for seldom does winter give a " sky so clear, or
a temperature so mild." Thanks are also due to
those who had charge of the solemnities; for by the
perfect execution of their commands, no accident
has happened which could leave a grief on the minds
of the Parisian population.
The people are crowding in innumerable throngs
to-day to see the cathedral of Notre Dame.
A small charge is made for admission, which the
Archbishop of Paris has officially notified will be ap-
propriated to the relief of the poor.
lho Emperor and Empress appeared a second
time last evening en the balcony of the Tuileries,
when they were extremely well received by the
people. ills Majesty on this occasion wore a citi-
zen's dress, with his decorations, and the Empress
was attired in crimson velvet, with • white
bonnet.
The private illuminations last night were by no
means so universal, nor were the spectators so nume-
rous as had been expected. All the public buildings,
however, the palaces, poet-office, theatres, &c., were
splendidly illuminated.
The Moniteur of this morning announces that on
the occasion of his marriage, the Emperor has par-
doned more than 3,000 persons who were implicated
in the events of December, 1851. With these par-
dons, and the submissions already received, there do
not remain more than 1,200 persons subjected to
expulsion. Public opinion, it is added, is not
alarmed at these numerous acts of clemency ; for
the decree of March, 1852, which gave to the govern-
ment the right of having recourse to these measures
of precaution, gave also the power of pardon. The
names of the individuals who have received the im-
perial clemency will be published hereafter.
There was another general full on the Bourse to-
day, in which the prices of all the leading securities
more or less participated. Bank stock, however,
formed an exception, having recovered the decline of
Saturday. Both the Three per Cents. and the Four-
and-a-Half per Cont. Rentes were respectively called
at the close of business 75 centimes lower than on
Saturday; the official quotations being, Threes, for
the account, 78f. 73c.; Four-and-a-Half, ditto, 104 f.
10c.; Bank stock, 2,810 f. Not a single upward
movement in railway shares.
The Emperor and Empress left !Paris yesterday
afternoon, at four o'clock, for St. Cloud. It is an-
nounced that they will remain there till Feb. 5.
The Marquis and Marchioness de Las Mar jamas,
M. and Madame de Pierres, M. and Madame Gus-
tave de Montebello, and another personage, whose
name I have not learned, will, I believe, exclusively
form the intimate circle of their Majesties during
the St. Cloud honeymoon.
It has been frequently remarked within the last
week as extraordinary that no portrait of the Em-
press of any kind has been exhibited in the shops.
To-day a bust in plaster, of her Majesty, by Count
Nieuwerke, appears in M. Susses window, in the
Place de la Bourse, and attracts a crowd of admirers.
It would be difficult to conceive a more lovely or
classic face than M. Nieuwerke's work of art ex-
hibits.
A zealous mayor, in the province of Berry, has
issued an address on the occasion of the marriage, in
which he makes out the Empress to be a Turkish
princess, descended from Greek emperors, and draws
the conclusion that the crowns of the eastern and
western empires will be united on the head of Louis

Napoleon.
A remarkable conversation lately occurred between
as ex-French minister, one of the most eminent
statesmen in Europe, whose name I am not at liberty
to emotion, and two other political personages. The
statesman in question expressed himself nearly in
the following terms :—" It is a remarkable fact that
the republic neither brought us war nor socialism,
and the present government,calling itself the saviour
of France, will give us socialism to begin
I with. It exists already in our finances by
the bank mobiliere and the bank fenders, and
the presumption and want of foresightof government is
hurrying us on speedily and inevitably to war with
all Europe, against whom we are very likely to prove
defenceless. One of the parties to this conversation,
who is himself almost an imperialist, replied, "In
this you are righe, and ie must be admitted that, for
the sake of appearing to make reductions in the war
eta the government is at this moment consuming
its wawa" The statesman continued, "Yes, whilst
an the strong places of Austria and Russia are
armed, and they have not even so much to do as to
pet up the polissades, which are already lying ready
it the trenches."
Some of the more moderate Bonapartists, such as
JIM. de Morny, Ney, Delamarre (Creuze), and other
seembeto of the Jockey Club, are beginning to be
mehmely uneasy at the unmistakeable and uncom•
premising disaffection of the salons. At the legiti-
mist (club, the Union, M. de Croustilhes, whose
bgitimist principles are considered tainted from the
Iset of his having once been a minister of
Louis Napoleon, has just been blackballed by 91
votes against 21. At
:this moment the annual dea-
den for the president of the Jockey Club is going
so, and I understand It to be highly probable that
the 'present president, M. Delamarre, vs hose re-
election under ordinary cireumstansea would be
almost a matter of course, will be rejected on account
et his known political connectim with M. Fould.
A decree of the 22nd enacts that the Pontifical
decree issued at Rome on the 28th September, by
which the Bishop of Frejus and his successors are
entholised to add to that title that of the suppressed
hishopric of Toulon shall be published in the empire,
with, however, the proviso that none of its clauses
or expressions which are contrary to the constitution,
the laws of the empire, and the franchises, liberties,
mod maxims of the Oallican church are approved of.
We read the following in the Sales Public of
Lyons of the 29th :
Last evening a report was current in some circles of the
death of the Countess of Chambord. We are willing ssi
believe that this news is not well founded ; we have ris•
inivtd no information on the subj.nt from private smarm%
sad we hope to see it contradicted by the legitimist orgasm.
The Minister of the Interior, has, in a circular jest
addressed to the prefects of the departments, gives
sew instructions relative to the distribution of relief
to charitable institutions. The total sum to be given
thisymir for that purpose is 800,0400 fr., and extraor-
Misery credits are only to be granted for exceptional
and unforeseen events, such as inundations or mala-
dies, amounting to public calamities ; heretofore
the suns has been 30(),OD0fr. fixed, with supple-
mentary credits voted by the legislative assemblies.
The minister intimates that, on account of the re-
sumption of labour, and the re-establishment of con•
fidence, the prefects will be able to limit the demands
for relief, which of late years have been very great,
owing partly to 1 olitieal agitations and partly to the
tendency of communes to count on the state more
than on themselves.
The emperor has decided that all the expenses in-
curred for the fetes of his marriage shall be p lid out
of his civil list.
Some women belonging to the working classes
were arrested on the quays for giving audible nt-