The Express.
London, England, 1853-01-29 00:00:00

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

MARSEILLES, JAN. 28, Two P.M.
The Euxine is arrived with the East India mail.
Dates—Calcutta, Dec. 22; Bombay, Jan. 3; Alex-
andria, Jan. 1 ; Malta, Jan. 25. No news of im-
portance. Trade lively. Indigo market appears to
open at much higher prices than those of last year.
Exchange in Calcutta, 21. 0/d. to 2s. ld.

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.

The future Empress has just written a letter of
thanks to the Municipal Council of Paris, for the
kind offer they made of a rich diamond necklace and
other costly presents (parure), intended for her Ma-
jesty. The Empress, at the same time, preferred
that the sum should be applied to some liberal or
charitable purpose. The Municipal Council have
accordingly decided upon the founding of a house of
education for poor young girls.
The Moniker announces that not a single ticket is
left for the approaching ceremony. The Members of
the Senate, the Legislative Body, and Council of
State are notified in the same journal that they must
appear in grande tens, with white trowsers.
The first business of the Senate, at its approach-
ing session, swill be to provide a dowry for the
Empress.
The work of preparation at Notre Dame proceeds
night and day. T•
he towers will be surmounted with
immense masts, now in course of erection, from which
will wave splendid oriliammes.
AU the streets and quays through which the Em-
peror and Empress are to pass on Sunday, going to
and returning from the Cathedral, will be decorated
with the national colours, waving from Venetian
front of the Hotel de Ville, before which the
imperial cortege will pus on Sunday, on its way to
the Cathedral, is to be splendidly decorated with
flags and hangings, in which will appear various
inscriptions complimentary to the Emperor and
Empress.
Some little inquietude is at present manifested in
Paris, on account of several cases of decidedly
Asiatic cholera having occurred in various parts of
the city.
The two eons of Baron James de Rothschild (Al-
phonse and Gustave) have been legally constituted
members of the house of Rothschild Brothers, of
which the articles of partnership have been renewed
for eight years from the 30th Sept. last.
This morning's Moniker announces the official
reception of the French ambassador at the court of
Russia, M. de Castelbejac, on the 15th inst., with his
new letters of credit, on which occasion the Czar ex-
pressed the great satisfaction he felt at the renewal
of official relations with the government of his Impe-
perial Majesty of France.
There has been a general decline on the Bourse to-
day in securities of all descriptions, and very little
business doing. The Three per Cents, fell 40c., the
Four-and-a-Half 50c.. and Bank Stock 10 francs;
the closing rates being, respectively, Three per
Cents., 79f. 95c.; Four-and-a-Half, 104 f. 60c.; Bank
Stock, 2,810 f.
Although the weather is not very promising a
great many visitors have arrived in Paris to witness
the pageant of Sunday. The grand master of the
ceremonies has given notice that he has not a single
ticket for a seat in Notre-Dame left to dispose of.
He takes the opportunity of announcing that nobody
will be admitted to the cathedral without a ticket
—a fact which was pretty well understood be-
fore. The square in the interior of the Louvre,
through which the procession will pass, will
present the appearance of a garden in midsummer.
Evergreens and flowering shrubs have been already
planted in the basin filled with mould for their re-
ception, and trees in full leg, brought from hot-
houses, will line the central ravel walk. The new
Rue Rivoli, much of which is yet in an unfinished
state is being rapidly levelled and cleared. Poles,
ornamented with streamers, will be placed through-
out the whole line of the cortege. The Hotel do
Ville will be dressed out with flags, and long streamers
will wave from the towers of Notre Dame. The
Emperor and Mdllu de Montijo received tha sacra-

I meta togth.r yesterday in the chapel of the Elysee.
The Bishop at Naney, the Emperor's almoner, offi-
ciated.

As everything tenting to Mademoiselle de Mon-
tijo throws all other news into the shade, I send you
some extracts from a letter, not intended, it is said,
for publicity, which appear in the columns of the
Petrie. The signature appended is, I presume, that
of the author of the letter:

" PARIS, JAN. 27, 1853.
• • • " Here are a few particulars relative to
our future Empress. I can guarantee their authen-
ticity. For the rest, here, as in the provinces, all
that relates to Mademoiselle de Montijo excites the
utmost curiosity, and, I may add, the greatest sym-
pathy. You already know how entirely the qualities
of her mind and heart, joined to a rare beauty,
render her worthy of the throne whiclushe is called
by the Emperor to share.
" I will not speak of the parentage of Mdlle.
de Montijo. The newspapers will have informed
you that she belongs to one of the oldest and most
illustrious families of Spain. Her mother, the
Countess de Montijo, resides alternately at Madrid
and Paris. In both cities she occupies the high
position belonging to her rank and fortune. At
Madrid especially she lives in a princely way. She
has a magnificent palace there, and gives splendid
soirees. A single tact will give you an idea of her
high station. You know that Spanish etiquette
is still excessively strict, and that, as in the time
of I'hilippe 11., it makes the Queen a prisoner in her
own palace. Isabella 11. has made an exception in
favour of the Countess de Montijo, by going several
times to her balls, and this extraordinary favour
being much observed upon, a high personage ac-
counted for it by the remark that the house of Mon-
tijo, which also bears the name of Guzman, had con-
tracted several royal alliances.
"The Countess de Montijo determined that her
daughter should be educated in Paris. The services
rendered to the imperial cause by the Count de Mon-
tijo made France for her the country of her predi-
lection. This education and the reception she after-
wards met with in the best Parisian society, deve-
loped in Mdlle. de Montijo sentiments and tastes
already traditional in her family. A grand seigneur
of Madrid occe reproached her, by way of joke, with
being as much French as Spanish. I have a right
to be so,' she replied eagerly—alluding to her father
—' it may, be truly said that for me i/ n'y a plus de
1 Pyrenees. Wes there a prophetic presentiment in
these words? However that may be, this entirely
Parisian spontaniety proves that her mind is as emi-
nently French as her soul.
" Intelligence and goodness are in fact the distin-
guishing qualities of Mdlle. Montijo. At Pena, as
at Madrid, she constantly surrounds herself with a
host of the poor and needy, to whose wants she
ministers with a charity inexhaustible. Here is an
instance, taken from a hundred others : While yet a
young girl she was once passing through a little town
to Spain with her mother. In the market-place she
perceived two pale, half-starved children paraded
before the public on a showman's caravan. The
poor little ones appeared exhausted with hunger and
fatigue. At this piteous sight the eyes of the young
girl filled with tears. She stopped the carriage and
begged her mother to allow her to take away the
two children. On her mother signifying assent, she
jumped out of the carriage, rushed to the caravan,
emptied her purse into the hands of the proprietor,
and carried off in the carriage the two little beings
rescued from vice and misery. At Madrid she pro-
vided for their immediate wants and future career.
" The history of Mdlle. de Mon tijo's whole life is
studded with similar anecdotes. She passed last season
at the waters in the Pyrenees. Her reputation
for benevolence soon spread in the neighbourhood,
and the poor flocked from all parts to implore her
charity. -Madame de • • *, who was in the Pyrenees
at the time, has told me that she has ofttn seen her
coming out of a miserable hovel, whither she had
been the bearer of succour and consolation. When
she left the Pyrenees she was universally known
as /a bonne demoiselle. This touching appellation
says more than anything I could add.
"The gifts of her mind and heart are heightened by
the graces of beauty. From the first moment of her
appearance in Parisian drawing-rooms she created a
great sensation. Her face unites the most piquant
contrasts of the north and south. She is fair, with
blue eyes, which become almost dark from their
sparkling brilliancy. Her limpid and penetrating
glance gleams with sweetness and intelligence. Her
form, above the middle height, gives her an air of
distinction, reminding one that her escutcheon is
three times noble. In short, to no one so justly as to
her is the common saying applicable, ' She was made
for a throne.'

" I am convinced that the opinion I here express to
you will soon be shared by all France, and in par-
ticular by the Parisian population, who will have the
opportunity of observing the young Empress nearly. ,
She said a few days since, will make myself
loved by the French people d force de book." It is
indeed Impossible that she should not win the love
and respect of a people which, better than any other,
understand the graces of mind and the refinements
of the heart.

"COUNT DE BLANZAC."

GERMANY.

Letters from Heidelberg state that Gervinus ar-
rived at that university on the 24th. His cause wu
to have been tried yesterday, the 28th.
The Cassel Gazette of the 24th states that by a re-
solation of the cabinet the "Introduction" of Gervinus
is prohibited throughout the electorate on account of
its destructive and immoral tendency.
The correspondent of the Neue Prussian Gazette
writes from Konigsberg on the 22nd, that Gervinus's
book was seized there on the previous day. This is
probably a simple freak of the police, and is doubt-
less by this time annulled by orders from Berlin. At
Erfurt, a few days before, the police confiscated a
new work called "Flowers of Jesuit Morality," con-
listing of extracts from the Jesuit books of morals
contained in the Royal Library at Berlin. As the
originals themselves were tolerated, the absurdity of
confiscating portions of them was manifest, and by
an order sent from Berlin the unintelligent interdict
was removed.

The Berlin papers generally regard Louis Napo-
leon's speech, delivered this day week, in a light
peculiar to themselves, and u intended to usher in a
period in which France is to stand in a position of
voluntary and ill-humoured noisier' from the rest of
of Europe. The Kreuz Zeitung, which represents
the views of the cavalier party in Prussia, has the
following upon this subject: