The Express.
London, England, 1862-08-16 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS. FRIDAY MORINO.

The fête begins well. Weather slightly overcast,
but promising to be fine rather than otherwise. A
slight shower or two, such as laid the dust at the
1 end of the review yesterday, may be expected.
The streets have • gay and animated appearance
' though they are not yet crowded. Tricoloured flags
hang out from all the windows on the boulevards,
and shopkeepers are busily preparing their illumin-
ations. Long lines of patient expectants of the
gratis performances are seen making the queue at
the doors of all the theatres. Some of these lines
have been formed since 8,9, or 10 o'clock—sword-
ing to the stale of attractions of the theatre—
I although the doors do not open till 1 o'clock. The
churches are all full—official people going in uni-
form to Notre Dame to hear • Te Deum for the
Emperor, while in the other churches, or at least
many of them, the great religious mass of the As-
sumption is attended principally by that class of
society which cares less for the Emperor than for
the Pope. It must not, however, be supposed
that all the worshippers are ultramontanists. The
Faubourg St. Germain takes the opportunity to
make a papal demonstration, but the great ma-
jority of church-goers among the bourgeoisie
merely conform to an old religious custom in which
they have been brought up, and think nothing at
all about polities.

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Mexico, or elsewhere, it is known only to the
government, and will not be allowed to transpire to
mar the festivities of the day. The private letters
from Mexico, brought by the Florida, which I told
you yesterday had, by a most extraordinary stretch
of authority, been kept back at Nantes and other
provincial towns, have not even yet been delivered
in Paris.

I have looked in vain through the numerous
columns of the Munikur (swollen by the usual long
lists of promotions in the Legion of Honour) for the
half-expected political amnesty. On the contrary,
a warning to the Memorial du Dees Sevres and the
prosecution of M. IL Ferrier, a writer in Bullier's
Corrupendence, which are recorded in the journals
of this morning, add to the list of petty persecutions
for frivolous press offences.
The anticipations alluded to by the Indlpendanee
of a political speech to the National Guard are not
realised.

There is a certain amount of Garibaldian agita-
tion in the South of France. Two ticket porters
of Nice have been arrested for crying " Viva Gari-
baldi." At Marseilles the Garibaldi hymn has
been lately sung in the casinos and public gardens ;
but by a sort of understanding with the authori-
ties the words are now changed. The refrain of
that national song is, "Out with the foreigner
and, of course, as long as the Emperor is pleased
to stick to Rome, it will not do to sing those words
in France. The Gazette d' Midi is highly indig-
nant at the indulgence of the police in allowing
the air composed in honour of the "insolent
bragging filibuster" to be played at all, and
demands that it shall be declared illegal through-
out France.

The Constitutionne/ apprehends danger to the
state from the peregrinations of the Orpheons,
whose associated endeavours to diffuse a taste for
music have hitherto been thought not only
innocent but praiseworthy. The &Me inquires
whether it is intended to brigade them also like the
Freemasons, and impose upon them some Marshal
of France for a Grand Master.

The Union says that the
(borrowed from the Times) of the circumstances
under which the Count de Chambord left London,
is "as incorrect as malicious." The count, it
appears, "spontaneously and without any previous
negotiations paid a visit to his aunt," Queen
Amalie ; but the Union admits that the Orleans
princes were not present on the occasion. In
order, however, to contradict the assertion that his
departure was hastened by any alight received from
them, the Union states that the Count de Chatn-
bord's sole object in going to London was to see the
Universal Exhibition, and more especially the
French part of it, in detail, and that when that
object was accomplished he came away as be had
originally intended.
P.S. —Quarter to 12.—1 am sorry to say that
instead of the slight shower of which I saw symp-
toms in the morning, there has been a soaking
rain of an hour's duration, which makes the case
of the poor play-goers truly pitiable. Very few of
them, however, deserted their posts of expectation.
It is now fine, and the sun is shining. The post
closes to-day at noon.

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