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

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY EVINII6I.
'it is announced on high authority that her
Majesty the Queen of Spain is about to present the
Empress Eugenia with a costly coronet, richly and
mviiiticetitly adorned with diamonds.
The crowd of visitors to the cathedral of Notre
Dame to-day has been immense. At noon there was
a line of people waiting for admission extending at
least a quarter of a mile, arranged in line, tour deep.
The magnificent decorations of the Hotel de Ville
also attracted thousands of visitors.

Among the most conspicuous and brilliant of the
Illuminations on Sunday night woe that of the Baron

Rothschild.

Simultaneously with the celebration of the Impe-
rial nuptials in Notre Dame, the Te Dram was
chanted at most of the provincial churches through-
out France.

The register which was used at the Tuileries on
the occasion of the civil marriage of the Emperor is
that of the former Imperial House, which has been
preserved in the archives of the Secretary of State.
The first entry in it is dated March 2, 1806, and
records Napoleon's adoption of the Prince Eugene as
son of the Emperor, and as Viceroy of Italy. The
record immediately preceding that of the marriage
of Napoleon 111. is that of the birth of the King of
Rome, bearing date March 20, 1811.
The Emperor will come to town from St. Cloud
to-morrow (Wednesday), to preside over the minis-
terial council; but the imperial court will remain at
St. Cloud for eight days.
Baron Bremer, secretary general of the Minister
of Foreign Affairs, has been nominated envoy ex-
traordinary to Constantinople.
The impulse given to the trade of Paris by the late
imperial fetes is said to have proved highly satisfac-
tory to the bouryeuisie. The etiquette at official ballsl
and receptions requiring gentlemen to wear em-
broidered coats and vests, has caused the ladies to
I enter upon a rivalry in their toilettes, and already
I an enormous demand has been created for all kinds
of the most costly articles of attire for both sexes.
The following is a copy of one of the telegraphic
despatches sent on Sunday evening by the govern-
ment authorities to all parts of France, as stated in
our account of the religious ceremonies: "The cere-
monies of the religious marriage of the Emperor
have taken place at Notre Dame, with an order, a
pomp, and a solemnity worthy of the empire. Their
Majesties, in going to Notre Dame and in returning
to the Tuileries, have passed through the crowds of
an immense population, in the midst of which waved
numberless banners of workmen's associations.
Everywhere on her passage our young and beautiful
Empress has received from the people, from the Na-
tional Guard, and from the army, the most touching
and enthusiastic reception. Paris will preserve the
memory of this national solemnity for a long time."
General Aupick, the French Ambassador at the
Court of Madrid, has received numerous congratula-
tions on the union of his Imperial master with a
young, noble, and beautifuLSpaniard. A grand en-
tertainment was given by the Ambassador in honour
of the event, which was attended by the elite of the
foreigners at present attacked to the Spanish
court.

There were no less than five French Cardinals
assisting at the marriage of the Emperor, namely,
their eminences the Archbishops of Lyons, Bourges,
Besancon, Rheims, and Bourdeaux.
The average number of daily arrests by the Pari-
sian police for disorderly and criminal acts is from
60 to 70. On Sunday last, however, the number was
only 17. The Paine says, "It should be borne in
mind that on such occasions the police are not only
lenient to others, but not a little indulgent to them-
selves."

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On the Bourse to-day business was a little bettor
and prices were somewhat firmer. The Three per
Cent. Rentes closed within a fraction of the quota-
tions of yesterday, being last called at 78f. 80c. for
the account. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents., how-
ever, recovered considerably from the previous depres-
sion, the closing figure being 104 f. 750. I here was
little doing in either Bank btock or railway shares,
and no material variation in any of the quotations.
The Mon iteur contains a decree reestablishing the
second section of the general staff of the navy (the
reserve), which was suppressed in April, 1848—a
similar measure having already been carried into
effect in the army. The decree enacts that the law of
19th May, 1834, on officers, shall be applicable to
those of the second section, and that they shall re-
ceive three-fifths of the pay of their grade; also
that they may in time of war be appointed to com-
mands at sea, or in the interior--and, if senators, to
commands in the interior in time of peace likewise.
In pursuance of the above decree, two vice-
admirals and nine rear-admirals have been already
removed from the retired and placed upon the active
list on the second section. Their names are—Vice-
Admirals Bergeret, Drivel, and Baron Lentarant ;
Rear-Admirals Cavalier, Gautier, Kerdrain, Rigodit,
Bazoche, Cosmao-Dumanoir, Legarant de Tromelin,
Deloffre, and Delassanz.
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It is sal d that Boulogne-sur-Mer is shortly about
to be made a maritime prefecture.
The appointment which I some time since informed
you was decided upon of Baron Brenier, Secretary-
General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as En-
voy-Extraordinary of France at Constantinople, is
now officially announced. He is about to proceed to
Toulon, to embark on board the Eclaireur steamer fur

his post.
Although the amnesty is, numerically speaking,
more extensive than was expected, it has produced a
feeling of disappointment. Among the victims of
the coup 'Fiat were a large number of distinguished
men of irreproachable character, who, without re-
gard to the forms of law, were banished or
transported upon the plea of political necessity.
These men, Laving committed no offence, acorn to
accept a " pardon." They and their friends feel
thatinsultis added to injury, when the restoration
of the civic rights of which they were deprived by
lawless violence is offered upon the terms of "con-
trition and repentance." It was very generally
expected that the amnesty intended to grace the im-
perial marriage would specify by name the exiles
best known to the public, and announce the
unconditional removal of the impediments to their
enjoyment of the full rights of free citizens. Such a
course would have been • practical proof that the
government now feels strong enough to rule France
by ordinary law, and a redemption of the pledge
necessarilyimplied at the time when exceptional
penal measures were decreed, that with the necessity
of the occasion the penalties also should cease. In-
stead of this, however, the Moniker merely gives a
round number of pardons about to be granted, and
says that the names will be published hereafter, and
a government paper, the Colutitutionnel, says ex-
pressly this morning that the " leaders" will not be
pardoned, but only the men that they have misled. It
is now 14 months 211102 the generals were banished.
It is surely time that they should be allowed to
return without submitting to conditions. The off-
hand way in which men are spoken of in the lump
by the korefteur is felt to be supercilious in the
extreme. Only 1,200 men now remaining of those
transported or banished without trial or specified
offence ! A trifle not worth talking about. 3,000,
it is said, are now to be " pardoned." " 1693"
or commutations were announced up to a
pardons
weeks ago, and 1,200 remain. It is admitted
by these figures that nearly 6,000 people have passed
the lest year in exile or in penal colonies, without
having been legally or publicly found guilty
of any offence. 'Phis does not include the
thousands who passed more or less time in dun-
geons, and it does not include the hundereds that
have died from grief, privation, and the effects of un-
healthy climates.
The Emperor will come to Paris from St. Cloud
to-morrow to attend a council of ministers. Yester-
day the Emperor and Empress visited the palace of
Versailles, and it is said that they will dine there
to-day.
PARIS, hiOIIDAT

Some of the more moderate Bonapartista, such as
MM. de Morny, Ney, Delamarre (Creuse), and other
members of the Jockey Club, are beginning to be
seriously uneasy at the unmistakeable and uncom-
promising disaffection of the salons. At the legiti-
mist club, the Union, M. de Crouseilhes, whose
legitimist principle,. are considered tainted from the
fact of his having once been a minister of
Louis Napoleon, has just been blackballed by 91
votes against 21. At ,this moment the annual elec-
tion for the president of the Jockey Club is going
on, and I understand it to be highly probable that
the present president, U. Delaraarre, whale re-

oketion under ordinary eireumetanses would be
almost a r„,atter of course, will be rejected on account
of hi, know,' political connexion with M. Pould.
I m„tiona, yesterday that many ladies went to
eight o'clock in the morn-
ollseeuring their places. This pre-
caution was by n.' means unnecessary, for many
ladies of the highest .rank who came later found it
impossible to approach the seats promised them, and
were either obliged to be contented with worse
places, or, as happened in some instances, to go away
altogether. Even the Diu. hem of liamilton was on
the point of leaving the Cathedral for want of a seat.
On her arrival, finding it impassible, owing to the
confusion, to make her way to the place destined for
her, she attempted to find one on the platform de-
voted to the ladies of ministers. Not one was vacant,
and she was about to
.go to her carriage, when a
master of the ceremonies ran after her, and con-
ducted her to one of the reserved seats of the corps
diplometique. It suffices to bear in mind the archi-
ttctural construction of the interior of Notre Dame
to be convinced that only a very small proportion of
the visitors could get so much as the slightest
glimpse of the ceremony. Many of the ladies of the
corps diplomatique were so disappointed with
their places that they left them, and ap-
pealed to the gallantry of some members of the
corps legislatif, who, probably by accident,
were more advantageously situated, to make room
for them. Some haughty dames, all heated with
the excitement of clambering over benches, in search
of a quarter of a front place, were heard to express
much aristocratic indignation at seeing several of the !
most celebrated actresses of Paris, and among them ,
Mesdames Ozy, Brohan, Judith, Esther, and Con-
stance, comfortably installed in the very best places.
I hear a great deal of talk about bitter disappoint-
mints
caused by a treacherous notice of the Duke de
Cambacdres. It was announced that members of the
corps legislatif wishing places for their families
were to apply to him. Very many did apply to him,
but only to receive a polite expression of regret that
he had not a single place to dispose of, and numbers
of estimable young ladies, brought up from the coun-
try at a great expense, were yesterday au desespoir.
The Municipal Commission of Lyons having de-
cided on offering to the Empress on the occasion of
her marriage some dresses of the production of the '
Lyonese looms, has appointed a committee which
has received full powers to act in a manner worthy ,
at the same time of the Empress and of the city of
Lyons.
The banished generals are not recalled. At least
one cannot suppose their names can be included in
the following limners' announcement of an amnesty
which appears in the Moniteur
On the occasion of his marriage, the Emperor has par- i
doped upwards of 3,000 persons, amongst those who had I
been the object of measures of general safety taken after I
the disturbances of December, 1851. In consequence of
these pardons and of those previously accorded, there re•
main not more than about 1,200 persons subject to expulsion
or transportation. Public opinion will not take alarm at to
many pardons, as the decree of March 5, 1852, gives to the
government the right to have recourse to measures of pre.
caution against any individuals who should abuse the cle-
mency exercised towards them. The names of the persona
thus pardoned will shortly be published.