The Express.
London, England, 1853-01-22 00:00:00

spreading like a garment over the slopes
Idris. and making whole ranges of bills alivls with
bleating. Then, passing over the dirty anti ilziedsC
tribes in Westmoreland and rcamberland, fie tows
to the Cheviot breed, w4tbidr long legs, intlidber
facilities for keeping thernselvelsoinfortable sanest-
among the black peat bogs, and safe under the winter
storms. In the Scotch islands, it might be possible
to estimate the sheep and the wool which supply ns
with the delicate fabrics that Queens and Peeresses
wear over their shoulders and on their dainty hands;
but what power, shut of an organisation can make
out and add up the produce of our midland and
eastern counties? Who would undertake to answer
for Norfolk alone? And who would get the farmer
to believe him if he said, " You had better give up
what you are about, and attend to your sheep above
every thing ?" The farmer says every body advises
him to attend to one particular thing ; and no two
to the same thing. How should he know whom
to believe ? So he goes on as his father did
before him; or, if he is an enterprising man,
he may fail in a dozen speculations before he
finds one that will answer. Ile must be
aided, as our merchants and manufacturers

are. We have not a Minister of Commerce, u
some foreign governments have ; bat the functions
of such a minister are fulfilled by our Board of Trade,
and with much increased—though very, very far from
complete—effect since the creation of its statistical de-
partment in 1832. The business of that department
is to obtain and prepare statistical information, to be
laid before Parliament. In spite of great errors.l
such as might be expected to occur, the institution
has been of inestimable value ; and now, the same
thing must be done for agriculture that is already
done for trade. This would be an indispensable de-
mand if agriculture alone were concerned ; but it is
made urgent by the peculiar present embarrassment
of one of our leading manufactures. Are Lord
PALMERSTON and Mr. CARDWELL considering the
need? If Prince ALBERT were to promote our plan
for securing Agricultural Statistics, he would be
doing a far greater benefit to Farming and Farmers
than he is ever likely to effect by breeding any num-
ber of Prize Oxen—or Pigs.

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY ETININO.
The immediate excitement whichattendedthesadden

announcement of the Emperor's intended espousal of
the Countess of Thebs has now subsided; and in
nearly all circles the formal declaration to be made
to-morrow to the Senate and Legislative Body is con-
sidered to be " all for the best."

The Preue, reproducing the official note in yester-
day's Mossiteur, adds that " it is infinitely probable
(sse) that this marriage will be followed very soon
by another imperial marriage, that of the Emperor of
Austria, for a long time affianced, as is known, to the
Princess Sidonia of Saxony, sister of Prince Albert
of Saxony, himself affianced to the Princess Caroline
Wass. At least the Gazette des Poste. of Frankfort

announces to-day that the conclusion of this marriage
is at hand." _ .

The Moniker of this morning contains a decree
extending to no lase than M articles, ranged under
eight heads, and subdivided into numerous clauses,
regulating the receipts, disbursements, and general
management of the Imperial household for the
future.
It is announced, on authority, that the journey of
the Emperor of Runge will give rise to important
diplomatic conferences, and perhaps even to another
interview between several crowned heads. The Czar
will not return to Warsaw before April next.
The Emperor Napoleon has ordered a gold watch,
with a suitable inscription, to be presented to a young
girl named Yictorine Barth, 13 years of age, as a re-
ward for her heroic conduct in an endeavour to save
the life of a traveller who was murdered in August
last under the walls of the Chateau Gaillac...

There has been to-day an improved feeling on
the Bourse, as compared with Wednesday last. It
seems to be now considered that the Emperor's mar-
riage having been assented to by the Corps Diploma-
tique, the event will consolidate the domestic policy
otFrance with the peace of the rest of Europe; hence
the public securities nearly regained to-day the posi-
Idea from which they fell on Wednesday, the Three
crCents. closing at 79f. 95c., and the Four-and-a-
Cents. at 105 f. The closing quotation of Bank
Ilbserr however, was 2,800 f., being the same as on the
ten days previous, after the serious decline in all
Ida& of securities. A trifling advance was observ-
able in the rates of railway shares, but the improve-
ment is scarcely quotable.
The only notice of the the marriage in the French
poses is the Mowing note in last night's Pairs'. :
The Msolcsur sasoasess that a meeting of the barest':
aria *mu sad of the Legislative Body and of the Conn-
di 'Mate will tabs piste at the Tuileries at noon on Sa-
Isoispr, wad that the *et of this meeting is to receive
teas IN Dorms a vinsunnication relative to his marriage.
The lower =Ms, Mlle. de Montijo, Duchess de Theba.
Daughter of the Count de Montijo, who has left the most
glorious military souvenirs, and who defended the cause of
the French empire up to the walls of Paris in 1814, the
future Empress is as distingatahed by her virtues sad her
inexhaustible charity as by the most accomplished beauty.
Grandee of Spain of the Bret clam, the Duchess Theba
belongs to an illustrious family, which, for several cen-
turies put, has been allied to the greatest houses of Baroys.
It appears, however, that on Wednesday ennuis
another note was in type at the office of the Paine,
and that some numbers were actually thrown off,
when an order came to suppress thfleasmetion. In
that note, which appears. in the I Beige
of Thursday, nothing is said of ills. Montijo's
charity; her beauty and accomplishments only are
spoken of It is further there stated that the mar-
riage would be celebrated to-morrow week. I am
now warred that it will take place the day after to-
morrow. Orders have been given to all the Parisian
journals not to allude to the subject and few of them
dare so much as to copy the paragraph in the Palm.
Mademoiselle de Montijo has a great many more
titles than I was aware of. She is not only, it ap-
pears Duchess of Thetis, but according to the royal
Spanish alumina* Duchess of Banos and Mora, and
is entitled to use the names and arms of de Gusman,
Fernandes, de Cordova, Leiva, and La Cerda, besides
an infinity of others. Her father, besides being
Crept do Montijo, wee Duke of Penaranda. Her
mast was at one time first lady of honour to the
Oman of Spain. This distinguished post she owed
to General Names, who was on terms of more
than ordinary intimacy with the Montijo family.
She has not hitherto need the title of Duchess a. Po-
merania in Paris. One of her sisters married a
Fun if. do Lomeps, the father of the M.For-
&and is es well known in 1849 as French
grabegaadgit at Another son of this
vas Goggled of being an accomplice of Osoireg
sad Loapiaanno, in the Lyons plot.
I barge the Emperor has wisely detindaed not
to roman as tombs of Voltaire and Raman from
the Pantheon. The priestly
.party has mad, inseam
efforts to emmummato this desecration, and the
Univers has devoted several articles to no other ob-

jest. But the Emperor knows that the whole literary
world of Paris would be indignant at such a stupid
act of intolerance, and begins to think he has done
enough for the priests already. A boss not worth
repeating is attributed to M. Romieu, the director of
the Beaux Arts on the occasion of his conveying the
Emma.% final resolution on this subject to the
Archbishop of Paris. The archbishop observed that
he could not reconcile himself to the idea of saying
mass over the ashes of such heretics as Rousseau and
Voltaire. "Monseigneur," said M. Romieu, "you
must admit that you could not do anything to annoy
them more." If this not unimportant matter be
thus finally settled, as I believe it to be, the decision
is creditable to France. The scruples which pie-
vented the erection of Byron's monument in West-
minster Abbey may be respected if not justified.
But supposing a corner of that sacred pile to have
been consecrated to Byron. memory for half a cen
tury, no proposition would ever have been made to
violate the sanctity of the tomb.
It appears that a report of M. Itanien's occasion
from the direction: of the Beaux Arts is without
foundation. . . . .

A great many of the invited guests to the second
grand ballet the Tuileries to-morrow are exceedingly
loth to exhibit themselves in the regulation silk or
velvet breeches. They affect to doubt the meaning
of the order published in the Mona*tear, and contend
with much show of reason, the Academy dictionary
in their hand, that the expression habit habilis does
not necessarily comprise breeches. There is in
fact a rebellion against the order. To evade it, re-
sort will be had to every description of uniform, civil
or military, foreign or domestic, and it is more than
probable that personage of too much importance to