The Express.
London, England, 1853-01-28 00:00:00

'FRANCE.

PARIS, THURSDAY EVIINWO.
At the termination of business on the Bourse this
afternoon, a general advance was reported in the
quotations
hrw of all kinds of French securities. The
per Cents., which opened at 80f. 25c., closed
at 80f. 65e. for the account ; and the Four-and-a-
Half per Cents. were publicly called 105 f. 30c. at the
close of business, being a rise of 40c. on the former,
and 30c. on the latter stock, from the last prices of
yesterday.
A great many English visitors have arrived in I
Paris during the past two days; the city is very gay
at present, the hotels are full, and some brilliant
fetes are annouced for next week in honour of the 'I

Emperor's marriage.
The Moniteur contains the official programme of
the marriage ceremony of the Emperor on Sunday,
which, after describing the order of the procession
and other preliminaries, concludes as follows .
Informed of the aperoach of the cortege, the Archbishop
of Paris, preceded by his clergy, will go in procession
towards the great door of the cathedral, to receive their
majesties. The great doors will be thrown open ; the Em-
• leading the Empress by the hand will enter the basi-
lick ; their majesties will place themselves on the throne.
The Archbishop officiating will salute their majesties, and
will commence the ceremony of the marriage. After
the blessing of the pieces of gold and the nuptial ring,
their majesties will go to the foot of the alter, will
remain standing, and will give each other the
✓ight hand. The Archbishop, addressing himself first to
the Emperor, and then to the Empress, will receive their
declarations to take each other for husband and wife, and
will successively present to the Emperor the pieces of g Id
and the ring. The Emperor will present the pieces of gold
to the Empress, and will place the ring on her finger. After
the prayers, their Majesties will return to their throne.
Their Majesties will successively present themselves
at the offeriug. After the Pater, their Maesties
will go to the foot of the altar, and will kneel;
the first chaplain of the Emperor, and another
bishop, will extend above the heads of their Ma-
jesties a canopy of silver brocade, and will keep
it so extended during the oraison. During the episcopal
benediction and the reading of the Gospel, the choir will
chant several times the Domine solrum. The archbishop
will then present holy water to their Majesties, and will
commence the Te Deem, which will be taken up by the
orchestra and the singers. After the Te Deem, the great
laws of the crown, the princes the ministers, and other
poems who arrived in the cortege will resume their places.
Their Majesties will descend from tho throne, and will re-
turn, followed as they were on their arrival. The archbishop
will immediately precede them to conduct them in proces-
sion up to the great door.
The Moniteur also gives the following as the line
to be taken by the cortege :
The cortege of their Majesties will leave the Palace of the
Tuileries by the principal gate, will cross the Carrousel and
the court of the Louvre, and will follow the Rue des Fosses
Saint Germain l'Auxerrois, the Rae de Rivoli, the Place
de I'llotel de Ville, the Quai de Gevres, the Pont Notre-
dame, the Quai Napoleon, the Rue d'Arcole, and the Parvis
Notre-Datne. After the ceremony, the cortege will return
to the Tuileries by the Rue d'Aroole. the Quai Napoleon, the
Quai aux kleurs, the Pont au Change, the Quais up to the
Place de Is Concorde, and will reach the palace by the
grand avenue in the garden.
This route is well calculated to allow the largest
number of persons possible to see the procession. The
national guard will be called out and conjointly
with regular troops will form a doable hedge of in-
fantry.throughout the whole line, both going and
returning. In the evening the public edifices will be
illuminated. No orders have been given with re-
gard to the illumination of private houses. On the
many former occasions since the coup d'etat when
the inhabitants of Paris have called upon to put
tampion, in their windows the injunction has been
generally neglected; and it has now probably
been thought prudent to abstain from dic-
tating that particular manifestation of public
rejoicing. IVorkmen are busily employed, night and
day, in completing the preparations at Notre Dame,
and large extra wages are promised to stimulate their
activity. The Cardinal Archbishop of Rheims has
arrived in Paris to assist the Archbishop of Paris in
the solemnisation of the marriage.
It is announced that a grand ball will be offered
to the Empiess by the Legislativo Body on Easter
Monday. Several of the ministers hoped to have re-
ceived their Majesties at the balls they are about to
give. But it is, I believe, now understood that M.
Baroche'a is the only private ball that will be at-
tended by the Empress this season, and in order to
allay the jealousy of the ministers, the honour done
to M. Baroche is said to be a compliment paid to the
Council of State in his person.
The city of Paris will present the Empress, on the
occasion of her marriage, with a diamond necklace,
worth 600,000 fr. This sum was yesterday voted for
the purpose by the Municipal Commission. At the
same sitting the municipality voted 300,000 fr., to be
expended in charity in Pans. This latter sum will
be devoted—let, Ito give marriage portions to 28
couples chosen from among the poor inhabitants of
the twelve arrondieaements of Paris and of the two
rural arrondissements of the department of the
Seine; 2ndly, to redeem the tools of workmen
pledged at the Mont-de-Piece • 3rdly, to complete
the work previously undertaken by the Municipal
Commission on the occasion of the proclama-
tion of the Empire on the 2nd of December last, of
remitting to poor women the sums they. owe to the
Administration des Nourrices, for their children ;
and fourthly, in distributing assistance to the neces-
sitous families inscribed at the Bureaux de Bien-
faisance. In 1804 the toilette offered to the Empress
cost 600,000 f., and the sums devoted to works of
charity was 144,000 f. The government journals all
attention to the fact that the sum now
voted is the largest ever expended by the
city of Paris upon any similar monde -
On Tuesday the members of the Municipa
Commission waited on the Emperor, and had this
honour of being presented to the future Empress, by
whom they were most graciously received.
The belief continues to be generally entertained
that on the morning of the marriage, or at least on
the day
.following, several decrees calculated to gain
milantaawily,
wl atrzi Jtelecornuact tdfn.greerie;r:edhaisan.
gunge, way,' think,be taken astheprecuntor of some
sort of amnesty. The government organ of course
justifies the conditions of pardon hitherto insisted
upon, and contends that they are not humiliating.
With an audacious disregard to facts it observes that
the clemency hitherto accorded to exiles has been
unostentatiously, exercised the names of the
persons pardoned having been in general known
only to their own families, to the government which
follows the impulse of its heart, and to God who
judges and recompenses noble actions. Now the
truth is that the clemency here spoken of has been
as ostentatious as is:possible to conceive. Names in-
deed have not frequently been given, for this plain
reason, that almost all the individuals who have con-
sented to beg for mercy in the prescribed form
are so obscure that their names would be
wholly unknown to the pnblio. But while
no
one knows how many victims of the coup
sretat yet languish in prison or in penal colonies, the
number of those pardoned has been continually
paraded in the columns of the Moniteur, and when
poor Sobrier passed under the yoke, and M. Chavoix,
owing to a forged letter, was supposed to have done
so, their names were eagerly seized upon, and their
petitions published in the most conspicuous manner