The Express.
London, England, 1858-11-15 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, /SUNDAY BARING.

There will be extraordinary fetes and rejoicings
at Compiegne to-day and to-morrow, to celebrate
the fete of the Empress, the feast of St. Eugenics,
which falls on November 13. It is customary to',
keep the eve of the fete with as much ceremony as
the day itself.
Ever since 1832 there has existed in Paris a de-
bating society called the Conference Molt, which
took its name from, and wea, perhaps, founded by
Count Molt, the eminent statesman. The members
were principally young barristers and government
clerks, but anybody was eligible, and, in point of
fact, there was always a sprinkling of the
bourgeons mingled with the professional maw.
Like the Oxford union and other kindred some-
ties in London, the " Conference Molt " turned
oat many good speakers, who ultimately got into
parliament, and became distinguished. It was pro-
bably owing to tender recollections of this society in
association with their early career that some of the
Emperor's advisers at the time of the coup d'etat
found means to save it from the general wreck of
all institutions encouraging freedom of thought
which occurred in December, 1831. However this
may by, the society went on, making little noise in
the world, for it did not court publicity, and ,
strangers were not admitted to its debates, but still
holding its meetings weekly in the Academie de
Medicine, in the Rue des Saints Pares, and enjoying
a liberty of speech to which the rest of France was a
stranger. As many as a hundred members some-
' times attended these meetings, and although many
of them were in government employ, the ten-
dency of the society never diverged from the
ideas of its founders, which were liberal and
(oh ! dreadful words in imperial France) parlia-
mentary. About five months ago, however, a young
member in the course of a debate upon trial by jury
introduced an apology for the condemnation of Maria
Antoinette, and a scene of some excitement ensued.
This incident was reported to Madame de Montijo,
whose reverence for the memory of Louis XVl.'s
unfortunate Queen amounts to a passion, and she
initiated that the Conference Molt should be shut up.
Her wishes were complied with, but now, wonderful
to relate, this pestilential hotbed of " parliament-
arian" hes received permission to open again,
it is said, however, that two trusty police agents
will in future watch the course of the debates.

Prince Csartoryski, who, as you are aware, has,
with the permission of the Prince Regent of Prussia,
left Paris to visit his daughter the Countess
Dzialynska, in the Grand Duchy of Posen, pro-
poses to pass the winter there, and it is reported
that grand fates in his honour will be given in the
chateau of his son-in-law.

The .Examiner and Saturday Review are asked
to-day.

M. Emile de (lirardin is about to publish a coils°.
tion of all the leading articles written by him in the
Prism tram 1836 to 1866, under the title of " Clue-
dons of My Time.' He announoes that the work
" will not be sold," but that the 600 copies of which
the edition consists will be delivered in the order of
application to the first 600 subscribers who may sead
72fr. to the publisher. Notwithstanding the puffing
character al this announcement, I have no doubt
that the 600 copies will be subscribed for, and al-
though much of M. de Girardin's composition is
tedious reading, and he deals in boundless repetition,
his leading articles for the twenty years will pro-
bably form a more interesting collection than those
of any other published within the same period.
The volume is headed by the motto eereando it rero,
and it contains two dedication'', one to the "friends"
and the other to the " enemies" of the anther.

PARIS, fIaTUILDAY
The trial of M. de Mostalambert is postponed from
Nov. 17 to Nov. 24, in conaequense of M. Berryer
being unable to attend the court on the former day.
There is likely to be a serious electioneering con-
test in the Nievre. The Opposition electors had at
first intended to abstain, but they have changed
their tactics in consequence of a letter from the De-
mocratic committee of Perim, recommending them to
vote for M. Bonabetn, a retired advocate of the pro-
vincial bar. This letter, which bears the signatures
of the three liberal members for Paris, MM. Jules
Fevre, Emile 011ivier, and Picard, is reproduced by
M. Bonabsan in the address which the law allows
him to is.. to the gluten. The government candi-
date is M. Richard de Montjoyenx, a member of the
conneil general of the Nitivre.
The Prefect of the Ille-et-Vilaine ban dissolved an
agricultural society at the head of which was the
Marquis de Plea (retry/etre, a nobleman of large