The Express.
London, England, 1859-05-27 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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ADDRESSES OF THE EMPRESS TO THE
LEGISLATIVE BODIES.
PARIS, TiIt:MOLY EVENING.

At 1 o'clock to-day the great bodies of the state
were received at the Tuileries by the Empress
Regent previously to her departure fur St. Cloud
for the summer season. The Senate awaited the
Empress in the Salle du Trone, the Corps Legislatif
in the Salon d'Apollon, and the Council of State in
the Salon Blanc. The Empress passed through each
of these drawing-rooms leading the Imperial Prince
by the hand, and accompanied by Prince Jerome,
the ministers, the chamberlains, and the ladies of
honour. 141. Oranier de Cassagnac describicg the
ceremony in the Pays says that " the young prince
dressed in white, with his pretty fair hair curling
naturally, smiled and waved his little hand." M.
Troplong in the name of the Senate, Count de
Morny for the Corps Legislatif, and M. Barochc for the
Council of State, pronounced addresses, to which her
Majesty returned answers. After the speech to the
Corps Legislatif, M. de Cassagnac, who was present,
says, " Prince Jerome, taking up the young prince
in his venerable arms, presented him to the assem-
bly, and all the deputies rushed towards the child,
disputing with each other the honour of touching his
little hands, which they covered with kisses." The
Empress was moved to tears, and, says the same
recorder, " everybody present cried, and diffused
the general emotion by convulsive shaking of
hands."

The three speeches made by the Empreu were u
follow:

To TEE SENATE.

feettionte ki 13esateura,—You wirhel before separating
te sire & new proof of your dc*oto lows to the Emperor by
paying a visit to the imperial prince; this token of your in-
toren in him did nut eurprec me, but I am art the low
deeply moved by it; the .tip you have taken etrengthenr in
me those feeliup of confident, which have alre ,dy been en-
cm.raged by the commels of my well-beloved trade.

To THE COMPS LEGIBLATII.

Gentlemen,—l sin much moved by the exprevi mor your
desire to see the imperial pr:ocs Won returnin; to ou•
departments. I rely upon your enlightenel patriotism 1.
eucourrim in the provinces that febh which we roust all
bees in tee energy of the army, aa4 when the proper time
shall email, in the moderslion of the Emperor. Heavy as
my task is, I nod is my hart, which is altogether French,
the strength necessary to accomplish it. I rely, therefrom,
gentlemen, upon your lolat aid, ant upon the support
of the nation et large, which, in the aboence of the chief
which it h u chosen, will never be waiting to a woman an
a dild.

To TIII COUNCIL or STATE.

Ontilemen,-1 thank you for hen* essocisti4 younalves
with the manila s'stiims of the Sews sad the Corps Leo.-
Irtif. Your support on this occ ohm precious testimony
of Ms sentiments of the Council of Site in Geom. of 111.1
Erupt-rot'. dynaity, and I c moot but be much pleased at it.

The following was Count do 111orny's speech to the
Empress :
Madasue,—The Corps I.pgisls if, before aeprrating, is
happy to have 'ho honour of Loins admitted to your pros. up",
and t 3 am the imperial prince. We are about t t return t
our dopartmmte. We go there to encourage the &ding of
pstriotism which preseat erornstroom call for. But we
Mall have little ocomi m ti use our iofluenms over a p 'pa.
lotion, in whose hearts the bum if glory and honour ',ter
vibrator. The .hence of the Emperor may have mused
some ellee•ineel io the minds of than who do nit know
Foam. But the generous tuition understands the 'rim(
delicacy of feeling, and when the Emperor leaves Frame'
to share the perils of our so, lkre, and defend the honour
of our flag, it displays, if it be pumible to do
n, aldi-
lionel rePpeot for your authority and affe-tion and devwed-
nom for your person. You may, therefor'', madam., re-ken
upon noivemal rapport, and upon all those mationots which
are your doe sea regent and a. a 'mother.

At the reception of the hew member, M. Jule,'
Sandi au, at the French Academy to-day, AL Vim],
an old minister of Louis Philippe, commenced his

inauguration speech in the following remarkable
terms :

81r,—At the moment of taking your seat hers you
Sad us with our Wade diverted from oar ordinary
pacific ettidise. Onr hearts and thou;hts are arida
the B+g of From*. If you will permit me to say so,
we feel a wrists sort of astonishment and surprise at being
called upon, thanks to you, to enjoy the sweet plemures of
literary converse when the din of arms rings in our ears, and
when our brethren, the soldiers of this country, are perhaps
at ibis very instant shedding their blood for their country,
and giving new proofs of their virile constancy and heroic
valour. Way they at lout know whet Is passiog in our
minds. If by chews in their bivou ice the words which we
now epe ik should meet their eyes, tory they at loot know
that their glory and their perils were our first thought on
this occasion.

M. Vitet proceeded, in a highly polished speech
to congratulate M. Bandeau on being the Brat no-
velist who had ever been adm;tted, purely in that
character, as a member of the Academie Frangaice
during the two centuries that it has existed.

The Bourse wu tolerably firm. The Rente rose
be. for cuh and 10e. for account, closing at 61fr.3be.
and 61fr. 30e. Mobilier rose 7fr. 600. The Orleans
railway rose bfr. ; North •rn, lfr. 23c. ; and the
other lines about 2fr. 30c..

The exhibition for the benefit of his family of the
works of Ary &heifer, on the Boulevard des
Italians, is very attractive. The collection is not so
complete as was the memorable one of Paul
Delaroche two years ago. Dante and Beatrice, and
some other well-known pictures, are wanting. But
his greatest work, Virgil and Dante contemplating
Francesca di Rimini and her lover in purgatory, is
there, and that alone is a tit's to immortality. The
unearthly grief, the habitual tears, and yet the
heavenly hope, depicted on the beautiful counte-
nance of Francesca, embody a poetical conception
never to be forgotten. This is immeasurably
superior to all the other works exhibited, many of
which are exaggerated specimens of pre-Raphaelitism
and most of which have that wooden, blood-
less, hard appearance, which is generally
the characteristic defect of the productions of this
great master. After the Francesca di Rimini the
most pleasing and probably the best pictures are the
series of Margaret and Faust. In " Margaret at
Church" &heifer shows that he could be a colourist,
although habitually he was not. The collection
contains the portrait of Beringer from which all
the best known engravings of him are taken. From
the date of his earliest work (1810) down to
that of his last (1806) Scheffer'a style varied con-
siderably. Like Paul Delaroche he was a hard
worker, and tried many experiments. It is most
interesting to study the progress of the life of such
a man, who many think was the greatest French
artist of this century, and who, in my humble opi-
nion, was second only to Paul Delaroche.