The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-29 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OP THE EIMER&

Sia,—ln looking into English newspapers I see
a number of observations respecting the late con-
ference of sovereigns at Baden, that seem scarcely
justified by the fact. The general tendency of the
remarks is to convey the impression that the Em-
peror of the French was, on the above occasion,
treated with something like public disrespect. May
I be permitted to contribute my mite of observa-
tion / I was at Baden all the time of the confer-
ems', and like others saw what was done publicly.
No doubt, the most popular man of the whole
royal party was the Prince Regent of Prussia—as
it was quite proper he should be so. But public
curiosity and interest respecting Napoleon were
intense. On Saturday the 16th, vast crowds of
people came from all quarters to Baden, to see the
Emperor, and on Sunday the 17th, the fever was at
its height. Masses of persons of all ranks floated
about from point to point, in the hope of catching
a glimpse of this remarkable personage. Now, I
can confidently say, so far as my experience go
that on every occasion the Eleven ir was received
with decorous respect. There were few who did
not take off their hats and stand uncovered as he
passedi The Germans are not a shouting people,
and Vm Eniperaw is not their language or their
cry ; yet, on Saturday, when Napoleon drove off
from the hotel of the Prince Regent of Prussia,
there was a good deal of lively exclamation. At no
time did I hear a single hiss.
It cannot be doubted that in the various German
states there is a prevalent fear of Napoleon. But
there is an unreasonable as well as a reasonable
fear, and looking at the present tone of no small
part of the English press, and comparing it with
what one hears in France, I cannot help feeling that
England is somehow or other allowing itself to get
into a panic about invasion. Everything that the
ruler of France says or does becomes a matter of ill-
natured remark. The proposed commercial treaty
goes for nothing. Can it be the wish of any news-
paper, or any party in thestate, to provoke a war--
or what seems as likely, to divert the people by
talk of warlike aggression 1 It certainly looks
very like it. Uniting most cordially in all proper
plans of naval and military defence, I must sin-
cerely deprecate this everlasting talk about inva-
sion—this persevering outburst of vulgar abuse of
the Emperor of the French, as if it were intended
to insult him and the nation over which he rules.
Be he what he may, I think that his treatment by
at least a portion of the prim iu Great Britain is
most unjust and undignified ; and, along with the
ostentatious parade of national weakness:sof defence,
calculated, if anything can, to prolific* the very
results which it is affectedly wished to avert.—T
am, are., W. CHAMBERS.
Wiesbaden, June 25.

A letter from Palermo of the 23rd, in the Cor-
riere Mercantile of Genoa, states that Massini has arrived
it. the former city.
The Co/Wit/dimple! publishes the following re-
marks on the manner in which the Gurefte de dresses (the
Legitimist journal) announced the decease of Prince Jerome :
" The Gazette published between its puff pa►a-
graphs and its bulletin of the theatres, • modest
necrological list, in which stood the mimes of five or six
magistrates of our tribunals, • Prussian officer, and an
English consul in Abyssinia ; but it never entered our imagi-
nation that 'M. le Prince Jerome' could find a piece in
alphabetical order among those mimes, however respectable
they may be. This is net • simple forgetfulness of political
dignity ; it is a profanation."
A DUEL at BERLIN.—A letter from Berlin, in
the Constitationnel, has the following :—"The general sub-
ject of conversation here is • duel, which took place on the
20th, between the young Count H. de ltameranrark and the
brother of a lady to whom he had been engaged. The count
received a ball in the body, and now lies dangerously
ill
at Aiz.la.Chapelle The cause of the meeting is said to
be • marriage broken off between the lady, whom the
count had known in Park, and who had eveu accompanied
hint into Silesia. A short time helots, the ila7 fixed for the
union, the count received • letter containing disclosures
which induced him to give up the eunnesion. The parents
of the lady sent for bar brother from _intern.. This latter
to said to have treated • medical mom who was on the
ground with great brutality, hotline, he uttered an ex-
clamation of grief snit pity when lie sew the owlet fall.
When the latter was struck, his Mstol, falling from his
hand, went off, and wa■ nearly. wounding owe of the
emends."