The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-18 00:00:00

WEDDING OP TER PRINCESS ROYAL.

The whole of the derraticre of Bt. hutted' Palace
mil Chapel berg now tomplete, tie reset to pronowor to
be highly creditable to the taste of Mr. Pbtype, architect to
the Bard of Works, and to the alertly* skill of Masers.
Johnstree and Josses, of Bard-stret, to whom the importer
work was arrests& The doorway has the Peru, known
r the pert =WNW% WWW Irks to • 11WW110•80 °terror la
Grimes sad yellow, the royal ogres, rad at sash ere red-
acre apartnisate have be.. air re the rumor radar
wire will be fa .arises dit ti• weidllag. The grand
errors eusedlogly well to Its am Ill•rpeting
sad Ides awl gilt railing. The osier top of the
letter bes bur covered with crier= rivet sad silk
triage, whisk she adds esseiderably to ths gruel effect,
while the rarer aortae rard leas of the destratioas are
edietesly Wired sad errata by the adored warble of
the wale awl parlors. The roar whisk la the drying-
/eon meta is red as a redrbig room by bar Majesty, hr
bar oa the prated aeosidaa fitted op as bee rim far the
Priam. Roy* sad is. light sad basalfal apartmer The
MM, which IN while sad rid, r walteltard be ills arraider
sad Myr tbe beaglep are tithe drat adman dor& el
the sewed patter. sal the walk ales ars Med with raft
ninces, so sarread r greatly le Wares the menet
illsreleas d the airier. Al the healters el the room
is saw awl has beta eras atria* fee wash& It Is
crimson sad pikes their bat etre sane trio regal design,
end Be surgessrat is la the but psalli• Ws. Than will
be tins pressares, hr Majesty's, the Mamma bran, rd
that ti the Pdwea of Prude, al of alai will he forted in
the time mss, to whir litle has beat dam beyond clean-

„ and the laying down of a floor cloth of royal inlet,
illiCh, however, has an excellent effect. In the next nom,
karma as Queen Anne's, and mom fandherly se the trash
rem, there will be exhibited on the wearing days tableau, of
which welters no doubt our Prussian guests will preserve a
pleasant reminiscence on their retort to the beaks of the
Spree. One-half of this fine apartment bas bees fitted up u
a gallery, rising tier above tier, until it half obseares Queen
Anne's portrait at the back ; and on theme tiers will be
ringed all the youth sad beauty of oar female aris-
tocracy in full emit deem, and looking as radiant
and Joyous se young people generally do at a
wedding party. The same stringent arrangements as
regards dress are to be observed in all the apartmeate to
be subsequently passed through, until the procession arrives
at the Colour-court, a seat in which will more decidedly the
best view of the whole ceremonial, save what is to lake
place actually within the chapel. The seats will form a flat-
toted curve, end from the extent of the space to be traversed
the procession will be longer in view than at any other part
of Its route. Another advantage will be that heals no sump-
tuary law insisting on train, or toupee, or feathers, or swords,
so that it will form a most comfortable harbour of refuge for
th• elder members of the aristocracy, whose object is to
as. rather than tole seen. We had at first entertained ap •
prehandoss that the chapel itself would look ill-lighted and
. gloomy, but by the last touches of the decorator all fears
on that score have been removed. The effect of a
narrow gilt cornice running round the newly-erected oak
gallery is quite wonderful, as is also that of the elaborate
gilding which the railings in front of the royal pew have
undergone, and which was not finished until nearly the last
moment allowed by the contreet. Oa the door the three
rows of sesta on each aide have been covered with crimson
velvet, richly trimmed with milk frilly of the same colour, and
are regularly divided into compartments, imaged with a
proper regard to the prevailing fashion in ladies' costume.
The most voluminous crinolines will, however, find it to their
advantage to be placed in the front row on each side, as the
divisions become more contracted as the seats become more
elevated. The /taut par and centre aisle have both been
covered in ” bishops' blue," sad to this, along
with the slender columns of the same colour that
support the gallery, much of the cheerful aspect which has
been attained is to be attributed. The hangings and drape-
ries are of crimson velvet, looped with rich silk lace of the
same colour, and the chairs of state sad tabarete on which
We royal visitors are to be accommodated are of the tame
coiner, with the addition of much gilding and bullion deco-
rations. Taken altogether, and considering the smallness
of the space in which everything had to be done, it would be
hard to give too much credit to the different potties engaged
in the preparations for the magnificent affect produced. The
satielsolica of the Prince Count is complete, and was most
unreservedly "'premed on hie visit of Friday last, on which
ocomion his Royal Highness was accompanied by Lieut.-
Colonel Posicaby. The contrast bound Memes.Johnt tone and
Jeanie to have everything finished on Thursday last, and at
twelve o'clock on that night the last workman left the chapel.
The communion plate, which is of great value, is at present
being cleanedand burnished, and when arranged in its proper
piece will complete the gorgeous effect of the chapel in-
terior.
Out of doors the principal goldsmiths at the west end et
the town are fully employed preparing costly presents for the
wedding-day. A great number of the aristocracy are mid I.
have given erdera, but the strictest secrecy is mamma upon
the artists, in onlar that the royal recipient may be the first
to see and admire the marriage gifts of her arienerstic
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WINDSOR, Jaw. 17.
The preparations at the Castle for the reception of
the Royal bride and bridegroom are completed, end the
rooms typo:gelato& to their use arc those width tram occu-
pied by the Queen In bee younger days, et the time when she
was the gum of William IV., namely, those celled the
Dacha' of Kent's apartments, in the Lancaster Tower.
The Royal couple are expected to arrive at Windsor on the
events( of the 25th, at 6 o'clock, and to travel by the Onst
Western Railway from Paddington to Georp-street, from
edema they will proceed to the Castle under en escort of the
Royal Horse Guards (Blase).
♦ triumphal arch will be erected is Castle-street, and the
houses of the inhabitants, together with the Town-hall, will
be brilliantly illuminated and decorated with tanners exhi-
bit* the emu of Ragland sad Prussia.
Oa the 27th her Raiesty and the Prince Consort, accom-
panied by the Duke sad Duchies of dale Coburg and the
Duke of Cambridge, will come to the Castle to attend the
installation of the Prince of Prussia m a Knight of the
Garter, when about sixteen of the Knights will also be in
&tandems. In the evening a grand Minuet will take place
in the Waterloo Chamber, and on the following day a ban-
quet will be given in St. George's Hall.

,VENING, JANU '"Y

The Countess Bernstorff hu issued cards for an
amiably to Saturday, the 23rd instant, b meet their Boys'
iligkomere the Prince and Princem of Pr ied&

His Excellency the Saxon Minister has returned
to town from Germany.
The Duke of Rutland has a select circle assembled
at Beivoir Castle. Lord John Manners, Mr. Marley, and
Mr. and Mrs. Babe Cochrane are staying with his grace.
Lord George and Lady Adele."' Manners and Mr. sad Lady
lilisabeth Drummond are to arrive at the Cantle early this
week.

The Marquis of Lansdowne left Lansdowne House
NI Saturday for Wilton Hosea war Salisbury, on a visit to
the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., and Mrs. Herbert.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford come to
tows to-day from Utirlall, &lop.

. .
The Marquis de Preemie has arrived at the
Brunswick Hood, St. James's.

The Countess of Clarendon and Lady Constance
Valle come to town to-day from St Leonsrd's-on-Sea,
where her ladyship has been occupying apartments at the
Royal Victoria Hotel.

The Earl and Countess Stanhope will return to
101/11 as Friday next from Charming Park, Kent.
Viscount and Viscountess Combermere come to
town to-day from Combermere Abbey, Cheshire.

Viscount Castleman arrived in town last evening
from Gramme, KUlimy, Inland.

_ .
Lord and Lady Harry Van. will return to town
at the latter and a the week from Brlghtcs.

The Dowager Lady Cowley has returned to town
from visiting the Marquis Aug Mumhiossess of Salisbury at
Hailkid.

Lord Claude Hamilton has returned to town from
Aklerehott. Her ladyship Is expected In town In a few days
firm Heron's Court, Ireland.

Lady de Lisle and Dudley gave birth to awn
yastorday at the family musks la Loynd's-Kum

. .
The Right Hon. Sidney and Mrs. Herbert and
(sadly will Mars to tows oa Wedassday Gem Wilke Hoar,
Wilts.

Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton is expected in town
In a tow days from die Isle of Wight.

lady Frederick Bentinek ii, we are sorry to learn,
In a vary anaithhictory state of health, !mutt& caught and
after her recent aerate Indiapositket.

Mr. E. M'Evoy, M.P.-for the county of Meath,
woe seakiesteMy shot la the fees sad one of lie eyeballs,
vigil oat shooing with Mr. George Harry Moore, .z-le.P.
Mr. Wllvey Is wader medial .dubs.

His Excellency Ferukh Khan, who has he away
mouths pad divided his time between Paris end London,
having completed the objects of his mission, finally left
Claridges Hotel yesterday morning, for Paris, on his return
to Persia.

The FArl and Countess of Shaftesbury and Lady
victoria Ashley ars expected to arrive Is town to-day trout
St. tlitleen Denotehire.

This Earl and Countess of Malannbary are ex-
pand* strive at their magmas in Whitehall-prdons to-
morrow, from Heron Court, now Christchurch.

His Excellency the French Ambassador and the
Colleted!' de Persipy arrived at Albert-gate/louse, Batite-
bridp, on Saturday, from visiting tie Duke and Daiwa of
Beaufort., ►t Badminton, Oloacestashlrs.

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1858.

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EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(DY SUDYARINI mei:mars.)
PARIS, SUNDAY.
The Countess do :Horny has given birth to a
daughter.
The Cour Imperials has pronounoed a judgment
annulling the decision of the Tribunal of Commerce,
and declaring Auguste Thurneyssen, of the house of
Stieglits, not comprised in the failure of his son
Charles.

The Paris correspondent of the Independence
Beige, writing on Saturday, says :—Tha Emperor
made the following reply to the congratulatory
address of the Diplomatic Corps :
I receive with pleasure the congratulations of the Diplo-
matic Corps. I getter myself that all the sovereigns of
Europe regard my raistenos as neoeisery to the main-
tenance of tranquility. I beg you to be the interpreters of
my seknowleigments to the sovereigns and states th►t you

The brother of the Grand Duke of Baden (the
seine correspondent says) arrived in Paris on Satur-
day morning, to express sympathy withthe Emperor ;
and Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte, who was in Lon-
don, immediately after receiving intelligence of the
event set out for Paris to congratulate the Emperor
on his escape. It is added that at the reception of
the legislative bodies the slight scar which the Em-
peror has on his face, and the trifling contusion of
the eye which the Empress received from a fragment
of glass, were clearly visible.

(paox ova owx

PARIS, SUNDAY EV1311140:

The attack on the Emperor continues to be the
subject which occupies the public mind to the ex-
clusion of all others. The precise dimensions and
nature of the murderous weapons used are universally
discussed with considerable variations, both as to
fact and theory. It seems, however, perfectly well
established, without going into inches of measure-
ment or ounces of weight, that the shells were of
such small dimensions that they might be easily
concealed about the person, that they were of such
light weight that they might be tossed like an
orange with accuracy of aim to a short distance, and
that they were so constructed as to be almost certain
to explode the moment they fell, and that with
deadly effect. I have heard a report to-day that no
less than fifteen were thrown, although only
three exploded, but I doubt this very much.
According to information which I believe
to be accurate, one at most was picked up
that had not burst, but it is not certain that
the partied; who testify to having seen this one
may not have confounded it with the one found on
Pierri when he was arrested. It is certain that the
projectiles were thrown from the street, and not, as
was at first supposed, from windows opposite the
Opera.
A telegraphic despatch, dated Windsor Castle,
has been received from the Queen, congratulating
the Emperor and Empress on their escape,
So far from any of the first reports of the catas-
trophe having been exaggerated, they all fall short
of the truth. The number of the wounded, stated
first at twenty or thirty, afterwards by the Moniteur
at fifty or sixty, and again by the Moniteur of this
morning at 117, is greater stilL I have myself
seen a splinter of a shell extracted by Dr.
011ooke, of the Rue Filler St. Thomas, from
the leg of a Madame Maurin, of Orleans, whose
name is not mentioned in the Moniteur. The
splinters of the shells themselves did the mischief,
and not any bullets or projectiles contained in them.
M. Duple, on resuming at the age of seventy-one
his old seat in the Precurem-General's tribune of

the Court of Cessation, has gained his first cause,
and that against the recorded opinion of M. Trop-
long, the first President of that Court of the lut
resort. The question in dispute, which is one of
immense importance, and of every-day occurrence,
has perhaps more than any other divided the
opinions of French lawyers for many years. It is

this—whether a wife married under the regime of
community of gads (which regime, in point of fact,
governs more than nine-tenths of the marriages in
France) can after the death of her husband, or in case
of a separation of property in his lifetime, claim the
amount of her fortune out of the personal estate of
her husband, in priority to his creditors. It is be-
yond contest that out of the husband's real estate
she can, and this right of hers is designated by the
Code hypothique legoie. But until of late years
it was always thought that, in regard to the hus-
band's personal estate, the wife was merely entitled
to come in on an equality with other creditors. This
opinion was some time since combated by M. Trop-
long, who, before being elevated to his present dig-
nity, was known u a legal writer, with a reputation
which may be compared to that of Lord St. Leonard's
in England. His opinion has been frequently fol-
lowed by imperial courts in the province', and has
been acted upon by the Civil Chamber of the Court
of Cameation. The Imperial Court of Paris, how-
ever, presided over by M. Delangle, has gone against
it, and last week the question came to be decided in
the last resort, before the three chambers of the
Court of Caisation united, consisting altogether of
some fifty judges. M. Delphi, speaking as I have
before had occasion to explain, not as an advocate
for any party, but as an advocate for that opinion
which in his own breast he, as a public minister,
believed to be the right one, argued against M.
Troplong's views, and the court yesterday pro-
nounced a judgment, which will hereafter have the
force of law, deciding that the wife has no priority
over the other creditors. The rules of French
courts preclude the public from knowing by what
majority this decision was arrived at, and
whether M. Troplong's own opinion is changed
by M. Dupin's arguments. The majority
of the bar are decidedly in favour of the opinion
which has prevailed. They say that the contrary
doctrine was in reality agaList the Interest of the
wife, for had it prevailed, no prudent creditor could
have trusted the husband, howe•er rich he might be
in appearance, without her signature, and then she
might have found herself stripped of everything
instead of taking her part with other creditors on
the husband's estate.

The first representation of a new play by M.
Alex. Daum, jun., called Le Pile Nature!, the ad-
vent of which has been heralded by an extraordinary
number of puffs preliminary, came off last night
with immense imam
The latest news of the health of the Kiteg of
Wartemberg is more favourable.
The cottea Mirka at Havre during the past week
has been very WI, the sales being only about 5,600

bales. The stock is now 941,800 bales, against 01,000
at this time last year. Prices have undergone a
alight fall. At Rouen the improvement in business
which was noticed in our last report has cantinued,
and an increased demand both fur cotton twist and
manufactured goods is apparent. At Mulhausen
there has been but little business doing daring the
last week, acd the manufacturers have been obliged
to make some concession in prices in order to effect
sales. At Marseilles there has been a good business
doing in oils and oleaginous seeds, and the market
has shown great firmness.