The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-21 00:00:00

etc court.

The Queen and the Prince Consort, accompanied
by Ms Princess Alice, rods on horseback yesterday morning,
samba by the Han. Mary Baited, Lord Colville, Colonel
Ur Hrs. L. N. Hood, and Captain du Plat.
Ilse Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty at Buckingham
Palace.

Prince Leopold and the Princess Beatrice took a drive in
en
open carriage end four.
The Prima and Priem Consort, accompanied by Prince
Leopold and the Princess Louisa, took a drive In the after-
noon in an open carriage and four. The• equerries in waiting
attended.

Her Majesty end the Prince Cousmt honoured the per
at the Olympic Theatre with their pruiroce in the
evening. The royal suite coedited of Lady Macdonald,
Hon. Lucy Herr, Hon. Mary Bakes, Viscount Strathallan,
Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood, and Otutaln du Plat.
Lady Macdonald hoe sucessded Lady Churchill u the
Ladr•tn Waiting to the Qum, sad Viscount Strathsllan and
Sir Frederick Stavin have saceseded the Earl of Sheffield
and Lieutenant• Colonel F. Cinema* ea the Lord and
Groom in Waiting to her Majesty.

A deputation reepectiragas had an interview with
Home-office. Mr.
Mr. Secretary Walpole y, at the Home-office. The de-
putation consisted of writ T. D'lffeoger, jun., Hatters-
Hendry, Jacob Bell, and W. R. Ontimwell. vestry
clerk, from Marylebone. Messrs. Gusts and Chinook,
from St. James's. Meese. Cameros, Young, Perkins,
Sandy', Tornlinsoo, Eldridge, Anal* and G. W. F. Cook,
vestry clerk, from St. Peaces. Mews. Potter, Leath,
Sows. and J. DangerSeld, clerk, from St. Martin-
in-the-Field.. Mews. StratteTneefikin, Tyson, Wood, and
Alfred Warren, assistant clerk, from Bt. Mary, Lambeth.
Mews. Thomas Waring and Steddale, from St. Giles's
district. Mews Clarke and Godson, from St. Margaret's
and St. John's, Westminster. Mews. Filcher and John-
son, from the Fulham 'Hetrick. Mews. Smith, Metres,
and J. C. Reynolds surveyor, from St. Gila, Camber-
' well. Mews D. Nicholson and A. F. Jackson, front the
Wandsworth District. Mews. Walker and G. F. Fry, sur-
veyor. from the Strand District. Messrs.
and F. Tutton, vestry clerk, from St. George the Msrtyr,
Smthwark. Mews. Redfere, Price, Jooes, Holland, sad
Chester, vestry clerk, from St. Mary, Newing-
ton. Messrs. C. H. Mt and J. Layton, vestry
clerk, from laliagtea. The deputation was sows-
panted by the Hon. G. Byng, M.P., and R. Hanbery,
M.P., for Middlesex; Mr. W. WWiama, M.P., and Mr. W.
Roupell, M.P., for Lambeth; Mr. J Locke, M.P., and Sir
C. Napier, M.P.. for Southwark ; Lord Ebrington, M.P. for
Ma labors; Sir J. Shelley. M.P. for Westminster; Mr.
T. IL Duseombe, M.P. for Finsbury; and Mr. W. Ayrtos,
M.P. the Tower Hamlets.

conaiating of Mr. Lamely Chairman, and
Hr. Deice Heatneary Secretary of the Caatorna Super.nnua-
dan Commitsse ; Mr. Owen, Chairman, and Mr. Sorel!,
Honing Secretary of the late General Committee of Cori!
Servals, istroduced by Mr. Haifa, H.P., Sir James El-
M.P., and Mr. Wilcox, H.P., had an interview
with Mr. Hamilton, Sesretary dile Treasury, yesterday, on
ths subject of Civil Seeks Superannuation.
Mr. H. Ple, agent for the Soottish licensed victuallers,
transestai .nass at the Home-office yesterday.
)).'patches were received yesterday at the C..lonial-ofice
from the Governors of the North Ansariain Provinces.

(TllOll LAST 1110/rell CIA 11111.)
BUCKINGHAM PALACE, APRIL 16.—Thia day had
andi,noe of bee Wejesty, his Biosnosey the Marshal Duke
of Malakoff. Atobor from his Majsety the Emperor of
the French, to deliver his credentials. To which moldiness
his Excellency was introduced by the Right Hon, the Earl
of Malmeabury, her Majesty's principal Secretary of State
for F..reign Affairs. sod conducted by Major General the
Hon. Sir Edward Cast, H.C.H., her Majesty's Meeter of the
Ceremonies.

WHITEHALL, APRIL 19.—The Qaeen ham betn
0.00.0. i to cm:minim and appoint the Right Hoe. William
D nit!. Earl of Mansfield, K.T., to be her Majesty's High
Commissioner to the General Amembly of the Church of
Scotland.

Her Majesty will hold a drawing-room at St.
lassee's Felice at 2 o'clock to-morrow (Thursday).
The Osborne returned to Queenstown on Friday
from her cruise along the southern coast, leaving the Prince
of Wale* behind. His royal highness is enjoying himself in
the romantic regions of Olengariff and Killarney, the weather
being splendid It is believed that he will return to Queens-
fawn by the Killarney Railway ; but u he seems to la,
travelling on an Irish jaunting car it is not unlikely that b,
may prefer coming from Killarney to Cork by Gouges.
Barre, Ineheseels, ►nd so on, by Macroom, along the valley
of the Lee. All vieeregaldom has been thrown into ecstasies
by a report that at some tutors day—not yet named—the heir
to the throne is to assume the office of Lord-Lieutenant of
Ireland.

The Marchioness Dowager Townshend and Mr.
Laidler have arrived in town from Brighton, where her lady-
ship and her husband have been pawing the winter.
_ _

The Countess of Derby will give a ball at the
official residence of the Prime Minister in Downing-street,
on Wednesday, the sth of May.

Viscount and Viscountess Galway have arrived
at Clartdge's Hotel, from Berlby Hell, near Bewtry.
The Hon. 0. Dormer and family have arrived at
the Qemeie Hotel, Upper Norwood, from Brookwood Park,
Haat"

Sir Alex. and Lady Hood, accompanied by Sir
P. F. P. Acland, have arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from St.
Andrim, near Bridgwater.

Sir H. Baring, M.P., and Mr.. Baring and family
have mired at Farranea's Hotel, Belgravia, from Paris, for
Ms season.

Lieutenant-Colonel Alison, son of Sir A. Alison,
arrived in Glasgow on Monday morning, and proceeded to
Polon House.

YOrIIG ME,e'n CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATTON.—Last
eight a meeting wee held at No. 411, Marlborough- to
epee the new rooms of the west branch of this
The Earl of Sheftesbury took the chair, and woe ma
by the Hon. A. Kinnainf, M.P., Mr. Hanbury
J. Labonchere, and other gentlemen. Mr. Han stated
stated
that 5001. had been collected towards the expenses of enlorg-
Mg the premiees, and 2001. more had been promised, but
mon, wee required. During the past year the expenditure
had exceeded the receipts. Captain Trotter said the I ircum-
etaneee of the present meeting were very peculiar to him, for
it was in that home that, actue pars back, he wax taught
dancing, It then being an academy for that swims meow-
plahment, sa it was termed; and if he recollected right, it
was in the same place, and under the same foamier, that the
noble rod in the chair also learnt dancing. (Loud laughter,
let which Earl Shafte.bury joined, at the same time A
his heed moat Incredulously.) Captain Trotter explained
that he did not mention the fact to glee any levity to the
prece,adirip, but to show the important progress that bed
bees wide, and the nest difference between the purpose,
which h,sd called hint into that building. The chairman,
Mr. Elon.aird, and other gentlemen, also spoke in support of
the object., e the tosociatkm.

NOFtw telt Me sorAcTrieg.—Trade has been
reviving in testi?' fabrics bre daring the lest month.
Large quanUties of fancy fabrics In sluhair have been pro-
duced for the spring mem, sad It is expected that there wiU
be a greet demand. Tbs fabrics are silk-like, new, and
elegant, and the pat'erne r good sa any ever produced in
this city. About 5,600 weavers are now employed In sari on
I mantartnres, besides the operative. engeged in the factories.
Employed in the mohair and worsted-yarn manufactures,
! about 1,000; employed as winders, cbitfiy children, abut
1,200; employed se warpers, pickers, sewers, dyer. packers,
' hot-pressers, and in other breaches, shout 600. The annual
value of woollen and worsted yarns and fabrics produced of
late yeses is tetimated at 2,000,0001. But besides then goods,
there is • very large trade in mixed tabrics of silk and wool,
silk end cotton, wool, silk, and cotton under a variety of
names, poplin, de lanes, lunettes, organdies, berigea, pers.-
mattes, tsmatavee, crinolines, also elk goods in gauzes,
crepes, velvets, satins, satinatoe, &c, The manufacture of 1
fin-over shawl* still continues to some extent, though dimi-
nished by the introduction of millinery mantles. Nov designs
in robes and dresses hare been produced in great variety for
the spring season, and no doubt will boon be seen in ;dates of
inationable resort,Rery eisit4Yonrkh Ant,

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(riox ova ovni col

PARIS, Trunk; EVININO.
The knowing is the text of the article in the
Constitutionnel, signed " Renee," the substance of
which you wi I have received by telegraph:

The acquittal of Bernard has excited deep indignation it
Francs, and the intimated tuntimentesprand by the Unbars
en the subject has been understood by emeytody. Neverthe-
less, we most remark in mitt jostles that thisis not the mo-
ment to a,,eck the Moss, ea the Univers ham dose, since that
journal supported with energy the .Conspiracy Bat," de-
nounced the assassins, and trhulicated England's honour.
We will not dwell at any length on such an acquittal, which
throws an unheard of scandal on public morality ; for what
honest man in France or England could entertain a doubt of
Beniffiree guilt P We will merely Inform those of our
neighbours who desire the maintenance of good relations be-
tween the two countries, that if, by misfortune, the address
pronounced by Bernard's counsel—that address which was

;flowed to teals with calumny and insults against the Em-
peror, against the nation which elected him, agidnet the
nosy, and against our institutions—were to be circulated in
the towns, barracks, and ma: districts of Fresco, It would
be difficult for government, with the beet intentions, to stay
the oonaequencee of public indignation.

It is my deliberate conviction that all this "sound
and fury" mean nothing ; and if so, one can only
be astonished that such a childish exhibition of
pointless anger should have been allowed to appear
in a semi-official print. It has, however, as it was
intended to do, made • great sensation here, and no
wonder. It is known that M. Renee is the eon-in-
law of M. Mocquard, the Emperor's private secre-
tary, that he was placed at the head of the Con-
atitutionnel by the government, and that on the rare
oorasions on which he signs an article he receives
special instructions from a minister. The present
manifesto is the result of three days' consideration.
With the exception of the Univers, whose monstrous
sally I sent yesterday, all the Paris journals have
maintained silence on the subject, not knowing what
tope they might be expected or allowed to take,
and now the principal semi-official print comes out
with a threatening and insulting article against
England, which, unless it were to be understood
as a preliminary to a declaration of war,
im devoid of common sense. Except at the Bourse,
however, where it caused a momentary panic, it has
been universally read with a broad grin. The
notion of the " people" of France boiling over with
indignation at Bernard's acquittal, to such an extent
that if Mr. James's speech should be circulated the
government will not be able to restrain them from
making war, is simply ridiculous. The French
people will never fight with us upon such a quarrel,
and you may be well assured that nine Frenchmen
out of ten consider a war between the two countries
as utterly out of the question. Nobody desires war
except, possibly, some few enthusiastic republicans,
who would see in it the certain and speedy down-
fall of the present government. The folly of the
paragraph in advertising Mr. James's speech, of
which it professes such terror, is much remarked
upon. The speech was entirely suppressed
by the Moniteur, and mutilated by all
the other French journals. Now the curi-
osity to read it will be universal, and it will no
doubt be extensively propagated, but not assuredly
by Englishmen, as the wording of the article seems
to imply. There is one question which occurs to me
on reading this production. Did the Constitution-
nel never hear of the respect exacted by French law
for the chose jugle? It knows well that it could
not make the slightest reflection upon the judgment
of the smallest police court in France without being
punished, and yet it dares to say that the British
jury who tried Bernard are not honest men !

. .
At the Bourse the Rente fell to 68fr. 80c. under
the influence of the article in the Constitutionnel,

but in the course of the day a well-known specula-
tor—who,
by the way, is interested in that journal
—bought in a 'very large amount of Rente which he
had sold yesterday, clearing an enormous profit, and
it rose to 69fr. 5c., closing with a fall on the day of
10e. only. Mobilier, after haring fluctuated, rose
25fr. The railways also fluctuated considerably,
but were not much lower than yesterday at the
close.

M. Jules Fans hesitated a long while before con-
senting to stand for Paris, but he was ultimately in-
duced to come forward by the entreaties of a depu-
tation composed of some of the most influential
merchants of the Rued(' Sentier, who said that they
themselves were ready to stand at the door of the
mayoralty, on the day of the election, and distribute
his bulletins.

M. Louis Fonld, a brother of tho Minister of
State, died yesterday, after a short illness.

Prince Jerome has left Paris for his estate of Vil-
legenis.
the Pram saes in its weekly commercial review:
•

Trade in Paris has been exceedingly calm during the
week. It is only within the last two or three days that
buyers have begun to frequent the MOW 04141,6 shops. This
is the effict of the first hot weather; but scarcely any but
chits p goods are being sold. In the ready-made shops,
although some orders for the summer meson have beta given,
there is not to be observed that activity which generally
exists in the middle of April. There is no appreciable im-
provement in the manufactories of Paris. The travellers

from the provinces have reduced their usual orders by one
half. Foreign agents would buy more freely, but the ques-
tion of credit Is in most oases an insurmountable obetscle.
Money, or good security, are the terms generally demanded.
Some houses, whose profits are habitually very large,
Bak for cash to the amount of ono half or • third
of their invoice., so as to reduce their risk of
loss to a trifle. Some purchases of " Paris articles" have
been made on English account this week, principally
for exportation to Australia. Advises from the English
manufacturing districts mention • marked revival of busi-
ness. Should this movement be sustained, it will probebly
be followed by a similar improvement in France. But, un-
fortunately, with regard to raw materials and colonial good.,
it is impossible to conceal from ourselves that there is such
an accumulation both in French and ft reign markets that
two years' consumption will be required to reduce *teaks to
their normal state. On this account affairs continue languish-
ing in all the sea ports. The passing of the new law on dock
warrants is awaited with great impatience. The imumseters
have had a meeting, In which they voted • petition to the
Emperor praying for an augmentatinn In the duties on
foreign iron. They have no doubt suffered heavy Diaper for
several months past ; but, considering how ditßetilt the rail-
way companies find it already to get rail, delivered by our
manufacturers, it seems very unlikely that government will
consent to • surcharge on foreign iron, which would threaten
to act as a prohibition. The corn markets both in Frame
and abroad remain In a state of stagnation. The fall, how-
ever, continues. Holden both of corn and flour refuse gene-
rally to make further conoessions.

TKE " UNIVERS" AND THE EDICT OP NANTES.—
The Univers publishes the following version of the historical
facts relative to the revoestion of the Edict of Name* :
" The revocation of the Edict of Nantes did not affect the
state of France. Louis XIV simply prohibited a religious
worship which had been abandoned. This celebrated act of
the great monarch had been preceded by the abjuration of
ea 'ire provinces and towns. Nothing bore less resemblance
to a proscription than the revocation of the edict. Nobody
is ignorant of the efforts made by the King to retain in his
kingdom the new converts who were tempted by the brit.
Bent prorate."' of Hontlid. Louis XIV., ter from having
proscribed thern, despatched agents to the various countries
where they had vounkt refuge, in order to persuade the fugi-
tives to return. The emigration caused by the revocation of
the Edict of Nantes wee of little consequence, and the po-
pulation of the menhir, far front having diminished in oun-
eequence, experienced after the revocation a regular pro-
gromive movement. At least, this appetite to have been the
case from the civil register of the town of Tours. It we. to
1689 that the population ocounenced to diminish, and the
following years were fatal to our unhappy country, whit*
was overwhelmed by every epeeists of misfortune. It le a
folly to say that the refugees, in quitting their native lend,
sorted away our trade sad transported our manufactories to
foreign °nutrias "