The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-06 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(PION OUR OWN

PARIS, FRIDAY EVININO.

I find no confirmation of a statement in the Nerd
that on the 14th the Emperor would go as far as the
Bastille to meet the army of Italy. The news is in
itself improbable. That the Emperor as the con-
quering general of the conquering army should have
made his official entry into Paris at their head
would have been quite natural, and was entirely
expected ; bat if, for sufficient reasons, that project
has been abandoned, the half measure of going to
meet the troops at the Bastille would
.be a shock
to etiquette, and at the same time an affront to
the Faubourg St. Antoine. I have no doubt
that the Emperor, as I announced some
time since, will take up a position at the foot of the
column in the Place Vendome, and see the whole
army file peat. Immense preparations are making
for this reception, which will be very splendid.
Seats will be erected all round the place for the
Senate, Corps Legislatif, Council of State, Ministers,
Ambassadors, Am., and an ample canopy or eelarium,
such as was used for the games of Rome in the
time of the Emperors, will protect the spectators
from the glared the sun. Several triumphal arches
are already in course of erection on the Boule-
vards. One is to represent the cathedral of Milan.
Very deep holes are being excavated on either side of
the Rue de la Pair for the reception of double rows
of Venetian poles to be decorated with flags. A
number of pleasure trains will bring up to Paris
great numbers of visitors from the province', bat it
is feared that those who live along the Marseilles
line will not participate in the benefit of the ar-
rangement, that railway being likely to be exclu-
sively occupied with the transport of troops.
The news which I have already sent that the
Emperor is going to the Chilons camp, is coufirmed
by the Pays, which announces that he will be there
ow Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday next. His Majesty
will on this occasion distribute the rewards of
August 16 to the force which he will review.

M. de Bourqueney I Paris to-night for Zurich,
accompanied by M. Armand, an attache to the
Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
Workmen are now bag in the vaults of Bt. Denis
preparing a sepulchre for the remains of Napoleon
L, which will certainly be removed from the In-
valides, although the day for the disinterment is not
yet fixed. I presume that Marshal Prince Jerome,
who at one time declared that the tomb in
the Invalid's, of which he is governor, should never
be disturbed as long as he lived, is now less
positive in his opposition. The last resting place of
the great Napoleon among the bones of the kings
of Franos will not, however, after all, be the pre-
cise spot which he had selected for himself, and
which he is represented pointing to in the well-
known glass painting in one of the cathedral win-
dows. Louis XVIII. is buried in that vault, and the
Emperor, whose great object in interring his uncle
in the royal basilica is to teach the public to regard
him ea the legitimate founder of a new line of
monarchs, cannot in consistency desecrate the tomb
of a legitimate Bourbon.
The Patric announce., from Toulon, that all the
sailors of the squadron who have served the regulated
time on board men-of•war are to be allowed to go to
their home..

Letters from Florence contain the expected and
very good news that Garibaldi is about to assume
the command of the Tuscan army. The Ceur►ie►
des eflpes, an ultramontane journal which has
taken a prominent part in the intrigue for the an-
nexation of Savoy to France, has been compelled to
suspend its publication.
At the Bourse very little business is still done,
but the Rents was very firm to-day. It rose 45c.
for cash and 40c. for account, closing at 69fr. 75c.
and 69fr. 98c. Mobilier rose 21fr. 95c. The Or-
leans railway rose flfr. 76c.; Lyonr, 7fr. 60c. ; and
the other lines about 2fr. 50c.

Count de Montalemberee brother, Lieutenant-
Colonel de Montalembert, of the Lancers of the
Guard, has been appointed to the command of the
lot African Cbasseurs, vice Colonel do Salignac-
Fenelon, promoted to the rank of General of
Brigade.
Some of the provincial paper., acting on a hint
from Paris, offer a sort of apology for a recent (real
or supposed) anti-English demonstration at Mar-
seille', of which, they say, the Presse of Vienna has
made " quite an affair." At a place of public
entertainment the famous air of Charles VI.,
" Jame* jamais, en France I'Aoglais ne regners,',
was sung with such marked enthusiasm that several
loglish people who were present thought
fit to leave the assembly. It is now urged,
by way of explanation or excuse, that in
every country there are national airs, such as God
save the King in England, the Rens des Vaches
in Switzerland, Riego's Hymn in Spain, the Conquer-
ing King in Prussia, the Song of the Emperor in
Austria, &c., &c.—that all these songs stimulate the
national sentiment, and that to expect such " mo-
mentary effervescence*" of popular life to be put

down would be to desire what is impossible. This
defence is beside the only point in issue. Nobody
in England wants to see any popular manifestation
repressed ;' on the contrary, we English would be
very glad to see much less repression in France
than there it, and much more mope for the free ex-
pression of public feeling. But it was lately
alleged in a Marseille, correspondence published in
a London journal that the manifestation in question
wee got up by authority, and that policemen in plain
clothes set the example of singing the old war-song.
That is the only part of the business which it would
be desirable to have contradicted, if it be untrue.
That has a serious aspect ; but otherwise our French
friends are quite welcome to proclaim publicly in
Lydian, or any other measure, their determination
that the English shall not reign over them, as often
as the reiteration of this trite sentiment can give
them any pleasure. We have no more right, anti
certainly less inclination, to complain of their so
doing than they would have to remonstrate against
a representation of the battle of Waterloo at
Astley's.

Prince Napoleon left Paris yesterday morning for
Cherbourg, to visit the port and the different ships
in the roadstead. His imperial highness is mom-
gaoled by a Russian officer and two aides-de-camp.
A communication from Bayonne says:

The Southern Railway compaay has determined to open
almoet lonnedistely the railway from Mont•cle. Marren to
Tarbes. la addition to the numerous workmen already
engaged on diffetent portions of the line, most of
the men employed on the Bordeaux to Cette and the
Bordeaux to Berms° railways, with those of the depart-
mental roads of toe Landes, have jest bees taken on. 11 le
hoped that with all t 0.., bands, working day and night, the
line will be In a state to allow the imperial train to being
their Majesties on the 16th as far as Tubes, on their way to
St. flatterer. It le expected that the Emperor will stay a
fataight at St. Situveur, the Empress going straight on to
Biarritz, where hie Majesty would afterwards rejoin her
Orders have been given that everything should be reedy to
receive the court at the imperial villa en the 18th lost.

A telegraphic line is to be established between
Tarbes and St. Sauveur, on account of their Majes-
ties' approaching visit to the latter plate.