The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-15 00:00:00

THE PRINCE OF WALES AT THE PARIS

EXHIBITION.

On Monday morning the Prince of Wales left
the British Embassy at Paris to pay a visit to the Universal
Exhibition. He arrived in a carriage and pair at the grand
entrance at the Pont d'lena at twenty minutes to 12, as
by Lord Royston and Major Teesdale. The
Prince was met at the entrance of the Exhibition by Mr.
Cole, C. 8., the British Commissioner, and was afterwards
joined by Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar. He ascended
the iron gallery, from which he had a good view of the
machinery below in motion. In fact, he followed the pro-
gramme of the Emperor on the previous day. The
Prince and suite then visited the French section,
pausing frequently before many of the more im-
portant stalls, such as the Sevres china display, Gobelins,
and jewellery. He; then passed into the English
section, and directed his attention more particularly
to the displays of the London jewellers, proceeding after-
wards to the fine arts galleries, where he remained some
time before the pictures exhibited by British and Ameri-
can artists. The Prince seemed to be very much inter.
sated in some American canvases representing • view of
the Rocky Mountains, the court of Washington, • Ken-
tucky home, General Sherman, and other characteristic

productions of American painters. After smoking a cigar-
ette in the central garden, the Prince returned to the in-
terior of the building and visited the Italian court. The
:Actions occupied by Russia, Sweden, and Denmark were
next rapidly glanced at by the royal party.

About 2 o'clock the Prince and his friends took luncheon
at Catelain's American cafe, where they remained an
hour, and afterwards walked round the restaurants of the
outer circle of the iron amphitheatre. After luncheon his
royal highness proceeded to the Portuguese wine depdt,
and here indulged in a little mild tasting. The Spanish
Court was then visited, and a little later the Prince
imbibed some British beer at Spiers and Pond's buffet.
The Prince now wandered from the Christian to the
3Lahumedan world, where, after visiting the temples of
Egypt, he and his friend, went into the Arab café and
indulged in long pipes. The Arabs, in honour to the heir
to the throne of England, brought out their camels, when
amateur races were indulged in, in order to show the
paces of Oriental quadrupeds. The Prince seemed to
have attracted a good deal of interest wherever he went.

THE RETURN OF HER MAJESTY TO WINDSOR.—
The Queen, accompanied by Princesses Louise and Beatrioe
and Prince Leopold, is expected to leave Osborne on Friday
and return to Windsor Castle. Her Majesty is expected
to leave Windsor for Scotland about next Wednesday.

The Queen has just conferred on Sir Benjamin
Guinness the hereditary right to bear supporters to the
family arms, a distinction limited, exempt in special cases,
to the peers of the realm. This favour is granted in re.
cognition of his munificence in restoring Bt. Patrick's
Cathedral.

The Queen, on the recommendation of Lord
Derby, has conferred on Sir George Merman, late mem-
ber of the Supreme Council of Justice in the lonian
Is the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and
St. George.

The Lord Lieutenant has left Dublin for London.

The committee of the Alexandra Orphanage for
Infanta, Upper Holloway, announce that her Grace the
Duchess of Sutherland has kindly consented to lay the
first stone of the new orphanage on a day which will be
shortly announced.

At the meeting in Dublin yesterday in favour of
a commutation of Fenian punishments, a memorial to the
Lord Lieutenant was adopted, praying for a reapite on the
grounds of policy, and citing the late Canadian clemency
to the Fenian, as a precedent. A letter read from Cardinal
Cullen expressed approval of the object.

The anniversary meeting of tho Royal Geo-
graphical Society will be held on the 27th.

Mr. George Peabody arrived on Sunday evening
by the Scotia at Queenstown, sad put up at the Queen's
Hotel.

THE HZFORY MELTING AT ST. JAIIEb'S HALL,
TO-NlGHT.—Great interest is excited by the announcement
that Mr. Bright, Mr. Stuart Mill, Mr. W. K Forster, Mr.
Vernon Harcourt, and other well-known reformers are:ex-
pected to address this meeting.

On going into committee of supply on Friday
Mr. Daiglu& will move fore select committee to con-
sider the operation of the Small Tenement■ Acta, and to re-
port their opinion to the hound as to the best means of
adapting the position of the compound householder in par-
liamentary cities and boroughs to the exercise of the ekc-
tive franchise. _ _ _

It is reported that the morning sittings of the
House of Commons will be commenced in the first or
second week of next month.

" If lodgers," says the rims, " will really sub-
mit to the yoke of the franchise, of which we have the
gravest doubts, they will do something to redeem the gift
from its base material affinitiel. Without house or land,
and unsoiled with the sordid business and low quarn Is of
parishes and boroughs, the lodger will be the pure and
simple elector, standing in nothing but his own clothes,
and forming the golden unit of the British constitution.
Perhaps a pardonable curiosity to see this new creation of
legislative wisdom allayed the prejudices and lulled the
alarms of the House of Commons. It never did a great
stroke of business in a more offhand style, and with lees
appearance of qualms. On the whole. we aro disposed to
think that its hopes and its fears will he alike diaap.
appointed by the paucity and insignificance of the result."