The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-14 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS. TVZ3DAY EVZIMIG:

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The Emperor, Empress, and the Prince Imperial
left St. Cloud for Compiegne at 2 o'clock this
afternoon. The court will stay at Compiegne
about a month. There will be four series of in-
vitations. The great feature of the " hunting
season" this year will be the " reorganisation of
the army," the military commission charged to
report on the subject holding frequent meetings
under the presidency of the Emperor.
An article of a provincial journal, the France
Centrale, cited by the Libert4, speglring of the
" reorganisation of the army" as the great subject
of the day which more than any other excites
" passionate " discussion, says :
Great as was the sensation occasioned by the sudden en-
actment of free trade, it was nothing to that now felt.
Everybody had not a weaving machine, a manufactory, or
a business ; but everybody has a son, a brother, and a
family liable to be saddled with the heaviest of all taxes—
the conscription. _ .

A piece of news not altogether new, which can
hardly be regarded as anything but a canard, was
seriously talked of at the Bourse to-day. It was
asserted that the Corps Legislatif will be convoked
for a short session on Dec. 2 (an ominous date),
and that the business submitted to the Chamber
will be the voting of a loan and the reorganisation
of the army according to the project, out of Ow
many submitted to his choice, which the Emperor
may decide upon at Compiegne.
The deposed Elector of Hesse is expected in
Paris to-morrow. His wife, the Princess do
Hainault, with several of her twelve children, has
been at the Grand Hotel since Sunday evening.
Yesterday she breakfasted with her children in thf
public room at Vefour's, in the Palais Royal.
Some great ladies, who, as ladies love to do,
made light of vulgar laws, were severely treated thi
other day by a police-court in Belgium. Th.
Marquise de Molina and the Duchess del Pilar
Osorio de Los Rios of Madrid were sentenced bi
the Correctional Tribunal of Namur to fines of 30fr,
each, and the confiscation of their guns for sporting
without a license.

Among those who visit the Royal Botanic Gar.
dens during the winter are students, male and female.
artists, sculptors, and designers and others, in addition '
the regular botanical students attending the lectures
under the care of Dr. Lankester and Professor Bentle:
The artists last year embraced 8 ladies and 10 gentleinef
and the medical students 169, making a total of 187.
few days ago several students from the School of Desigi
were engaged in making studies in drawing of trees an
flowers. One was patiently copying all the minute fibres
and tracery of the leaves, and acquiring the peculiar
touch necessary for faithfully representing the
leaf of the oak, ash, elm, or other common

English tree ; another, more advanced in the art, was
taking the general aspect of the whole tree, and as the
trees in the garden are not mutilated by cattle, or dis-
torted by growing too close together as in forests, their
general form is more natural than those found in planta-
tions. Other students from schools of design were copy-

ing wreaths of climbing plants or leaves of tropical plants,
with leaves of bold outline, to bo grouped into patterns
for " Manchester goods," lace, carpets, paper-hangings,

&c., the plants in these gardens having furnished many
examples for new patterns in these fabrics.
The short time movement is on the increase in
Inneashire. Yesterday the spinners and manufacturers of
the Rawtenstail district, who employ 300,000 spindles and
6,000 looms, decided to commence working only four days
a week ; and on the previous day the manufacturers at
Darwen came to a similar resolution.

THE MARRIAGE OF THB CE.YAREWITCH.—Sud-
denIy the hum is hushed. A master of ceremonies,
&doe in hand, has entered to announce the approach of
the marriage procession. While the same message is
being given to the town by the guns outside the equerries
and Jouriers fa roar enter the chapel. The master of
ceremonies, the chamberlains, and the various eharebt of
the court follow in due succession. And now the Em-
peror and Empress come in sight, preceded by Count
nifluvaleff, the Grand Marechal. His Majesty is in the
uniform of a general, and lead. his royal spouse to the
Metropolite, standing in the centre of the church to re-
ceive them. As the aged dignitary slowly and gently
waves hie cross to and fro the Emperor stoops to kiss the
sign of salvation, and to cross himself on forehead and
chest with holy water. The Empress repeats the sacred
rite, and places herself beside her august husband. The
Crown Prince Cesarewitch is the next to enter, to
kiss, bow, and cross himself, in accordance with the
devout forms of the church. After him walks in
Princess Dagmar, or, as she has been latterly called, the
Orthodox Grand Duchess Maria Feodorowna of All
the Itussias. She walks in beauty. The Metropolite,
who looks as though he had stepped out of the frame
of some ancient picture of the church, inclines
himself to the blooming girl as she conforms to the re-
quirements of the national creed. Her imperial highness
steps back to the three principal members of her family,
who have already entered the sacred edifice. The
four stand together, and the eyes of all present centre upon
them. In them is compassed the present and future of
this immense empire. The Czar, tall, majestic, with the
habit of command and the disposition to kindness clearly
legible on his manly features, is not only the first. but also
the finest man in the room. His Queen, whom sickness
has not robbed of the feminine grace which clothed her
younger years, is readily recognisable from the well-known '
portraits representing the beautiful Mary of Hesse. In a
white dress, with a train of gold stuff, trimmed with
ermine, and a sparkling diadem on her head, her Majesty
looks worthy to be a Queen. The Grand Duke, successor .
to the throne, is rather stout for his age, with a
good share of will and resolution stamped upon his •
youthful face. Like a rose growing in the shadow of an
oak, Princess Dagniar stood beside him. Her lovely fea-
tures were animated by excitement, and in her eye shone
confident the hope of future happiness. On her dark locks
rested a crown of priceless diamonds, graceful and light as
a wreath or a chaplet of flowers. A superb brooch, if a '
jewel covering nearly the whole upper part of the bodice
can be called so, glistened on her breast. Her robe was •
of white moire-antique, and her train, carried by .
four chamberlains, of crimson velvet, trimmed with
ermine. At a certain part of the service the
Cezarewitch and his bride stepped forward from
the circle of the imperial family, and having I
been conducted by the Emperor to a raised 1
dais, joined in the prayers of the Metropolite. Later, two
younger princes of the blood, one of whom I recognised as
Prince Alexis, approached and held above the heads of
the bridal pair the nuirrime crowns peculiar to the ortho-
dox ritual. They resemble in shape and size the episcopal
tiaras. and seem to be of silver wire, or tame such ins- '
terial, interwoven with silk. This singular ceremony
continued for about twenty minutes, the officiating princes
being repeatedly obliged to change their bands from
weariness. Suddenly the music beam* softer, quicker,
and more melodious. Its eloquent notes predicted the
speedy consummation of the hallowed act. To this tune
bride and bridegroom were led thrive round the altar by
the Metropolite. Then they were pronounced to be man
and wife.—Times correspondent.