The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-07 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

GRAND REVIEW AT THE BOIS DE
BOULOGNE.
EXTRAORDINARY SPECTACLE.
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PARIS, THURSDAY EvINING.
The familiar expression, " Wonders will never
cease," presses itself with peculiar force and
ae'lialite upon dwellers in Paris in this wondres
year. After all the dinners, and balls, and recep-
tions, and theatricals, and races which have been
described in rapid succession and hot haste in
superlative terms, my Snit impassion on arriving
home, "breathless and faint" from the review to-
day is to say, with a certainty that I do not es-
. aggerate, that it was the most wonderful spectacle
of the kind I ever saw in my life. I have seen every
grand review in Paris since 1851, but never aught
like this. It was wonderful, not only on ac.yeint
of the presence of three of the most powerful
monarchs in the world, a royal prince who is a
' great conqueror—for he won the battle of Salon
—and two of the greatest ministers that ever
6 lived, Gortchakoff and de Bismarck, not only on
account of the immense number of splendid tn.ips
of all arms on the ground, but also and above all,
bythe vast and unparalleled crowds of all classes of
society that went to see it. The hundreds of thou-
' sands that went to the races on Sunday were but as
' a handful compared to the legions that flocked to
day around and about the same ground, and many
of whom were not able to get near enough to it
to see so much as the upper part of a dragnet
helmet. When I spoke of a plebeian crowd
vading the 20fr. places at the races the other day,
I used a relative term. Those plebeians were all a
the outward garb of gentlemen. The working
classes care little about races, and will not put
themselves much out of the way to go there. Bat
a military spectacle always awakens the curiosityl
Parisians of all ranks. On this occasion, although
the distance from the centre of Paris was treble
that of the Champs de Mars, a far g,neer
number of shopkeepers, artificers, and work-
men left their occupations than were ever
seen there when it was the locale for
grand reviews. This fact is the more remarkable
because to-day is neither Sunday, Monday, Tues-
day, nor Saturday, all of which are more or less
holidays or half holidays. It is Thursday—one of
' the most working days in the whole week, and a
day when the majority of working men have little
money to spend.
I waylaid the imperial cortige, going to the
review at the top of the Avenue de l'lmpemtrice,
near the Arc de Triomphe, and got au excellent
view of it. The King of Prussia came first. He
was in an open carriage, and the Empress, with a
conspicuous blue bonnet, was sitting by him on
his left hand. He was escorted by a petal.., of
lancers going at a good trot. Next came the
Emperor Napoleon, also in an open carriage,
having the Czar seated on his right hand. The
Princes, aides-de-camp, and distinguished mem-
bers of the Czar, and the King of Prussia's suite,
invited to the review, followed in other open car-
riages. Count de Bismarck, in his white uniform,
was very conspicuous. Several people exclaimed,
" Bismarck ! Bismarck !" not by way of applause,
but to point out to their neighbours this
famous personage. The King of Prussia, was,
so far as I could observe, silently received,
notwithstanding that the Empress was with him;
but when the Emperor passed, three or four
minutes later, there were emphatic cries of Viva
l'Emperenr " from a very considerable part of the
closely packed bystanders. When the 00;w
had swept by I heard a cry of " Vela on Anglais;
un g4ndral Anglais." Looking to the left,
I saw advancing on a prancing charger a mag-
nificent man, of large stature, with a liallYn.oll
white beard carefully trimmed, and a cein-
tenance full of vigour, and looking younger
than the beard. This beard's owner wort
a scarlet uniform with enormous epaulette
and a cocked hat with a profusion of feather.
Scrutinising him closely, anxious to know who
great English general this may be, I recognise'
the fine features of the O'Gorman Mahon, some
time an M.P. lam ignorant of his precise mill'
tary rank, although I have some vague imprcesee
of his being a colonel in the army in South Asir
rice ; but it is certain that he represented military
England with very great effect in the immediate
rear of the imperial cortige all the way to the
reviewing ground.
The rendezvous for getting on horseback was at
the Bois de Boulogne gate, near St. Cloud. Thereat
1.45 the three Sovereigns mounted and rode to the
lines—the Czar in the centre, the Emperor Napoleon
on his left, and the King of Prussia on his right.
The Czarewitch and the Prince Royal of Prussian
riding together, cams next ; then came Prance
Wladimir and Prince Louis of Hesse. An
immense staff of all nations followed. All the
generals in Paris had been invited to attend.
In the following were three or four Arab
sheiks in their white bournous and one Japanese
After galloping
who rode,
l rapidly
a yalon ,on
the
hnesa siodf eee-sadveld.
ryle,
infantry, and artillery, the monarchs took rip a
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trp oiithantanoen foonr
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her royal guests and the ladies of the nape-
oritalhetefamnielyre were in
with fashionable conAlilpanthey.
The students of St. Cyr filed past first ; then the
infantry, cavalry, and artillery. The nausic of the
different bands, some of which was excellent,
echoed far and wide in the Bois de Boulogne and
on the heights of Suresne. The most striking
thing to me in the whole spectacle was to see for
the space of a mile on the Bois de Boulogne.he:
tweee the re'^odes and Baron Rothschild s
house, men up in the trees in numbers
sufficient to form a large army. A good stout oak
would carry its 30 or 40 men, several of whoa

were perched on the topmost branches, 10 and 20
sem iu several ash Awes. Even the slender sap-
ling pine was made to carry two or three. Several
trees were broken down, and a great many branches
fell with men upon them. The police did not
attempt to interfere, and it would have been hope-
less to have done so.
s
it is very remarkable that the Memiteer, which
.3; pleased to say that the Czar had received an
-enthusiastic ovation" from the Paris population,
does not record that so much as one solitary cheer
was given for the King of Prussia on the day of
his arrival. It does not even take any notice of
the crowds that lined the streets to see him pass,
or of the flags which were hung out from the win-
dows. As we know that truth has no part in
pnoliptinf., official accounts of such things, and,
moreover, that the attitude of the population was
as cool and undemonstrative in the one case as in
the other, this 11111.010E' is highly important, and will
not fail to be so understood by the court of Berlin.
I'.s.—The Emperor of Russia, in coming home,
was shot at near the cascades by a man in a tree.
He was slightly wretched in the face. A woman was
wounded—some say killed. Assassin arrested.
.
THE APPROACHING VISIT OF THE SULTAN
TO WESTERN EUROPE.
Constantinople letters and journals of May 29
have come to band. The great subject of conversation in
the Turkish capital was the approaching visit of the Sultan
so Western Europe. The Lcrant Herald has the fol-
lowing :
The preparations for the voyage have been vigorously
pushed on. The Sultanieh has been redeoarated, and a
Lop. throne, or chair of state, erected in her chief saloon
_fur what particular purpose we have not beard. Tele-
graphic orders have also been sent to the provinces re-
calling :Ks picked members of the recently disbanded
s,f4h..,b.,oresi (noble guard), who are to form his Majesty's
personal escort. The flotilla in attendance on the imperial
yacht will consist of the iron-clad frigate Sultan Mah-
utuud and a screw line-of-battle ship, under the command
of Bassin Pacha. Outside the Dardanelles the Sultanieh
will be met by the French squadron of the Levant, which
will escort his Majesty to Toulon—not Marseilles, as was
at first stated. It is probable that Lord Clarence Paget
and the Mediterranean fleet will also join in this compli-
ment. It has, we learn, been intimated to Fuad Pacha
that his Majesty will, in Paris, receive an autograph
invitation from the Queen to visit London, and as
thin will be accepted, it is understood that his stay in
each capital will be limited to ten days. The precise tune
of his Majesty's departure has not yet been announced—
both .lay and hour, indeed, will depend on the fiat of the chief
astrologer—but Porte rumour fixes the 10th proximo.
Though M. Bourse intimated that as his Majesty is to be
the personal guest of the Emperor no presents of any kind
will be accepted at the Tuileries, the Sultan is reported to
have answered that " Ali-Osman devlet sallanati kadim "
(the munificent grandeur of the Ottoman government is per.
petual) ; and accordingly a solid gold model of the imperial
kiosk at the Sweet Waters of Europe, with the surround-
ing trees in green enamel, and the river flowing past in
brilliants, is being prepared as a eadenu for the Empress.
The value of the river and of the gourd, which is to sur-
mount the entrance to the little building in rubies, will, it
is stated, be 60,0001.
1 _
APPROACHING VISIT OP CONTINENTAL
SOVEREIGNS.
At a Court of Common Council holden this
morning, a communication was made by the Lord Mayor
having reference to the anticipated approaching visit of
the various crowned heads of Europe to this country, and
it was resolved that a ward committee should be appointed
to make the necessary arrangements to invite such as
should be in this country to a grand banquet, to be given
in the Guildhall, on a day to be arranged. The resolution
that this should be dose was agreed to unanimously.
CONVOCATION.—( THIS DAV.)
•
The Upper House was engaged this morning in
discussing the question of diocesan synods.
In the Lower House the Dean of Ely entered into a
personal explanation relative to a statement of the Bishop
of St. David's in his late charge, intimating that the right
rev. prelate had misconstrued his words.
After some discussion, a motion was carried petitioning
the President of the Upper House that at the opening of
future convocations arrangements be made for the celebra-
tion of the Holy Communion, and, if possible, of a choral
Litany.
WEATHER REPORT.—(THIS DAY.)
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Atmospherical is greater REIL ULlw.
eater than It was yesterday, and
Ls still increasing, except in
in toesoodh•west, where It has
hAalTemperature has decreased in the north, where the
mie-
""6 are D."),-ea.terlY ; also where they have veered towards
nibitest. Weather is cloudy, with rain In north and west thunder and hail are reported hem Aberdeen.

A letter from Cairo, in the Efrypte journal, earl:
—" We learn that in the last days of April, M. Miani, the
traveller, set out for his journey of discovery in Equatorial
Africa. This gentleman, whose age of fifty years has not
rendered him lees courageous or leas capable to support
fatigue, proposes to prove that Memory. Speke and Grant
have advanced erroneous statements in the account of
their explorations about the Lake of Nyanza. Ina letter
written from Suez, N. Mimi says that he is expected in
these regions by natives who were in his service during his
first expedition."

"We leat;i from Florence," says the Journal de
Paris," that Garibaldi, being indisposed, left that city on
June 1 to return to Caprera."
A letter from Belgrade says :—" A curious and
somewhat ludicrous little incident occurred here the
other day which has been much talked about, and is not
without a certain significance. A body of well-known
Servians, all members of the extreme patriotic party,
marched through the rivets with long beards down to
their knees, escorted by a number of barbers, razors in
hand, and in this array entered the fortress, where the
barbers proceeded at once to strip these bearded par& of
their hirsute adornments and send them out clean shaved.
The fact is that at the bombardment of Belgrade in 1862,
tree Servians had vowed never to let a razor touch their
faces until they could de so in the fortress itself on the
dal in which the Turkish troops abandoned it, and they
completed their vow in the manner I hare described."
The Bielle aux Buie is about to be revived at the
Porte St. Martin. The manager means to prepare a sw-
ims* for his foreign guests by bringing five live lions on
the stage. The animals are to be attended by Mr. Batty,
and are to be separated from the spectators by strong bars
imu. The lions arrived at the Jardin-des-Plantes on
Sunday, and although." says Gaiimioni, " Batty had not
met his friends for twelve months, the meeting was meet
affectionate, and appeared to afford equal pleasure to the
1 optt er and the domptia."
A correspondent of the Fort, who has often seen
Juarez, describes him as " about 60 years old, under the
insldle size, well built, and inclined to embonpoint. He
has the colour of an Indian, and, like all the Zapoteo tribe,
Li a small forehead, high cheek bones, a bread and
4114y-bent nose, a large mouth and beautiful teeth, black,
ain.ll, and lively eyes, and black, straight hair that's
slightly tinged with grey. His voice is soft, sonorous, and
Immirnfnl; but, like President Lincoln, he is fond of gar-
his conversation with anecdotes and jokes that
cotil.l not always be printed."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Con'burn.,
IN RE P. E. TUCKER.

The bankrupt, Francis Edward Tucker, was described as
a common brewer, carrying on business in Chalk-farmi.
road. The debts are stated at 5,7.1. W., of which 3,a54/.
are due to unsecured creditors against assets returned at
MO/. in addition to what may arise from property held as
security. . . .

This wax an adjourned sitting for examination and dis-
charge....

Dlr. Spyer appeared for the assignees • Mr. Boydell for
a creditor ; and Mr. Reed fof the bankrupt.
Mr. Spyer said that the accounts had been amended pur-
suant to the last order of the court, and appeared to be
correct, the amount due to the estate in respect of doubt-
ful debts being now properly inserted under that head.
The bankrupt had been before the court since August last,
and the assignees were willing that he should pass his ex-
amination and receive his order of discharge, as he did not
appear to have committed any offence for which he could
be brought within the 159th section of the act.

Mr. goydell, on behalf of Mr. Robert Smith, a creditor,
attempted to show that the bankrupt had set up a frivo-
lous and vexatious defence to an action brought against
him by Mr. Smith.
. _ . .

His Honour inquired if Mr. Smith was present, and
being answered in the negative said that he could not en-
tertain the objection in the absence of a creditor, and
granted the order of discharge.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(MB DAY.)

MANSION-HOUSE.
THE CAVE OF THE 241T.LEN !4PAXIMH RoND.4.
. . _

Henry Forrester, 3.5, clerk, of 27, Bucklersbury, was
brought up on remand before Alderman Carden, on the
charge of feloniously receiving two Spanish bonds for the
payment of 170/. and of 2.5.11. which had been stolen from
the person of Mrs. Maria Elizabeth Walton, a widow lady,
residing in Priory-road, South Lambeth, while she was
transacting business on the 3rd November last in the
London Joint Stock Bank in Princes-street. _

Mr. Gammon appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Lewis, sen., attended for the prisoner.
Mr. Gammon informed the alderman of the facts of the
case, which have already been fully before the public, and
since then the principal witness Footte, who had gone
to Paris with the prisoner, and had sold the
bonds for him, had absconded, and, though a war-
rant had been granted for his apprehension as
a contumacious witness, the detective officer Hancock, who
had charge of the case, had some trouble to End him. It
was believed that Footte had been improperly got out of the
way, and that was the opinion of the Lord Mayor, who re-
manded the prisoner, in order that the ends of justice
should not be frustrated, and he (Mr. Gannon) had now
to oak a further remand in order to enable the officer still
further to prosecute his efforts to discover the witness
Footte.

Mr. Lewis, men., opposed the application, first on the
ground of repeated remands without any result, and, se-
condly, bemuse the only evidence against the prisoner was
that of the man Footte, which was wholly and entirely
unconfined. It was clear that Footte hail gone out of
the way to prevent his apprehension for complicity in the
offence.
After some discussion between the advocates on both
sides.

Sir R. W. Carden admitted the prisoner to hail to appear
this day fortnight, himself in 1001. and two sureties in 501.
each. The bail was put in and the accused left the court
with his friends.

CLERKENWELL.
TuitEATaxiNG A BUROZOIII._

Charles Mayne, aged 24, described on the charge-sheet
sa a surgeon, residing at 20, James-street, Islington, was
charged before Mr. Barker with being drunk, using
threatening language to Mr. Thomas James Gs' dliers, Cur.
geon, Sic., of 336, ray's-hur-road, and annoying him in
his business.

The complainant stated that the defendant was for-
merly an assistant in his employ, but he was com-
pelled to discharge him about a month since.
A day or two linos the defendant came to his
place of business and annoyed him. Yesterday morning
the defendant, who was very much the worse for liquor,
came to the surgery and made . disturbance. The de-
fendant got a crowd of persons around him, and annoyed
the patients. He made use of very threatening language,
said that he would do for him after 3 o'clock, and that he
would put him on his back. The defendant had a knife
in his possession. He was sot away three times, and at
last it was found necessary to have him locked up. He
had given the defendant no provocation, and did not know
why he came to hieplace of business to annoy him.
Police-constable David Burt, 260 0, said that he took
the defendant into custody at 1 o'clock yesterday, and he
was so drunk that he was not fit to be brought before the
court before its rising. He had a knife in hie possession.
He came to the police-station quietly. He had previously
to being locked up been taken to the police-station for
making a disturbance near the complainant's house.
The defendant said he regretted what had taken place,
but it would not have happened had he not been the worse
for liquor. Had he not been locked up he was going to •
situation at Dublin. If he was discharged he would never
again annoy the complainant.
Mr. Barker asked the complainant if he would be satis-
fied if the defendant went to Dublin.

Mr. Dalliers said that all he wanted was to be protected
from the defendant's annoyance.
Mr. Barker said the defendant had better take oare what
he was about, for if he again annoyed the complainant,
and was brought before him, he might depend on it that
he would be severely dealt with. He would now be dia.
charged, and he had better be off to Dublin at once.