The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-16 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(Amt ova OWN common:4am)
FARM TUESDAY EVOMIG.
The letters from Compiilgne are filled with
details of the grand stag hunt yesterday. The
meet was at the round point in the forest tidied
the Cerrefour du puits du Roi, where eight roads
converge. For two or three hours before the
fixture (1 o'clock) these roads were thronged
with horsemen, horsewomen, and carriages. A
select troop of gendarmes had a great deal of
trouble to keep at a proper distance the crowd
assembled, in the hope of getting a peep at the
court sportsmen. Nobody nut provided with the
imperial hunting " button " was allowed to follow
the hounds. The little prince, wearing, for the
first time, a green hunting dress, a la
Louis XV., just like his father's, Hessian boots,
and a long hunting knife, was the observed of all
observers. He was mounted on a spirited Sardi-
nian pony, and his favourite groom, K Becht"
who was iu close attendance on him, frequently
recommended him to be careful. The King of
Holland did not get on horseback, but watched the
throw off from a char d Gam, in which he was ac-
companied by the Countess Walewaka, Madame de
Galitiet, and several gentlemen. The Empress and
the Imperial Prince were naturally very soon
thrown out, but they contrived to get in at the
death, or very soon after it, in a carriage. The
I run lasted two hours. The little curie, as
it is called—namely, the disembowelling of
the stag and throwing the entrails to
the hounds, took place on the spot. The grand
citre,e (euree d froid), when the whole animal is
eaten up by his pursuers, came off as usual by
torchlight iu the courtyard of the chateau.
But where were Prince Napoleon and the Prin-
cess Clothilde during these festivities t Thereby
hangs a tale. They arrived at Compiiigne at half-
past 11 on Saturday, and, strange to say, at half-
past 6, just as dinner was about to be put on table,
they came away to Paris. This is a dry fact about
which there can be no dispute. But the story is
that the Empress, in a fit of fanaticism, so in-
sulted the prince on the subject of Rome that he
suddenly took his hat and his wife and went away.
He is now in his father's late apartments in the
Palais Royal.
It was till now thought that the court would
pass the coming season at the Elys‘e, but it is to-
day announced that arrangements are being made
in the Tuileries, from which it appears that their
Majesties intend to reside there during the winter,
notwithstanding the works going on for the recon-
struction of the Pavillon de Fiore.

The Bonne, after many fluctuations awl an
animated business, left off with an improvement.
Ante fell 15c. and 10c., clueing at Mfr. 95c., both
for mall and account. Mobilier rose Ur. 50c. The
Italian Loan recovered 251 r. from the immense fall
of the last two days. Railways were from 3fr. 75c.
to Mr. higher.
The Saba Public of Lyons says :

If appoints:ea are not deceitful, Lyons is at the present
moment inuudated with English manufactures. For some
days past, all our shops have been filled with tissues of all
kinds, labelled :—" English carpets," "English shawls,"
" Manchester velvet," " Irish linen," kt. Implicit coot-
deuce must not, however, be given to all these announce-
meow of clever traders, who well know how to profit by
every circumstance to push their sales. Formerly it was
the practice to draw customers by advertising goods as
" selling off' at greatly reduced prices. Now the public is
stimulated by offering goods as of English origin, though
really mauufactured in France. I know a dealer in ready-
made clothes, who, ever since the Ist instant, has been
boldly offering for sale a quantity of his old stock bearing
enormous tickets, with the words—" Latest English
&shims."

What the Snlut Public says of Lyons is quite ap-
plicable of Paris, where the great advertising shops,
some of which pay as much as 401. for a single ad-
vertisement, are ticketing a vast quantity of old
French stock as English goods just imported. We
shall get English goods in time, but France is by
no means flooded with them as yet. I went this
morning into a cutlery shop to ask for an English
penknife, and the lady who kept the establishment
said to me with charming frankness, "Oh, mon-
sieur, we have no English merchandise yet, but we
have already a great many false English marks."
Let me take this opportunity of making public a
recommendation very earnestly pressed upon me
by a Frenchman, namely, that English tradesmen
should open shops in Paris to sell their own goods.
Until this is done my friend says the public
will never get the benefit of free trade,
for Paris shopkeepers are not contented
with reasonable profits, but require cent.
per cent. I know of one striking instant.*
illustrative of this theory. Some little time ago,
a London firm, in a large way in the tea trade,
opened a branch establishment here, intending
merely to sell wholesale. Finding, however, that
there was a combination in the trade not to buy of
them, they resolved to appeal to the public and sell
retail. The simple exhibition of a brass plate in
the Rue de Rivoli, with the words "London Teas
at London Prices," acted like magic, and produced
a. fall of from 2fr. to Mr. per lb. in the finest
qualities of teas throughout Paris. The principle
upon which this firm acted is capable of great ex-
tension. I want to see a great many other Loudon
articles selling here at "London Prioes."
The assize court of the Seine, this morning, went
through the ceremony of passing sentence of death
upon Charles Jud, the presumed murderer of Judge
Peinsot, who was assassinated in a railway carriage
ou the Strasburg line, on Dec. 5, 1860. A great
many individuals have been arrested in the course
of the year on account of an unlucky resemblance
to the photographs of Jud, and only a few days ago
a telegram from the south of France stated that Jud
was caught at last. Tins was, however, false news,
and the murderer, of whom the police have lost all
trace, has now been tried and condemned in his ab-
sence.

• Private letters from Paris state that the Emperor
is about to promulgate a complete and radical change in
the system of the naval reserve. The whole of the reserve
ships are to be maintained in a condition for active
service on the shortest possible notice. A number of
the officers and crews are to be kept on board, and to such
an extent that a large fleet can be sent to sea in an
incredibly abort time.

The Charivori publishes a caricature with the
inscription of " Wishing to catch two hares at the lame
time," in which Austria is represented sa • soldier standing
in great embarrassment with both hands stretched out,
while two hares, marked " Venice" and " Hungary," are
making their escape at full speed, one at each side.
A Rouen paper has made an awkward slip. It
informed its readers that the appearance of H. Faure in
Pierre de Med frie, at the Grand Opera, l'aris,on Friday last,
was • veritable triumph; but, nevertheless, hazarded an
opinion that time would show that this admirable artist
would have done better to have remained at the Opera
Comique. It happens, unfortunately for the reporter and
prophet., that the piece referred to was not played, and
that H. Faure did not make his die:U.__

A Berlin letter says :—" The King of Hanover
lass Just been received into the corporation of cobblers, the
most ancient in the kingdom. His son has also been re.
calved. This custom of great personages getting admitted
into trades corporations is not of German origin, but has
teen imported from England, and excites much merriment
here."