The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-15 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, PaIDAT EYIPOI/10.
The inauguration of the New Louvre took place
this afternoon as announced. By one o'clock two

lines of infantry, that of the right composed of Na-
tional Onanis, and that of the left of troops of the
line, formed • doable hole through which the Im-
perial procession was to pass. The lines extended
from the central door of the Tuileries, across the

court-yard of the palate, to the Venetian arch, con-
tinned across the Place du Carrousel to the new part of
the Louvre, paring in front of the pavilions,
Moliere, Denon, and Darn, to the I'avillion de Sully,
by which their Majesties were to enter. The wea-
ther, which bad been wet in the morning, cleared up

by the time the troops reached the ground. The
Emperor and Empress arrived at the Tuileries from
St. Cloud at about half-past 1, and at 2 the pro-
cession, consisting of seven court carriages, set
out, escorted by the usual complement of
piqueurs and Cent Garde'. General Fleury
rode on horseback by the side of the Emperor's
carriage. The Princess Matilda, Prince Jerome,
and Prince Napoleon followed. The ceremony was
extremely simple and lasted but a few minutes. As
soon as the Emperor and Empress had taken their
seats in the principal room of the southern wing of
the new building, called the Salle des Etats, M.
Fould, Minister of State, read a abort address: and
then M. Lefuel, the architect, and the artists and
workmen selected to receive rewards were called
forward in order and decorated by the hand of the
Emperor. Ilia Majesty then made the following
speech :
•

Gentlemen,-1 congratulate myself with you on the com-
pletion of the Louvre. I congratulate myself especially
upon the causes which have rendered it possible. la fact it
Is order, tenors& stability, and ever increasing prosperity of
the country which have enabled me to complete this na-
tional work. I call it so became the governments which
have sioceeded each other, have made it • point to do some-
thing toward, the completion of the royal dwelling corn -
mewed by Francis 1., embellished by Henry 11.
Whence this pweeverance, and even this popularity In
the building of a palace It to bean= the character of a
people la refiected in its institutions as In its customs, in the
events that excite its enthusiasm as well se in the monu-
ments which become the object of its chief interest.
Now France, monarchical for no many centuries, which
always beheld in the central power the representative of her
grandeur and of her nationality, wished that the dwelling of
the sovereign should be weethy of the country, and the hest
mean. of responding to that sentiment was to adorn that
dwelling with the diSerent masterpieces of the human intelli-
gence.
In the middle ages the king dwelt in a fortress, bristling
with defensive works; but soon the progress of civilisation
superseded battlements, and the produce of letters, of the
arts and KielleeP, took the place of weaponsilk war.
Thus the history of monuments has also its philosophy as
well as the Idgiory of events.
In like manner that it Is remarkable that at the time of
the first revolution the Committee of Public Welfare should
have continued, without being aware of it, the work of
Loan XI., of Richelieu, of Louis XIV., giving the last blow
to the feudal system, and carrying out the system of
unity and centralisation, the constant aim of Monarchy—
in Ma manner la there not a great lesson to learn
In beholding the Idea of Henry IV., of Louie XIII.,
of Louie XIV., of Louis XV., of Louis XVI., of Napa
lern, as regards the Louvre, adopted by the ephemeral
power of 11148? One of the first acta, in fact, of the Pro-
visional Government was to decree the completion of the
palace of our kings. So true is it that a nation draws from
Its entecedents, en an individual derives from MA educai inn,
Ideas which the passions of a moment do not euccood I. de-
Amin. When a moral impulse Is the consequence of the
social condition of a country it is handed down through cen-
losing swelthetankdiSennt Sanas of government, until the
object In view is attained.
Thus the completion of the Louvre, towards which I thank
you for your co-operatics, given with so much seal and skill,
is not the caprice of a moment, but is the realisation of a plan
conceived for the glory and kept alive by the instinct of the
country for more than 300 years.
A grand dinner will be given in the Salle des
Etats this evening.
The 13funitear contains a long string of nomina-
tions and promotions in the Legion of Honour, but
this list, comprising about 200 names, is far from
being a complete record of the honours conferred,
according to annual custom, on the occasion of the
fete. The official journal will go on with the pub-1
Nation for some days to come. Each minister re-
commends his contingent, and we have as yet only
the protegh of the Ministers of Justice and Marine.
Vice-Admiral du Petit-Thouars ie made a Grand
Cram of the Legion. Vice-Admiral Charner and
Count de Salignae-FfnElon, French minister in
Switzerland, are appointed Grand Officers, and Baron
de Talleyrand-Perigord, minister plenipotentiary on
special minion in the Danubian principalities, M.
Valise, procureur-general, and M. klengaud, bishop
of Nancy, commanders.
There are no other names worth citing.
The Bourse has been somewhat firmer to-day, but
it was very thinly attended, and the considerable
rise in Console produced very little effect. The
Rente closed at 67tr. for .sh,and67fr. 20c. for account,
with a rise of ec. Mobilier rose 70fr. 60e. The Rail-
ways were from 2fr. 60e. to lifr. higher. The returns of
the weekly receipts again show a diminution as com-
pared with last year.
The Daily News and all the papers which produced
the letter of M. Ledru Rollin, were seized to-day.
M. Gullets, an Italian gentleman of respectability,
well known at the Bourse, was this day sentenced
by the tribunal of correctional police to a year's im-
prisonment and a fine of 1,000 fr., for false news and
disrespectful expressions towards the Emperor,
alleged to have been overheard by a police agent,
but which the prisoner denied having uttered.
The Emperor, on the occasion of his fete, has
granted pardons, commutations, or reduction of
punishments, to 1,142 persons confined at the bagnes
and other penitentiary establishments.

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.—The steam-packet
Terns wird at Southampton yesterday with the Peninsular
man dated from Lisbon the 9th hue. Oporto, the 10th ;
cog* the 7th ; and Gibraltar, the 6th. She brought 63
wear. end 2,0001. in apecto. Prom Portugal there is no
pawed or other runs of important.. At Gibraltar, the 47th
Booing ere and gr orders for England, and only wafting
trempart, to be relkwed by the 48th from Malta. The 30th
midair hien from tlihreltor to England. The lonS-Pr••
web( art Idol bee done great damage to the vines In the
math, bat there Is lees appearance of distress this season.
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