The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-10 00:00:00

OUR PARIS LETTER.

TRE QUEEN'S JOURNEY.
(FROM OUR OWN_OORRRSPONDRNT.I

PARIS, SCNDAY
The paradoxical proverb, " a ire!
better than none," seems to have influeo,.„l thu
Paris journals in the variety of motives the
assign for the non-return by Queen Vietcris of
the Empress's visit to her at the British Broblisy.
The France of yesterday adopted from Goiign,,„,
the singularly bad shot that " etiquette"
vented the " Countess of Kent" from goinll to
see her Imperial Majesty. Had that been so,
Empress must surely have known it in tie'
spare herself the great preparations which she on.
doubtedly made at the Elysi-e for the Queen.; r„_
ception. But the France of to-day, tL
explanation it promulgated yesterday, say, fb.,
Queen's state of health was the only csuo• M.l
she did not make the pilgrimage of the ir
which separate the embassy from the
The Gazelle de France, commenting on the
tinni suggestion, says:

It woe 4 appear that etiquette plays a great part in ta.
incognito of English sovereigns, greater irele..4 thac wh,
they are in the full and public ezerci*e of th-ir
power.

According to the Gan This, etiquette was all th.
other way, and commanded the return ~f
visit--" for nothing could exceed the exquisiter„
with which the Empreee begged the Qu-,,r,
fatigued as she was with travelling, not to cow •
to the Elysee; and it was not without difti..ulty
that her Imperial Majesty obtained frotu
Queen, and as a personal favour to hars4,lf, th;,
breach of etiquette." I have been greatly puit.',..;
by the statement of !several journals that
required the Queen to go to Lucerne hy
the Strasburg line, which is said (tlion;•••
I am not sure about that) t., L.
roundabout way, instead of taking the direct rout.
by Lyons. The explanation offered fur this, I:
itself, unintelligible proposition is that that th.
Lyons Railway passes by Fontainebleau, wt-r-
-the Empress is staying, and that etiquette
have required the Queen to stop there. ThA
treating as an error which "
columns" the long and minute descripti,n nze:
of the Queen and suite going to the in I,:
carriages, of the Empress receiving her II
at the foot of the grand staircase, of tb.)
thequ
et Queenin as andte
owwfiotthrilhefibi nwers and tapestry, and of the Lran.l-:.-
dinner service brought out for the festiv.d, •rr.
its elaborate mistake in the following km...

The Queen was to have returned the visit at '1:.•
where every preparation had been made 1,a)..r. w
announced. But at the last moment au
brought on by the thunder-storm which bum .s• l'e
towards 5 o'clock, prevented her from goui4. I .
Empress, accepted this excuse.

This version, as also one that the •
leaving the embassy, waited in full ar.
upwards of an hour, and at length. out ..frAti.n
told her maids to undress hcr, is slightly m. •7...
sistent with the other, that the Enwr..s.;
when she left the embassy that the Qllll.ll 1.1.
acceded to her request not to trouble hers, !f.
may be true, as the Figaro says, that the ••
dent is of real importance ;" but amidst all tip •
conflicting statements the only fact to be
tively gathered is that preparations were laid,
receive the Queen at the Elysee, and that she .I.i
not go ; the exact reason why must be
history.
Marie Fleutot, the servant sentenced to poh
servitude for life for murder and arson at Varoin
Saint Maur, has a little girl two years old,
whom, it is said, notwithstanding all her crk •
and vices, she was a very good mother. Mb
condemned to perpetual imprisonment she ~...
pressed to her advocate the greatest :nisi...,
about the future of this child ; and F.
wonderful to relate, has got the infAr
adopted by the chairmaker's wife Madame Emir:
gard, who came to Paris on purpose to steal
child under circumstances narrated in this
spondence, and was indulgently acquitted by
Seine jury on July 7.
M. David d'Angers, son of the celebrated sculy
tor, was married last week at the protestant elan.,
the Oratoire, to Mdlle. Huet, daughts'r of an ens
' nent landscape painter. The ceremony wivi
formed by the Rev. Athanaso Coquerel, ant t 1...
attendance of friends was very large.

THE WRECK OF THE EMPIRE QUEEN OS M

111 SH COAST.

COURTO'WN, Co. WEXFORD, Aram
James S. Scott, Esq.,J.P., states that the Cour-
town lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution kthe
Alfred and Ernest) was happily the meanv yesterday it
bringing ashore the master, mats, and crew of nem.
men of the ship Empire Queen, which had become a tool
wreck en Arklow Bank. Mr. Martins Clerk, Idoycli
agent, and one of the men belonging
the
a steam-tug
bud
also been rescued by the lifeboat the wreck.t
appears that, as already reported, the ship tamaled
on the sand with the crew on board, soled
smacks and a steam-tug being employed to take
out cargo, but yesterday all had to leave, the 5101
increasing to a gale and the sea getting up. 'De
Arklow lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Instihitim
again went off to the bank, but the Condom' boat had
effected the rescue before her arrival. The ship sit
nearly under water to the decks. The coxswain of the
lifeboat, on boarding her, sounded the pumps, and found
16 test of water in her bold. The Cahore lifeboat nliteb
alas belongs to the society, likewise went out, bet
turned to shore as soon as she found the other two bog.,
were at the some of the wreck.

The Duke and Duchess Philip of Wartembrr;
and family, attended by the Countess Olga Aurriprr:,
Baron Van Guttenberg, Dr. Klein, and suite. bate
le
the Clarendon Hotel for Shanklin, Isle of Wight.
The Duchess of Richmond and family bar-
arrived at Gordon Castle, N. 8., for the autumn. Tl.:
duke left town on Saturday to Join the duchess. A sd-':
company will meet at Gordon Castle to-weave to COO
mence grouse-shooting on Wednesday.
The Marquis of Bute is on a tour in RlliSii.
The last letters recoired from his loolship acre datrl
Moscow.
The Earl and Countess of Cimarron fir'
been entertaining a succession of visitors at Iligliclat

Castle.
The Earl of Crawford and Ralcarres and Lord
and Lady Lindsay will receive a large party om+W"
Haigh-ball, near Wigan, to celebrate the coming of
of the Hon. Ludovie Lindsay (the )faster art Lityliay'•
who has just returned from C..”-4.1P
The Earl of Romberg arrived in town a
Saturday night from St. Petersburg, and will leave
in the week for Wynyard Park, to visit the Earl
Countess Vane.
The Earl and Countess Russell and family ha'.
arrived at the Bridge of Allan, and intend to rorauni
weeks in Scotland.
An interesting trial of speed between pigeeni
belonging to the well-known trainers of France, Cor•
many, and the Rhine provinces, has lately talon
th 143''''
The Journal de liege gives the following account of
Rot
aerial steeplechases. The birds, 180 in number,
r'
started from Rome on Thursday, the 30th of July. The
first arrived on the following Monday at 1.33 ld'
gaining the first prize of the value of 300 fr. ; the ee°l'
on Tuesday, at 8.16 p.m.; and the third oar Wedeaulal
morning, at 5.40. The three birds arrived in excelle:
health, appearing to be in no way exhausted by del
journey. Eighteen prizes in all were awarded, W.,
we'
which remain to be allotted. The three winners w

Belgian birds.
The Southampton Tima states that the Tel
Ibt of the borough of Lllnington. in Hampshire, coat
879 names. Ilse old list only contained 361 name*.