The Express.
London, England, 1868-04-14 00:00:00

OUR PARIS LETTER.

(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDINT.)
PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.

After Maas at the Tuileries Chapel yesterday
(Easter Sunday) the Emperor and Empress stood
godfather and godmother to the sons of Marshal
Canrobert and the Duke de Montmorency, who
were baptised by the Archbishop of Paris. Their
Majesties looked at the ceremony from their gallery
pew. The Emperor was represented at the altar
by the Viscount de Laferriere ; and the Empress
by the Countess de Montebello for Marshal Can-
robert's son, and by the Viscountess Aguado for
the Duke de Montmorency's son. This lady is
the grandmother of the infant.
A grand clerical dinner will be given at the
Tuileries this evening. Among the guests invited
by his Majesty are the Archbishop of Paris, the
'Bishop of Vannes, the Bishop of Adras, and several
official chaplains.
The marriage of Prince Achille Murat with the
Princess of Mingrelia will be solemnised in Paris
on the 28th instant. The Emperor of Russia was
informed by telegraph of the engagement, which
was rather suddenly contracted.
The Emperor will be present to-morrow at the
exhibition in the Palais de l'lndustrie of the 60
equipages which have obtained prizes from the
Hippie Society.
The Prince Imperial, with the suite which
I have already mentioned, leaves Paris for
Cherbourg at 9.40 to-morrow morning. The Em-
peror and Empress will go to the railway station to
see him off, and the directors of the Western are
making preparations for a gate reception of their
Majesties and the Prince.
It is now said that the Emperor will meet his
son at Rennes on the 17th, and accompany him to
the Princess Bacioochi's.
The Avenir National is enchanted to find the
royalist and clerical party declaring by the mouth
of such a considerable leader as the Marquis de
Drina-Brad that at the coming elections it will
support neither official nor revolutionary candi-
dates. To this "candid and honest" programme
the deenir, u a loyal enemy, desires to oppose, as
the democratic motto—" No official and no clerical
candidates," Suum cuique and no heterogeneous
alliances.

M. Gustave Chain d'Est Ange, a rising advocate,
son of the eminent Chaim d'Est Ange, now a sena-
tor and secretary to the Senate, is likely to be the
government candidate for the seat in the Ariege,
vacant by the death of M. Henri Dither.
The Bourse, it being Easter Monday, was thinly
attended, and the absence of London quotations
and of anything like positive news of any kind left
speculators to their ()an unassisted impressions.
These appear to be sombre, for offers predominated
all day, and Rente closed with a fall of 15c. both
for cash and account, at 68fr. 75c. and 68fr. 80c- ;
Italian fell lfr., cloning at 46fr. 90c.; Mobilier fell
10fr. ; Credit Foncier, sfr. ; and several of the rail-
ways Mr. or 6fr. It cannot be denied that the
public mind is disturbed by apprehensions of war
which smooth official assurances fail to allay.

A telegram was received in Southampton yester-
day from Constantinople, stating that Captain Gass,
with his party of English exonnrioniets, had arrived them
after travelling through Egypt and the Holy Land. They
were about to amend the Danube and pace through Vieens
and Paris on their way home. They hews hem guns two
months, end will arrive in Southampton in a folasigkre
time.
The government have agreed to reduce the quan-
tity of gunpowder stored at the Earobwood niegadnes
opposite Southampton to 1,600 tam. They declined to
vireo to the request of the authorities of that town to re•
move all the powder ken Karohwood.