The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-04 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALEB.—Their
Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales will --e---
bring their visit to the Earl and Countess of Leicester at (TROY OUR OWN CORREMPONDENT.)
Holkham to • close to-day (Saturday). Yesterday the PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.
Willa! and the other distinguished N isitors had some wild It is confirmed that the velvet cap and sword
fowl shooting, and on Wednesday and Thursday some
obtained on varied parts of the sport w
Ise #y good as blessed by the Pope on Christmas-day, and des-
tined fora present to the sovereign who rendered
great Honcho= estate. On Wednesday evening the Earl
most
signal •
and Countess of Leicester gave a dance, and Thursday the
evening was wiled away with private theatricals. The year, is to be given to the Emperor Napoleon 111.
weather has been cold and winterly, but the prince and It was to announce this great news that Mgr. Chigi,
princess must have found their visit to Holkham a very the Pope's nuncio, had an audience of his Majesty
agreeable one. on Saturday last. The prelate specially commis-
The health of the Princess of Wales has so much aimed to bring these insignia to Paris is expected
improved that her royal highness was enabled to attend
to-day or to-morrow. It is a mistake to suppose
service on Christmas-day at the church in the park at . .. • .
Sandringhaedieat Times and Gazette. that this great catholic prize is awarded every year.
The Prince of Teck is expected to honour Lord If so the list of worthy recipients would be very soon
Londesborough with his company next week at his lord- exhausted. No sovereign has received the cap
ship's mat in Yorkshire. and sword since 1849. To the Emperor who is now
Count Apponyi, the Austrian ambassador, is to have them they will probably turn out a dam-
expected to arrive at the Austrian Embassy, in Belgrave- noses he reditas. The immediate return is, however,
square, the second week in next month, from Vienna. I believe to be the bestowal of a cardinal's hat
The marriage was celebrated on the 28th ult., upon the Archbishop of Paris, who was, and but
"8ev8.4. JO:a° Beunt'sterliAveledn,Belad.,untelejaofn'tshweoodbri,debrmy the
for the Emperor's patronage would still be, in very
' assisted by the Rev. E. H. Nelson, KA., incumbent of bad odour at Rome. The alliance between church
1 the church, of Squire Bancroft Bancroft, to Marie Effie, and state certainly seems to be wonderfully
1 the eldest daughter of Robert Pleydell Wilton. flourishing in the country whose constitution bears
The marriage of Lord Brabaxon with Lady Mary the date of 1789 in its title page. The Emperor
I Maitland is fixed to take place at St. George's Church, himself said nothing on New Year that can
I Banover.square, on Tuesday next, the 7th last possibly be construed as alarming, but it will not
General Sir John Burgoyne (says the Army and escape the attention of European governments that
Nary Gazette) has retired from active service at the War. the Archbishop of Paris was permitted to tell his
seise ; he retains the full pay of his late aloe, and is
"ascendancy Majesty that the
" of France in the
about to be created a Field Marshal in the army. We en-
demand that Sir John will be succeeded as Inspector. world was the necessary guarantee of justice and
General of Engineers and Director of Works by Major- peace.
General Edward Nome. The post was offered to Sir J. Madame Niel, the wife of Marshal Niel's brother,
W. Gordon. who died last week at Toulouse, survived her
Lord Ranelsgh writes :—" I observe that some husband only six days. She was carried off at the
gentlemen have already taken steps in their candidature
ame of -57 by the same disease to which her husband
for our new borough. Although my name has on easy
had previously succumbed—inflammation of the
occasions during the last few years been associated with
such candidature, whenever the claims of Chelsea to lungs.
representation should be acknowledged, as they now The Archbishop of Algiers has add reseed liftter
happily are, I should have thought any personal action to the papers, dated Paris, January 1, soliciting
premature, before the essential preliminaries as to boon. the aid of charity for the " famine" in Algeria.
daries and registration were settled. I cannot longer The word famine is, he says, the only one which
delay the announcement of my intention to offer myself
sufficiently
describes the situation. Insurrection,
as a candidate for the tardily-ceded suffrages of the
' electors, and I trust that the long connexion with, and earthquakes, locusts, drought, and cholera have
II residence in, the borough, of myself and my pedecessors, reduced Algeria to a state of misery which
I may add some to whatever individual claims I may 'se poises all imagination. He calculates at 100,000
able to adduce in support of my candidature. the number of Arabs who have died of
The guard of police of the A division, which is cholera during the summer or of starvation
stationed at Sandringham when the Prince sad Priapism of since. The number of widows, orphans, and old
Wales are staying at Sandringham.house,has been incensed people utterly
leftdestitute may therefore be oon-
during the last few days. oeived. Before appealing to the public
the arch-
Orders have been issued for reinforcements of
bishop has, he says, given away " all " that he
guards on all important posts of Dublin. At all military
proceeded himself He is now on his way beck to
stations throughout the country sentinels are ordered to
have rifles loaded when going on duty. giers
The hew York Tribune of the 21st ult., says : archbishopric there.
.
Al, and will gladly receive subscriptions at the
" With the morning reading to be given today, Mr. 1 The news given yesterday that Mdlle. Patti, the
Disks" "I" 14". of New Yea fee the Mast. to 1 costa diva, was about to be married to the Marquis
Tatum' we
hops, bah" brag and resin the triumph et the Ide Cain, son-in-law of the Duke de Valmy, is, its
last two weeks. The complained of that triumph is .
not to be questioned, and it has been gained by the might have expected, contradicted.
pure force of geaius, without resort to artifice or clap-trap. We are having winter in earnest. Chevalier's
Mr. Dickens came among us quietly and unostentationdy; thermometer list night marked 10 2-10ths deg.
be leas kept himself since his arrival In • marked soolosiola below Zero. The average of Paris winters is only
sad ham applied himself to him business of reeding with 3 7-](the. The Seine is completely frozen over,
an
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if he "le
la" starting out la We, seed several people have to-day walked scrod it,
with his own fortune and that of • large family of depths ,n. crowds were looking at them from the
brothers sad sisters dependent on his elation& We bridges.w^—
think that in all this Mr. Dickens has showed pod . The feat is not altogether without dul-
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tests and tact, and be has snoceeded in winoentratLeg polio gar, h•••••• the icebergs fro en together are of 1111-
attention upon his reading rather than upset Idatellf. opal thicksems, and the soldering ice connecting
whisk is, DO dacha, liteetlf whet he wished to thk. .7Ls . them with each other is in many instances thin.
far what we'wallet bap thinking the Yee1"81! There is to be a grand night fate on the Skating
Whored= of his' A/MAIM Notes,' we dare my ha hap' Club's reserved pert of the Boa de Boulogne lake
beenhimself a little surprised to lad how entirelyitth i
forgotten sad forgiven, and how wachanged is war sled , to-morrow evening. This afternoon • if°°d 44414._
admirsties fat the pelts and hanweity displayed oe ' mow has fallen, and there is every PresPeot Cl
every meet let tintilee. Ws twit that his vWt sap; snore. .. . ~
peeve sweillshle owl yheetee is the end, and that set' Th. Bank at Feeseihas resolved to cell in SOW.
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