The Express.
London, England, 1868-03-30 00:00:00

OUR PARIS LETTER.

(MOM OM OWN 00111WOWDZIIT.)
PARIS. SUNDAY EVINING.

The Patric says that M 9 to-morrow morning an
extraordinary meeting of the Privy Council and
the Ministers, with the Emperor in the chair, will
take place, to." consider the question of the elec-
tions, on which the government has already taken
the advice of the prefects." This announcement
strikes me as extremely important. Why, if the
session is to go on to its natural termina-
tion, should such a rare thing as • meeting
of the Privy Council with ministers take
place just now to consider • " question"
of elections I It looks to me very likely that the
deputies, who at M. 011ivier's urgent request, got
leave to go to their country houses for three weeks,
will never be summoned again. Such a deception
for them would be a coup de theatre, though not a
coup ifidat. This note in the Patric is to me a
most striking commentary on various articles in
the semi-official press about a dissolution, which I
did not hitherto think worth much attention. It
does not, however, follow that although the "ques-
tion "of the elections may be considered in the
imperial council to-morrow any resolution will be
taken. It is commonly said now that the Emperor
does not know his own mind from one day to
another.

The Bishop of Poitiers, M. Anatole Lemercier,
and another deputy, all notorious ultramontaniate,
had an interview with the Emperor lately, and
it is said they were delegates from the church
party to treat about the terms on which the
church would support government candidates
at the next election. The clerical journals are
not at tee on this subject. Some of them do not
hesitate to say that the worst enemy of the church
is the Emperor, and that the faithful ought to
vote against every official candidate ; but practical
papists are more accommodating. They look
coldly at the Emperor's necessities, and, making
out a badness-like debtor and creditor account,
calculate what they may get out of him.
"Il y a awe is eiel des aecisessnodemetits" is

their maxim. The election of M. des Rotoun at
Lille was undoubtedly a reward to the Emperor for
the defeat of Gleribaldi at Mentana, and it is, un-
fortunately for the cause of mankind, but too
probable that the church and the eldest son of the
church while slanging each other to a certain extent
before the public, will come to s private under-
standing very inimical to freedom, reason, and
justice ; all which things are abhorrent to the
church, and only get lip service from the Empire.
Miss Cora Pearl, an Englishwoman, some time
sines domiciled in Paris, with whose name news-
paper readers of all countries have had opportuni-
ties of being familiar, has just gained a lawsuit
against one of her numerous purveyors of
costly articles of vertu. She some time since
ordered from Madame Denugent, who prides
herself upon the title of " Eventaillizte de
ropers" • " race-course fan." A very pretty
and above all a very original thing the
fan we.. it was of white silk, and contained on
ono aim • portrait of the wearer, Madlle. Cora
Perti,_an horseback ; and on the obverse, mirabile
diehs lieu lines from Alfred de Mueeet, made for
tie ocesaion to serve ass canting motto :

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this and several articles furnished her by
Madame Denugent. But she particularly °b-
leated to an item of I,ooofr. for a bracelet with
seven miniatures which she said the had counter-
mended, and did not want. The miniatures ordered
thaw of Mini Clore Pearl intertwined with that
of a gentleman whose name is no matter, and who,
by this time, is no more desirous than is Miss Cori
to see the joint portrait, and, moreover, the Empress
Josephine, Queen 11014110118, Madame Beoantier,
Mdlle. Tallien, Georges, and Diana of Poitiers.
Bach' a collection is as heterogeneous as "Plutarch,
Neptune, and Nicodimus," or the " Lord Eldon,
Oliver Cromwell, and the lamented Malibran,"
Which Madame nursed was wont to exhibit in
Beher-strest. Further details of the case are un-
impalas*. Mims Cosa satiated the wart that she
haff dilleiently countermanded the bracelets and
that the sees she awed for the other &niche were
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