The Express.
London, England, 1868-10-05 00:00:00

FRANCE.

(IFEOIII our. OWN OONJUNPONDENT

PARIS. Ocr. 3.

Count Walewski was buried to-day, the funeral
service having been performed with great pomp at
the Madeleine. The Marquis de Moustier pro-
nounced the funeral oration. The guns of the
Invatides fired at twelve o'clock, the hour when
the cortege arrived at the sacred edifice.
I have gathered from well-authenticated letters
in the Parisian press and other valuable sources,
some scraps of information relative to the incidents
of the eight of Isabella 11. into France, which may
not be uninteresting to your readers.
The ex-Queen of Spain bee taken up her residence
in the palace of Henri IV., where every arrange-
ment had been made to receive her with her family
and suite. She confines herself mostly to the ele-
gant little apartments which have been newly
decorated with Flanders and gobelina tapestries.
According to a private letter she has only left
these salons to attend divine service in the chapel,
where the former Bishop of Cuba says mass. This
chapel, as well as the other portions of the palace,
have been renovated and restored during the last
two years—an improvement which, owing to the
lapse of time, was greatly needed. The details of
the restorations have, indeed, only just been com-
pleted ; and the building now forms a very hand-
some residence.

It was reported by several of the papers that the
Queen bad for some months past sent away large
sums of money for investment in foreign countries,
especially in Engknd. This, however, can hardly
be true, if what I hear is correct. She is said to
have claimed from M. Madoz a variety of valuable
objects, in gold, and silver, and precious stones,
which she left at Madrid, stating that being with-
out money she had been obliged to borrow at St.
Sebastian 25 millions of reels (120,0001.).
A prefet of the palace of the Tuileries, some
employee, and a number of serving men in the
Emperor's household, discharge their functions at
the palace of Pau with the same regularity and
order as at the French court. The court of the
ex-Queen consists of twenty superior officers, inde-
pendently of other persons in attendance and the
domestic servants; so that the dethroned Sove-
reign is in her misfortunes at least pretty well
lodged and attended to.
Queen Christina, mother of Isabella, is expected
at the chateau. When the army of Novaliches
was defeated, the Dowager Queen was resident on
one of her vast estates in the Aaturias. Upon her
entreaty, General Serrano gave her a safe conduct
to enable her to enter France without danger.
Hem, in this retreat at Pall, the two ex-queens
may meditate at their leisure upon the little re-
liance that is to be placed upon favourites, and
upon all those men whom one after the other they
have raised to distinction and enriched during the
lust 314 years. Both mother and daughter have
successively wielded power since 1533, and
showered titles, orders, and money upon those
whose flattery they bought, and who now
triumph in the overthrow of the throne.
On the Queen leaving Bayonne for Pau, it was
remarked that her toilette waa neither of the most
brilliant kind nor in the best taste, which may be
easily accounted for from the trepidation and
alarm into which she had been thrown for several
hours previously. A great many Spaniards, who
had hastened to catch a glimpse of the Queen,
were somewhat impressed by the plainness, the
almost negligent style, of her attire. Although
there were a large number of people at the station,
no manifestations of anykind took place.
The Queen and Napoleon 111. conversed for a
quarter of an hour at the Negresse station ; the
former expressed a great desire to remain in that
town, but it was represented to her that she
would be better and more suitably provided fur at
Pau. I may mention the following incident, ra
rues(' ht. On the morning of the 30th September
the Queen was expected at Biarritz about nine
o'clock. The officer of the guard sent to know
what the Emperor's command a were. His Ma-
jesty 0. us then walking in the gardens in a pensive
mood ; and, after pausing a few seconds, said, iu
reply to the question of the official. '' No honours
are to be rendered." Ten minutes afterwards M.
Mon was sent fur to the Imperial villa, and at
half-past two o'clock the Queen passed through
Negresse without alighting from her carriage.
One curious incident I must not omit to mention
as illustrating what Byron says about the world
being full of " strange vicissitudes." Serrano
during his last visit to France had taken for the
past M11111114.'7 a delightful country-house near
Bayonne; on entering Spain he was carried off,
by tile orders of Gonzales Bravo, to the Canary
Islands. Now, at the present moment Gonzales
Bravo occupies this retreat at Bayonne, having
had fig, lease of the mansion transferred to him by
Serrano.—Mutatis mutaralie.

Debvatches were sent on Sattuday from the Co-
-1011 W-on-ice to the ttovernor-General CW13,13 amt
the Goteniors of British Columbia and British How-lams.

THE In!sit Clicncif.—A stonily meeting was
held in the Society's-hall, Kent-street. 1 ortsea. on Friday
eTt1:111 g. It was convened by the mayor (Mr. R. L.
Davies). in compliance with a numerously-s4mod memo-
rial from the inhabitants. Long before the hour an-
nounced for the proceedinf.Ts to commence, the neighbour-
hood of the ball was crowded with people, and by eight
o'clock every nook and corner in the room was packed.
Both liberals and tones were well represented, and on the
platform the parties were divided, the liberals being on
the right and the toriee on the left of the mayor. After a
short introductory speech from the chairman, the Rev. J.
tiregsun proposed, and Mr. J. Williams seconded. the
following resolution :—" That in the opinion of this
meeting it is desirable to act justly towards Ireland,
and to treat it, not us a dependency, but as a
part of the United Kingdom. and therefore poi wring all
the rights of England and Scotland. and that, while
believing the disestabliehment of the church would pro-
mote the interests of the protestant religion, the meeting
deems disestablishment desirable and expedient. mainly
because the church of the minority is established neither
in Scotland nor England, and consequently the church of
the minority should cease to be the established church of
Ireland." The resolution was read amid loud applause.
Mr. Cudlipp moved, and the Rev. Mr. Williams (church
of England) seconded, the following amendment
That, in the opinion of this meeting, the disentlowment
and disestablishment of the Irish branch of the united
church of England and Ireland will be detrimental to the
true interests of the protestant constitution of the cluntry
as by law eetablished.•' After considerable uproar. during
which persons attempted to address the meeting. but
could nut he heard, the chairman put the ainenchnent,
for which there was a good show of hands; but the resolu-
Bell was carried by an overwhelming majority.
EIIZE AT THE EAST END. —A destructive tire
took place on Saturday night in a large range of carpen-
tem' and joiner' workshops belonging to Mr. Jennings.
I situate n Back Chureh-lane, St. thergo's-in-the-
East. Owing to the indomitable nature of the timber in
the buildings the flames made such rapid pro s« that in
spite of the exertions of the firemen they could not be pit
under until the premises in which they began were de-
stroyed and the contents, with the men's took were eon.
sumed. Fortunately the books and estimates were saved
by being in a patent Reliance fireproof safe. The origin
of the fire is unknown.
Sk:IttOUS AT 1111:111Ntill.kil.

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Isom. on Friday night a fire was discovered on the pro-
mises of the Britannia Flour Mills Company, in Prinee.s.
greet, Birmingham. From some unexplained cause delay
"rearmd in getting the fire engine,. to the spot, and by the
t• •of their arrival one wing of the building was a mater
of flume : this urns the granary. and such hold had the
tire obi:tiled, that for mime •it was team, the ware-
house, w Lich is oepuratod from the other part of tho pre-
mises by a pair of iron doors, would also be dootroyod.
Fortunately the &Melt went abli• to prevont this, but it
wax getting towanlo daylight ou Saturday morning before
the tire was orifely onto-bled. Several thousands of quarter*
of cum have been destroyed, and MO amount of loft ha+
been variously estimatisl at trout :OWL to 7,thiat.
manse of Ow the is, in a great ined•htv. only ..onjeetured.
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