The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-31 00:00:00

OUR PARIS LETTER.

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PARIS, WSDNISDAY Swings

All the semi-official journals continue to speak
not only of the conference as certain to meet
speedily, but as a thing which will certainly be
suocessful, because, as in the Luxembourg affair,
every point of difficulty will be resolved before-
hand. The Petri* says the only point yet under
discussion is the extent to which Greece will be
allowed a voice in the conference.

The Bourse was again buoyant, and a further
rise of 16e. in the Route entirely effeoed the heavy
fall of Monday. Nevertheless there are discord-
ant notes in the Pronoh press.
La Prow says : _ _

The negotiations for the conference are not so advanesd
as is pretended. It is the principle of • eongrees only
which is agreed upon, but hors that to an understanding
as to the basis of deliberations the distance is enormous,
and if we are well informed this abyss is wider than ever.
If the conference shall ever meek it is to be hared it will
deliberate upon a volcano, and that must be • painful
situation for diplomatists aosustomed to calm discussion.

The Duchess do Best* has not played her cards
luckily. Whilst the widow of another of the Ens-
pore?. associates of 1851 receives a large fortune,
besides a lucrative sinecure, for handing over dupli-
cates of her husband's papers which she had sent
to a place of safety before death knocked at the
door, tho lady who, as Duchess de Morny, en-
joyed a world-wide reputation for the regal luxury
of her establishment, is reduced to sad extremi-
ties. Three weeks ago she canvassed all her old
acquaintances to give friendly bids for her jewels
at the auction mart. But last Monday her shawls,
laces, and even her under-clothing, were brought
to the hammer. Tho Litert4 is the only journal
which takes any notice of this last extraordinary
event. It states that there were few bidders but
the Jew brokers who usually attend sales, that
everything went dirt cheap, and that each lot was
the subject of mimetic remarks which might have
furnished a philosopher with food for reflection on
the instability of wealth and power. The Duke
do Morny was de facto Emperor of Franco for
more than ten years. No Englishman not
familiar with the private history of tho
Second Empire can form any idea of the
position of this great political and financial
promoter, and the part he played in shuffling
the wealth of France through the hands of a few
speculators. But. albeit ingratitude to old
servants is not a subject of frequent reproach to
the imperial court, the Duke and Niche's de
Sesta were only asked to Compiegne this year at
the last moment, and as a stop-gap in the place
of somebody else who could not oome. When
there respect to her poverty was shown by the
Empress ordering all the ladies to wear no jewels
—the Duchess of State having just sold hers.
During her stay a new style of dress, called the
Toilette bosequd, was in vogue. The fashion will
perhaps be followed during the short carnival
season of 1869. Last year, it is said, the fair sex
thought it necessary to show in full feather, but
now matrons and demoiselles will be privileged to
appear in full bloom.

MIMIC 1W HEART AFFICTIONS. —Dr. Papillaud
thua speaks of the effect of &Mak in heart affeoffons and
other disown in the isernil Ite Omartrierrans Meilierska :
" The bed remedy for the cure et paNWos of a disease
of the boort newt merely be that eoncene an elective
and zeirelernhig scam en the assailer apnoea which
will albs/elate its tunetiens. %mese in mom and power
of redelerene, prevents its being fungoid, and he,.... lie
nutrition. Now all then
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to the degree. It in dont-
named kWh, whisk ia oenelneive widow d *power of
regelaNies ibe drakes of tbe heart. Amis. aseeidine to the
Nina aibisidis a the diners se lie Mart
reed toes and meek Is die meek=
fee that let it be ever in
It I:ll:Vkiiewn that In the gape of Peeler's
drop, ie • sovereign me for wen and it haa reels*
hem dawn that It easy be wed as a prephylmile eying
sloPloar."