The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-29 00:00:00

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:nrioleysly go to Mal);11.•,

Lera of I:mli:um:at, in forunT ,
times to go, a little (mac sly, p, t
and, as they now do, to Cre ))))) I;;,;
wisher to the liberal cause in Fran-, I 1,
lamenting that such a doughty elecul, .:..d
Blain-Bizoin should waste energy I.y :t.' 1.
empire on a point where it is not v
,iu ar-
able. There is no eonnexity whatever .
Ilaussmann's extravagant I`Xplalliall1••
tionB and rebuildinga and the 3lahille gaiden4. It ,„
more extravagant still to say that you wed
to Mabille to understand tho full niemliu .Y.
Pinard's law, which prohibits absolutely politi,4.
or religious meetings," and that it was by insti-
tutions like Mabille that Cenmar August 1.:v..4
the way for Tiberius Nero and Cai-;walla. ThiA
wild declamation quite unworthy of a
legislator. Mabille is no imperial "
It exibted in the time of Louis Philippe ;old oi
the Republic of 124124; NV;LS as much frequented 111
those times as it is uow, the charaeter of the coin-

pany and of the dancing was essentially th,'
name, and, cetrris paribio, making allowance
for the notoriously increased extravagams, of the
age, the toilettes of the wh,
always frequented the place were just out-
rageous as now. lam quite sure that if the Elii.
peror bad shut up MLabillc with a strum; hind M
Glais-Bizoinandhisfriendswouldhac, eriedunuhr
another liberty was suppressed, and probahly tle•T
would have cited Paul Louis Cuurier'i
" Les jounes fines qu'on empechn de (haver." T..•
empire has sins enourh to answer for, bu'. it is tei
hard to put upon its back manners and .
which have existed in Paris from time iintnisire
rial, and which, I apprehend, would omiius,•
t.
exist under a republican goveniment to-morrow
notwithstanding M. Glais-Bizoin's assumption •
puritanical virtue. Statistics of vice, like ...I
statistics, require to be closely scrutinised if • •
would not be misled by them. I am nut
that vice, whatever may be the
curs',
present a more brazen face under the empire the.
it did twenty years ago. But it is in gar;, .
carriages in the Bois de Boulogne, and -
tain salons deemed reputable, that the change
the worse must bo studied, nut in such an old
notorious bastringtie as the Jardin
The Queen of Portugal, who arrived in P.r
yesterday evening from Italy, has gone to spent
few days with her sister, the Princess Clotilde.
the Chiteau de Ileuclon.

The Earl of Zetlana entertained at (limier ••
Saturday evening, at his residence in Arlin ton- :
Piccadilly, the Archbishop of Canterbury and M•-• •
Icy, the Duke of Devonshire, Viscount and V,
Stratford de Redcliffe and Hon. Mis.s Caunin.z, T. ••
Lady de Tabley, the Right Hon. the Speiker iind 1. •
tmLadheerm,yMargothr.
Charlotte Denison, Sir Roundell Palmer, M.l'., awl ••
uaoisnanof:Bizrseet.nieL,llLodn:rdLodFun":ll&Liit:4ii •
Colonel North, M.P., and Baroness '.North. • •
LatLoertrduainraanedPdal
Percy, Lord and Lady Churchill, Lord and Lele T. _
of Oxford, General the Right Hon. J. and Lwlr.•
Peel, General the Right Hon. Cecil Weld Foe.nter, e..
the Hon. Charles and Mrs. Lindsay, Sir limes Fergu-
General Doyle, Captain Seymour, Me, Bra, e, qtr. T
son, &c., at dinner, on Saturday, at tilt
Arlington-street, Piccadilly.
On Saturday night the Duchess of Mirilr.l,ll:l
bad an assembly at the family mansion, in St. Jars,—
square. Previously to the reception, the noble L ,o 1
sident of the Council and the duchess entertained the
ll :ii
of Rutland, the Duchess of Buckingham and Ch eels.
Marchioness of Abercorn and Lady Alberti's
the Earl of Portarlington, the Earl and COUTII,I
Wilton, the Earl and Countess of Macclesfield.
Countess Vane, Viscount Hill, Viscount Newport, M F
Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Sir Bainald Knight:
Bert., M.P., Mr. Christopher Sykes, MP., ttc., at (tun:
Hie Excellency the Councillor de
Arias, the Brazilian Minister, hail an interview .1..1
Lord Stanley, at the Foreign-office, on Saturday.
Despatches were received on Friday at !:
Colonial-office, from the governors of Gibraltar,
Cape of Good Hope, Natal, and St. Helena. Doe -I
were sent on Friday to the governors of Gihraltu,
Ceylon, Hong Kong, Labuan, and the Straits Settlem.•••,
and on Saturday, to the Governor-General of Caw-.
and to the Governor of British Columbia.
The Royal Commission on Military F,ducation le
its first meeting at the War-office on Satunlay. Preseo
Earl de Grey and Ripon (president), Lord Eastace
Lord de Bois Lord Northbrook, Sir Cliarb•s Ita •
Bart., Lieutenant-General Sir Duncan Cans.ron, (l
Lefroy, Colonel Ilaythorne,
the Rev. W. C. Lake, and Lieutenant Hozier o
A course of experiments on gunpow.l
other explosive mixtures is about to comm. le-
wich under the direction of the Urdu:owe S.l.
mittee.
Experiments against the Plymouth P•• •
Fort at Shoeburyness will probably be
day next, when the casemates will be i,ubp •
tical are from a 13-inch mortar.
Lieutenants Nolan and Chapman,
Artillery, the officers specially uttiched
Mountain Battery in Abyssiuia, awl ni. •
Woolwich a few days ago, give some int, ..
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of the effects of the tire from these little ,on. "
said to have been most destructive,
Boxer shrapnell
The Orangemen of Ulster are preparilig f
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July anniversaries with mom than usual i..,
" grand Orange demonstration" will be h. J'
willing," on the Ist of July at LiAbuni. T •
increased importance it is announced, ai if
an
ordinary concession, that the Grand Lodgo of
has sanctioned the demonstration. Its objects .in • •
to be—l, to petition the Queen ;2, to declare their
to support and defend the Protestant religions` wl is
tions of the country ; and 3, to Pronounce th,tr.
Processions Act. All Orangemen and other Pro
are invited to attend, and deputations iron _ "
and Scotland have promised to take part " •

ceedings.
Some mortars captured atMagdala 'l3 ,
Gosport ; also some Abywonian dogs of s curioui
The French Ambassador has engaged thB
couieri Villa at Frascati for the summer, where ha 10'
tilled his position against brigands with good
rdifi
arms for his household, a military garrison of fou
soldiers, and a patrolling parkof Papal 0°1;4
The villa is delightfully situated, and it is t 4 bd
_j
that the Count de flartiges will enjoy his Shred Pr
villeggiatwra.
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