The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-09 00:00:00

EXPRkISS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, FRIDAY EVIRING.

At 2 o'clock this afternoon the Emperor received
the deputation of the Senate with the address.
The senators, twenty in number, who were chosen
by lot for this honour, were dressed in uniform,
and escorted to the Tuileries by a squadron of
cavalry. The Emperor replied to the address by
a few complimentary words, which are not reported,
and which, probably, have no political importance.
You will have seen by the report in the
dioniteur, that the address, though so hotly dis-
puted, was ultimately voted with only three
dissentient voices—those of the Marquisde Laroche-
jaquelin, Count Segur d'Aguesseau, and Cardinal
Mathieu. Prince Napoleon got angry at the end of
the debate because he could not get a hearing to
" explain the reason of his vote," and left the house
in a huff, before the division. All the cardinals
with the exception of Cardinal Mathieu, whose
name appears in the glorious minority of three,
abstained from voting.
I find in the division lists of the Senate that all
marshals
.and generals in active service, ad func-
tionaries, and all those who hope for place or pro-
motion, voted against the amendment, which sought
to commit the Emperor to the maintenance of the
Pope's temporal power. These symptoms are to
me plain proof that Prince Napoleon's speech is
the real keynote to the Emperor's present senti-
ments. There is no doubt that the small majority
in the Senate was only obtained by considerable
pressure. The Emperor said lately at the Tuileries
that he should know his real friends by the result
of this vote. Marshal MacMahon, whose great
military reputation enables him to be compara-
tively independent, did not, conceal his opinion in
favour of the Pope ; he spoke openly against Prince
Napoleon's doctrines in the Senate, and it was
only in consequence of a strong representation on
the part of the Emperor that he consented to leave
Paris on the day of the final vote, for his command
at Lille, iu order that he might be returned among
the senators "absent on the service of the Em-
peror."

The new decree enacting that every word said in
the Senate and Corps Legislatif must be inserted in
the Muniteur is not quite carried out to the letter.
The uncontrollable excitement of some of the
senators, in spite of manifold reproofs from the
government advocates, led them on to say things
not to be printed. The Marquis de Boisay—whom,
it must be said, nobody minds, who is not even a
foolometer except so far his imprudence helps him
to give the measure of his folly—cried out in the
course of the debate :

Do you suppose that we Frenchmen are pleased to hear
that English statesmen say of our Sovereigo it ne park
familia wait if seal toujours (he never speaks but he
always tells lies).

This brand of discord produced tremendous
uproar, the ministers and representatives of govern-
ment roaring disapprobation till they were hoarse.
A great part of the night was passed in negotia-
tions with the Marquis de Boissy to obtain his
consent to the suppression of the above phrase in
the Moniteur report. He at last gave way ; but it
will be seen from the report of the concluding
debate that be alluded to his concession, and re-
gretted that ho had made it.
The Princess Clothilde leaves Paris for Turin on
Monday, in order to be present at the proclama-
tion of her father as King of Italy. The Prince
Napoleon will not join his wife in Italy till after
the vote of the address by the Corps Legislatif.
The Bourse was firm, although there is still but
little business doing. The Rente closed with a rise
of 10c. for cash and 6c. for account. Mobilier rose
sfr. Railways were Ifr. or 2fr. higher. The Mires
securities were somewhat lower than yesterday.
M. Collet Meyret, who formerly held the office
of director of the press, now filled by M. de la
Guerronnibre, has resigned a receiver-generalship
for which M. Mires was his surety.
The Duke de Luxembourg (a Montmorency), for-
merly a peer of France, a lieutenant-general, and •
captain of the body-guard of Louis XVIII. and
Charles X., died on March 5 at his chAteau of
Chlttillou-sur-Loing (Loiret). He was the last
surviving captain of the old Garde du Corps.