The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-03 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.

A novelty is announced this year for the Fete
Napoleon of August 15. On that day the Emperor,
the Empress, and the grand dignitaries of the
empire will attend a solemn inauguration of the
Palais of the Louvre, which will then be entirely
finished. All the architects, sculptors, and artists
of every deseription who have taken part in the
great work, will have seats assigned to them at this
ceremony.
In consequence of the Whit-Sunday holiday,
there are no morning papers to-day. The Presse
remarks upon the passage in M. Billaults's circular
expressing a confident hope that "if the impercepti-
ble minority of hostile parties should dare to come
forward, it will be overwhelmed by an immense
popular manifestation :"—A. doubt here crosses
our mind, which we take th© liberty of expressing.
Is it to be absolutely understood that every
man who may vote against the official candidate
belongs to a hostile party? May there not be, for
example, quite independently of party, differences
of opinion about local matters ? At all events the
English do not understand opposition in this light,
for in England the opponents of government,
whether Whigs, Tories, or Radicals, call them-
selves, and are called, her Majesty's opposition.
Marshal Castellano has left Lyons, for Geneva,
by order of the Emperor, to pay a visit of cere-
mony to the Empress Dowager of Russia.
The King of Bavaria will stay in Paris till June
a.
The Bourse has been dull. The Rente fell 15c.
for cash and 10c. for account, closing at 69fr. 25c.
in each case. In Mobilier and the railways there
was no alteration worth noticing.
A work destined to produce a certain sensation
will appear on Thursday next, entitled " The His-
tory of the fall of Louis Philippe, of the Republic
of 1848, and of the re-establishment of the Em-
pire." The author is M. Granier de Cassagnac, a
vigorous writer, but a reckless partisan. On this
occasion he derives his facts direct from the
highest quarter, and gives piquant accounts of
various schemes for a coup d'etat which were sug-
gested to Louis Napoleon, and rejected by him. It
seems that General Changarnier, M. Thiers, and
M. de Falloux, all proposed coups d'etat to get rid
of the republican constitution.
The village of Nanterre, the birthplace of the
patron saint of Paris, St. Genevieve, was thrown
into an extraordinary state of consternation yester-
day by the refusal of the cure to crown the Rosiere
of the year elected by the Municipal Council. In
1811 M. Malherbe left a handsome legacy for the
purpose of paying a marriage portion to the most
virtuous girl of Nanterre, and ever since that year,
until yesterday, the ceremony of crowning the
happy yciung creature with roses has always been
performed in the Nanterre Church with great
pomp, crowds of people coming from Paris
to witness the scene. It seems, however, that the
cure, rummaging over the statutes of M. Mal-
herbe's will, lately discovered that no maid is
eligible to be a rosiere unless she shall have been
to- confession at least once during the year.
Madlle. Eugenie Francine Delaunay, who had been
elected by the municipal council by an enormous
majority, was unable to produce a billet de confes-
sion, and, hint ilke lachryma, the tears which flowed
fast from the rosy cheeks of the disappointed
aspirant for St. Genevieve's mantle of virtue, com-
manded the sympathy of the public, and more
especially of the mountebanks and gingerbread
sellers, who found themselves in the evening
without customers in the dull and dusty streets of
that remarkably ugly town.
The Presse says, in its weekly commercial
review :
Business in the Paris manufactures, without beinc, very
active, is satisfactory. The stock in hand is greattly''dimi-
nished, in consequence of purchases by agents of provincial
houses. The prospect of a good harvest encourages the
country shopkeepers to lay in a good stock. The peasants
already show a disposition to spend more money than they
have done for some years. Advices from the manufacturing
towns are better, except from Rouen, where it is found dif-
ficult to effect sales at prices corresponding with the rise in
raw materials. At, Mulhouse business is more active. The kind
of manufacture produced in Alsatia bear the high price of
cottons better than those of other places. From Roubaik,
Turcoing, and other towns in the Nord, advises are good.
Lyons has received numerous orders from Paris, but com-
plaints are still made of the rarity of commands from
America. All fears about the silk harvest in the south are
dissipated. There is, however, no material fall in silk, for
however good the coming crop may be, it will scarcely suf-
fice for the demand. Complaints recently made of the
quality of pieces manufactured at Lyons from Bengal and
China silk will check the use of those materials for fine
goods. The rise in sugar has received a temporary check
at Havre, where prices have fallen 6fr. or 6fr. the kilo.
But the article continues to rise in the place of produc-
tion. Although the•weather is most favourable, corn has
not fallen materially in any market.