Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-05-17

The EMrERoR AND EXPRESS or FRANCE THE
London correspondent of the Philadelphia North
American, gives the following description of these
personsges:
The PoRrRAIrs--lshe---As Cor Eugenie, abe has
been the theme Of all tongues, each out-clamoring
the other In her praise. Such beauty, 70 begin
with, has never been seen at least so IL is said
and the saying doesn't exceed the truth as II Is in
the sayers. II is beauty that combines all styles,
and cIcels in each. II unites the romantic gravity
ofthe Moresque Spaniard with the airy piquancy Of
the Partisan; the reserve of the British belle with
the abandon Of the continental southern.
Her complexion Is at once blonde and olive, and
comprises the charms of both. The expression Of
her face Ia at onco winning and commanding, con-
fding and dgniHed. Her stature and figure are
all that could be wished in woman, or desired In
a monarch /; and each dress she has appeared in
public 1t seems exactly the of all others that
she should never appear out Of II the spectator at
the moment had his way.
Moreover she Is not at the precise age when
the seversl graces Of the sex seem to blend into
perfection, and when the diminution or addition,
almost Of an hour would imply forfeiture of some
one attribute essential to the completion of the
real and the ideal, the poetcal and the practical
before you The lady amongst us who bears the
nearest resemblance to her Is the Duchess Of Wei
lington, or rather such was the case when the lat
ter was little younger, and Landseers likeness,
in the Visit 70 Waterloo" was faithful portrait
Of the then Warehouses OF Douro.
There IL the same commingement Of the half
Oriental, half Scandinavian aspect the large open
antelope eye, with the full dropping fringe at once
frightening and mitigating its lustre the same
smalrounded limbs and majestic presence and
the same pensiveness in the midst Of animation,
perhaps arising from the same cause, the childish.
meas of an otherwise enviable union.
This probably is but q passing sorrow With the
Empress for the report runs that the stag hum
at Slough on Tuesday, was not joined by the I'm
perisl lady, lest equestrianism, for reasons known
in an wellreguated families, should be detrimental
TO the probable prolongation Of the line Of " the
new Sesostris, who, born no king, made monarchs
draw his car
Hs.--Ccrtainly he looks everything that his i'm
passioned assailant In "Nspoleon le Petit" de.
scribes and not all the circumstances of splepdor
surrounding him, not all the romance Of his life
and not all the effect which such consideration
produce upon the most pblegmstic and philosophic
Of minds, could deprive his countenancc Of its In
definsble but unmistakable responsiveness. In j
s disclosed no one trait of sttrsctiveness Indeed
the Absence Of all trait is the only decided trait
about b. It is perfectly cIpressionless, whether
in apimation or repose.
His face Is blank, or rather blight II may
have been capable Of conveying some expression
some time, but that time has gone by, and now
Il really expresses nothing. The eyes arc dead
the complexion livid; the mouth, even when smi
ling, inanimate; the muscles OF tho whol'
face at once rigid and relaxed; and the visagt
altogether leaves NEST uncomfortable impression
no matter what ones predictions in favor Of th'
man himself or however biased by the fascination
Of the immortal deeds Of his uncle, by virtue o
whose name the nephew Is what he Is.
Between the two men there is not the smalles
facial or physical semblance, and certainly as far Al
externals are concerned, there Ia much colorinl
afforded by Louis Napoleon to the popular scanda
which assigns his paternity, not to the King o
Holland, but to a Dutch Skipper, with an unpro
nouncable name, and Of whom Hortense was SAT-
to have been enamored.
In the confgurstion Of tho head there Is som
similarity between Napoleon the First and Third
and the sparseness and quality of the hair favor
the likeness But in the faces themselves, nn'
even in the forebesds, the most acute physiogno
mist could detect no trace Of identity OF blood be
tween the relatives.
| The Italian element 10 altogether wanting in tn
present Emperor, who Il much more Of the ba
French type Of face, what Voltare called betwee
the tiger and the monkey, than was the great Coz
sican, whose antique beauty scarcely less than h
desthless exploits, universalized his portraits an
busts, by rendering their production labor
professional love 10 the artist NJ the finest subjc
they could be employed upon.