The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-05

THE EMPRESS APARTMENTS AT THE TULERIEs.-
A correspondent of the independence Beige writes:
had the good fortune to visit, the other day, the
private apartments of the Empress at the Tuieries
Workmen had been engaged on them for two years,
during the absence of their Maesties These suites
of rooms which run in parallel line with the re-
ception the drawing-room floor consist
of ante-chamber, waiting room for the ladies of
honor, a saloon of audience, private room for her
Maiesty-that is to say the most retired and pri-
vate rooms of the suite. The Emperor, whose
preference for the style of Louis XVI. is well
known, has desired her apartments in question to
be entirely decorated after the fashion and taste of
Marie Antonettc. NJ. Leiuel received orders to
renew the elegant ornamentation OF TrlanOn IN
this Partisan palace. Art and industry have done
marvels under his supeTntendence, so that we see
again the graceful arabesques, the rounded taper
ing volutes, the exquisite garlands, and the fine
carvings of the latter part of the eighteenth centu
ry. All the models are unique, and executed with
admirable nicely, from the door handles to the
chimney-pieces, the panels and squares of glass; /;
and the whole furniture, from the timepieces to the
tongs in the fireplace, is in harmony with this style
of decoration The first saloon, of pale green, is
adorned with arabesques of deeper tint Me-
dallions glisen in the panels, and within them are
birds, painted by NJ. Appert. The prevailing color
of the second saloon is rosy white; the arabesques
I are rose-colored. Then comes the private saloon
of the Empress, the ground of which is likewise OF
a very light green, and the panneings of which
the portraits of her ladies of honor painted
bv NJ. Dubuffe; then her first withdrawing-room
lined with green stuff, on which hung valuable
pictures the doors of this cabinet and the next are
of amaranth and pasander set off by bronzes, gilt
and admirably chased.
MARRIAGE OFFERS IN SwEDEN.-The following
rather singular project has just been presented to
the Chamber of Mobiles of the Swedish Diet. Baron
Creutz proposed that, from the age OF fifteen young
girls should be allowed to answer of their accord
yes or no. to any suitor for their hand. M. Mont
gomery opposed the project declaring that, at the
age of fifteen, love, though strong, was too blind
| and that the age of twenty-five indispensable
to be able to clearly so important question
| Baron Astroemer treated such an objection mad
| ness and proposed to the Chamber to decide who
| was in the right, Baron Creutz the Apostle
| Paul. The Baron replied that the words Of the
| Apostle applied to paternal authority, which was
very severe among the Jews and the Romans, and
| could not now be invoked when manners and GUS
toms had so much changed. Baron Astroemer
said that if the Chamber to adopt the project,
| Mormonism would become general. Baron Creutz
| replied warmly that it ridiculous to talk OF
Mormonism, that his project was serious one, and
calculated to have salutary effect on manners and
! ideas. The project was referred to a committee.
| Senator Mason, of Virginia, appeared in the
| Senate yesterday morning in handsome suit OF
| "homespun cothes"-a fine sample of home manu-
| facture. The material was plain gray.