The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-03 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(nom oua owl,

PAR D 3, FRIDAY EYRIADIO.

The Emperor will come back from the camp to-
morrow. It is now known that be was suffering
from indisposition when be went there, and that it
was on account of having been cupped that he de-
layed his visit 24 hours. The Mossiteur of this
morning insists that his Majesty witnessed the
sham battle directed by the Duke of Magenta, on
horseback. This was not the case. M. de Roos, the
Prussian war minister, arrives here this evening,
wearing the cross of the Legion of Honour, with
which Napoleon 111. has just decorated him.
This morning the body of M. Enfantin was con-
veyed to Pere is Chaise, where it was laid in the dust,
The late prophet of the St. Simonians was fol-
lowed to the grave by a large number of disciples.
After the death of the previous chief of the sect,
Enfantin took the lead of the St. Simonians, and
established a jouical to propagate his doctrines. In
1831 he was confirmed in the placebo had assumed,
and started an official journal. In 1832 the
government ordered the dissolution of the iuisocii
tion, and Enfantin retired, only carrying with him
into his solitude the title of " Father." The
mortal remains of Nre Enfantin were followed by
many of the leading men of Paris. M. Gueroult,
M. Louis Jourdan, and others represented men of
letters. There was no religions ceremony.
Alexander Dumas has just addressed this charac-
teristic letter to the Emperor on the subject of his
piece recently produced here, and called the Mohi-
cans. The Mohicans had been stopped by the cen-
sure, and Dumas wrote :
Sire,—ln 1830, and even to-day, there were three men at
the head of French literature, Victor Hugo, Lantartine, and
myself. Victor Hugo is proscribed. Lemartine is ruined.
I cannot be exiled like Victor Hugo, as neither by word,
writing, nor act, have I gives the authorities any hold over
me. But I can be ruined like Laroartine, and lam being
ruined. Ido not know what has excitani the antrum against
me. I have written and published 1,200 volumes. It is sot
for me to appreciate their literary merits. Translated into
all tongues they have gone as far as steam could carry them.
Although the least worthy of the three, in the five parts
of the world I have become the most popular, because one is
• thinker, the other a dreamer, whilst I write for all (Je
Lou, awl, on oulyaruateur). Of there 1,200 volumes
there is not one bat could be given to any workman
of the Faubourg St. Antoine, the most republican, or
to any young girl of the Faubourg St. Germain,
the most modest of our Faubourg'. Well, elm in the eyes
of the censure I am the most impure man alive. Within
twelve yearn the censure has suoceesively stopped Isaac
Loquatem, sold 80,300 francs; the Tour de Neale, after 800
representation's, stopped for seven years. Augele stopped
after 300 repreeentatioas for six years; Antony also for
six years, after 350 representations. La /manse de
Louie XIV., not played though received by the French
Theatre. To-day the censure stops the Yakima, of Paris,
which was to have been played on Saturday. It will pro-
bably, on some pretext or another, forbid Olympia of
Cleves and Balsamic, which plays lam writing now. I
do not complain any more for the Mohicans than for my
other drams. I would observe to year majesty that
during the three years of the R.estoraties of Charles X.,
during the 18 years' reign of Louis Philippe. I sever had •
piece either suspended or arrested, and I add, for your
Majesty alone, that it appears to me unjust to make •
single dramatic author lose more than half • million when
so many men, who do not deserve the name, are encou-
raged and supported. I appeal thee for the first, and
probably for the last time, to the prises whose hand I
had the honour to press at Arenenberg, at Ham, end at
the Elyets, and who finding me a devoted proselyte when
he was on the road to exile and the road to prison has aim
hand ins • solicitor when on that of empire.

A. DEIIIAS.

M. Gugrin Mineville, on Monday last,announced
at t►e Academie des Sciences that be ►ad eusteeded in
realist in hie laboratory of sericieultsre,at the imperial farm
of ViDeminee, a giant Bombs: Atlas, a very Than, and in-
dustrious withal, as he produces nine grammes' weight of
silk, whereas plebeian silkworms yield but two grammes.
He concluded his eoinmasicatioo by announcing to the pub-
lic that the aforesaid Bomb,: Atlu's reception days were
Sundays and Thurolays, and that the Vincennes railroad
would convey his visitors from Pans in half an hour to the
awed statics.