The Express.
London, England, 1863-04-07 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, MONDAY BINNING.

The second steeplechase at Vincennes has been
the great affair of the day. Owing to the fineness
of the weather, the success of the first meeting,and
the news that the Emperor and the Empress would
coluLa;-ly be present, the crowd was even greater
than yesterday week. Monday is, with the work-
ing classes, almost as great a holiday as Sunday,
and they thronged to the course in vast numbers,
on foot, in omnibuses, and by the Vincennes Rail-
way. The directors of the Eastern Railway ran
trains of immense length every quarter of an hour,
to accommodate the public. As the journey only
takes a quarter of an hour, and the fare is but
eight sons, the temptation to the Faubourg St.
Antoine was irresistible. It was a pretty sight to
see several long lines of people emerging on different
points from the woods of St. Maude, and threading
their way across the Vincennes plain, under a glo.
rious sun, to the race-course. The flags and the
roof of the grand stand served them for a guide.
The line of carriages takes a rather more circuitous
route, passing by the rifle-shooting buildings which
were erected two years ago. As you near the
course the view, on looking back towards
the noble Donjon keep of Vincennes, and the
church adjoining, is quite unique. From the
course the village and church of Joinville le Pont
forms a striking and picturesque terminus on the
other side.

At one moment it was feared that the Emperor
would again disappoint the company. Just as the first
starting bell was about to ring, an orderly officer
gallopped up to the imperial pavilion, and two
minutes afterwards the flag which bad been floating
upon it was hauled down, rolled up, and put in a
bag. What may have been the meaning of this
movement I cannot say, but the fact is that half
an hour later the Emperor and the Imperial
Prince arriv: d, and the tri-coloured flag
was hauled up again. The Empress did
not come till later ; I understand she waited
at the Tuileries to bear the Easter Monday
sermon of the Abb4S Dauphin. The Princess
Mathilde, Princess Anna Murat, Prince Murat,
and Prince Joachim Murat were in the impe-
rial tribune. Between the races the Emperor and
the Imperial Prince mingled frequently with
the crowd that promenaded in front of the grand
stand. I must explain, however, when I use the
word crowd that it was a select crowd, every mem-
ber of which had paid Mr. for the place. Tue
Empress also promenaded, attended by two ladies
of honour. The little prince attracted great atten-
, tion. He Wall dreamed in a suit of ZOOM% dark green
costume, with black gaiters up to the knee, and a
sailor's straw bat, with green ribbons. He hopped
and skipped about the weighing-ground, often ap-
parently by himself, but his tutor and another
gentleman might be seen panting after him with
evident anxiety lest he should come to grief, as he
ran among the hones coming up to be saddled.
I have neither time nor professional knowledge
to describe the racing with the pen of a " Meteor."
The first and principal race was won by Avalanche,
the same horse that gained the grand prize
on Sunday week. At the " Irish bask"—
a remarkably ugly customer for a horse
that bungles at it—Viscount Artus Talon,
mounted on M. Coster's Etinoelle, was rolled over.
As he did not get up, and was seen to be carried
off the ground by four sergenta de ville, it was
feared he was hurt ; but he was only shaken, and
soon recovered.

The course was again insufficiently kept. I saw
one man knocked down by one of the racers going
at full speed, and I think he must have been
injured.
The Emperor, Empress, and Imperial Prince re-
turned together in an open carriage and four, pass-
ing down the new Boulevard Prince Eugene
through an immense crowd of spectators.

Baron Matadi. the eminent ea-minister of the
King of Italy (says Ur Bedford Tiws), honoured this town
en Thursday with a visit to the Britannia Iron Works, and
the farm of Messrs. Howard, to see their steam plough in
operation. The baron has purchased a set of the apparatua
with a view to cotton cultivation in South Italy.

The Roma of Naplea states that the ex-King of
the Two Skilies has disposed of all his jewels to a Flores-
tie* house for about 80,C00 Roman south (400,000 fr.).
. . . . _ _

A Paris letter in the NouveQiate of Rouen eaye :
—"lam informed that the Wanner °Edisto ham authorised
roproosatations at the That's Francais and the Th,litra
Lyriono for the boos& of the wounded Poles. Iddran
Thiel* who is about to retire from the stage and take
up her miasmas at Baden, will appear at the Theatre
Lyrique for the last time in one of those ropmsontations."

The Pisan de la Loire of Nantes relates the fel-
:twin ingukr ;story :—" A few days ago a respectable man
west to the church of St. Pierre to escort hams Ids wife and
daughter, who had gone to bear a sermon preached by
lather Alexis, a Carmelite. He had ant been seated in the
aura more than a few minutes when the beadle told him
he most leave, as the sennoa wa■ only intended for females.
He refused to quit the church, when the chair was roughly
taken from him. He refused, however, to leave the
building, and remained standing until the couelurios of the
sermon. It certainly would be strange if • husband or •
father cannot go to• place of worship to saoertain whether
the language used is each as he ean approve of."

A cinchona plantation baa been aneceeefully
formed oo t►e northers hills in the lased of Trinidad.

Accordiog to the Cotornbo Observer the mail
packet Neaseals has met with as accident at Point do
Halle, by geasading Mime outside that harbour.