The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-22 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

REVIEW BY THE EMPEROR ON THE
LONOCHAMPS RACE COURSE.

THE BALLOON ACCIDENT.

(ROY OM Mg

PARIS, WZDNIIIDLY EVINING.

The finest day that we have yet been favoured
with during this rather damp and cloudy autumn
lent an additional prestige to the review with which
the Emperor entertained the King of the Greeks
on the eve of his departure from Paris. About
18,000 men of the Imperial Guard, infantj,
cavalry, and artillery, were assembled for the occa-
sion on the Longchamps race course. Marshal
Regnault de Saint Jean d'Angely was in command.
The notice being short, and the day being neither
a Sunday nor a Monday—the Paris workman's
extra holiday—the crowd, not exceseive, was, for the
most part, a well-dressed one. The Emperor was
more easily distinguished than usual from the bril-
liant staff which followed him by the broad white
stripedown the head of his horse, &blemish which we
may be sure so good a judge of horseflesh and horse
beauty as his Majesty would not have tolerated,
unless it were redeemed by countervailing good
qualities of an exceptional character. The youth-
ful King of the Greeks, who gracefully rode a
faultless charger by the Emperor's side, was much
admired. On this occasion the Emperor regaled all
the °Seers with champagne, and all the soldiers
with coffee.

It is with real grief that I report that the enthu-
siastic and courageous Nader, after having passed
a whole night in or above the clouds, and having
made an aerial voyage of a length and duration
almost, if not entirely, unparalleled, is very seri-
ously injured. He remained in the air 19 hours,
and performed a distance of 060 kilometres. The
following telegram has been received from him by
his brother:

We mime down near Nleabotog, is the kingdom cf Han-
over, at about noon on Monday. We were dragged for
emend home, ear sackers having beam. Saint Felix.
■y wife, and myself are seriously hart ; the others are
pretty yea Seed see a dotter from Paris ; Peitetan, if
posible, or another if be is ablest Seed sews at once
to the Saint Felts. Darned, and Yoe famil,ss kr. Let
little Peal be seat to as. [Pal is N. Neciar's ma, and the
recluse that be sheald be mat to Hanover laterally osnees
Were anxiety to IL Nader% friends.] We owe our lives
to the mange sad devotedness of Jules Godard. To-mor-
row farther details. NADAL
Another despatch is thus worded :
Bemuse, Oct 20.
_ .

?be Giant fell near Eystrup. in Hanover. Of the nine
pupils le the ear, three are seriously and two slightly
evardia

K d'Arnoult, en editor of the Nation, who meet
be one of the two 'lightly hurt, sends the following
telegram :

Oet. 21.
GSM down In Hanover. Contusions not serious. 1 shall
Mara soon.

It is unfortunately scarcely to be doubted that
the " slight " contusions spoken of by M. d'Arnoult
are only his own ; and that we cannot see in his
despatch, although of later date, any attenuation
of the more serious news given by X Nader. This
morning, at half-past 7, Dr. Richard, taking under
his chugs little Paul Nader, left Paris to visit the

wounded. A despatch received this afteramon—l
states that M. Saint Felix has his arm broken.
While writing I receive the following despatch :
Hanover, Oct. 21, 2 p.a.

The travellers in the Giant who were injured have been
brought here, and placed under the cue of the French am-
bassador. The King of Hanover sent one of his aides-de-
camp to melee them. M. Saint Felix ima his shoulder pot
out of place and his face is terribly marred. Nadir has
both his legs fractured. Madame Nadir has a commotion
of the thorax aid a leg greatly injured.
Another despatch says that M. Juice Godard at
the most critical moment got into the ropes, at the
risk of his life, and with several vigorous strokes of
a hatchet opened the balloon, and let out the gas.
The interest taken by the Emperor in M. Nadir's
balloon calls to mind the fact that 20 years ago he
went up in a balloon himself, in England, with
Lablache for one of his companions. His Majesty,
after conversing on Sunday last with Hadar and his
partner, the Viscount Gustave Pontond'Amticourt,
was so much struck with the theory of the aerial
machine on the screw principle which they propose
to construct, that he gave M. d'Amecourt a
sum of 20,000 fr., for the purpose of building a small
model of sufficient force to raise one man, and thus
to try the principle.
The Bourse continues to decline. The Rente to-
' day (for cash) lost the long-standing figure of 67fr.,
and closed at 66fr. 90c., with a fall of 2fic. For
account the fall was 15c., and the last price 67fr. Sc.
Mobilier fell 22fr. 50c., and the Lyons and South-
ern railways 10fr.

THE BALLOON AND.THA CUSTOM-HOUSE