The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-13 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(1110 K ova ORN COl

PARIS, THOWADAY Weenie.
The panics at the Bourse was worse than ever to-
day. War is thought to be inevitable. Bente fell
70c. for cash, and 620. for account, closing at
66fr. 90c. and 66fr. 75c. Mobiliar fell 40fr., Credit
Fowler 50fr., and the Italian Lain 2fr. 70c. ! The
INorthern Railway fell 201 r., and Lyons 18fr. 75c.
Letters from Italy, speaking of the movement of
.troops, are very alarming.
The session of the Corps Legislatif, which is ap-
proaching the constitutional term of three months—
& term never yet found sufficient, will probably be
prolonged tilt June 15.
The French Academy to-day elected a successor
to M. Dupin. The fortunate man is M. Cuvillier
Fleury, the writer in the Dibats, who polled 20
votes against 11 given to M. Henry Martin, the
historian, and the prot4g4 of the Bieck. The
latter gentleman was thought quite sure of his
election till a month ago. It has been ob-
jected that there are too many nfdacteicrs
of the -Mats in the academy. M. Silvestro de
Sacy, M. Saint Marc Girardin, and M. Prevost
Parkbol, all owe their sesta among the envied
forty IP,their writings in that journal, and now
w' vier Fleury imams a fourth. I am- nag
sure that there are not other Thibats academicians,
whose connexion with that paper is forgotten. At
the election yesterday a candidate of the last hour,
specially patronised by M. Boniface, of the Conti-
ttchesael, on the ground of his having written a
history of the twelve Conan, with a Napoleenic
leaning, obtained just one vote. M. Cuvillier
Fleury, now 61 years old, has been a
candidate for the academy any time these twelve
years. He was tutor, and afterwards private se-
cretary to the Duke d'Aumale. Some years ago
he wrote some very bitter criticisms on Victor
Hugo, whose " romantique" style shocked his
taste as a "purist." Victor Hugo retaliated in
some lines in which Fleury's name was coupled
with that of another hostile critic named Trognon,
as follows :

Dint is mune: ttielinelitaffreetrauclvegives:Le.
All the papers quote to-day from Dr. Verona
new series of the " Memoir°. d'un Bourgeois de
Perin," a story which the good doctor tells in all
simplicity, never suspecting how damaging it is to
the cause of the coup d'etat which he advocates. It
was decreed that the confirmation of the coup d'ldut
should be submitted to the French people by
ballot. A colonel of a regiment having drawn up
his men to vote, thus showed his views of the
value of the slender pretext of legality which was
then observed. " Soldiers," said he, " you and I
do not understand this way of expressing our
opinion. I know of a much shorter one. I am
about to give the word, Carry arms.' Al/t those
who mean to vole for Prince Napoleon will r carry
their arms, and those who desire to vote agabfet him
will keep them shouldered. Now, pay a ration
to the word of command, Carry arms. " Of
course the regiment carried arms unanimously, and
the position of any recalcitrant may be more easily
conceived than described. Dr. Veron thinks this
a capital story ; and so, though not precisely for
the same reasons, do those who quote it from him.
M. de Montalembert is about to make a trip to
the United States. As he speaks English like a
native ; never obtrudes his religions opinions of-
' fensively ; and is, moreover, an extremely agree-
able companion as well as a man of extraordinary
learning and capacity, it may safely be predicted
that he will be very popular in America.
M. Felicien David, who was reported to be laid
up at Moscow by a serious illness, baa returned to
Paris in good health.