The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-04 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARK

(7110 M 0131 OWN COI

PARIS, MONDAT I:VEXING.
The absence of the Empress from the races yeitei..
day was much remarked. Hitherto her lifajet.ty
has never failed to attend on the Great Prize day.
Indisposition cannot have been the reason, because
the Empress Eugenie was driving about in the
Bois de Boulogne, met the Czar at St. Cloud,
where he was introduced to the Prince Imperial,
and received his Russian Majesty afterwards at 4
grand dinner at the Tuileries. What I hear said
is that inasmuch as, for reasons no sort of expiate.
tion of which is offered to the public, neither the
Czar nor the Czarewitch brought their wives with
them to Paris, the Empress of the French chose
to consider the meeting at Longchamps yesterday
as a " gentlemen's party," and declined to attend.
I see that the Moniteur of this morning enume-
rates the Princess of Prussia as one of the company
in the imperial tribune. I sent you word that her
royal highness was not there, but owing to the ex-
traordinary crowd and the difficulty of seeing I
might have been mistaken. I observe, howe‘er,
in the Monitenr d,t &ir a revised and fuller list 14
the company, and the Princess of Prussia's name la
not in it. I therefore think the great Mo,titoy
was in error, and that she was not there.
It is erroneously said in Galignani's account of
the races that the brother of the Tycoon of Japan
"with some difficulty obtained seats in one of the
side stands." I myself saw him in the imperial
tribune, sitting down by the side of the Russian
princes, and with his arm leaning tiondiaiehlwai
over the chair on which was seated the Grand
Duchess Marie de Leuchtenbourg. Ho had on a
more holiday suit than the one in which he has
been in the habit of appearing at balls. It was a
fine black silk tunic over a white shirt, which was
seen through. This shirt under his chin had,
owing to his extreme youth and still more youth.
ful mien, the appearance of a child's bib. He wore,
as a matter of course, his dagger with the mas-
sive silver hilt, studded with precious stones.
Whether this remarkable little highness en-
joyed the novel spectacle or not his im-
perturbable countenance did not show. His
imperial brother and joint tenant of the
Japanese throne will know that he was placed
among the great ones of the earth at the Paris
races.

While looking at D'Eatournel as he was being
saddled yesterday, I heard several people say that
there was something the matter with his hock. It
was subsequently stated that some scoundrel had
thrown a stone at him on the ground which
wounded him so severely as to make him limp.
Whether this had anything to do with his losing
the race I cannot say. He showed the bad temper
which at the Derby prevented him from making a
start. Ho kept a very good place till the decisive
struggle near the post, and then when his jockey
applied the whip he refused to answer to it, turned
sulky and gave up the contest. The extraonlinsry
name of the winner, Fervacques, is that of a
village in the department of Calvados, where his
fortunate owner, M. de Montgomery, resides. La
Touoques, the first winner of the Great Paris prim,
belonging to the same owner, was named after a
place where he was bred across the water, opposite
Trouville.

The amnesty to the Poles, which I underst.ind
was communicated by the Czar to the Empress be-
fore it was generally known,may very possibly pro-
cure him some cheers when next he appears in
public.

To-day the Prince and Princess of Prussia and
the Prince of Hesse with the Princess Alice went
to the Universal Exhibition and walked about for
some time together. The Prince and Princess of
Prussia took luncheon there ; but the Prince of
Hesse and the Princess Alice came away at 12,
and as by some mistake their carriage had not
come, they got into a most wretched back csb,
and went away in it with all the gaiety of a youth-
ful bride and bridegroom.
The names of the duellists which, on Saturday, I
only gave in initials, are now publicly stated to be
the Marquis de Galliffet and Count Guy de Char-
nace. The wounds of both were very slight. I
saw the Marquis de Galliffet at the races with
nothing apparently the matter with him.
The Bourse, sympathiaing with the fall in Con-
sols, was weaker. Rente fell 2tic. for cash and
account, closing at 70tr. 35c. and 70fr. 40c.

The Marquis of Lorne and the Hon. Henry
Leeson have left town for Pesth, in order to be present st
the coronation of the Emperor of Austria u Kin Cl
Hungary this week.

The telegraphic despatch addressed by the Em-
peror Napoleon to Prince Charles of Roumania was Nat
off on the 2tith May. We Menurinf Diploisatiqw Pit
informed that this message, both energetic and urgent,
contained amongst others the following !phrase :—" I fol
humiliated, prince, at having to intervene personally a
such a question, in the age we live in." The reply of de
prince contained thew words :—" Orders have been gin
to cease all prosecutions, and to restore to their homes as
Jews who have been sent away."
The Gazette de France announces that the medi.al
attendants, after having held a consultation on the suns
of the Empress Charlotte, have declared that she va
never recover her reason, and that her days are number&
Go/4mgal, commenting upon the Grand Pit
race, remarks :—" M. de Montgomery is certainly one of
the most fortunate men that has ever appeared on the
turf. With his first venture, La Toucques, he succeriid
in winning the French Derby and Oaks; and now, sub
two horses in training, Fervaoques and Lerovienne, he has
completed the grand trio of hippie triumphs. Fordham,
who bolds the first place among English jockeys, has not
yet had the good luck to ride a Derby winner at Epsom,
but has gained higher honours in France, having
won the
French Derby on Gabrielle d'Eetries, and now the Cr,na
Prix. Fervacques, the winner, was trained by Fobert,
of Spigot Lodge, at Middleham, in Yorkshire."
The Cutogne Gazette has the following The
Governor-General of the provinces of Podolia has
jud
published a ukase, in virtue of which every catholic
wishing to preach a sermon is bound to deliver before-
hand to the censorship of the police a manuscript cops of
hie discourse. Any priest acting in contravention to this
order is to be liable to severe penalties. This ukase seems
to have no other object than that of interdicting, or at
least rendering moat difficult, all public bearing daemons
I in catholic churches, for the manuscripts presented to the
censorship are to he kept back sea oral Mouth,, and during
the whole of that time catholic, will be deprived of ie•
ligious preaching. The sacred hymns, even the most sn•
dent, are also to be subject to a preliminary examination
by the police."
According to a Swiss journal a means has been
discovered of making use of cockehatem. The Ert.,(.r.
of Lausanne states that between four and five
those insects were recently sent to Friburg fur the "mar-
facture of gas," and the residue forms an excellent cal riai
grease !
The New Zealand mail packet, which left Parana
on the 4th February last, reached Wellington, in Nee
Zealand, in 27 days 2 hours.
A Tasmanian paper states that the accliniatirati
of the salmon in that colony has turned out a brillisal
moves& The fry liberated last year from the breeds
ponds on the river Plenty have returned to their noir*
streams fine well.grown fish.
News from Western Australia states that the
notorious Robson baa obtained a ticket of leave, and ta
left that colony.