The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-03 00:00:00

AMERICA.

IN, Jt'NE 3.

The North German Lloyd's steamer New York,
from New York on the 23rd, has arrived here with
190 passengers for this port, Has-re, and Bremen,
30 sacks of mails for London, and 22,000 dole. in
specie for Bremen.
The Bremen bark Columbus and the Hamburg
barque Brono arrived at New York on the 23rd.

On the 27th the New York spoke tha Norway
barque Caroline, on the 2nd, off the Lizard, a
Bremen barque, Number 294.

NEW YORK, MAY 23.

General Pope hu deposed the Mayor and the
Chief of the Police at Mobile, and appointed a suc-
cour. The order deposing the police force at Mobile
has been revoked.

General Sickles has prohibited the distillation from grain
in his district on account of the scarcity of food.
It is reported that a plot has been discovered among the
negroes at Fredericksburg to overpower the national gani-
son and burn and pillage the town.
Surrat's trial commences on Monday next.
Mr. Jefferson Davis arrived at Montreal yesterday with
his family. There was no public reception. He travelled
from New York incognito.
The Union League Club are about to arraign Mr. Horace
Greeley for becoming security for Mr. Davis.
The steamship Santiago de Cuba, from Greytown, was
ashore on the coast of Jersey. Five lives were lost.

The steamer Wisconain has been burned at St. Lawrence
River. Twenty lives were lost.
The Fenian/ are active throughout the country.
Numerous and large enthusiastic meetings have been held.
It is reported that a large force is being organised to invade
Canada. Stores are being accumulated for that purpose.
Advice, from St. Alban's, Orizaba, to the 3rd inst.,
state that Corona had ordered that no quarter should be
shown to the imperial officers, and that the Emperor
Maximilian, Miramo, and Marquez were to be shot if cap-
tured.
The

of the capital commenced on the 3rd.
Queretaro was still be►ieged.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

THE GRAND PARIS PRIZE.
(MOM 0011 OWN 0011E1VONDENT.)
PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.

I have attended every race for the grand Paris
prize since its foundation but never saw anything
like the crowd to-day. I should think there must
have been present at least ten times more people
than on any former occasion. The 20fr. entrance
fee to the weighing ground and the promenade in
front of tithe grand stand, which in former years
operated as a prohibition against even the genteel
million, reemed to be no bar to-day. For fully
two hours before the Emperors arrived, the space
, opposite the imperial tribune, where you could
last year promenade freely and gaze at leisure
upon the features of royalty, was com-
pletely blocked up by chairs, on which were
seated ladies in rich summer toilettes. After 1
o'clock not a chair was to be got for love or money.
The weather was intensely hot—far hotter than on
any former grand prize day. Owing to the wet
weather which has prevailed throughout the spring,
until within the last few days, the turf was un-
usually long, and the course certainly heavier than
hitherto.

The various lines of route through the Bois de
Boulogne, unusually beautiful to-day under the
influence of a bright sun following a wet season,
were thronged with carriages as 1 have never seen
them before. I think I never saw so many car-
riages in my life, not even in England on a Derby
Day, and the fineness of the weather tempted
thousands of foot people—of the better middle class
generally—to take up positions on the line of march
to see the procession to the races, and in many
places they formed pic-nic parties under the trees,
and danced and sang to amuse themselves between
the going and coming of the great, the extravagant,
or the sporting world. The appearance of the
reserved space in front of the grand stand—or
rather grand stands, for there are several pavilions
—reminded me painfully of what I remember of
Ascot, when its once delightful exclusiveness was
spoiled by the railway. The mob got in somehow.
They had to pay Mr.; but on this occasion did
not mind it. All the great and fashionable world
was there, but so out-numbered by plebeians of all
countries, that the crowd was quite a vulgar one.
I was never in a worse crowd than when just before
the Grand Prize was about to be run for. The
heavens betokened a thunderstorm rapidly coming.
A panic arose among the ladies, whoexpected (and it
was almost a miracle that their expectations were
not fulfilled) to get wet through in five minutes.
There was a general tendency to rush to get shelter,
counteracted by an unwillingness to lose the places
from which a view of the imperial tribune might
be obtained. The crushing and fighting to moms
one way or another was something terrible. Big
round drops fell before the sovereigns arrived, the
clouds gathered together with ominous blackness,
and the heat was stifling. Everyone sought to
be weather wise, and acted according to his
or her opinion. The majority stood their
ground, and these turned out to be the wisest, for
the quantity of rain that actually fell was scarcely
enough to spoil a bonnet, and few owners of
bonnets were without parasols to defend them.
But a great many—the sheltered pavilions being
quite full from an early hour—took refuge in
some rooms like caverns in the rear from which
nothing of the races was to be seen.
The King and Queen of the Belgians were the
first to arrive in the imperial tribune. Next came
the Prince Royal of Prussia, who had a long talk
with the King of the Belgians before the other
great dons arrived. The Princess of Prussia, being
also an English princess, did not come, because it
was Sunday. The Grand Duchess Marie of Leuch-
tenberg and her daughter appeared next.
Then came the Emperor Napoleon, who, al-
though he brought the Czar with him,
was seen by the public in the tribune some
minutes before his guest. His Majesty shook
hands with the Queen and King of the Belgians,
and motioned them to seats. There were shouts
of " Vire I'Empereur," in many parts of the pavi-
lions and the spaces before them. The appearance
of the Czar was not, so far as I could observe,
greeted by any manifestation. The Czar was ac-
companied by his two sons. They want the
tall stature of their father and uncle. They are
evidently German in build and physiognomy.
As usual, nobody paid the least attention to the
preliminary races. Ten horses started for the
Grand Paris Prize. Thunder rolled heavily as the
starting bell rang, but the rain, which fell heavily

in Paris, did not come down on the race-course,
and the weather cleared up and became beautiful.
M. Delamarre's Patricien and M. de Montgomery's
Fervacques ran a dead heat. Mr. Saville 's
D'Estournel, the only English horse, who looked
splendid, and was much admired in the weighing
ground, was marked third. There was tremen-
dous excitement when the dead heat was an-
nounced ; and great satisfaction among Frenchmen
that the prize this year is secured to a French
horse. This is the fifth year of the prize, which has
been won twice by English and twice by French
horses. The French have now gained the turn.
I saw the Czar descend from the tribune to look
closely at Patricien and Fervaolues--bathed in
sweat and panting heavily, while the grooms were
preparing them for a second contest.
The result of this I must leave the telegram to
tell you. I came away, otherwise I could not have
written these few lines in time for post.--(In the
second trial Fervacques was the winner.]