The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-18 00:00:00

The Gazette de France sarcastically observes :

We know not what may be the nature of the measures
to be taken to check the progress of anonymous writing,
but we only hope they will not be retrospective, and that
the author or authors of "Le Pape et le Congria,"
" Napoleon UL et l'Angleterre," &c., will not be
molested, and that M. de la Ouerronni4e will enjoy in
peace his vacation retirement in the Pyrenees.

The Temps, wort: seriously, treats as follows of
the same subject :

The Moniteur announces that measures are to be taken
spinet anonymous pamphlets ; but would it not have been
better not to have created the necessity for such measures?
The pamphlets lately published are but the wretched tail
of other anonymous pamphlets, which produced a justifia-
ble situation, and led the public to believe that the govern•
ment liked to communicate with it by such means. Now
some new preventive and repressive measures will probably
be devised. Would not liberty be a surer means of parrying
the evil complained of ? As we have often said, and
as the Sit-fe repeats this morning, " People abroad fully
believe that nothing is printed in France without the ap-
probation and sanction of the government, and it is solely
in the existence of this conviction that consists the incon-
venience of pamphlets. Let the press laws be changed,
and Europe may be inundated with pamplileu without their
eausitg any anxiety."
The Daats says :

We confess that, whenever " the attention of govern-
ment "is called to the state of the press, we experiewo
sensations analogous to those of the stag in the fable, when
he suddenly sees his master's eye sparkle. Heaven grant
that, after having so often censured anonymous pamphlets,
we may not be at length /reduced to become thei.• de-
fender.

As bad been arranged, the Emperor yesterday
took the King of Holland to Versailles. After
lunch, which was served in the Salle Louis XIII.,
their Majesties went to shoot in the preserves. Iu
the evening their Majesties dined at the Tuileries,
after which the Emperor returned to Compiegne,
leaving his royal visitor in Paris, where he is to
remain until Saturday. His Majesty honoured the
Cirque Imp&Ede with his preseuce last evening, to
witness the performance of Prise de Pekin, and the
night before went to the Italians to see the Barbkre
de Sesijlia. The King, during his short incognito
visit to Paris, will stay at the Dutch Legation.
On Saturday morning his Majesty returns to
Compiegne, to take leave of his Imperial host.
The King was fully expected at the Grand Opera
last night Carpets were laid down on the stair-
case, and the manager, wax candles in hand, was
waiting to receive him. The Rue Lepelletier was
lined with spectators, and I myself, as I saw his Ma-
jesty in one of the Imperial carriages going along
the Boulevard des ltaliens, at half-peat 8 in the
evening, took it for granted that he was on his way
to the Opera. But it appears that his Majesty, who
held to his bargain that he was to be incognito in
Paris, objected to the preparations made for him,
and drove along the Boulevards to the Cirque,
where nobody had the least idea of seeing him.
"We have reason to know," says the Pays, "that
by an exception which rarely occurs, the Kiug and
Queen of Prussia will honour with their presence a
grand fête which the Duke do Magenta intends
giving at Berlin. Their Majesties have, it is said,
declined all other invitations." A Paris letter in
the France Centrale of Blois states that the Empe-
ror of the French presented the Duchess de Magenta,
before her departure for Komigsberg, with 40,000 fr.
of diamonds, and 10,003 fr. for three dresses which
she is to wear at three grand fetes to be given by
the duke, in his position of Ambassador Extra-
ordinary of France at the Prussian coronation.
The only two exceptions cited to the rule that
the King of Prassis does not visit any subjects,
are the visite of the late King to the Orleans princes
in 1836, and to Prince Napoleon in 1857.
Thu Bourse, after an agitated market, leaves off
with scarcely any change from yesterday. It is
understood that the Bank has not raised its rate
of discount to-day. Rumours of a ministerial
crisis continue to be current, notwithstanding the
telegraphic contradiction of them.
The new Turkish Minister at War, Mehemed
Ruchdi Pacha, has arrived at Paris, where he
proposes to pass a few days. This is his first
visit to France. M. Thouvenel gives him a grand
diplomatic dinner this evening at the Ministry for
Foreign Affairs.
The marriage of Captain Leopold Magnan, son
of the Marshal, with Mdlle. 1:141en Heritoff,
daughter of the late M. Heritoff, ex-Consul-
General of Greece at St. Petersburg, took place
yesterday morning, first at the Madeleine and
afterwards at the Russian church, in the Faubourg
St Honor 4. The bride is said to possess an un-
usually large fortune.
Another wedding was celebrated at the Greek
church immediately after the above, that of General
Ratrutuioff, a Councillor of State and Chamberlain
of the Emperor of Russia, with Mdlle. Wilden, a
young pianoforte player, who obtained a first prize
at the Conservatoire last year.