(From the Atlas.') There is an extraordinary feuilleton in the Presse of Paris. M. Alexandre Dumas is publishing his memoirs in that journal, and some very curious things we find in them from time to time ; but there has been nothing so curious as his account of some experiments in animal magnetism. M. Dumas begins with a relation of a surgi cal operation performed by M. Jules Cloquet, some years ago, on a magnetised patient. He then relates some experiments of his own, and speaks of numerous persons as having witnessed them ; but as we have no opportunity of testing them, we can only relate what M. Dumas says. He informs us that when he was at Auxonne (he does not state the precise period, but it must have been in 1848), he was at the house of Mr. D with his daughter and a party of twelve or fourteen persons. He was talking of some recent experiments, and Madame D observed that she would only believe in such things if M. Dumas would put some one she knew into a magnetic state —Marie, for in stance, pointing to her daughter, eleven years of age. Dumas said he would make the expe riment; and after two or three passes the child was magnetised, and the following conversation between him and the child took place : —

" In what social slate is France at this time? In Republic.—Do you know what a Republic is? Is is an equal division of rights between the men who compose the people, without dis tinction of birth, rank, or condition. The mo ther, astonished at this reply, expressed a fear that the experiment, if continued, would dis tress the child, on which Dumas addressing her said: —Do my questions fatigue you, Marie? Not in the least, sir. They are, however, be yond what are generally addressed to children of your age. God permits me to understand them. Will the state in which we now are be consolidated ? It will last several years. Will it be Lamartine or Ledru-Rollin who will con solidate it? Neither one nor the other. Shall we have a President? Yes.—And after the President ? Henry V.—Henry V.! You know he is exiled. But he will return to France.— How? By force? No, with the consent of the people. 