The Express. — London, England, 1861-02-26 00:00:00

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ST. JAIIIIII4. Tin IMMO% YT WIFICR JoVIINAL—TIR IRLX OF PT. TR.ortt New. A. Wigan asil gamy: Yin Nottingham' Mau. .—aad INDyypiN. ulowa C. Tom rol Mown Anises St. Cameo liertert. and Illionsat—ttagmacti at haigpaat 7. iII!!TANN!A„ TWII XVILNIJK T E LI Yr lIV A SOLDIER. —And TII IS PRINCE. AND TOE swat Nowa Pitt, Parry. Jcan Louis. &nay, and Newham. Illon l'unrad S...us. Mans. C. SAsplaia, Yrs. W. ltrarke.l EMI WATER AT UNPIN 1111DOL Thill DAT —lll.wilea ft i11a,.... Ataresta. lA. ft. Toisaiuww—Nents& a t0m...... manna a. Ms. LONDON, ruzspAr, FEB. 26. Tin common sense of Europe has supplied the conclusiue.i which are wanting to M. Ds La (lcsaaoa IV. k E'S last pamphlet on the ROMailQues tion. It is agreed by all but • few fanatical par tisans that nothing less than a miraculous interfe rence with the laws of nature can stay the fall of the temporal power of the Papacy. Whether Rome or Florence should be the future metropolis of United Italy is a matter of purely local concern, which may be settled by the Italians themselves, according to the dictates of tradition or conveni ence. That the Eternal City should receive a grand historical rehabilitation, sod that the King of ITALY should be crowned on the Capitol, may be a poetical rather than a political conception, but that without Rome, or with Rome garrisoned by foreigners, or held as a fief of the Catholic Powers, neither the independence nor the tran quillity of Italy is secured, is a plain fact which even the Bishop olOutalim does not impugn, be cause the Bishop of Oausss sees nothing in Italy worth • thought, except it be the Go. remnant of Cardinal Airroexur. This key fellow-countryman of Jour* DE MANTAS con - eiders himself, we believe, one of those select " liberals" who are so terribly persecuted under the Second Empire. He is an advocate of pure parliamentary government, and of all those free institutions which succumbed with the House of Oeir.ams. He is, or was till lately, a bitter advo cate of free speech and a free press. This is not to be wondered at in so facile and forcible a muter of tongue and pen as the Bishop, who to prove his courage in the face of Power, solemnly traduced the memory of one of his predecessors in the see of Orleans. Monseigneur DISPAZILOtt has • fine theological manner of dealing with facts. Adopting the wholesome principle—tout maiirais co, at unable—he flatly denies whatever he finds too stubborn in material to manipulate, and mould, and colour in his own sense. The data on which M. Da La Gvesaoxvtsss lavishes his somewhat flabby rhetoric are really incon trovertible by episcopal pastoral, or pamphlet, since they consist in a great measure of extracts from published despatches, and in more than one instance of the recorded words of Cardinal ANDY , ZI.LI himself. The rest is already matter of his tory, which it is simply impossible for the most elo quent and ingenious of Bishops or Academicians to distort or disguise. For example, Mgr. DUPAIILOUP denies that the present Pore ever refused reforms. Then how is it that only the other day Cardinal Armenia declared to the Due de GIAXDIONT that the Government of his HOLINIee would concede nothing? If the Bishop of thu.x.ses would calmly inform his readers what Reforms the Roman Government has initiated or accepted since 1849, he would do his own cause a better service than by ceiling white black, and foaming at the mouth. It results from the despatches recently published that to the inveterate obstinacy of the Papal Government only is the einancipatiee of the Romagna, Umbria, and the Marches owing. Cardinal ANTONtILI was again and swan urged to make concessions which would have pre served the dignities and the profits of the tem poral government under the respectful disguise of a Vicariate, whilst setting free the spiritual supre macy from the obstructions and embarrassments of secular politica. But not so much as a new edition of the Mote Proprio of 1849 could be got out of his Moonset—nay, not even a clean copy of the Mobs Prolific, of 1831, and we know how much any document of that kind costs the conscience of a Cardinal Secretary of State. Bishop DI:PA/I -LA/VP complains that when the Halmos undertook the war of independence, which was to set Italy free from the Alps to the Adriatic, and when he invited *the people of Italy to be soldiers to day, that they might be cinemas of a put nation to-morrow, "the Oatbolic party" were duped into believing that "the temporal power of the Pore " would be respected." Respected by whom? The temporal power was at any rate more respected by France than by Austria during the war. For whilst Austria withdrew her troops from Halogen, France remained in occupation of Room. The Savoyard Bishop can scarcely pretend to charge the French Government with the voluntary deser tion of Bologna by the Austrians. The Bishop might have spared much unctuous invective if he could have defined more precisely the sort of " independence " which he claims so fiercely for the temporal power. Does he mean an " inde " pendence " protected by French, or Austrian, or Bavarian, or Spanish bayonets., or by all together I Or an " independence " assured by " pioes " Bretons," or in other words, by disbanded metue name of refugee monarchs, and Legitimist brigands in search of a sensation I MOXIZION LUZ Is evidently ilisesuafied with the eseapation of the Patnmony of St. Prom by General DZ 00YON. He would probably prefer an Austrian occupation, as less tended with Italian sympathise, and less com promised in the cause of Italian independence. This may be good I 'linueontane and Legitimist doctrine, but is it the feeling or the policy of Frame l' M. Di M0N7.611 , 4 REIT and M. Di FALLOVI will, so doubt, appreciate the delicate compliment which the Bishop pays to the terriers they formerly rendered to the Emeinum. Perhaps M. DI Most •tarsainera admirers in England have not given him credit enough for the part he took in pro- Pet* the restoration of the Eaapirs. The part which " the Catholic party " took in hailing and celebrating that event was a mere repetition of TILE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, 1861. the put they took in hailing and celebrating the advent of the Republic. " The Catholic " party " are in the habit of blessing before they betray, and fawning before they curse. It was not until the Emperor li Ail .i.EcoN began to have a policy of his own that the Catholic party was converted from adulation to abuse. The Bishop of ORLEANS is an Academician, a man of taste, scholarship, and style. Ho is not to be classed with astronomers like CuLtes, or *van• gehsts like WHALE. It is fair, then, to conclude that he felt the weakness and the falseness of his case when he burst into such a magnificent passage as the following. It is an admirable sample of what we take leave to call the fish-fag sublime " The power which France made, which France " restored, which centuries have respected—that " independent Set of the Pontiff of the human " owe, which Paris would not cede to Vienna, nor " Vienna to Madrid, nor Madrid to Munich, you " propose to convert into a Piedmonteso pre " bend." Imagine a cosmopolitan Buddhist, an accomplished Chinese scholar, a cultivated Mussulman, a travelling Hindoo, a Turk, a Jew, or a Russian, reading Bishop DUPANLOUeII ac count of the Pontiff of the human race, and test ing it calmly by the facts of history. But the Bishop knows that a pamphlet is only meant to convince minds unacquainted with history, and therefore he takes up his wondering tale of the Papacy with the most comfortable reliance on the diffusion of useless knowledge among the public he is addressing. But it is one thing to take advantage of public ignorance, and another to descend to prevarications which cannot deceive a school boy. To describe the occupation of Rome by Italian instead of foreign troops as the conversion of the Papacy into a " Piedmontese prebend " may be a highly Apostolical figure of speech, but only a Bishop intoxicated with the fumes of clerical hate can be the dupe of such a shallow sophistication. The spiritual supremacy of the Pontiff of the Roman Church, flourishing unmo lested and unquestioned in the capital of Italy, under the protection of a national garrison, is surely more like M. or MONTALEMBERTN ideal of "a free spiritual supremacy in the midst of a free "State," than a temporal power dependent on the coma and precarious alms of foreigners for sub sititsnes, and on foreign bayonets for its " independence." Bishop DU PANLOUP can deny notorious facts, the evidence of published despatches; ho can write history in a flowing episcopal roundhead for the use of indolent or ignorant fanatics. But he can not, with all tho sound and fury of his rhetoric, explain how the temporal power of the Papacy is to be preserved, unless it be in one of two ways : either by a permanent foreign occupation, or by a collective bodily deportation of the present inha bitants of the Roman States. If the Bishop will my which of thine measures he is prepared to re commend, perhaps we shall better understand the purpose of his pamphlet. ' The irreconcilable incongruity of this temporal power is in nothing more manifest than in the lan guage of Catholic writers and orators. The proposed Address of the French Senate in reply to the Impe rial Speech advises Italy to remember "that to her " the Catholic world has entrusted the Head of the " Church as the highest representative of moral " force." Surely this is a strange and novel in terpretation of the legend of Sr. Psrsa's Chair. According to the Committee of the Senate it is the Catholic world that made a present of Sr. Pr= and his successors to the capital of Italy. It had been generally supposed that Sr. Pima visited Rome before "the Catholic " world " came into exiatenee. According to the Senatorial doctrine, " the Catholic world " is the collective creditor of the population of the Roman States, who are too anxious to declare themselves insolvent. The Senate, however, pro poses to declare the Papacy " the highest repro " sentative of moral force." Bishop DETANLOVP and his political friends, who are fond of in veighing against material force, will gladly accept this definition of the Papacy, the only inconve nience of which is, that it is entirely compatible with the immediate application of the principle of non-intervention to the Patrimony of Sr. PETER. LATEST INTELLIGENCE.' CHINA AND JAPAN. We have received advicea from Hong Kong to Jan. 15. In the last overland summary it was noticed that General Grant and staff had left Tien-tain, as also all the others who did not intend passing the winter there. Regarding those who do winter there, the latest sAlvices describe them as being comfortably hutted, and enjoying excellent health. At Hope Sound provisions are scarce, and of an inferior kind ; but at Taku, good mutton and game are both plentiful and cheap. Lord Elgin and suite arrived at Hong Kong in I. N. steamer Feroze on the Bth of last month, and left on the 12th for Canton. On the 10th at noon be held a levee at the government house. His lordship visits Manilla and Batavia before return ing to England. The commander-in-chief has gone to Nagasaki in the Chesapeake. Admiral Jones has also gone to Japan in the Impdrieuse, accompanied by three other vessels. Matters there have been slightly unsettled of late, owing to a collision between some Japanese officials and some Englishmen. It ap pears that an Englishman having been arrested for shooting a goose, was rescued by a few of hia coun trymen, and further retaliation resulted in the serious injury of a Japanese official. A good deal of sharp feeling has been eliminated, and a notifi cation by Captain F. Howard Vyse, acting-consul at Kanagawa, has been remonstrated against by many of the English residents there. The opening of the Yang-taze, a duty which will probably devolve upon Admiral Jones, is looked forward to with hopes of immediate commercial advantage. The Chinese produce at present in the hands of the rebels is, according to the beat ac counts, considerable; "and that they are anxious to dispose of it," says the Overland Mail, " we can not for a moment doubt." The Island of Chum'', which by treaty provision had to be given up, has at length been evacuated by the &Him At Shangliae, movements are going on against the rebels, but little fighting has taken place. The imperial forces are quietly gathering together, and it is not impossible that we may soon hear of a battle. Passports to travellers are now obtainable under the recently ratified treaty. A treaty—of which the Friend of China publishes a translation—between Russia and China, was signed at Pekin on the 14th of November last, five days after Lord Elgin left the city. The sign ing parties were Prince Kung and Count Ignatieff. By this treaty China cedes to Russia all the sea board from the mouth of the Amoor in 141 East, to the mouth of the Tumen in 131 East. " This valuable strip of land," says the mail, "is fully nine hundred miles long by from one hundred to two hundred miles in breadth, and may be consi dered as advancing Russia's facilities for operating either for or against China." . An American named Meredith, engaged in his lorcha in escorting some merchant junks, has been taken by pirates near Wanchew, and is held to ransom for 4,000 dollars. The United States gun-boat Saginaw has left Hong Hong to try and liberate him. " Business in general" says a Hong Kong jour nal, " is excessively dull, owing no doubt prin cipally to the approach of China New Year, which occurs 10th proximo. Until this event is over no revival is anticipated, and it is useless looking further for a cause of the prevailing dulness. The recent conclusion of peace, with the consequent operation of the treaty of Tientsin, is not powerful enough to overcome ' China customs,' a curtailment of operations and settlement of scoounts before the close of and a fresh start at ' New Year., ber for the department of Aude, in conformity with the conclusions of the committee. ITALY. ROME (vie MAasintrii), FEB. 24. An order of the day of General Goyon censures the demonstrations of the National Committee, re jects the congratulations which the latter has ex tended to the French, and recommends the soldiers to avoid popular assemblies. General Guyon has presented his officers to Franms IL ROME, Fie. 24. The decease of Cardinal Brunelli is announced. The French are about to occupy a portion of the province of Froainone. An order of the day of General Goyon has been declared to be a calumny on the Pontifical govern ment. The latter is preparing a reply to the pamphlet of M. de la Guerronnibre, in order to prove that all the responsibility of the Lite events lies with the Emperor Napoleon. Fifteen Romans have been exiled, and have already left Roman territory. Francis 11. ix said to intend staying here as long as the French remain. The inhabitants of Rome are secretly making preparations for the reception of King Victor Emmanuel. NAPLES Ma Nalanttas), Fen 24. The suppression of the convents has given rise to disturbances here. The rioters attacked several convents. The National Guard interposed, and in order to prevent their destruction by the people, quartered themselves in the convents. Six hundred insurgents in the Abruzzi, having been surrounded by the Sardinians, laid down their arms and withdrew into pontifical territory. A NEW AUSTRIAN CONSTITUTION. A telegram in the Timu, from Vienna, dated yesterday evening, says : " The Emperor has to-day signed a Constitution. " The Diet, which is composed of an Upper and a Lower House, has the right of legislation. " The Hungarian Constitution remains intact." VIENNA, TIMIDLY MORIMIG. The official Wiener Zeitung announces that the Emperorhas sanctioned the constitutional statutes, and that they will be published as speedily as their voluminous nature will permit. Cbt Court. The Queen and the Princess Alice walked yester day amiss in the garden of Buckingham Palace. The Nano of Kent took lemma the 4ueen, and quitted Beeklaionatilees, far her miaow at Frogmose. Her Royal Halms, wan attended by lady Fanny Howard, and Lieu tenant-General Sir Hairy Bratinek. The Duchene of Cambridge and Prince Philip of War- Matters whited the Durban of Kent on Sunday. The Prime Cowart presided, yesterday morning, at an adierned aware of the Governors of Wellington College. 18W loyal Hiernene, attended by Lieutetant.Colonel the Boa. D. de ilea, salved,* SIN new Palace of Westminster at 11 tibia. The ether Geeernon present were the Archbishop el Oesterbery. the Marquis of Salisbury, the Mamie ef Lansdowne, the Hari el Derle i. he Earl of Mee. borough, the Bight Hon. apeman H. W air Jana W. ' Hogg, Hart., General Sir indor W Ir. H. Coa, and the Bev. G. R. Ohig, MA. Bekaa the Hon. W. P. Talbot, Ihosarary sowelny. lb. G. Mona, omretru7, sad the Rev. Z. W. Base% and mentor, Wm/al The meet broke lop at inif-pain 1 Abe. The Prise (insert praided, in the eller=alawrzet tag of the loyal Oseeniden he Preerating the Rae Artie= rehahlig the raise el Waistcoat.. ng His Beal salved el the new Paine el West. ' viantor el I Ask, ,*hied by hie Equerry ia Waning. The airy Camisionene were Earl Vienna Lord Lhar reseed me, Lad lobs flenne B44 l= W = ij l sek ee. W. F. Cowper. The fiesetery, Obarlse Wen I e L. .Needed. The waft broke op at a ander centres awl the Prises Oared have beiround fiver isivestlag his Nadi potions The Qom end Prise Onosea. aesemponied by the Pri mer All.. end Bekaa hemmed the porformense at Llrvest-prtles Theatre hot main with their presence. The royal suite eennieled el Lady Churchill, the Hon. Flora Yeedeeeld. Lard C 0.,,.., Lard Alfred Paget, and Lieu. isnantalelosiel the Hea. D. de Hoe was named al the Colonial-olflee yonerday tre l atr am Oeventee of Otbrahar, and from the Lord High Ormairsionar of the lonian lamb DIPARTORB OF Hu MAJNATT AND CoMIT FOR 010011111 HOBS& !ALB or IrtGHT. - (Tem Dar.)—This mania& at are minutes past tea o'clock, her Majesty sad Me Royal Highness the Prince Consort, amionipaated h their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Abs., Helena, Lss" sad Beatrice, and Princes Arthur wed Leopold, IkA Beckharbam Palace for the o. station at Wands weeti•road, sad pp:m.ol4d by special traia oa the Booth Waders Railway to Gosport, where they oraberked oa lewd the Fairy steam yacht for Bast Vowels, en route to Oalserne Hearse. ROYAL 1114 iLI •411 °PULA, COTS:IT-a LILDIN. Hat )forty, the Prune Cemeort, her Royal MOMS Primer Atka, Nal ber Royal Highness the Primes Reimm atessded be Lady Citerthill, the if... Mara Mac donahl. Load Cr me, sad Lord Alfred Apt, hampered the migraines Le Dossing Nus r with their Femme* bit mesh % Mr. rid Lwiy Jane Peel, Miss P.el, and Major Area, Lama Peel, Kaye wired at their residence is Chest ilr.. lefe►street fu► the woes.. The Ride Hos. the Speaker will bold his levees NoNeese) aen the evesingi et Wedeaday, Nardi& and es Wedeseday, Kira 13, ate quarter pet 10 o'clock. Geaseal Sir De Lacy Ivan+ has lett the Queen's Heist, Upper Norwood. for town. The new telegraphic line recently laid from Otranto to Corfu is now open for the trazuuniasion of ma. sopa THE CALCUTTA MAIL We have received letters from Calcutta to Jan. 22, and from Madras to Jan. 27. The government of India has promised to publish monthly statements of the cash balances in the various treasuries in India, and to furnish other in formation relating to the finances periodically. The Bombay Chamber of Commerce are still moving against the import duties imposed by the late Mr. Wilson, on English manufactured goods and yarns. It is stated that the loam commission at Bombay has been abolished, and that the rent free lands are to be settled on a plan somewhat similar to that adopted in Madras. The first Prince of Travancore has called on his brother princes to unite in subscribing for a throne of solid gold to be presented to her Majesty, as the sovereign of India. He himself offers to subscribe five hundred pounds. Sir William Denison is expected to arrive at Madras about the 20th February. A treaty has been concluded with the Nix= of Hyderabad, which provides for the restoration of certain territory to him, and which cancels a debt of about half a million sterling due by him to the British government. There is still great suffering in the North West Provinces, in conseinenoe of the failure of the crops. Public works have been ordered, and private subscriptions are being raised to alleviate it. The Viceroy held a durbah at Jubbulpore on the 14th of January, which was attended by the Maharajah of Indore and other chiefs of Central India. His lordship is expected to return to Calcutta in February. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CALCUTTA. JAN. 22. EICHANOL —There baring been only two business days since our report rid Bombay there has been little done in bills on London, and rates are about as last quoted. Bank hills may he quoted from 2one 1-16th to 2 one 1-9th ; cre dits at frogs 2-11 to 2-11, and doctunentary at 2.11. On Frown mhos ars as before glided, 1. On Chian the este clean at 2111 pee Bp. dole. 100. Small asks have bees mole on Mauritius at 5.1 i for :10 days sight. Gov cimicir Secuirros.—The advance is the pries of government paper reported in our last has bees barely maintained, the more so so large ammouite will, it is antici pated, be seat round from Bombay where the 61 per cent... are quoted by telegram at par. Moiir Maiiir.—The supply of mosey is still ab un d an t aid could be readily obtained below bank rates, but there are few if any. borrowers. Whilst this plethora @sista here In Bombay it is hardly to be obtaioed at any rate, the bask rate being 13 per cent., and the market extremely light—bow far this will eventually affect our market has yet to be sees. CALCI7TTA, JAN. 29. (lIT TELEGRAPH TO POSIT DE GALLS.) Shirtingn have declined 3 annex. Mule twist is dull. Raw silk and indigo unchanged. Copper quiet. Sugar dull. Saltpetre dull and declining. In linseed little doing. Jute active and prices firm. Hides have an advancing tendency. Shellac dull and declining. Exchange on London :-2, If. Government Securities, Four per Cent., 19 din ; Fives, 4 dis. Freights unchanged. Considerable shipmeuts of rice have been effected. (asurzen TZLIGIUNR.) FRANCE. PARIS, TIIISDAT MOIURIIO. The Monifeur announces that the Corps Legislatif has annulled the election of M. Dabeanz as mem- HUNGARY. PESTH, Fm. 25. Last night a patrol of military police, being insulted by some boys, made use of fire-arms. One person, a waiter, was wounded. PESTA, Fro. 25, EVEMO. The riotous disturbances in this city yesterday took place on the occasion of the Jewish Purim festival. Two of the patrol and several civilians were wounded. The comitat of Agram has resolved upon break ing off all official connexion with the comitat of Perth, on account of the resolution adopted by the municipality of Perth in reference to the state of siege at Fiume. DREADFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT NA PLEB. -A THEATRE BURNT DOWN. (nom on owx NAPLES, Fn. 21. A page of disasters ! On Tuesday afternoon one of those fearful accidents with which Englishmen are, alas, too familiar, occurred on the Caserta Rail way, not far from Maddaloni. Repairs have been for some time going on in order to raise the rails, which have been put out of order by the extra ordinary traffic which has taken place since last August. On the approach of a train, about half past 2 o'clock on Tuesday, the signals not having been properly given or understood, it ran on a portion of the rail which had no support beneath it and broke it in two. The consequence was a fearful shook, by which two carriages were thrown one upon the other, and nine persona killed and forty-one wounded. With one exception, this is the only accident which I remember to have taken place on a Neapolitan line ; but I am much surprised that many other and worse accidents have not taken place, especially on the Castellamare line, which is badly constructed, and is in a wretched state of repair. On the same night the old and spacious Teatre Nuoro was burnt down. The flames burst out at about midnight, when succour was leas likely to obtained, and at 2 o'clock the roof fell in. The Teatre Nuovo was devoted principally to the opera buffs, and is one of the oldest in Naples. Yesterday a very important fact took place here. England and its dependency Corfu were placed in direct communication with each other. The King's speech was telegraphed to the Governor, and sixty one telegrams were received from the island during the morning, and despatched to London. The authorities here have given every facility to those connected with this great enterprise, and placed s steamer at the disposal of the emplayge who left to assist in the operation of laying down the cable. The William Cory, which brought out the cable, had the misfortune to ground not far from Otranto, but was soon got off by the assistance of two steamers, which bad been sent by Admiral Martin. Great rejoicings had taken place in Corfu ; the Governor gave a grand ball, and the Italians were invited and received with great cordiality. By a decree of the present government of Naples the two concordats are solemnly annulled and declared void. An pompon of whatever creed are declared equal before the law, and ecclesiastics have no longer any peculiar ex emption. All monastic order, for either sex cease to be recognised by the government. The same fate has fallen on bezieficesof all kinds without cure of souls, and on all chap. ten of collegiate churches. The property of this, religious houses is taken into the hands of the government, and is to be charged, first with popular education, next with the aug mentation of the salaries of parish priests and with the relief of the most needy members of the clerical body. The fabrics are to be employed for school purposes, among which infant and evening schools are not forgotten. But large and sweeping as is the change the interests of the present inmates of theme houses have bee. cared for. Those who wish to continue a monastic life are to receive a pension', which is to be augmented by one-sixth if they reside out of the cloister. No more novices are to be admitted. Gustavo Modena, a celebrated dramatic artist of Italy, has just died at Milan. His body was conveyed on the nod to Turin to be interred, and the funeral procession was headed by several distinguished perms of the extreme party, including General. Ovens, Mediei, Bizio, Tarr, M. BretTeri°, and a vast number of students. The celebrated soprano singer Ve'lntl, one of the most successful interpreters of Routines mune, died a few days linos. aged SO, at his villa in the environs of Padua, where he has long resided. It was for him that Meyer beer composed his n Croriato, and Ramie his Aurelian is Pnlmira. Velluti was formerly one of the singers in the Sistine ch►peL The Dresden Journal announces the death of the well-known sculptor Rietechel, which event took place on the eve of the day when he was to have exhibited his last work—a car, with four bones, destined for Brunswick, and the models of the statues of Luther and of Wickliffe, for the monument of the Reformation ►t Worms. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. ADDRESS OF THE SENATE TO THE EMPEROR. (nos ous owl PARIS, MONDAY EVEC:Na. At the public sitting of the Senate to-day, M. Troplong in the chair, the following " project " of an address to the Emperor, which has been drawn up by the committee selected for that purpose, was read : Sire,—When your Majesty, by your decree of November N,was pleased to enlarge the sphere of your communications with the great bodies of the state, as also those of the state with the country, the Senate, as the guardian of the funda mental pact, at once understood that the constitution re mained intact, and that it was merely about to be animated by a more energetic movement. We congratulate you, sire, on the august confirmation which your Majesty has given to our interpretation. France neither loves excessive liberty nor excessive power; and for this reason it clings with confidence to the constitution of IBS2, the prudent limits of which at once prevent power from becoming absolute and liberty from going astray. Your Majesty, the author of this constitution, whose root is in the national voice, is also its mainstay, and it is not in your hands that it will deviate from its essential principles. But it is not a deviation from the constitution to open a door to reforms which are inherent in durable institutions, and only repug nant to constitutions behind which there is nothing solid. We hail these reforms with gratitude, and we shall know how to associate ourselves with them with that independ ence which is in our hearts and wishes, and with that mo deration which is the duty of the Senate. The exposition of the home and foreign situation of the country has proved to us, by undeniable documents, your Majesty's constant solicitude for the prosperity and gran deur of the empire. At home order is united with security, and every man feels that he is living with that reasonable degree of liberty which France cannot do without. Our finances do not appear likely to be deranged by the abandonment of 90 millions of receipt., sacrificedto the relief of articlesof general consumption ; for your government does not find it neces sary to fill up this voluntary void, either by resorting to new taxes, which are generally viewed with small favour, or to public credit, which is alw►ys anxious to be spared. Although the manufacturing interest, momentarily alarmed by the treaty of commerce, may be husbanding its strength during the period of transition, it is only that it may find io the stimulus of competition that courage which ensures Inc ome. Meanwhile public works continue to be actively carried on without fear of those shocks which over-enterprise alone can produce. Capital is abundant and desires only to cir culate. It is impatient to see foreign affairs in a settled condition, in order that it may invite material interest, to embark in the career of public and private wealth. This career is now one of the necessary ways of national activity. France does not shrink front confessing this, sloe, in enter ing upon this career, she does not mean in the least degree to abridge her worship of the glories of mind and courage, or to weaken that moral patrimony which is exalted by civilisation. For these reasons the Senate has cheerfully adhered to the measure by which your Majesty has consolidated in the hands of the Minister of State the various services appertaining to letters and the fine arts. Encouragements to works of intelligence honour • reign, and fecundate the genius of an epoch. Centralised under the eyes of the Emperor, these encouragements will be given with greater symmetry, continuity, and success It is also with • lively satisfaction that the Senate has NOD the efficacious solicitude of your government to pro mote religious and literary instruction, to ameliorate the condition of the clergy, end to augment the number of parishes and vicarages in the provinces. The development of moral sentimental. the best auxiliary for the laborious activity of • people. It is in this view that the wishes of the Senate support the laudable efforts of your Majesty's administration to second the communes of the Empire, and more especially the rural communes, in the construction and reparation of their churches, presbyteries, and schools. At the same time that agricultural enterprise is extended under the protecting hand of the Emperor, it is indispensable that the morality of the population should be sustained in a parallel movement of progress. After your Majesty's journey ta Algeria, you determined on • new organisation of the government of that colony. We congratulate you on seeing an illustrious marshal, our oolleegue, called by your confidence to realise the hopes at taching to the system of decentralisation which you have resolved to try. May this system, in which the military element is intended to strengthen and not to efface the civil element, favour more and more those conditions which are essential to the confidence of colonists and the safety of capital. It is certainty in the institutions of the colony which will above all things produce this result—and this certainty is in the spirit of our constitution and the ides of the Emperor. Abroad, sire, your Majesty, by the frankness of the coin• munications of your government, has enlightened the public conscience and confirmed the confidence of the country in the greatness of France and in the maintenance at peace. The alarms which were some time ago excited by the sunouncement of a " fatal epoch" (meaning war in the spring) have vanished. The diplomatic correspondence throws a striking light upon the good understanding of France with foreign nations, the weight of her consideration, and the value of her moderate and conciliatory policy. In Syria you have placed the sword of France between the Christian populations and Mussultnan fanaticism. The mainacres of our Christian brethren have been stayed by the sight of your flag. But more—the French army, faithful to your appeal, has been into the extreme East to raise up the Cross, which was laid low by Asiatic superstition. As missionaries of religion and avengers of French interests, our soldiers, united with these of Great Britain, have opened a way for ideas, trade, sod civilisation in the capital of the Celestial Empire. That was • splendid day when in the restored church a " Ts Deuce resounded for the Lord, and a "Domino Salvum" for the Emperor. If we now cast our eyes towards the Italian peninsula, we are struck, like your Majesty, with the events of which it has been the theatre since last session. Two interests of the first order, which the Emperor would have wished to conciliate, are in conflict, and Italian liberty is in hos tility with the court of Rome. To prevent and star this ooefiict, your government has attempted everything which political ability and loyalty could suggest. To some you have pointed out the course dictated by the law of nations, to others that by facts. In one place you have severed yourself from unjust aggressions ; in another you have been grieved by impolitic resistance. Everywhere you have been moved by noble misfortunes and unhappy ruins. Finally, all just means have been used, and you have only stopped at the use of force. For it is not by armed interventions that thoughts of conciliation are to be realised. Your Majesty has not forgotten, more. over, that, in other times, the fault of France has been to pretend to rule Italy after having freed her ; and you have wished to disentangle French policy from that which would have embarrassed it, not thinking that because it has seemed right to intervene in favour of Italy op pressed by the foreigner, it would be proper to in tervene to constrain the will of enfranchised Italy. This system of non-intervention, the best for preventing plural conflagrations, will clue. the field of our secular rivalries with Austria ; and if, despite sinister predictions, a European war does not break out in the spring, it is because your Majesty, maintaining a wise attitude, has resisted the impulses of ardent passions, as you have refused to yield to reactionary demands. And this pros will be a benefit as precious for Italy as for us ; for Italy will not be appreciated by the world which watches her if die does not prove that she bas no wish to agitate Europe by her liberty after having so long troubled it by her misfortunes. Let her remember, above all, that catholicism has confided to her the head of the church, the representative of the greatest moral force of humanity. The religious interests of France demand that she shall not forget this; the friendly souvenirs of Magenta and Solferino lead us to hope that she will keep it in mind. But our firmest hope is in the tutelary and indefatigable hand of your Majesty. Your aim affection for a holy cause, which you do not confound with those of intrigues which borrow its mask, is incessantly manifested in the defence and the maintenance of the temporal power of the Bove. reign Pastier ; and the Senate does not hesitate to give its entire adhesion to all the acts of your loyal, moderate, persevering policy. For the future we shall continue to place our confidence in the monarch who covers the papacy with the French flag, who has assisted it i• its trials, and bas constituted himself for Rowse and the Pontifical throne the most vigilant and faithful sentinel. Sire, in the midst of the questions which seem to force themselves upon Europe, France is perhaps the country in which there is the least to do, because of all that she has done. However, a nation like ours cannot remain inactive; labour and progress are its destiny ; and it is from your Majesty the most beneficial impulses will proceed. What. I ever may be the part reserved for the Senate in the national movement, your Majesty may rely upon its seal, its de votion, and its love for the public interests and truth. The Bourse has been duller than ever, and with out any marked feature. The Rente fell 15c. for cash, and sc. for account, closing at 68fr. sc. and 68fr. 10c. Mobilier fell lfr. 25c. The Caisse Mires rose sfr., closing at 95fr. Several journals in the elaveholding states of America lately spoke in a triumphant tone of the arrival in France of a deputation from South Caro. line for the purpose of cultivating an alliance with Napoleon 111., and the New York Times, in a recent article headed "How the Deputation was Re ceived," recorded with great glee that it had met with a snubbing at the Tuileries. But it now ap pears that the whole story of the deputation was a fable. Colonel Falkner, the American minister here, never having heard of the facts alleged by the transatlantic papers, called on M. Tbouvenel a day or two since to inquire whether there was any truth in them, and he received from the French Minister for Foreign Affairs the most posi tive assurances that no delegate from South Carolina, or from any other secessionist state baa ever been received either by the Emperor or by himself. One only citizen of a slave state, has lately had an audience of the Emperor, namely, General Stevenson, of Tennessee (a state, by the way, which has not left the Union), and he solicited this audience merely in his character of chairman of the Pacific Railway Company. Colonel Falkner knows of no delegates from South Carolina having arrived in Paris, and he wishes this statement to be made public. CHINA. Further correspondence respecting affairs in China has just been presented to the House of Lords. It relates exclusively to the opening of the two ports of Han.kau and Kin-Kiang in the Yaag-tse to foreign tads. Mr. Bruce writes to Lord John Rus sel l OD Dec. 2, It6o, that under the treaty of Tien-tain we had technically no right to insist on the immediate opening of the river, but the cap. lure of Soo-chow by the iusurgeuta, and the bearing of the♦ incident awl of the progress of the rebellion particularly on the import trade, rendered it most desirable to rind an on. interrupted channel of communication with the western pro vinces of China. In furtherance of this object a correspondence took place between Mr. Brune and Prince Kong. Mr. Bruce informs the Prince that he regards it as expedient that for the present but two ports should be opened; namely, Han-kau and Kiu-Kiang ; and in order to the pre vention of abuses in the present disturbed sl i d the river he would propose that the trade wi these be carried on under the following regulations : duties leviable under the new tariff upon import or export cargoes on board British vessels proceeding up or down the river will be payable at Shanghai or Ching-kiang-fu, and the customs authorities will take such steps as seem to them necessary for the enforcement of this rule. Every British vessel proceeding up or down the river shall be permitted to carry for her protection such an amount of arms and ammunition as shall appear to the Chinese customs to be reasonable, and this amount of arms and ammunition shall ! be entered is &certificate to be called the "Arms Certifi cate," which shall be delivered by the customs to any master of a British vessel applying for it. Any vessel trafficking in arms or ammunition, or carrying an amount of either in excess of that specified in her arms certificate, shall be I liable to have her cargo confiscated sod to be prohibited from farther trading ou the river. Mr. Bruce concludes by requesting b i n Highness to aline the seceassry instructions. Prince Kung replies, agreeing to Mr. Bruce • proposals. On Dec. 6 Lord Elgin writes to Lord John Russell, from Shanghai, where be was engaged in considering, with the officers of the Imperial customs and some of the leading merchants, the conditions under which the opening of the river might be carried out : " If a legitimate trade can he eatabliahed on this river I believe that great advantage will accrue from it, both to the people of China and to the foreigners who engage in it; , more especially at present, when the communication be tween the producing districts and the ports on the seaboard are obstructed by the rebellion. It will go some way to wards affording to the inhabitants of the interior a market and security, which are all that • Chinaman requires to render him one of the most valuable customers. But very different consequences will, I fear, ensue from this measure if smugglers and filibusters, under the protection of terror and exterritoriality, are enabled to avail themselves of this channel of communication to introduce foreign arms and recruits into the disturbed districts, and thereby to extend and perpetuate the reign of anarchy which threatens to convert one of the meet fertile regions of the earth and its industrious population into a wilderness haunted by heeds of ruffians. Irregular profits on consignments of guns and gunpowder will be dearly purchased if they are obtained by processes which will dry up the sources of pro duction in the tea and silk-growing provinces of China. Your lordship can well understand the anxiety which I feel to frame such regulations for the trade on the Yangtze as shall keep in some check, if they do not altogether pre vast, this great mischief." The Colombo °teener of the 30th ult. says : " Sir Edward Creasy has just afforded the inhabitants of Colombo a very high treat, in the shape of a lecture on the belief of the ancient Greeks in a future state. We Lead not say that the lecture was rich in classical allusion and is poetical sentiment, rich too in lessons of instruction. The Chief Justice is now in ?lowers Ellis with his family." We learn from the Bombay Gazette that an action for libel in the Supreme Court of Bombay is about to be instituted against the publisher of the " Vesouv Punch," • Gujrati journal, by a Mr. Gunputram, a Brahmin who lately married a widow of his own caste. By doing so be incurred the indignation of many of his countrymen, and was subject to constant annoyance from them. The " Venue Punch" became the vehicle of this abuse. Among the individuals who have been expelled from Rome, the followed are specified by name :—This brothers Gulmanelli, one • wine merchant, and the other an engraver ; Signora Bartolomeo Polverosi (well known amongst Anglo-Roman followen of the hounds) and Tittoni, extensive landowners; Del Nero, merchant; Sellini„ lawyer ; Baldelli, shoemaker; the brothers Fideli, Roselli. and Loesuxini, • post-eflice unplogf. THE CAIRO COURT-MARTIAL—The revelations made by the Cairo court-martial are destitute of interest. Four officers were tried, but the witnesses who were called forward were generally more in fault than the prisoners. On what principle the prisoners were singled out appears to be quite unintelligible. One witness admitted having said, " How d'ye do, old fellow," as the Niche peened him in the mosque, but in a very low tone of voice. The others implicated merely laughed and bowed in the mosque and • overturned earthenware lamps in the street. The evidence failed fully to convict any of them of being intoxicated on the occasion. The sentence of the courtmartial is not yet known. The singular story of Lieutenant It. C. Kennedy is one of the subjects on the topic at present. This gentleman, when at IMSOILICUS, thought proper to dress, speak, and act like • native of the place, chiefly, as he said, to perfect his knowledge of Arabic. He gave out that his mother was a Mahommedso, and ad mitted having married a Musoulinanee in Damascus while he had a Muasulman wife living in Bombay. The STIM . M4 charge against him was that be spoke apinst the BriUsh government, and wished well to the cause of the rebels. He has been dismissed from the army by order of the Secretary of State.—Orrrland Friesd of Isdia, Jan. V. MURDER OF AN ENOLISH CLOWN AT CONi4TANTING• ria.—On Monday evening a cowardly murder was com mitted near the Til6., under circumstances of such trivial provocation as give to the crime an unusual degree of guilty cruelty. Three masquen—one of them a woman -were swaggering noisily down the stree t in the quarter in question as Howard, on e . of this English clowns at Boulher's Circus, and some friends were leaving a cafe in the neighbourhood. The dominoed ruffians, with whom scurrilous license passed for wit, addressed some remark of the former sort to Howard end his companions, to which the Englishman promptly replied. From " chaffing" the wordplay soca grew to worse, and, the mammon still coming off second beet, one of them sidled up to poor Howard and stabbed him deep into the abdomen before the cowardly intention could be perceived. The ruffians then fled, but pursuit being made, the woman was seized—her male companions succeeded in making good their escape down a couple of the narrow and dark lanes in the neigh. bourhood. The victim of this diudardly act was speedily carried up to the hospital of the Sinters of Charity; bat, though every care wee there lavished upon him, the poor fellow died during the night. The actual auesein is said to be an Italian, known to the police. One of his all° elates, a tinker named Marco, and who is believed to have been his companion on Monday evening, is in custody:. /emit Herald, Feb. 13. --.-.-, - FATAL ACCIDENT BY FALLING FROM • WINDOW.--• This morning a fatal &oddest 000arred to Mary Ann Reeves. ned 38 years, who resided in Dover-street, licasdillys Illiellwaa cleaning the windows upstairs when *be ws• seized with vertigo and fell, fracturing her skull in • most frightful manner. She was conveyed to St. George's Hospital, where death ensued. 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