The Express. — London, England, 1860-04-07 00:00:00

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In Oda cimetry of the Onveruseet of Victoria for the negotiation of the above Lien HURRY OIVIL NOTICE that they will le ready to TRIAT for a YURI - MLR PORTION of the Jib...renamed DRRICNTUREtt, not enoseding ti,1160,000 AM's:. by Pl' IMO* TENDRIL, at the London end Westminster bank, at two o clock precnely, ea the afternoon of W CDS ta. t 1. the 11th id April neat, up to which time sealed tenders will le 'weaved them from all pulite who may forward the same. addrypeed to the I hairman of the Committee, and endorsed •. T. wive. for the Victoria 9ta per Cast. bra," or attend In per. Soo there. Ith 1n tsarina/quality a tinders beyond the amount s e le ~tit. they will be subject to a pro rail diminution. 4 d r ,...44 .43 per MIL OS the amount of each tender mast he prertomly teed to the Les sad Wedralaster Bank, or to the I..dttn J. 4 tock hook sad the Banker's receipt for the same to 1ir...1 oda the leader. 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Tiiis CYMirstY Miss AMY AktMAVICE will give bet PO- Pi LAR IttAlolNiet from Dramatic and other writers —At the conk hision of the grading* Miss Amy oledgwick will Volunteer en ( original Address, wrlttea by Tom Taylor, isq —Commence at & PRI RCM'S. Om CAM' IthenaL THE MAX OF THE WORLD. Yr. Phelps—And anew fairy ettravinza. entltkal TRE S L PRIDE. Revere F. Matthews, Shore. Cathcart. wad Baker Mrs. Weak., Nimes C Leclerc% L Keeky , Lalereq, H. Howard, t Laidlaw. BRITANNIA. TRt ETTWBO, a grand CIIVCERT and DRAWING ROOM EN TERTAINMENT by the Delpierre Patudy deo. the ppaeett %Ise kney. +am Collins. Plum fisatiard. Madarbe Cekete Steph.to. the Tredve. Mar Oadrad add loom, dc., de HIGH WATIR AT LONDON 111 O!. THIS DAT —MOWN% SL 491 M. • .Alissvaes. A. 4m. TD gic•ir Wm— • .Allsessuo. can. LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 7. WE fear that the Apostolic Letter which we published yesterday, certified by a pair of profes- sional "rimier'," has disappointed general expec tation. After that hearty traditional anathema the form of which has been in circulation for the last week, the exconununication which has just been sealed with the Fisherman's ring seems languid and tame. The Pore was free to speak majestically in the confidence of a divine power, or to appeal in his weakness from the passions and interests of the time to the justice and equity which are eternal He has done neither, but issued a document in which the weakest and most confused reasoning prefaces a poor and indefinite threat. It was not by such maundering that Can.iiar VII. or INNoezev 111. built up the authority of the See of Rome over secular Princes. The introduction of this brief is a curious jumble of contraditions. The POP, /VI :—" As the " Catholic Church, founded and established "by the Lord Cu•tsr for the everlsst " ing salvation of mankind, has acquired the " form of • perfect society by its Divine charac " ter, it ought therefore, in the fulfilment of its " sacred ministry, to possess that freedom which " will exempt it from subjection to any civil " p•ower. And furthermore, in order to obtain " that, the Church required those guarantees which " were in accordance with the conditions and " necessity of the times. It was therefore in ac " conlance with Divine Providence that, after the " fall of the Homan Empire and its consecutive " division into several kingdoms, the Romish " Po►r whom Ctt•ter has established as the chief " and the centre of His whole Church, obtained " temporal power. Till.rvfore it has been ordered " by thin in the wisest manner that as such a " great number and variety of Princes exist, the '• Holy Pore should enjoy that political liberty " which is so much wanted in order to exercise " his spiritual power, authority, and jurisdiction '• in the whole world without any impediments. " And th••r•fore it was necessary that the Catholic " world sloaild not have any reason to suppose " that the• !foolish Port is 'subject toany influence " ~f powers, or biassed in the exercise of " the religious powers which the Holy Bee THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1860. " has to fulfil over the greater part II the " Christiana." The HOLY Fars= sets out by presenting al lofty conception of • Church, from which its high y prerogatives are easily deduced. But all at once descending from the region of abstract ideas, he be comes historical, alighting, not by accident, on the eighth century. We are prepared by his opening for something sublime and poetical, but get no further than the second sentence before we are addressed in the language of diplomacy touching " guarantees in accordance with the necessity of " the times." Now, heretics as we are, we are quite ready to hear the Pon discuss his temporal power, either accord ing to the theory or the fact, historically or on principle ; but we see no hope of enlightenment in this muddling together of the two. If it is necessary that the Catholic Church, in order that it may fulfil the end of its institution in the everlasting salvation of mankind, should be ex alted above the civil power, how are we to ac- count for the fact that centuries were allowed to elapse before it attained this distinction T How account for the yet more striking fact, that the great triumphs of Christisnity—the overthrow of Roman idolatry for instance—were effected by a church in chains I A writer who is entitled to com pliment his Maker on the wisdom of His adminis tration of the world might have told us why it was good that the lovers of THIODOZA and MAROZIA should have exercised a temporal power which had been denied to Pwraa. Looking at the history of the earliest and best days of the Church we are quite unable to discover that the temporal authority of the Pore is neces sary to the salvation of souls. If we interrogate facts the evidence is quite on the other side. For whereas until the time of PIM and CHAILLZKAONE the bishopric of Rome had been held by pastors of learning, ability, and piety, no sooner had these Princes enriched the Popedom with the fruits of their Italian conquests —among them this very Romagna over which Pius IX. now laments— than the Papal chair became an object of suc cessful ambition to men who sullied their office with the most debasing and atrocious crimes. With few exceptions, the Pores of the 9th andlOth centuries shocked mankind with their scandalous vices. For several years two prostitutes gave away the papal dignity, and amidst • series of re volutionssix Popes were deposed and twomurdered. Such were the first consequences of the extension of the temporal power of the Bishop of Rome. We cannot admit that they are in harmony with the idea from which the Pore in this letter sets out. But his Holiness also argues from the fact, " Thus it happened, and thus, " therefore, it was ordered by GOD." But this argument will not serve the Pors in the least. If the intentions of Providence are to be inferred from the course of history, then clearly it was never intended that the Porn should exercise a direct sovereign authority in Romagna. As M. Done observed, in the French Senate, last week, " The Pore has hardly ever had more than " the rights of a suzerain in Romagna, and the " capitulation of Bologna, signed in 1447 by Pope " NicoLui V., constituted this town • real " republic, attached to the Sovereign Pontiffs by " • merely nominal bond, and by the presence of " • Legate, who was honorary President of the " Government, while the administration and " finances of the country were in the hands of " elective magistrates." This is the arrangement which Pius IX. haughtily rejected when it was offered to him after the peace of Villafranca. Convenient as it may be to Rome to transfer to its earthly advantages the sacredness which man kind is ever ready to recognise in spiritual duties, the fact is not to be concealed that its temporal power has been from time to time reco vered, maintained, and extended by the same arta as that of profane rulers. As soon as the Popes became secular princes they put on both the virtues and the vices of their contemporaries. The beginnings of their governments were recom mended by their mildness and public spirit at a time of selfishness and strife. As long as it suited them they enjoined on their people fidelity to the Emperors at Constantinople, but when one of these disagreed with them about image worship, they had no scruple in encouraging the Romans to re nounce the Imperial authority and constitute a republic, of which the real power devolved on the Papacy. Just as little did they stick at recognising the tlc facto Government of the Csazovosorsris, although the lawful King of FRANCE was alive, and they had their reward from PATIN and CRADLE maaNr. The possessions of the Pontiffs again and again fell into the hands of petty chiefs, and were recovered at various times by the arta of policy, by fraud and intrigue, by encouraging rivalry and faction, and generally by outdoing their enemies in treachery. There is, then, nothing to take the temporal power of the Pope out of the ordinary conditions of all secular rule. The first subjects of the Popes gave them a willing obedience because they said, "It is better to be " under the crozier of a Bishop than the sceptre " of a King." But bishops have changed since that time, and so have kings, and the people of Ro magna have had good cause to conclude that there is to be found under the sceptre of Vicroa EXUANUEL that protection and legality which Pius IX. cannot afford them. Now as all the world knows that they are right, it appears to us that the Pore has done an unspeakably foolish thing in issuing a letter charging those who have delivered them—not from his rule—but from the rule of the Austrian generals who shot them down like dogs or tortured therein secret dungeons, with a " great profanation " and with " violating the " laws of GOD." The charge of profanity rather falls on those who speak of "the Holy Spirit " and the most holy Apostles Perim and PAUL" in connexion with the detestable administration of Cardinal ANTONZLLI. Weshallsoonlearnwh.atthe effect of this pitiable exhibition of spiritual rancour has been in Italy. In the meantime, we hope the day is not far distant when the millions of Italy will be able to learn for themselves what the Holy Spirit has revealed about the nature of the Church and the sources of her spiritual power. RECRE ,, ANTATION OW HARWICH. The three liberal candidates, Mr. Tbmwatio, Mr. Brett, and Mr. Maintain Chambers, are en before the constituency, while the coo...natives bare win* waited all their stnngth in favour of the Has. R. T. Bawley. The latter gentlemen will in all probability be niternerl unless the liberals can heal their differences, &Wiseman their section'. Naval, Rtrallita.—in an article on this eubect, }male) no the statem en t o f th e Surveyor of the Navy. that at the nil of fifteen years on an avenge this hull of each ship in the navy requires eceeplete and extensive repair. and that the distance of • ship of war assent be estimated at more than thirty pan, the Are, cad Nury (Male rye " The surveyor took far heAusdente the avenge of the tee years been late to 11 1 0 n whoa thirty dive ships of the use and forty-sit frigates were re moved from the effective list id the navy. We much fear that none of our 'converted' ships, am indeed any of our finest specimens of naval architecture, will stand the wear do tear for the periods wanted to them by the naval sur veyr ; and it is eupposed. when he made the above dam meant he alluded to the duration of mai/Mg ships only, for we have bail • few warnings lately as to the future fate of our Victories, Hewes, Duneans. and Diadems, hy the in ' troduction steam into ships of WM'. We have found that, instead of requiring a complete repair race in fifteen years only, as many months are sometimes snakiest to send a ship into dock." Cbe Court.. . IVINDSOR/CASTLE,Woon FRIDAT. WM Queen fend Prince Consort, the Prince at Wale, Prisms Mice, Prince Alfred, and Priasees Leimn gee, stSended v dirine service this morning in the rptivato chapel. The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor and the Rev. W. L. Onslow officiated and administered the Holy Sacrament. Priam Arthur and the Princesses Helena and Louisa, the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and the domestic house. hold, also attended divine service. Lord and Lady Wodehouee have left town for the Royal Victoria Hotel, St. Leonard's-on-Sea, for the MONS. The Right Hon. Earl De Grey and Ripon has arrived 4 Studley Hall, Yorkshire. Mr. Wise, M.P. for Stafford, will be entertained by his constituents at a public dinner on the 11th instant. We are sorry to learn that Lord Valentin has lately received swore injuries by a fall from his hone. The Earl of Airlie was re-installed on Thursday Lord Rector of Harisolsal College, Aberdeen. He addressed the students and a numerous audience in the hall of the college. The student, entertained hie lordship at a ban. quet in the afternoon. _ Sir Charles Eastlake has submitted a scheme to the academicians for placing the Royal Academy on a rimilar footing to a university ; the academicians to be the senate, and the whole body of competent artists the cor poration. _ At the request of an eminent lady, Mr. E. G. Papworth took a cast from Mn. Jameson's face after death. Tbis east is to be used, we (oligeacenns) believe, in preparing a bust of the dammed. Mr. Foley has completed his statue of Caractacus, which will immediately be placed at the Mansion House, London. This artist has also received the commission to execute a statue of Goldsmith, to be placed in Trinity Col• lege, Dublin. The names of some of the beat engravers were lately submitted to the Queen for her decision es to who should be employed to engrave the recently-executed por- traits, by Winterhalter, of herself and the Prince Consort. Her Majeety decided upon Meows. Coupons and Bellin. Mr. Swift, whose beginnings as a tenor singer were so promising, has returned to this country, for the present disabled from pursuing his profession, owing to bed health. Mr. Leigh Murray ia engaged at the Atlelphi Theatre, where he will shortly arks his appearance. Mr. and Dirs. Charles Kean have, it is said, just entered into an enpgsmeat with Mr. E. T. Bnuth to appear 24 night. at l)rury.laee Theatre, and will, according to present arrangements, commence their performances on the 28th of January, extending them to the 28th of Pebrusry next. On Tuesday last Mr. Maeready, the eminent tragedian, who, till recently, has resided at Sherborne, was united in marriage, at the church of St. John, Durdham Down, Clifton, to Min Cecile Louise F. Spencer, grand• daughter of the late Sir William Beecbey. Messrs. Beale and Chappell, the well-known music publishers in Regent-street, base presented Mr. Fitzball, the dramatist, with a valuable and elegantly chased silver teapot, bearing the following inicription : "From T. F. Beale and W. Chappell to Edward Fitsbell— • tribute of esteem to the author of Lariiise. 1880." The utmost activity is displayed by the contrao ton for completing the Great Eastern, and, according to present arrangementa, she is expected to be ready by the beginning of June to accompany the squadron which takes the Prince of Wales to Canada. She will, however, ft is said, most probably can at Queenstown for a day before be ginning her run to Portland. On and after May 1 a mail train will leave Lon don at 7 o'clock cm., reaching Dover at 9 o'clock, and ar. rangementa are being made by which the mail will reach Paris at 6 o'clock the same afternoon. The Prince of Carignan gave a grand dinner on the 2nd to Baron Ricanoli, General Durando, and other dis tinguished personages at Florence. WHITEHALL, APRIL s.—The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. John Robertson to the church at Strontiao, in the presbytery of Mull, and shire of Argyll, vacant by the transportation of the Rev. James It'Fadyen to the church sad parish of Kildaltcs.--Clezette. Dowlmw-erazzr, APRIL 5. —The Queen has been pleased to appoint Thosnas Francis Quin, Eaq. to be a mem ber of the Legislative Council of her Majeetys Settlements in the River Gambia.—Oareetc. BOARD OF MAD; WarranALL, APRIL s.—The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade sod Plantations have received, from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Rome, enclosing a translation of a de cree issued by the Papal government, authorising the free ••mportation into each of the Roman States of Indian corn aad Indian corn meal, sod permitting the free importation of grain and flour into the Moditerranean provinces only of those stater.—Gazette. WILL OF THE LATE MR. COLLARD.—The will and two codicils of the late Frederick William Collard, of 26, Cheateide, pianoforte-manufacturer, who died there, on the 31st of January, 1860, at the advanced age of 88, were proved in the London Court, on the 28th of March, 'by JUIIIOI P. Theobald, of Furnival's-inn, solicitor ; Robert lAddiaon, of Regent-street, music-publisher ; and Henry G. Bohn, of York-street, Covent - garden , publisher, the Lemke* Lid executors, who administered to the personal effects, under 140,0001. He has left to each • legacy— namely, Mr. Theobald, 5001. ; Mr. Addi son , 1501 . ; an d Mr. Bohn, 1501. To his widow he leaves an annuity of 1,0001., and all his household furniture, plate, fic., ohm lately ; to his sister Sylvia Collard an annuity of 200 f. ; and to hie sister Phoebe Collanl an annuity of 501.; to his godson, Alfred Beverley Collard, son of his nephew i Frederick Fr- Collard, he bee deeiied his treelield if Hampton, Devon, which he had lately purchased. There are numerous be 'ci eats to the various members of his family—riz., hi s brother, u sisters, uncles, e' nephews, nieces, mains, and to other relatives and friends. To his faithful servant, Susan Henigan, the interest of 1,0001. for her life, and at her demise that amount to be sunk in an annuity for the life of her daughter, to be for her own free use and control. All legacies to be free of legacy duty. The residue, which forms the principal part of his property, he loaves to be divided equally between bin two nephews, Charles Lukey Collard and Frederick William Collard, who are brothers, sad were in partnership with him. The will bean date, the 15th of June, 1853, and the codicils in 1858 and 1858. WILL OF THE LATE Ma. STEPHEN., OF Rom asmrresr.—The will and codicil of Stephens Lyme Stephens, Esq., of Reehampton, Surrey, and of Lynfonl Hall, near Brandon, Norfolk, who died at Roehampton on the 28th of February, were presented for probate in the principal re gistry by Messrs. Tysoe and Co., solicitors, Frederick's.place, Old Jewry and the grant made, on the 29th of March, to Mdme. Yu lance Mane Louise Stephens, the relic and sole executrix, who administered to the personalty as being un d er the nano of 700,0001. The trustees are Sir Richard B . W. Bulkeley, Bart, ILF., Sir John W. Lubbock, Bart., and John Lubbock, Fen., (the Wife king appointed by the codicil in the room of Baron Rehausen, deceased). To tech of his trustees he has left a legacy of 5001. He has be queathed to his wife an immediate legacy 45,000 e, and the residence and estate of Roehiusaton, with all the furniture and effects, and the lands and tenements and property there, for her own absolute use. He also bequeaths to her the mansion and estate of Lynford Hall for her life, together with the sum of 300,0001. in trust, for her to receive there from the interest, dividends, and proceeds for her life, as well as a life interest in the residue of his property. He has left some handsome bequests and annuities to his rela tives and personal friends, but the bulk of his property Is hallmarked to his widow for her life, and at her decease It is to the issue of his uncle, Willi am Lyn*, and of his deceased nuclei, the Rev. Richard Lyme, Edward Lyue, and Joseph Lyme. The will is dated December 5, M. 1851, - and the co died October 29, 1859, and witnessed by Tatham and IL H. Tatham, solicitors, Lincoln's-inn-llelds. THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLIET.Thia gal lery will he throws freely open to holiday folks, without tickets. on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday next. The hours of admission will be from ten to live. On ordinary public days the Gallery is not open before twelve o'clock. An interesting niedalhoo of Kirke White by Chantrey, has recently been added to the collection. It was presented by Dr. Boott, at whoa expense the original monument was erected many years ago over the poet's grave in All Saints' Church, Cambridge. The medallion haa the additional importance of showing that the trustees recognise the plastic art as a legitimate means of portraiture. Casts from the tombs of Shakspeare and of Mary Queen of Scots are already there ; and it is to be hoped as soon as more commodious apartments are provided that marble bola, and small statute, too, may be forthcoming. At present the pictures have attained the number of ninety-seven.-- Allemerval. NATIONAL COLLECTION or WATER COLOUR PAIWrIInIn. —A collection of works in this particularly national art trill be first exhibited to the public in the Etheepaksisks Ordlvry, at the South Kensington Museum, on Easter Monday. It has been formed for the instruction of art students, partly from the collection given by Mr. sheepshanks, partly by purchases, andpertly by loans liberally satrasted to the donna and Art t„ LATEST INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. PARIS, SATURDAY. The Moniker of this morning announces that the Minister for Foreign Affairs, M. Thouvenel, has informed the municipality of Thonon of the intention of the Emperor to protect the commercial intercede of Faucigny and Chablais, by establishing • commercial zone in their favour similar to that existing for Gex. FRANCE AND DENMARK PARK FRIDAY, Aran. 6. ' . The reported negotiations for the conclusion of an offensive and defensive treaty between France and Denmark are contradicted by the following official facts : M. Dotessic, minister of France at Copenhagen, was recalled in the month of December. Baron Bandin, his successor, is still in Paris, and will leave, to take pomeesion of his post, a month hence. On the other aide, Baron Derkink Holm feld, Danish minister at Paris, was recalled two months ago, and is about to be replaced by Count Moltke. Baron Derkink Holmfeld will deliver his letters of recall after the Easter holidays. It is therefore evident that such important negotiations could not be commenced between the two cabinets at the very moment when their representatives are recalled, and when their successors have not en tered upon their functions. SAVOY AND NICE. TURIN, FWD" Ann. 6. The Opinion of to-day states that in eight or ten days the inhabitants of Savoy and Nibe will vote by universal suffrage on the question of annexation to France. THE NEUTRALITY OF NORTHERN SAVOY. The indipenclance Beige contains important official correspondence relating to the question of the neu trality of Northern Savoy, and consisting of two notes of M. Tourte, Swiss Minister at Turin, and the reply of Count Cavour. In the first note the Minister of Switzerland reiterates the protest against the occupation of Chablais and Faucigny by France; in the second, dated the 30th of March, he demands that Sardinia shall leave in those two districts its civil authorities and its police. Count Cavour, in his reply, reassures the Confederation with regard to the French occupa tion, and engages, France having invited the assem bling of a conference for the settlement of the ques tion, to press for the convocation of such an as sembly. SPAIN. MADRID, Aram 6. It is aasertod that the Emperor of Morocco has ratified the bases of the treaty of peace. MADRID, FRIDAY Evzxnca. Three personages of the highest rank have been arrested with General Ortega, at Calends. MADRID, THUILSDAY EVIIINING. The official Gazette publishes a decree degrading General Ortega Elio has been captured by the Alcalde of Vinaroz. Tranquillity prevails everywhere. The Madrid journals of the 2nd state that a tele graphic despatch received by the government an nottncee that a band of thirty horsemen had raised the standard of insurrection on behalf of Count de Montemolin at Arenda de Duero, in the province of Burgos, and that the captain-general of the pro vince had arrested, "by way of precaution," two noted Carlint chiefs, brothers, of the name of Hierroa, who had long been resident in the city. Arenda de Duero is in the north of Spain, at a considerable dbitanoe from the place in which Ge neral Ortega attempted a rising. SARDINIA. TURIN, Aran. 6. The Sardinian government will have to appoint new Minister-Plenipotentiaries at Berlin and Berne, as Count Laney and the Chevalier Jocteau, who at present occupy those posts, will by the cession of Savoy, of which they are natives, pass with the same rank into the service of France. THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. BUCHAREST, Aram 5. The news published by some Paris papers, that Prince George Stirbey, eldest son of the former Hoepudar of Wallachia, had been arrested for high treason, is unfounded. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (FROM OM OWN CORI PARIS, FALDLT ErlNtlfG. The Pays says that there is no doubt whatever of the approbation of the Sardinian parliament of the cession of Savoy and Nice, and that in order the "better to ensure the success of the proposal Count Cavour has resolved to make it a cabinet question." The latter assertion shows what a bitter pill Sardinia is to be made to swallow. The French government is not a little anxious about the rough truths which are likely to be spoken by some of the Sardinian deputies, and the semi•ofBcial journals think it necessary to say beforehand that no attention should be paid to the aberrations of men new to public business, and elected at a mo ment of excitement. The Bourse has sustained yesterday's quotations, but not the highest of the day, and the amount of business done was not large. The Rents closed at yesterday's prices, 70fr. for cash and 69f. 95fr. for ac count, being a rise of tio. The highest price of the day for time was 70fr. 10c., and the lowest 69fr. 90c. Mobilier rose 2fr. 50c. The Orleans and Eastern Railways rose 2fr. or 3fr. ; the other lines were from lfr. 26c. to 2fr. 50c. lower. The Bank of Frame has increased from i to } per cent. its commission for paying railway divi- ;Node to holders of shares. The French government has given orders to have the works on the railway between Rennes and Brest urged on as rapidly as possible. The lifesaver de Nice says :—" We learn from a good source that the French government has given orders to the Mediterranean Railway Company to commence without delay the works of the line from Toulon to Nice ; and that in consequence engineers and surveyors are to arrive at Nice within a few days to complete the survey of the line." The Siock points out that the constitution of January 14, 1862, does in an indirect way reserve to the government the power which it has now for the first time used, of publishing the debates in the Senate. Art. 16 of the law on the press prohibits the journals from giving any account of the sittings of the Senate otherwise than by simply "reproducing articles inserted in the official journal." These "articles" were originally intended to be, as they have hitherto always been, mere ',ion minutes of the results of the sitting ; but, it having been thought desirable to let the public read M. Dupin's crushing answer to the pretensions of the ultra - monetarists, it appears to have been ruled that the word " article" in tie organic laws is auffi eiently elastic to aompilee • verbatim report of the speeches which in principle ought to be kept secret. As few will desire to dispute this construction, even if anybody had the power, the precedent will pro bably remain unchallenged. The Debate takes the opportunity to express a hope that the exception, by virtue of which this interesting debate in the Senate has been made public, may hereafter become the rule. The Pattie is presumptuous enough to denounce the late bull of excommunication as being null and void, and for this position it relies upon the autho rity of St. Augustine, the " father " and St. Thomas the " prince "of theology. St. Augustine said, " Prinosps, et multitudo non est excom municando." It is very certain, however, that the practice of the church is against St. Augustine's doctrine so far as it relates to the immunity of princes from excommunication, because princes have many tunes been excommunicated and have often kissed the rod with great humility. But with regard to a " multitude " his high authority receives strong confirmation from St. Thomas, who says " Singuli de communicate excommunari possunt non autem ipsa communitas." Every rindividual composing a crowd may be excom municated, but not the crowd in a lump, and St. Thomas gives as a reason that if it were otherwise, the innocent and the guilty, the wheat and the tares, might all be struck together. The Patric proceeds to argue that the Pope, in ex communicating, without specially designating names, all " spoliators and invaders" of the ponti fical domains, runs counter to the doctrine of St. Augustine and St. Thomas, touching the excom munication of a multitude. I do not think, how ever, that this argument will hold water, because the Pope when, although in general terms, he excommunicates all those who are guilty very effectually steers clear of the innocent. Moreover, it is but lost labour to cite the fathers of the church against the Pope, because he holds himself and is held by catholics to be the sole interpreter of whatever they may have said. The most rational course for those who do not really believe in the efficacy in this nine teenth century of the rusty armour of Rome, is to admit the excommunication to be a very good and valid excommunication but to laugh at it. This is what the Side does in an article from which the following is an extract : We have not yet before us the text of the excommunica tion, but we cannot do otherwise than deplore the manner in which the Comtitutionnd, in its quality of a govern mental journal, thinks fit to receive it. What! the Conaii fidionnel itself admits that this excommunication is not based on spiritual acts, but is a simple political protest ; and yet that journal piles up arguments to prove that it cannot be directed against France. We blame strongly the puerility of that policy. Why take so many precautions? Suppose the excommunication should be directed as much against France, against the French govern. ment, against the Constitution/RI itself, as against the en franchised populations of Romagna and the King of Pied mont—what harm would that do? Would France be less respected? Would the government be weakened? Could spiritual arms of which an abusive use is made injure temporal interests? Are we in the times of the Hohen staufen. and the Hildebrand.? Who troubles himself about the excommunication, unless to blame or laugh ►t it? Did you not perceive the unequivocal signs of universal astonishment at the sight of the old formula which was published? Have you not seen the clerical party itself doubt of it—a fact, by the way, which does little honour to their religious instruction—and ascribe it to the imagination of a novel writer ? Why, then, does the Cow stitationnel defend anyone against the excommunication ? To whom can that measure do harm, unless to those who employed it? It is they who incur danger—they who may be injured. But France, nonsense! The monk " Brother Beltran," whose real name is Remy Joly, and who, as I lately mentioned, has been prosecuted at Metz, on account of a lecture to the boys in the " School of Christian Brethren," has been found guilty and sentenced to fifteen days' imprisonment and a fine of 50fr. for " exciting to hatred and contempt of the govern ment." The experimental squadron, on leaving Toulon, sailed for Hyeres, where it will practice gunnery, and afterwards visit different points of the Italian coast, and probably put in at Genoa, Leghorn, Naples, and Palermo. This squadron, being in tended to serve as a practical school for both officers and men, will go through all the evolu tions of naval tactics appropriate to steamers, and make experiments in the comparative qualities of the vessels. Towards the latter part of the season it will be reinforced by the two iron-plated frigates, Gloire and Norntandie, the experiments with which will excite great interest, as they may lead to the solution of several important questions, likely to lead to changes in the present system of naval warfare. The new sugar bill, although drawn up in a spirit of great fairness, appears to have been ob ijected to by the French refiners as fixing at too high a rate per cent. the yield which is to enable the exporter to c:aini the restitution of the duty paid on the raw article when brought to France. At present that rate is fixed at 75 per cent. for in ferior qualities, and at 78 per cent. for the better kinds. The bill proposes to raise those figures to 80 and 83 per tient, respectively, and it is that change which is objected to. TheConstittitionnet sup ports the opposite view of the question, and main tains that the French sugar refiners need not fear to compete on such conditions with any rivals in foreign markets. After alluding to the position of the sugar trade in other countries, our contem porary says : The question, as regards the drawback, reduces itself to these terms : the general lowering of the duties on sugar will necessarily have for result to diminish to a considera ble extent the yield of the tax for the first few years; and the expose des motifs of the budget estimates the loss to the treasury at 44,000,000 fr. ter 1861. At the moment at which the treasury makes this enormous sacrifice for a great general interest, must another be im posed on it for the advantage of a powerful and prosperous branch of manufacture? The latter sacrifice would be, it is true, of very little importance ; for under the empire of the new tariffs the difference between the annual restitutions of duties to be made by the treasury, whether the rate of yield is to be maintained at 75 per cent., or the rate of 80 per cent. is to be adopted, will only be about 1,500,000 fr. Moreover, the interest of the refining trade is in this matter the same as the interest of the export trade, and of mercantile shipping. Neverthe less, if too great a difference between the legal yield and the real one were allowed, quantities of sugar, more and more considerable, would enter by the agency of the refiuers who manufacture for exportation, and would be consumed at home without baring paid the duty ; and it will be seen that that would consti tute a not very legitimate competition to native 'manu facturers. Such are the general terms of the question. We have not the pretension to indicate to the legislative body what solution would best conciliate the different interests concerned. We will only say that, though a fault would be committed if oar refiners were to be placed in a disad vantageous position as regards their foreign competitors, an imperative duty would be neglected if serious account ware not to be taken, especially under existing circumstances, of the interest of the public finances." A ukase of the Emperor of Russia, just promul gated, extends to Poland the principal enactments of the lane relative to the obtaining of hereditary and life nobility which are in force in the rest of the empire. FRANCE AND PRCSSIA. (From the Press.) We have repeatedly announced that the itnperial policy of France, having accomplished its object on th„„l,, of Italy, has now extended its power and influence toward s the Rhias, by opening negotiations with Bavaria for the cession of the Palatinate, holding out the prospect to that power of compensating herself at the expellee of Austria in the TyroL We are now enabled to make a further eo n,. munication, which reveals, in a startling manner, how thoroughly matured are the imperial plans for inti•r. vention in the affairs of Germany. It is more than probable that were Prussia to lend herself to the designs the French Emperor, he would engage to compensate her for the lose of her Rhine provinces by the annexation to the Prussian crown of the province of Holstein and the kin g . dam of Hanover. The Prussian court, however, is not sr disposed, and supporta with all the power of its diplomacy the protest of Switzerland against the violation of the treaties of 1815 by the annexation of the neutralised districts of Savoy to France. lu retaliation for the opposition of Switzerland, imperial emissaries :, re attempting to excite in Geneva itself the semblance of popular movement in favour of annexation to France. And in order to embarrass Prussia the Emperor has explicitly assumed the Danish side in the question of the German duchies. We regret exceedingly that in times like the present, when the idea of nationality is being craftily em ployed as a lever for upsetting the peace and established arrangements of Europe, the Prussian government should appear to lend countenance to such a principle by inter. vening so urgently in Danish affairs in support of the de• mends of Schleswig and Holstein. THE DUCHESS OF PARMA'S PROTEST. The following text of the protest of the Duchess of Parma has been received at Mr. Reuter's offic..: We, Louisa Maria of Bourbon, Regent of the Stet" of PDX= in the name of Duke RobertL: In presence of the facts which have just been acoom. palled in the States of Duke Robert 1., our well-beloved son, and in particular in presence of the pretended popular wishes issued illegally on the 11th and 12th March iso., and of the usurpation of the lame States, consummated by their annexation tot neighbouring State : We consider it a sacred duty to again raise our solemn protestations. We protest at first against the pretended right of dt'di. ties proclaimed in favour of the peoples, a new encourage. meat brought forward to withdraw them from obedience to the constituted governmen ts. " ' " Against the Pr'oceedin taken by the govermnent o f his Majesty the King of Sa rdinia to Obtain, at any price, the manifestations of the populations of the Duchy in his own favour. Against the violence imposed upon the Parmesan peoples by the agents of the Piedmontese government. We know of old the true sentiments of the inhabitants of the Duchy. We have had numerous proofs of them in memorable error. rences during our regency, and even at a more recent period. The sentiments are those of attachment to the autonomy of their country, of fidelity to their legitimate sovereign. ft is under the intimidation of threats, under the corruption of intrigue, under the pressure of terror, it is after the oaths to the King Victor Emmanuel which have been imposed under the penalty of destitution to the employ's of all the branches of the a. ministration ; it is in consequence of the general discourage. meet produced by nine months of uncertainty skilfully maintained and of terrible dangers ; it is by such means that the manifestations of a suffrage, falsified beforehand, were extorted from a considerable number of individuals. These manifestations, planned abroad, contrary to the permanent interests of the populations, as well as to the rights of the sovereignty and to the independence of the State, cannot have the least moral value ; and we therefore declare them to be void and of no effect. We further protest, Against the annexation of the states of our well-bcloved eon to the dominions of the House of Savoy—aa annexation accepted, consummated ; and therefore we protest no less, Against the acts of acceptation, and the taking powession of the aid states, than Against whosoever has contributed, by his counsels or his aid, to encourage it or to effect it. This annexation is a flagrant violation of European trea ties, of all the principles of international right, and .f the inviolability of stake and of crowns. This annexation could not be claimed as a legitimate con. sequence of the war ; and we intend to repel always, and above all, the false reasoning put forth by the Piearnoutese government, notwithstanding the sense of the purely defen sive treaties between the Duchy of Parme and Austria, in misconstruing the facts in order to bring the duchy to the condition of a belligerent power in the conflict which had arisen between Austria, on the one side, and France and Piedmont on the other, and thus to procure for itself an apparent title to make it an object of conquest. The whole world knows perfectly that from the moment when war was declared the only object of our irrevocable conduct and our pencvering efforts was to protect the in- dependence and the well-being of our peoples, while ob, serving an attitude of neutrality. This neutrality, such as was permitted to us by the treaties, but nevertheless true and legitimate, was violated by the entry of the foreign troops at 'Pontremoli. We pro. tested at that time, and we did not leave our states until our protests no more sufficed to protect the sacred rights of OUT 1100. Our neutrality rested upon solid reasons of right and of fact, which have served to owe the rights of the Duke of Parma to be recognised and reserved in the treaties of Zurich. It is nevertheless always superior to the condi• tions and to the vicissitudes of that treaty. Founded upon international right it is imperishable. The right of the Duke Robert to the States of Parma is ancient, acknowledged, confirmed, soil entire. It has been guaranteed by the European Powers in the treaties of lels and of the 10th June, 1817 ; it has received an impieit confirmation of the King of Sardinia by the niters national treaties concluded since that epoch, and especially by the treaty of peace stipulated between Austria and Pied. moot, the 6th August, 1849, to which by Art. 5, the Duke of Parma was invited to adhere, which be did. This right, according to the principles recognised, and supported up to the present in EunTe, cannot be replaced lay a pre. tended right of popular suffrage, still less by the unlimited right which would have peoples give themselves to a foreign sovereign. Therefore the offer of the States of Parma, which the Piedmontese government has procured for the King of far• dinia by revolutionary means, their acceptation, ass! their consummated annexation by the decree of the King Victor Emmanuel, of the 18th March, 1860, are acts of a guilty and odious spoliation, to the detriment of our beloved sou bake Robert I. and of hisauccemors. Mother, Guardian, and Regent, We protest anew, in the interest of our drnaPty and of the peoples of the States of Parma, against the unjust seta which we have just noticed, as well ns against their consequences. And without waiting an examination, to which the Powers of Europe could subniit (even by Article 19 of the treaty of Zurich) the new order of things created in Rai l we appeal to the said Powers, we claim their support, *A we trust to their equity as well as to the justice of God. The present protest will be notified to all the Powers who signed the treaties of 1815 and 1817, and to the other friendly courts. Louisa. Zurich, March 28, 1860. THE PAPAL PROTEST. Cardinal Antonelli, on the 29th ult., mut the following protest to the members of the diplo• matic body against the annexation of Romagna to Sardinia : --- • Vatican, Mardi 24. The intrigue' of the revolutionary party, which became more audacious during the late von-, have led to the result it no long desired—the insurrection of Romagna, and the aggrandisement of Piedmont by the apoibi of the legitimate princes. In the midst of these painful events, the confidence that the respect for religion and justice in high quarters would arrest the pro. gems of the evil, continued undiminished in the mind of the Holy Father. Nevertheless, 110 re g ard was shorn to the most sacred rights, and the Holy &AI has been dr.ls il.l of part of its domains. lly a decree boned iit Bologna, on the let inst., the populations of 'Emilio were obliged to e spreas their vote in favour of Pied aaaaa iit. Every means, all kinds of violence, and countless deceptions were employed t o utakd the vote am+ as was ileaireil By oceepting the annexation on the 18th, King Victor Emmanuel carried to the utmost point the affliction of the Holy Father, when be saw the church despoiled of its temporal domain by a catholic prince who has inherited the throne of monarchs illustrious for *heir sanctity. The Holy Father, in fulfilment of 111" obligation incumbent on him of keeping and defending the rights of the temporal sovereignty, has commanded the undersigned Sefll.loY of State to protest against the violation of the indisp u t a ble rights of the Holy See, which his Holiness is res.dved to maintain in all their integrity, not rissignising sod declaring null, as uaurpatiiry aml unlawful, all that has been or may be dune in those proviuees. The movement of the catholics, a hicli was manifested ..I1 the very first attempts against the temporal isewer of the church, persuades the Holy Father that it will prevei.t the sovereigns from recognising act sacri lege and fraudulent usurpation. The Secretary of State, in requesting your l o rdship to communicate thin protest to your that the coonteratien 4 your government will not be routing to I • , eon that. .1 star the so loudly condemned by the low of petiole , may ore day cease. ANTONELLI. 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