The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-29 00:00:00

EXPRESEI FROM PARIS.

(mom ous ows oosamirosrmsr.l
PARIS, SUNDAY Brawn.
The grand naval review at Cherbourg is put off
till the end of July. The Emperor, it is announced,
goes to Vichy first instead of afterwards. There is
a general impression that if there is to be war with
Russia the Emperor will say something about it at
this review. The necessity of waiting for the Rus-
sian answer to the six points is probably the reason

for the postponement.
It does not yet appear that M. Duruy, the new
Minister of Public Instruction, has been found. He
was travelling on a tour of inspection when his un-
expected appointment was made, and the telegraph,
set at work in all directions, did not at once reach
him. There is, however, no village in France so
remote but that the news must have reached it by
this time.
The proceedings of a commission appointed some
time ago to consider the condition of the lower
clergy, and whether it would not be advisable to
provide them with retiring pensions, show very
clearly that the bloated favourites of the church
desire to keep their inferior brethren poor and
distressed, in order the better to exercise dominion
over them. The first thing the commission did
was to write a circular to the bishops, asking their
opinions about the proposed new measures. All the
bishops but fourteen (a very small minority) pro-
nounced against the principle of any retiring pen-
sion to the clergy. The commission was at one
moment very near making a report based upon the
general opinion of the episcopacy ; but at the
last moment a member rose, and made a speech
which completely converted his brethren. He
said that the bishops were no reliable witnesses as
to the rights and interests of the lower clergy,
because they had always set their faces against
every proposal to better their condition, and that
from a systematic desire to keep them in a state of
dependence and subjection. It was in pursuance
of this heartless system that the Cardinal Arch-
bishop of Besancou and the Archbishop of Lyons
lifted up their voice in the Senate, and with much
unction and show of humility protested that the
clergy were satisfied with their condition, and de-
sired neither pension nor better pay. This com-
mittee-man was moreover irreverent enough to
observe that the bishops who thus repudiated on
behalf of the lower clergy the benevolent offers of
the government took everything they could get
for themselves, and of this he gave several in-
stances. The committee has now agreed to report
that pensions ought to be granted to the clergy.
The court of Rome at this moment is raising
obstacles to the confirmation of the appointment of
the Abb6 Buquet, vicar-general of Paris, to be a
canon of St. Denis, an ecclesiastical order which
carries with it episcopal rank. AblatS Buquet is
lan eminent ecclesiastic, who has refused bishoprics
over and over again. The French government was
foolish enough, in times past, to give the Pope
power to nominate the canons of St. Denis, and
now it sees the consequence.
The Emperor will have a new lodging atVichy this
year. Instead of the Villa Strauss, he will occupy a
Swiss chalet in the park, on the banks of the Allier,
and which is so small, so very small, that only his Ma-
jesty, one aide-de-camp, and a valet de chambre
can be accommodated in it. The rest of the suite
will sleep in a larger chalet adjoining.
Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clothilde have
determined to prolong their tour in the East, and
are not now expected in Paris before the end of
July. They left Alexandria on June 16, in the
yacht Prince Jerome, and were expected at Beyrout
on June 20.

WEATHER B.EPORT.-(THIS DAY.'

XOUIDAY, JIM ZS, 8 LL

_ .
N. _ 11. W. LLi Q. 1. 16. is.
--.—
N.iia 29.81 62 2 N.N.W. 4 16 0 0.26
Aberdeen 29.81 3 &L 1 126 ri 0.00
Leith 20.81,110 7 W. 2 !24 b
Shields 10.911.191 1 W.N.W. 2 26 b
dearoorougb 29.20.07 3 W.R.W. 1 n
Orcomesotle 29 90 66 • M.N.,. 3 24 0.23
Ch'ig 2199 216 8 N.W. 1 Si 046
Valethia
Quessithwa
Liverpool
rolybood
1
1 -
Penzance
Bred .... ... ,10.08 67, 4 W.N.W. !S1 0.118. 8
INtiosit. .. ....110.06 671 3 N. 8I 22 a— 2
Ithebefori 130.04 N. 0 N. 6j 18 r 0.43 4
Weymouth-180.03 691 6 W. 6 110 to 1
Portsmouth
Loudon . 39.01 621 7 W. 0116 e -
Dover 31.08, 4 N. 1 lO e 1
Yoruthath 18 6 1
Helder
Nellgothath lath 66 1 . W.B.W. 2{ 18. 0 0.09
12106611.16
2USIDAY. WIMMIIDAT.
LW. to N.ll strong, NORTH-EAST. W. to N.. trialusthlll.

&W. to N.W., drong, NORTH-EAST. W.WN

'bowers.
&S.W. to W.N.W., Wage. W.S.W. to N.N.W.,
fresh to strong. strong to moderate.
S.toW.and N. W., fresh, SOUTH. S.W. to N.N.W., fresh
squally. to light, fine.
W. to h. anal., fresh ISOUTH-EMIT. N. to G. and &dr.,
to moderate. moderate, Mae.

- - -
North-Esat=bforay Firth to Norfolk. West =Donegal toCorn-
well. South =Channel and French Coasts, South-gast=Strait
d Dover to Norfolk.
B.—Barometer corrected and reduced to EV at half tide level.
Each ten feet, of vertical elevation, causinz about one hundredth
of an Inch DINI:1111110111: and each ten degrees, above 32°, caus-
ing nearly three hundredths INCRFAZZ L—Exposed thermo-
meter In shade. D.—Difference of wet bulb (for *vaporetto., and
dew point). W.—Wind, direction of (Vitus—two points (arr of
magnetic). F.—Force (1 to 12—estimated). X.—Extreme force
sinus lest report. Q.— Quarter whence =TRW force (N NE=./.
to 31=N). 1.- Initials b.—blue sky; c..—clouds (detached;
f —fog ; h.—ball: m.—abet (ham) o.—overcast
mow ; ; wow ; I—thunder. 11..—Edo-fall. snow or
haul (melted), Lime last report. B.—Sea disturbance (1 to it).
Z.--Cale.

Enaorzaw INTERFERENCE IN AMERICA.—The
Morning Port says :—" We believe that we may state th►t
the rumours which affirm that the Emperor Napoleon has
proposed to the English government to make some fresh
suggestions to the belligerents is America are entirely
without foundation. The present is certainly not the
moment when interference of any kind could be urged with
the least prospect of success."
It is believed that a change will shortly take
place in the representative of the Emperor of the French at
the English court, and that If. Waleweki will resume the
position which he held on a former occasion in this country,
in the place of Baron Oros. Persigoy, it is said, will
leave Paris for St. Petersburg. not on a special mission, but
to Boomed the present =humidor at the Haulms court.

The Pays Of Saturday evening contains another
article signed by its editorial secretary, reiterating that the
Polish question is an European one, and stating that the
Emperor will seek no individual action apart from the
understanding between the three powers.
The conveyance of mails on the went coast of
Amerina meta 3s. per mils ; to the Caps of Good Hops,
3s. Bd.; to Bermuda, 3e. 9d.; I. the west most of Africa,
4e. 4d.; to India, China, and Australia, Is. 7d.; to the West
Indies, Brazil. ho.. Be. 5d.; to Calais and (Mood. Be. 10d.;
to New Zealand, 9e.; and to the United States, 9s. 2d.
At Lindsay, in Canada West, a man has just died
at 1066 years of age. His brother died last year aged 110,
and a female relative died a few years since in her 108th
year.
Out of 684 inhabitants of the village of Chilli; in
the Isle of Wight, the ages of forty•thres of them average
Dearly eighty years each.