The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-26 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(PROM OUR OW!

PARIS, SUNDAY Evsenzio.
The " five" oppoaition members have proposed the
following amendments to the budget :

• Art. I.—To add the following paragraph :
That between this and the next session a parliamentary
inquiry Mall be made as to the state of every branch of
administration, the number of employfs, and as to the
beet means of improving the public service, whether by
decentralisation or by the reduction of too extravagant
expenditure. Until the termination of this inquiry no new
of6ces shall be created, and no vacancies rinsed by death,
retirement, or resignation shall be dna up.
On Art. 1, Ministry of War, 3rd section.—The effective is
reduced by 1C0,0C3 men.
Art. 60.—T0 add the following paragraph :
The budget of the city of Paris shall be controlled,
discuised, and voted by the Corps Legialatif in the same
form as the budget of the state, so long as the municipal
commission shall be appointed by the executive power,
pursuant to Art. 14 of the law of May 5, 1855.
Art. 63 (new).
Plurality of offices is prohibited.
No moon can receive the full salary of several *we,
employments, or commissions in cases where the combined
amount of remuneration would amount to more than
30,000 fr. All laws incompatible with the above provisions
are repealed. - -

J. PAVEL, E. PICARD, EXILE OLLIVIER,
ALFRED DARIMON, HF.NON.

The Moniteur de la Pot& publishes a decree for
organising the surveillance of the French coasts.
This service is confided to three heads of division,
two of which comprise the Atlantic coast and one
that of the Mediterranean. These high officers
are to be commanders-in-chief of all the ships
employed on coast service within their respective
divisions. They are to study and superintend all
means of improvement of the ports, and to consider
all questions relative to harbours of refuge and
fisheries, and to watch the defence of the maritime
frontiers.

It is announced that Miramon, the ex-President
of the Mexican Republic, has arrived at Paris with
his wife. The Pays, without making any refer-
ence to the above news, says :—" There is now no
doubt whatever that Miramon will go to Mexico
and act on bis own account, but up to the present
time he is supported by nobody, and he has not
the least chance of success."

In the news that M. Lambert, the envoy from
Madagascar, is gone to Rome, and that his master,
Radama 11., is about to be recognised as king
by all the European powers, the Opinion Nationale
suspects " a new intrigue of the jesuita, supported
on this occasion by England, for the purpose of
obtaining the independence of the island." There
is a party here which pretends that Madagascar
belongs to France.
M. de Persigny's circular, reminding the pre-
fects that, by the code, people taking military
service, without permission, under any foreign
government, forfeited their quality of French
citizens, and that the men who had enlisted in the
Pope's army ought to be struck off the electoral
lists, was pounced upon by the clericals as unfair,
because be made no allusion to the volunteers who
had joined Garibaldi. Some of the prefect.
wrote to M. de Persigny, to ask whether he
meant to refer to the Pope in particular or to foreign
service in general. The minister replied in a few
words that he was surprised at the question, since
the wording of the code embraced every ease of
the kind. It has been, however, pointed out that
the code only speaks of military service under a
foreign "government," and that there are several
legal decisions to the effect that taking part in a
foreign rebellion does not come within the law. It
follows, therefore, that Garibaldi's men remain
French citizens, whilst the heroes of Castelfidardo
do not. The Gazette de Prance, indeed—which
holds the Pope to be suzerain of all Christendom
—will not admit that the soldiers of his army can
be said to be on "foreign service," but that pro-
position will have little success before the legal tri-
bunal which must ultimately determine the ques-
tion mooted by M. de Persigny's circular.
The Pays states in the most positive manner
that the King of Portugal's affianced wife is the
Princess Pia, daughter of the Kiug of Italy, and
sister of the Princess Clothilde. It announces,
moreover, that the marriage will take place in
September ; that the young princess, with her
brother Prince Humbert, will pass a few days in
Paris this summer, and that after her visit the
envoys of the King of Portugal will proceed to
Turin to make the formal demand for her hand.
This intelligence, which I think may be relied
upon, is interesting, because when the King of
Portugal some time since informed his parliament
that he was going to be married, he did not say
I who the lady was to be, and although the first
I name mentioned by public rumour was that of
Princess Pia, the Princess Charlotte of Bavaria
has since been talked of, and only yesterday the

Inclependance Beige gave a long story of negotiations
for an alliance with the Austrian Archduchess
Muria Theresa Henrietta Dorothea, born July 2,
1849.

M. Drouyn de Limy' has accepted the post of
President of the Council of the Eastern Railway
Company, vice Count de Segur, who has resigned,
on account of the state of his health.

The Moniteur of yertertlay says :

in the Eoglish parliament, on the 19th Nay, Lad Pal-
merston estimated the strength of the French army on the
lit January, 1862, M 816,000 men, of whom 646,000 were
under arms and 170,000 formed the reserve. This estimate
contains an error serious enough to call for rectification. On
the Ist January, 1862, the effective under arms was sot
646,000 men, but 447,000—a number law than the former
by 199,000. At the same date the reserve consisted not of

170,000, but of 165,000, malting a differenoe u< 5,(00. Tao
total error, therefore, amounts to 204,000 men, or a fourth
part of the alleged total. Since the lit January the number
of men in active service who have been ordered to pass into
the reserve &mamas not to 31,000, but to more than 34,020.
The result of this 11111Ssure will be to raise the reserve to
203,000 men, sod ranee the effective of the active army to
400,000, making a total of 612,000 men.

POLAND.

(nox out owl 001111.8PONDINT.)

WARSAW. M& 13.

The political oppression in Poland has turned
into a regular religious persecution. The Russian
authorities in Poland perceive iu every religious
practice a revolutionary tendency, and all their
energy is directed towards suppressing them, or,
at least, preventing them from serving as a rallying
means for the Poles. The Poles, on the other
hand, being deprived of any lawful government, of
schools, public life, and even of freedom in social
intercourse, shield themselves under the banner of
religion as the last and invincible refuge for their
national existence. Hence, the contest, although
appearing to be waged upon trifling outside maul•
festationa, is of the highest political significance.
The Poles are not a bigoted people. They are
far from submitting blindly to the church hierarchy,
as is the case in other countries—f3pain, Ireland,
Naples, tic. With them, religion is so far their
religion as it conserves its national character,
Every priest or prelate, so long as he is a patriot,
can depend upon the veneration and submission of
the people ' • but any clergyman acting contrary to
the feeling of the nation is abhorred as a double
traitor—a traitor to his calling and a traitor to his
country. Thus men like Tijslkowski, Bialobrzeski,
and Przyluski, are almost adored by every Pole,
whilst such as Marszewski or Wierzchlejski are de-
'Timed and disregarded, in spite of their episcopal
character. - _ -

The Russian government in Poland has increased
its severity in the repression of religious manifesta-
tions, and as the people, yielding to the wishes of
the archbishop, gave up the singing of hymns of a
more pronounced national character, old church
songs are now objected to by the police. No day
without several people being arrested. After
eal
having decimated the male population, the military
authorities now lay hands upon the other sex.
Many of the latter are in custody, and several have
been forced to conceal and to expatriate themselves.
All the out-door church service has been prohibited,
as well as almost all songs in the Polish language.
The police authorities have issued an order to the
clergy regulating their duties under threats of
heavy punishments. Rube, the Director of the
Department of Worship and Public Instruction,
requested the archbishop to communicate this order
to the clergy. This iusplting proposition was de-
clined with indignation by the prelate, and his reply
to it ends with the following words :
I oonclude by declaring that as I consider it • want (ides
respect for my character, as first spiritual dignitary of the
kingdom, to call upon me to communicate officially to the
people the regulations of the police. I hope, sir, you will
for -the future abstain from accepting such a commission.
Among the Russian officers arrested at Warsaw
is Count Tolstoy. Domiciliary visits have been
made at the residences of some higher officers,
Poles by birth--among others those of Generals
Merchelewicz and G1eC7.406C; who were both em-
ployed last year in the civil administration at War-
saw. The residence of the Russian prince Babutof
has been searled, and his papers taken away.
General Krizonoiskoy is said to be the instigator
of all these proceedings, their object being to prove
to the government that the maintenance of pesos
and obedience is due solely to his energy.
Since the 3rd of Iday all the poste and patrols
are strengthened, and on the Bth of May ten guns
were drawn up on the Saxe-place.
Transports of people, sentenced to penal servi-
tude in the ranks of the Russian army, ate leaving
the citadel almost daily for Asia. A great many
women have been arrested in Warsaw and in the
provinces. Three other commissioned officers have
been brought here in custody from Lublin, on sus-
picion of belonging to the conspiracy which is said
to have been discovered.