The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-09 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9,

Whatever may be the result of the trial at the Ennis
Noises, the Idetadad feet will not the less remain that a
coroner's jury of IS lAA tatholies has been found in the age
1 in whisit we Us% sale* of accusing eight soldiers of man
der hawing Me Ms doe te hi -inascent,' solely
becinus.estrialwar:sar es sad protester:la, Tine, in
the off prollistant• are not Christians,
and - are ant men. Neither equity nee huma-
nity Is is them. Everything lelingitlinate modest them.
of
To We to sa anion death is to do Oud • 'ursine.
In thus admitting the barbarous and frightful In-
justice of a verdict deliberately given in the teeth of
all the 'Admen, the Pays but echoes the opinion
expressed by almost all the press of this catholic
country. Thum is, however, a remarkable exception.
The Union of this morning, while professing to re-
serve its definitive judgment, defends the coroner's
jury, calls Messrs. Chum and Bourke " venerable
priests," and insinuates that they have been unjustly
arrested to servo u hostages in case the soldiers
should be found guilty. This, coming from a journal
in the position of the Union, whose readers are prin-
cipally legitimists in the higher classes of society, is
a striking argument in support of the proposition
sought to be established by the Pays, that the reli-
gious bigotry of a bygone age is retiring But the
article in the l'ays is written for a purpose. It is
from the pen of M. Amedee dc Ccsena, who formerly,
in the Patric, darkly shadowed forth the coming
coup creeat, and who now, inspired from the same
source, is second only to Cassagnac as a prophet.
The folio' ing passage, and especially the concluding
sentence, merits deep attention:
Ireland, for the rest, is not the only country where
catholicism is again becoming militant in its language and
even iu its attitude. In our day, when political passion
seems to have absorbed all our nerve and ardour fee the
battles of the pen and the tongue, religious passion would
be a fact so new and so unforeseen, that one runs the risk
of being taken for a ghost from the ;other world In direct-
ing public attention to the mysterious movement which,
upon different points of Europe, is leading men's minds
back to questions which seemed dead. Bat the same
symptom, although with a much less masked eharacter, is
observable in Savoy, Heinault, and even in Germany, in
the neighbourhood of Mayence and Cologne. In all those
districts we see • catholic party forming which looks
towards our country, and which is at the same time• French
party, • party having its foundation is opposition to An-
glicanism, whose ioduence, destructive of the principle of
authority, has only increased in the world by leaning upon
the revolutionary principle from which it derives its
strength. 'lbis situation perhaps points to great events in
which France may be called upon to play the important
part so often assigned to her by Providence in the transfor-
mations of Europe.
It is announced to-day that the President on leaving
Marseilles will embark on board the Napoleon, join
the Mediterranean squadron, now under orders to
sail from Naples, and make his entry into the port of
Toulon, surrounded by the entire squadron. The
whole journey will have a military character. It
has been decided in a council of ministers that the
Prince shall be accompanied by his whole military
household. A bourgeois king like Louis Philippe
might travel en bourgeois, but a Napoleon should
shine in a constellation of epaulettes and feathers.
M. Pastoureau, the prefect of the Cher, has issued
a proclamation to stir up the enthusiasm of the in-
habitants of the old province of Berry. Ho reminds
them of the
.great condescension of the Prince in
altering his original plan in order to stay a day at
Merges, and tells them that what Louis Napoleon'
desires is not (Wes or compliments. He asks for the
sympathy of the population. His happiness is to
find himself in the midst of them, and to sec them
rejoicing in his presence:
lie who governs France (says the prefect) is coming to
lee you, all of you, your wives, and children. Let our
Prince be well assured that throughout all Berry there is
but one cry and but one name that rallies all hearts. This
cry your lathers raised throughout Europe, and we will all
make it echo again in paving before the nephew of the'
Grand Emperor, ~ Vive Napoleon."
This is the key note to the whole progress.
The elections of municipal councils in eleven com-
munes of the department of the 'Mime, having been
adverse to the government, the pro cot of the Driime
has dissolved all those councils, and appointed muni-
cipal commissions nominated by himself in their
places. The names of the communes in which the
practice of universal suffrage has boon thus illus-
trated are :—De Loriol, de Ltvroo, d'Etoile, de Beau-
mont, de Barcelonne, de Combovin, de Charvey, do
Parnaas, d'Upic, d'Olixan, and de Plan de Brix.
It appears, by an order of the day placarded in the
Faubourg St. Germain, that the national guard will
shortly be called upon to take a share in the garrison
duty of Paris, and that "several posts" will be con-
fided to them. It was, you may remember, reported
some time ago that only three or four sentry boxes
in all Paris would be occupied by the the new civic
force. This order of the day, which, however, ema-
nates only from the commanding officer of ono bat-
talion, who calls upon his men to hold themselves in
readiness, seems to allude to something more than
such a merely nominal amount of duty.
The Moniteur contains a report from M. Sardon
Garriga, the French commissary-general in Guyana,
reporting favourably of the state of that penal colony.
A company is being formed to Binh artesian wells
in each of the 48 quarters of Paris, for the purpose of
supplying warm water to baths at 20 centimes each,
to four public wash-houses in each quarter, to private
houses, and fur warming apartments. The artesian
well at Grenelle' which is 600 yards in depth, gives
all the year round waterheated to 30 deg. centigrade
above zero (80 deg. Fahrenheit), and it is calculated
that by sinking the wells 1,000 yards water heated
from 80 deg. to 100 deg. centigrade (176 deg. to
212 deg. Fahrenheit) may be obtained.
The section of the Western Railway of France
between Chartres and Laloup was opened yesterday.

Preemie, with a population half catholic, would be
placed to a very critical po,i:ion in case of a war,
which, on whatever plea oon..nenced, would soon aim
at putting an sad to the existence of a great protestant
power on the continent. Austria, too, can risk war
much more easily than Prussia; Just se a bankrupt can
undertake hazardous speculations more easily than a
flourishing firm. Russia would guarantee the sub-
ordination of Hungary and Lombardy, which, seeing
no opportunity of freeing themselves, would willingly
march against the Prussians. Austria would very
much cement the affections of its Magyaran and
Italian dependents, by giving them the opportunity
of cutting the throats of heretics, who are Germans
to boot. Austria has little to lose by a war;
it can hardly render its finances more em-
barrassed; it has came, by its recent internal
convulsions, to a pass, were it may deem that it can
stabilitate its position only by dashing forward and
aiming at undecided supremacy in Germany, so that
the whole European continent maybe shared between
three imperial autocrats. Reflections of this sort at
I present occupy political circles here; and some per-
sons apprehend that the horison is becoming rather
clouded. It is possible, however, that Austrian dip-
' lomacy spreads the alarm merely with a view to mak-
ing Prussia more pliant in the Zollvercin question ;
or aims, not at a collision, but merely at forcing
Prussia to refer the whole affair to the
Diet's umpirage. Reports aro also afloat,
too, that the Prussian government is really
in a wavering mood. The mischief is, that
M. von Manteuffel not only has a divided ministry
to deal with, but also stands personally on a very
insecure footing, because he will not dismiss his pri-
vate secretary and factotum, Dr. Quehl, who has
made himself so obnoxious to the cavalier party, that
all sorts of court intrigues are played off against
Dr. Quehl's protector.
As yet there is no open expression of the manner
in which Austria and the coalition will receive the
last Prussian declaration. The parties seem not yet
to have decided on their plan and given out the
watchword.

In the official Vienna Gazette, the fact of Prussia's
declaration was notified in a telegraphic despatch,
Baying, that Prussia had not responded to tho fair
and conciliatory offers made by the states "which
had bound themselves to Austria and each other by
tho Darmstadt treaties."

The Saxon Liberal, a journal in the Austrian
interest, tries to improve the trick of the Prussian
declaration, which it pretends to regard ss having
yielded to all the coalition's demands, and thus re-
moved the points in controversy. But the chief
official organs have not yet declared themselves on
the subject. The coalition ministers will hold a con-
gress in a few days at Homburg.
The Prussian government, it will be remembered,
lately republished an old edict, forbidding Prussian
students of catholic theology to visit the Jesuit col-
lege at Home, on pain of their being subsequently
prevented from holding clerical office in Prus-
sia. The catholic party have taken fire at
this restriction of their religious freedom. The
bishops of the Rhenish provinces, I hear, have flatly
replied, that the constitution guarantees the catholic
church from all temporal interference in its internal
arrangements, and that they will appoint to clerical
office such candidates as they may deem tit, without
asking the government's leave. Petitions to the
king, in form of remonstrances against this illegal act
of the ministry,are circulating in the catholic provinces
and, whether the government yield, or persist and
brave a collision,the consequences will be deplorable.
The catholic party seems to set its policy in unmea-
sured aggression ; and, in fact, when protestant
governments themselves lean to the exercise or sup-
port of hierarchical authority, romanisrn, as the
highest development of the hierarchical system, must
gain in the contest.