The Express.
London, England, 1864-05-26 00:00:00

4.40
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EXPRESS' 4JEOM PARIS.

(1110 X OUR OWN

PARIS, WEDIESDAT EVIIIING.

Marshal Macidahon, Duke of Magenta, will pro-
bably snooped the Duke of Malakoff as Governor-
General of Algeria. The removal from France of
such a distinguished commander will probably be
thought strong evidence in itself that no European
war is at present contemplated.
Contrary to what was said yesterday, M. Krieger,
the Danish plenipotentiary, did not come to Paris
for the sole purpose of conferring with the Danish
ambassador ; he had an interview with M. Drouyn
de Lhuys to-day.
The Emperor and Empress intend to go to the
Agricultural Exhibition at Brzenk on Sunday.
The Bourse is much firmer. Bente rose 15c.,
both for cash and account, closing at 66fr. 75c. and
661 r. 80c. Mobilier rose 10fr. Great hopes oon-
tinue to be entertained that the Sleswig-Holstein
question may be considered settled.
An actor named Laferriere, who has just gained
as action against the director of the Vaudeville
Theatre for a month's salary, which was withheld
on the ground that the piece for which he was
engaged (M. Sardou's Diable, Noire) had been
stopped by authority, presented a petition to the
Empress which seems to have bad the effect of
obtaining the removal of the interdiction. The
following is a specimen of the high-flown language
which may be successfully used in France on such
an occasion :

I implore ea my banded be the intercession of your
majesty. At the moment of concluding this petition—
already too long--end which eon only be excused by your
Majesty's invariable goodness, my eye lights upon my
charming little girl, six years old : she clasps her little
heads, points them towards your Majesty, and asks me
naive:oust whether lam writing to God! The words of
INWOOD*. are ever those of truth ; I will not undeceive her.
Does not the good which your majesty doe. descend from
Heaven! It is with the most profound respect that I de-
clare myself, madam, of your Imperial Majestr the very
hankie sad obedient servant, AD. LAM.IIIIItE.

' A grand dinner of fifty covers was given last
evening by Earl Cowley at the British Embassy in
honour of the forty-fifth anniversary of the Queen
of England's birthday. The company consisted of
members of the diplomatic corps, ministers, heads
of the great bodies of the state, &c. The front of
the hotel was handsomely illuminated with gas re-
presenting the initials of her Majesty, whilst, inside,
the state apartments and conservatory running into
the garden were a blaze of light. A military band
played overtures and other choice pieces of music
during the evening. A toast in honour of the
Queen was proposed by M. Drouyn de Limy% to
which Lord Cowley responded by a toast to the
Emperor.
In the Senate, on Monday, First President de
Royer brought up the report of a committee upon
a petition from 243 inhabitants of Cervione, in
Corsica, complaining that the methodists of Bastin
had established a protestant society in their town,
whose only object, seeing that there were no pro-
testant+, in Cervione, must be to persuade catholics
to desert the standard of their faith, and who, in
pursuit of that object, " must necessarily cry
down the holy catholic, apostolic, and Roman re-
ligion." The petitioners pray that " meetings
evidently intended to pervert catholics may be no
longer tolerated in our country—meetings which
as. long as they are regarded with contempt may
not be very dangerous, but which would infallibly
lead to collisions if they should assume greater
consistency." M. de Royer proposed that no
action should be taken on this petition, and the
order of the day was voted accordingly without
discussion. But it is to be observed that M. de
Boyer's proposition was based exclusively upon the
special circumstances of the aase, and carefully
avoided recognizing the doctrine of universal and
indiscriminate toleration. Although the French
constitution knows no State religion, it would be a
great mistake to suppose that all forms of worship
are upon an equal footing. The prefects have a
large discretion, and as most of them are Roman
catholics, and as very many of them are under the
intluenoe of their wives and their bishops, prates-
tantism is practically persecuted in many parts ,1
of France.
As a contrast to the intolerance of the Corsican
catholics, I beg to call attention to the account'
given by • London correspondent of the catholic
journal L'Osion of the recent translation and
solemn inauguration iu the monastery of the bare-
footed Carmelites of Kensington of a "precious
relic" denominated " an entire bone of the leg of St.
Simon Stock."Thecorrespondent, who isperhaps one
of the barefooted monks aforesaid—perhapeCardinal
Wiseman himself, but at all evade an ultra:non-
unist inspired bthe same authority which dictated
the intolerant Corsican petition—revels in the li-
berty which the enlightened laws of England
allow, and profits by it, not to thank,
but to abuse his benefactors. Be glories
in the insult which he conceives to have
been inflicted upon Archdeacon Sinclair by the
public procession under his nose of the cortige of
the saint's tibia, and says that the archdeacon
writhed under the infliction like • "devil in a
basin of holy water." St. Simon Stock's bone is
proclaimed to be the " Aurora of catholicism in 1
England." The writer declares that a Protestant
workman, dazzled by the magnificence of the pro-
cession, exclaimed, " I suppose we shall all be I
catholics one of these days.'• It. confidently
believes that just as the walls of Jericho fell down
before the ark borne by the priests of Israel, so
English protestantism will be crumbled to pieces
by the log bone of Saint Simon Stock. As an ar-
gument to show the progress of Romanism in Eng-
land, he remarks that the populace made no hostile
demonstration, whereas twenty years ago (so he
I says) the catholic* in the procession would have been
atoned, hung, or beaten by the mob. Thus the
men who would expel protestants from Corsica see
nothing in the improved civilization of the English
lower dames but an approval of their own bigoted
doctrines and practices, attribute to weakness the
concession of that absolute liberty which they can
find nowhere in the world but in England, and
indecently rejoice in the hope that the practice of
their own mummeries may have been felt as an in-
sult by the ministers of the English established
church.

A letter from Rome of the 18th says :—" The
young Queen of Naples, who had for some time pad massif
appearing in public, bu of late bees repeatedly sosa in
company with her husbead. This moonciliatioa is attributed
to the Emperor of Mexico."

A limo roe rtes WOUWDID Dartion. The
%bog of Denmark has forwarded the followiag reocript to
the Mlrer et Fissure :—"firrone yore age as institatioe
was found in the viciaitv of Oepeshages, the object of
which was to secure a ' Hue' for sick pawns whom the
troubles' of life bad deprived of that nine which the word !
so beautifully designates. lam el esiole that a similar
Horne might be aotabliabed for theeoldlsr wounded in war—
be be officer, attb-officer, or private—who has no friends
with whom he coo rude and would therefore desire to
spend hie mug conjades. It bee seemed to me that
tie (*We built sad Inv:vended with splendidly laidout
tris a lofty and healthy situation ekes to Copulation
itng Frederick IV..—that Ht 1 who ant muted the
Dula militiaman; sod upheld 's right to the
=rof Illeurig—would form a voluntary Home for
ay% men of the array sad fleet who have bled for
Dybbol, sad wherever also this hateful war may &rued
samilloce. tlest
th
your Excellency to examitie this idea
of mine, in eon nactiee withe Ministers of War and of
the Marie*, a to lay before me the aueseary plena.
Led) Crewm /1 an ." A committee has been &probated
oonsequinee of this reseript, to examixe his Majesty's
InViosepit Leather of Liverpool, has presented
to the Nsikeel Lifeboat Inolitatioe 3511. 3a, to pay the
cod of ea additional lifeboat for New Brighter., at the
mouth of the Mersey. Mr. Loather has deo decided to
replier the inetitetiou's boat at Hodyhead by a larger and
mere powerful lifeboat.
GALT Noarentx BOOLPITAL, CALIDON/Alf-ROAD,
lummox. —Number of patients for the week' sadist
May hi, MA of which 905 were Bur mess.