The Express.
London, England, 1863-12-18 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(nom ma OWN col

PARIS, THURSDAY EVIRDIG.
The debate in the Senate yesterday was of little
interest. M. Tourangin made a reactionary speech,
which was but a pale echo of the not very brilliant

conservative Jen.onstration of M. Rouher. The

Marquis de Larochejaquelin, who is cut by his

legitimist relations and friends on account of his
conversion to Bonapartism, and makes unoraa-
ing efforts to redeem himself in their opinion
by extra devotion to the Pope, complained that the
new programme of instruction in the government
schools was not sufficiently religious ; by which he
meant to say that education was not wholly in

the hands of the priests. He got into • muddle
about the Council of Public Instruction, which he
alleged bad not been consulted when it ought to
have been ; but his misapprehensions were set right
by M. Rouland, the minister presiding the Council
of State, who very distinctly vindicated the doctrine
of supremacy of the state ; and denied the right in
Prance of the Roman catholic church to any ex-
clusive privileges in the matter of education. The
Marquis de Laroobejaquelin, seconded by Cardinals
Mathieu and Donut, also called for the suppression
of IL Renan's book, but were told by the
minister that he had no police at his disposal
to prevent the circulation of a work which was not
illegal. Cardinal Donnet, while affecting to think
that more noise bad been made about M. Renan's
book than it was worth, proceeded rather incon-
sistently to anathematise, and thereby give a capital
advertisement for another book, which is not yet
so well known, but will probably soon become
famous. The title of this work is the "Maudit."
it is written by a priest, and contains, in the at-
tractive form of a novel, an expose of the doings of
the Jesuits, and particularly of the arts to which
they resort, to get hold of property, and the
crushing despotism which they exercise upon
the consciences of the clergy. M. Michel
Chevalier defended imperial institutions with an
ardour which rather astonished the admirers of his
liberal commercial principles. It is hard to under-
stand how such a man should not like a little free
trade in politico as well as in wares. He did not
indeed commit himself to the opinion that the
Constitution was perfect ; but his main argument
was that under a sovereign who had taken such an
unexpectedly liberal initiative as the Emperor, it
was not allowable to be " impatient." M. Cheva-
lier in reality only ditf fr-un Marshal

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SATURDAY. SUNDAY.
N.L to W., stroeg to ON No:Mu N.W.to N.L, mode-
moderate. 00ASTS. rate, rine.
N.W. to N.L. fresh to Wassia.N. Northerly, moarate,
moderate. floe. flee
As met above. WhootS. N.N.L to W.S.W ,
fresh, fine.
. W. to N. E., moderate
to light, Sue.
ZAATIRS. N. N. E. to S K, fresh to
light, flue.

N.N.W. to 8061113E15.
fresh to moderate.
fine.
As nest above.

Ncetherti=ncolland. Wastern=lreland. Middle=Walea,
opposite and adjacent. fincitherri=Eoglleb Channel and Blew
Bay. Esaterit=Eaatnard England and Heligoland.

A protestant church has been opened in Mexico,
a French clergyman ofBciatiog. According to report there
was great opposition on the part of the regency, or, at
least, one of its members, but General feraine insisted,
and carried his point.
The only native of Great Britain who holds an
important position about the French court es a Scotchman,
named Campbell, who superintends the royal scuds under
General Fleury. Mr. Campbell lived with the Emperor of
the French when the latter resided in England, and accom-
panied the Emperor in the Italian wars.
Two new steamers belonging to the Peninsular
and Oriental Company are in the Southampton Docks, the
Syria and Golooitda. The former will shortly take oat the
India mail to Alexandria. The Pen, belonging to the same
company, will soon be laid up for repairs. The Royal Mail
Gampany's steamer Atrato has been thoroughly overhauled
and repaired, and made quite a new ship. Her speed has
bees Mereseed, and it is expected that she will make the
pumas to St. Thomas's in ten days.
Woollen factories are rapidly extending in New
Restand, in the United Stake.
A lecture was delivered last evening to a large
audience in Bloomsbury Chapel, by the Bev. W. Brock.
D.D. The lecture was entitled "To Holland and back,"
and the profits are to be devoted to the Bloomsbury Young
Men's Society for the relief of the Poor. The chair was
taken by H. Stuart, Eq., in the 'bosom of Sir 8. Morton
Peto, Bart., who was amonnoed to preside, but was pre-
vented by "bereavement from being present. Tug Raw DEAN or LINCOLN.—The Rev. Francis
Jenne, D.C.L., canon of Gloucester, master of Pembroke
College, Oxford, and rector of Teynton, Gloucestershire,
has been offered by Lord Palmerston and has accepted the
deanery of Lincoln, vacant by the lamented death of Mr.
Cornier. The loss of so prominent a man by the university
—in wham affairs he has taken a leading part for many
hears, will make a gap which will not wady be repleed.
in the pulpit was remarkable one.

~.r in 1. _Ay only differs from - _ Magnan, lie list appearance .- .. ._
General Gemeau, and the moat bigotted reactionints
in this—that he is ready to applaud reforms when ea 'lilyicarint vicarious atonement
(2n last Suonda/tow: tote przache:fathe
chogri:tiierr:oenhounretr.
of Christ." which he defended in
the Emperor may please to grant them, but he will the most.vivireozisand4;livr:t tegernitiseitgnahisalosidd" frets);
not press for any. This is saddling the Emperor thought" as the produotioo of • " true Christian, an is-
with that very load of unrelieved reeponsibility telligent philusophecr, rdiii well-equipped scholar." rii.•
which M. de is Gueronnire very justly depreested.
M. Su Ile who has just arrived iu Paris, prated in the first class in the examination for moderations.
Ist' deans
himself'l4 Barrow, Jeers scholar
a day or two ago;
is the character of special envoy from the Confede- —P..._ole-
tas states, is • Frenchman by birth, who was for- &turd.,
TWENTY-NINTH NORTH MIDDLESEX RIFLTA. —OR
im last the non•oommissiosed officers and
assrly an advocate in the south of France— , privates of this regiment presented their adjutant, Captain
somewhere near Bordeaux. He has been I 11. Waiiit"erJon wiith a testimonial, Lialiolcleoatit"ig a inscription living in Texas for the last seventeen 1 rip:L.:tad by thi'Noo-Comelissioned Owfficirs and -Privates
years, and is now a naturalised American. ,of the 29th North Middlesex Volunteer :or
theirlt. Welled
He got away front Matamoros on board a French , "epTACaarin and
steem. Adjutant,l2 Deetels,r, 186 3. " A n exp a u sincerea.
ship-of-war which the Admiral lent him to go to tort' address was read by Mr. Geo. John Smith, the hone.
Vera Cruz, where he embarked in the transatlantic tr. ...r. pm.„ Lf,,,tbzfalli7hich -:, warmly received bpacket Florida for St. Nazaire. He is said to have was e,A, bion Is appropriate terms.
te-
a mission to notify to the French government the SHIPWRICIC sr SCARBOROUGH. Yesterday
recognition by the Confederate States of the ~ Er,,,. zoielkefittetjjeir 6.aad 7 o'clock. the liistrloeullighlary.4ig
pire "of Mexico, and also to try to persuade Na- as the Castle-foot, S;arborough. The meter Stat.° that
poleon 111. to recognise the South in return. yesterday they were off Shields, which port they could sot
make The wind blew with the gloated. violence through
The Courtier de Saint-Etienne (Loire) has just re- th, sight. At swot 5 o'clock in the morning, while ...tut-
oeival a first warning for an article declared to con- Tonne' to reach Bridlington Bev, the ballast &Medi sad
fain language "insulting to the Legislative Body, tit en= ;rine !afar "mail:lee matte tetirealeartil
and exalting hatred and contempt of the govern- erssti:vpon the rocks and heeled over on her broadside.
imat." , Six of the crew and the master at once climbed aloe' the
h were almost oe a level with the shore, sad
In addition to the above trouble, the journal In wad themselves. Two of the men in getting over the
question has to defend a prosecution for a "libel " quarter were washed awayi by the sea, and havebenot been
upon the Poet-office. The libel consists in an rumor- Ici,sfe;',..air& The awful violence of oe'r the skip • judgedd
wo
tion that newspapers are not delivered with reign- konn dare the occurring*.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

EQUITY COURT.
(Wore Vice- Chancellor Sir R. T. Kinder,ley.)

CRI6L r. THZ werzorouTAN
Mr. Edmond James moved ex parte that the defendants
be restrained by injonetioo from proceeding so demolish the
premises of the plaintiff. Plaintiff is the occupier of a house
in Chapel-street, Edgware-road, and on Wednesday after-
noon the company rive the plaintiff the usual notice.
Yesterday (Thursday morning their workmen commenced
pulling down a building at the bottom of the garden, which
was used by the plaintiff's family ea a water-closet, and
there is no other water-closet in the house. The plaintiff
has entered into no agreement with the defendants for the
purchase of his promisee, nor have they under the Lands
Clauses Ant paid any sum of money into the bank in respect
of the promises in question.
The Vioe-Chancellor granted an ad interim order until
Tuesday, the defendants to give plaintiff notice of motion
for that day.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
After Term Sitting at Nisi Prim at Guildhall.—(Before
Lord Chief Judea Cockburn and a Speriel Jury.)
LIDDSAY, m.r., MID AIMEE O. LICATILZT.
This was the fifth clay of this trial, and it is very pro-
bable it will extend into Monday next. The plaintiff's case
occupied nearly four days, and this was the first day of the
oviduct, for the defence. On the fiat trial the ver-
dict was for the plaintiff, but it was eel aside,
and a new trial granted on the ground that the verdict was
against the evidence. The action, it will be recollected, is
on a marine time policy, relative to the loss of the steam-
ship Harbinger. On her voyage from Calcutta to England
she had to put into Alice Bay from stress of weather,
and ultimately the captain abandoned her u a
necessary consequence. The plaintiff's case was,
that the hole in the vessel's bottom was mused
by the straining of the vessel during the terrific gales she
encountered or from being struck by • piece of floating
wreck, there were no means of repairing her at Algol, Bay,
end that it was impossible to take her to Sunon's 13. y, where
she might have been repaired. The defence was, that such
an injury could not have arisen ea supposed by the plaintiffs,
but was more likely to have happened from the action of
the sounding rod striking on the plate, aided by the corrod.
ing effect of the rust The hole was underneath the sound-
ing pipe, sod was about three-eights of au inch in diameter.
The sounding-rod is • piece of iron about three feet long
and half an inch in diameter passing through • tube by the
side of the pumps about an inch an • half in diameter. It
was urged by the plaintiffs that the sounding rod 11/411 never
let down with a splash, so as to give • heavy blow,
but it was lowered gently, and when at the bottom a gentle
tap or two was given to be MID of the soundings. The bole,
the defendants contended, was safely plugged with wood,
sod there was nothing to affect hersesmorthi nets. Two months
after the ship was abandoned the plug effectually stopped
the leak, and the vessel might have been taken round to Si-
mon's Bay undercenvas, where she might have been repaired,
and her abandonment prevented. She did not strain
daring the gales, and made no more water then than usual.
The weakening of the rivets it was also said was caused by
the wear and tear of the vessel, and Dot from her strain-
Much of the evidence relied on by the defence bad to
be taken by commission, the men on board of the Harbinger
being dispersed on board ships in various parte
of the world. There were many other collateral points in
connexion with the cue ; but the above are the main
points relied on. The reading of the whole of the evidence
at one time taken by commissioners, the learned counsel
(Mr. Bovill) said would be no tedious, that he varied the
mossotoey of the cue by calling between and examining
viva voce such witnesses as they had in this country.
The Solicitor-General, Mr. I)owdeswell, and Mr. Horace
Lloyd were counsel for the plaintiffs.
Mr. Bovill, QC., Sir George Honeyman, and Mr. Watkin
Williams were counsel for the defendant.