The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-06 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(MY OM OWZ

PARIS, MONDAT EVINING.

The Emperor took advantage of the very fine
mild weather to go to St. Germain this morning on
a shooting excursion. He was seen rattling along
the Rue Rivoli at 9 o'clock in a sporting char a
haw, accompanied by five marshals of Franoe—the
Duke of Magenta, Marshal Magnan, Marshal Niel,
Marshal Regnault de St. Jean d'Angely, and Mar-
shal Randon, Minister at War. M. Rouland, the
Minister of Public Instruction and Worship, was
invited to join this warlike party.
Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clothilde
(who inherits the sporting taste of her father) bad
a hunt of their own to-day in the forest of
Meudon.

The Patric has reason to know that the Sublime
Porte, relying on the protocol of April 13, 1859,
intends to send a commissary into the Principali-
ties on the occasion of the seizure of arms in Berrie.
England and Austria are said to approve of the
project, but serious objections to it are raised at
St. Petersburg, and the Patrie seems to think that
France leans to Russia in the matter. It raises •
point of construction on the wording of the pro-
tocol, which says that the infraction justifying such
an interference by the Porte " must be first ascer-
tained " (prealoblentent constant) by the represen-
tatives of the powers, and this has not been done.
A great deal has lately been said of reported
differences, of almost a threatening character, be-
tween Prussia and Austria. But the news from
Germany on the subject is obscure and contra-
dictory, and little reliance can be placed upon the
versions given by Paris journals pretending to be
well informed. The Temps says on the subject :

We agree on this «median with the German corre-
spondent of the Moniteur, and think that nothing mono=
will oome of the conflict. It suits IL de Bismark at the
present moment to make as much noise as poseible apropos
of the unity of Italy, in order to weigh upon the chambers,
and keep down the internal crisis. The Cologne Gazette
thinks this, and can find no rational explanation for M.

de Bismaries military demonstrations. It defies him to find
money for going on with a warlike policy, unless he makes
his peace with the chambers.

A clerical organ in the south of France, L'Opinion
du Midi, strongly urges the catholic& of Nimes to
petition the mayor and municipal council to refuse
the usual subvention to the theatre, unless the
manager will undertake not to play the most suc-
cessful piece of the day. Le Fib de Uibuyer. In the
neighbouring town of Beaucaire the clergy have
just made a desperate but unsuccessful effort to
prevent a protestant from having decent burial. It
had been usual in Beaucaire, as is still the prac-
tice in but too many other parts of France, to bury
protestants ignominiously in the ground reserved
for criminals and suicides. Lately, however, and in
pursuance of the law, • portion of the cemetery
was marked off for protestant graves, and was sepa-
rated from the remaining part by • ditch ; but on
the occasion of the first interment of a pro-
testant proposed to be made there, the
Beaucaire priests protested with so much
ado, that the mayor suspended the funeral, and
telegraphed to the prefect for instructions. The
priests said that the ground marked off for pro-
testanta was consecrated, and that the inhumation
in it of a single heretic would " pollute" the whole
cemetery. The prefect replied that the mayor was
responsible for the police of the cemetery, and that
his duty was to see the interment effected in spite
of every resistance. Moreover, he sent him a central
commissary of police to support his authority. The
funeral procession set out for the cemetery, but on
arriving there it was found that the grave was not
ready, the gravedigger having left off his work in
obedience to an order from the curb. The pro-
testant corpse was therefore obliged to be deposited
in a provisional sepulchre, and it was not for two
days afterwards that the gravedigger was forced by
the gendarmes, under threat of imprisonment, to
do his duty. The civil authority ultimately pre-
vailed, and it remains to be seen what steps the
clergy will or can take to cure the pollution.
The Bourse has been quite brilliant, and the
Rente has risen half a franc.

WEATHER REPORT.

.-(THD3 DAY.)
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TAY, JASVAIII