The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-26 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(nod OUR OWN

PARIS. SUNDAY ZVININO.
This is the coldest Christmas-day that Paris has
wen for many years. The sky has been cloudless,
but the bitter north-east wind smells of snow,
which it appears has fallen almost all round the
metropolis. London letters were not delivered till
3 in the afternoon.

The appointments of MM. Conti and Frances-
chilli Pietri are gazetted in the Moniteur, and there
is now no doubt that the former has the highest
rank. M. Conti, whose name comes first, is de-
scribed as " secretary to the Emperor and chef du
cabinet ;" M. Pietri is called the Emperor's
" private secretary."
The moat terse and caustic asunit, I have yet
seen of the Pope's new condemnation of " modern
doctrines" is to be found, strange to say, in the
France. It is difficult to conceive how Viscount de
la Gueronnibre, the valiant champion of the tem-
poral power, will be able to explain to his confessor
such writing u the following :

The sacrificial letter of December 8 calls to mind the
celebrated one of 1852 ; it is inspired by the some spirit and
formulates the same condemnations. Liberty of 00110601 M

—liberty of worship—liberty of opinion—and the complete
independence of the civil power in regard to the religious
power, are described as detestable and pernicious errors.
The theory of the Pope comes to this—peoples should be in
the hands of their princes ; and princes under the authority
of the Pope ; the Pope to an extent and in a degree of
which hen the sole judge can interfere in the temporal
affairs of nations ; princes must on no pretext whatsoever
meddle with religions matters ; the catholic tell
gion alone has • right to public worship ; princes
are under an obligation to protect catholic worship and to
put down every other, sot merely in the interest of public
order, but because all other worships are contrary to
true religion. The Church has a right to punish by cor-
poral penalties those who violate its laws, and
the crime of heresy which has been effaced from all
modern codes should be revived and punished as it was in
the middle ages.

I think Italy owes an immense debt of gratitude
to Pius IX. for this plain speaking.

PARIS, SATURDAY EVIMUNG.

The Patric, in announcing that the Emperor's
" Cabinet is definitively composed," gives the
names of the staff is the following order :
" M. F. Pietri, attache to the private secretary-
ship, is appointed private secretary to the Emperor.
M. Conti, councillor of state, is called to the func-
tions of chef du cabinet. M. Sacaley remains sub-
chef du cabinet. MM. Pietri and Conti have en-
tered upon their duties."
Readers of the above must suppose that M. F.
Pietri is intended to take higher rank than K
Conti. That would be contrary to what has been
generally understood ; but 1 cannot say what the
fact may be. M. Mocquard was both chef du
cabinet and private secretary, but the former was
considered the higher designation. It turns out to
be true, as I surmised a few days agq that the
office is put in some sort in commission. I believe
Colonel Faye, though not expressly gazetted, will
be employed by his Majesty in the military corre-
spondence.

The dory told by the independance that the
Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne, Baron de Malaret,
and two other first class ambassadors, were to be
assembled in Paris to confer with the Emperor on
the subject of his new year's speech, is contradicted.
It is by no means certain that there will be any
new year's speech at all.
Baron de Malaret has,lhowever, arrived in Paris
from Turin.

A government print, the Berne de Paris, has
got its patrons into an awkward predicament
by "too much zeal" Wishing to justify the
coup d7tat, and all that was done in consequence of
it ; and forgetting that the least said on the subject
the better, the Revue affirmed that all the
people tsansported to Cayenne in 1852, and
more particularly those confined in the lie au
Diable, were " bad characters undeserving thesym-
pathy of any honest man." What made this state-
ment the more insulting to the political victims to
whom it applied was the fact that this article was
signed by M. Jotuwelin, a former governor of the
colony. Now, it happens that one of the transports
alluded to is M. D4l6cluse, Commissary-General of
the Republic of 1848, and a member of the Consti-
tuent Assembly. He has written an answer in the
name of himself and his companions in captivity,
which the Berme de Paris refuses to insert, and now
he brings an action to compel the insertion. M.
E. Arago will plead for the plaintiff, The case
promises to be interesting, but efforts will no doubt
be made to bark it.

The young Duke of Hamilton has left Oxford for
Paris to pass his Christmas holidays.
It is said that a new journal is about to appear
in Paris, for the express purpose of treating of
Algerian affairs, and that the necessary funds have
been found by Arab chiefs. M. de Toulguet, for-
merly a prefect in Algeria. and M. Ernest Feydeau,
the author of "Fanny," are spoken of as con-
tributors.

The frost is severe, and there is a bitter east
wind. Snow has fallen at Lyons and other parts
of the south of France, and the late delivery of
Loudon letters leads to the supposition that there
must be snow northwards.

The six great central post-cocas in France, de-
creed on December 4, are to be at Arras, Alencou,
Toulouse, Poitiers, Lyons, and Nancy.
The French Jesuits have just founded a Catholic
College at Constantinople.
The Bourse has recovered the slight fall of yes-
terday, Rente being 10c. higher. Railways are
fully 2.50 to 5 higher- a more decided movement
than we have seen for some time.

THE CONDI:NNW MURDERRIIS AT KIRK DALZ
GAOL —Eau' Gress, Henry Brown, and Thomas Liodoe,
condemned to death by Mr. Justice Mellor at the recent
Liverpool assizes, are still unreprieved. Ellis Green was
convicted of the murder of his sister.io-law when be wasin a state of furious intoxication. Green has a wife and
eight chaldree. sad since hi, condemnation he has been
visited by several members of his fatuity. Mr. Appleton,
the gaol chaplain, reports the prisoner is serious and M-
I unties to spiritual ministrations. It is stated that a peti.
Hoe is to be forwarded to the Home Secretary on Green's
behalf, praying for • commutatiou of his sentence. Lioden
was sentenced for the murder of Thomas M'Carthy, a
person of bad character, who was an saeociate of the
I miner. Brown has been visited by his wife, father, and sister-
, in.law. Mr. Appleton has been diligent in hie ministry-
' tions to Brow; and Linden, who is a Roman catholic, has
beerivisited by the catholic chaplain, Mr. Gibson. Liudoes
mother, aunt, sister, and MOM have visited him during the
week. Laudon is much buoyed up by the fact that the jury
recommended him to mercy. Should no reprieve arrive
all the criminals will be executed on Saturday, the 7th
proximo.
DENTITCTION AND MALARIA IN BETHNAL-GRIM
—An inquiry was held on Saturday evening by Mr. Hum-
phreys, Middlesex coroner, at the Black Boy revere,
Churchatroet, Bethnal-green, respecting the death, wider
very shocking circumstances, of Robert Bloom, aged 10
years. Emma Le Serf, 6, Gloucester-place, Betbrial.green,
said that the deceased was ber father, and be lived at
No. 2, Shepherd's-court. Old Nicholl-street. He was a
cutler. Bhe saw him on Thursday last, and be was so ill
that she went to the workhouse for • doctor, but when
she came back she found him deed on the floor. There
was no bed or table in the room. There were two
broken chairs and a broke. box. He paid 51s. a week net.
The small butt in the yard supplied six hones, and all the
families in these six house, had only one privy, to which no
water was laid on. She thought deceased had enough to
eat. Rebecca Bellamy, who, with her 1011, lived with the
deceased, gave similar evideece, and said that the landlady
was Mrs. Merriam; who lived in Nichol! street.—Dr. W.
Gaytoa said that be Naiad the demised deed in • room, dirty,
ill ventilated, and unfit for human habitation. Four or five
weeks ago he was called to • family in the next room, one of
whom had fever. In the house next the privy five penes's—
father, mother, sad three chili:wen—had fever at oar time.
There was always surface-water in tbecourt-yard, which wee
unpaved. Deceased's death resulted from etudes on the
brain and diems' of the lungs ; but the dirty, ill-ventilated
state of the room, and the condition of the surrouoding
atmosphere, would tend to accelerate death. It would
lower vitality. In the room noderosath lived • man end
his wife and' Su children. The jury returned the follow.
ing verdict :—" That the deceased died from the mortal
effects of effusion on the brain and &seam of the lungs,
arising from natural causes • but the said death was ac-
celerated by destitution, and by living in an ill-veutilated
room, and in • court wasting in sanitary requirements."