The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-30 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, THCRSDAT EVER!CO.

M. Paulin Limayrac, who, after due time for
consideration, is instructed to speak of the ency-
clical in the Constitutiemid, does not take quite so
mild a view of it as the Pays was permitted to do.
He admits, indeed, that the new letter is but a
sTehatuW• of very old doctrines, but then he sees in
the selection of them at the present time an
"evident intention to break with all the principles
upon which modern society rests." He also sees
in it the best justincation for the celebrated de-
-1
&patch of M. Drouyn de Lhuys to M. de Sartiges,
in which the French Minister for Foreign Atlaim,
while announcing the Convention of Sept. 15,
spoke of the peculiar codes of the Holy
See, which in their essential nature were
radically opposed to the ideas of the age.
But although the language of the Cum
stitat i•ateol is very different from that of
the Pays, when three days ago it extolled the Pope's
wisdom sud moderation," yet it Collies to no
better practical conclusion than that France ad-
heres to the doctrines of tl.e French clergy of 1682.
It is but pour progress if the Emperor is only pre-
pared to meet the Pope with such liberality as
I prevailed in the days of Louis XIV.! There are
no indications of any decided policy in ecclesiastical
matters. The clerical journals boast that M. L.
Veuillot has been dialing with the French ambas-
sador iu Home, and the report that a French
brigade was coming Lome next month by way of
commencing the evacuation is contradicted.
The Imperial Prince has been allowed to take
an "initiative." The Monitrur states that he—
ktat 811—" having learned " that, in consequence
of New Year's-day falling ou Sunday, schoolboys
would only get two days' holiday instead of three,
asked that the third day might nevertheless be

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strong to moderate,
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to mo4erate.

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crneirs. noutnent.Engli.ll channel and Bay of Biway.
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THE SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE IRON TRADE...--
WOLVERHAMPTON, Dac. 29.—Tbe preliminary meeting of
the trimmest's' of this district was held in this town this
afternoon, Mr. W. 0. Foster, M.P., in the chair. It was
proposed and carried unanimously, that the prima of finished
iron remain the Lame ; it was also decided that in the in-
terests of the trade a council of gentlemen be appointed to
act as a committee of the trade, and that they, in the rota-
tion of their names, be appointed to set en chairmen of the
iron trade of South Staffordshire for one year, and that the
present honorary secretary cootions to act in the same
position. under the panel, with the aid of an assistant-secre-
tary. In addition to the chairman of this meeting the gen-
tlemen nominated to constitute the panel were Mr. William
Mathews, Mr. dohs Hartley, Mr. William Burrows, Mr.
George Barker, Mr. Walter Williams, jun., Mr. Frederic
Smith, and Mr. W. M. Sparrow, each of these gentlemen to
act as chairman for one year. It may be mentioned that
the trade remains in • very depressed state, and unless the
mill men and peddlers accept the reductions in their wages,
of which notices will be given on Saturday, the masters
have resolved on • general lock-out.
E,..arg Or PRIsoNERB FROM COLCHE:TER GAOL.
—Three prisoners_ effected their escape from Cokhester
Borough Gaol on Wednesday evening, under suspicions
circumstances. They were awaiting trial at the ensuing
quarter merlons, and, with one or two other prisoners,
were in the airing yard, under the charge of • turekey,
This official deemed it consistent with his duty
to go out to • public-house to get some beer,
leaving the prisoners by themselves, and the door
unfastened. When be returned two of the pri-
soners were gone, and, while he was searching for
them, with the door still unfastened, another effected
his escape. The warder then gave information to the
police, who did all they could to recapture the fugitives.
but as yet have tot been successful. The escaped prisoner'
are—Charles Murrell", drover, charged with stealing a
sheep from a truck at the Colchester station of the Great
Eastern Railway; Edward Cook, farm labourer, charged
with fowl-stealing ; and Joseph Lytton, • tramp, charged
with houmbreaking. Murrell@ is a ticket-of-leave min,
having been onevicted at Norwich of burglary with vio-
lence, for which he was sentenced to death, bat had his
sentence commuted to transportation for life, sad, at the
end of 13 years, received • ticket-of-leave.