The Express.
London, England, 1863-02-23 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, SUNDAY Emma.

Although, as usual on a Sunday, there is little
matter of interest in the evening papers, the go-
vernment prints of all shades continue to reflect the
orders given them to Teak sympathetically of the
rising in Poland.
The France says that a petition in favour of Po.
land, and bearing very influential signatures, is
about to be presented to the Senate, and that upon
this petition a debate will take place, in the course
of which the government will make known its
opinion.

The Russian journal Le Nord, which used to be
published at Brussels, and has lately transferred
its offices to Paris, contains the following pars-
graph, which I cite as introductory to the remark-
able contradiction of the most important part of it
given by M. Grapier de Cassagnaes journal, the
Nation :

We believe we know that M. Drouyn de Lhoys and Count
de Colts, the Prussian envoy, have had a long conversation
relative to the Pruseo-Russian convention. In the course
of this interview M. de Colts endeavoured to prove—and is
said to have succeeded in proving—that the convention had
• purely military character, and had been concluded with
the sole object of mutually protecting the frontiers of the
two powers.

To this quotation the Nation appends the follow-
ing material observation :

This note would be &emirate if the words "and is mid to
have succeeded in proving ^ were suppressed. We think we
may confidently state that IL de Goltis arguments did not
have this effect, and that the Nord is therefore imperfectly
informed.

M. de Goltz, since his conference with M. Drouyn
de Lhuys, has had a private audience of the Em-
peror.

The question of the legal attestation of signa-
tures to petitions was raised in the Senate yester-
terday, incidentally, by the Marquis de Boissy.
Referring to recent instances—some of which I
alluded to the other day—he complained that peti-
tions were kept from the Senate by fume:
tionaries whose attestation of the signatures
was assumed to be necessary, and who
capriciously and arbitrarily refused to give
it. Baron Lacrosse, one of the secretaries
of the Senate, replied that no form of attestation
was necessary, that is cases of sufficient notoriety
petitions were accepted without any attestation at
all ; and that it was only in case of doubt as to
the genuineness of the signatures that some reason-
able evidence was required. Cases had occurred
of petitions presented in assumed or imaginary
names, and it was against such as these only that
the Senate desired to guard. These explanations
were deemed satisfactory to the house ; and in
point of fact there is no apparent objection to
them. It is, however, certain that petitions of
numerous citizens of Paris have been impounded
by mayors who took upon themselves to usurp the
functions of the Senate, and express an opinion
that the petitions were not fit to be considered.
I presume we shall now hear no more of such
things.
I expressed an opinion a few days ago that the
Italian government, being forcibly prevented by
France from acquiring Rome—the natural capital
of the new kingdom—would undermine the Pope,
by putting itself at the head of the schism which is
making rapid strides in Italy. An important step
has been taken in that direction. A circular of K
Pisanelli,the Minister of Public Worship, announces
to the principal members of the clergy that the ex-
Jesuit Passaglia has founded the journal the Pace
for the purpose of combating the temporal power,
and propagating the present doctrines of that priest
as to the relations between church and state. The
minister expresses a hope that this journal may be
extensively circulated throughout the kingdom and
expecially among the clergy.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

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