The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-05 00:00:00

ENGLISH POLICY IN THE EAST.

The Nord of to-day contains an article entitled
"The New Policy of England in the East," the
whole of which is founded on the assumption,
confidently made, that England is about to change
her tactics in the east—that she now seeks to check
the progress of Russia by msking Greece the
advanced poet of British influence in the
European East. The Nord thinks this a stroke
of Palmerstonian genius, and that it will give
England • powerful agency against both Russia
and France. The Nord prints • letter from Mos-
cow, to which it attributes considerable importance,
in which this view is taken. The correspondent
declares that, though the new policy is dictated by an
anti-Russian sentiment, the public opinion of that
country would greatly prefer it to the eon-
tinned support of " a barbarous and effete
domination." It is stated that in a con-
versation with Lord Napier, in which the
latter insisted upon the impossibility of allowing a
Russian prince to ascend the throne of Greece,
Prince Gortchakoff replied, " Ah, well, there's the
difference between you and us! If, in spite of the
documents which exclude Prince Alfred, he was
called to ascend the Greek throne by the will of the
nation, I can assure you that we should not see in
it necessarily any motive for jealousy. Provided
that he frankly showed himself a Greek prince, and
laboured sincerely for the prosperity of the country,
we should be quite ready to hold friendly relations
with him."

THE SHAM REFORMS IN ROME.
The Opinion Nationale has the following :
Rotes, Dee. 26.

It is sot distinctly knows here whether the intention is
to give a deliberative voice to a sort of financial consulta,
which now exists in name, and is composed of nullities, or
worse, or to create • new manilla. At all events, if the
individuals called upon to fulfil this ungrateful task are
honest and conscientious, it is to be tiered that, however
ninth they may desire to find some remedy for the state
of the financial administr►tion, they will shrink with de-
spair from the work when they discover the enormities and
inextricable difficultiee which inevitably await them. They
will find that the registered public debt, which in 1847
amounted to 206 millions, has more than trebled ; that the
book in which this debt is inscribed is entirely at the mercy
eta great variety of people—each as, ex. gr., the treasurer,
the secretary of state, the committee of subsidies. the
delegate, the keepers of the chancery, and the bishops.
All these people take upon themselves, separately
and arbitrarily, to create new stock and issue
state paper. The colusalta will find that there
exists • category of titularies celled " vacabilista." be.
longing to the college of apostolic writes. (such as abeweri.
start, Inbrit ulari, annatisti, &c.) to whom the government
sells °Mom for money which goes nobody knows where ; it
will find that fully one-third of the Roman population—
monks, nuns, priest., cardinals, idle domestics, and beggars
—live upon the public treasury ; it will And that many ex-
traordin►ry measures which the government bad recourse
to under the pretext of state monomania' served only to raise
mosey for other than pablio purposes : for instance, it will
find no trace whatever of the proceeds of the sale of the
Duke de Leuchtenberg's property which the curia sold,
ner of the millions paid by Spain to buy off the
tithes which it was in the habit of rendering to the
apostolic chancery. Such enormities, which the mind re-
fuses to believe, but which, nevertheless, are moat strictly
true, were pointed out by the Gaeta ronruita of 1849—the
world knows with what result. So lately as 1860, Count
Savelli, the president of the present conesaffs, having ven-
tured to submit a few observations on the financial disorder,
' was at moot dismissed. Well, then, is it possible to believe,
whatever powers may be ostensibly given to the new eon.
Stall, that it will be permitted to unravel the frightful mys-
teries of such an administration ? And, in any case, how is
• radical remedy to be applied? Nothing can be done with-
out destroying all those parasitical interests which have ever
resisted all idea of reform, and hays thereby reduced the
temporal power to its preesat disastrous condition. Ever
since 1831 the powers, by reiterated memoranda, and
public opinion, by means of the European press, have conti-
nually demanded reforms ; and, so far from any progress
having been made, things are now worse than ever.

Tits EVPeaoa NAPOLEON AND 1* H E FRENCH
CLERGY. —Le France says :—" When receiving the clergy
on New Yeer's day, the Emperor expressed his sorrow at
the death of the Archbishop of Paris, adding that the de-
ceased prelate had left behind him an example of mode-
ration and wisdom which the whole French clergy would
follow."—The Moniker of yesterday publishes the re-
marks addressed to the Emperor on New Year's day by the
Archdeacon of Notre Dame. Alluding to the late arch-
bishop, the speaker said :—" Guided by his counsels
and his example, we shall faithfully follow the
path he traced out for us, ►nd in the exercise
of our holy functions we shall seek, like him,
without regard to soy other consideration, how to do the
largest amount of good around us, without ever separating
is our hearts the love of the church from the love of
France, and acting on all occasions according to the Sa-
viour's precept, ' Render unto God the things which are
God's, and unto Clear the things which are (10w'.." The
archdeacon concluded by thanking his Majesty for the visit
he had paid to the dying prelate, and by stating that the
clew: would always pray for the Emperor, the Empress,
and the Prince Imperial."
A letter from St. Petersburg of the 24th ult.
states that the cold is almost insupportable, and se no snow
has fallen there is no travelling, since sledges cannot move
without snow. The wind blows with such violence that on
approaching the Neva neither the thiokest cloak nor the
warmest fur can resist It. The impossibility of travelliog
by sledge has raised the price of provisions enormously at
St. Petersburg, as none arrive, as formerly, by that mode
of conveyance. Many of the necessaries of life have risen
100 per cent. Accounts from Moscow likewise state that
the winter has set in there with unusual severity.

The California merchant,' are now paying their
Jobb is legal Seders. Br the last steamer one could per-
shone a draft for 1,000 do/lars by toying 800 dollars in gold,
that the California trades saved just 24 per oent.—a
e profit and 'wily roads.—CailfoT7OG paper.