The Express.
London, England, 1852-08-18 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDNY EVENING, AUGUST 18, 1852

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this lead prevaint in roodeen Asgept has been the
result of assidsat. The lent Clebilea ntimionaries
in every part of Europe, mom' Italy, and per-
haps Gaul, were more civilised than the people
to whom they mashed. As with the miasionsiwo
in the Pacific in our own day, their advice
and aid was eagerly _ sought in secular as
well as in e _esitubmil matters. Custom con-
firmed the pearlier, s d the separate jurisdiction of
Church mad Stole beams sonimemledia arc's minds.
It is indispemmilie to the well-being of society that
the diatimetion painted oat by Sr. PAUL between the
autberity of the Chute and the State be constantly
kept in view. In the language of CROMWELL'S Coun-
cil, the civil authorities sand teach the clergy that
" they too are ordained of Golf." The bearing of this
principle upon secular education it is our purpose to
elucidate in two articles, the former of which shall
consider what it is the right and duty of the state to
teach, and the second how it may best be taught.

FRANCE.
PARIn, 11/211DAY EvasiNo.
The Menifeur contains the remaining &print-
ments in the Legion of Honour on the occasion of
the 15th. An immense list of these is founded upon
a report of M. do Persigny, who has taken the ut-
most pains to seek out for honorary reward prefects,
mayors, sub-prefects, gendarmes, garden champetres,
and other functionaries, who distinguished them-
selves by zeal in support of the coup d'etat. M. De-
Lamm, director of La Patric ; and M. Patti, pre-
fect of tho police of Paris, are promoted to the rank
of officers in the legion. M. La Guerroniere, of the
Pays, and M. Theophili de Montour, chef do cabinet
of the Minister of the Interior, and formerly an
editor of the Patric., are made chevaliers. Another
recipient of the decoration is M. Paul Dupont, of the
Corps Legislatif, recently famous by his quarrel with
the prefect of the Dordogne. M. Dupont has
been for many years at the head of a large print-
ing establishment in Paris, and since the revolution
of February he has carried on his business to some
extent upon the principle of association, admitting
his workmen to a share in the profits. Oa the
news of his appointment to the Legion of Honour,
the workmen, whether by previous concert or not I
am unable to say, set out fur St. Cloud to thank the
President for the honour conferred upon their master.
They were received almost immediately by the
Prince, who was walking in the park at the time of
their arrival. The foreman made a speech, in which
be alluded to the regard paid by Id. P. Dupont o
the rilFhts of salary "in his arrangements with his
men. the President replied that in decorating M.
Dupont he bad wished not only to reward an emi-
nent printer of thirty-five years standing, but also a
master who missed no opportunity of doing good to
his workmen.

The Prince-President of the Republic gave a grand
soirée last night -at the Palace of St. Cloud. The
cards of invitation fixed nine o'clock for the com-
mencement of the reception, and before half-past
nine 1,000 persona had arrived. By ten o'clock at
least 2,000 were present, and guests continued to
arrive until after midnight. Among the company
were a great number of senators, members of the
Council of State, and judges, the members of the
diplomatic corps, all the generals of the army of
Paris, and a considerable number of colonels and
other officers. At a little after ten o'clock the Prince,
accompanied by the Princess Mathildo and some of
his ministers, went through the rooms bowing to his
guests. On his retiring, the dance commenced in
the long gallery, and this was followed by a splendid
supper. A considerable portion of the company re-
mained till a late hour. Some idea may be formed
of the crowded state of the rooms by the
fact of the file of carriages reaching beyond
the bridge of Surennes. It was observed that
neither the Prince de Canino nor Napoleon
Bonaparte, the son of Jerome, was present. Apropos
of Bonapartist disunion some people fancy they see
a symptom of it in the unexpected absence of
Marshal Jerome from the fetes of the lath. He was
on that day at Nantes, where he engrossed a large
amount of Napoleonic enthusium to himself, attended
a St. Napoleon mass, received the civil and military
authorities, and accepted a banquet given in his
honour.

The Palrie contradicts General Petit's death.
A certain number of tickets for the ball at the
Marche des Innocens were seized yesterday for being
exposed on sale in tobacco shops. As much as 10Q fr.
was asked for them in some instances. It is confi-
dently asserted that the President will open the ball
to-night with a market woman.
M. Abbatucci, minister of justice, is, by decree of
the President of the Republic, charged with the
functions of minister of finance during the absence of
M. Bineau, who has left Paris for a few days.
The Mondeur contains a decree of the President of
the Republic ordering that the vacation of the Court
of Accounts shall commence on the Ist of September,
and end on the Ist October, and appointing the fol-
lowing Conseillers Maitres to form the Chambre de
Vacations during that period :—M. d'Audifret, presi-
dent ; and MM. Itihouet, Adam, Magpie. de Pimples,
Lavelle°, Moetanier, and Lebo, de Courmont.
The minister of police, in a circular to the prefects,
has desired them in future to refer to him before
giving warnings to newspapers in their departments.
Out of delicacy towards the prefects this circular has
not been made public. The extravagant lengths to
which these local functionaries have carried the pow-
ers entrusted to them has long made the government
ridiculous. So lately as the 12th of August, the p.re-
feet at the C6te d'Or warned a journal for having
repainted an article of the Paris Union, in which
the astral authorities had found no matter of
odium the article merely lamented the notoriously
begat stets of the Parisian press, asked the ques-
t/ea orbothsr in a country like France the prevalence
apathy was beneficial to the public, and
girl:wind the proposition that the object of a sound
policy should be to develops and not to destroy the
jewel vitality of the people. The line of argument
was enforced by a reference to the state of
the Romans under the latter emperors. The
prefect of the Cato d'Or saw, in the reproduc-
tion of this article, a design to depreciate the coali-
tion of 1862, and to induce a belief that the object of
the government was to infringe upon the rights of
the people. The official fallacy, that these rights
must necessarily remain intact while universal suf-
frage exists, is proclaimed in the warning, which
concludes by
.affirming that any allusion to the
lower empire is an outrage to truth and to the French
people. Although the minister of polio:wham thought
flt to check the absurdities of the prefects, there is
no reason to suppose that any change of policy in
favour of the liberty of the press is in contemplation.
On the contrary, I have to-&y to notice a resump-
tion of the war against the Paris journals, which,
thanks to their extreme caution, reducing their
articles to insignificance, have for some time
remained unmolested. M. de Maupes has
given a first warning to the Gazettede
France of the 14th instant, and " which,"
the warning says, "contains, on the subject of pre-
tended ministerial modifications, assertions completely
erroneous, and of a nature to disseminate doubts as
to the real intentions of the government." The
Sleek has received notice of a prosecution from the
public prosecutor for an prticlo written some daps
since by M. Louis Jourdan. lam informed that M.
do Maupas, who only learnt the fact this morning
through the public prints, feels much annoyed that
another branch of government should have proceeded
against a paper for an article which he had not
thought fit to blame. The editor of the Siecle has
had an audience of the minister of police to-day, and
hopes are entertained that the prosecution may be
withdrawn. Indeed the general tone of discussion in
the Siecic since the coup (Niue has been eo unexcep-
tionable in form, and so temperate in substance, that
if the government should advisedly persevere in this
act of hostility, it will bo evident that nothing but
abject flattery, or total silence, can secure any jour,,
nal from destruction

M. Paul Meurice, sentenced to nine months' im-
prisonment for an article in the old En'nement, was
yesterday liberated from the Conciergerie, his term
of imprisonment having expired.
M. Thiers was at Vevay, in Switzerland, when he
received the news of the decree of the 7th inst.,
authorising his return to Paris. This news caused
him a pleasure which ho loudly expressed. M.

Thiers bore the weight of his exile with great grief,
and the moment he lftrd of the decree he eagerly
commenced
preparations for his departure. For
many years past U. Thiers has always pawed his
summer out of Paris, and this year he had arranged
to spend several months at Vevay. Ho is, however,
now so anxious to avail himself of the authorisation
to return to Paris, that on Wednesday or Thursday
he will be at his residence in the Place St. Georges.
General Bedew% in the following letter to the
Independance Beige, contradicts the report of his
intention to become a priest:
Sir,—Your op/respondence from Paris, of the 12th of this
month, transmits you the strange rumour, u it is styled, of
my being about to take holy orders. This rumour is not
strange, it is false. People, having doubting as interest in
so doing, have repeatedly attempted to mass it be believed
that, discouraged by recent political events, I thought of
taking refuge in • religious life. lam is no respect dis-
couraged, and the refuge of my conscience is sufficient for
me. I there find the certainty that I have always done my
duty, and the will to servo the cause of liberty and right
with perseverance. I rely upon your goodness to insert this
in 040 of your earliest numbers.
Brussels, August 14, 1832. 0 EN lIIAL BZDISAO.

PAR M A.

Our Paris correspondent writes last evening as
follows: _ _ .

The elevation of Ward to the regency of Parma is
not only a singular instance of the mutability of
human affairs, but of the tendency of the Anglo-
Saxon race, when transplanted to foreign countries,
to emerge to eminence, and surpass others by the
homely but rare qualities of common sense and un-
faltering energy. Ward, as your readers are per-
haps aware, was a Yorkshire groom. The Duke of
Lucca, who obtained, by his fall from horseback in
Rotten-row, the familiar soubriquet of " Filthy
lucre," spying the lad's merit, took him into his ser-
vice, and promoted him through the several de-
grees of command in his stables, to bo head-
groom of the ducal stud. Upon Ward's ar-
rival in Italy wi'h his master, it was soon found
that the intelligence which he displayed in the
management of the stables was applicable to a
variety of other departments. In fact the Duke had
such a high opinion of Ward's wisdom that ho very
rarely omitted to consult him upon any question
that ho was perplexed to decide; and the success,
which never tailed to crown Ward's advice, gave him
in the eyes of the feeble descendant of the Spanish
Bourbons the prestige of infallibility. As Louis MI.
used to answer those who applied to him on any
business, by referring them to the Cardinal
d'Amboise, with the words "Ask George," so
Charles of Lucca cut short all application with "Go
to Ward." The expenses of the stables having been
reduced to less than half under the administration,
while the duke's horses were the envy of all Italy,
it struck the prince naturally enough that it would
be a good thing if the same economy could be intro-
duced into other departments. So Ward tried his
hand on one thing and the other, continually enlarg-
ing his sphere of influence, until from horsehold
matters ho passed to those connected with the
state; which indeed is such a miniature affair
that it does not greatly pass the limits
of some private domestic establishments. Ward,
now become the factotum of the Prince, won in the
disturbances which preceded the revolutionary year
of 184 e a diplomatic dignity., and was despatched to
Florence upon a confidential mission of the highest
importance. He was deputed to deliver to the Grand
Duke tho act of abdication of the Duke of Lucca.
At first the Grand Duke was doubtful whether he
could receive in a diplomatic capacity a mes-1
longer of whom ho had only beard in relation
to tho races of tho Canine, where Ward 11
had been in the habit of riding as a jockey. But it
soon appeared that the Lucchese envoy had in his
pocket a commission making him the viceroy. of the
Duke's states, which was to be acted upon to case
the Grand Duke made any ditEculty, or even if he
refused to receive Ward as the ambassador of the
states of Parma at the capital of the Medici& Soon
after, in 18-19, whon'the Duke of Lucca resigned his
other states to his son, Ward became the head-
counsellor of this hopeful prince, who has this
been able to follow out a sporting bent under the
best auspices, while he had a minister whose shrewd
sense was more than a match for the first diploma-
tists in Italy. Ward was on one occasion despatched
to Vienna in a diplomatic capacity. Schwarz.nberg
was astonished at his capacity ; to fact, the ci-devarst
Yorkshire stable boy was the only one of the diplo-
matic body that could make head against the impe-
tuous counsels, or rather dictates, of Schwar-
zenburg ; and this was found highly use-
ful by other members of the diplomatic
body. Among others, Meyendorff, the Russian
ambassador, cultivated him greatly. An English
gentleman, supping one night at the Russian am-
bassador's, complimented him upon his excellent ham.
"There's a member of our diplomatic corps here,"
replied Meyendorff, " who supplies us all with hams
from Yorkshire, of which county he is a native."
Ward visited England. The broad dialect and homely
phrase betraying his origin through tho profusion
of orders of all countries sparkling on his breast,
ho rarely ventured to appear at evening soirees.
Lord Palmerston declared he was one of the mast re-
markable men he had ever met with. Ward, through
all his vicissitude, has preserved an honest pride in
his native country. He does not conceal his humble
origin. The portraits of his parents, in their home-
spun clothes, appear in his splendid saloon of the
prime minister of Parma.