The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 17, 1884;

Whether France, having once retired from Rome,
will go back ; whether any other Power will be
permitted to take the place of France as the Indexer
of the Temporal Power which France will have
abandoned ; whether M. DROVER DE LIMES will
be Foreign Minister of the Second Empire two
years hence ; whether the Liberal or the Clerical
party will be the stronger in the councils of the
Second Empire and in the public opinion of
Europe when the Temporal Power is put upon its
trial; these are questions for the future ; our pre-
sent concern is to secure the signature of France to
a treaty which applies the principle of non-interven-
tion to Rome. Civilization and progress will do the
rest, if we are true to ourselves and to the destinies
of our country.' Such in substance, though not in
words, is M. Viscown VsNosrs's interpretation of
the Convention of September 15. M. Prrou
enlarges upon the same theme in very striking
language. Familiar as he must be with the dispo-
sitions and tendencies that prevail in the councils
of the French EMPEROR, he declares that the
Convention asserts the stability and unity of
Italy, because the transfer of the capital is a pledge
that the EMPEROR abandons the idea of a Federa-
tion ; he scorns the rumour of new cessions of ter-
ritory ; he sees in the French signature to the
Convention the recovery of liberal ideas in
France, and a security for the alliance of
Liberal Europe ; and since Rome is the centre of
European reaction, he discerns in the advance of
all the forces of liberty towards Rome, in the de-
molition
of " feudal Rome " throughout free
Italy, not only the settlement of the Roman
question, but " the liberty of the world." It
should not be forgotten that no Italian statesman
has done so much as M. Pteou to demolish
what he well calls "feudal Rome " in the laws of
Italy ; no Italian statesman has a better right to
be trusted when he urges that Rome must be
surrendered to moral force alone. M. Pxvou is
probably convinced that the only possible mode
of reconciliation of the Temporal Power with
Italy is in the Temporal Power ceasing to exist,
and therefore, with all the energy of his convic-
tions, he confidently recommends to the Italian
l'arliament a policy of reconciliation.

and nuns are allowed to be instructors of youth
with no other license than " letters of obedience"
from the superior of the order to which they belong.
Hence the wretched pay given for the most part to
accomplished governesses, who are everywhere
undersold by nuns frequently grossly ignorant.
Many scandalous trials have disclosed not only
the immorality, but the crassid ignorance of monks
to whom parents, on the recommendation of priests,
are induced to confide their children. All this
shocking inequality is now to be put an end to.
Clerical instructors and governesses are to be sub-
jected to the like examination as lay ones, and the
Hotel de Vile is now crowded everyday with
monks and nuns desirous to pass. They are, for
the most part, ao ill-informed that it has
been found necessary to lower the standard
of the examinations, in order to avoid re-
jecting them by wholesale. The lay teachers
will benefit—if a benefit it can be called—
by the relaxed roles, but a whole generation of
children will have worse guarantees for good in-
struction in order to accommodate the religious
orders. This is the weak part of the measure,
but it is to be hoped that gradually the examina-
tions will be restored to the old standard.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

Bitting is Banco—{Before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn,
and Justices Crompton, Mellor, and Shoe.)

THE OW( v. THE LOCAL BOARD OF MAL TH OF BRADFORD.

WELT&

Mr. If. Smith, Q.C., moved fora rule fora mandamus to
compel the Bradford Local Board of Health to make a rate
upon the inhabitant@ to raise a sufficient ram of money with
which to pay the plaintiff's claim. The plaintiff wan the
surviving executor of Mr. Huh, who was clerk to the
commienonen and had obtained a judgm_ent against them
in the Court of Exchequer, but they bad no money with
which to pay it and could not collect it from the inha-
bitants except under the power of a mandamus.
Rule panted.
THE QUEIDt V. DARBY.
Mr. Sleigh moved for a rule, calling upon Mr. Payne,
coroner for the town of Dover, to show cause why a
certiorari should not issue to bring up an inquisition
for manslaughter spinet the defendant, Wm. Darby, In-
spector on the South Eastern Railway. The deceased,
So-
annah Lock, was killed on the above line from a collision
that took place between Ramsgate and Margate, owing,
a was alleged, to an insufficiency of break
power, and it WS/ sought to make the defendant
liable because he had allowed one of the guards to leave
the train before the train had reached its destination. He
moved on th• as grounds first that the proceedings were
corom non indica secondly, declining to receive evidence ;
and thirdly, that the inquisition was bad upon the face of it.
The court, however, granted a rule on the first point only.
Rule accordingly.
THE QUEEN r JONES AND ANOTHER.
V.

Mr. Temple, Q.C., moved, pursuant to the leave reserved
in arrest of judgment in this case on points of law with re•
ference to the evidence, and also that the indictment was
bad. The prisoners were tried at Liverpool before the Lord
Chief Justice and found guilty for being concerned in en-
listing men for the Confederate States. The questions to
be submitted to the court were of great importance, and it
WWI very desirable that they should be fully discussed.
The Lord Chief Justice (interrupting the learned coun-
sel) mid there could be no doubt the points referred to
ought to be discussed, and he thought it could be done
when the prisoners were brought up for judgment. The
learned counsel might consider that he had moved and
bad obtained his rule, and argue it when the prisoners
were brought up.