The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-05 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS. Faroky Evimma.

Letters from Vera Cruz of August 1 bring news
of the loss of the French steam frigate Montezuma,
which left on July 11 to support an expedition of
" counter-guerillas " against Minatitian, and foun-
dered in the night of the 14th and 16th, on a sand-
bank two miles north of Guazacualcos. The crew
is saved, but the ship is in a hopeless state. The
Minatitian expedition is said to have succeeded
but a considerable portion of the native "counter-
guerillas," after having obtained from the French
authorities at Vera Cruz arms, clothing, and a
bounty for enlistment, decamped and joined Juarez'
forces. A gross misrepresentation of the French
government press is exposed by these letters. It
has always been said that the empire, with Arch-
duke Maximilian for sovereign, was voted unani-
I mouldy by the "Notables," less two voices only.
The fact is that out of a chamber of 250 there were
110 abstentions.

There seems to be no doubt that the Imperial
Court of Lyons, in suppressing the Courtier de It
Etienne the other day, has been guilty of a crass
error in law. It decree is based upon an article
in the constitution of 1852, which enacts that any
newspaper convicted for the second time shall be
ipso facto suppressed. That article was repealed by
a Senatus Consultum of 1861, which was vaunted at
the time as a liberal measure. It is really mar-
vellous that the Lyons judges should have over-
looked such an important statute. The Court of
Caseation must necessarily reverse the judgment.
A great many eloquent articles have been written
in England about the condemnation by the French
government of the electoral address of the seven
bishops, and it has been taken for granted that
the aggressiveness of the clergy had received a
serious check. It is probably not generally known
that the appel contme d'abus is a totally innocuous
proceeding. It is a dry censure, unacoompanied
by any penal sanction. The bishops who are de-
clared by the highest judicial authority to have
" abused " their spiritual jurisdiction are in no
way molested or threatened either in their tem-
poral or spiritual capacity. The decree does not
prevent them offending in like manner to-
morrow, and throws no difficulty in the way of
other prelates who may be disposed to imitate
their insolence. In times when church and state
pulled well together, i.e., when the church frankly
accepted the subordinate position assigned to it by
the Gallic institutions of the revolution, the aped
comma d'abus may have produced a certain moral
effect. But now, when nitramontaniam is rearing
its head, these inoperative censures merely give the
clergy the stimulus of cheap and easy martyrdom.
A catholic print, Le Amnia/ des Villes et Campagnu,
condemns the censure of the Council of State, and
the delinquent bishops care no more about it than
did the hackney coachman mentioned by Beaumar-
chais, who, when summoned before the parliament
of Paris for having insulted a councillor, was told
by the president, "The tribunal censures you and
declares you infamous." " Will that prevent me
driving my coach Novas the man's reply. And when
he found it did not, he cared as little about the sen-
tence as the bishops do now.

There is no political news to account for the fall
at the Bourse, which, moreover, is not very
serious.

Holum RACES AT CONSTANTINOPLE.—The forth-
coming race meeting, under the immediate patronage at the
Sultan. is likely to be one of the mod intending spectacles
of the kind withstood in this capital for many years.=
since it his Majesty's desire that no effort shall be
to make the occasion a perfect sucoces. The first preli-
minary meeting to carry out the seoemery arrangements
was held yesterday, and later in the day • careful survey of
the proposed course, at the Sweet Waters of Europe, was
made by the chairman of the committee, Safer Puha,
Messrs. B. T. Back and A. Ivannoff, the boo. secretary.
The ground appears to have been admirably chosen, •
level valley of sufficient range, encircled by gently
rising ground, affording ample accommodation for spec-
tators to command • perfect view of the running. At
• comparatively trifling expense the course may be railed
off and stands placed; but as the mediae is to be •
special " imperial" one that will be • minor caddis-
tlol2. The edsdlos al the Sweet Waters is also well-
judged from the valley's pomading the great advantage 4
being easy of acmes from town both by Lod sod eater.
Although no formal entries of horses have yet been made,
there is no likelihood of a shortcoming in this respect. Per-
haps no capital in Europe can bout of so magnificeot • col-
lection of the beet Arab horses as are to be found hers, sod
under the peculiar inducements of the ocessiou we have
every reason to expect that the forthcoming run will be in
every way attractive and exciting.—Levant Berald.
August 26.
THE CONFEDERATE STRAMERB.—WO are glad to
find that our contemporaries who exulted some time ago In
the triumphs of the Florida and Alabama, and took much
comfort in the law of the Chief Baron of the Exchequer,
are • little startled by the legitimate result of their
dot-tripes, and begin to doubt the reasnoablenese of our
expecting the Federal government to be content with
our neutral trade of building steam-rams for the Coe-
federates. We have ever held that such a precedent we
about one of the very worst that could be established
for Great Britain—that it could be made an amid el
incalculable mischief in case of war with the United
States or with France. If it ever can be lawful for the
subject. of • neutral nation to fit out, equip, sod man
a vessel of war for • belligerent with which the 'dem-
meat of the neutral has no relation whatever, which it
only recognises in exercising belligerent rigida—to arm it
on their own coast, and thee to send it not to sea to pie?
on the commerce of a country with the government of
which their country is not only at peace, but bound by
close treaty and engaged in diplomatic relations—boisting
a flag on hoard, .which the ship has never bad
an opportunity of acquiring by a moment's domicile
in the waters of the power for which it is
warring—if ever these be legal arta the supremacy
of Great Britain at sea will never avail her again.
If such be our law now, it ought to be changed
not in Federal interests, but in our own. It is no sufficient
answer to the natural objections made by the aggrieved
belligerent, that the law of their own weedy aid their
peat piactioe justify the act. If Ireland was in • state of
rebellion, and was so closely blockaded that not • ship
could enter her ports, what would our government do in
case the citizen ship-builders of New York sent out steam-
frigates with the harp and green flog flying, sod commenced
burning British ships, seder the pretence that they were
Inch mon-of-war, and argued that such proceedings were
quite justified by law and precedent! Re fszicy the go-
vernment of the United States would bear eomethiog on
the subject of • very decided character.—dewy and Nary
Gwette.
THE GREENWICH PENsIONERS.—At the meeting
of the Greenwich Board of Guardians held last evening,
Mr. IL Carter, cbairmen, a communication was received
from the Admiralty, notifying oertaiu alterations in the con-
dition of the in-pensioners of Greenwich Hospital In future
each married man is to receive an extra allowance of Is.
per week to enable him the better to support him wife and
family, provided such in-pensioner be Dot in possession of
any place or employment to the hospital yielding him •
boxer sum weekly. The gtverron's council has authority
to mulct any pensioner of such allowance, or an port of it.
or of the weekly allowance already granted under the
regulations of the let of March, 1861, upon eatisfactory
peont of such pensioner having neglected to provide to the
beat of his ability for his wife and family. la the ease of •
married in-penis being compelled by Mods to become
aa inmate of the infirmary or helpless wards, the above
allowaaeee an to be continued to him io fidl, subject as above
to the authority of the governor's council Should such pen-
Wooer be in receipt of wages attached to any plane or em-
ployment in the hospital, such wages are to be continued
to be paid for one month ooly. on condition of his providing
a substitute to perform his duty to the satisfaction of the
governor, and 'object to the regulations of the gnversor's
domicil. Upon the death of a pensioners wife, the expense
to be defisyed by the hospital, in the same manner and
under the some regulations as are now pursued with re-
spect to • deceased pensioner. The wives and children of
, peeisioners are to have medical advice and medicines gratis
j at the infirmary dispensary, upo the aproval of the pan-
' cipal medical officers of the hospin tal, voidepr such regulatioes
as the civil, military, and medical officers may, in concert,
deem necessary to prevent abuse and irregularities. The
proceeds derived from the unclaimed effects of deceased
and "ran" peeeiodni, as well as from mukts imposed !n,
the governor's council, to form a fund which the commis-
sioners are empowered to employ, at the recommeodatioa
of the military authorities, in making such addition to the
wide and children of deceased is-pensioners as ,nay be suf-
ficient to enable them to return to their own homes or
parities.

111111 DAT. 0111 MI MONDAY.
W. to and S.L. fresh Nonzn-linst. ALL to W. N.W.,
to strong with rain. bask squally,
showers,
N.N.W to 8.9. W., Warr Comma S. to W. and N.W.,
moderate to strong. straw to modarais,
rain at times. showery.
W.N.W. to d. fresh BOUTECOARIS S.W. to N.W., fresh,
to strong, with rain. unsettled.
W. to 8. sad fi&L, 801W8-lagr. S.W. to N.W., fresh,
fresh, squally, some showers In places.
rain
North.last=Csithaess to Norfolk. West=Dowegal to Corn-
wall. Sonth=Classusel and Bay Cassia Sonth-lrastr-Stralt of
Dover to Norfolk.

The Committee of Privy Council on Education,
acting through the Science sod Art Department, has cir-
culated cook* of a minute made at a recent meeting which
declares that it is proposed to bold, in the spring of next
yes; at the South Kensington Museum, as complete a col-
lection of the works of Yobrsady as it is possible to get
together, and invites the assistance of proprietors of the
artist's works in furtherance of the plan.
Mesars. Macmillan and Co. announce in their
advertisements, that they bare been appointed publishers
to the University of Oxford, and that "ea and after Onto-
her 1, all publications kilned frees the Learned Side by the
delegates of the Clarendon Press will be supplied by them."
They succeed Masses. J. H. Parker and don as publishers
to the University.

The September number of the Alpine Journal,
• quarterly record of mountain adventure, published by
Emma Longman and Co., °Detains a summary of the new
Alpine expeditious, or motintria &scents, that have been
raids this summer up to August 12 by English tourists,
chiefly members of the Alpine Club. The particulars of
23 distinct new mesas up to that date are given—some
succesdal to the summits. others cut short by impractica-
bilities of one kind or other.

The Book•Ezeisange is the title of a new monthly
advertising &hest, of which the first number has just ap-
peared. It is "submitted to literary men, book-buyers.
and all climes of readmit as a prompt, efficient, and cheap
medium for buying, selling, or exchanging books." The
present number consists mainly of two lists—one of books
wanted, the other of books offered for sale, with the prim
affixed is moat cam.

The cottage of the " Dairyman's Daughter," at
Arretoo, in the Isle of Wight, oelebrated is the religious
world through the Re►. Leib Rieltmoad's writings, is erten,
tied for role.

New York musical journals mention that Herr
Joachim and his wife, who wu Mdlle. Weiss, sod who is
'mhos of throughout Germany as a singer of no common
endowments, are about to visit America.
Two important males of pure bred abort-horn
'tuck an announced, the one by Mr. Strafford. on Wednee•
day, sod the other by Mr. Wetherell, on Tuesday, the
fled. The former. the herd of the late A. L. Maynard,
Fag., of Martin-Is-Moor, near Ripon; the latter, the head
of Lady Pigot, of Branches Park, Cambridge.
THE LATE 51k FILRMZEICK Scans—With refer-
awe to the peragrrph that has gone the round of the papers
we an let , on noexceptional authority, that it is a
time of invention unfounded in fact. The late Era Frede-
rick Slade was married once, and only once, to his wife
Barbara, only sister of Lord Vans, of Harrowdmi. at SR
Hearties. Hanover-square, openly and publicly. His eldest
see, Captain Sir Alfred Slade Bart., has socoeeded to hie
meets sad sad is preparedi to defend them.—Wester'
Timm

- Too Foirroacmo Fortfur. —The memorial statue
to the late Feel Forrecue is plaited on its pedestal in the
Oreleyard, Faster. The work will be cowered from the
=ye until Frisky seat, when the formal nscovering sod
cremate wt take place. This superb piece of
work is does in Sicilia* marble, audio from the ch feel of that
eminent sculptor, F. B. Stephen; Fog. of London. The
data* and the notarial are each welt feet, so that the
entire height of the monument is sixteen feet. The
base is granite, the work of Mr. Easton, of Exeter. It
is to bear the following racripton :
"Sanctus halved.
Justfttope tens: factis dictisque megrim
Agree° procerem."
The Lord Lieutenant and the high sheriff have bees re-
ly:red to attend at the inauguration, and here assented to
No other nritatione have been issued by the
emenreenautet A platform will be erected for Lord Clifford,
the chairman of the committee, the high sheriff, and other
subscribers. Another platform will be reserved for the
Lord Lieutenant, the magistrates, and such private friends
of the late earl ea may express a wish to he present. It is
understood that several yolostear corps intend to be pre.
tent soder the command of their respective °More, and
that other volunteers will attend to show their respect to
the late earl.

TRt l'iturr or SEPTEMBER.—Partridge shooting
opened on Tuesday under very promising auspices, the
weather being delightfully doe. and adapted for the walk
over tuntip hued and stubble; the harvest wee all gathered hi.
that Users was no fear of the husbatulman at his toil checkiog
the sport ; nod the pad season was reported very favourable
to the birds, so that the weep, were in moat ellstricta lege
and strong. Friendly and family parties were over night
collected is many of the old manor-houses and nianricess
of Bum, antimpating the sport of the morrow ; sod at
early more the crack of the gun was beard on many a farm.
We believe that in general good sport was met with : ex-
mot, perhaps. about Ooloheeter, where there are sway
Frenchmes,* which are wild for want of cover, and &M-
-outh to reach. Is most parte of the kingdom tie areownts
Mete partridge' are in pleaty : hares are by nonsase mum ;
eudof pheasants the report is " there is an absolutist pis-
Qom" Is &Welk we hear of ewe gentleman begrime 94
brace of partridges before midda. moldoun their wAy
to London early on Tuesday, sod we from is. Si.
tots. &I. a brsow—arlessiord Chroaide.