The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-27 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARII3.

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PARIS. MOSIMY EVVIIICO.

The Italian journal the Linn°, commenting on
the Pope's encyclical letter, says that he openly
claims a temporal supremacy over all nations, and
that " it is evident that Italy cannot live with the
Pope, and that all thought of conciliation must be
abandoned." The Gazette de Foatice, feeling the
difficulty of supporting the 84 propositions, urges
by way of apology for them that they contain
"nothing new." That is just the misfortune ; the
Pope is hopelessly blind and obstinate, and fancies
that the voice of Rome is as powerful in the world
now as in the middle ages.
It is rumoured that Count de Fallonx's brother
will be made a cardinal at the next cousistury. Of
course his enmity to Gallicanism and the policy of the
Emperor constitute his principal qualifications fur
the dignity.
A despatch from Naples announces that Cardinal
d'Andrea had paid a visit to Prince Humbert, and
been received with all the honours due to his rank.
This is justly considered an event of importance.
Cardinal d'Andrea who, in 1856, took a leading
part in the four propositions against traditionalism,
which made a great noise at the time, is now looked
upon at Rome as little better than a heretic. His
departure from the Holy City a short time since
was generally looked upon as a sort of exile.
A new piece, called the Capifaine
was to have been produced at the Opera Comique this
evening, is postponed, in consequence of the cen-
sorship having at the last moment struck out almost
the whole of the third act. A scene tunpore Henry
IV., representing a barricade attacked by the
soldiers of the King of Navarre, and defended by
the people of Paris, was thought too suggestive
of seditious ideas to be permitted.
The Princess (zartoryska, widow of the late
Prince Adam Czartoryski, died at Montpellier a
few days ago, in her 64th year. This is a severe
loss for the Polish emigration as well as to Parisian
society. Her death was sudden and occasioned by
apoplexy.

The frost continues. At 6 this morning the
thermometer was 10 degrees below zero. Stating
is going on in the Tuileries and in a portion of the
lake in the Bois de Boulogne. The sky continues
to be cloudless. The wind is somewhat less bitter
than yesterday, but the weather is still colder than
the vendors of itroines in the stalls on the
boulevards could wish. My London letters of
Saturday's date were not delivered at my resi-
dence, ciese to the Arc de Triomphe, till this
(Monday) morning. This is a shame, because
the mail, though late, arrived iu time for
letters in the centre of Paris to be de-
livered at 4or 6 yesterday afternoon. Tie
reiterated promises of improvement in the postal
service of that vast " west end " of Paris which
has lately sprung up between the Faubourg St.
Honord and the Avenue de l'lmperatrice aro not
kept.

Such of your readers—and there must be many—
whose thirst or curiosity may have led them to take
at a common wine shop a glass of that standard
ordinary wine known as vin bleu, and which, before
the days of Haussmann, cost one sous, but now
two, may remember that it was poured out of
a brimming vessel which, as if to give an idea of
abundance and reckless hospitality, was made, in
the process of tilting, to overflow copiously upon a
metal counter. A correctional police trial last
week brought to light the fact that the landlords of
these wine shops are more frugal than the public
suppose. All the spilt wine flows into a groove
which leads to s cask, and it is duly served out to