The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-02 00:00:00

CANADA.

Mr. Larnatire, the chief of the Montreal police,
had resigned, it was supposed, to avoid dismissal
Thirty companies of volunteers were about to be
sent to the frontier by the Canadian government.
A Montreal despatch says a man named Porter-
field, a Confederate government agent in that city,
and custodian of the money stolen from the St.
Alban's banks, is to undergo a legal examination.
The statement that it is probable that the funds
will be given up is reiterated.
The discharge of the raiders by the Montreal
magistrates is condemned by both the government
and rebel newspaper organs in Canada, and the
majority of the people appear to be indignant at
the critical condition in which the relations be-
tween the Northern states and the provinces have
been placed by it.
The Toronto Globe, commenting on the announce-
ment of Mr. Lincoln, that his government has
given the requisite six months' notice for the ter-
mination of the treaty between Great Britain and
the United States, which forbids either party having
armed vessels upon the lakes between the Toronto
province and the United States, says :
So far as the Confederate pintos are concerned, the
change will be satisfactory enough. If there had been •
gunboat hard by to overhaul the resale who captured sod
robbed the Philo Pusan amid Island Quesa, our daosre of
justice would have bps laved the trouble of catching
Barley, and our courts the difficulty and responsibility of
deciding what to do silk him. But for our own people.
the appearance of a number of gunboats on our inland seas
is • very different affair. The besieges rose and property-
holders of our exposed cities and towns, and lines
engaged in our lake commerce, will hardly coo.
seat that there shall to gunboats on one side of the
hike", and set upon the other. That slate of thing would
pet es in imminent peril is the event of war. If the
Americans had gunboats while we had eons, they could
make short work of the chief cities of Upper Canada. Los;
before we could begin to supply the deficiency, we might
have the very points most essential to the defence of
Western Canada wrested from us. If, therefore, the pre-
sent purposed the American goveriameet be lefty canted
cat, there con hardly be a doubt that It involves the pie-
vidiag of • number of expensive gunboats for Canadian de.
limos. So much seems in store for as as the result of the
leukemias/ and the utter disregard of the claims of grati-
tads by rascals to whom our country afforded an asylum
when they were In need.

ROME.
THE LATE ENCYCLICAL.

The Correspondence of Rome, the official organ
of the papal government, thus expresses itself on
the subject of the encyclical :
Prime Humbert, presumptive heir of the mown of the
'Leg of Italy, whoa asked, some time ago, w►at was to be
thought of the consequenom which would follow the con-
vention of the 15th of September, replied, " Within two
years the Pope will commit some great mistake." We
have just read the Eocyclioal ; there, perhaps, the mistake
is fully discovered. This act of authority of the one-
mow of Peter condemning the revolutionary spirit
in its impious and anti-social manifestations replies
on all polo ts to the enemies of Rome. They were
not expecting is. It comes, too, as suddenly as did the Con-
vention, and nevertheless everyone could see that it would
corns. For two years catholicity was in travail, and pre-
paring for it. Some will indulge is furious clamours,
will set themselves in the greater rage against Rome, and
will try and fortify themselves in their wide ; others will
regard this as a small matter ; but a document signed with
the name of the Vicar of jams Christ is sad always
will be, a great thing, an event in the history of
humanity. The pebble th►t David picked up—to avail our-
selves of a comparison tarnished by a man whom we love—
seemed a little matter also ; bat launched from the sling,
this stone struck the giant Goliath. Pius IX. sustains the
same combat as David, in the name of the same 04 and
has before him the same enemy, the same ghat, the giant
of revolution. This giant will be Amok, to rise again,
doubtless, but he will be struck.
The same journal adds that the Pope is the only
guide marching iu the direction of true progress,
and the only muter governing modern as ancient
times. It hopes that the sovereigns will see that they
have no better friend and no surer ally. "The Em-
peror of the French, above all," it says, "placed
by Providence at the bead of the Christian nations
par exultance., will approve this grand language,
which scourges the enemies of social order, and
displays all the danger of an alliance with its
enemies."
The Correspondence also speaks of the mission
at Rome of M. Desprey, which, according to the
Italian journal; consists in examining men and
things on the spot in order to inform the Emperor
more exactly of what is taking place.

(szursa's nizaains.)
SPEECH OF THE EMPEROR,.

THE FRENCH GIOVERNMENT AND THE
ENCYCLICAL.
According to the official account of the reception
of the diplomatic corps by the Emperor yesterday,
his Majesty replied as follows to the Papal Nuncio :
"The felicitations of the diplomatic corps of which
you are good enough to be the mouthpiece touch
me sensibly. I trust that that concord may con-
tinue to reign among us, of which your presence
around me is a sure guarantee. Bs ormvinoed that
I will make every effort that my relations with
foreign powers be ever animated by respect for right
and love of peace and justice."
The Emperor, in reply to the Archbishop of
Paris, said :--" I thank you for the sentiments
which you empress in the name of the clergy of
Paris, and for the prayers which yon address to

Heaven for me. lam very glad to see my efforts
to maintain religions interests appreciated by the
prelate who governs the diocese of Paris, and I
request your prayer for me, for the Empress, and
for the Imperial Prince."
A circular of the Minister of Justice, dated the
lit inst., to the bishops, announces that the
Council of State is occupied in examining the
project of a decree for authorising the publication
of that park of the Encyclical letter which grants
a jubilee. The Minister says :—" As regards the
first part of the letter and the appendix, your emi•
asooe will understand that the reception and pub-
lication of theme documents, which contain propo-
guidons contrary to the principles on which is bend
the constitution of the empire, could not be antho.
rised."