The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-22 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 22, 1849.

of principle should be done, but when unlimited liberty is
tatted of I think that those who do so deceive themselves,
and ran a risk of destroying what they wish to save. (lieu,
he. r ) Libery in itmlf is not incompatible with the tem-
poral lOT r. igety of the Pup'. That liberty existed is the
middle am, but it is the prineipla wi•ocated by Genteel
Caseignac from this tribune, which is ahaolutely incoreps-
Wart with the temporal Dower of the Pups. (Hear, hear.)
Neither is the sovereignty of the people, perhaps, incompa-
tible with the temporal sway of the Pontiff, but it must only
show itmlf tads, certain firm, and not have the p met of
ranging everything aecording to its will. If things which
are tuspossibleluid not bees sought for, all the liberties which
Pins IX. bad granted w..nld now be enjoyed at R ime. The
guilty ben the punishment of their fault; they have con-
founded the sovereignty of the prop!, with its abuses. (Loud
approbation.) M. de Toequeeilile only demands one thing—
.. Consults having a d liberative vote in matters v f taxa-
tion. I approve of the government asking for that, but I
would not have them mate it An ultimatum. Teat demand
in itself swan' vary trifling, but it is of immerse
importance—it contains the 'thole principle of perliamen•
Cary eorereirnty. It is the vote of the supplies which ren-
dela the English parliament en powerful. Do you believe
that in France, when Louie XVIII granted the Chtrt• r of
1814, he intendeu to found parliamentary sovereignty Ca•
tatuly not. But he woe led so it by the •de of the taxes, mid
it would be exactly the same thing with the Boman eonsulta.
Look at what occurred the first time that, in virtue of the
Charter of 1814. Louis XVIII was obligiel to ask f r money.
It wee for the SpaLish war. From that day parliamentary
sovereignty was founded. It would be the some at Rome if
the nor sults were invested with the right of wing supplies.
Wh e in that Assembly a hullos y should arise
against the Pope the supplies wouid be stopped, and by that
meats it would be s night to drive the vveronient of the
Church into a particular path. What remedy 'veld there be
against an opposition whieh would throw the catholic' of the
whole world into the moat difficult position ? The Pope would
be nominally the head, bat in reality the subject.

and of that pan of the mejority of which H. Vidor H ago is
no organ—

A *one from the centre—H. Is the organ of no one.
(Movement.)
M. Hit hittnT•lAMßltai—And yet by the path which you
ere ;arming, you wail be forced to enme to constraint; since,
ir,s, menace, foree is cosily er,ived at. Lock .hat force
when employed against the popedom produced. Napoleon
was great, and yet from his struggle with Plus VII there ae-
ailed to his a great disrepute, a great diseorirderation, and
finally a great deft at. The Pope certainly has not as many
pieees of cannon as you, but he pommies a moral power
&Nairn which you will be worsted. It is the weakness of
the Holy Qee which constitutes its insurmountable force
against us. Is there in I i.tory a more consoling spectacle
than the embarrefrvaent of forte when 'speed in a contest
with weakness ? When a man strikeia woman. she can say
" Saike, but in doing so you color yourself with dishcnour."
Yet the church was far more than a woman, for it was a
mother ! —(a triple salvo of applause)—the mother of hu-
manity, the mother of socictv ! (Renewed applause.) No,
you will not succeed agair at the church, for it has infinite
resources of defence, and is like a hmeiged town that 4:canoe
ever be sadism.

A Volna on the Left —The church no longer ex'sts.
(Loud laughter on the Right.)
M. DE MONTALEMBIULT—The chunk has an oil text,
now pommies, written in an old book, invented by an old
pope, called St. Peter—(gr neral laughter)—end with that
word it w:11 conduct you to the end of ages. M. Victor Hugo
has compared the force of ideas to the force of dogmas ; but
he w-a wrong, for dogmas ha, e a mysterious origin, and they
influence the mtnl. Find me an idea that has reigned for
eighteen Centuries over a hundred millions of beli-ven.
(He .r, hear.) It has Fran said that Oar flig was compro-
mised by the expedition to Rome. Blasphrmy ! It has not
been so, for
cause. (Prolonged appinuee from the Right.) History will
eco justice to the leader of our army, to the worthy son of one
of the giants of our old imperial glory. (Rmistmd skpoltuse.
It will say what Piur IX. himself sail to his letter of thaaks)
to General Ondinot, that the victory of our army was a
triumph gained over the enemies of human society. That is
the glory of MIT army, and the glory you surely would sot
wirh to lawn by 'lunging yourstlf into a tissue of contss-
dictiona and taeousistervies. You wrull sadly tarnish that
glory if you were to vise up opplsition ag..inat the tiara
which you have rescued—if yon were to make cur rldiers,
who have herrn the pro.ecton of the Pope, become his op-
press 1' —if you err re to exchange the • or) of C:eall qua net
for such a miserable counterfeit as Garibaldi. (Immense
sensation.)
The sitting was brought to a close at • 'patter to seven,
it the midst of great emotion.