The Express.
London, England, 1865-02-08 00:00:00

ITALY.

TURIN, Pa. 7.

The Municipal Council of this city have agreed
unanimously to present an address to the King,
and a deputation for that purpose have already
left for Florence.

The Gazette di rosins of to-day denies the rumour
that the ministers of foreigiflpowers had addressed
complaints to the government in reference to the
oondsct of the mob towards the ambassadors on
the 30th of January last

I learn on good authority that M. Dronyn de
Lhuys has remonstrated with Mgr. Cbigi, the
Pope's nuncio, on the subject of the letter of congra-
tulation written by the letter to the ultramontane
bishop, Mgr. Pie, of Poitiers. The French govern-
ment considers that letter as an interference with
the " internal concerns of the Empire," and has de-
sired M. de Sartigea to complain of it to Cardinal
Antonelli. This event adds materially to the evi-
dence already known that Mgr. Dupanloup's ano-
dyne interpretation of the encyclical is not the one
most Wound by Rome.

The Popo has just given a special mark of favour
to a prelate who may dispute with the Bishop of
Poitiers and the Bishop of Montauban she prize of
hostility to the institutions of the French empire.
0 Our Holy Father," says the Gum tk du Midi,
" Pope Pius IX., baa, in his munifioenoe, just
seandad a sacred rel.!, to Mgr. Plantar, Bishop of
Maass, ➢am°lyr the body of Bt. Antimidora, found
in 1864 in the.estacoutbs of .callista With the
above, the parish of Aims:goes, for which the relic
is destined, will have the good fortune of possess-
ing also a phial containing the blood of that martyr,
and bearing the inscription, Antimidora in Pace.' "
An opera in verse, on which M. Legouvls the
academician, has been working hard for three
years, and for which M. Gounod, the eminent
author of Faust, composed the music, has been
interdicted by the censorship. The reason *Abe
veto is that the plot turns upon the noble stand
made bya Pope seven centuries ago against Philippe
Auguste of France, when he wanted to repudiate
his wife *gabs de Moraine. The authorities think
it inexpedient under existing circumstances tb
allow a stage representation in which a pope
is shown to have sounder ideas of morality
than • King. You will not suspect me of any
leaning to Popery at the present day ; but I think
this interdiction petty and ill-judged in the
extreme. There was a time when the Popes did
good service to humanity and civilisation against
feudal military tyninta. One of the brightest
pages in the history of till papacy was chosen by
M. Legouvii as the subject of a work which wet
him iafinite pains. It is shocking to_think that
because of some possible application in the public
mind to the conflict between France and Bane of
the present day, this work of art, by two of the most
distinguished living writers and musical composers,
should be suppressed. M. Legouv4, in a letter of
remonstra•oe to the minister of state, which un-
fortunately failed to obtain • reversal of the
original decision, tells a very apropos story which
the Emperor must read with pain. M. Legouni's
father wrote a play entitled Henry IV. The cen-
sure put a veto upon it. Napoleon L, hearing of
the matter, reversed the decision of his minister,
but with this single qualification :—" M. Le-
gouvti's play," he said, "puts in the mouth
of Henry IV. these words—` am afraid.'
Now a king may be afraid, but he should never say
so ; let these words be struck out, and then the
piece may be played ." The play had a great ran,
and was the cause of no breach of order. M.
Legouvi's work would be equally innocent at the
present day. The worst enemy of the empire could
not frame so damaging a libel as that promulgated
by the minister that it would be unsafe to allow
M. Legouvers opera to be played. The Debuts is
about to publish the libretto, which, in • printed

form, is notintardicted.
The Court of Cessation, yesterday, dismissed the
appeal of M. Barthelemy, who, it will be remem-
bered, was sentenced to eight days' imprisonment
for allowing M. Gamier Pa& and his friends to
bold an electoral meeting in his warehouse. The
highest court lays down the doctrine distinctly
that electoral meetings are not privileged, and can-
not be held without government permission.
The Bourse closed heavily. Rente fell 10c.. for
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67fr. 20c. Mobilier rose lfr. 25c. There is little
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