The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-16 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY lIVEN*II, JANUARY jet 8f b.

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE',

(:sum's 211LIGILINS.)

ITALIAN CIRCULAR ON THE KIWI-

OLICAL LETTZB.

TOBIN, JAR. 14.

The Minister of Justice has addressed a sercalae
to the Italian Bishops, reminding them that the
Encyclical Letter and the document appended
thereto must be submitted to the royal eiequatur.

The circular further states that the government
reserves to itself the righe d declaring by decree
with what restriotfoos the Encyclical and appendix
may he published,' Anil What portions thereof must
be suppressed w contaary to the laws of the State.

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PARIS. Scanty Emma.
The number of bishops who have already " pro-
nounced" against the government interdiction of
the Encyclical is now 15. The Tjnips says that the
national council which M. Gtuiroult calls for is
*lieg past, and its ?pinions are very clear. But the
latter publicist.persists that it would be politic to
give the alisegy at large an opportunity of officially
' recording the opinions of the majority. Then the
government, should it be found necessary to sup-
press the budget of public worship (a strong mea-
-1 sure, by the way, of which I see no chance) would
hare demonstrated the justice of the step. The
ifeciatoar annoneoes that the Cardinal Archbishop
of Besancon is to be prosecuted before the Council
of State. This decision was taken at the ministerial
i council yeiterday, when M. Vuitry, minister pre-
' aiding it the Council of State, read to the Emperor
a long report on the matter. It seems that a ques-
tion was 'sisal whether the cardinal-arehbishop,
being a senator, could be lawfully proceeded against
without * labia of his peers. But the ministers
were itnapjpoesly ad ypiaie• that for the peculiar
colfrawsiatst, 00/flag
le• Pe* h*t merely a censure, the
eassaat .1 tips 81111 pate was not necessary. It
is a sisitag• spectacle to see, however, a French car-
dinal, who is ez officio a senator, and, in the words
of the organic law of 1852, a " guardian of the con-
stitution," deliberately setting the law at Manes
and laughing at its impotent censure. It has been
mistakenly represented that the consequences of a
censure at this kind are to remove bishcps from the
category of privileged persons and render them
liable to impriscnunent and banishment. This is
not so at all. ,For certain offences alluded to in
M. Delangle's circular of 1861, bishops may be im-
prisoned or banished just like other citizens, and it
matters nothing whether they have first been can.
mired COMM d'absis or not.

A cardinal archbishop is said to have written a
letter to the Pope, in which, without, of course,
presuming to blame the Encyclical, he regrets
that it should have appeared under circum-
stances ealonlated to impair the good understanding
w" N desirable to be maintained between the
oplacopeay and the Brand! government.
Intense interest is felt in the filial poll now going
en in the Ohareato Inferieure. Everything depends
Inpon what the 5,000 electors who voted for M. Ga-
bion a week agowill now do. The democratic leaders
in Paris amines confident about the &vault than they
were a few days ago. 11. dabiou, in ooming fonrard
without the patronage of the prefect, was not ani-
mated by any feeling of opposition to the govern-
ment. He would here been only too delighted to
be the government candidate if the prefect would
have bad him. But when he found M. Leclerc
profaned he took a huff, and thought he had mai-
client leeal interest to start on his own amount. He
oertainty rut a very good figure, having polled
5,444 votes against 8,800 given to ?IL Leclerc, and
7,806 to M. Paul liethmont, the candidate of the
democratic opposition. It has been too hastily
assumed that IL Clabiou's friends, finding that he
hos no chance, will treader their votes to If. Beth-
mont. But. M. Gabion is an ambition ad,votate,
and has his eye upon the presidency of a
certain provincial court likely to be vacant.
It is quite certain that if the government will only
promise him this presidency he will do his best to
transfer his votes to M. Leclerc. Whether these
electora, who have shown themselves to be inde-
pendent of the prefect, will submit to be thus led
by the nose, is much more doubtful. The return
of M. Bethmont, under present circumstances,
would be a political event of capital importance.
The assertion that Cardinal Antonelli did not
know of the Encyclical till after it was issued, is
now admitted to be false ; the Pope's prime
minister communicated the document confidentially
to M. de Bartiges before it was sent to the nuncio
in Paris. _ .

The Poi Bretonne, when about to print an ans.
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lyais of M. Fould'a financial report, received an
" order " from the Prefect of the Cotes-du-Nord
to give it textually. This is a novelty in the
"direction" of the press ; but as I have often said,
it is idle to complain of particular instances of op-
pression, since the right of administrative suspen-
sion and suppression includes the censorship and
every possible application of the doctrine of tom►
Madams MeTerbeer and her two daughters have
arrived in Paris to attend the rehearsals of the
Africaine ; but I understand it is not likely to be
brought out till March, and it is very doubtful
whether the curtain will rise upon it by April I.