The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-28 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

PARIS. AUGUST 25.

Letters received here from Lisbon assert that it
is not true that the Papal Nuncio bad refused to
accept King Victor Emmanuel as godfather to the
infant Prince.

"Letters from Rome," says the Italie, " mention
that not a subject of the Pontifical government has offered
himself to be enrolled in the new Papal corps."
We read in a letter from Aix-la-Chapelle--" Mr.
Tom nobler, the young English tenor, whom I believe
we may hope to hear at the Royal Italian Opera next sea-
men, hi. been singing at a osecart here with extraordinary
success. The beauty and freshness of his solos and the
refinement of his style have excited quite a furore of admi.
ration."
A FAREWELL LETTER OF DR. COLENSO.—The
York Herald publishes the following letter from Dr.
Ooleuao to the parishioners of neslingh, near Tadcuter :
" 23, Sosesx.plaea, Remington, August 14, 1865.—My dear
Frieeda,—l expel* to sail to-morrow for my distant diocese
on the other side of the globe. But before I leave England
I must say stew words of farewell to you, who, though you
have never seen me is the Bash, have yet expressed your
love towards me, and your sympathy with the work in
which l have been sum. d. I thank you most cordially
for this proof of your regard and confidence. Yon know.
I am sure, through the teaching of your pastor, that
so far from wishing to shake your trust in God,
and to take away from you ail hope for time and for
eternity, my dadre and earnest endeavour bas been to
help you and others to struggle out of the quicksands of
doubt and uncertainty, sod stand with your foot resting
firmly on the Rook of Ages—the Dever failing lave of Rim
who is our father and friend. We know that oar Lord's
whole work in life and in deathwee to tell us of this—to lead
us to God—to reveal the Father to us. We know that
every word of toads, pity and compassion that oame from
Ilia lips is a witness to us of that Divine fount from which
His own spirit was filled. And we, too, let us remember in
our intercourse with one another, must in like manna be
witnessing for God, and showiug forth oar Father's truth
and love. For every blessed feeling of love for one mother
—of love for the right, the true, and the good—ofd sorrow
for the sinful and fallen—of pity for the igoorant those
that are out of the way—of longing
that the heathen in
Natal or elsewhere, who now lie almost in darkness, may
rejoice in that light which gladdens our eyes—all them
movements of oar Gods inner mas some to us from the
mighty working of God's good spirit within us, and show
that is very deed and truth we are men now the children of
God. 0 let as all desire to walk as becomes our high cult-
ism as eons and daughters of the Lord Almighty. Let os,
by God's grace, strive to maintain the fight unto the end,
with all that is bass and evil within and without as When
beaten down foe a moment, let us ries up again in the
dowels of Him who loves as. and so fight ea till the end
shall oonse—the end of this life's work sad ensflict—the
begissing, as we trust, of yet more glorious life is the
wield to coma—Ever your Mead and hilewoievant, J. W.
NATAL."
Tits Famtca FLarr.—The Mayor of Plymouth
has nesiyad an ofilleial intimation that the Frame fleet will
not visit that port.