The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-23 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS

(ROY 01:111 OWN CORILIMPOIMEIT.)
PARIS, SONDAT Evrinwo.
The Papal Court has taken vengeance on Car-
dinal d'Andrea by stopping his pay. When his
deputy made the usual quarter-day's application,
he was told that the cardinal must come to get his
money himself. It is suggested that the French
government would be justified in acting upon the
precedent thus furnished by Rome, and stopping
the salaries of those bishops who rebel against the
organic articles of the constitution.
The internecine war between the French prows-
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tants which has long been going on has led to •
pitched battle, which is being fought this very day
in the triennial election of the Council of Presby-
tery. The respective leaders are on the one side
M. Guizot, who may be described as the champion
of high church proteetantism, and M. Athanase
Coquerel, jun., the most prominent representative
of free inquiry. The Avenir Natrona/ thus speaks
of the contest :
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Thegertioau whether protestantiern. which inaugurated
free inquiry, is now to condemn it. We shall astonish noels
of our readers when we tell them that the puritan of
orthodoxy, the apostle of repression, is M. Gitisot.
Wherever 11. Guizot may be, he Invariably mistimes the
part of a dictator. He rules supreme is the Academy, and
the result is plainly to be seen to the latest elections, for
31. Guisot lova to extend a helping hand to radii:n-
ifty which will never come in contact with his
owe pretensions. He pretends in like manner to domineer
in the Temple, where he wool I stifle all free thought and
repress every expression unplessing to his own can. Pro.
iodinate cannot be do mach on their gourd against this
fatal iefluence. M. Heine' teaching tends to designation

la ?Aeon as well as in politics.
K Testu, the French consul-general at Alex-
andria, has been recalled in consequence of his
being more imperialist than the Emperor, and
making himself extremely disagreeable to the
pacha on account of some deviations made with
the consent of the Sublime Porte in the:Emperor's
award touching the Isthmus oft Suez. M. Otani
is the new consul.
A commission has been appointed to inquire and
report upon the results in every department of
France of the throwing open of the butcher's trade
and the abolition of the tariff of meat. %There is
little fear of a return to the old ?kinks.
The Opinion Nationale publishes al letter signed
by eight persons affirming, in spite of the contra-
diction of Colonel Pietri, of the 92nd, that the
band of his regiment in obedience to the cries of
the crowd did really battre an.e champs, that is,
render funeral honours as it passed by the
coffin of K Proudhon. If in so doing
they infringed military rules the writers can-
not help it. The fact is that, whatever may be its
meaning, K Barbier, chemist and druggist, Grande
Rue de Pansy, No. 7, in a separate letter, states the
same thing, and, as evidence of it, he says that the
crowd, applauding the band, cried " Vire la
Li,gue !" He is astonished that Colonel Pietri
should take so much pains to deny a praiseworthy
action as if it were a crime. I dare say the truth
is that the colonel never gave the order to botfre aux
champs, but that the bandmaster, either mistaking
the meaning of the commanding officer's signal to
stop the march that was playing, or acting on his
own conception of propriety, did.
K Proudhon has left some posthumous works,
among which are an essay on art, and a volume
"On the Political Aptitude of the Working
Classes." The copyright in his writings is the only
fortune of his two young children.