The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-20 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARTS, War/NV.I4IIAT pewter.
There was a meeting last night at Count Mole's,
for the purpose of advancing the formation of a de-
finitive ministry. The evils of a trausitory ca-
binet of clerks were fully admitted In' all
present, but the remedy was more diffi-
cult to discover, and the clique of Mole seperated
without coming to any conclusion which will :died
the situations, for their willingness to support a
Fould-Bamehe restoration is not partaken by impor-
tant sections of the majority.
As a matrimonial sembol of "fusion" an alliance
is talked of between the families of Count Mole and
the Due de Noailles, by the marriage of the latter's
son with Mdlle. de Chiunplatreux.
Nothing of interest took plan: to-day in the As-
sembly, which, after hearing M. Beternot's reply on
the Sugar Bill, agreed to pass to a second delils-ra-
tion on the bill and after adopting, without debate,
a bill for the better prevention of frauds by tho
adulteration of articles sold, passed to the thirddeli-
beration on the bill relative to the organisatien of
consultative chambers of commerce.
M. Greterin has been appointed commissioner to
speak on the side of the government on the sugar-
duties bill.
M. Berryer announced to-dav to the Committee of
Initiation his intention to withdraw his motion on
the reimbursement of the 45 centimes.
Some months ago, the Archbishop of Paris issued a
charge to the clergy of hisdineese, enjoining on them
abstinence from political discussion and allushms in
their teaching and discourses, and generally to use
moderation and forbearance in their language and
conduct. This demonstration of Monseigneur do
Slims was generally hailed lev public opinion as a
step iu the right direction, and a timely rebuke to
spiritual brethren who, not content with raving
about politics in the pulpit, added a converse:wand:if,
by deluging the newspapers with theology. M.
Veuillot, the thaumatunne editor of the f nicer:,
which was at that period in one column propagating
the miracles of eye-moving madonnas of Rh ll i ttt , and
blood-distilling images in village* near Lyons, and
in the next traducing the successors of (Oily° and
Newton, and reviling the professors of the University
as atheists—M. Louis euillot then made a
grimage to Rome, to stir up the wrath of the
Pope and cardinals against the Arehbishop of Paris
for the damnable heresy of exhorting his clergy
to be peaceful and tolerant. Now, while the overt
act of the papal court was diametrically opposite to
the wishes and expectations of the obseuruntists and
bigots, and was in fact a (-ensure of the Unirers with
an implicit approval of the Archbishop's charge,
tlu-re is reason to believe that the real feeling of his
Holiness and advisers were in favour of the other
side. In the meantime a peace was patched up, and
M. Veuillot made a most penitent apology to the
' archbishop in the columns of the Unererx. There-
fore, the whole world has been rather taken by sur-
prise at an amazing long document, which has
appeared in the Jesuit organ, professing to be a pas-
toral letter from the Bishop of Chartres, to the elergy
of his diocese, and aspersing his colleagues of Pans
with the coarsest abuse for having issued the above-
mentioned charge. The tone of this document may
Is, gathered from the following passage: " L'espnt
de mensonge, par une surprise fatale, a mule aux
verites annoncees par M. I Areheveque de Paris des
erreurs qui retirement d'effravans dangers."
The answer of the Archbishop of Paris, dated
yesterday, merits attention. It is as thllows:
Whereas the Bishop of Chartres, by his pastoral letter of
the l2th inst., addressed to the clergy of hi- ,lice se, has, in
contempt of all hierarchical order, attacked an act of our
jurisdiction, by which we traced out to our clergy the lies
of conduct which they were to follow in political affairs.
and whereas he formdly ordered that his It tier should 14
published in our diocese through the medium of the public
journals ; and whereas., if it were permitted to each bishop to
meddle in the internal administration of other ditweses, and
by documents published in these dioceses, to erTISIIIV mea-
sures of pure discipline, episcopal authority would he annihi-
lated, the bowls of olwilience dissolved, and the porern tits it of
the church rendered imp. ssible; whereas, moreover, in tho
same letter, the Bishop of Chartres imputes to us pernicious
errors and doctrines, of which there is :to trace in our pasto-
ral letter ; whereas, this attack direct...l against our juris-
dictional authority, and this forgetfulness rat till respect for
our dignity as metropolitan, as well as tin scandal which
results from it, will not allow WI to be silent on the *obit et,
however we might desire to be so on account of the great
age and the virtues of stir suffragan • looking at all these
reasons, we refer to the Provincial &mull of Paris, which
will be held this year, the pastoral letter of the t2th March,
1841, of the Bishop of Chartres.
The Monday receptions of the President have be.
come much more frequented since the extinction of
the Thursday soirees. At the last reception the
Archbishop of Paris was present. No invitations are
issuciL The guests are those who have been pre-
sented or hold some lunation. There is neither mu-
sic nor dancing. Mr. Armand Benin, the editor of
the Debate, was noticed, not without surprise, as
making his appearance at the ElysLe for the first
time. _ _ .

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The pretence of the government fur dissolving the
national guard of Striesurg is the attitude assumed
by that body on the 24th of February. On that day,
as you are aware, by order of the central government,
no review of the national guards took plate in any
part of France. The colonel of the national guard at
Strasbourg thought proper to post up throughout tho
city oar order of the day condemning this resolution.
The officers assembled, and, in violation of the con-
stitution, which enacts that no armed corps can de.
liberate, deliberated in uniform. Sixty-eight re-
signed. Demonstrations of a disorderly nature were
made by the companies on service. I knee occasion
was seized to dissolve the battalions.
The expedition against the tribes of Little Kabylia
aims at securing the communications of the provmeo
of Constantine, and will consist of the troops in that
province under the command of General St. Arnaud.
It is on a small scale, but may provoke serious con-
sequences, by leavinf the centre of the province
exposed. D Hautpou '0 ambitious project of carrying
war on a grand scale into the mountains of Great
Kahylia has been decidedly rejected by the govern-
ment, which wishes to keep as low as possible the
effective of the army of Algeria.
There is no truth whatever in the report that
Odilun Barret consented to acct of fur ministerial
colleagues MM. Fould, Itouher and Idaroehe. When
applied to, in order to give the sanction of his name
to a resuscitation of the fallen cabinet, he declined
in the most positive terms. Meanwhile the President
seems out dissatisfied with his ministers of
transition, and has no thought for the moment
of changing. It appears probable that they will go
on until the revision question may be brought for-
ward. General Narvucz is become a gnat intimate
of the Elyske. His known principles of sword rule
seem to render the choice of such a counsellor fur
from prudent.
M. Sainte-Bens-es free trade motion has been re-
jected by the committee, which held a long debato
on the question yesterday. M. Limayrue was ap-
pointed reporter in opposition to the free-trader
Howyn-Tranchere.
An official communication appears in the Mnai-
tear to correct the statements which have circulated
with regard to the proceedings of the Conseil
dEtat on a recent occasion. M. de Royer merely
requested that the Calmed d'Etat would give the ca-
binet time to look at the bill which it has drawn
up on the responsibility of the President and minis-
ters and examine it maturely. The Conseil trEtat
voted the adjournment required unanimously.
The Pays has been bought by M. Mires, manager
of the Journal des Chemins do Ilr and of M. Lamar-
tine's Conseilkr du Potpie, for the commercial com-
pany of the "Caisse des Actions Reunies."
It is said that General Vesco will leave Dijon
shortly for Rome, where he will be charged with the
organisation of the Pope's army.
The steam-corvette the Newton, Captain Simonet
de Maisonneuve, which was about to proceed to the
Mediterranean, has just received orders to get ready
for Cayenne. She is to take out the new governor
of Guiana, several medical men, and some tasters of
charity. The Newton is at present lying in the har-
bour of Cherbourg.
From official returns just published of the produc-
tion and consumption of beet-root sugar during the
last year, and up to the end of February of the pre-
sent one, it appears that at the end of last month
303 home-made sugar-manufactories were in activity,
being Li more that at the corresponding period of
last year ; they had produced 02,000,000 kilogrammes
of sugar, being 11,000,000 more than the same period
in ltf3o ; tho quantity consumed was 34,000,000
kilos., or 4,000,000 more.
A man, named Coquet, has just been arrested at
Liverdun, on the charge of having fired the shot
Iwhich caused the death of the Archbishop of Paris
at the barricade of tho Faubourg St. Antoine, in the

insurrection of June, 1848. He has been lodged in
the gaol of Toul.
The intention of fitting oat the Charlemagne, of
g 0 guns, as a steam line-of-battle ship, by giving her
engines of 450 horse power, has turned out to be a
complete failure. In order to find room for such en-
gines, her stowage room would be so reduced that
she could not carry more than two months' provi-
sions and stores, und, even to carry that quantity,
she must reduce her stock of coals to two hun-
dred tons, which would not last her for more
then a few days. As, when the keel of the Charle-
magne was first laid, she was intended for a sailing
vessel, it was necessary, in order to render her fit fur
a screw propeller, as was then determined on. to
kngthtu her keel by the stern, a difficult operation,
and one which, in this case, has been attended with
serious consequences, as her hack is now found to be
broken. All the expense, therefore, of the Charle-
mm,me has been lust, as the navy will neither possess
in her a good sailing vessel nor a steamer ; she will
only make a bad coast-guardship.
To-day the Bourse was absorbed with railway spe-
culation. The shares on most of the lines gave way
AnallAN hat in consequence of their fall at the Exchange
in London. Very little business was done in the
funds. The Fives were stationary. The Threes
gaimd 5 centimes, closing at 57.90.