The Express.
London, England, 1865-09-28 00:00:00

CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.

The Mustlia, which left Malta on the 17th inst.,
may be expected at Southampton ou the Gth in-
stead of the 10th October, as previously announced.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(nom ma own 001613PONDENT.1

PARIS, WLDIE4DAY EVENLNG.

I venture to prophecy that it will be a good
while before Cardinal d'Andrea finds his health
sufficiently restored to enable him to leave Naples
for Rome. What in likely to be thought in clerical

circles of the portraiture d tete repusc of the college
of cardinals, drawn by one of themselves in the
letter dated Naples, Sept. 10, may safely be an-
ticipated from the following article iu this evening's
Gaz,tte de France :
We publish today—regreftiog th►t we promised to do
so—the letter addressed by Cardinal d'Arsdrea to the car-
dinals and bishops of the catholic world. The reeling of
this docutn-nt ins profoundly afflicted us, and the grief
we feel cannot but be shared I,y all ostholics. It is indeed
end to sea a prince of the church forget what he owes to the
vicar of Jesus Christ, to his sovereign, to hiineslf, and the
high dignity with which he is invested, and descend to the
level of a pamphleteer. Yes, this pretended letter to the
bishops is in reality but a pamphlet, and a pamphlet' of
the worst kind. To bring it to the test we have only to ask
whom will it delight and whom will it afiliot ? if
before writing and signing it Cardinci d'Andrea hid
examined his conscience and inquire I what be owed to his
purple robe, and Lis title of assistant to the pontifical
throne, he would have thrown away Lie pen rather than
spread scandal far end wide, grieve Pius IX., and with
Pius IX. the cathelice of the whole world. But die:fp-
' pointed pride and ambition. arid the desire to play a pro•
minent part, no matter what, have hurried him on. Ile
will make some noise, and if that is the only object he had
in view he is likely to b 3 satisfied, and may, however, be
eery ewe of this, that those who blame will et the same
time pity, ask how a pillar of the church could fall so low,
an•l pray God to raise him up. Oa the other hand
thole who applaud will have neither sympathy no,
estetin for him ; they will use him as a weapon wherewith
to'fight the church, and then throw him away. This is the
' fate whiel awaits him, and it will be all the more humiliat-
ing because it will come quickly. The ephemeral scandal
which hairy thought to wafter over the four corners of the
world from his sulky retreat fit Naples will speedily be sue.
cooled by contemptuous forgetfulness. There is not iu his
letter a single accusation that tells, a single recrimination
for which there is any foundation, a single insinuation
which does not merit disdain ; and as to his explanations
and justifications—what he calls his patriotic Italian inspir-
ations—one can only pass on and regret that he should have
had the misplaced courage to publish them.
The Muncie and the Union are for the present
silent on the subject of this very pretty quarrel.
The Opinion Nationale says :
Without exaggerating the importance of this latter, the
tone of which is at once firm and moderate, it must be con-
ed. red under existing circumstances to assume the pro-
portions of an event. Many honest and reasonable men in
the church think as Cardinal d'Andrea does without daring
to say as much. The initiative taken by a prince of the
cnurch, by a man invested with the Roman purple, is a
feet of netare to rally in one phalanx many hesitating
minds borne down hitherto by the yoke of discipline, but
not content to break for ever with modern society and
liberty.

The Patric gives an unqualified approval to the
letter ; affirms that the only scandal is of the court
of Rome's own creating, and trusts that the Sove-
reign Pontiff will at leugti open his eves to the
intrigues about him. The Pays, feeling the re-
sponsibility of its semi-official position, says
nothing. M. de Gueronnihre's journal, the France,
does not so much as notice the existence of this
remarkable proclamation of a prince of the church.
The Empress is to be godmother to Marshal Can-
robert's daughter, and the Archbishop of Paris
'godfather.
The Pays gives semi-officially the explanation
which common sense had elready suggested of the
alarming rumours that the Toulon fleet had received
sudden orders to arm its gun-boats. The only
object was to give the ships more air on account of
the cholera, which, according to the latest news, is
fast disappearing.

• Is Franco, by a pvrvers'on of language, tbs word
pampekt his 0012)11 to bsvo an invariably odious significs-
tioo ; no visas over admits himself to be the author of •
pamphlet; the resat went is brecheri.