The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-18 00:00:00

PAWS, Taman STIMMG.
In anticipation of the judgment of the oourt in
the Montmorency case the parties have been appeal-
ing to the God of battles. "A duel," says the
Gazette des Trannanz, "has just taken place be-
tween Count de Talleyrand-Pdrigord,l recently
made Duke de Montmorency, and M. de Laroche-
foucauld, Doke de Dondeauville, one of the plain-
tiffs in the suit now pending before the Civil Tri-
bunal of the Seine. These gentlemen happening
to meet a few evenings rimiest their club, a verbal
provocation was addressed by M. de Larochefou-
tauld to the former. The latter having angrily re-
toned, a duel became inevitable. Arrangements
were accordingly made by their seconds, and the
pinks met at 10 a.m., near Besnalle, in the Bois
de Boulogne. Swords were the weapons used, and
after the antagonists had fought for fifteen minutes
M. de Larothefoacanid was wounded in the arm.
The seconds then interfered, and put an end to
the combat. The wound of M. tie Larooliefou-
maid is not likely to have any serious consequences.
Count de Tallyrand-Pdrigard also received two
slight wounds in the arm and on the chest."
Dr. Ndlaton attended the meeting in the
capacity of surgeon, and it was in obedience to his
positive injunctions that hostilities were not
carried further. The Duke de Dondeauville, not-
withstanding his wound, was most anxious to con-
tinue the combat against the presumptuous youth,
as he considsn him, who sports a great old French
title only in virtue of imperial favour. The Duke
de Monintorency's seconds were the Duke
d'Albufera and General de Fortoul ; those of the
Duke de Dondeauville were Colonel de °inmost,
the Duke de Leven, and Count Armand de
Maine.
The Goeette du Midi has received a warning from
IL de }loupes, the Prefect of Marseilles, for an article
on the Bishop of Nismes' letter, which "contains I
an attack upon the laws of the Empire, and disputes
the validity of powers which the constitution con-
fers upon the Council of State."
The Gouda de Prance says it has received orders
from the Ministry of the Interior not to publish
Mgr, Plantier's (the Bishop of Nismes) letter,
although it has already appeared in theOyinien/Ver-
finale, Prance, and several other journals. I men-
tioned,
however, yesterday that there were "points"
indicating that certain passages were thought too'
dangerous to be reproduced. The numbers of the
Gazette du Midi sent to Paris have been confiscated
in the post-office.
I do not know whether it is to be considered a
piece of ecclesiastical news, that the Emperor has
just made • present of a superb pair of carriage
horses to Mgr. de la Tour d'Anvergne, Archbishop
of Bongos. Hitherto this archbishop has not pro-
tested against IL Baroche's circular ; it is probable
that he will not.
There is no doubt, although the clerical journals
try to make a question of it in favour of the Car-
dinal Archbishop of Besancon, that the fact of
his being a senator is no impediment to the action
of the Council of State in an appeal COMM d'abiss.
The law says that no senator can be arrested
or prosecuted for any crime or misdemeanour or
for any "contravention" (an offence less than a mis-
demeanour, and of the class of mere main prohibita),
I involving imprisonment, unless the prosecution is
authorised by the Senate. The declaration of the
Council of State that an "abuse" has been com-
mitted, being a barren reprimand, does not ob-
viously ooine within the above law. If, indeed, it
were intended to put in force the laws referred to
in M. Delangle's circular, and which are as applica-
ble to ecclesiastics as to other individuals, then the
privilege might be pleaded.
"The clergy," says the Side, "have com-
menced to put in practice the doctrines of the &n
-
cyclical. The prayers of the church have been
refused to M. Bonfart, lately mayor of Focansp,
Councillor General, President of the Tribunal at
Commerce, and member of the Municipal Coun-
cil. M. Bonfart,' says the Journal de Pecan",
wee a man of liberal mind and a generous
heart, and was never deaf to an appeal made to
his charitable feelings, from whatever aide it
came, and even those who now remain mute over
his tomb have never knocked at his door in
vain ; he even very recently assisted them from
his own purse in rebuilding the church which
has been closed to his mortal remains.' It was
M. Rend, a protestant clergyman, who con
ducted the deceased to his last home. In a touch-
ing address the gentleman explained that he was
not in his place, but that being called on by the
protestant members of the Bonfart family, and as
the minister of a God of peace and charity, be had
considered it his duty to give hie prayers and his
consolations to those who had requested them. M.
Vasselin reminded his auditors that the man to
whom a prayer was refused—he whom a non point-
nice had just struck after his death, gratuitously
gave lodgings to ten families. M. Vidnot then de-
livered a few words of farewell which moved every-
one present to tears, and a subscription to erect a
monument to the ex-mayor of 16canip was imme-
diately opened. How comes it then that this
worthy man was excluded from the church after
his death I Is it because he was a Freemason
A letter from Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dome),
in the Side, says :
The Swami Letter is being sold at a bookosner's is
this town at 405. He sells shout 200 seals a day in the
shape of • email pamphlet, containing the Latin test on
oat side and the Irish translation an the other. It
comes from the peonies al Adria' le Clare and Co., 29, Bus
Coast* Paris, printers to his Holism the Pope, and
leers se asap deny kind, not coating, parkin, in the
'awry al works enbjected to =eh formalities. The mod
endow part of Visalia: is that net one is dedivered with-
out the purchaser being first required to giro kis Base end
address. Two of my friends who went to buy VA obliged
to wantons to that role.
The Monifeur inserts in its columns a corre-
spondence from Turin full of sympathetic profes-
sion towards Italy, and promises of a good future
for the Italian cause. The letter states that nearly

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