The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-13 00:00:00

RXPRESS FROM PARIS

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PARIS, SUNDAY Evianso.

In the Senate yesterday M. Rouland, governor
of the Bank of Prance, and formerly minister of
public instruction and worship, delivered an inter-
esting speech against ultramontanism ; and, although
he spoke not as a government commissary, but as
an individual senator, there can be little doubt that
his speech expresses in the main the present senti-
ments of the Emperor towards the Popo ; and, so
regarded, it is a vety serious warning to his Holiness
and his clerical supporters in France.
Prince Napoleon was prevented by indisposition
from attending the philotechnic meeting today, at
which be bad promised to take the chair.
The Daily News is seized.

A LETTER FROM GENERAL SHERMAT

The following letter from General Sherman has
just been published in the New Turk papers :
Headquarters Military Dividon of the Missimippl, in
the field sear Marietta, Georgia, dime 90, 1861.
Mrs. Anna (Aimee, Bowes, Baltimore, Maryland.
Dear Madam,—Your welcome letter of Jose 18 come to
las hers amid the sound of battle, and, as yen say, little
did I dream, when I knew you playing as a school-girl on
Sallivan's Island beach, that I should control a vest army,
pointing, like the swarm of Alarie, toward the plains of the
South. Why, oh why is this? If I know my own heart,
it beats as warmly as weer toward those kind sad geriermos
families that greeted us with such yam hospitality in
days long peak bet still protest in memory, and to-day,
were Frank and Mrs. Percher, and Eliza Gi'man,
and Mazy Lamb and Margaret Blake, the Barkadalea, the
Qaashis, the Prices, indeed any and all of our cherished
circle, their children, or even their &didn't's children, t
Dome tome ea of old, the stern feelings of duty sad convic-
tion would melt as seow before the paid son, sad I ho-
lism, I would strip my own children that they might be
sheltered ; and yet they all me herbaria*, Vandal, and
monster, and all the epithets that language 01.7 invest that
are significant of malignity and h►te. All I pretend to say,
mouth as in heaven, man must submit to some *thaw.
lie most sot throw off his &Meknes to hie goveromeat or
his God without just reason and mum. The South hal no
canao—not eves a pretext. Indeed, by her unjustifiable
course she has throve away the proud history of the past, and
laid open ber fair country to the tread of devastating
war. She bantered and bullied us to the conflict. Bad we
declined battle, Amelia would have sank back, coward and
craves, meriting the csetempt of all mankind. Asa nation,
we were forced to swept battle, and that moos begun, it has
gene ore till the war has assumed proportion at which even
we, in the hurly-burly, sometimes steed aghast. I would
not subjugate the South in the sense so offensively as-
sented, but I would make every citizen of the land obey
ohs cseernoe law, submit to the same that we do—no
worse, so better—oar equals and sot oar superiors. I
know, and you knew, that there were young moo in our
day, now no longer young, but who control their fellows,
who assumed to the gentlemen of the South a superiority of
oonrage and manhood, and hastingly defied us of Northern
birth to 'rms. God knows how reluctantly we accepted
the issue, but came the hone joined, like In other ages,
the Northern race, though slow to eager, once aroused, are
more terrible than the more iefiammable of the South.
'Even yet my heart bleeds when I see the corsage of battle,
the &stilettos of hoarse, the bitter aguish of families, but
the vary moment the men of the South say that instead of
appealing to war they should have appealed to reason, to
our Congress, to our courts, to religion, and to the expert.
sees of history—thee will I say, peace, pare' go beck to
to your point of error, and Tenure your pleas as Ameri-
can citizens, with all their proud heritages. Whether I
shall live to see this period is problematical, but you may,
and may tell your mother and deters that I never forgot
as kind look or greeting, or ever wished to efface its re-
membrance ; but is putting on the armour of war I did it
that our common country should not perish in infamy and
dishonour. I am married, have a wife and six children
living in Leneadar, Ohio. My mune has been ea eventful
caw But I hope when the clouds of anger and posies are
dispersed, and truth emerges bright and clear, you and all
who knew me I. early years will sot blush that we were
came dear friends. Tell Elea for me that 1 hope she may
Beate realise that the do:Arias of "secendos" is as monstrous
in oar civil code as disobedience was in the did', law.
And should the fortunes of war ever bring yea or your
sisters or any of our old clique under the shelter of my
anilvxity, I do not believe they will have cause is septa M.
Give my lore to your children, and the eneureinee et my
respects to your honoured hushaad.—Truly,

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