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

BavuaDaT Evsnuto.
It was stated sometime since that thogoverninent
had asked the prefects for reports as to the effect
of the Encyclical upon public opinion ia the cone-
ley. It is probable that the reports are favourable,
and that it is in consequence of their tenor that M.
Paulin iimayrac has been-orders& to write an ar-
tiste in the Conslitutionnei-ef--"adne, stating (and
in stsbilance it states nothing else) that no govern-
ment has ever so steadily peotestal religions inte-
reenpastbe imperial gorerutueut, and that, although
certain bishilps May forget 'id services and miscon-
strue its intentions, the good sente of the people
disregards their excitation', and the country, well
aware that the Emperor's goveranassitwill stand firm
against the enemies of religion as well as against
the enemies of civil society, remains calm because it
is fully reassured. The clerical organs of course
question the services rendered to religion, especially
in these latter times, ant in answer so the asser-
tion that the °honk now enjoys more liberty than
at any former time, it observes that M. Paulin.
Limsynic has not published one of the bishops'
answer* to M. Beroche, •aisa hae therefore dons his
utmost to suppress them. The (i.eCoon ier du Dininsishe,
a more &urinate* Oita the C •
given, ooareent testimony, that the *Malt es.
ligtoue, ceittroverey aoksd by the bishops
produced very little afflict, upon the publis
mind.„ " Neither • the domestic hamitit, the
drawing-room, the woricsitop, or the dohs. have
been moved by the impassioned essays of a few
mitred priests on the tole hand, and a few demo-
cratic jotirnalists on the other." The Courrier con-
siders that the present quarrel between church and
date is a mete " diplomatic rupture," which people
know very well will lead to its sericom consequences.
It draws the conclusion that the Ply
would:do to think lees of Rome and more of
home affairs, and not allow the Encyclical to be
made in snags for adjourning reforms. The elec-
tion) to oome off to-morrow in the phareate
Inferi-
sure is of more pesotioal.—ininortnikce than
a bishop's philippic against the Minister of Public
Worship ; and the independent ,Vrisie *mild do
bettor to prepare for the oomWg' midiPsign in the
Corps Legmbitif than to write about such obsolete
things as national councils of the clergy.
M. Erclan' who is a correspondent of the
Courtier du Dienancht, as well as of the Temps,
witted from Naples to the former journal that Car-
dinal d'Andrea struck him as a " Catholic of the
as Montalembert and de Fallout stamp rather than
that of Venillot, and tam particular pains to make
it known thathe is a cardinal with a French leaning,
hostile to Austria, favourable to the policy of the
Tuileries, and an admirer of the genius of Napoleon
III." This ameriprion chimes in marvellously with
the idea that Cardinal d'Andrea hopes one day to
be elected Pope under the French Emperor's
patronage. But there is a certain Bonaparte in
holy orders about whom little noise is made at pre-
sent, who many people think will be found to have
superior claims at the proper time. Meanwhile
Cardinal d'Andrss may be very useful in drawing
the ebesnuts out of the fire.
Colonel Pietri, commending the 92nd Regiment,
writes to the Opinion Nationafe to correct the report
that he sainted the coffin of M. Prondhon as be
passed by his house and ordered the drums to bathe
aux champs. To have done so would have been
contrary to the rules of the service, to render funeral
honours to a person not entitled to them. The
colonel (who doubtless is a relative of the late pro- I
fact of pollee) states that ben informed by me
of the crowd that there was a corpse in the louse
by which the regiment was passing (a fact of which
he was ignorant), be waved his sword to silence the-
music. It was this motion of the sword which was
inietalust fors Mint*.
A journal says that the of Hertford was
MiNjuis
present at the quarrel thigh led to the duel between
the Duke de Doudeauvllie and-the 13ale de Mont-
morency, and politely offered them his park, at
Bagatelle, to fight in ; it was there at any rats that
the meeting took place.
The Mimorial Diplomarique describes as absurd
the rumour of a cession in perpetuity, or even tem-
porarily, of the Sonora to the French government.
In support of this assertion it relies upon the
Emperor Maximilian's oath to maintain the in-
tegrity of the empire, and it endeavours to ex-
plain the current reports as having no other
foundation than a echeme for working the Sonora
mime, in aid of which Marshal Bassin has directed
some new military operations.
It is stated that the Emperor, with the sanction
of the Council of BMW, has granted the large pen-
sion of 6,000 f. to the Countess Raul, widow of the
unfortunate minister of Pius IX., who was mur-
dered at Rome in 1847.
The foreign ambassadors at Constantinople, in-
, eluding the French representative, are said to have
1 objected to the new Turkish law on the press, that,
so far as it concerns foreign writers, it is contrary
to the capitulations which entitle them to be tried
by special tribunals. This is a curious incident.
The law in question is much milder than that of
France.
The Bonnie left off with little business doing,
and scarcely any change in quotations.