The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-30 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, 1559.

efface the immense dietinetion betwecti the accidental

presence of a hundred or two persons composing •
public, and the presence of the whole public at the
trial through its repreeentatives in the press. Such a
fallacy as this is too absurd to pass current in England.

Only, ia a country where the publicity of courts of
justice is unrestricted one would suppose flat people
would hesitate a little to drag the most eamillimmilhi
episodes, the holiest tendernewee of the bead aid the
borne, the meanest Wally quarrels, bus the valve
pre. From the International Exhibition of 1861 the
mania for crystal edifices may be said to date l bat
mince the disease in its most aggravated form has
began to disappear, after committing terrible
ravages among the shareholding species, it has
broken out in what may be called a household form.

Are we all to live iaCrystal Palm= as a smaller
scale' le English society becoming ale huge glees

house? No doubt even tile would be more tolerable

than streets of brick houses, with lath and
pluter wainscots skilfully perforated by Professors
SHAW sod Tor r, distinguished officers in
the " Private Inquiry " service. It would
be better than that a blameless and per-
secuted victim of a vengeful mother-in-law,
should be haunted by the catlike steps of gentlemen
in gotta percha soles, provided with an inexhaustible
change of wig and eyebrow, a &thoraler faculty of
lying, perhaps even a gimlet and a Somethingometer

to bore your walla by day and to balance your bed-
post by night. But between the private-inquiry
system, so justly stigmatised by Bir C. CasesWlLL
the other day, and a disgusting display of dirty family
linen in the Westminster Police-wart, with a couple
of browbeating barristers for laundresses, there is
surely a happy, or at least a decorous medium to be
found, even foe the most reckless and incompatible of
couples. What public or private goad can remelt from
such a picture of connubial bliss as the Han. Elkton
ROWLEY sad his late partner have been presenting
to the British public? We have never been able to
conceive estate of motile' exasperation sufficiently
acute to account for the sacrifice of love-letters at the
shrine of Justice—poor, passionate, idiotic love-letters,
son all trembling with silly yet sacred emotion, read
with skilful modulations by a meeting lawyer to an
Icy judge before a tittering audience! Yet, what will
not love curdled to hats endure and dare ? The
Hon. Ht Gn Row LEY, not satisfied with driving a
coach and four through the seventh commandment,
and having cheerfully paid the penalty of his trans-
gression without interposing a word in his own
defence against the charges of cruelty and desertion,
takes a fancy to a moral bath in the somewhat
turbid waters of a Metropolitan Police-court, to
wash his character as a husband clean. For several
days the public is regaled with the intimate
Money of the Hon. Hung ROWLEY and his
late wife, from the day when, being a little over
eighteen years of age, he sought, or at all events
won, the hand eta lady of 23. Whether the hue-
bend in his teens was " • catch," or the lady oat
of her teens was " forced to marry him," who shall
decide? Either version is given. We are told on
the one side that she offered to pay his debts; on the
other, that he was " taken in." We are introduced to
scenes where corporal punishment, pinching, bonnet-
ins, throwing a dreaming-case, pushing a spoonful
salt down the wife's throat, are the leading incident%
teetkal up to a climax where the husband delibe-
istely cuts off the wife's back hair to the cheek-
bone at the breakfast-table in the company of •
mutual friend. On the other side we hear of the
lady performing the mysteries of the toilette at do
ground•floor window of a foreign hotel with the
blinds up at the top; of her jumping out of bed sad
rushing for protection to the pantry, etcetera, et retire.
All this s ffectingdomestic drama of " incompatibility"
le interspersed with petits billets of honeymoon hear
be which " Titty," and " Ducky," and " Zooy " are
the proper name. Of course, there is an underplot
to this sentimental comedy, an underplot in which
a certain rich Mrs. Ilalle figures in a supplementary
pas 4 dean. There had been swearing enough
between the wedding and the divorce, and the
swearing continues de plus belle in the police-
wort. Now, will any one imagine what the Hoe.
Hcon ROWLEY has gained in reputation by all this
swearing and countersweariog ? If his late wife
wee flighty and irritating, was he wise and faithful,
delicate and humane? There is sessethiog profaned
eves is the vindication of outraged honour; but in
this lei:tune of stupid flippancy cad dull vindictive.
nem there is not only an almost fanatical folly, but
a reckless lust of public roatempt. We trust the
world has heard the last of the Hon. Heart ROWLEY,
bin loves, and his hates.

to the Maynesth pare, lie citizens ell Edinburgh rejested
him at the (geodes to 1847 la favour of Mr. Cowan. Tkis,
which under arafamy *ammeter" might have been a cab-
Jett of nine, muse caw be accepted as a matter of ooegre-
ealatfee fry, imireammielled w',th the owes of pobllo life, the
bon. gontlemes devoted his lame to the grand voice he
W fiend et whin • history of England. His put
Aida Oh sad leis litysery acquire:mats eatineady area
Ids he smelt • loth. 1. 1849 the drat two volumes of his
" Ristery of 'sera& " appeared. Never, perhaps, was
tho seseptlen rata by the public to say work equal to that
of end the two later volumes of the " History." 10
1882 Kr. Maceriday sad his former coostitosata of WM-
bunk wale racenoilwl ; ha was speatanacusly elected by
theta +Moat Wawa taking • single step towards that
object, and be weaseled their member until rased to the
Homed Lords in 1837.

la the introduction to his mated work the enthor
armed a hops that he might be enabled to bring down the
history of his country to a date within the memory of living
men, but =happily this hope is very tar from being reamed.
For some time it has been rumoured that the fifth and sixth
volumes of the work were about to appear, but even with
thisaddition to the history, the work of the noble author
will be bat a fragment after all.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, THURSDAY BYRN'S°.
In June last the Empress formed s committmi, of
which she was the president, for the purpose of re-
ceiving subscriptions for " wounded soldiara and
sailors of the army of Italy, and the families of

killed and wounded soldiers sod sailors of the same

army." Publics subscriptions are not hubitually so
productive in France u they are in England. The
very small aggregate amounts of the most popular
subscriptions, aided by all that influence and adver-
tising can do, is a frequent subject of remark. But
on this occasion the natural sympathy of the French
people for the suffering, of their brethren while gal-
lantly supporting the glory of the national flag gave
an extraordinary stimulus to the subscription,
which, aided by some, though not many, contribu-
tions from abroad, reached the relatively large
sum of 6,680,000 francs. The committee
I should here state, consisted of the Empress, the

Primers Mathilde, the Princess Napoleon, the wives
of the marshals and admirals of France, and " four
gentlemen;" namely, the Archbishop of Paris, the
governor of the Bank of France, Baron Barbier, in-
tendant-general, and M. Davenne, director of public
charities. The Monigeur of to-day contains a report
' to the Empress from the four gentlemen members of
the committee, in which the proposition is made
that the especial and exclusive objects of the
subscription, the eestuis-que trust—the "wounded
and the families of the killed and wounded of the
army of Italy "—shall enjoy only a proportionate
part of the interest of the money subscribed
during their individual lives; and that the
whole of the capital, subject to their lite
interests, shall be devoted to founding a new
military charity, of which the Empress and the
present committee are to be the directors, to be
called " Cables des Offranderi Nationales en faveur
des Armen de Terre et de Mer," which will be
empowered to receive gifts and legacies, and to
" centralise other subscriptions having a destination
analogous to that set on foot on the occasion of the
war in Italy." The excuses offered are that the suc-
cess of the subscription has been so great that it is
an " eclatants manifestation," the remembrance of
which ought to be perpetuated; that if the
subscription money were at once distributed
among the parties entitlevl to it, or sunk in life
annuities for their benefit, "all trace of it would
soon disappear ; " that it is therefore desirable to
found a permanent institution to be a "monument
of the benefits of a grand reign," and to be the
nucleus of ulterior subscriptions, for which the land
and sea forces will be " grateful to the Empress."
The Faye contains an extremely weak article by
M. Granter de emanate, criticising not the pam-
phlet, for that he knows to be above criticism by
any government writer—but the construction put
upon it by the &Weld, Presse, Debate, and other
journals, which be stigmatises ea " essentially ex-
aggerated and false." This gentleman is one of
the many humble servants of the Emperor who
finds himself so taken by surprise by his Majesty's
present policy that he cannot, remembering his own
many violent diatribes in a contrary sense, resign
himself to it without the shadow of a protest. Be-
sides, M. Grimier de Cassagnac has grown rich as
well as grey in the service, and although he has in
his time written very many articles to order, he
naturally thinks it hard that he should be obliged
suddenly to renonner his alliance with Louis
Venillot, and recant the high church principles
which he promulgated on his own account in the
.Reeeil. He now stands forth ea one of the "sincere
friends" of the government who cannot keep silence
while, on the eve of • the assembling of the
congress, the passions of parties seek to
" distort " the meaning of the pamphlet,
with a view of detaching or rendering lukewarm
"the grateful adhesions conquered by the policy of
the Empire during the last eight years ;" he is one
of those "sensible men" who " interpose" in order
that parties and their journals may not deceive
public opinion and create a regrettable misunder-
standing between the government and the church.
In this spirit M. Grimier de Cassagnac ventures
upon the reckless assertion that the "capital and
essential point of the pamphlet, the basis of all the
consideration which its author submits to the public,
is the legitimacy of the temporal power of the
Papacy, and the necessity of its preservation." It
world be idle to argue with such a misrepresentation
as this. Everyone who has read the pamphlet
knows that the essenoe of its doctrine is
not that "the" temporal power of the Pope should
be preserved, but that he should have " some "
temporal power, and as little as possible. The
bishops know what the pamphlet means, and they
do not take their opinions from the liberal journals
which M. Oranier de Cassagnac denounces.
There has been a serious panic at the Bourse. The
great speculators, who probably saw black clouds
in the horizon, closed their accounts within the last
two or three days. Now the public is beginning to
be frightened although nobody knows precisely
why. The brokers to-day had nothing but orders
for sale and could not execute many of them
at any price. The Rents fell 75c. for cash, and 90c.
far account, closing at 691 r., 68fr. 80e.; Mobilier fell
30fr. The Orleans Railway fell lbfr.; Northern,
10fr.; Eastern, Mr. ; Lyons, Mfr. 25c. ; Southern,
10fr. ; and Western, 7fr. 60c. These prices were
nearly the lowest of the day.
After Bourse hours, a placard was posted con-
tradicting a rumour that the Pope's Nuncio had
left Paris.

The Pays says the congress cannot meet so early
as January 19.

It is said that M. Goisot is engaged C. a pamph-
let on the temporal power of the Pope.
Among the mayors just appointed in the new
INCTOIKBOSSOSIRS of Peals Is M. Morel Fatio, marine painter
sad cooservator of the Muses de Marius at the Louvre.
SIGNOR MORTARA'S MEMORIAL TO THE BOARD
OF DIFUTIZS OF BRITISH JEWS.-At • remit meeting of
the board of deputiee, 84 Mows Monteflore, Bart., the pre-
sident, in the chair, Moor btortara's wesoortal was taken
into consideration. The document sets forth that, se the

sufferings of the Jews in the MUM States arise from the
genie misgovernment from whieh so mazy other grievances
flowed, It might be presumed that the approaching congress,
.osvened for the express purpose of settling the faiths of
Italy, would not feel indisposed to give him redress for the
wrong inflicted on him. He was therefore resolved to pre-
sent a memorial to the onager, and now begged the hoard
of deputies to employ their toluenes in support of his poi-
tios. After en animated and thorough diecussits of the
subject, it was resolved unanimously to secede to the prayer
of Signor Mortars Cr. draw ups memorial, and to solicit Lord
John Russell, the Foreign Secretuy, to get it preaseted to
the congress. 8o great is the sympathy felt throughout the
Jewish community for this bereaved father, that *rural pe-
titions, numerously and most respectably signed, both in tits
metropolis and the provinces, were presented to the board of
deputies, urging them to swede to Signor Mortar's rig
_two.
It la remarkable that since the existence of the board this Is
She fleet tints that such a step es the undies in of praline
wu rescued to.—.foriali Chmaicle.

FORTIFICATIONS AT PLTROCTIL—A survey ie
Wing made with the object of **Wyk,' Piymou,h on the
loaded'. ♦ staff of registers bas Ines appointed for Ode
I duly, end • house to Hill Park-arsons taken and occupied
ea an office. The plan peeped Ia the ersehon of s &MD of
forts as on the Corntsh side of the Teem, now being pro-
elided with.