The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-06 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(mon ova own CORIZSPONDIMIT.)
PARIS. MONDAY Bruno.
The Patrie contains the following semi-official
article :

Several French and foreign journals have spoken of the
Emperor's intention to pleas a corps of troops, formed under
hie pstrstuge, at the disposition of the Holy Father, and
have given the most contradictory information touching the
nature and composition of this corps. We believe we can
state that the French government has in point of tact ea-
deavoor•ef as far es possible to facilitate the recruiting of
the Pontifical army in order to aid the complete execution
of the convention of Sept. 15, 1864, an object to which sll
its lo? it efforts constantly tend; bat there has
never been any thought of ceding to the Roman
governmmt any corps—not even a foreign legion—serving
under the French flag. The good offices of the French
government are confined to encouraging the enlistment in
ens paint of our territory of a bend of catholic volunteers,
whether French or foreigner. France will have nothing to
de with their pay, clothing, or command. When ones
they are enrolled they will be to all intents and purposes
the Pope./ soldiers, and wilt be exclusively subject to the
authority of the Holy Father. _

This announcement is important, as showing that,
after the evacuation, the French flag will not be
compromised by anything that may occur in Rome.
There is reason to think that the "declaration
of Feb. 1," as M. Emile de Girardin styles the note
cautioning the press not to transgress the laws
prohibiting non-official reports of the parliamentary
debates, will turn out to have been nothing but a
blunder of the Marquis de Lavalette, and that the
Paris journals—always, of course, with fear and
trembling—will continue to comment upon the
debates to the full as freely as they did last year.
It appears that the paragraph in question was in-
dited at the Home-office in consequence of an article
in a provincial journal, which seemed to the Mar-
quis de Lavalette to transgress the tolerated
bounds. He, thinking 3 very likely that he
was acting liberally, preferred issuing a
general to a particular warning, and the Paris
press, being at a loss to find an instance of the
" excesses " which the minister said would not be
tolerated, very naturally fancied that a new and
reactionary rule was laid down. This was not,
I believe, the intention. The Temps now says it
shall continue for its part to comment upon the
debates ad heretofore, but it thinks it not too
much to ask the government to publish a new and
more precise note to let journalists know better
than they now do what it really means to say.
I noticed that M. Emile 011ivier voted against
the government in the Larrabure affair. The
Journal de Rouen now publishes an article by IL
Desgouves Denunoques, an old and eminent jour-
nalist of Louis Philippe's time, confirming a ru-
mour that M. Emile 011ivier is tired of coquetting
with the government, and means to return to the
ranks of the opposition. He is reported to have
said, after M. Rouher's speech maintaining the
monstrous doctrine that the chamber is stripped of
its essential privilege of accepting exclusively the
resignation of a member, "I now clearly see that
nothing is to be done with people who go
on in this way. I could scarcely restrain myself
from getting up to answer the Minister of State.
I will no longer allow the country to suppose that
I support such policy and favour such narrow
ideas, and I will take the first opportunity to make
an unmistakeable declaration on the subject."
Simultaneously with this news 1 find in another
quarter that M. Darituon, who hitherto followed
M. 011ivier like his shadow, has quarrelled with
him. The changed attitude of 011ivier is, I fancy,
attributable in a great degree to the death of the
Duke de Morny, who was very friendly to him,
and thought he might be a tract d'union between
the imperialists and republicans. 011ivier finding
that imperial patronage does not come, and that he is
fast sinking into insignificance, begins to remem-
ber that he has a conscience. If he proclaims the
urea claps in a very frank manner his old friends
will probably not turn their backs upon him,
although it will be long before he can again enjoy
their confidence.

The Bourse, notwithstanding a rise of in Con-
sols, was uneasy about the Mexican news. Rents
fell 15c. for cash and 17143. for account. Mobilier
fail 30fr.

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