The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-23 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

THE BISHOP OF ORLEANS AND
GARIBALDI.
Mom °on owi COMBPONDiNT.)
PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.
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The indefatigable Bishop of Orleans, who has
just promised to write a series of essays against
Voltaire, apropos of the new popular edition of his
works now publishing by the Miele, and of the
atatue for which the tii,!cle is collecting public
subscriptions, has found time to indite a letter,
seven columns long, to M. Rattazzi, exhorting him,
but evidently with small expectation that the
exhortations will be listened to, to put a atop to
Garibaldi's movement against Rome. Not the
40,000 soldiers, under General Nunziante, whose
real mission the bishop suspects is rather to follow
Garibaldi to Rome than to prevent him from going
thither, but a single policeman, to take Garibaldi
by the collar of his red shirt and throw him neck
and heels into a lock-up house, is what the bishop
demands. Monsigneur strives to enlist all
the sovereigns of the earth on the aide
of the temporal power by assuring them
that those who want to dethrone the
" King" of Rome are sworn enemies of all
kings whomsoever. He assumes quite contrary to
fact that everybody who attended the miscalled
Peace Congress of Geneva wants to depose by
force the King of Italy, the Emperor of the French,
and the Emperor of Russia. Garibaldi is but one
barrel of a twenty-gun infernal machine, which is
to do the work of an " international league of de-
thronement." The bishop, who chooses perhaps
for this occasion only to speak civilly to M. Rat-
tazzi, though reminding him that he is a pupil of
Cavour from whom he learned the policy of "auda-
city and mendacity," is good enough to say that he
does not hold the " commander"* responsible,
for the ridiculous Congress represented " peace with
a carbine, philosophy in a red shirt, and democracy
in a carriage and pair." It is not with Garibaldi's
sayings at Geneva, but with his doings in Italy
that the bishop claims a " right" to summon M.
Rattazzi to his bar and to:ask him direct questions.
I suspect the wily commander will silently demur
to the jurisdiction. The bishop has not the least
difficulty in proving, which he does at very great
length, that while the French government, by its
official despatches, and by the speeches of its minis-
ters in the Chambers, represented the convention
of Sept. 15, 1864, as destined to keep Italy out of
Rome, Italian statesmen publicly stated from the
first that they reluctantly signed that convention as
the only means of getting rid of the French, but
also with the firm conviction that the ultimate
consequence of it would be to make Rome the
capital of Italy. France told the catholic world
that the selection of Florence for the capital of
Italy meant. a renunciation of Rome ; but Italy all
along, without any dissimulation, proclaimed that
she looked upon Florence as but a stepping-stone
towards Rome. The promises, the honourable
engagements which the bishop now solemnly ad•
jures M. Rattazzi to fulfil, were sleight of hand ex-
ercises in diplomatic jugglery which deceives no-
body but the very simple who were intended to
be deceived. One of the numerous official docu-
ments quoted by the bishop is a despatch
of M. Thouvenel's, dated May 31, 1863, to the
Marquis do Lavalette, then French minister at
Rome, in which the Minister of Foreign Affairs
stated that the " capital of catholicism" would
never, " with the consent of France," become the
capital of the kingdom of Italy. That promise, I
have no doubt, will be literally kept. But if
" without the consent of France" Rome should
become that capital, there are, I apprehend, very
cogent reasons why France will not go to war to
set the Pope up again. The fall of the temporal
power would only be another " black spot," and
that by no means the darkest, among the many
that the Emperor has become used to contemplate
with serenity.
A letter in the Gazette do Midi says :

It is very certain that the house of B— and Co.,
bankers, at Milan, have recently paid several millions to
leaden of the party or action on the part of M. de Bis-
marck. You may take this news as positive and
indubitable.

• Commander is a civil Italian title given very generally
in Italy to eminent men not noble by birth. M. Itattaui
made his way to distinction as an advocate, and hits no
military rank.

Garibaldi has addressed a letter to the Italian
journals ridiculing the report that he fled from Geneva.
He had said before going, to all his friends that he would
have to leave at the time he did leave, and that there was
no secrecy whatever in the act of his departure. As to
the congress there were differences of opinion, no doubt,
and this is not to be wondered at considering the polies
agents who were there with the object of awing • din.
turbanos. But it was no fiasco; on the contrary a gnat
good was dons to humanity.

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About 1,500 pamengen daily have been travelling
lately by steamer between Newhaven and Dieppe.