The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-30 00:00:00

THE 'EXPRESS, THITJRSDAY 'EVENING, AUGUST 30, M6O.

they were promptly concluded, and they succeeded
in realising the object for which they wen under-
taken. Sebastopol is destroyed ; Constantinople
is not yet Russian ; the Eastern Question is in the
hands of united Europe. Italy is delivered from
Austrian domination ; and if the Italians jeo-
pardise the independence they have acquired, at
all events the principle of non-intervention, " now
" a recognised rule of international policy," makes
them the masters of their own fate. Then, as to
German and English apprehensions ; they do not
merit serious alienation ; M. Dr PERSIONY
discusses them shortly and sharply, nevertheless
" The Rhine is no longer a strategic frontier "
that is, to say the least of it, a ton met—it can
never be the policy of France to assist the deve-
lopment of German unity at any price. That is,
to make the wont of it, a great fact for
the meditation of our German cousins, who
are so anxious just now to persuade England and
Belgium that the Rhine is the natural frontier of
England, the Mincio the natural frontier of
Germany, and Germany the true Fatherland of
Belgium and England both. Of the relations be-
tween France and England M. DR PERSIONY
speaks of course with particular authority, as the
Ambassador of the Emperor of the FRENCH at
the Court of St. James's, and as a gentleman who,
whether in his public or private capacity, by
his fair and honourable dealing, his courteous,
straightforward and conciliatory temper, has won
the esteem of all political parties, the sympathy of
society, and the warm regard of a host of friends
in the land which we believe he would allow us
to call his second country. In the strongest,
because the simplest and directest language, and
in the fewest words, M. Di Psernorn expresses the
feelings of all reasonable people in both countries
when he affirms that " neither of the two Powers
" desires to enter upon such a terrible struggle as
" a war between them would be. The Euglish
" nation is peaceful. Their virtuous Qrszy and
" the eminent men in power desire to maintain a
" good understanding between the two nations."
This is a sufficient answer to the angry re-
monstrances of the Constitution/4e/. The Presi-
dent of the Council General goes to his Depart-
ment fresh from Plymouth, where lie was assisting
the other day at the launch of a line-of-battle
ship, and ho gives his word that the English nation
is peaceful ; that is, that the armaments of
England are purely defensive.

May we be permitted to skip over the para-
graphs on which M. Di PLIOIIONY touches--and in

- - touching adorns—the delicate question of Savoy
and Nice ? He says nothing of the inderendenee
of Switzerland ; and, in order to abstain from ill-
omened words, we will only suggest that it de-
pends on the Second Empire whether the " system
of 1815," which was established against the
First Empire, is to be suffered "by Europe her-
" self "to lapse. The English public will
have no difficulty in reading "between the lines„
in certain passages of this interesting speech which
leave space for diversities of interpretation. Wo
know not whether to commend most the modesty,
or the happy ease, of the assertion that " the con-
" fidence of Europe has not been shalien,"and that
" ?darn ass a whole the Imperial policy is pure and
" honest" It would surely bo difficult to say
lees or more than this. But M. IDE. PERMIINY'I3
last words are the most remarkable. " The mili-
" terry rule of France in Europe is at an end."
The Crimea and the Milanese have sated the
martial appetite of the Second Empire. To be
sure, there are other fields and pastures, old and
new, in Axis and Africa. There is China, there is
Syria, there is Egypt. It is an "era of peace and
" prosperity " that is now opening for Europe.
Dr. CII3IIIINU must look to M. DE LEsszia for the
fultihnent of prophecy. We only regret that it is
from four or five men near the Imperial throne
that we learn the will of France, and not from
France herself. Perhaps, however, now that " the
" military rile of France in Europe is at an end,"
political liberty is at last about to crown the
edifice of the Empire.

THE notorious case of Mr. Busweta., which has
come before the public at intervals during the last
twelve months, was closed yesterday so far as the
Court of Arches is concerned. Dr. LUSHINWPON
gave judgment against the reverend defendant,
pronouncing him guilty of the various offences laid
to his charge, and decreeing the sentence of depri-
vation which the Bishop of Loewe had asked
for. This sentence simply confirms the verdict
which the intelligence and moral sense of the
community had already recorded. Nothing short
of such • sentence would satiety even the lowest
requirements of decency and justice in the case.
That such • Mall should continue to wear the
gown he had polluted, and discharge the functions
of the sacred office he had outraged, would be
altogether intolerable--a far greater and more
fatal injury to the Church than any mere individual
delinquencies of her clergy. There has, in fact,
been no such saandal in our time as that fur-
nished by the profligate disclosures of this infamous
case, and the public indignation it has excited has
been naturally deep and universal. That the de-
linquent is a clergyman, no doubt, iiitensifies this
feeling as it ought to do, but it is far enough from I
producing it. It is the peculiar character of the
offences that is so revolting. The case is altogether
exouptienal,and we may therefore speak of it freely,
without taking up the vulgar cry too generally
raised against any clergyman who trips in sight
of his fellow-teen. There is • wide-spread
tendency to pounce eagerly on clerical lapses,
exaggerate their proportions, and proclaim them to
the four quarters of the earth. If a clergyman
make a slip, a thousand voices are ready to pro-
claim with ill-disguised exultation that he is no
firmer on his feet than other men—that his moral
bearing is in tio respect superior to his fellows.
Apart from its injustice, this tendency is essen-
tially vulgar, the offspring of bad taste, and low,
001,110 feeling. It wrings at bottom front the
mean desire to discredit superior excellence, by
reducing it to our own level, or even lower still.
This feeling works not only in envious and narrow
breasts, but umeauiciously amongst the thoughtless
and uninformed as well. They naturally like to
imagine that those whose pretensions are so much
higher, are, after all, guilty of the same follies and
faults as themselves. And a thousand just
men, devoted to the duties of their sacred
calling,, will not prevent the one who falls
from being accepted as a type of his order. 1.7 u
redacting minds generalise the instance, and hastily
exclaim, " They are alike ; no better than they
" should be." No doubt there is at bottom a
certain element both of truth and justice in this
harsh pidgin, lit of clerical offences. It is right to
expect hem those who undertake the religious in-
struction of others example as well as precept ;
and though the standard of virtue is nu higher for
the teacher than the taught, it is natural to ex-
pect that men whose lives are devoted to its reali-
sation shroild come nearer to it than others. It
ought to le remembered, however, that while a
..... Miter shares the pensions and feebler of his
fellow rm c, he is at the lassie time exposed to
temptation. from which they are for the most part

exempt, and occaaional failing should not tens-
fore be judged of too hastily. . .
No plea, however, no possible excuse een be
offered for cases of systematic and hardened
vice. If once fully proved, religion and morality
alike demand that they should be condemned
in the most emphatic manner, and visited with
the severest punishment. The case of Mr. Bow-
WELL is an extreme one. His vices are a social
outrage, even more than a professional offence.
The enormities of which he has been guilty would
naturally exclude him, not only from the pulpit,
but from decent society. Had such a career of
systematic perjury, licentiousness, and contempt of
all social obligations, been proved against a mere man
of the world, he would justly forfeit his social
paition. The Judge truly stated that Mr. BON-
WELL had been guilty of the very gravest moral
and ecclesiastical offences—seduction, adultery,
fraud, and deception. These offences have been
established by " proof that is uncontradicted and
" overwhelming." There is no excuse, no pallia-
tive to be offered for these aggravated offences.
" I have carefully considered," says Dr. LUIIHINO-
Toms, " whether there are any circumstances of ex-
" tenuation—l can find none. There is not the
" palliation of early youth ; there is not the
" strength of temptation which may possibly beset
" the single man ; there is not • mere accidental
" deviation from the rules of morality; but there
" is a married man with a family—a wife, the
" head of a ladies' college ; there is seduction—
' " the daughter of a deceased clergyman, with a
" blind mother—seduction deliberately carried
"on under the pretence of marriage." There
are, indeed, other circumstances in this re-
volting case of peculiar aggravation. Mr. Bow-
tram., not satisfied with disgracing his sacred pro-
fession by his vices, actually employed it through-
out as the instrument of their gratification. He
used the confidence his office inspired, first
to win the affections of his victim, and then
to deceive her family. And on the disclosure of
his perfidy and guilt he, with reptile meanness, with
almost incredible baseness, attempted to throw the
blame on the ruined victim of his lawless passions.
What remains for such a man but some friendly ob-
scurity where he may remain unknown, and where
his name may no longer call up painful and
polluting associations. The clemency of the Eccle-
siastical Court has consigned him to this obscu-
rity. But Mr. Bowww.i. is consistent to the last.
He has appealed against this just and merciful
decision, and threatens still to offend the public
ear with the scandal of him name, and the reiterated
proof of his enormities.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

SYRIA.
ARRIVAL OF FRENCH TROOPS AT
BEYROUT.

Our correspondent at Beyrout writes on the 16th :
" The grand event of the day here is that all
doubts are set ai rest as to the intervention, by the
arrival this monung of some 2,000 French troops,
more being to follow in a day or two. They have
not yet disembarked, but I believe will do so this
evening. The Christians are delighted ; the Mos
lens sulky ; the Osmanli or fanatic party iu de-
spair ; and every European more rejoiced than
another. Whatever people may think in Europe,
here we have no national jealousies on a question
which regards our lives, fortunes, honour, and
peace. We English are just as glad to see the
French troops arrive as, I believe, the French were
to see our fleet come to anchor before Beyrout."

THURSDAV.

Six copies of the convention iu reference to the
affairs of Syria have been drawn up, one of which
is destined for each of the contracting powers.
The Austrian and Russian ambassadors signed
their copies before quitting Paris on leave.
The date of these copies will be filled up, and the
signatures of the other ambassadors added, as soon
as the Turkish ambassador shall have received full
powers for the definitive signature of the conven-
tion.

FRANCE.

ANNBCY, AUGUST M (EvnrucG).

The Emperor and Empress have passed through
Aix. At that town, as well as on their arrival
here, they were enthusiastically received.
Their Majesties will continue their journey on
Saturday.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA. THURNDAY.

Although the committee of twenty-one, in its
sitting of Monday last, definitively adopted the
two reports presented in the name of the majority
and of the minority, the full sittings of the Reich*.
rath will not be resumed before Monday next, the
3rd September.

The Council of the Ministers is, however, sitting
almost without interruption.
It is believed that the government will promul-
gate the new political reforms without waiting for
the vote of the Reicharath, in order to leave to the
Emperor the whole merit of apontaneoiudy adopt-
ing then'.
Prince Metternich, who left Paris on Monday
evening last, arrived here yesterday evening.
He will only stay here three days.

The prince will be received in audience by the
Emperor to-morrow morning, and will then proceed
immediately to his castle of Komigawartb, in
Bohemia.

VIENNA, Ammar 29.

The Emperor has induced Genend Beuedek to
remain at the hend of the Hungarian administra-
tion until the cloning of the extraordinary session
of the enlarged Council of the Empire. This will
probably take place very soon, as, although his Ma-
jesty expressed his intention of not leaving Vienna
before the Reichsrath closes its sitting', he has
fixed his departure for the 15th Sept.
The Hungarian members of the Reichsrath are
frequently summoned before the Emperor.
It is believed that Austria will soon enter among
the number of constitutional states, notwithstand-
ing the endeavours of the military aristocracy to
the contrary.
Several independent and liberal statesmen have
considered it their duty to represent to the Em-
peror that unless the constitutional tendencies of
the empire be complied with a revolution would
become inevitable.

The P resse of to-day publi. hes the text of the
proposal of the minority of the committee of 21
inembeav, which is as follows :
" That his Majesty, by his own authority and
power, should create such institutMus as will allow
the greatest possible development of the free and
independent right of representation in all the pro-
vinces ; and at the same time should, in the most
complete manner, maintain the unity of the em-
pire and of the legislative and executive power of
guvemment ; and further, that au effective and in-
dependent control should be exercised over the
public administration by a proper representation of
all this interests of the people in the communes, the
diets, and the cmuicils of the empire."

THE NEAPOLITAN ARMY AND THE KING.

GENOA, AUUUST 20 (Erminiu).
The Genoese journals of to-dny pubis& the fol-
lowing : . . .

"The Autbion, which left Naples yesterday
morning, brings the news that on Monday last the
Neapolitan general's assembled in council had,
with the exception only of General Bosco, unani-
mously resolved to advise the King to take his de-
parture from the city.
"At the moment of the depirture of the
Authion a report wax current at Naples that the
(dicer's of the army and navy had tendered their
resignation en mane to the King."

THE BRAZIL MAIL.
LISBON, AUGUST 1.

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship
Tyne, from the Brasile, arrived hers this morning, and will
leave for tiouthampton at noon.
fibs has on board 34,000 f. in specie. .

EXPRESS FRAM PARIS.

(raw[ WI OWN COMEPOIDINT.)
PARIS, WZDNZBDAT Evicitta.

It is explained by the Opitiimi Nationale that M.
Breuier, in pressing the Neapolitan government for
reparation for the assault upon his person, has sug-
gested that the best mode of effecting it would be
to compensate French subjects for the loos they
sustained by the bombardment of Palermo, and to
send a special envoy to Paris to make an apology.
It strikes mu, however, as a very curious time to
urge this matter at all. The King of Naples must
have other and more pressing things to think of.
How many hours longer is he likely to be in pos-
session of the treasury from which the indemnity
is expected to be paid
At the Bourse the Rents, after drooping to
671 r. 86c., recovered to yesterday's prioe, 681 r., for
the close, in consequence of the operations of an
individual speculator. The railway market was
not affected by this incident, and loft off weak,
two or three lines being from Hr. 23e. to 21r. 60e.
lower. Mobilier fell 6fr. 250.

The mayor of St. Aubin (Gironde) has been dis-
missed for having, at the municipal election of
August 19, clotted the poll before the proper hour
in order to prevent the friends of his opponents
from voting.

17n/ignarti of yesterday says :—" The fine weather
which has prevailed during the last few days has been
turned to good account for harvest work iu the neighbour-
hood of Paris. Every disposable bend has been employed,
and a considerable quantity of the productions of the earth
been safely housed. Reapers have been also at work in
cutting the coma which remained standing, and, sa the
corn which hail been before cut had been placed stauling in
shocks, and coy, led with a reversed sheaf, the grain has
nut suffered by the wet."

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THE SICK AND WOUNDED VOLUNTEERS IN
SICILY.

The following distressing account of the sanitary
condition of the Garibaldian volunteers in Sicily has just
been received by one of the honorary secretaries of the
Lailieu Garibaldi Benevolent Association. It is from the
pen of the same medical man who has repaired to Southern
Italy for the purpose of aiding, by his professional skill
land talent, the Italian cause.
" Falaszreale, Messina, Aug. 17, 1800.
"In the absence of the general, I was asked to visit
the hospitals of Malan* and Barcelloua, with the view of
introducing some improvements into the administration of
the sanitaly department. I have suggested some improve-
mente there. An extract of my report to the Secretary of
War I have given in the Lancet; and I have also implored
the editor of that journal to plead the cause of the poor
wounded patriots. After my return from Mideast> I find •
very melancholy state of the army ; 12,000 stationed at
Faro are worn out with fatigue and hunger, and debilitated
with fever ; the hospitals are crowded ; there are 500 men
in the hospitals here without a pillow or sheet—without •
shirt—without everything. Ask your ladies' Committee to
collect shirts, towels, sheets, surgical instruments, quinine,
cinchona powder, and pillows, or these poor fellows will be
decimated. Send them direct to Messina, to the care of the
English consul. I wish very much to join Garibaldi as
soon as possible hut I shall not leave this until I have or-
ganised an ambUlance to cope with the emergencies of the
campaign. At least I shall endeavour to do so. lam glad
to hear that you have sent some money to Madame Mario,
and also some boxes, which we expect with impatience.
That lady's efforts on behalf of these poor brave fellows I
think beyond praise. She is very energetic, runs from Bar-
cellima to Faro like lightning, and works very hard. lam
sure that everything that is good must come from England.
Providence has placed that island as • light in the midst of
the darkness of Europe. All the light and truth must pro-
oeed from thence- all the efforts for the regeneration of our
race must commence with Great Britain."