The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-10 00:00:00

THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT.

FIAMEICE. Dre. 9, Evionago.
In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies
the new President, Signor Lanza, assumed office.
The PIUMIDINT announced.thet Signals Miceli, Laporte,
and Sella had presented an interpellation relative to the
conduct of the government in the late political crisis.
Signor StLLA proposed that the following motion should
be voted by the Chamber before discussing the interpel-
letion above-mentioned :—" That the Chamber, firmly
determined to maintain inviolate the national pro-
gramme, declaring Rome the capital of Italy, passes to
the discussion of the interpellation." This motion was
signed by several members of the Right and Left. Signor
Sella, in his speech, urged the paramount necessity of
restoring the Italian finances, and pointed out that to go
to Rome, and above all to remain there, it would be neoes-
Nary to have serious guarantees for Europe that the Italian
government would follow a loyal and pacific policy.

i• Signor CORTESE opposed the motion of Signor Sella,
because receiving mixed support from the Right and Left,
which involved ambiguity. It was necessary thoroughly
to establish the difference between the means by which
the different parties would obtain the object desired
by all.
Signor Quart concurred in the views of Signor Cortese,
and the necessity for avoiding ambiguity. It was now
necessary to discuss the means of going to Rome, after-
' wards, if requisite, again to proclain Rome as the capital.
General MrsaBREA concurred with Signor Criapi in the
necessity of discussing the means. The question at issue
wee one of practical results, not of aspirations ; and Signor
Sella's motion would only prejudice the discussion
of the interpellation. Neither could he approve of
• motion thus supported; such coalition of parties
could only produce ambiguity. He oontinued, "Let us
not discuss or even affirm the principle all have at heart.
Discuss the means, and clearly establish what path you
intend following on this point. The government frankly
declares Itself, and will firmly maintain its slows. The
country is weary of ambiguity, and wishes to know where
and with whom we are going. If the Roman question has
not been earlier solved do not accuse the Right, but rather
three who have impelled the country to the brink of an
abyss." In conclusion the Minister .aid that a motion
only vaguely affirming • principle was unworthy of discus-
sion by the parliament.
After a speech from Signor Laporte, opposing the
motion, but censuring the policy of the government, the
motion for the interpellation to be preceded by Signor
Sella's order of the day was rejected by 201 against 106
votes. The Chamber then proceeded to the discussion of
the interpellation.
Signors Miceli and Laporte Tote in terms of severe cen-
sure of the policy of the government in the Roman ques-
tion, and dwelt forcibly upon the French intervention and
the recent declarations of al. Rouher.

The sitting then closed, and the discussion will be
resumed to4norrow.

MIXED MARRIAGES IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC
CHURCH.—The following announcement was made at St.
Aloysins and other catholic churees, in Washington, on
Sunday last :—" A catholic man was lately married to a
protestant lady in this church, with the necessary dis-
pensation of the most reverend archbishop. The intention
of these parties to appear afterward before a protestant
minister, there to be married again, not being knowu either
to us, when they were married here, or to the archbishop
when he gave the dispensation to the man to marry a
protestant, by the order of the moat reverend archbishop,
regret is hereby publicly expressed for what occurred at
that late marriage. The archbishop has disapproved of
the lame, and required this public announcement, lest it
should pass into a precedent, and that all eatitolies may
understand that such marriages are contrary to the disci-
pline of the church. Thus far, the order of the most
reverend archbishop, we may only add, reminds the people
that according to the laws of the church, any of the
faithful who presume to get married out of the church, by
the very act incur excommunication." The above is un-
derstood to refer to the recent marriage of the Belgian
Secretary of Legation, Baron Von Harm, to a protestant
lady.—New York Times, Nov. 2L

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FRANCE.

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PARIS, BLINDLY Surnro.

The journals which continue to maintain the
position which 1 dissented from yesterday, namely,
that M. Thiers' speech forced the Emperor to
reverse his policy, quote, as applicable to the pre-
sent situation, a smart antithesis of Royer Collard :
—" The government had a majority ; now the
I majority has the government." The tiers party is
now called the Thiers psrty
It is not wonderful, after the efface position in
which M. Rouher's peach left the rquiti de
Moustier, that there should be k talk
of the resignation of the latter. Although
the ;;L:nister 9f Kureign Affairs is no orator,
and is said to !MIT " mumbled his two
speeches from manuscript slips," he is man of
business enough to have said neither more nor less
than he was told, and it must be galling to him to
find the Senate complaining that their dignity is
lowered by his amphibious declaration having
been thought good enough for them, while it was
reserved for M. Rouher to make a clean breast
before the Corps LoSgislatif, and even there to
" wipe the eye" of the Marquis de Moustier, who
spoke first. Ths contrast between the amount
of confidence vouchsafed to the two ministers
respectively is illustrated by an allusion
to M. do Moustier's deprecating expression
that the Senate ought not to ask him for more
than "daily bread" (pain quotidien). Thereupon,
it is said that M. de Moustier is the minister of
pain quotidien, but M. Rouher, who on Dec. 5
triumphed in the applause of the clerical deputies
and the Bishop of Orleans, is the minister of pain
hini (that blessed bread which is distributed after
mass to all who desire to be partakers). Another
of the mots flying about the Corps Ligialatif is
worth noting. The Emperor has often been re-
proached with his pulitique de bascule (see-
saw policy). Starting from this postulate
the new situation created by the debate of Dec. 5
is thus illustrated : Take a long pole, the centre
of which shall be the convention of Sept. 15. Seat
M. de Moustier at one end of the pole and M.
Rouher at the other. So far all goes well ; the
equilibrium is perfect. But, lo ! suddenly MM.
Thiess and Berryer jump upon M. Rouher's
shoulders, and then the equilibrium is broken.
M. Nicolet, counsel for the Princess Metternich
in the recent prosecution of the Courrier Francais,'
was placed in a situation of considerable embar-
rassment a few days before the trial by a message
from Prince Metternich, requesting him to call at
the Austrian embassy to talk over the affair. The
etiquette of the French as of the English bar is
that a counsel does not wait upon his client, but
that the client must wait upon him. M. Nioolet
convoked a special meeting of the council of the order
of advocates, of which he is a member, to advise
hint whether, in the case of such a high personage
as the Austrian Ambassador, he could make an ex-
ception to the rule. The council was unanimously
of opinion that there was no reason to depart from
established usage. Prince Metternich being in-
formed of the difficulty, sent a card with the
corner turned down to M. Nicolet, assuming, I
suppose, that the barrister could not fail to return
his personal visit. I do not know the sequel of
the story ; but it occurs to me that if M. Nicolet
sent the prince a card also turned down he would
have done all that politeness required.