The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-17 00:00:00

IL DE PERSIGNY ON LIBISB.TY 1N
PRANCE AND ENGLAND.

BISSIOP COLENSO AND MISS BURDETT COLITIS
A letter from Mir BurdettCoutes to the Colonial Bishoprics
Fund, in which she expresses her dissatiefatron at the exist-
iog state of thing., hes been published in the colony. She
complains that the conditions on which she undertook and
had performed herguarantee inendowing the &woof Cawn
had " not been fulfilled by the le' tore patent, and she "finds
with most painful surprise that the bishop nominated to
the see of Capetown is declared in the report of the
Privy Council, not to have any effective gooiest:vitt:al juris-
diction.* She is informed that wider these circumstances
" the finds provided by her for the endowment of the
respective colonial saes may possibly revert to her or to her
representatives.* Hence Mims Omits requests that steps
may be taken to give legal effect, if practicable, "to the
arrangements winch bee If **ifs letters were intended to
'seems, but which are found now to be of no effect at
all —John 8011.
PROPOSED Div or 1117MILIATION. —The Bishop
of Oxford has made the following communication to the
archdeacons of his diocese :—" London. Feb. 13. My dear
Avehdeacoa,—Will you ooevey to the clergy of your
arehdesoonty my request that they move their several
parishes, in the course of this Lent, to observe
a day of humiliation before God for our sins, sod
at special prayer and deprecation of Hu eighteen* Jude-
meets, particularly that of the present cattle plague,
humbly beseeching Him to be entreated for the Lod !
Oa the day which they and their pari•hionen select
I for the purpose I appoint the use of the Litany and
Com-
mteation Service io church ; the other necessary arrange-
meats I leave to their awn discretion. I trust that the
employers of labour will allow se many of their labourers
as pandas to attend the services of the church, hot I do
not advise that the day should be made one of entire absti-
nence from labour—an abstinence which suits lather with
a festival than with a fast. I pray God to give all the true
spirit of penitence, end roweifully to accept our decollate
for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord.-1 am your faithful
friend end brother, " B. MON."
THE LATE DDILE Di MORNT'S PAINTINGS.—
The ova ttibuasl has just given judgment in a suit in-
stituted by B. Castigliotie, a Neapolitan painter, against
the Boehm* of Movny, to recover the value of two
palatine—one representing the " Salm d'Apolloa" at the
Louvre sold to the late duke for 20,0001 r. and duly
delivered; the other. "Beading after Dlnner," which was
painted for the duke, who wee to give 10,000 fr.
for it. As to the fret painting, the duchess
acknowledged that she was aware of Cie pur-
chase but not of the price weed oe, and else therefore
demanded that the tribunal should appoint experts to
value it. With regard to the " Beading after Binger,"
she knew nothing of it. and refused to receive it, but if the
plaintiff could prove the order to the stitiefeetMa of
The
the
tribunal. she wished that painting to be valued elm.
tribunal, after bailie; the plaintiff s witnesses, decided
that the second paintlog had bees ordered by the late
de, and appointed MIL Pfrignoe, and Ma, to
valukue beak.
The operative tailors of Wolverhampton have re-
quested as advance in their wept of beta 24e. to 27e. per
week. They say that the Mermaid east of living renders
this advaaeo alrohttely necessary. .

In the French Senate, on the 14th, M. de Pee-
slimy made the following remarks during the die-
titian= on the address
He marked that a feeling of rearm, impaled on him
by the different positions be had occupied fa the mom
meat, had hitherto prevented him from tekisy pest is the
debit's of the Semite, but et • menaced whoa so essay at-
tacks were dirsetsd amid the inatitations of the empire,
it was no tomer namable for • mat of dmetedneas to pre-
serve oilmen The task he had to perform was delimits.
as his intention was not *sly to support the address la
which the Praddent of the Senate had go well summed up
the principles of the oonstititation, but also to Mew
the consequisees of those principles ad explain em-
Min doctrines which had been ilbendirstood, even
by members of the government itself. "I hem bees
often reproached (said the speaker) with comparing Frees
with
s.lingised. Bat is not England every moment
to us tare model? What is mare natural therm
Mrthil
ato reply by that very maniple t How is it that
the biglish have reneged all the terrible cited/mph.' that
followed the application is France of their political system?
The MINN may be found in • single fart, namely, that
Eagles* is constituted se that authority should be ids-
pedaled the 111100blailfit at liberty, whilet with as autho-
rity is in • politico which causes it to suffer inevitably
ban anything like free agitation. Let us esespass. the
datinishhhot of • Emmett department with that elan
=k amety. le /meat ministers age net only alma.
at the omen and maintainers of pollicieder at
hide dadadaisitrellia is its degrees ; therein* ivory
mite that Weds to overthrow a midst", die*
NM so' the polity of the eovememet, test
the whole administration of the smeary. (Applease,
sad marks of west.) la Reglad, oe the other
bad, the Qaesa's pesos is never effected by contests is
the Home of Commons, se all the disesteemedts of podia-
teren4ey Shinty ere predased without trenching epos the
pea al the goverment. And what bas taken plies here
Is lases at the time of • nusisterial crisis! When
male wens the dish of the edministietioa, aid at the
game time &speeded it the chambers, the some edmials-
Thttall inevitably tats the heads of the psidiamast.
itt was that • ety, Meted af beine • 'Menlo low-
, arise as in EnglitA became • persoesp dispersimg all
tie fe,males ad emnreading all the petremes of the stale;
all the fanotiooaries bowed the lime before him, and he
was followed by • whole host cif relatives had depededs,
✓abg ho him for diked employment. That wee toga
of corruption and the pillage of government power. (Crest
) The real pomm ,
ies of authority, is promos of
t=iser.nornial invasion of their *hie, lost allthafr madders-
tioa, sad found themselves whin at critical remade to
wearer the videos. el popular poems. Such were the
offsets of English liberty transported into • onstry whom
mantes are steadied fee it, sad the semi remits will be
ender the same airearestanom
Adtiesioargtilt7then, was the duty of the great prince
by byelaw to rescue Freese from almost Wm
be to roestetiliak • state of things whisk had proved so
fatal to the country Such • coarse was evidently
ion-
Wes be to allow universal suffrage to dispose
as dimmed of end liber, amainate, by
he vete, all the fanotecieseiss from the sinister and the per
feet, down to the mimed garde-charadire Whim • se-
hoe cement' to make or unmake seek day its sodality, ft
must prefer petty things to grand, aid will act endure
any government. Is the middle seas the Swiss Ed
dimmed the secret of the grind Hawaiian phalanx,
aid the chivalry of the day attacked fa vela their reeks, so
marvellously disposed ; if they bed at that period .tonally ,
organised their tetanal ripely, they might ham formed •
peat nation. But they peohnod to soulless to mem In
their little masicipalitce, and their adintielde Malice only
served to make them sell deems the blood of the people.
(Haan bean) What, therefore, Monied for the Emperor
to do? Had he melting before him but to =Will& de-
Wheel t I korai that and is the aciewatisa made by the
enemies at the imperial regime, bat it is • calomel which
will be branded with infamy by history—(hoer, benri—end
wiliest which protestbeth geed seem as the admiration
a/ the rest of Europe. (Applause) A great adios like
Prime is dimes fess, end -Ism but • goaded= would
think of foram oppreanag, or doing violence to
the ideas, monde, sod tendencies of • great
ViPerwhich marches at the head of civilisation.
the Emperor bed to do and has does was to give
liberty to France—net that fleeting liberty which is that-
I heed against ton-up paving stones, but • durable liberty
supported by the mid basis of authority. (Load sheers.)
Liberty has no determined forms ; to ancient tines it woe
act the same at Athos, at Sperta, or st Rossi ; nor to the
middle ages was it similar in the Didion republics at
Tionson, Venice, sod Cason Why, therefore. should
Frame adopt the forms of liberty in England when the
fanner country is constituted oa bases so different! Is
Treace, the minders are not only advisers of the arowo,
but chiefs of the administration, and for that reason should
he responsible, not to the country bat to the sovereign
la whose bands is deposited the principle of authority.
There was • peosseity to place the responsibility
where it redly is end where events hays fixed it, ad
to put en end to that fiction of the ieviolability of the
Brows ; for is less than half • century four sovereigns have
paid with their heads or bv exile for the faults or mister-
tams of their government. Whether the midden ere
responsible to the Emperor or to the legislature, the
chambers are not the less free. No doubt Me criticiams of
the latter are forced to assume • more respectful form, for
if minister' may be accused of being guided by personal
views, it is impossible to "appose that the sovereign is in-
spired by say feeling but the public welfare. The defenders
of the parliamentary regime affirm that to discuss public
affairs with the men who perform them is more coo-
venient than with intermediaries. Bret in the United
States the ministers have not the right to defend
their acts blond Congress. The Emperor's govern-
ment has respe liberty as much as any of
the other regimes. Doss Dot hberty of the press, of
association, of discsion exist, end hse aay legitimate de-
sire expromed by the nation been reieoted by the Emperor!
To publish a diluter la not sufficient for the purpose of
fundisrishig a nation with free isstitations. Constoutioes
are always the work of time. A great tattoo should sot
be discouraged at obstacles, for each difficulty overcome
stren&ens its experience and draws it nearer the goal.
(Appes.) The speaker then referred to the organiestion
of the Council of Scats, which he characterised es me of
the rest isnovatioes of the Imperial regime. sad Ines-
timed ineidentally, is support of his locust observations,
the speech delivered by h:in last year at St. Etisom.
He then motioned :—I believe that in separative tbe
authority of government from liberty by a proceed-
ing in ocieforenity with the internal organisation of
Fleur, the Imperial gore, noeut bee realised the prin-
ciple of liberty as mush as is done in England. The system
differs is the form, but the result is the same ; liberty and
authority march side by side without being subject one to
the other, or hemming confounded. (Hear, hear.) In the
French oicietitution there must be no mistake as to the
origin of the executive ; it is beyond any doubt derived
from the principle of the national will, but while the na-
tion remains in possession of the principle of liberty by
universal suffrage. the Emperor mid his dynasty me de-
legated with the menhir) of the priseiple of authority. The
instrument of liberty is the popular vote, bat that of autho-
rity is vested in the mermen. For the stone memo, is
the commune., the mayor should be named by the go-
vernment. Si. nomination belongs to the centrel power by
the same title as that of the prefecta and mioirters, sod I
do not admit the intervention of the electors for the me
any more than for the other. The municipal couseil re.
pieseets liberty by the side of the mayor, the delegate of
I authority. like the consul peered towards the prefect, and
the two legislative bodies by the side of the ministers. For
the municipal council to elect the mayor would be s derma-
-1 hoe from the principle which I upheld. Umertainty as to
the power end position of tbe mayor camas • pecturbatioa
is the communes, and cannot be prolonged without produ-
cing daoemous effects. There resin in the country an unfor-
tunate disposition for people to classify themselves es ex-
clusive parto.ns of mobility or of liberty, as if use
could exist without the o her. The former world govern
in every ems, and subject all things to the inspirations of
the executive. The latter look upon the authority ea re-
cuirisg to be opposed obstinately and to every circumrtanos.
For myself, convinced that in France liberty em rely be
founded mthe basis of • strong power, I would remove
from the exasolive all that might 'micro or eservalle it. I
di
know that there is Owl.. liberal which coosiste ia
ermine the executive. But of that principle the same may
be mid se of the flattery which surrounds the thrones of
kings—it is the ammeter of the public mid sad the
scourge of nation. (Applause, mingled with some marks
al dissent.)

Tlis HUNT ArirreamAir ifirt.s.—SonsAarrox,
Insulr 16—The POIIiDIGUE and (Mortal Company's
steamship Syria, with the heavy portion of the above mails,
has arrived here. She Wisp 120 passengers, 82,9061. is
epode, prostate Moms to the value of 1,000 rapes*, sad
1,719 peetages of cargo, Iselading 1,071 bales el ma, yahoo
90,0001. derma the Bay of Messy she experienced earth.
westerly plea soil a bemy sea. Eleven of her Majorty's
ships were at Gibraltar. On the 12th inst exehaap an
LaMar M Gibraltar was quoted 491 oe Paris, 6.13
Madrid, 1 to I disease! ; Gediz, &mount. Proxima en
W. pions wee IS to per oat.
LOYDOII GINIRAL ONNUMIS COWAN! (Liwnwo).
--The divideed to be deemed et the half-lea it mean(
of shareholders a We employ to be WA on 6t
t h Mara
ern be 3e. par share, free et Mau tax,. opal o-4.711:
mt. per sexes, soda surplus of 5,61 W. be
'forward to next 11000100.