The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-14 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PIRA Tummy Emma.
The Pope's dragoons, as I anticipated yesterday,
made their charge in the Senate. M. de Segur
d'Aguesseau went the extraordinary length of asking
that Prance should dishonour her signature to the

convention of Sept. 15, and refuse to leave Rome
until Italy restored to the rope the provinces which
she despoiled him of in 1860. Both Flew d'Agues-
'eau and Cardinal de Bonnechase objected to the
address because it expressed a confidence in the in-
tentions of Italy to execute the convention as Frame
understood it, which was altogether irreconcileable
with the attitude of the Italian parliament
and the expressed opinions of Italian minis-
ters. French diplomacy had never been able
to extract a word from any Italian minister

promising to regard Florence as anything else but
a " provisional" capital, and the notorious fact was
that no ministry which in terms renounced the hope
of getting Rome could stand. Cardinal de Bonne-
shoes depicted Rome under the Papal government
as a sort of Arcadia, far 'superior in the point of
view of material enjoyment, pure justice, and
intellectual advantages to any other state in the
world. He did not, it is true, say anything about
the kidnapping of little Mortara, but he probably
thought that a petty administrative detail not worth
notice. He might, however, had be been disposed
to be candid, have said very fairly that the Mor-
tara grievance, though great in principle, was one
of a kind rare in action, and that leas exceptional
caws of misgovernment were required to show that
the temporal power was intolerable. General
Gemeau, who once commanded the army of occu-
pation of Rome, groaned over the preeent state of
things. He believed that as soon as the French
army left Rome the revolution would turn out the
Pope. He would vote against the address, because
it suggested no means of averting the calamity
which be foresaw. Cardinal Mathieu, while, of

course, as a cardinal favourable to the Pope, did not
share the apprehensions of his brother in the purple,
Cardinal de Bonnechoee, and trusted implicitly to
the " Sovereign," who he was sure bad well
weighed the convention of September 15 in all
its bearings. President Bonjean, one of the best
speakers in the Senate, made a very good speech
against the cardinals and M. Segur d'Agnessean.
He believed the oonventiob would be honestly
executed by the Italian government, but did not
therefore infer that the temporal power must neces-
sarily be perpetual. If the papal government,
when left fairly to itself, should turn out to be
such a perfect thing as Cardinal de Bonnechoee
had represented, by all means let it subsist. But
his belief was that the theocratic form of govern-
ment was incompatible with the rights and wants
of the populations, and if he were right in that
belief it would be a crime to impose it upon them
by violence. He, as a catholic, had no hesitation
id saying that l►e thought the temporal power
prejudicial to religion.
M. Rouher, in a most carefully worded reply,
spoke very much to the effect that he did some
time ago to the Spanish ambassador, who reported
the conversation he had with him. The substance
of his speech was that France intended " two dis-
tinct sovereignties to subsist in Italy." But that
'in the prevision of eventualities which it did not
think likely to happen, the French government
would not, by any declaration of what its conduct
would be should the hopes and expectations which
were the ►ases of the convention of Sept. 15 be
disappointed, encourage either papal obstinacy
on the one hand or revolutionary designs on the
other.

The Praise states that it had a moat " carefully
weighed" political article in type, but that, after
its two warnings, a regard for the property belong-
ing to several shareholders decided the sup-
pression of it. No risk will be run until
the decision of the Council of State is known
as to the legality of the two warnings. Beyond a
demonstration which may be useful in a public
point of view, the Press. has, I think, little to hope
from this appeal. It is a new idea that the Council
of State has any jurisdiction. I believe the ad-
ministration to be omnipotent in the matter of
I warnings.
The Bourse was very firm. Rente rose 25c. for
cash and Tic. for account. Mobilier rose 7fr. 50c.
Italian continues in favour, and rose 37ic.