The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-14 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1866.

matters, he would still be ecclesiastically supreme,
and might exercise his sovereign power not only
to the greatest extent, but all the more freely for
his exemption from the secular cares of State. The
recent history of the Papacy confirms this view.
During the last five years the Pops has lost a con-
siderable apace of his territory, and his temporal
power has been proportionately reduced. But has
this diminution at all affected his position or re-
duced his influence as Head of the Church ? On
the contrary, we are assured by Dr. barium;
that the striking fact of the last four years is
the growing unity of the Church with the
Holy See, this unity being at the present mo-
ment greater than at any previous period since the
day of Pentecost. The partial loss of temporal
power has thus proved a decided spiritual gain, and
it may be assumed as certain that the abolition of
the temporal power would still further consolidate
and strengthen the purely spiritual influence of the
Holy See. It would at once remove the Head of the
Romish Church from a false, dangerous, and really
intolerable position, and destroy the serious conflict
of duties and interests that now tends to alienate
from Rome so many good Catholics, including
almost the whole laity, and a considerable section
of the clergy in Northern Italy. The remnant of
temporal power still belonging to the Holy See,
while radically incapable of protecting the POPE'S
independence, and absolutely useless for all prac-
tical purposes, is at the same time a chronic source
of European disturbance and irritation. At open
war with the best tendencies of the time, and a
flagrant example of domestic anarchy, the tem-
poral administration of the Roman State is simply
an obstacle in the path of civilization and progress.
Every wise and enlightened Roman Catholic will
surely desire to see his Church finally delivered
from the opprobrium of such a position as speedily
as possible ; and no such friend of the Church
will seriously identify the spiritual powers of its
Head with the petty intrigues and abject depend-
ence of a tenth-rate temporal power.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

Urging that the prosecution of reproductive public
works in India ought not to be dependent on the anneal
fluctuations of the Indian budget, the Daily Nene pro-
ceeds to insist that the government of that country should
welcome the application of imported capital, and then
goes on to protest against the course which the Governor-
General has pursued to the East India Irrigation and Canal
Company, in whose case onerous and restrictive terms,
fatal to all applications of British Joint Stook capital in
India, have been imposed.
The Tima is very severe upon a Welsh correspondent
who complains of its remarks respecting the Eisteddfod-
Wales is described by our contemporary as a small country'
unfavourably situated for commercial purposes, with an
indifferent soil, and inhabited by an unenterprising people.
A bare existence on the most primitive food of a moon-
ts'notus race is all that the Welsh could enjoy if left to
themselves. Under such circumstances, what can be
more out of place than an exhibition designed to foster
satisfaction with Welsh productions and Welsh virtues?
All the progress and civilisation of Wales has come from
England, and a sensible Welshman would direct all his
endeavours towards inducing his countrymen to appre-
ci%te their neighbours instead of themselves.
The Star, on the other hand, thinks that the strong and
almost passionate nationality of the Welsh is at least
worthy of something better than derision. At all events
whether we deride it or not, it will still exist ; nay, the
more ostentatiously it is contenmed the stronger and
hotter it will grow. The rude contempt of the stronger
race for all the peculiar habits and feelings of weaker
races bound up with it has raised up at all times some
of the worst difficulties in the way of the harmonious
operation of political organisations like ours, which are
framed out of several different nationalities. We ought
all of us to have learned by this time to treat each other's
national peculiarities with toleration, if not with respect.
Even if we think our brother unwise, we ought to know
that calling him a fool will never convince him of his
folly, although it may painfully demonstrate our own.

the Court.

BALMORAL, SErr. 12.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian,
rode on ponies yesterday morning, in the neighbourhood
of the Castle.

I❑ the afternoon, her Majesty, with the Princess of
Wales and Princess Christian, drove to Caatleton and
round the Lion's Face.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governors of the West India Islands, New Zen-
land, Bermuda, and St. Helena. Despatches were sent to
the Governor of Canada.

Mr. John Bright, M.P., and his son, who have
been for a few days past at Glen Tulchan, by Grantown,
the residence of Mr. Bass, M.P., are now the guests of Mr.
T. B. Potter, ILP., at Pitnamee, Strathtay, Perthshire.—
Dundee Adrentser.

The Duke of Leinster is expected to leave his
residence on Cariton•house-terraoe early in the ensuing
week for Carton House, Maynooth.

The Earl and Countess Spencer, who are on a
tour of visits in Scotland, have arrived at the Earl Cow-
per's shooting-box in the Highlands.

Lord and Lady Alfred Paget are making a aeries
of visits in Ireland.

The mortal remains of the Prince de Cond4,
eldest son of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
d'Aumale, were on Wednesday afternoon placed in Miss
Taylor's Roman catholic chapel at Weybridge. The
chapel was hung and carpeted with black 0-apery, and ;-1
the centre a bier was erected for the reception of the coffin.
On the lid was placed a small casket containing the heart
of the young prince.
Queen Emma of the Sandwich Islands has made
a tour through part of the Canada provinces. After stay.
ing for a day or two on the Canada aide of the Niagara
Falls, her Majesty proceeded eastward ; and at Montreal
distressing intelligence awaited her. The Montreal Geratte
says :—" It was the intention of the Queen to have re-
mained for some days, but in consequence of the receipt
of intelligence of the death of her mother, she had to leave
by the afternoon train for New York. "We regret,,
adds the Gazette, " that her Majesty was by this affliction
prevented from receiving the attention which her distinc-
tion entitled her to, and which our city would have
afforded her."

An American paper says :—" The Emperor
Ma7M,;lian's European despatch on Tuesday, for the At.
lantic cable, to bis wife's France, cost 15,364 dole. in gold,
and was nearly 700 words ;n cypher."

"We learn," says the Liberti, "that King Victor
Emmanuel has just Instituted a new order of ktighthood,
to be called the Order of the Lion of St. Mark, according to
some—that of the Italian Lion according to others. It is to
take rank immediately after the Order of the Annonoiade,
which last is only given to crowned beads, members of
reigning houses, and generalissimos. The riband is to be
red with a peen border."

"A vague rumour is current on the Bourse," says
a Paris letter in the Independanee," to the effect that the
syndic of agents-dc-change contemplates resigning his
office, in consequence of the opinions submitted to M.
Fould concerning the liberty of the money market, which
views the minister is believed to have taken into serious
consideration. While, however, transmitting to you this
rumour, I must add that I consider it at least extremely
premature."
Strauss has given 1,500,000 fr. (60,0001.) for the
right of giving monster concerts in the Palais d'lndustrie,
Champs Elysies, during the Universal Exhibition of May,
1867. He offered Verdi 100,000 fr. (4,0001.) if he would
undertake to direct them, but has not succeeded in per-
suading him to accept the office, which Rossini rejected
with infinite scorn at double Coat sun..

M. Thiess is at present staying at the chideau
of Franconville, on a visit to M. Roger (du Nord), pre-
paring notes for a grand discourse on the affairs of
Germany.

The Sultan has received, vi& Trebizond, a con-
signment of thirty mwsnificent Arab horses of the purest
breed, which he intends, it is said, to present to the Em-
peror Napoleon and King Victor Emmanuel.

The Porte has decided on accrediting a minister to
the President of the United States. The new representa-
tive, whose name has not yet been announced, will leave for
Washington probably during the present month. A sum of
from 3,000 to 4,000 liras will be allowed for the gross
annual expenses of the new legation.
VISIT Or THE VOLUNTEERS TO BELOIUM.—The
English entries for the TirNational in Belgium are being made
at 79, !lasi oghall-street, where Lieutenant Furley, of the 29th
Kent Rifle Volunteers, one of the hon. secretaries, attends
daily. From the applications already received it is ex-
pected that at least 400 of our riflemen will enter the lists.
Each volunteer must be provided with a ticket which is
to be signed by his commanding officer. These tickets
will be issued at Basinghall-street up to the 20th inst. One
of the hon. secretaries will be in Brussels from the begin-
ning of next week to give volunteers any local information
they may require. The official reception of the
British volunteers is to take place at the railway station
in the Belgian capital on the evening of the 22nd. On the
morning of Sunday, the 23rd, the volunteers will attend
Divine Service at the chapel of the English Embassy.
This service will have concluded at hall-past 10 o'clock.
At 11, there will be a grand Mass for the dead in the
Cathedral of St. Gudule, in memory of the Belgians who
fell in the revolution of 1830. This is an annual com-
memoration at which the Belgian riflemen attend. After
the ceremony in the Cathedral, the riflemen will moored
to the Tin M. Rogier, the Belgian Minister of Foreign
Affairs and Marine, is handsomely supplying the boats
for [the transit of the volunteers between Dover and
Ostend, so that the land journey is all they have to pay
for. On the journey op from Ostend our riflemen will be
met at Ghent and Most by the Gard Civique of each of
these towns, who will offer them refreshment.

SOUTHERN PLowarts. —Mr. S. Parker Coon, at a
recent democratic meeting in Milwaukee, declared Mr.
Johnson's conduct " greater than that of Washington—
it was worthy of our Saviour. By his con-
duct, Andrew Johnson had placed himself above
all other human beings—he was greater than
Crew greater than Washington. Bat one per-
son—find he God—had been tempted as he was and re-
sisted." In a similarspirittbe Wilanagton(N. C.)Dorg' ruck
thus curses Mr. Stanton :—" When his mortal eerier ends,
he will hasten below to receive the avenging tortures
which have been prepared for him in the infuriated
hell to which he w surely destined, where the crack-
ling blazes are leaping and licking their tongues in joyous
anticipation of his arrival. May • just God hasten his
departure hence, hasten his approach there, where at last
in some small degree the evil he has don* may be properly
punished."

The Levant Herald also has the following :

If the latest Porte rumour is to be believed, the Cretan
difficulty is on the eve of receiving a solution which we
confess not to have foreseen last week. The Viceroy of
Egypt has, it is said, opened a direct negotiation with
the Sultan's government for the transfer of the
island to himself under conditions somewhat simi-
lar to those on which be recently obtained the
lied Sea provinces of Sonakim and Maasowah. lie
offers, our information states, to pay for it an extra taut*
of 80,000/. for the first year, no,ootx. for the second, and
a successive increase on this sum of 5 per cent. per annum
for 15 years afterwards—consenting at the same time to

name whomsoever the Porte may recommend to the go.
vernorship of the island, its military control being of course
in his own hands. This proposal has been so far entertained
as to be under the serious consideration of the Divan, and
the impression in official quarters is that in substance
it is already more than half asoepted. In the meantime,
the Viceroy has recalled Chain Pacha, the commander of
his own contingent in the island, and replaces the latter
by Yahia Pacha, the new Turkish commander. The
mission of old Kiritly Mustspha Pacha is nevertheless
still to be carried out, and he will accordingly leave to-
morrow for Canes by the Medjidieh frigate, accompanied
by his two eons respectively as counsellor and private
secretary.

(HIUTZIIII TELLGILLYB.)
FRANCE.

PARIS, Sam 14.

The Moniteur of this morning says :—" The
Emperor of Mexico had entrusted the Portfolio for
War to General Osmond, and that of Finance to
M. Friand, Chief Superintendent of the French
Army in Mexico. The military duties of these
two superior functionaries attached to the army
being incompatible with their new functions they
have not been authorised to accept them."

THE AIISTRO-ITALIAN PEACE
NEGOTIATIONS.
FLORENCE, Barr. 13, EVENING.

Intelligence received here from Vienna of to-day's
date announces that the Italian and Austrian
plenipotentiaries are agreed upon all points except
the question of the debt. It is believed that
Austria will accept the precedent afforded by the
treaty of Zurich without restriction, in accordance
with the treaties concluded by Austria with Russia
and France. The special debt of Venetia will thus
alone pass to the charge of Italy, as that of Lom-
bardy in 1859.
The signature of the Austro-Italian treaty of
peace is expected to take place in a very few days.

THE HEALTH OF KING VICTOR
EMIL-0/13EL.
FLORENCE, SErt. 14.

The King of Italy has left for the Cantle o:
Sonimariwa, in Piedmont, for the benefit of his
health. His Majesty will retv-n to Padua at the
end of the month.

DISTURBANCES IN SYRIA.
CONSTANTINOPLE, SzPr. 13.

Intelligence received here from Syria states that
the tribe of the Bedouins which had been expelled
from Haurar on the 3rd inst., has effected a junc-
tion with the Di uses. The combined !arms have
defeated the troops of the government, inflicting
upon them a loss of 10 killed.

The Druae chief Ismail Atrach has invaded the
Lebanon. 15 Maronites were killed in the attack,
and Joseph Karam has been wounded.

THE BOMBAY MAIL.
ALEXANDRIA, Sam 12.
The Masailia and Syria left at 11.30 a.m. to-
day.
The former may be expected at Marseilles on
the 18th, and the latter at Southampton about the
25th inst.

The Mamas has 8,0001. and the Syria 91,0001.
in specie.

GREAT FIRE AT THE DARDANELLES.

A letter from Dardanelles of the 28th ult., gives
en account of a dreadful fire on the prev:ons night, by
which a third of the town was destroyed. The quarter
where it originated was built of wood, a strong northerly
gale was blowing. Some futile attempts were made to
pull down houses that lay in the pathway of the fire,
but the extraordinary rapidity of its progress had not
been calculated upon, and before the work was done
the labourers were driven back, to make a fresh at-
tempt further to leeward, and ever with the same result.
One prompt effort only was crowned with success ; and
this was effected by a small band of volunteers under the
direction of Messrs. Wrench and Calvert, who arrested the
progress of the conflagration at a point where it bid fair to
devour every house in the Greek quarter. At midnight
the scene was terrible. " The fire had spread in all direc-
tions, flying before the gale on one side, creeping up to iton
the other; great tongues of flame leaping forward, and lick..
ing up the higher dwellings before their time, then swaying
right or left as the wind lulled or veered, swerving out of
their true path and parenthetically devouring a street till
the storm again hounded them on to work of fiercer havoc-
At 2 in the morning the fire had burnt itself out east and
west ; on the north it had been cut off, and only to the
south was there further cause for apprehension. A nar-
row double line of wooden buildings near the Armenian
Church, leading to the Turkish quarter,was blazing fiercely
and to cut off the fire before it reached that crowded
district appeared impossible. An attempt was made to
pull down a house, but the fire came up to the spot, and
the firemen were driven to renew their labou•s four
houses on, and had made some progress in their work of de-
struction when it became evident that the fury of the fire
was spent, the buildings would not burn. Back then they
went to the house they had abandoned half an hour be-
fore, now in flames, but burning slowly ; relays of men
came to the spot, chain ropes and poleaxes were brought
into active use, and in a few minutes the burning pile
came to the ground, and the train being cut off, the con-
flagration was at an end. " 441 houses and 139 shops
are destroyed, and 2,500 people are homeless. Many
of them have lost everything, for those who were
in time to empty their own houses conveyed their
chattels to some supposed place of safety in the
neighbourhood, only to find, an hour later, the sanctuary
they had chosen sharing the fate of the dwellings from
which they bad fled. Most of these poor people had
made their winter provisions of grain and charcoal,
and it will be impossible for them to replace their
store before the cold weather comes upon them. Very
many of them have lost their wine-vats, and the vint-
age is at hand, so that their hopes from that source are
destroyed. Above all, comes the important question
of shelter ; for even admitting that some will migrate
to neighbouring villages, there will still remain a vast
number of houseless folk who cannot leave the place, and
for whom there is literally not stowage room, far less
dwelling spites. The following is the official return:—
Turkish houses 71, shops 12 ; American houses GB, shops
47; Jewish houses 192, shops 72 ; Greek houses 112, shops
8: total houses 441, total shops Ll 9, besides 3 mosques,
1 khan, and 1 public bath. The Jews are the heaviest
losers ; in fact, the Jewish quarter is now reduced to 15
houses.

Hallovaituu LOYALTY.—During the discussion
in the Prussian House of Lords on the incorporation of the
states occupied by Prussia, Baron von Biesche-fgreithorst,
who is chamberlain to the King of Hanover, made the
following declaration :—" I wish to make the following
declaration : I cannot admit the right of conquest which
pretends to give to one prince the right of turning another
out of his country and seizing his throne. I cannot admit
the right of the representatives of Prussia and of
this chamber to decide on the fate of these states.
By my territorial property, I am at once a subject of his
Majesty the King of Hanover and of his Majesty the King
of Prussia. I have taken an oath of fidelity to the one
end to the other ; and I therefore solemnly protest before
God and tkis high chamber against the incorporation of
Hanover. Zven should Hanover now yield to force, it
well always remain faithful to the reigning family, and
will place its. hopes in Gol, who always helps when He
thinks right." This pretest, says the Natiowed Zeitung,
was listaseid to In profound silence.