The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-01 00:00:00

THE PAPAL ALLOCUTION.

After mentioning rumours which are current respecting
an influence which has been at work upon the Emperor
Napoleon in regard to his protection of the Pope, the
Tema adds that there is little doubt, notwithstanding and
in spite of the new papal allocution, that his Majesty will
in the end abide by his engagement, and that the Romano
and their sovereign will be left face to face to come to such
terms as may yet be possible between them. The Antibes
Legion is already currying public favour by exhibiting
sympathy with the national cause, and when the Freneh
are withdrawn the Papal rulers of the provinces will with-
draw, and their own municipal government will be set up.
The country will fall away from the Pope. and will pro-
nounce for annexation to Italy. The Pope can do

little else than follow their example, and the Tema will
not be surprised to hear of Zaverio Vegezzi being sum-
moned to Rowe long before the terrible 11th of December
draws near. No great good can arise from " seeking
another country," for to the Pope as Pope Italy is as safe
as any ; to the Pope as King neither Bishop Dupanloup,
nor Archbishop Manning, nor the Baltimore prelates have
a kingdom to give. The Queen of Spain, it is true, offers
one of ber own provinces, and Spain is rich in islands.
But it is doubtful whether Isabella 11. sits more firmly on
her throne than Pius IX., and, at all events, we have a
better opinion of the good old Pope than to fancy that
even in his utter despair he would associate his fortunes
with those of Narvaez and Gonzales Bravo, Father Claret
and the Bleeding Nun.

MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS.

The Daily News transfers to its columns a portion of an
article in the Edinburgh Review, on the military growth of
Prussia, and the military institutions subsisting there,
observing that the writer will have done good service if
his article should be the means of helping to frustrate any
attempt that may be made to Prussianise our military
institutions. The people of this country would not endure
even a conscription, still less an application of the Prussian
system, which is severer still. If we are to adopt anything
analogous to the Prussian system, we must have a very
great enlargement of the basis of our representative
system, giving the bulk of the people who are to form
the army some control, though their representatives,
over the mode in which it is to be officered and governed.
If we are to have a conscription, such as that prevailing in
France, we shall have to begin by sweeping away the pur-
chase system, and devising some means whereby the
poorer as well as the richer conscript can 6;ht his way up
to the top.
The Poet states that Lord Kingsdown, who for more than
twenty years has gratuitously discharged the duties of
President of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council,
has signified his intention of retiring from that office. The
state of business there is far from satisfactory, and the
Post believes that Lord Westbury has offered to preside
there, and to sit day by day until all pending cases have
been determined, and that this offer was at once accepted.
The Herald regrets the fate of Mr. Snider, but thinks
that in dealing with his case its contemporaries have ap-
pealed too exclusively to sympathy for the individual, and
have entirely forgotten the duty which a great govern-
ment department has to perform in watching over the
interest and guarding the purse of the tax-paying public.
The conservative character of the two universities seems
to puzzle Lord Houghton, but the Times reminds him that
the students, unlike those of Jena or Gottingen, belong
almost exclusively to the classes of society who are natu-
rally conservative. They come of conservative fathers,
and they retain the principles in which they
have been bred. Jacobinism went out of date with
Shelley and such like topics ; and conservatism, more
or less modified, has come in with practical study and ob-
servation naturally biased, in the case of university men,
by the influence of birth and connexions.

Kitt Court.

BALMORAL, OCT. 30.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Lounge,
and attended by the Duchess of Roiburghe, drove to the
Lynn of bluish.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in Downing-street. The ministers present were the
Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of
Malmesbury, the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole,
Lord Stanley, the Earl of Carnarvon, General
Peel, Viscount Cranborne, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. Northcote,
Lord John Manners, and the Right Hon. Gathorne
Hardy.