The Express.
London, England, 1858-10-18 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

A telegram, received by the Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company, states that
the steam-ship Ermine, with the Bombay mails,
arrived at Marseilles at 6 this morning. The mails
left for London at 10.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

DILOK 0111 OW►X

PARIS, BrignAT EVIINING.

There is an almost utter absence of news to-day,
and the French papers contain scarcely anything
worth quotation or comment. It is thought possible
that news from Lisbon, with the answer of the Por-
tugese government to the instructions sent to M.
Lisle de Siry by the Coligny, which left Lorient on
the 18th, may be received in Paris to-morrow or
Tuesday.
The Slick, apropos of the affair of the Jew child
Mortara, stolen from its parents by the Papal go-
vernment, presumes to reprint at length, underlining
the principal passages, Louis Napoleon's oelebrated
letter to Edgar Ney, dated August 18, 1849, in
which the then President of the Republic summed
up the terms in which he was prepared to consent
to the restoration of the temporal power of the
Pops in these words :—" A general amnesty, secu-
larisation of the administration, the Code Napoleon,
and liberal government" The &ids thinks, or at
least professes to think, that this letter decides the
present question, and that if the civil laws of the
Roman state " authorise such a crime, France can-
not associate herself even by tolerance with such a
legislative iniquity. She must solemnly demand
the repeal of such laws."

PARIS, SATURDAY.
The Conatitutionnel, by the pen of M. le Renee,
states that the French Ambassador at Rome has
received instructions to use all his efforts to make
the Pope understand that public opinion in France
was wounded beyond measure at the sequestration,
on the pretence of religion, of the Jewish infant of
Bologna.
The Coastitutionnel lays down the common-moss
doctrine adopted by the whole civilised world, with
the exception of a few nit:montane bigots, that the
natural power of the father over his children is
paramount to any religions dogmas, and it proclaims
that the French goverment cannot approve in Rome
the doctrines which its minister@ have instructions
to reprobate in Turkey. At the conclusion of this
article it is stated that the oourt of Rome is deeply
impressed with the difficulty, and that the official
journal is about to publish an article showing that the
Pope had no power to prevent what was done in the
case of young Mortara. The Cosetitutionnel wisely
abstains from expressing an opinion upon the prin-
ciples of canonical law which the court of Rome
proposes to invoke in justification of its passive
sanction of what has been done, but it expresses •
hope that means will be found to prevent the recur-
rence of similar events. This seems to be an ad-
mission that young Mortara is not to be restored to
his family. What becomes of the argument of the
Univers that the civil law of Rome cannot be ob-
jected to by any catholic because it is made by the
church ? If the Pope is forced by political neces-
sity and the indignation of the civilised world to
confess that such deeds as the robbery of a child
from his parent ought not to be sanctioned, what
decent excuse can he have for not repairing the
wrong in this particular instance ?
An immense revolution was effected last night in
the Quartier Latin. Those who have crossed the
Pont Neuf after midnight, and proceeded along the
Rue Dauphine to the Odeon Theatre and the neigh-
bourhood of the Luxembourg, cannot fail to have
noticed that, while in other parts of the town all
honase of pnblio entertainment were closed, in this
joyous district the gas burnt brilliantly before
restaurants, cafts, and beershops, and that all was
life and animation till two or three in the morning.
These privileged bounce were the resort of the
students and their mistresses. It was an accusation
against the government of Louis Philippe by his
unscrupulous enemies that he wished to sap the
' health and manly spirit of the youth of
France by encouraging them in these nocturnal
debauches. Subsequently it hasbeen considered,
apart from any such diabolical intentions, good
policy to allow the young men, who it is assumed
will hold nocturnal revels in some way or other, to
meet in public where they can be watched by ke
police. Last night, however, to the consternation of
the whole quarter, an order was given and acted
upon that all thew houses should be closed at twelve
o'clock. We shall probably hear a great deal more
of the matter. Whether for good or for evil, the
change is nothing less than a social revolution.
I understand that Prince Napoleon claims absolute
jurisdiction over the prams in Algeria, and denies
the right of the local authorities there to give warn-
ings without consulting him.
M. de Coetlogoo. Prefect of the Haute-Vienne,
has been nominated Prefect of Algiers.
A commandant and two captains of the army of
Algeria are about to be tried on a charge of having
embesaled 130,000 f. _ _

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The Bourse has been very calm. The Rente fell
de., both for cash and account, closing at 73.20 and
7930. Mobilier fell 10f. The Orleans Railway fell
8.76; Southern, 7.60; Eastern and Lyon., 2.60
each ; Northern rose
_1.26, and Western, 2.60.

Marshal Canrobert left the camp at Chalons yes-
terday. All the troops will have taken their depar-
ture by Monday.