The Express.
London, England, 1860-01-31 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY, JAN 31.

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Out Catholic contemporaries in this oountry will
agree with us that if the Univers had been pub-
lished in London, not only would it never have won
martyrdom, but it would never have deserved it;
for the simple reason that it might keys published
a Papal Encyclio weekly till the crack of doom,
and even bawled it out in Downing-street
and other lonely thoroughfares by night, without
so much as arousing the attention of the police. Ia
Frans, however, they manage things differently,
and that eminent Protectionist, M. 'Nuns, has an
opportunity of discovering the advantages of pro-
hibition transferred from commerce to religion. It
is the " ancient national traditions" of the Galilean
Church which are now protected by the Imperial
Government, following the footsteps of the old
French monarchy. Shall we confess that
by • sort of national instinct we are die-
posed to respect the pluck of M. Vistru.Lor, if we
could forget that he has only perished by that sword
of authority which he never ceased to invoke against
his rivals in the honourable field of fair discussion,
and that he is bat the mouthpiece of a league of
darkness, and the martyr of a whole army of op-
preeors How long has he abused a license denied to
the advocates of freedom and toleration ! How long
has he licked the hand that strikes him ! As free-
men we may sigh for those happier days, when
liberty of instruction was demanded in behalf of the
Church by great and honoured orators in con.
stitutional Chambers ; when the Jesuits of the Son-
derbuad were defended in debate by men like M.
D 6 MONTALIIIIII3T, and the cause of Italy by M•

THIERS. Bat that was an odious epoch to M.
Lotus Vacuum' and his patrons. They malted for
darkness, and the &limes has descended span them,
and upon their words and works. They have their
reward; may they keep it long.
This time, at least, M. VEUILLOT has fairly courted
and won his fate. In the teeth of two warnings,
and in the face of an express injunction restraining
the pablioatios of ',lamps' mandates and inflamma-
tory pastorale, the Ultramontane organ published
en Sunday in flaming type an Encyclical
Lotter from the Port:, addressed to all
Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, Bishops, and
othen in sonaestion with the Holy Sc., declaiming
against the Letter of the French EIIPIROR, repu-
diating his counsels, and calling him to judgment.
The unctuous and muttered ferocity of this General
Epistle of the latest successor to ST. Porto breaks
out in the 000cluding 'paragon in a storm of almost
savage irony, of which the effect is heightened in
the printed espy ►y all the resourese of malarial ty.
pography. Tte double allegisnoe of the Venerable

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" 0DR8111.1718, " " Our dignity," "Oar sacred
" character," " Oar most important ministry,"
" Our power," " Our State." The Venerable
Brethren and their flocks are reminded that the
Holy See, that is, the "pontifical domination" of
" the rebellious provinces of tEmilia," belongs to all
Catholics; and in order more completely to confound
the HOLT FATHER of all the faithful with the
temporal misrule of an Italian province, it is even
affirmed that, " we cannot abdicate it without doing
a wrong to all Catholics, and without weakening
the rights not only of the Princes of Italy
" who have been 'Anima, deprived of their domi-
Mons, but also the rights of all princes of
" Christendom (why of Christendom only ?) who
" cannot behold with indifference the introduction of
" certain eerypensicieneprissciples,"—in other words
the principles which were lately proclaimed to her
Parliament and to the world in the speech of the
Queen of ENGLAND. It appears from this Ency-
clical Letter that the " immense majority " of
the people of the Romagna " were everywhere
" thunderstruck " by the rising against the
Papal rule ; so thunderstruck, indeed, that they
have been rejoicing ever sines. " We" prayed his
MAJIIHTT, "the most serene EMPEROR," "the most
" powerful EMPEROR," "out of regard to his own
welfare and his usefulness in the world, to relieve
"as of our apprehension." And out of that "pater-
" nal charity," of which Colonel Baum is the
apostle at Perugia, " We" reminded him of that
Day of Judgment when, it seems, the integrity of
" our" temporal possessions will be the sole title of
an Emperor to salvation. The conclusion of this
Encyclic is ominous, and dexterously pointed in the
Ilifieera by the stylus of M. VEIIILLOT it may well
have suggested some unpleasant passages in French
history. It demands the prayers end the aid in
sorry possible manner of the ecclesiastics to whom it
is addressed. The studied insult implied in the
unequal distribution of capital letters is no doubt
VEUILLOT'S way of speaking daggers and using
none, but it is difficult to forget that ecclesiastical
aid " in every possible manner," has once or twice
included somewhat awkward processes, and some-
what summary interpretations. And yet is not the
best friend of the Pore the man who suppresses
such an impious farrago se this Encyclical Letter ?

QUESTIONS were put last night to Ministers in
both Houses on the subject of those disgraceful riots
at St. George's-in-the-East of which we gave an
account yesterday. Common decency demands that
a stop should be put to the scenes which are again
becoming customary in that church, and which are
making the House of GOD a very Pandemonium.
On this point there is no difference of opinion.
Lawlessness and outrage must cease. The only
question is one of means. That which most readily
suggests itself to the Government is the employment
of the public force. This is aatural : Governments
act by force. Accordingly, the HOME Stourrane
promises that next Sunday a body of police shall be
stationed outside the church and exercise a sort
of censorship over the attendants. Inspector
X will take his stand at the entrance and
divide the sheep from the goats. We quote from the
parliamentary report :—" Sir GEOIOI Lewis said
" I have to-day had an interview with Sir RICHAILD
" MAYNE, who has seen Mr. Klito, and from him
"he has received a proposal which is made with
"regard to the maintenance of order on Sunday
" next. That proposal has been acceded to. It is,
" that a body of polies—(' Oh, oh,' and ' Hoar,
" hear')--should be stationed outside the church, and
" that persona who appeared to be entering with the
" intention and design—(' Oh,oh,'and counter-cheers)
"—previously conceived, to create a disturbance
" daring the time of divine worship, should not be
" permitted to go into the church." Now, Mr. Kixo
may rely on it that Englishmen will not submit to
this. For fifteen years he has been preaching his
church empty. A clergyman who could till it
was found by the parishioners to preach to them
once in the day, and the building was crowded.
Mr. Kin° did his best to break down this arrange-
ment, and became at open war with his parishioners.
Lest summer he shut the church up; after that he
called in the police ; now he subjects his people to
the indignity of being overhauled by the preventive
force. There are apparently no lengths to which
he will not go to force his practise upon an un-
willing people. These things must corns to an and.
The courts of law and police are open to Mr. Brno,
as well as to every other subject—priest, minister,
or layman; but if he wants the extraordinary inter-
vention of the civil authority, It is only jut that
this latter should inquire whence this exceptional
need arises. It will then be foand that Mr. KING
has wantonly and perversely neglected the ele-
ments of strength which lay around him within the
parish, and that, in order to introduce a system of
which he knew his people could not as Protestants
approve, he has strengthened himself with friends
and assistants, and even worshippers, drawn from
remote parts of London—money from Belgravia,
priests from St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, and wor-
shippers from Soho. Sir G. Lewis and Sir R.
MAYN2 may lend him polies, but his career in St.
George's is ended. He has dose all the mischief that
is possible ; he threw away long since his last chance
of doing any good. It only now remains for him to
make way for some clergyman who can understand
that Englishmen having gone through glorious
perils for their Protestantism will not now resign
themselves to a bastard Popery. When this is done,
ana the serious-minded parishioners who have been
driven from their parish church again surround •
respected pastor, the miscreants who now find
pleasure in desecrating the sanctuary will find out
with quick instinct that their game in St. George's is
at an end.

In Committee of Supply to-morrow, Mr. Laiag
will move that a sum, not exceeding 13,230,0001., be granted
to her Majesty, to pay off and dirobarge Exchequer bills
charged on the aids of 1860, =provided for.
_ _ _

On going into Committee of Supply on Supple-
mental Army Estimates Mr. Griffith 'steads to more "that
it has been proved by long and repeated experience that the
use made by soldiers of their belts sad buckles when off duty
is injurious to the public misty :—That it is sot essential to
any military duty that they should wear equipoises ./
duty which are only nemenery for the sapped of side-arms,
which are now dispensed with ones& omasions, and there-
fore it is the opinion et this house that the practice of allow-
ing soldiers to wear such belts when eff duty should be dis-
oontinued by the military authorities."

SUDDEN DEATH OF LORD NORTH.—We regret to
hays to announce that Lord North, the eldest son of Earl
Gallford, of Waldershere, near Dover, died suddenly at the
residence of his mother •In-law, Lady Grey de Rattly', at
Wastaingbury, on Saturday, at R o'clock a.m. His lord-
ship was thirty years of age, and has left three children, the
eldest a boy, and now heir apparent to the Random of Guil-
ford. Hie lordship was in his usual health until a few hoots
CZ:to the fatal attack, and on Thursday woe, dnrW all
shooting on the lands of his brother-In-law, Yr.
Lancaster Loom. Mr. Gould, of Waterhsgbury, was in
Immediate attenduce • and evestuslly Dr. Woodiall, of
Maidstase, was summoited, bat without avail, The Inkema.
don of hie lordship's death wee rewired ma edam* by
Earl Guilford, his father, who is eighty-MOS yore of ore,
with deep emotion.—Maidstone bewnseL
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