The Express.
London, England, 1860-01-10 00:00:00

.NTJARY 10, 1860. -1'

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PARIS. MONDA:r RyiNING.

A paragraph in the Paris, whin); Was the air of a
oosissusekui, gives a positive dr aid to the rumour,
which it regards, however, an ' toe incredible to be
worth denying," that the 'lope is shoat to leave
Rome.

The Univers admits •,,with the Debate and Slide,
that the Pope's petsc.nally responsible for the abuse
heaped upon the FSenoh government in the Gioneato
di Roma, rnd sown. the subterfuges of the Petrie
and Cwastitetiogusel, which would shelter the
comraon father of the faithful" by resorting to the
fiction that Cardinal Antonelli is alone to blame.
The Constitutioomet calls attention to the fact that
several public charities, mainly under the direction
of priests, show a tendency to use the infinencn of
the money at their command against the government,
and in favour of party views of the interests of the
church at the present crisis. It gives the parties
alluded to fair notice that their proosedings are
watched, and that the government will tolerate no
abuse of the power they derive from public benevo-
lenoe. Mat of the voluntary and self-constituted
charitable societies are, it nye, strictly speaking,
illegal, and are only tolerated so long u
they do good, and distribute alms impar-
tially, according to the intentions of the
donors. It quotes a saying of St. Vincent de
Paul, the patron saint of one of the principal
charities in France, to the effect that " priests
ought not to converse even among them-
selves of those differences which arm princes
one against another, or of those subjects of
rivalry which divide nations, and that ii fortiori
the administrators of charities should sedulously
stand aloof from polities." In connexion with this
subject, I may state that a government circular,
which molt neossearily soon be made public, has
reeently been sent to the prefects, in which they are
instructed firmly to resist any attempts on the part
of t►e priesthood to trench upon the jurisdiction of
the state and transgress the boundaries assigned to
the. by French law and custom.
The Bourse has more than lost the ground it re-
covered on Saturday. The Rents fell 500. for
sash and 40c. for account, closing at 68fr. 40c. and
Mfr. 56c. Mobilise fill 18fr. 76c. The Orleans
railway fell 10fr.; Northern, Bfr. 250.; and the other
lines from 2fr. 60c. to Mr. 760. There was a talk of
the resignation of Lord John Russell.
General de Montauban leaves Paris to-morrow,
and will embark at Maresilles on January 12 on
board the Peathbre, for Alexandria, whence he
proceeds, rid Suez, to take the command of the
French expedition against China. He may be
expected to arrive at Hong Hong from the Ist to
the sth of March.

General Changarnier is passing a faw days in
Paris on private business.
The Abbe Sisson, the editor of the Ami de la Re-
ligion, presented himself at the doors of the Con-
ciergerie the other day, with a view of surrendering
himself to undergo the sentence of three months'
imprisonment, passed upon him for publishing the
fabricated letter of Victor Emmanuel to Napoleon
111., but the gaoler, in pursuance of orders, refused to
receive him, saying that the government could not
think of allowing him to suffer imprisonment.

ITALY. .

CENTRAL ITALY. ITALY.

(mom ova mutat cossiaromisirr4
FLORENCE, JAL 4.
The rulers of Tuscany warn at last to understand
that it is not by appointi:ig a large staff of profes-
sors and founding sinecures that the cause of the
country can be prope:rly served. The mania for thus
squandering publao money has lately disappeared,
and we no low: see an endless list of official ap-
pointments eillich would have been simply ridiculous
if it did not imply a great expenditure of money. I
have bran told, for instance, that while the navy of
the star is represented by two small vessels, and its
staff 'by two or three officers, its administration,
wh'ich forms a section of the war department, employs
more than 14 individuals. Bureaucracy has always
'oven one of the greatestevils of Italian States, but this
bad principle, which was adhered to by despotic
governments for the sake of their own interest, ought
not to have been followed by the national govern-
ment of the country. But as I remarked at the
commencement of this letter, it now seems that the
gentlemen of Palaxso Vecchio have adopted a more
economical principle of government, and that hence-
forward the public money will be employed for more
useful purposes. The armament of the country is,
of course, among the most important of these, and
I am glad to hear that all the exertions of the
Tuscan rulers are directed to it. By an ordinance
of the Minister of War, which appeared in lent
evening's Monitore Tolman°, the eight Tuscan regi-
ments of the line and the four battalions of sharp-
shooters are going to follow the numbers of the Sardi-
nian army, so that the first of' those regiments will be
designated with the number twenty-nine, and so forth.
The Tuscan army is also going to be dressed like the
Piedmonts's, and to be organised in the same
manner. By these means the 12,000,000 of Italians
who have determined to be united into one political
' body will possess the same military organisatioo,
' which will have the effect of rendering their assi-
milation almost inevitable.

Although the opposition against Baron Ricasoli
seems to have, at least openly, ceased, I hear that
the town council of Leghorn, which is going to meet
this evening, intends to make a sort of political de.
monetretion against the Tuscan premier. This oppo-
sition will not absolutely imply a vote of censure ;
but, if I have been oorrectl7 informed, it will record
its disapprobation of the line of policy followed by
the baron on the question of the regency. The
liberal party
.of the country is still convinced that 11
had the premier yielded to the wise suggestions of
Parini the three assemblies of Central Italy would
have met at Florence, where the political affairs of
the country would have been more effectively carried
on by the united action of the representatives of the
people and of the Governor-General. All separation
between the states of Central Italy would have thus
I been done away with, and the so mach desired union
would have become a political fact. It is really a
deplorable fact that the rulers of Tuscany have not
sacrificed the petty municipal interests of the duohy
to the wider and more important requirements of the
nation.

The arrest of the Rev. Father Filette, formerly
inquisitor of the tribunal of the Holy Office at Bo-
logna, has produced a great sensation both in the
above-mentioned town and at Modena. You have
not *gotten that it was Father Filette who re-
ceived the depositions of the servant girl who
pretended to have baptised the Mortara child
while she was nursing him in his father's
house. It was he who put into execution
the cruel sentence of the holy tribunal, which
was so promptly approved by the kind and paternal
heart of his Holiness. After the retirement of the
Austrians, Father Filette withdrew into some con-
vent of Romagna. It seems, however, that two
weeks ago instructions were sent to him from Rome,
by the General of the Order, to repair to Bologna,
no doubt for the purpose of conspiring against the
newly established government of the country. Al-
though the order was secretly despatched to his
place of concealment, I have been told that a rumour
of the mission of Father Filette was mysteriously
sent to Farini. at Modena. The Governor-Gene-
ral of the /Roam provinces having given the
necessary orders, the Dominican monk was
arrested the day before yesterday, and banded
over to the criminal tribunal of Bologna charged
with the crime of kidnapping the child Mortara.
No doubt the clerical party will made a great noise
about this, and we shall read long articles in the
Arniaisia and Univers, intended to prove that lay
tribunals have no jurisdiction over a priest. The
criminal laws of the country are, however, to be abso-
lute in the matter, and there is no doubt that the
fanatic inquisitor will have to pay once for all for the
numberless cruelties he has been guilty of. The
energy which Farioi has always shown in the ad-
ministration of justice gives hope that the parents of
this child will at last be righted by the action of
common law.

The Opinion' of Turin says :—" Public opinion
has some reason to consider the resignation of Count
Waleweki, and M. Thonvenel's accession to the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a proof that the policy
of France is decidedly in conformity with the ideas
developed in the celebrated pamphlet of ' The Pope
and the Congress.' M. Thouvenel has had time at
Constantinople to study and appreciate Austrian
policy, against which he has frequently had to eon-
tend with success."
A letter of the 31st ult. from Reggio states that
M. Curletti, chief of the public safety in the pro-
vinces of Amilia, has arrested one Fontanelli, of
Reggio, and a certain curate of the mountain of the
Carpinetto aide, both of whom were conveying letters
and documents seriously compromising the reap-
denary party of the Doke of Modena. They ware
brought before the tribunal, where proceedings for
the trial of these conspirators were being drawn up.
The Opinions of the Bth says :
General Fend, in the name of the troops of the astral
Inane, and through the medium of his Excellency Boncom-
pool, Oovwaor-Oeasral of the Royal United Provisos', has
seat to his ',Nasty: Winn Beentannel the eubjoined address :
" On the 001:11/4011 of New Year's day I have the honour of
presenting to his hisjoaty the homage of devotedness from
the troops whom I command. Filled with affection for the
;menus sovereign and brave warrior, these troops are per-
, fecticg their organisation and are aoquirieg discdpline, that
they may Avid the veterans of the army and render them-
selves worthy of fighting by their side under the colours of
their king. With the SUMO good will and the setae spirit
as your Iffaitisty's, they will defend, in case of need, the bp
dependence of Italy, who henceforth must be her own wh-
inge, and Lye without humiliation on an equal footing with
strong and dvllleed nations. We beseech heaven to lavish
her gifts on your Majaetteglor h-ohause.cwand, its future
destinies. The
" Bologna, Dec. 26,1869."