The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-05 00:00:00

if our friends in Paris hare forgotten their RABE.
LAIR and taken Mr. Shandy's ecclesiastical learn-
ing too readily for gospel, at all evicts they are
not alone in their innocence. No leas a

person than M. Loris Viicitsar—nee
Boanerges of the religious press, the martyr and
confessor, "shaking both his sides," who, if not
the salt of the earth, was at least the grog set of
the altar—this famous personage, it appears, has
been fairly tamed and trotted out, and made to
shew his paces, by one of those engaging travel-
ling companions whom one occasionally meets
with in foreign travel, whose gloves and manners
are so faultless, whose principles are so accom-
modating, and whose opinions are so cosmo-
politan. "All things to all men, that we may
catch some," is the newest version of an apostolic
precept which these polite professors of easy public
virtue with decorated button-holes and a rather
imperial cast of countenance sedulously practice.
Their name, if they had only one, would probably
be "Legion," and their business is to go round about
the earth continually, and sometimes to " possess"
travellers with guileless hearts and unwarytongues.
1 One of this noble brotherhood on whose zealous ser-
viette the great fabric of the Empire rests has
lately " possessed" the unsuspecting conscience of
M. Loris Veriturr. The story is worthy of a
niche in the annals of our time. As soon as the
Univers was suppressed, and its editor's occupa-
tion as a defender of the faith was gone, it appears
that M. VIUILLOT, on the unimpeachable
principle of U feet rivre, was induced, amongst
numberless offers of aid and succour from the
faithful, to accept at the hands of an eminent capi-
talist of the race and faith of little Moirrasa a post
of a purely secular order, but responsible and
remunerative in a high degree, and not absolutely
inconsistent with apostolic functions. M. Vzime
tor (for such are the distressing exigencies of the
nineteenth century—such is the practical irony of
an age of doubt) had become an Inspector of
Railways. In this utterly terrestrial character
and capacity M. VIOILLOT left Paris for Civita
Vecchia, in the service of the New Jerusalem of
industrial enterprise. On his way to Marseilles
he met with a charming person, a pilgrim like
himself, bound Homewards, though not so fortu-
nate as to be an Inspector of Rail-
ways. However, the pilgrim's conversation
was so pleasant, his manners so winning,
and his "views' so unexceptionable, that
before they reached Marseilles, the Inspector and
his friend were inseparable. Together in the
steamer, together in the railway at Civita Veccha,
together at the hotel in the Eternal City, these
two simple Arcadians moved and lived and had
their being. The TORQUIN•DA of the Univers, a
very lion to the public, is, we dare say, a lamb in
private life—a type of ingenuous confidence and
simplicity. His heart was won, and all that woe
upon his heart his tongue spoke. When M. '
VIVILLOT was obliged to return to Paris, was not
his friend also sick of the Eternal City, and only
too glad to accompany him home, if be would but
wait a day or two longer} Of course M. VIVO..
LOT waited for his friend, and home they carne'
together, and to the same hotel. M. Vecittor
walks out to take a bath ; his friend walks straight
to the Prifecture de Police, and from the
Prifeeture de Police ; meanwhile other
gentlemen go forth to M. VLUILLOT'II apartment,
and proceed to make a raid upon his luggage.
Fresh and smiling from his bath, H. Vsuiturr
returns to his hotel ; furious and amazed from
his hotel he sallies out to the Pr4fecture de Police,
and there—yea, there—the first person he en-
counters is his "own familiar friend," into whose
faithful breast, like a pious penitent to a re-
cording angel, he had poured all the confidence
of his burning seal and holy hate. Let us
forbear to ask how M. VLUILLOT looked at this
discovery. To fly to the NUNCIO, and tell him
what had come of it was, as novelists say, " the
work of a moment ;" and for the NUNCIO to fly
to the Foreign-office, to threaten to leave Paris, and
to get M. VIUILLOT'S baggage and contents re-
stored, was 'an operation equally instantaneous.
Whether M. Vseittor really was concerned in a
plot to turn an infuriated Papal Bull loose in the
provinces of France loth not yet appear ;
but the next time he pays his respects to
his HOLINOVI at Rome we recommend him to re-
member the Cur 4 of Met-DOWN petition. Burning
for heresy is unhappily out of date, and M. Icarus
VEUILLOT is too sound • catholic to need to be
" incombustible " in any state of being ; but as a I
man of a simple and ingenuous nature, as an In-
spector of railways, as a pilgrim, as a traveller with 1
despatches to a NUNCIO in his carpet bag, should
he not ask the Pure to make him—invisible I

Or Court.

WINDOOR CASTLE., WEDNESDAY.

Her Majesty and the Prince Consort nide out on
horseback yestenlay afternaosi,socompanied by the Prince
of Wales, Princess Alin, and Prince Alfred. Is attendance
were the Hon. Fleenor Stanley, Colonel the Hon. A. N.
Hood, Captain Du Piet, and Captain Grey.
The royal dinner party in t►e evening included the
Primo. of Wales, Prince.. Alice, Prince Alfred, Prince..
brining's, the Dean of Windsor and the Hob. Kra. Wel-
inlay, Captain Grey, boil Major Cowell, PCB.
The Queen and Prince I 'onion, accompanied by the Prince
of Wales, walked in the Home Park this morning, and
visited the Durhess of Kent, at Frogman.
Princess Alice visited the Prince's of Leiningen.
Princess Helena rode on horseback.

Viscount Palmerston left London yesterday for Windsor
Castle.

The Duke .4 Newcastle left London on Tueeday evening
foe Chunber-park, Notts.

Te Clian.ellorof the Exchequer and Mrs. Gladstone left
tows cm Tumitay ...ening, for Brighton.
The Lord Chaim ellor will be prevented from giving the
wood reception to the judges and member. of the liar at
the conateacentect of Faster Term.

Despatches were received at the Colunial.office, yes.
terday, from the Governors of Gibraltar and the Falkland
Is lands.

CONIIIIIMATIoN Or NIA ROYAL HIOUNICAM PZINCI
ALM/M. - (TA In DAY.)— This morning the confirmation of
his Royal Highness Prince Alfred Ernest Albert took place
in the chapel at Windier Castle, his royal highness hat.
iug been examined on the previous day by the Dean of
Windsor in the presence of her Majesty and his Royal High-
ness the Prince Consort.

Her Majesty the Queen Marie Amelia, and his
Royal Highness the Duke de Montpensier, sccompanied by
the Marchioness de Beauvoir, General Gum, Colonel
Velardr, and • numerous suite, arrived at Orilli.e's
Clarendon Hotel, Albemarle street, last evening from
Cluvatuat.

Viscount Palmerston returns to town this after-
noon from Witrisor Castle, sari in the evening the noble
viscount and 'inmates' leave for Broodlands, agar Ramey,
for the Pester holidays.

The Duke of Montrose left town yesterday for
?olds Csatle, near Welshpool, to par the Haler ream
with the KM awl Countess of Powis and family. The
duchess poi to Parb few the holiday'.

The Earl Spencer arrived at Spencer House, St.
Jeans's, teat evening, fmm Althorp Hall, Northampton.
shire, and goes to Wadies Castle today, to be present
as Groom of the Mid, to the Prince emend at the eta-
'relation of Prince Alfred.

Sir Roderick Murchison left the Pavilion Hotel,
Folkestone, os Weds's*, for Paris.
The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli
harslet% (3ns+reaor•pte for Husbtatien Manor, Bucks.