The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-14 00:00:00

1860.

PRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, FIUDAY EVIMMIG.

Convapondence circulates a rumour
which, it ssys, comes from Rome, and is not re-
garded as credible, that General Changarnier is
going to be commander-in-chief of the armies of
the King of Naples ! . . . .

The Prase, while desiring to judge with the
utmost charity a man of such noble antecedents as
General de Lamoriciens, =not help expressing sur-
prise to find in his order of the day to the Pope's
troops, that "false and trivial" phraseology which
personifies the revolution, and represents it as
the principle of evil introduced into the
world in opposition to Christianity, civilisa-
tion, and liberty. " The revolution," con-
tinues the Prune, " merely wishes to put in prac-
tice principles proclaimed long ago : it (the revolu-
tion) is not in itself a principle, and it neither
descended from Heaven nor ruse out of Hell." The
Opinion Nationale censures General de Lamoricibre
with far less reserve. " There is now," it says,
"no room for doubt or hope. He has gone over
with arms and baggage to the worst enemies of
' civilisation and liberty,' to use his own language."
It appears that when the General reviewed the
garrison at Ancona the es-Duke of Modena,
Francis V., rode at his aide. " This fact alone,"
exclaims the Opinion, " sufficiently shows the
nature of his mission to Rome ; he aspires to be
the Ortega of Italy."
The ball at the Hotel d'Albe, which is to eclipse
all other fetes of the season, having been postponed
till the 18th or 20th, it is said that the Count and
Countess de Peraigny will prolong their stay in
Paris till after that period.
The movement in Spain must certainly have
been more serious than the official despatches pre-
tended. It seems to be beyond a doubt that Count
de Montemolin and his brother are in Spain, and
not in custody. The Union speaks of the insur-
rection with extraordinary boldness. It styles the
pretender Charles VI., and openly expresses a
"hope" that the principle of " legitimacy " may
triumph in his person. The visions of this journal
would be of small moment, but the Monitnw itself
publishes a despatch, dated Vittoria, April 7, from
the general commanding in Biscay, telling
the Spanish minister at war that he " does
not doubt that he shall be able to put down
the revolt," and that the country " desires tran-
quillity." These are timid expressions in an offi-
cial despatch, which naturally endeavours to make
the best of things, and they show at any rate that
the insurrection was not still-born, as was at first
said.

The Bourse has been dull. The Rente opened
with some firmness, and rose to 70fr. 35c., but ul-
timately lank to 70fr. 15c. and 70fr. 20c., with a
fall of sc. in each case. Mobilier fell 3fr. 75c. The
Orleans Railway fell 7fr. 50c., and Eastern, Mr.
There waa little change in the other lines. There
was a talk of a conversion of the Four-and-a-Half
per Cents., for which purpose it was said the go-
vernment would try to get up the Rente to 75fr.

GENERAL DE LAMORICIERE'S APPOINT-

MENT.

The Indapefsciance Beige says of General de Isimo-
riciere's appointment to the command of the Papal
troops :
We know at list the object of General de Lamericiare's
journey to the Roman States. The Journal of Rome of
April 7 announces his appointment to the chief command of
the Papal troops. Up to the last moment wo wishi.d to
doubt that the general could so far forget his past career,
oo break with his noble friendship, and cancel his real ser-
vices. Now doubt is no longer passible, and the error has
been conunitted.

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General de Lamoriciire, who in 1849 regretted his ina-
bility to save liazuni's republic, and who merely accepted
the expedition to Rome as a measure for saving the liberty
of the inhabitants, can no longer avail himself of the same
tICUMNI . . . . .

During the last twelve years the Holy See, protected by
the presence of the French tmops, ought have laid the
foundations of that liberty. It has done nothing of the
kind It has remained deaf to all advice, to all warning ;
even the hard lemons of the present times have produced
so effect on it, and in the separation of the Romaguas it
has seen merely the rebellion of • few restless spirits ex-
cited by the ambition of • foreign prince. In nowise has
it thought of looking into itself and asking itself if its own
governmental proceedings had nothing to do with the dis-
affection of the, governed.
What the Holy See neglected to do when it had the
power, without danger, sure of the applause and encourage-
ment of all Europe, it will still leas do now in favour of
populations groaning under their yoke and passionately de-
' sinng those beadle which the Romagnols have forcibly
obtained for themselves. Those populations will be kept
down, not by a national army formed from their midst, but
by a horde of foreign mercenaries gathered and recruited
from every country, to assist in this work of oppression and
tyranny. Such are the men whom General de lama
nciere haa consented to command—such is the work to which
he lends the authority of his name.
As for the reforms, they will become what they can be-
come. Cardinal Antonelli will take good care of that, and
when neeemary, in the name of canonical law, will abduct
some fresh Mortara child from the arms of its mother ;
General de Lamoriciire will be the accomplice and execu-
tioner of this barbarous crime ; when it shall be n
to renew the mighty exploits of Perugia, General
Lamoricire, commanding the pillagers of the city, will
become the emulator and rival of the Schmidt' and t
mattens. Such is the position freely accepted by a man
who has been living in exile, and calling himself a martyr
of liberty, of violated right.
A proclamation by General de Lamoriciive, which we
have this instant received, proves to us that we are eyes
too indulgent toward' him in the preceding refiections. In
fact, in this proclamation the genets', for the purpone of
misleading both public opinion and the soldiers he is going
to command, identifies the cause of civilisation and liberty
with that of the Papal government. He proclaims all those
to be revolutionary who do not low down before the mon-
strous abuses of the Roman theocracy. It is impossible to
belie truth more signally, impossible to cover with • more
deceitful mask • real tergiversation.