The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-09 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY; DIM 9.

authority no one has sneaked. The revolted
Ramapols still recognise Plus IX. as their
spiritual head, but they justly assert he has forfeited
all claim to continue any longer their temporal ruler,
He undertook to govern them, but he has not done
so. There has been nothing worth calling Govern-
ment in the Romagna since it was finally annexed
to the Papal See in 1816. The only offences
taken notice of were political crimes, and the
wily tribunals of justice military commissions
kit the more speedy trial and execution of political
sanders. Prosecutions were conducted with
such reckless haste even before these tribunals that
dead men were sometimes condemned, and the inno-
cent not unfrequently mistaken for the guilty, or the
supposed guilty. Hundreds have been sentenced to

iesprisonmeot;exile, and even death, by these arbi-
trary commissions, without even the form of a regular
trial. During the last ten years, in particular, the
Pore had made over the government of the Romagna
to Austrian officers, and justice was adminia-
hued in a summary manner by • court-martial of
hind bayonets. Loder' this mild and paternal
rule in Bologna alone 188 persons were executed for
political crime* in the period of eight years, from
1849 to 1887. What constitutes a political crime in
the eyes of the Holy See may be gathered from a
demount we yesterday published from its local
toddy'''. It consisted of a letter from his deputy
at Foch to the Cardinal Commiuioner /I:trendi-
est, of Bologna, detailing the circumstances of en
arrest that had just taken place, and asking how
the prisoner was to be dealt with, whether as a
common or as a political offender. The ease was
that of • young girl at Foch, AMOILA CAPPILONT,
who bore a good character, wee industrious and in-
offensive, living with her parents, people well know■
and respected; bat who had been observed by
the police spies wearing an apron in which the
colours red, white, and green were mingled. For
this offence she was arrested and imprisoned, the
apron was carefully wrapped up, and sent to the
Cardinal Legate under the government seal. On
being examined, the girl stated that she woes the
apron without any evil intention, simply to gratify
her own taste in colours, and that she had already
had it in wear for a twelvemonth. This defence,
however, was not deemed sufficient. She was kept
a prisoner, and a letter forwarded to the Cardinal
ruler of the district, asking how the offender
should be dealt with. He replies, " The matter is
"to be treated as a political crime."
This is the kind of government which a section of
Irish patriots—these hereditary bondsmen whose
souls are fired with a passionate love of
political freedom—have undertaken to defend.
They affirm in a special resolution that it is
" devoted to the noblest purposes of religion and
" humanity, and ought to be held veered in the
" estimation of every Catholic people." One of the
speakers at Cork loudly asserted that every Roman
Catholic la the world bolds the temporal power of
the Pore to be sacred. This is of coons an im-
pudent fiction. The real fact is that the frightful
evil' of Papal misrule have been exposed over and
over again by earnest-minded Catholic writers; they
have been openly denounced by Catholic Powers, and
the eldest Son of the Church has been for months
past demanding their thorough and prompt reform.
The movement for reform in the Papal State' is, and
has been, not • Protestant, but • Catholic one. !
Intelligent members of the Churches@ plainly enough !
that the scandals of the Pore's temporal role
weaken his authority as Head of the Church and
tend to the degradation, not only of the Papacy, bat
of the Catholic faith. The Ultramontanee, on the
other hand, blindly identify the spiritual authority of
the Pore with his temporal rule, and thus involve
the Church in all the odium which justly falls on
the latter. This policy possesses the singular merit
of gratuitously injuring the Church without doing
the least good to the poor beleaguered POPE. It
le a blind and infatuated course, which can enlist
the sympathies only of the interested, the ignorant,
and the imbecile. And, after all, the Cork meeting
is a fitting comtnenoement of such a foolish, criminal,
and Quixotic crusade.

RANH OF FRANCE.

We certainly cannot wonder that the more sober
and respectable amxtiget the Catholic laity of Ireland
refuse to join in the wild crusade just commenced
there on behalf of the temporal authority of the
Pore. If the proceedings at Cork on Monday, whit&
inaugurated the crusade, may be taken as $ fair
specimen of the spirit in which it is to be condoned,
their refusal Is amply justified. Few men with any
sense of decency and self-respect would like
to have been mixed up with such • noisy and
eenselese, such • passionate and puerile demonstni-
tion. If it did not more our scorn and indignation,
such a merely Irish row at a solemn meeting, heralded
by such • tremendous flourish of ecclesiastical
trumpets, would be amusing enough. Avowedly the
meeting was a serious one, its object being of • kind
to excite genes, if not mournful, feelings in the minds
of the faithful. It was called for the purpose of
giving a public expression of sympathy with the
Sovereign Head of the Catholic Church in
his present troubles. It was presided over by
the local Bishop, and the chief speakers were
dignitaries and priests of various orders, canons,
dean, and the like. But the staple of these afflicted
pastors' harangues consisted of denunciations of
England and the English Government. One after
another the speakers returned to this favourite topic—
one describing our rulers aa " monsters of bigotry,
" lust, and imbecility," and another affirming that
England was not only the instrument of oppression
in Ireland, bat " the cause of the difficulty and die-
" tress with which the Pore is at present ear-
" rounded." To the stimulating topics thus
intoned from the platform, the unwashed
assembly below furnished appropriate and
very audible responees. On the question
being asked whether they would allow the l'ore to
be stripped of his temporal poesessions, they shouted
out, " We'll fight for him, and we'll tell Pausal-
. sro• so," amidst tremendous cheering. To the
question, " Who are his aggressors?" the reply was,
" Lord deux RUSSELL, PALMERSTON, and his Hell-
" crew," accompanied by a chorus of groans, hisses,
and yelling. A reference to the sovereign lady who
not only rules these realms, but lives in the affec-
tions of her people, as an exception to the line of
monsters who have disgraced the throne, was at
with loud shouts of "Nu, no," and drowned is
storm of disapproval. Finally, on another speaker
hinting that the Pure might require "something
mete than sympathy," these loyal Catholics and
patriotic Irishmen shouted again, " We'll fight for
"him, we'll give him our bone and sinew." The
priestly defenders of priestly rule evidently had a
congenial &science to work upon. The lowest refuse
of an Irish town population had combined with
the moue higotted of their spiritual guides to
set all sease and decency at defiance, and
what is called a " monster demonstration,"
of the above description, le the result. The reflective
and respeetabe portion of the Irish Catholic laity
may well may " have us from our friends," as we
know they do. Lord CASTERROSSIII is not the only
layman of pusition and influence who has come for-
ward to discourage the crusade. The laity are, in-
deed, almost unanimous in condemning the crusade,
while not a few of the more intelligent and public-
spirited have no sympathy whatever in its object.
The movement, however, mast be looked at in its
general character, apart from its special local inci-
dents. In itself, indeed, a meeting like that at
Cork ia too contemptible for serious notice. It would
be absurd to take offence at each a frantic and Mg
outburst of the lowest party malignity. Speakers
of Mr. Hansr-vst's calibre may talk treason by the
hoer without exciting the attention of the Crown
lawyers on this side of the water, or indeed any
feeling anywhere except that of mingled scorn and
pity. fiat as this meeting is but thsoommeseement
of a Chile mia crusade, we may fairly ask what is
the object of the movement. If the MGM are hope-
lonely bad, we moat in justice say the
end is no better. It is simply to defend
the temporal authority of the Port, and vindicate
the justice and equity of his rule. His spiritual

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1869.

L &TEST INTELLIGENCE.

The Moniarr of this morning publishes the usual
monthly return of the Bank of France, which shows
the following results as compeved with the previous
return :

Cash -6th millions.
Treasury balsam)
DECREASED.
Bills discounted not yet due 13 34th „
Bank notes
Current amount
Advanosa

The decrease of 600,0001. in the bills discounted
forms an unfavourable feature. There is, at the
same time, a decrease of about a million sterling in
the private deposits and notes in circulation, bat an
increase of 11 million sterling in the treasury
balance. The bullion has increased a quarter of a
million.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(PION Ora 011rN

PARIS, THVISLIAT ZYNNINO.

The Bourse hes been very firm indeed. The up-
ward movement is more decided than ever. Not-
withstanding large realisations of profits within the
lut few days, the tendency to operate for the rise

overcomes every obstacle: At the openiog to-day
the broken had their hands fall of orders, with no
other limit than to " buy on the best terms possible."
The Rents closed at the highest prices of the day-
70k. 300. for cash, and 70k. 40e. for anoint, with a
rise of 80c. and 55e. Mohair rose 18fr. 75c. ; and
Spanish Mobilier, Ifr. 25c. The rise in railways
was more considerable than it has been for a very
long while. Orleans roes 28fr. 25c.; Northern,
7fr. SOc.; Eastern, 7k. SOc.; Lyons, 18fr. ; South-
ern, 12k. 500.; and Western, 7fr. SOc. The Sar-
dinian and Austrian railways were freely done at an
advanoe of nearly 10fr.

The owwion of the duel to which I alluded yes-
terday, between the Marquis de Oalliffet and the
Marquis de Lewiston, was that the latter, being in
the stalls, was thought by the Marquis de Oalliffet to
be staring rudely at his young bride through an
opera•glass. A loud altercation in the Opera House,
accompanied, as some say, by spitting in face
and other gross insults, rendered a duel inevitable.
The meeting took place yesterday, in a wood near
ResiL The parties fought with swords, and both
were wounded. The Marquis de Oalliffet was
pierced through the right shoulder so severely as to
be unable to continue the contest, which, however, the
seconds had already determined should not proceed
any farther. The wounds, though severe, were not
considered dangerous. The Marquis de Lauriston
is an elderly bean—the brother of the general of the
BUM name.

In the list of diplomatic changes in to-day's
Morriteur you will have observed the name of Baron
de Meneval, who is superseded at Munich by the
Marquis de Bonneville, the second French pleni-
potentiary at Zurich. The reason for Baron de
Mkneval's retirement from the diplomatic career is
stated to be by several journals that he finds it im-
, possible to console himself for the loss of his wife,
who died eighteen months ago; he is about to take
holy orders at Rome.
An extraordinary case of a girl concealing her
sex for many years has just been brought to light at
Poitiers. Augustine alias Augustus Baudouin, a
young person of 17, was known in the town and
neighbourhood as a particularly smart active lad,
and had frequently been in place in respectable
houses as " odd boy." This individual was lately
tried and convicted for a robbery. The prisoner
lodged an appeal, but before it came on
the prison authorities conceived some suspicions and
ascertained her to be a female. On being asked
what reason she had for wearing men's clothes, she
said she had observed that men got their living
easier than women, bat she refused to give any in-
formation as to her birth and parentage. She was
removed over to the female wards of the prison, but
her repugnance to show herself in woman's attire
among her fellow prisoners was so great that she
committed suicide by hanging herself to an iron bar
with a pocket-handkerchief. She bad led a chaste
life.

Sergeant Rattier, a member of the last National
Amembly, has just died at Macon.
A vacancy in the Senate has been occasioned by

the death, at the age of 82, of ht. Poinsot, member
of the Institute, and one of the most eminent mathe-
maticians in Europe. Hisucientifie works are well

known to the learned world.

Alfred Rothell, the historical painter, whose free-
oes adorn the Balls des Empereurs in the Hotel de

Ville at Aix-la-Chapelle, dies! at Dusseldorf on De-
ember I, at the early age of forty-three. He had
long been deranged.
M. Champ(leury's Marocorade do & vie PoriMenne,
which the Opinion Nationale wee lately "invited"
to suppress from its feniaoton, will appear on Decem-
ber 16 as a book.
M. de

has returned to Paris from
Burgundy, and will appear on Saturday before the
Judge of lustraction to be interrogated touching his
last article in the Correspoodamt.

rrii SHPRESS'B
..4fAR_TMENTS AT THE

zUlcastßJ.'

A oorrespondeet of the Indefpendance Belie
writes:

I had the good fortune to visit the other day the private
&peril:Emirs of the Empress at the Tuileries. Workless had
ban engaged on them for two years, daring the absence of
their llamities. These suites of rooms, which run in •
parallel line with the reception moms on the drawing room
floor, assist of an care-chamber, • waiting room for the
tidies of honour, • saloon of audience, a private room for bar
illsjesty that is to say, the most retired and private rooms
of the suits.

(111.1111 •

The &sprees, whoa) preference for the style of Louie
XVI. is well known, has desired bee sparnuents In question
to be entirely decorated after the fashion end tsetse( Marie
Antoinette. M. Lefuel received orders to renew the elegant
ornauent►tion of Tnanon in this Parisian palace. Art and
industry have done marvels under his superintendence, so
that we see again the graceful arabesques, the rounded taper-
ing volutes, the exquisite giulende, and the fine carvings of
the latter part of the eighteenth century. All the models
are unique, sad executed with ►dmirable nicety, from the
door handle, to the chimney pieces, the pixels and squares of
glees, and it, whole furniture, from the timepieces to the
tongs in the fireplace, is in harmony with this style of de-
notation. _ _

The fret saloon, of a pale green, is adorned with arabesque,
of a rather deeper tint. Madam= glisten in the
and within them are birds, painted by Y. Appeet. The prr
veiling colour of the second saloon lea rosy white ; the ara-
besques are rose-coloured. The tops of the doors, the en-
closures or frames of the panelling, the medallion', contain
natural dowers, sometimes on a wafts ground, sometimes on
a gilt one, executed with charming freedom end freshness,
by • young artist, whose some ham slipped my memory.
M• n opines the private saloon of the Empress, the ground
at which is likewise of a very light green, and the mooning.
of which contain the portraits of her Mies of honour, painted
by K. Debate, then her first withdrawing-room lined with
green Muff, on which are hong valuable pictures; the doors of
this cabinet and the next are of amaranth and palimendee set off
by bronco', gilt and admirably chased. The new bronze,
are of inimitable finish, and decidedly the locks, the ara-
besque. of the chimney-scroll., the marbloslobe that issue
from M. Christoffle's factory me capable of competing with
the works of the illustrious Gonutere". The toosolated
floors, coiling", chimneys reveal • taste so pure and retitled
that they reflect houour on M. Letnel.
The staircase leading to three apartments is entirely of
stucco, and its accompanyleg balustrade look. bke a fringe of
iron and gold. Between the two spiral torus of the stair-
esee a medallion Instal= a group of three children bearing
the attributes of the Empire, and sculptured by Madame
Nof ref Conatent. . . . .

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These pries,'- apartments, wbloh have been already *D-
impled by her tiodesty the Empram sines her rows treat
Ciampi4ne, are a work of art, and decidedly one of the mas-
terpiece' of deootative art in ow age, owing to the delicate
can that has hew bestowed on every part of their arrange-
ments.

The Chatioari publishes a caricature representing
the Sultan op to his seek is troubled water., and, to ell
appearanoe, In danger of drowning from losing the support
es which his feet rested, and which is marked " finances."
Is bin agony, be calks out for help, and a European on the
bank seems inclined to stretch to him a lung pole, but which
is marked mforras." The Sultan, however. seams to have
so choice but to seine It, unless he makrs up Ms mind to
perish. . . _

A letter from Alexandria states that for some
days pot the Viceroy of Egypt bee been ouch engaged at
Cake with forklike of welcome to bla little son, ToUPSO6II
Paths, who bee just returned foul hie usual rammer evraw-
aka to Eurote. Little Tammuz Paths le now about seven
years elate. He Ime acquired froo his English none, and
through his frequent visa to England, a perfect koowh-dge
of our lingouge, wblob,inderal, be speaks moth fluently than
his own mother tongue. He by just now been plead
wader the &erne el an English tutor.

RUSSIA.

ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 1.

The dismissal and banishment of a high official
functionary ia now-a days a circumstance of such
very unusual occurrence that an act of this nature
which has just taken place has caused a deep and
painful sensation in this capital. As very. inootrect
and exaggerated accounts of the event are in circula-
tion, I venture to send you the real facts of the cue
derived from reliable authority.
A nobleman of ancient Amity, Michael Samba-
soff by name, who has hitherto filled an
office of high civil rank, being a real (in
contra-distinction to a titular) Councillor of State,
basbeen summarily dismissed the service, and
banished from St. Petersburg and Moscow, for
having—•o report says—presumed to draw up a
eenstitution for Russia and present it to the Emperor.
Beirobrasoff is the son of a senator, and nephew of
Prince Orloff, in independent circumstances and even
wealthy, being possessed of large landed property. It
h true that he drew up a memoirs on the vexed
emotion of the emancipation of the serfs and pre-
sented it to the Czar through Prince Dolgorokow L,
the head of the gendarmerie, and director of the
third department of the Emperor's private cabinet.
In this document he declares himself decidedly in
favour of the total liberation of the serfs,but he proves
that the nobles will be placed by such a measure
in a very different situation, and, having lost the
political influence they hitherto enjoyed, will no
longer have the moral power or pecuniary means of
supporting the throne, unless some concessions are
made them in order to restore the balance of the
political scales.
He then proceeds to remark on the great discon-
tent produced among the nobles by the report of the
committee on the emancipation of the serfs, as the
proposed manner of executing that measure must
neoessarily place them at a manifest disadvantage,
came them a serious loss in labouring hands, and
consequent depreciation of their landed property,
and deprive them of their hereditary rights and pri-
vileges, which are the most certain guarantees for
their fidelity and loyalty to the crown. He, there-
fore, proposes the establishment of a Duero, or great
council of nobles, according to the ancient Russian
usage, with a consultative voice on all matters con-
nected with the state. It was this which gave rise
to the report that he had demanded a constitution.
There is some ground for M. Basobrasofro descrip-
tion of the discontented feelings of the nobles, for
after the publication of the report of the committee
numerous deputation, arrived in this city from dif-
ferent parts of the empire, to lay before the throne
the representations of the nobles on what appeared
to them the objectionable portions of the projected
measure for emancipating the serfs ; and though
they have now been kicking their heels here for some
months, they have not been able to penetrate further
than the ante-chamber of the Emperor, and have
consequently not had an opportunity to lay beim
him their wishes on the subject. Many of the mem-
bers of the deputations lost all patience, and returned
to their homes is disgust.
In the meantime the liberal party are divided I.
their opinions as to the merits of the case. Some of
them are glad to get rid of Basobrasoff, and see
him disgraced, or in his memoirs: he declares himself
most unequivocally in favour of the emancipated
peasants receiving free grants of land and houses at
the expense of the owners of estates, whilst others
are indignant at his banishment, which they con-
ceive to be an unpardonable affront to the whole of
their order. The great majority, however, are un-
decided whether to laugh or be seriously angry at
the circumstance.

At all events, it is au event of great significance,
and may be followed by the moat important results.
It is perfectly clear that the Emperor is not
inclined to take any steps before he boa deliberately
made up his mind on the subject ; but it is equally
true that a certain pressure from without is exer-
cised on him, which after this event will rather in-
crease than otherwise. It is not long since a certain
Councillor Machin was banished from St. Peters-
burg for doing that which is now an every-day
occurrence—viz., reading out loud in a public coffee-
house extracts from lirolokall, a periodical published
in London by Alexander Herself. But the case of
M. Basobraaoff is much more flagrant and important,
both on account of his own personal rank and dis-
tinguished relatives as well as the general interest
felt for the cause of which he is a martyr.
It is generally understood that the nobleman in
question has been banished to Siberia, bet the
official journal publishes an order of the day, signed
by the Minister of the Interior, merely stating that
" Michael Bssobrasoff, one of the Emperor's cham-
berlains, acd a real member of the Council of State,
has been dismissed the service, by virtue of the
1,239 th article of the third chapter of the Regula-
tions for the Civil Service." Referring to the article
in question, we find it forbids officials from meddling
is affairs which do not concern them.