The Express.
London, England, 1856-12-29 00:00:00

THE POPE AND HIS COLUMN.

(MOM OM Owl 001110PONDIERT.)
ROME, Deo. M.
Yesterday afternoon his Holiness went to pay a
visit to the newlyereoted column in honour of the
Immaculate Conception, and dismounted on the Piens
di Bpagas to admire the monolith, and inspect the
esesewhat cumbrous according to modern
iiaaegaagfaeering, by which it was raised to its
lefty The architect, Signor Poled, was in
to explain the details of the operation,
and to restive Pao Nono's unqualified approbation of
Au aeons. His Motion' heard with the greatest
lamest bow 220 firemen (this come has a military
=time in Rome), headed by their colonel, Don
Angelo Casten!, Duke of Sermonets, having
:ly limed mass at the afar of the Immaculate
ion in the neighbouring church of St. Andrea
Aids rate, malted at noon to the Piazza di Bgus,
MA were plead at the disposition of tke eirofect
bay every man being at his post, at one o'clock
ig7ly the seland of a trumpet pre the signal for
apatane sd windlasses to be pat in motion ; bow
the bap seisms gradually rose to its perpendicular
pities is 17 minutes; how the exact adjustment of
the =lsms fess the sheet of lied covering its marble
bessisess to ienee it fairly erect, occupied 93 minutes
Slat how no misfortune took place ; how the band
lived, and the spectators clapped their hands; how
many cardinal., ministers, and ambassadors 'Watered
the operation from the windows of the Propaganda
College; and finally, how Queen Christina herself was
of the same from the balcony of the
'
Embassy. Well pleased at the wow of
fret stags of his favourite hobby, the benevolent
relit biased the architect and his assistants, and
gatatseused towards the Vatican.
le the new destination of this ancient column,
maim= dillebria, which once served, according to
Anopheles of some authors, to bear the names of the
limas tribes and centuries who came to give their
Inirbalent votes in the Campus Martins; whilst se-
seeding to other antiquaries,
_ it belonged to the forum
a Aluminum Pius. Whatever purpose it may have
served in former ages, it certainly ley half brined and
Neglected for weird hundreds of years in the garden
of the Miraionary Fathers, whence it was excavated
by command of Pope Clement XL, and placed oppo.
Site the lonocentian Curia, on the Monte Citorio,
*Mee it Lay undisturbed for another hundred and
fifty pare, until Pia Nono east his rye upon it, and
tbstised it to rear its lofty head once more, as per-
=toomoriam of hie dogmatic definition of the
late Cosoeption.
Preparations for outing Obice's statue of the
Madonna, whieb is to surmount the capital, are now
being node at the Vatican fonedry, and the sculptor
expecte to supriatend that anxious operation is about,
• math's time. _

The soles= lb D. ordered by the Neapolitan
to fat the presertstios of the
like.,lfai Wm *tab
Naples from the meassio's bayoset, took
pine at the Minerva Church on Thuredsy morning.
via great peep, Girdles' Cegiano dl Azsvedo sod
Mai et the Papal Clued chanting the Asbeau hymns. 8o may membses of the geared
Odlige sounded that the ssearrod sesta provided foe
tdtea 11118, late frienidoet ler their aceonsesodation.
laarips. emit peseta. sad roams of Neapolitan
dasteatiene onewasil bided their Easinectes, whilst
go owls 4.4pholeddiner headed by Cardinal Astoeelli,
is fall natnerm, ocengled official benches. Coast
Guyon, the Preach general, with his staff—Oseeral
Perlso, the Papal minister of arms, with his
eeperfer eine and the Pope's noble guard—
Lem tame eed dignitsries bearing Neapolitan
iseip
enMnampeined in grand uniform, as well
panto sod generale of orders in their
salitm. Finally, to do Meg Bombs " honour
Weetheen Chdedas„ with her suite, and her royal
the Dwells. of flaxesey, graced the religious
momm—y with their promo, is velvet pavilsoes.
Oa, the atteearee of the Pepe Ward, was renting
Is Nair the of sympathy eompletei bat
whether It woe set etiqootts for Pio Nano to rotors
tannin for the a prodigious preservatios of the
beloved asewarele(ae the official jeareal has it), of his
deer eon Xing Ferdinand, or whether he was too
*axiom about the erection of the column to be able
to attend to lb* Ts Dams, certain it IS that hie
wee set present at the thanksgivieg.
Masted dilettanti and the lovers of the opera are
L despair at the difficulty experienced in engaging
bone at the Apollo Theatre for the *seeing °snivel
rinses, owing to the acropolimition of the fears-
able tiers by Queen Middles sad her suite. Up•
verde of twenty of the best boxes have been already
bespoken far her Majesty and he, relations and ,
ostisiee, not to speak of the Eareisn minister's require-
agate foe the Dowager Empress of All the Hussies, I
wise is positively to pity a visit to Rome in the meth 1
of February. Moesignor Matteotti. as Governor of
Rome and, inspector of theatre', is besieged from

!morning to night with thecomplaints of disappointed
candidates.
Toe news of the King of Naplee's explosive mis.
fortunes rosebud um yesterday by telegrepb, but no
details hare been received as yet.
Exchange on Laudon, 4731. Roman Consols, 891.

FRANCE.

()ROM OUR OWN COIWINSPONDINT.)
PARIS, SATUIDAT
Although the Conataiiiiefutei has a leading muck
written expressly to prove that the Nerving govern.
swot is becoming every day more and more firmly
established in Spain, I have good reason to believe
that hie position is extremely precarious. The news
which I am about to give comes from a coo aaaaa five
souroe,and not from any of those revolutionary tor-
respoodsnis di counted by the Coesatitutionati.
According to my information, the Duke of Valencia
has much less influence with Queen Isabella than he
bad. Some short time ago he gave a hint to Marshal
()Donnell that he would do well to leave Madrid.
O'Donnell went at ones to the Quail, and asked
whether it IVY her wish that he should go. She
replied, "Not at all. Stay; I may perhaps have
need of you." Precisely the same thing occurred
with General Prim, whom Narrate wanted to send
away.
lain told that the French cabinet is far from being
agreed as to the policy to be pursued at the forth
coming general elections. M. Bulault opt Illy do-
clam that all the influence of government should be
used to prevent the re-election of those few, those
very few deputies who have presumed to make
opposition speeches. If his advice should prevail, M.
de Montalembert and some tour or five other depu-
ties of less note would be tabooed. But other not
less devoted friends of the empire think that lest a
worse thing should happen, the reelection of those
few dissidents whose opposition is utterly innocuous,
is greatly to be desired. The Emperor, it is thought,
leans to the latter opinion. R. has probably good
resew to foal secure that his power will
overturned by the ballot-box.
The Toulonnais says :—" A company of the 4th
Regiment of Marines has received orders to bold
itself in readiness to embark in the corvette Durance,
for China. Two gunboats with war materiel are
also about to put to sea for the same destination."
The Bourse has been dull, with but halo change.
, The Rents rose 60. for cash, and fell 6c. for account,
cloaks at 68.80 and 68.76. Mobilier fell ISt. Rail-
ways were generally from 2f. to 6% lower. It has
been announced that the negotiations between the
Credit Mobilier and the Society Coley St. Paul have
been broken off.
The Bank of Franco has declared a dividend ol
for the second half-year of 1858.
The Emperor has ordered the restoration of the
bean of the Bonaparte family at Ajaccio and has pro-
mised M. Montore, the prefect of Corsica, to inscribe
200,0001 r. on the civil list of 1867, for the purpose of
building a mausoleum to receive the ashes of
the mother of Napoleon L, and of Cardinal Fmk.
What will M. Foald say P
General Cavaigaso has just returned to Paris from
a visit toIL Dulait, bargonisiner of Mont-sor-Mar-
chlenno, in Belgium, of the coal pits of which place
the generalize one of the principal shareholders.
A letter from Nice, published i the 2oulonosais,
!dates that some of the crew of the Russian corvette
stationed at Villefranobs having left the ship without
permissioo, to drink in a wine shop, the captain, on
their return, commanded that they should receive
each twanty•five blows of a stick, and the leader one
hundred. The latter died while undergoing the
punishment, and his body was thrown into the ma.

A letter from St. Petersburg of the lath says that
on the previoue day the Deka de (New, the Spanish
minister, was formally received by the Emperor at
the palm* of Cunha Selo, sod was afterwards pre-
sented to the Empress. In the evening the duke
dined at the palace, and attended a theatrical pee-
formanos. For 23 years there has been no Bpsaisli
minister at St. Petersburg—the last one, M. P.creile
la Catena, having left on the aoosssion of Qom
Isabella to the throne in 1833.

A Paris correspondent of the Nord of Brawl•,
under the date of the 26th, sontributes the following
very questionable statement :
I ma happy to be able to prove to you bow wall founded
were the lopes I bad 'waned relative to • 'etiolation.
arrasputest of the Benearablo• frontier question. It
lappeare • cow line of fro•tler has now bees thisitlvely
stressed. Boland will be itcorporated with Moldavia;
the Isle of Serpents sad the Delta of the Danube will
belong to Torbay ; and Russia will receive in exchange,
and ea ea °Seal compensation for this last 110111111911i00, sad
ea • real equivalent for Bested, • tetritory of 140
mien files, •Mak would advisee bar territory to
the second Yalpuek, sad would easily permit bar
to esta►lish • astral •datlabtraHas for bar Bel-

gonna pepaistios. L this rawer all parties wlll
ha ratified; Bunk wUI law nose of bar Baliariaa
subjeis ; Zeeland sad Austria will ao league foe, fee the
Dithatre; sad Turkey will beequally satisfied. It appalls
that the honour of this arrasgethist Ia dui to the Emperor
Nspoloos, who first ..salved the idea, and bar go: it
'opted, is principle at lasi, by all parties. The represen-
tatives of Russia have Woman approved, sad have d•
taanded, by ileinpit, the ratifies:Joe from their eolith As
sow as this answer thrall arrive, rod perhaps It has arrived
by this tiara, aothies will oppose du wens, of tie ena
fauns.. With tempest to tiro plthipotestithies, I may Mesa
that Rush will be esprourated in the aim imam by thei
Bain do Britisher, in addition to Gnat Hisesieff, as first
plealpeistlary.