The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-02 00:00:00

THE POPE'S ADHESION TO THE PROPOSED

CONFERENCE.

In the course of the debate on the Roman ques-
tion which took place in the French Senate on
Saturday, the Marquis de Moustier thus replied to
some remarks of the Archbishop of Paris express-
ing doubt as to the nature of the Pope's adhesion
to the proposed conference :—" The Holy Father
adhered to the conference immediately ; he had no
hesitation. Directly our invitation reached him
the adhesion followed without delay of any kind.
As to the form of the adhesion, it is very simple.
The Holy Father said :—` I will send a plenipoten-
tiary to this conference who will sustain all my
rights there.' Indeed, we have never understood
the conference as other than a free assembly, where
each would arrive with the plenitude of his rights
—I may even say with the plenitude of his preten-
sions—which each is at liberty to urge upon
his own responsibility ; and when I speak of
responsibility, I mean under the influence of
the impressions, more or less favourable, that the
expression of those pretensions may produce upon
an assembly of this kind. Consequently a power
which might arrive at this conference would arrive,
there without any preliminary abdication of its
rights, and without any preliminary demand for ,
the abdication of the rights of others. It is in this,
spirit that the conference has been accepted by''
the Holy See, and I think, with Mgr. the Archbishop
of Paris, that his Holiness has thus assumed
a fitting and skilful attitude that we cannot too
highly praise and appreciate. I hope that you will',
not ask me to explain myself further. The nego•
tistions are entered upon ; I dare not say that they
will arrive at a result, but they are at this moment
too much advanced for me not to be compelled to
measure all my words, and for yon not to approve
of me for not giving more complete explanations,
notwithstanding the desire that I have to do so."

INCREASE OP THE PONTIFICAL ARMY.—" In the
prevision of a complete evacuation," says the Paris Union,
" the Pontifical government is reinforcing its army. The
regiment of Boozy.= will be increased to 3,500 men (4
battalions), the corps of foreign chasseurs will be trans-
formed into a regiment of 2,000 men, with 2 battalions ;
the Antibes legion will be augmented by 1,000 men. The
infantry will be furnished with breech-loading rifles, and
the artillery strengthened by two batteries."
CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS.—
Suez, Nov. 30.—The Simla, from Calcutta, 9th instant,
arrived at 9 p.m. to-day. Malta, Dee. I.—The Pera, from
Southampton Nov. 20th, arrived on the 29th at 9 a.m.,
and left at 3 p.m. for Alexandri►. The Delta, from Mar-
seilles Nov. 28, arrived to-day at 1 a.m., and leaves at
8. a.m. for Alexandria. Bombay Mail.—The Foolish left
at 5 p.m. yesterday and the Syria at 8 a.m. to-day. The
former may be expected at Marseilles on the 3rd, and the
latter at South-ampton on the 10th instant.

OUTWARD AMERICAN MAIL. QUEENSTOWN,
Dtc. I.—The Royal Mail steamship Russia, from Liver-
pool, arrived here at 11.30 a.m. to-day. She embarked 62
sacks of mails, her passengers and telegrams, sail pro.
doodad for New York at 3.30 p.m. All well.
ilcoirrrAL roz Diactsza or rits eager, Vxcroitu,
PAUL—The number of patients relieved at this institution
during last week was 1,365, of which 297 were new oases.
GALT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, CALEDONIAN-ROAD,
N. Number of patients far the week ending Nov. 30,
968, of whieh 283 were now OWL