The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-28 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, WIDIfERDAT EVORNG.

In the Pretty, M. Peyrat institutes a comparison
between the Pope's last allocution and the famous
bull, "Exurge Deus," which was burnt by Luther
in the market place of Wittemberg. " The cry of
distress of Leon X. proved that the cause of Rome
was not the cause of God, for its sole result was
the separation of a third of Europe from the
papacy." The Prase anticipates as disastrous •
failure for the manifesto of March 18, 1861. It
proceeds to describe the present state of the Roman
government in the following terms :
This government Is poorer and more deeply in debt than
even Austria. Its financial system, as was said the other
day in the Corps Legialatif by • deputy not open to the
charge of being irreligion; is based upon alms. Without
a treasury, without credit, without financial resources of
any kind, without an army, detested by the population,
abandoned by foreign governments, unable to reckon even
upon the support of Austria, where is the strength of the
court of Rome? On whom and what does she rely? She
has endeavoured to provoke a moral insurrection among
oatholice ; her journals received and executed a sta crordre ;
her secret agents have beaten up all Europe ; the ultra-
montane episcopate ham raised the battle-cry ; and all these
combined efforts produced nothing but the famous army of
Castelfidardo. The temporal papacy can only be restored in
on. of two manners—either by • spontaneous return to its
rob of the Marches, Romagna, and Umbria ; or by a gene-
ral coalition, which, after having annihilated our armies,
shall restore the throne of France to the Bourbons and
power to the legitimist party. The idea that the enfran-
chised populations will spontaneously return to the yoke of
the cardinals is an aberration too wild to be entertained
by even the most rabid ultramontanist. The hope of •
coalition in favour of legitimacy is a chimera, which may
possibly be cherished at Rome in the concili►bnlas al Mgr.
de Mfrode, but which no man of common sense in Femme
will be at the pains of discussing. What signifies then the
Pope's allocution ? At a former period, and in • situation
morally, materially, and politically different from that of
the present day, it might have been, in • certain degree,
• satisfaction to self love, and • reserve of old rights against
prescription. Bat now it is not even that. In repudiating
all the demands of the French government., the temporal
papacy deprives itself of the only force which it had left.
It releases the imperial government from the too generous
engagements which it had spontaneously contracted,
and finds itself face to face with triumphant Italy, and
reduced to a state which makes it impossible to recover
what it has lost, or to keep for any length of time the
remesat of power which—thanks to the protection of our
soldiers—it still has. The allocution speaks in the name of
the catholic, apostolic, and Roman church. Now in the
ninth century this church suffered the defection from its
bosom of the Greek church with sixty millions of believers;
in the sixteenth century it lost a third of Europe with
eighty millions of Christians; it is not therefore catholic,
via., " universal." It is not apostolic, for there is nothing
apostolic in the acts of the court of Rome, in the policy of
Cardinal Antonelli and Mgr. de Mirode, or in the conduct of
those crusaders who, as M. Granter deCassagnachappilyssid,
dress themselves up ea "Torte" to defend the cross. [The
Papal Zonaves are alluded to.] It is not Roman, because
the Romans will not have the temporal papacy at any price,
and would have demolished it ten times over, but for their
respect for the French flag which protects it. The tempo-
ral papacy is only maintained by the Austro-Jesuitic and
ultramontane party ;it a degenerate institution which
is worn out; its existseoe ts artificial—it is the existence
of • patient In the last stage of consumption.

There was a panic at the Bourse in consequence
of rumours of which there is no confirmation, and
which are quite opposed to the tenor of all the
latest authentic news, that the Austrians had
crossed the Mincio, and that war between Austria
and Italy would begin immediately. The Rente
' fell 25c. both for cash and account, closing at 67fr.
90c., and 67fr. 951 r. ; Mobilier fell Orr. 25c. Most
of the railways were from Mr. to 6fr. lower. The
Caisse Mires fell upwards of 6fr., closing at 90fr.
Madame Bandraud, the mistress of Reynaud,
the murderer, of whose trial at Grenoble I gave an
account the other day, hid herself in a church
while the trial was going on, to avoid being called
as a witness, and has since returned to her hus-
band's house, whether to be well received or not
does not appear. The fears of her having com-
mitted suicide, turn out, therefore, to have been
unfounded.

The Minister of Marine has decided to establish
eight electric lights on the coast of the department of the
Seine Inferieure. These eight lights are to be placed at
Cape de la Hoye, Cape Antifer, Etretat, Feoamp, St.
Valery.en•Caux, the point of Ailly, Dieppe, and Treport.
The object of these lights is to maintain a communication
with ships within sight of land, and to transmit the news
rapidly to the interior. A contract was concluded at the
Murine•oftice at Havre on Seturday last for the construction
of these eight light..

The tiport states that K de Salamanca, the
Spanish capitalist, is now negotiating with the heirs of M.
Scribe for the purchase of the deceased writers hotel in the
Rue Pigale. The price, it is said, will be be 1,200,000 fr.
The Chamber of Deputies of Stuttgardt has just
voted a credit of 000,000 &wins for extraordinary expenses
of artillery. Among the additions to be made to that
branch of the service are 40 riled cannon, of which 20 will
be east at Louisburg, and the remainder purchased from
Prussia.

FRENCH CON.—Why is the Gazette de Francs
unlike the Opinio* NOrionok t—Because the one is for the
Papoutt, sod the other for the Pa 144.4.