The Express.
London, England, 1861-02-21 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
The Patric is instructed to give, under the
taking head of Dernieres Nourelles, the following
paragraph :
Very many Italian and French journals, treating of M. de
la Guerronniere's pamphlet,dniw from it the conclusion that
French policy tends to the abandonment of the Pope's tem-
poral power and the withdrawal from Rome of our troops
who protect the Holy Father. We think it useful to
declare once again that these interpretations, which seem
to result from a mot d'ordre, are absolutely erroneous. The
policy of the French government, as manifested by all its acts
—byell the documents that have been published—is evidently
contrary to the hopes which certain journals so jauntily
advertise ; and, as to M. de la Guerronnihs's pamphlet,
the spirit of which is sought to be distorted, its conclusion
is distinctly stated in the following passage :—" So long as
endures the fatal antagonism which has been created be-
tween the forces whoa& union is essential to so many in-
terests, Italy and the temporal papacy will never find the
conditions of their equilibrium. Let them unite, and from
this alliance will proceed their common grandeur." We
are convinced that until the catholic powers shall have suc-
ceeded in fiudinga combination to effect this reconciliation,
France will not think herself freed from the duty of pro-
tecting the Holy Father at Rome as she is now doing.
It is to be observed that the Pattie has, for neve-
ral days past, systematically misrepresented the
news from Italy in a sense unfavourable to the cause
of unity. It has aggravated the rebellion in the
Abruzzi, spoken falsely of disaffection in Naples,
and pretended that the soldiers now prisoners of
war in Gaeta had unanimously refused to serve
under Victor Emmanuel. The Opinion Nationale
recapitulates • long list of the Patties mix-state-
menu; to order. But it is well known that there
are serious divisions among the Emperor's council-
lors on the Roman question, and that the pamphlet
was mutilated at the last moment to please some of
them, and the grounds of manifest interest
and expediency from which the conclusion
was deduced that the Emperor would not long
second the obstinacy of the Pope still remain
in all their force. I find a confirmation of this
view in a rumour of the day, that the catholic
party in the Corps Legislatif, which meant to
speak in the address of the temporal sovereignty
of the Pope, have been induced, out of deference
to the government, to leave out the word " tempo-
ral," thereby leaving the question conveniently
ambiguous and quite open.
I believe I may state that the negotiations be-
tween the Tuileries and the Vatican are at this
moment quite broken off.
Baron de Crouseillies, a senator, formerly Minis-
ter of Public Instruction and Worship, died yester-
day from excitement, caused by an altercation
with Prince Napoleon on the subject of the Pope's
temporal power, of which the deceased was •
staunch supporter.
The Bourse was exceedingly dull, and although
there is not so great a fall as might be expected
from the very serious event of which everybody is
talking, business is almost suspended. The Route
fell 15c. for cash and account, closing at GBfr. 100.
It is said that there is a run upon the Credit Mobi-
lier, and the shares fell 13fr. 75c. No alterations 11
in railways.
The suspension of payments of the Caisse Mir4s
is announced officially in the following terms :

The provisional admioittrator of the Caisse Generale des
Chemins de Per bits the honour to inform the public that,
aa a measure of preservation, payments are suspended dur-
ing the time Deceswary to draw up the inventory, which it
is desirable to have made at once.

Feb. 20, 1861. COUNT DE
The following paragraph appears in the 3funiteur:

We lowa with regret that Viscount de Iticheniont, a pri•
vete receiver of Paris, died yesterday evening of an attack
of apoplexy.
M. de Bichemont was connected with the Caisse
Mires, and the manner of his death, of the fut of
which there can be no doubt, is not thought to be
correctly stated by the Monikur,
M. Scribe, the veteran eminent dramatist, died
at 2 o'clock this afternoon of an apoplectic stroke,
with which he was seized while taking an airing in
his carriage.
The poet Mery is very ill at Marseilles, and will,
it is feared, lose his eyesight.