The Express.
London, England, 1859-10-15 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, FIIDAI EVENING.

The Pays announces that the court will stay at
St. Cloud till November 1, and will then go to Com-
piegne. It confirms, by way of an on dit, the state-
ment repeatedly made by foreign journals, but
hitherto greatly doubted, that the Emperor of Aus-
tria will come to Compi4ne in November.
The same journal thinks it necessary to reproduce,
"under all reserve," the news telegraphed from
Lando' that Prince Napoleon is expected there.
Notwithstanding this mystery, I can state with cer-
tainty that unless say very sudden change of pur-
pose has taken place the prince will certainly go.
M. Orandguillot has an article in theConstitution-
eel, the leading object of which appears to be to allay
the fears of those Roman catholic* who think it would
be a very shocking thing for the Pope to submit his
cave to a congress in which heretical and schismatical
powers such as England, Prussia, and Russia would
take a leading part. The writer observes, with much
point, that in 1816 the Holy See appealed to those
very powers against Austria, and that it had no
reason to be dissatisfied with their decision. But,
while recommending the Pope not to shrink from
the jurisdiction of a congress, he proceeds to urge
the necessity of one upon the other powers in a
tone of persuasion scarcely consistent with the
announcement, in a separate paragraph in the
same number of the Constitutions's!, that

they all have already consented to join in a
congress. " Prussia, .England, and Russia," says
M. Grandguillot, " must all desire that the supreme
head of a church which numbers two hundred mil-
lions of disciples should preserve its independence
in all its integrity, and should not bring to any one ,
catholic power in particular the formidable aid of its
influence and prestige." This is an argument well
worth taking a note of, but at the same time I appre-
hend it to be one which few Roman catholic. would
openly adopt. It is taking very low ground for the
papacy, whose kingdom is professedly not of this
world, to say to nonconformist sovereigns, " Take
care ; if you allow my present limited temporal domi-
nions to be taken away from me, in whole or in part,
I will plan my spiritual influence at the ser-
vice of a catholic monarch, and I will aid his
armies by exciting your subjects to rise
in rebellion against Jon." There is not
mach religion in such a threat as this. The menace
is, however, one which the powers alluded to would,
if the rem were to arise, listen to without any great
alum. The number of professing Roman catholic*
is the world is no doubt very great, but the propor-
tion of those who would be ready to turn traitor to
their own country at the bidding of a foreign
potentate is infinitesimally small. The very success
of the church of late years in imposing new dogmas
and commanding faith in new miracles is a pregnant
argument to show that its power is mainly confined
to such matters. If it really felt able to struggle
with the civil power, it would not so frequently
resort to devices which only meet with impunity
because they operate upon the credulous
simply in such a way as not to come into col-
lision with their duties as citizens. M. Grandguillot,
however, speaking in a " Sue frenzy," seems to think
that the power of the Pope as lieutenant to any
bellicose sovereign to whom he might offer his ser-
vices would be something very terrible indeed, for
he says " Let the powers look to it ; on the day when
such a revolution should be effected the dream of a
universal monarchy would be realised, and there
would be an end to the independence of the world !"
I do not think M. Grandgnillot is in this instance the
faithful interpreter of the ides, of the Emperor.
The Emperor probably wants a congress, and may
hope to conciliate his Roman catholic subjects by
playing a part in it as the advocate of the Pope,
whom he would regard as his " client," in the old
Roman sense of a person under his protection, but I
cannot think he shares M. Grandguillot's opinion,
that if the Pope were to be driven out of Rome he
would enable the power, with whom he might take
refuge, to subjugate the world.
It is said to-night that a congress will certainly
take place, but I still doubt much whether the con-
ditions upon which it is to meet are agreed upon.
As far as the question of the papacy is concerned,
it would be most imprudent for England to be a
party to any guarantees whatever for the future.
It may well be doubted whether there be wisdom
enough in all the world at this present time to frame
a constitution for the temporal dominions
of the Pope. The maxim that Constitutions
grow and are nut made," is very applicable
to the present state of Italy. To any arrangement
calculated to sanction accomplished facts, and to
remove obvious present difficulties, England may
well be a party, but to set out metes and bounds u
a barrier to the further development of Italian unity
would assuredly be to lay the seeds of future wars.
None of the dialuieting rumours of yesterday
having been confirmed, and Consols being firm, the
Ratite recovered completely from yesterday's fall,
closing at 69fr. 55c. for cub, and 69fr. 50c. for ac-
count, with a rise of 50a Mobilier ro.,e 271 r. 50c.,
which is only a little more than half of yesterday's
fall. This security is prejudiced by puffs which
have been circulated about it simultaneously in seve-
ral financial journals. Its ontstandiog liabilities are
now supposed to be very heavy, and the prospects of
the coming dividend are bad. The railways about
recovered the ground lost yesterday.

TESTIMONIAL TO MR. WAY AT DOVER.—The
easensittes have decided upon closing the subsctiption lista on
the 221 k leas., sad that the pres.ntation shall take piece on
the 91st twit, on which occasion there will be • dinner, st
the Royal Oak Hotel. It is arranged to present Mr. Way
with a pores of 200 'nines*, and a massive silver cup. Those
friends who are desirous of joising in this tribute of respect,
ars requeend to do so without dale).—Dstsr