The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-11 00:00:00

POLAND.

The Post- A ntpt OuAt. says :—" We hada singular
spectacle hen, yesterday morning. Nearly 200
Polish ladies of the higher and middle classes as-
sembled in front of the cathedral, and after hearing
mane proceeded on their way to the celebrated place
of pilgrimage of Ctenstochaii, situated near War-
saw, at more than sixty leagues from this place,
and whither they are gone to implore the Holy
Virgin in favour of Poland. Some priests were to
have accompanied these ladies in their pilgrimage,
but the archbishop would not permit it."
Au article, which Count de Hontalember; lately
published iu the Correpostlaa on the subject of
Poland, is attacked rather sharply by the Ces.ti:s-
Simnel, which accuses the noble writer of being in
favour of liberty only inasmuch as it squares with
his own ideas of the absolute power of the church
party. The observations of our contemporary
against the count commence in this manner :

Coast de Montalembert affects to be an entliusiast'c
friend of lrbery. But, uufotturuitely, certain words written
or pronounced by him, which throw liTht on the spirit and
object of his liberalism, have not been forgotten by or -
geueration. There are also still current certain °Larva-
Cons and certain gossips ascribed to him. These tbiu7s are
old, we admit, and not free from suspicion, but they are
not so much in disaccord with the p..vt which the noble
count played in the constituent and lejislative asymblies ss
to be regarded as absolutely improhable. It seem( 1
at that time to persons who were in a position to be
able to see clearly (but no doubt they were mistaken or
at least exaggerated) that the distinguished parapbleteer
was never the lust in making the most venomous propo•
lions of a reactionary tendency ; it seenici t i theca persons
that a slight dose of dictatorship would not have displca-ed
that impetuous friend of liberty ; however, he impozed one
condition—that the dictatorship should be theocratic—that
is to say,that France of 1789 should be abandoned to Torque.
madas in lay attire—to Count de Monteletabert and Fs
hisses.

ITALY.
SOUTHERN ITALY.

The Paris correspondent of the bide,penian
says :—" If we were to judge of the disposition of
the French government towards Southern Italy by
ostain symptoms of the moment, we should bel;eve
it to be very favourable to those sovereigns who
represent the principle of reaction. Thus, M. de
Cadore has given, in the name of the French em-
tansy, his testimony to the note of Car-
dinal. Antonelli, which exculpates the Roman
government from all pat ticipation in the
disturbances of the Neapolitan states. M.
de Cadore has also added that the Holy
Father, even if he Lad desired to give support to
the cause of the fallen king, would not have been
- Ile to carry out his intention, in consequence o:
the surveillance exercised by General de Goyon.
The representatives of the other powers, even
that of Great Britain, have granted the like
satisferit to the minister of the Holy
See. Again, the word son of the ex-Grand Duke
of Tuscany is going to marry, on the 12th inst., a
sister of the King of Naples, and the Duke de
Grammont, as well as M. de Cadore, will, in con-
formity with orders from the French government,
be present at the ceremony."