The Express.
London, England, 1857-05-02 00:00:00

A COURT SERMON AT THE TUILIHUBS.

A Perle correspondent of Le Nord ear :
The sermons preached during Legit by the Reverend
Father Ventura, in the chapel of the Tuileries, before the
Emperor and Empress, have obtained great celebrity, and are
muck sp,ken of, though the text hem not yet appeared, to
make us aequainted with what was really delivered by the
celebrated preacher. Whilst awaiting the publication, which
is being prepared by Father Ventura, the following is an
analysis of the sermon he preached on Easter day, only a
few days eubeequent to the sentence pronounced by the
Council of State against the Bishop of Moulins. I think
this analyst will be no unacceptable novelty to your readers.

" Crneifirus in laminae, chit in virtues
" One of the moot touching prophecies of David is that
wherein he announces that the flesh of the Mesaish shall
live and flowiek again. in fact, death and corruption could
not detain that flesh, united substantially with the Word,
which b the life and the vivifying principle. We have been
witmame in our days of a tact analogue to this grand and
divine event, allowing for the dittanos, however, between the
finite awl the infinite—l mean the fall and restoration of the
empire.
" As Jesus Christ was condemned by the putties of Pagan
Rum so European diplomacy had eurrounded the empire
with its pnetorisna and sealed its ruin with an official and.
They bed even decreed that not one of the members of the
imperial family should ever be able to amend any European
throne. They had forgotten only one thing, which was to
alas to the act the signature of God. And lo! the empire
rims anew at a moment when nothing permitted touch en
event to be foreseen, when any one predicting it might have
pursed fora madman.
" I. The cause of the Itesteration of the Empire,
"The French nation is the eldest daughter of the church,
not because its menders were the trot to profess Chrie-
eince Italy was Chrietion before France, but beelines
France was the first to constitute herself as a Christian na-
tion, in her laws, in her political esietence. She has also
been the soldier of the church. Therefore the great and
holy pontiff Zacharias gave to Charlemagne the Latin
empire, the empire of the west the Christian empire.
Through the fault of that menorah's succeseors, the suc-
cessors of hint the greatest of Christian princes, the empire
pasted from Frame to Germany.
But ma St. Thomas teaches, quad per neridens
prosolitur to durable. Tho empire is essentially French.
At se epoch when the German empire had long rime crated
to be, when there was, as has been so well said, neither
empire, sat mint, nor Homan, Pius VII., the worthy me-
. error el flahit Zacharisa, restores the empire to France. It
was not merely that he canoed the sacred unction to flow
upon men, he raised up an empire from its ruins. Diplo-
macy, joining in chorus with heresy and incredulity, laughed
at the inefficacy of this unction. But God, in 113/4 turn,
made a laughing-stock of it. Qui habitat in relic irridtbit
cos, et 140111611 n suhrannobit roe. Tho empire is reborn. But
as Jesus Christ rises again from the tomb with a better
life, se the second empire is more beautiful then the first.
The tint was the terror of nations, the second is their
hope. The first reigned by the reason of force, the
emend reigns by tiro force of reason; the first made war only
in order that war might better be reeouitneneed ; that empire
was war. The second metes war solely to oitain peace; the se-
cond:dire in peeve. Proud Albion, who had laboured so
y to overthrow the first, hue become the mint faith-
ful ally of the second. Tho mercantile genial. of England
her glowed with admiration for the warlike gC1131.18 of Franco
displayed in the Crimea. We have seen the great power of
the north come to take shelter under the shadow of F race in
the congress of Pais, and (ensign to her the care of her in-
terests and dignity. The French may well bo proud to now
their country again placed at the head of the world.
" 11. The condition of the Empire's duration.
" Chrirtus resurgeor jam non moritur ; agora illi ultra non
dominabaur. The Christian empire shall not perish so long
es it shall continue what it is.
" The condition of its duration is that it Audi preserve the
elnialian sap infused into it by the holy pontiff Zacharias.
The mission of the present empire is to rtmove with prudence,
and by degrees, but with firmnesa the patron o.'..cmts which
are in the bosom of society, and to cantle Jesus Christ to
reign throughout the world.
" The eapitularies of Charlemagne always bear theme
words Domino natty Jew Christ°. It was less the reign
of a man than the reign of Jeans Christ.
"It appertaine to 120 one to give advice to the Emperor. His
disposition is so religiose, his prudence so exalted, that we
may answer for the future from the put. We are as-
sured that he will not quit the path in which he has hitherto
walked. Not only has he restored France to her reek among
nations, Teetered to Europe her equilibrium, and boo preserved
the lesser nationalities, but in the religious sphere especially,
he as fulfilled his mission. He has delivered
two-thirds of the French youth from the obliga-
tion of passing under the yoke of a pagan
instruction; he has just enacted a law the full effect of
which few penman yet comprehend, and which will have the
happiut influence over families (the bifurcation of studies).
Whilst the Empress fulfils the mission confided to her by
God, in causing practical catholicism to reign at the court,
the Emperor will perform his proper mission by establishing
this mime catholicism in the lure Thus his crown will
descend and touch the brow of his eon, that child of Unwed-
nese. The Emperor will be the happiest of husbands and
the most fortunate of fathers, so he is the moot powerful of
monarchs. and his glory in the present time will be the
prelude of an eternal glory."

NAPOLEON ILL'S NOM IN SWILZERLAND.—A
letter from Conetanoe says : " It is stated that the Tint of M.
Visconti, governor of the Chateau d'Arcnenburg, to Paris, is
connected with the crest alterations about to be introduced
into that residence. The west wing is to be entirely rebuilt ;
numerous °Mon are to be constructed, and a large theatre is
to be erected and inaugurated in autumn, if we are to believe
report in of
the Emperor himself, the Duchies
Stephanie Barks,of
gad the Lisp Wurtembergpa