The Express.
London, England, 1861-04-29 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, SUNDAY Evianio.
The Opinion Nationale states u a " revelation "
that Lord Dufferin resigned his commitaionership

in Syria because he was disgusted with the
"Machiavellian policy of England ;" that for a
long while he did not "dare to protest ;" but that
at length, being thoroughly persuaded that it would
be all over with the Christians in Syria if the
French army were to cease to protect them, he
could not stifle the cry of his conscience, hich
overruled all diplomatic considerations. An asser-
tion of this kind can scarcely fail to provoke some
explanation.
Both the Temps and the Opinion Nationale, with-
out having any authority to contest the " positive
and personal" information upon which the Patric
grounds its assertion that the French army will
remain at Rome, take exception to the reasoning
by which it is sought to justify the continued
occupation. The Opinion, very well says that it is
not the mere presence of French troops at Rome,
but the prestige of France generally, which prevent'
a collision between Italy and Austria. The occu-
pation of Rome prevents the organisation of Italy
and encourages disturbance, but does not add one
jot to the force of an expressed resolution of France
not to allow Austria to invade Victor Emmanuel's
dominions.

According to the Nalionalith of Turin, Garibaldi's
departure for Caprera will not take place so soon
as Cita& announced. The general, it is said,
intends to be present in the Chamber when his bill
for a general armament comes on for discussion.
The Arationantis expresses an expectation that the
bill will pass with slight modifications. The
general impression seems to be that Cavour made
some concessions to Garibaldi at the interview
which produced this happy reconciliation.
The opera of Charles VI., after having been
suspended at Bordeaux, was represented at Mar-
seilles, and is now interdicted there. Report says
that it is about to be brought out at Toulouse, but if
so there is little chance of its running more than
a night or two without molestation from the
authorities. It is not because Bahivy's celebrated
work contains a song deprecating the " reign " of
Englishmen in France that this opera is made a
party political engine, and that the government
will not suffer it to be loudly applauded. The
true reason is that the glorification of the
catholic sorceress and heroine Joan of Arc,
whose memory is regarded in France with super-
stitions reverence, reflects upon the Emperor's
Italian policy, and stirs the blood of the disciples of
the Bishop of Orleans.
The appeal of Madame Paterson and M. Jerome
Bonaparte (Paterson) will oome on for hearing
very soon. The first president of the Imperial
Court has marked it for the first chamber.

General Alexandra, governor of the palaces of
the Tuileries, Louvre, and Elys6e, died yesterday.
The Imperial Court yesterday, presided over by
M. Devienne, heard an appeal brought by M.
Mires against the appointment of provisional ma-
nager' of his journals the Pays and Consfitutionnsl.
In the course of the argument, which for the most
part was of no public interest, M. Mathieu, counsel
for M. Mires, complained that he had been kept in
secret confinement for an unusually long time, and
that be (M. Mathieu) had twice endeavoured
in vain to obtain booms to him. The
Advocate-General denied that M. Mires had

been treated with more severity than any other
prisoner, and said that he had not been kept in
strict solitary confinement more than a week. He
took the opportunity of saying that in consequence
of the extraordinary complication of the case, it
was not to be expected, notwithstanding the utmost
diligence of the Judges of Instruction, that the trial
of K Mires could come on for some time. The
court, without hearing counsel on the other side,
dismissed the appeal.
The war between M. Feart, the prefect of the
Ile-et-Vilaine, and M. L6on, the mayor of Rennes,
has been put a stop to by the suspension of the
latter. M. L6on has come to Paris to state his
grievances. The cause of the difference is not
stated in any of the local journals, but as M. Leon
was a noted legitimist in 1847, and Rennes is one
of the strongholds of the ultramontanista, the pro-
bability is that the mayor has been abetting the
priests against the government.

PARIS, SArtraDATEviorata,

The Prime referring to an expression used in a recent
communiquil,.observes that the entire population of
Rome is getting alarmed at the long continuance of
the status quo. Certainly the Pope's friends in
Rome seem to be doing their utmost to exhaust the
French Emperor's patience. At a well-known club,
on April 12, a transparency was exhibited repre-
senting Victor Emmanuel as a lion and Napoleon 111.
by Lis side as a fox. The same club intends to
keep Pius lE.'. fête day, May 5, with special re-
joicings, because they observe that it is a black day
in the history of the lionaparterbeing the anni-
versary of the death of Napoleon L, Manzoni's
Cinque Maggio. The Roman papists calculate, and
probably on too good grounds, that they may
safely insult Napoleon 111., because, quite irre-
spective of his love for the church, he has motives
of his own for not relaxing his hold upon the
Eternal City.
The following note, the wording of which is re-
markable, appears as " Latest News " in the
Yoirie :

We have already declared, in answer to the hadqpen-
dance Bdye, that the rumour of the departure of our troops
from Rome was unfounded. This journal Dow returns to
the subject, and asserts that a convention relative
to the evacuation by France of the States of
the Church is about to be carried into effect.
We believe we may again affirm, on the strength
of pinions' and positive informatioa, that this news is not
true • that the plan of which the Belgian journal igiealcs in
not serious • and that at the present moment there is no
question of the departure of our troops. France
is at Rome to provide for the safety of the
Holy Father, but as a consequence of the im-
mense onosideration,which France enjoys, the mere presence
of her flag in that city assures to Italys, pesos, which is at
the preent time the greatest possible benefit, sinee it
enables her to direct all bet attention to the development
of her institutions and her internal orgaohiation. It is well
known in the political world that our withdrawal from
Rome, by depriving the two nations at issue of a mediating
power like France, whose loyalty is appreciated by all pes-
tles, would leave the helligerenta face to face, and would
soon lead to a conflict between Austria and iedmont—a
conflict which all Europe would regret, and therefore it is
that all the powers, and England at their heed, see without
regret the prolongation of our occupation, which on other
grounds I. called for by religious interests.

The peculiarity of the above note is that it justi-
fies the occupation of Rome, not principally on the
ground of any love for the Pope, but 'Cd111443 it is
necessary to prevent war between Italy and
Austria. I cannot help expressing, by the way,
my utter disbelief of the atwertion that the occu-
pation is pleasing to the English government.
The following gigantic canard is despatched from
Paris to the provincial journals by a lithographed
correspondence:

It le curious to notice the rumours circulated hi certain

(paters, where it is said seriously, that in ease of troubles
at Rome the Pope will retire, not to Prance or Germany,
but to Ragland, and to London itself. It is added that
Pius IX. will ,take advantage of his exile to develop the
Roman catholic tendencies of Queen Victoria, to encourage
PapaltorYiricx, and thus to produce a great revolution from
a great affliction. It is known that the Duchess of Kent
died in the holy Roman faith.

There is now exhibiting in Paris a curious
spocimen of mediaeval ingenuity lately discovered in
a convent near Florence. It is a confessional box,
on the principal panel of which is seen a very good
painting of Christ. But on touching a spring this
picture is replaced by one of the Devil with horns,
eyes of fire, and hair standing on end ; the same
spring sets in motion an organ, which plays lugs.
brions music. The priests in the 15th century
resorted to such devices to terrify believers.
At the Bourse a great deal of business was done in
the Rente, principally with aview to the approaching
settlement. The extreme prices ranged from 68.80
to 68.65, and the clotting quotations were 68.70,
both for cash and the account, being in the latter
came a rise of se. Mobilier rose 1.25. The transac-
tions in railways were comparatively limited, and
there was very little change in quotations.
The (supposed) oldest man in England, who died
the other day at Chatham, aged 104, is trumped by a
Frenchman named Bataille, who at Than, in the
department of the Calvadoel/2 shuffled off this mortal
coil on the 16th of April last at the age of 108.
On the day before his death he played his usual
game of cards.