The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-26 00:00:00

THE PENINSULAR MAIL

PLYMOUTH, Dec. 25.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Tagus, Captain W. B. Hull, with tho usual Penin-
sular mails on board, in charge of Comm-nder
Robert Jenner, R.N., put in at Plymouth
this morning short of coal, through the wea-
ther she had experienced, and proceeded to the Great
Western Docks, where she lauded her mails and
a part of her passengers ; and having taken
on board 40 tons of coal left again at 4 p.m. for
Southampton. She left Lisbon on the 17th inst., and
Vigo on the 18th. From Lisbon to Vigo she expe-
rienced fine light winds and calms—from Vigo to the
Channel a terrific gale from the E.N.E., attended
with tremendous seas. She suffered no damage, but
her progress was so much delayed that her usual
voyage to England of four days was prolonged to
eight days. She will thus only reach Southampton
on the 26th inst., one day before she will again be
due to proceed on the next outward passage. Her
cargo consists of specie to the value of 1,4251. ;
1,010 boxes and 35 quarter boxes of Lane-
rims, 240 boxes of eggs, and a few small
casks of wine, with packages of sundries. She
brings 18 p.mengers, among whom are the mem-
bers of a Portuguese special embassy, consisting of
his Excellency Dom Manuel Camara, chamberlain
to the King of Portugal ; Dom Sampayo e Pins,
aide-de-camp to the King of Portugal ; Viscount
de For, aide-de-camp to the Prince Regent, and
their suite, bearing an autograph letter of condo-
lence from the King of Portugal to her Majesty
the Queen upon her late bereavement.
The mails and the members of the Portuguese
Embassy left Plymouth by the 12.40 train foe
Loudon.

The Tagus left at Lisbon the usual Portuguese
squadron, with their flags half-mast high for the
deceased Prim* Consort, and the English gunboat
Handy, bound to Lagos.
On Tuesday, at 1.30 p.m., the Tagus exchanged
colours with a Bremen brigantine heating up Chan-
nel, and showing No. 462 ; and at 3.30 p.m. on
Tuesday she sighted a large English steam-frigate
standing S.W., supposed to be the Orlando.

The Emperor of the French has salved to
establish, at St. Germain, a Celtic and Gallo-Rama
museum, for the reception of Celtic and Galtlish weapons,
vessels, ornaments, utensils, and inscriptions, which are
every year discovered in abundance.

fhe journal du Harm alleges that the new King
of Madagascar has manifested to Father Jean, a missionary
and a particular friend of his Majesty, his intention to be-
come a Homan catholic.

FATHER PASSAULIA'S PLEA FOR THE
ITALIAN CAUSE.•

The reasoning of Father Paeanlia is not ad-
art...A to that state of feeling or thinking which
prevails in England, and the remark meet fre-
ywntly made on those portions of his writings
which have been translated into Zuglish is that the
go.sl Father proves nothinidwhich we did not believe
before. Nevertheless we are glad to see his
republished among us. If they did uu
more than extend our acimaintance with the modes
if thought which prevail among pious, learned, and
mtlecting men of his communion, they would do
witch good. But they can perform a higher
'nice than this for those who will bestow
a uosirrate share of attention ou their contents.
That cumumuity uf Christian experience and in-
trix,ts which M. C.uizot has lately undertaken to
ciplain, and which he has degraded by material-
ieng it, is after all a truth, and no one, we think, can
centemplate without being profoundly touched by
it• the spirit of simple and earnest faith in which
Ist lierPassagliadedicates himself ton work every step
of which implies a sacrifice of objects dearer than
Any mere worldly advantage. R e may or may not
.hare his belief that the Church of Rome contains
s living principle which can dispense with the
v...rldly pomp soil power which has for so
generatious allied it with the mis-
t:overman:tit of the Pontifical States ; but
we can honour Passaglia for believing that it must
he au, as long as be ulentifits his Church with the
Church of Christ. This pure and simple trust in
spiritual powers and inihuences, to which be ex-
horts all catholic bishops, and which he exemplifier'
in his uwu conduct, is it Hot the very example of
which all chureher and pastors at the present
time have must need

The features of this pamphlet are stroogly
marked, both as Italian and as catholic. It is fa
of appeals to Chrixtian antiquity, to the Tethers,
and to the course .4 history. Direct inferences
Inv's general principles, although present, are rare.
The author I. AUZiOIUI to lead the thoughts of his
readers from that which is extriusic and adeenti-
bolo. to what is eternal in the coentituti'es et
the Church. Thuc, after showing that the right
.4 the Sovereign Pontiff and his authority
...hoot he connected with his political isslepeu-
deuce, because the tint Pius, who had not tempo-
r.il p..w.r, hul io.vertheleas the same right and au-
thority as Pius the Ninth, he pruceede to say :
Hut our oprooesta mply that the reihriou• liberty of the
reposes Posen ra clearly onessied with kis political inch-
=llif by Ito word liberty aedentood bailey is fut.
r. Inaction ; lea thin latter lemur or
dioisehes regress. sessolias as the weight sed sem.
ter of &mew err bereese. Ad orb cea seilsoste
tha dander whit eagle beet theepserielis siaistratiae,
Easel sbaskle It, sad eves It less dberolk If the sues
moor of Peter, robbed of Withal iadeprealsre. should
hoer* mere eabjest he a heopenti prior. Tureme
(*hay say) there is the Wiles' aced this the serialierm•
co•sevnitiee of all Melia= sheall sew eledieste that
scot 4 amiss pay with the eines of Pepe utile Ebbe
Pro. deuce hes keg leo liholl. het the 'postale
maim/sew which should Menem free mil Amid et
a breath of sespielse, be sole objest be say terserbare
authority.
To this objection he replies :
Although this eirjestise Y wises me Sisk dot it eta be
11119110111 IL Is the bet pima. Aid Iminty la this which
the Pope claim for the timaree of hie daily fie is deeply
deceived If be cameo everything to lbw asisestitly amend-
see to his web. WIN Woolag, all aid= Parikai._ll•lll
el that bad. sad Inert beg tram every of
reetrary I. the 4 Met sad of thiTss.
witch premise tehemay sad poreselles sad aR adommilp, la
Um world. ha the slams sol besot foilearersal the geopsii
ouch facility le repapaset lie the batons of Way. sad an
Moreover
facials WI- Peps le baps for iL
Moreover there east roe mem, kir the Peatlf sd
isobar for the church, whisk be reiss, leasbea, avid feed%
iu the sane sad by the authority of peal But the elserch,
is the present seertal life, renew a rowed path, sad vows
a oval lordship. " Not roily," toys horrible (Clv. Del
t..b. Is, cap. 51), " is the time of the bodily pressen 4
Cheat sad be apostle., but Iran Abel, the his just ase,
whoa ha blether ha y slew, le the sed of Lime, the
church sees se her is the WM of the person-
teem 4 the world sad 4 the cesesistises of God." ACM&
hely , he adds (cap. 52) "1 de sat think that the number of
persarrutioci• by which the shriek soot be tried can be
data l"

Oar alvermsies seem to b. igmeast d Um Gospel sada
history, sad of themermary meditiese d a militeat eller*
oboe they rem their met pewerfel orgameat is &mar et
the union of pditMd eominigaty with the chiefdom of reli-
gion upon a Mon facility is the falilaiest of tatie apatoric
Ohre

... .
sorely they must ban forgottan these words of St.
Auguitine After noticiag "that liberation from the cap-
tiv ay of liabyloa after seventy years we. promised to the
J 0...," be goes as
sal, "all this signified, under a figure,
that the church of lltriet in all its mugs, who are the citi-
zens if the hoarsely Jerusalem, we. to be in bondage to
the kings of this world. For the apostle also teaches that
*very soul should be subject to the higher powers, and all
things should he rendered to all ; to whom tax is due tax,
to whom custom is due custom, and all other things
which, except our womibip of God, we yield to humanly es.
tablidied prism ; for our Lord Limmelf, WA he might give
us an misiople of this sound usecLing, delved teaLdtrtute
li for that individual mamboed wervinik be was c
A right noble argument, "from faith to faith."

•.1 Plea for the /Wiest Quaff. addrosed to Caasuhe
R.A,14 WI a tAitAidie Print. heedeld hi. Um
ilhasus sad Nagai*.