The Express.
London, England, 1850-08-14 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS. TUISDAY Bvanruto.
The Oemmittes of Permanence met yesterday to
meditate itself. M. Depin pretided ex officio. Dur-
ing histamine. from Paris, which he quite today for
the departments of the will
one th Vioe-Pre-
@ideate et the Amenably will presidof
e. It wee re-
solved thatat least twenty members of the 39, which
is the number of the committee, including the bureau
of the Amenably, should remain in Paris to take part
in the deliberations, which are to be held secretly in a
MOM of the legislative palace.
The Debate takes very little notice of the Pad-
dears journey, which is platted obscurely among the
miamilamom intelligence. The Conetitutionnet, on
the other hand, fills its columns with nothing else.
Before quitting Paris the President appointed M.
Baroehe commander of the Legion of Honour.
The President entered Dijon last night amidst loud

The only fact of much importance which has u yet
I signalised the journey of the President is the presene.a
o a leading statesman with political principles of the
most decided cut at his side. The company of
M. de Montalembert upon this journey derives pecu-
liar significance just now from the bitter and violent
animosity which that statesman has always dis-
played against the liberal government of Piedmont.
The kgt 'vest external question which occupies France
at this moment is the exasperated conflict waging
between the Sardinian ministry and an insolent
priesthood, whose rebellious spirit is fed from the
Quirinal. The French government will be naturally
called upon to act u mediator between Turin and
Rome. The Jesuitical party in France are straining
every nerve in favour of that bigoted unfeeling
clergy which denied the consolations of
religion to Santa Rosa upon his death - bed,
and refused the rites of sepulture to his remains.
They have just sent the golden crucifix of Mon-
' seigoeur Affre, the martyr of the barricades, to the infa-
tuated prelate Franzoni, whose written orders to
refuse obedience to the laws of Siccardi and the rites
of interment to the remains of Santa Rosa, have been
just discovered in the convent of the Servitee, at
Turin. The law of Siccardi abolished the exceptional
privileged tribunals for trying offences of the clergy,
and reduced ecclesiastics to an equality with the
citizen before the law; and the crime of Santa Rosa
was that he was one of the cabinet which proposed
this just reform. The person selected for offering
this testimony of
.sympathy with the fanatical arch-
bishop of Tann, is one Veuillot, a miracle-monger,
and editor of the Univers, a paper patronised by
Montalembert, and occasionally honoured by his con-
tributions. The cross of the Archbishop of Paris was
presented to the Archbishop of Turin on the day after
Santa Rosa's death, and before Franzoni's arrest. M.
Veuillot accompanied the offering with these words :
I have been charged by a considerable numtwr of French
catholic,, to offer to you a humble testimony of their
tion. The erou which they have the honour to present to
you by my hands belonged to the holy Archbishop of Paris,
Monseigneur AM*, who, like the good pastor, gave his life
for his flock. Catholic France is rejoiced at knowing that
this cross of a martyr will hereafter rest on the breast of a
confessor. We wish to honour in you, mouse igneur, all
thew bishops who combit for the cause of God, and prepare
themselves by struggles in the faith for the sacrifices of
charity.
The archbishop replied :
I am profoundly affected with the honour shown to me by
the Wheelies of France. I accept with joy and gratitude the
homage which is addressed, not to my person, but to the
nrinciple of which I am one of the representatives, and which
Providence his celled upon me to defend. The souvenirs
attached to the cross which you offer to me render it still
more precious, for the martyrdom of Monseigneur Afire is
for the episcopate at once an instruction and a glory.
Some time ago I sent you a letter, written by Mon-
talembert, indulging in the most intemperate abuse
of the King and ministers of Sardinia for the firm at-
titude which they had assumed towards the domi-
neering priesthood of Rome. The President, there-
fore, by singling out for the companion of his journey
a statesman, whose religions views were known to be
so biassed in favour of Rome, lays himself open to the
suspicion of siding with the Jesuits in this important
quarrel, which may easily assume the proportion of a
religious revolution in Italy, while he cancels all the
meaning which might be attributed to M. Ferdinand
Barrer presence at the funeral of the excommuni-
cated minister. It is impossible not to be struck by
the likeness of this incoherent conduct to the course
punned on the occasion of the famous letter to Edgar
NT
The mayor of Lyons, M. Revel, as issued the fol-
lowing proclamation :
Inhabitants of Lyons!—The President of the Republic is
coming to visit us. He will arrive on Thutaday, the 15th,
at ten an the morning, accompanied by the ministers of war,
cnamerce, and public works. His presence among us will
attest his solicitude for our city. Attentive to the wishes of
the country, he comes to sympathise with our laborious
population—to visit our tectonics end examine their magni-
ficent productions ; he comes to study the needs of com-
merce and of industry, and to seek the means of giving a
permanent activity to the msnufactures of Lyons, in second-
We its efforts in the way of progress on which our city has
entered. Inhabitants of Lyons! Let the President, Louis
Napoleon, find a welcome within our walls. Ile brings with
him affectionate family reminiscences. which history has con-
twisted; let him meet the expression of sentiments of
gratitude which are attached to these reminiscences,
and which ought to accompany one whom the suf-
frages of France have designated to occupy the heed place
in the hierarcy of powers. Tee President of the Republic
will stay among us the 15th and liith. His time will be
chiefly devoted to visiting our hospitals, our schools, our
ateliers and public establishments. The municipal adminis-
tration counts upon the population to aid to receive the Pre-
sident of the Republic in a meaner at once worthy of him
and of our great city. Vise la 11 spubligue ! Vise le Pre-
sident !

There is to be a military banquet at Lyons.
A long letter, in the Courier de 1, S9ssause, on the
organisation of the Societe du Dix D. cembre, has set
this secret club of imperialists in the tocus of public
attention. This journal, who:se principles are con-
servative, affirms that the swiety in question counts
throughout Fraucesixty thousand sworn members, pro-
vided with arms, ready to act at a moments warning
from their chiefs, and organised in sections under l, aders
and inspectors, who are submitted to one common in-
spiration from head-quarters. Making all allowance
for the exaggeration of this disclosure, no doubt at all
exists as to the privileged and illegal existence of this
club, with an object too manifest to need further ex-
planation, although the assigned views of the associa-
tion are charitable. The scandal of tolerating an in-
stitution which menaces the public peace, and out-
rages the laws, is aggravated by the rigours applied
to the repression of societies which do neither one nor
the other, such as the harmless club of St. Hubert.
" La Solidiariteßepublicaine," which concealed neither
its i object nor proceedings, may have been justly put
down ; but while its founders are in prison, it is a
shameless violation of principle to extend the indul-
gent* of authority to the Dix Decembro. It is of a
piece, however, with the toleration of the Monotettr
dos Soo and Pouroir, while the whole press of the
opposition was interdicted from street sale.
The distribution of prizes at the Sorbonne yester-
day was distinguished by the warm applause bestowed
upon M. Guizot, who really has assumed, beside the
contrast of reaction exhibited by the present govern-
ment, a hue of liberalism. The ex-minister came to
see his son William, who was among the rewarded,
receive his two neeessils. The pupils, to relieve the
tedium of waiting for M. Parieu's speech, sung out
for the Marseillaust, which was given with applause.
They saluted the appearance of the Minister of Public
Instruction with cries of " Vive la Republique.."
The representatives who remain at l'aris during
the vacation are about 125, 70 of tho Meuntain and
55 conservatives. They will meet two or three times
weekly, at the Salle des Conferences.
The only representative who accompanies the l're-
Admit officially is M. Lecomte, member for the de-
partment of Yonne.
M. de Lamartine is going to London, in order to
raise the wind for cultivating the Sultan's territorial
grant to him near Smyrna, and to buy machinery and
implements of agriculture.
The Council of State has just decided that the
Standish Gallery and the Spanish Museum in the
Louvre, are the personal property of the ex-king
Louis Philippe.
The Bourse continues to show symptoms of de-
pression. To-day there was a fall of 300. on the
Fives, and 200. on the Threes.

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