The Express.
London, England, 1857-02-26 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, WIDNI2DAT BVISINO.

The religions quarrels between different sections
of the church, which it wastefully hoped were lulled
by the compromise of the action brought by the
Univers against the Abbe Cognat, seem now likely
to rage fiercer than ever. The coarse taken by the
Minister of Public Worship in appealing to the
Council of State against abusive acts of authority
(appel mouse d'absts) of the Bishop of Moulin, has
provoked an article in the Univers, openly avowing
the most extreme ultramontane pretensions. " When,"
Pays this journal, " we think that our father (mean-
ing the bishop) is in error, and that it is lawflal for,
or even obligatory upon us, to appeal against his
acts, it is to the superiors and judges appointed of
God that we should look for justice, and not to the
stranger." Thus in the eyes of the Univers, the
Council of State, to whom the law and constitution
of France refer the conduct of Mawr in certain
cases, is composed of "strangers," whore juris-
diction it ignores. This is openly flying
in the face of the concordat, and the pre-
lates who support the Univers will find them-
selves in direct conflict with the civil power.
Curiously enough, just at this moment a fragment
of a letter from the Abbe Cognat to the Bishop of
Evreux has found its way into print, from which
it appears that the Abbe was forced by the autho-
rity of his ecclesiastical superiors to accept the com-
promise of the Univers' action against his own will
and judgment. This was to be collected from the
terms in which M. Dufaure announced his client's
unexpected determination at the trial; but the
new and important bet comes out, that
the work of Abbe Cognat which gave um-
brage to the church party represented by
the Univers, was composed by him under the
patronage and supervision of the late Archbishop of
Paris, the murdered Monseigneur Sibour. "It leas
by the advice of the Archbishop," says the A bbe,
"that I undertook this great work; that prelate of
worthy and sad memory thought that the surest
means to put an end to the unfortunate divisions in
the church was to set forth and expound doctrines
and texts. I worked for eleven months with the
utmost assiduity, and during that time the archbishop
came several times to encourage my perseverance.
I hasten to add that I alone am responsible for the
work, which he left altogether to me. But when
the proper time came, he permitted me to give up
my name, and to defend myself before the justice of
my country. The four last lines that he ever wrote
were addressed to me from the presbytery of St.
Etienne-du-Montan hour before hisdeath. He begged

me to commission M. Dufaure to defend him
against the imputations which my adversaries
had cast upon him, and which had given him much
pain. Under these circumstances, you may conceive
how little it was for me to renounce the defence of
the rights which I had undertaken. • • • Such,
Monsiegneur, are the facts. I venture to hope that
your highness will think them a sufficient explana-
tion of my conduct while the cause was pending,
and will understand how painful it must have been
to me to sacrifice justice to obedience." It appears
clearly from this that if the Archbishop of Paris had
not been murdered, the Abbe Cognate nese would
have been defended with the aid of all the influence
of the metropolitan. As it wu, the Capitular Vicar-
General of Paris—who exercised the archiepiscopal
authority pro non., forced on a compromise which is
lamely to turn oat anything but productive of peace
in the church.

The Emperor and Empress were yesterday at •
grand carnival ball given by the Princess Mathilde.
The Progree dr Pao de Calais was seized on Sa-
turday at its bureaux, and in all the post-offices. I
am not aware of the muse.

The Sleek has received a warning to-day for

an article headed "The Session," in which it ex-
pressed a hope that the Corps Legislatif might be
called upon to put the law relating to electoral bul-
letins on a more rational footing than it is left by
the recent decision of the Court of Caseation, and
also to abate the rigour of the decree of 18.52, which
now governs the press. This warning will be pub-
lished by the Siecle tomorrow.—{We have received
to-day's Slide. The " warning" is printed on the
front page, and is stated to be the second.]
The Bente declined a little at the opening of the
Bourse to-day, but it being confidently reported that
the Bank of France would to-morrow resolve to dis-
count at 90 days, prices recovered in the afternoon,
and the last quotations were 70fr. for cash, and
70fr. 13c. for account, being a rise in each case of
10c. Mobilier rose 2fr. 20e. Railways were not
very brisk, and there was but little change except in
the instance of Lyons, which rose 13fr. in conse-
quence of a statement that the receipts this week
had improved by 326,0001 r.
I have already mentioned that the Donon Interna-
tional Credit Society is approved of by the govern-
ment The statutes are now before the Emperor. It
is proposed to appoint either M. Ernest Andrf or the
Marquis d'Audriffet to be governor; but I hear that
neither of these gentlemen is very anxious to ac-
cept the office. The shares, I learn, are to be of
5,000 fr. each. They must not be negotiated within
six months of their emission. A first instalment of
I,ooofr. must be paid when the shares are issued,
and a second of the same amount on the promulga-
tion of the statutes.
The prosecution against the directors of the Napo.
leon Docks for fraud came on to-day before the Tri-
bunal of Correctional Police. Five accused appeared
at the bar; MM. Cusin, banker; Caasim. ir Legendre,
banker; Adolphe Duchene de Fere, proprietor;
Joseph One, merchant ; and Arthur Berryer, pro-
prietor. The three first are accused of swindling
and abuse of confidence, and the two latter as accom-
plices. The three first named amused appeared in
custody, but Messrs. Orsi and Berryer were not.
With regard to M. Arthur Berryer, the acts (accu-
sation expressly says that the 'barge against him is
much lees grave than that against the others, and
that he is only reproached with not having, as a
government agent, given information of facts with
which be ought to have been acquainted. The trial
is expected to last several days.
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