The Express.
London, England, 1857-05-21 00:00:00

TEE EXPRESS, THI7RSDAY EVENING, MAY 21, 1867.

probable costliness and its exceptional character.
With regard to the tint objection, Lord Limrimunst
said all that could be advanced in ttk favor.
Admitting that the Court would be central, be
yet denied that its proceedings would be necessarily
costly. The first step to be taken would be merely a
shoat and informal petition to the new Court for a
divorce or dissolution. The Court would thereupon
order the trial to be had, in the remoter districts, '
either at the assizes or in the local courts. The trial
would be by jury. The judge presiding at the trial
would report the evidence and hie opinion on it to
the antral Court, which would, after due delibera-
te:a, pronounce its decree. This view of the mode
of procedure introduced by the Government Bill
certainly answers many of the objections raised on
the soon of costliness, and corresponds to a great ex-
tent with certain suggestions which we threw out ca
the subject the other day. But it seems obviate
to inquire, if the process is to be a Common Law pro-
cess and the trial in most eases a trial by jury, why
there is any necessity for creating a new special and
exceptional tribunal ? As Lord LUIDHVIST himself
remarks, .' In Scotland and in the United States
there is no difficulty experienoed in trying these
eases by the ordinary tribunals what difficulty can
there be in doing it here ?" On all grounds we ob-
ject to the multiplication of special and exceptional
tribunals—an evil which already exists in this
country to an extent not known in any other civilised
community. Why should not the existing Com-
mon Law Courts take this jurisdiction, it
being understood, if you will, that no
ism a number than the collective fifteen
judges should have the ultimate power of pro-
nouncing a formal decree of Dissolution ? In this
way you would combine the great desiderata of a
matrimonial tribunal—comparative cheapness, gene-
ral accessibility, and undoubted dignity. We have no
desire of censoriously commenting on the "short-
comings" of that "unambitious legislator" Lord
exams/care. We are quite willing to admit that his
present bill, even if carried as it is, will work a great
improvement on a most absurd and anomalous and
wicked state of the law, but we cannot accept it us •
piece of final legislation, and we think it in many
important points suceptible, by comparatively
slight changes, of considerable Improvement.

Tat odious fragment of ecclesiastical exaction
known by the name, in Ireland, of Ministers' Money,
is likely to be at length extinguished. For twenty
years an agitation on a small scale bee been carried
on against IL Leviable in but eight of the principal
towns in Ireland, it was felt as a practical grievance
by only a comparatively insignificant minority of the
community at large. But the inequalities of its
incidence, and the distinctly statutable nature et
its origin, counterbalance in some degree its
limited amount in monism levied, and its limbed
extent in range of imposition. Unlike dr
other funds applicable to the own ddb
Church of the wealthy minority is do abler
island, Ministers' Money is a tax specifically
laid by Act of Parliament on the inhabitants
of Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Waterford, and a
few inferior towns in the southern portion
of the kingdom, and until lately was collected by, as
well as payable to, the parochial clergy of the

Fatahlishnent. The Statute ender which it was
first imposed belongs to the disreputable reign of the
second CHARLES, and was pared at a period when
Nonconformists of every sect and hue, whether
Catholic or Protestant, were excluded from seats in
the Legislature. A great majority of the population
in the towns so taxed were at the time, and still con-
tinue to be, aliens to the Anglican communion; and
thus, while the total amount raised by the tax does
not reach 15,0001. a year, the dispute regarding it has
always been identified with the greatest imaginable
complication of reproaches as to its origin, nature,
mode of levy, and application. About ten
years ago it first began to figure amongst Irish
topics of parliamentary debate. To the present member
for the city of Cork the merit belongs of having first
presented the subject in a tangible shape to the
House of Commons, and to the perseverance of that
gentleman is now due the credit of having at length
forced Government into admitting the principle of
the absolute abelition of the tax, and supporting a
bill for its final extinction.

Nobody proposes indeed that the incomes which the
parochial clergy formerly derived frees the proceeds of
the wretched impost should come to an end. An set
paused in 1854, at the instance of Lord ABEILDIEN'S
administration, charged their yearly maintenance upon
the general funds of the Irish Ecclesiastical Commis-
sion, and upon thole funds the charge, it is argued,
should remain. Bat the tax by which the amount was
to be compensated—and which under the modified

form prescribed by the late act it was found difficult
to collect without continual recourse to vexatious
and costly litigation—it is now proposed to abrogate
wholly and for ever. The amount will sink of
coarse into the pockets of the owners of house pro•
perty in the towns referred to ; and a fund which,
had it been dealt with betimes, might have been
made available for general purposes of charity or
education, is now to be thrown away irrecoverably,
and without a shadow of reasonable claim on the
part of those who have heretofore paid it. Bat this
is in accordance with the prescribed habits of legis-
lation in these procrastinating and paltering days
of oars. No question, whatever be its intrinsic
merits, is grappled with in time; and no Govern-
ment saa be induced to lend a serious attention to
the demand for redress until the grace of concession
is lost. and the opportunity for making equitable
and useful terms for the community in general his
passed away.

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OSBORNE, KAY ft
The Queen walked in the grounds early yester-
day, and drove out in the afternoon.
The Prince monad over to Ny,__en the Southampton
Water, to KO the works of the new XMal Hospital.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon
at the official residence of the First Lord of the
Treasury, in Downing-street. The Ministers present
were :—Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor,
Earl Granville, Earl of Harrowby, Sir George
Orey, Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Secretary Lebouchere,
Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith,
Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. M. T.
Baines, and the Duke of Argyll.

A deputation from the Han. the Irish Society, consisting
of Mr. Herter Lloyd (deputy grentor), Mr. Alderman
Lea, Mr. Witham Oreshent, Mr. George Walter, Mr.
Charles rise, Mr. R. G. Reed, and Mr. J. E. Davies
(wastary), bed en interview with Vissount Palmerston
yestadey.
A deputed= trent the Manchester aid Salford Savings
Bank had en interview yesterda with the Chancellor of the
at his andel rs in Downing-strut, on
the the proposed Barnes Bank Bill. The depute.
don consisted of Mi. Alderman Head, Mr. U.E. Marad
and Mr. W. R. Wood (trumees), sad Mr. J. H. Redd
(actuary), eccorepared h Mr. A. Tiurner, M.P., Lord Ca-
resilialt, M.P., Sir John Prier, M.P., Mr. John Chartism,
M.P., Mr. J. W. Patton, M.P., Mr. R. N. Philips, M.P.,
and Mr. Marry, M.P.
Colonel Duncrates, M.P., and Mr. Siren= bad an iatrr.
view with Lord &solo of Alderley yesterday at the oaks of
the Board of Trade. _ _ _

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WWI, Mar 14.
The Pope's progress through his states naturally
forms the principal topic just now in Rome ; but
in spite of a vast deal of conjecture with respect to
the real motive of his Holiness's journey and pro-
longed absence from the capital, the explanations
hitherto put forth are far from being unanimous or
concordant. Probably several of the motives ad-
duced have concurred to take l'io Nono is voyage
rather than any one potent reason by itself. It ap-
pears to be certain that Cardinal Antonelli was very
much opposed to the Pope's departure, and therefore
there must have been some strong counteract-
ing influence from some other quarter to
have induced his Holiness to withstand the
remonstrance@ of his habitual adviser. This influence
was evidently not of French origin, for the French
would never wish to see the Pope abstract himself
from their immediate protection ; consequently the
inference is that the suggestion came from Austria,
possibly to show the world that the Supreme Pon-
tiff is not a prisoner in the hands of the French
general.
In the opinion of some this journey is
.a schemet
reterzpull..., Cardinal
, in order to withdraw entrue Psopemfrom
his eminences immediate intercourse, and facilitate
intrigues against his continuation in office. In this
respect a Roman Secretary of State has not theism,
advantages as the favourite minister of any Use-
petal sovereign, because he cannot so completely
prevent any rival from getting access to his mists'.
No Cardinal Secretary of State can prevent pro-
vincial bishops from having free intercoms
with the Pope when they come to Rams to,
report to him upon the state of their diosoma.
During these conversations political as well as
spiritual matters may be treated of, and no doubt
the Bishops of Romagna and Bologna have repeatedly
represented to the Pope the necessity of his visiting
those districts. In the northern provinces the poli-
tical passions of the people are more vigorous, and
their opinions more openly expressed than in the
south. Ovations and acclamations are now greeting
I the Pope on every aide; but when the fervour of
applause and the excitement of novelty begin to
wear off, es must be the case during a random of
same months, an amnesty and administrative simstio-
rations will be required to ensure a continuation ef
the popular enthninum, if indeed the feeling of the
masses on the present occasion amounts to it.
Hitherto the only exception to the universally
favourable reception his holiness has met with In
the various towns he has visited, occurred in Perugia,
where the triumphal arch erected for his entry was
consumed by some nocturnal incendiaries unknown.
At Spoleto the officious zeal of the archbishop,
Monsignor Arnaldi, was near proving extremely in-
convenient to the Pope. That prelate had prepared
his own equipage for his holiness's use in the town,
but the carriage was so antiquated that the Pope
had no sooner set his foot upon the step than that
necessary appendage gave way, and poor Pio Nono
would have fallen with his face on the floor of the
'vehicle bad he not used himself with his hands. As
it was he displayed his amiable disposition bv good-
' humouredly going round to the other side.of the
carriage, where he found the step in rather better
condition. The Pope's liberality was abundantly
experienced by the poor of his quondam
diocese, and amusing anecdotes are related
of his friendly recognition of former acquaintances,
amongst whom a country curate of very small
means, to whom Pio Nono presented forty scudi,
telling him jocularly at the same time that he well
recollected ring tasted some famous coffee in his
home, which coffee, he assured his courtiers, the
mate had made in the same recipient he need for
his broth, to the said curate's very great confusion.
The town of Foligno displayed its loyalty on the
7th inst. by the variety of it. festive decorations,
amongst. which a triumphal arch and a copy of the
column in honour of the Immaculate Conception,
both executed in wax, were most conspicuous. The
Pope's carriage was inundated with flowers from the
windows and balconies. Having gone through the
customary benedictions and audiences, his holiness set
off the same afternoon for Assisi, where arches, ells-
gorical statute, illuminations, and fireworks awaited
him. The monks of the celebrated convent of St.
Francis had the honour of lodging the pontiff, who
sang mass next morning in the cathedral decorated
with the paintings of Cimabue and Giotto, and then
prayed aloud before the tomb of St. Francis. Bene-
dictions, receptions, and visits to religious establish-
' ments occupied the Pope until four o'clock, when he
set off for Perugia, where he arrived in the rain
about six the same evening, and was received at the
cathedral gates by the cardinal-bishop and his clergy,
whobad been joined by ten bishops from the
bowing Umbrian and Tuscan dioceses. The Grand
Duke of Tuscany's second son, the Archduke Charles,
bad also arrived at Perugia with Prince Collard, the
grand chamberlain, the day before, to compliment
the Pope, in the Grand Duke's name, upon his near
approach to the Tuscan frontier, which he did, with-
out delay, in the audience granted to him, during
which his holiness consigned to the Archduke the
insignia of Knight Grand Cross of the Plan Order.
On the 9th the Pope, the Archduke, the Cardinal
Bishop, and their respective suites, went sightseeing
about the town, admiring . the works of Pietro
Perugino, Raphael, Vannucci, and other medimval
masters, in the public buildings and religious esta-
blishments, his holiness entertaining the party at
dinner at his customary early hour. On the morn-
, ing of the lOth, the Pope celebrated mass in the
'cathedral, and kissed a renowned relic preserved
there, being the Virgin Mxry'a ring, which he also
presented to the Archduke lips.
After mass came benedictions, plenary indulgence
to the collected crowds of people on the piazza, and
farewell visits to colleges, convents, and monaste-
ries, after which his holiness set out on his return
towards Foligno, in the rain, as usual, notwith-
standing which unpleasant accompaniment, he
honoured Signor Bianchi's agrarian establishment
for the education of orphans with a visit, and entered
the church and convent of Santa Maria degli An-
gell, near Assisi. The bad weather did not prevent
an immense concourse of people from awaiting the
Pope's return to Foligno, through the streets of
which town, brilliantly illuminated, his holiness
was escorted with a most profuse display of those
ponderous wax tapers for which Foligno is fames&
On the morning of the 11th, after having mid
mass and left generous alms for the poor, the Pope
left Foligno for Camerino, on the other side of the
Apennines, where he arrived safely at two o'clock in
the afternoon, the hill on which the town is pie-
tsreaquely situated being crowded with spectators
Ilan the neighbouring districts, who braved the
weethen for a sight of their sovereign. The Pope's
stay in Camenno was marked with the usual demon-
strations, the evening winding up with fireworks
and illuminations.
On the 12th, his holiness arrived in the rain at
Tolentino, where he was received by the Cardinal
Archbishop of Fcrmo, at the head of a deputation of
ecclesiastical and temporal authorities. The mad-
cipality, in sign of rejoicing, awarded several
dowries, which were drawn for by lot, to
Mgirls of the various parishes, and his
ess having. granted audiences, walked
about the town visiting. monasteries and convents,'
and dined, set off again for Macerate, where he
arrived about seven o clock the same evening, sail
where his reception was most splendid, even the
weather having become favourable. In this city,
the capital of the province of La Mama, our last
accounts leave his holiness.
The grandest affair of the whole journey is
expected to be the Pope's solemn entry into Bologna,
on or about the 30th of this month, for which occa-
sion the municipal council of that city has voted
60,000 scudi; an ample private subscription has
been set on foot also, and many of the richer resi-
dents are puttin themselves to great personal
expense besides. g_ Two state carriages and twenty-
four horses of the pontifical stud have been for-
warded from Rome for this purpose, and supplemen-
tary detachments of noble guards and Swiss
halberdiers.
Some clandestine publications have been distri-
buted in the provinces, exhorting the inhabitants not
to applaud the Pope. on his journey A man memed
Bonvicini has been imprisoned in Rome on simpisien
of being the author of one of these doeementa.
Bane of the political exiles who have remedy re-