The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-13 00:00:00

IS, 1861.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, MONDALE EVENING.

The following lithographed correspondence,which
will be Rent from Paris this evening to the offices
of all the provincial journals, goee to confirm the
important news which I was enabled to send you
on Friday last :

Although M. de ]tirade is still minister, I have reason to
know that the cabinets of Paris and Turin are unceasingly
pursuing negotiations with the pontifical government far •
solution of the Roman question. It is even affirmed to-day
that the solution has been found, and as this good news
reaches me from a very sure source, I think myself war-
ranted in seodiug it to you. It is believed that the papacy
will be °unlined to the Leonine city ; that the Pope will
have a noble guard, and a flag with the pontifical arms ; a
considerable budget, the right to send as heretofore ►pos-
tolic nuncios to the courts of the great powers, and that his
spiritual authority and independence will be guaranteed in
the most complete manner. On these conditions it is ex-
pected that the French army will be recalled from Roma
towards the end of September. I need not nay that I give
these rumours under all reserve.

The Presse observes upon a denial of the Condi-
ttstionnel that there is to be a mixed French and
Italian garrison in Rome :—" This is of no impor-
tance ; public opinion cares little about the means ;
what it wants is the end."

A Turin letter of the 9th confirms the report
that Father Passaglia has come thither to take
soundings with a view to a compromiee, and says
that this jesuit, seeing that St. Peter's bark must
go down, is trying at least to save the oars.
Great importance is attached to the rejection by
the Court of Cessation of the appeal of the Abbe
Lhemeau. The Supreme Court decides that a
priest may be prosecuted for words spoken in the
"exorcise of his functions" without the permission
of the Council of State. This judgment, says the
Pays, will teach a certain class of priests that they
must not convert the pulpit into a political tribune
and spout newspaper articles in the guise of ser-
mons.

For several weeks past the legitimist and clerical
journals—the terms are now synonymous—the
Monde, Union, and Ga:xtle de France, have resorted
to a system of " eaormons lying," for the purpose
of inducing the belief that at least nine-tenths of
the population of the late kingdom of Naples are
dying of love for Francis 11., and that all the
chivalry, loyalty, and honesty of the country is up
in arms against the " Piedmontese invaders." It
is a significant symptom of the present temper of
the French government, that the Pays—quantum I
mutates since the recent time when Grainer de
Cassagnac defended the Pope, sneered at Italy, and
cursed "the revolution" in its columns—contains
an elaborated article intended to discredit all these
fables. The Pays says :
To what category belong individuals who plunder travel-
lers, break into houses. and lay hands upon whatever they
think worth carrying away ? What name is to be given to
men who stop carriages on the highway, rob the midi,
murder couriers, and levy forced contributions upon pew.
able inhabitants! Such achievements as these usually
bring their authors to the bar of a criminal court. The
law calls these acts murder, brigandage, and highway rob-
bery, and the people who commit them bandits or brigands.
That is ordinary language—that is the language of the
penal code. Now, what are the exploits of the men who,
at this moment, infest the Abruzzi, the Calabria, and the
&idling., and are bunted by carabineen and national
guards? What appellation can be given to this agglomera-
tion of malefactors, escaped from prisons and bulls--Swim
and Bavarian soldiers, whose antecedents prevent them from
going home—deserters run away from courts-martial, and
adventurers who have nothing to lose! The Monde
treats them as heroes ; they are " the defenders
of the throne and the altar," a "faithful and religious
population rising in arms to put down revolutionary crimes."
These brigands, who are now endeavouring to turn to
account the disorder inseparable from a change of govern-
ment, were prescriptively in possession of the highway.
during the reign of the Bourbons. It is a characteristic of
unpopular governments that they employ the public force in
oppressing good citizens and repressing opinion, while the
real euemies of order meet with impunity. The Bourbons
of Naples had plenty of gendarmes to arrest citizens accused
of liberalism, but they had none to spare to protect life sad
property on the public read. Just in the same way the
Bourbons of France, at a certain epoch, had soldiers to exe-
cute the judgment of the prevotal courts, but either could
could not or would not find any to check the career of a
Trestaillon. The brigandage which now devastates a part of
the kingdom of Naples, and which the Italian govern.
ment will soon get the better of, is • legacy from the
Bourbon dynasty. The heroes which the Monde
trandorm into defenders of the throne and the
altar care as little for Francis 11. as they do for Victor
Emmanuel. They rob for the sake of robbery, and they
murder in order the easier to rob. Since the organisation
of these bands they have not performed a single feat of
war. Their acts are acts of brigandage, and nothing more.
Nut a town, not a village, has pronounced in their favour.
They consist of flying columns without root or sympathy is
the population. They do mischief as they pea ; but as
soon as they are gone tranquillity is restored, and the re-
membrance of their crime leaves no contagion. The noblest
and most just cause would be disgraced by such defenders.
The Monde, however, claims them as partisans of Sour-
bonist legitimacy—a melancholy muse, which, seeing the
miserable expedients it has recourse to we should regard
as desperate, even if we did not know that through its
unpopularity it has long since received its death blow.
The Bourse was buoyant. Bente, after some
fluctuations, closed with a fall of sc. for cash and
a rise of 10c. for account, at 68fr. 25c. and 68fr.
35c. ; Mobilier rose 22fr. 50c. The Orleans Rail-
way rose Mr. ; Northern, 2fr. 50c. ; Lyons, 6fr.
25c. ; Southern, 6fr. 25c. ; and Eastern, 2fr. 50c.
Western was without change.
The Charivari makes some critical remarks
worthy of notice upon Count Walewaki's theatrical
circular, the scope of which I reported yesterday.
The minister's object appears to be to prevent
"confusion " between different kinds of dramatic
entertainments and to arrest the "decline of the
drains." In the first place, the Charirari does not
see the evil of the mixture of genre, which is so
much dreaded, and by way of illustration submits
that if Racine's Plaideurs, or Moliere's Pre-
cituses Ridicules were read, for the first
time, in the green-room of the Thiatre
Francais at the present day, they would
assuredly be rejected as not belonging to the
" legitimate drama." It is no answer to say that
those pieces are chefs-cPreurre, that argument would
only prove that the species of drama is a matter of
indifference, and the talent of the author every-
thing. Then, again, the reading committee of the
" Francais" is enjoined to reject a piece written
" with a view to the Vaudeville or the Gymnase."
How is the committee to know the fact 7 Is it to
be guided by internal or external evidence 7 It is
further inquired what justification can be alleged
for compelling the minor theatres to interlard their
pieces with siuging,—with " couplets," as the cir-
cular says. These couplets have gone out of
fashion, and to reimpose them by decree is as un-
reasonable as to pass a sumptuary law enacting
that all the world should wear the costume of our
grandfathers. Many theatres, such as the Gymnaae
and the Vaudeville, have greatly raised the cha-
racter of their plays of late years. What
public object can be served by introducing into
dramatic regulations the novelty of coupletswritten
and sung by order 1 Although it may be possible
by authority to degrade the minor theatres, does
it logically follow that there will be more wit and
imagination and better style at the Francais. and
the Odeon 1 The Char;rari takes leave to doubt it.

The Court of Caseation has rejected an appLAI
of Messrs. Havaaßullier, against a judgment of
the Imperial Court of Bordeaux, which had de•
cided that the reproduction by a journal of tele-
graphic despatches published by another journal
which subscribes to that agency,does not cunstitute
any attack on the rights of the latter. This deci-
sion now establishes definitively the point that a
despatch falls into the public domain the moment
it has been published.
A correspondent from Eaux-Bonney writes on the
9th :

The Empress arrived here two evenings tack at five,
and waa received with enthusiastic cheer.. Tweety-four

mountaineers, in their

costumes, went to

meet her Majesty, and though the rain fell in torrents at
the time great numbers of people were out to witness her
arrival. The prefect of the Buses-Pyrenees, who was
paring through the town on his way home
from a conference of prefects ►t Bordeaux, dined
with her majesty in the evening. As on previous
occasions, her majesty lives in strict incognito. Mme.
de Lourmel and the Marquise de Lagrange compose
her whole suite. The Empress was happy to and at Fiat.
Bonne* the children of her lamented sister the Duchess
d'Albe, a son and two danghters,who peas part of every day
with her. Faux-Bonne, has assumed quite another aspect
since last year. The bare grass plota and stunted trees of
the English Garden have been replaced by verdant lawns
and evergreens ; while seats have been placed in all the
walks. At the entrance of the garden a plaster model of a
monumental column, to be hereafter executed in marble,
has been erected, bearing one side the inscription—" The
English Garden restored by order of the Empress," and the
other, " The grateful town of Eaux-Boons."

" There has been question for some time past,"
says the Cons f ifutionnd , " of certain changes in the
diplomatic corps. We are now able to announce
them with certainty. General de Montebello is
going to Constantinople to compliment the Sultan
in the name of the Emperor. The Marquis de
Banneville is named political director at the minis-
try of foreign affairs. M. Benedetti is appointed
minister plenipotentiary at Turin. Count de Re-
culot will replace the Marquis de Banneville at
Munich. M. de Damrimont is to replace Count
de Recnlot at Stuttgardt."