The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-30 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS. SUNDAY EVINING.

Several journals have lately stated that the Em-
peror had disapproved of a note (or, as it has been
called, an ultimatum) which Baron Rieasoli pro-
posed to send to the Pope, and in which guarantees
for his spiritual power were offered very much
in the terms set forth in the recent pamphlet.
This statement has a foundation in fact, but is so
far from correct as to mislead very seriously.
Drafts of the note in question have repeatedly been
submitted to the Emperor at Biarritz, through M.
Thouvenel, and on each occasion the Emperor
found something to object to. But so far from
his having definitively rejected Baron Rhasoli's
proposals, he is endeavouring to come to
an understanding with him, and the nego-
tiations are still going on. lam given to un-
derstand that the last despatch on the subject from
Biarritz stated that the matter must stand over till
the Emperor returned to Paris. I presume, also,
that nothing decisive will be done till after the
visit of the King of Prussia, but then I think it
will be taken very seriously in hand. This infor-
mation coincides with the statement I felt justified
in noticing a few days ago, that an important
council es Italian affairs would be held at the
Tuileries before the middle of next month.

It is said by the Patric that the Chinese govern-
ment, not having yet permitted Prussia to have a
resident minister at Pekin, the French minister has
taken charge of the interests of Prussian subjects
in that capital.
It is now pretty certain that the King of Den-
mark will not visit France this year, but it is said
that M. Dotezac, one of his ministers, will repre-
sent him, in order to settle the tedious Holstein
affair in concert with the King of Prussia.
" Settle " seems to me too strong a word, but it
may be that laudable attempts at a settlement will
be made.

The applications to the French committee for
the London Universal Exhibition have lately been
so numerous that it has been found necessary to
engage several extra clerks.
M. Plichon, the ultr•montanist deputy, who
played second fiddle to K Keller last year, has
just married the daughter of M. BoiteUe, the
Prefect of Police, and immediately after the wed-
ding the happy pair set out for Rome to have
their union blessed by the Pope. Thus do the
Emperor's bitterest enemies congregate around the
obstinate Pope, and conspire with him how best to
use the power which he possesses, by virtue only of
the Emperor's inexplicable toleration, for the pur-
pose of thwarting French policy. K Plichon's
friends who took part in General Lamoricibre's
unlucky expedition last year are now openly
boasting in Paris that their parole (I speak of those
who were made prisoners by Cialdini), which was
only given for a year, has expired, and that they
are now free to fight for the Pope again. They
got np a report the other day that Lamoriciere
was already in Rome; but that story was not true,
and I think I may undertake to say that Lamoricihre
is too thankful to have got clear out of the Roman
mesa to repeat the mistake which has so woefully
damaged his reputation.
M. Loubat, a late Mayor of Sevres, settled an
annual sum of 300 fr. on the occasion of his retire-
ment from office, to be distributed in prizes among
the communal schools of the village. One of these
prizes was 50fr. to be given to the " best child" in
the school, who should be so designated by the
vote of the children themselves. This year the
prize in question was duly voted by an immense
majority of the school to a little girl named Hen-
rietta Foras. But the Vicar of Sevres, a priest
named Heb4rt, had the impudence to object against
all law and justice that Henrietta could not be
allowed to receive the prize " because she was •
protestant " The lay members of the trustee-
ship after • feeble resistance acquiesced in this sug-
gestion, for which you must understand there is
not a shadow of pretext in the terms of the
donation, or in the law applicable to such trusts.
Some protestant ladies at Sevres, struck with the
flagrant injustice done, subscribed a purse of
50fr. for the girl, and they made it an additional
grievance that the authorities refused to allow
her to receive it publicly on the day of
the annual distribution of prizes. Ido not think
this a matter for public complaint, but I agree with
the Opinion .Nationale that there must be something
very rotten in the administration of the duties of
the ministry of public instruction and worship,
when, under the very park walls of St. Cloud, a
mayor and an assistant-mayor should abet a catho-
lie priest in making protestantiam a ground for ex-
clusion from civil advantages. By the French con-
stitution and code the protestant religion is in the
eye of the law altogether equal with the catholic,
and if the Romish priests have become so rampant
and overbearing of late years, the fact is only to be
attributed to the sufferance of the Emperor, who
might very easily keep them within legal bounds,
without at all infringing ou their own reasonable
liberty.
One of the principal equestrians at the Hippo-
drome hanged himself this morning rather than
break off a Goison with a mistress whose extrava-
gant follies his income, though large, was insufficient
to gratify. There is a fatality about the Hippo-
drome this year ; only a short time ago the cashier
committed suicide.

tiEktMAN 1.

The Germanic Diet will not resume its sittings
until the 31st October, in place of the 24th, as at
first appointed.

M. Zia Bismark-Schonhausen„ the Prussian envoy
to the court of Russia, has arrived at Berlin from
Frankfort. Count Karolyi, the Austrian envoy to
the Prussian court, has also arrived from Cologne.
The Cologne Gautte says :
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We learn on positive authority that the Prince Schwarz.
burg Rutlolstadt is about to sbdicate, and to many a young,
lady of the middle class of society named Schultz, of &rows-
bug. The abdication is to take place about the middle of
November, and the prince intends to reside with hie bride
on an estate he possesses near Dresden. The prince is 68
years of age and the lady 23. His highness is greatly
esteemed by his subjecte. He contented himself with a
civil list of 100,000 florins, and with 38,6478. from the
crown domains for his family • and the rest of the revenue
of the domains, which is considerable, he, of his own free
will, made over to the state. He will be succeeded by his
brother, Prince Albert, bona in 1798.

A letter from liruchsal of the 25th says that
Becker had expressed hisdeterminationnottoappeal
against his sentence. As each prisoner must choose
a trade to work at when in prison, he has selected
that of a carpenter.

It is related that a few days since M. Jourte, the
Swiss Plenipotentiary at Turin, had occasion to call on U
Hicasoli, about some eoclesiitatioal affair. When entering
the minister's bureau he met • well•knowo Hungarian
militaire coming out, but at the time was not particularly
struck with the circumstance. In stating his business to
Ricssoli the latter did not seem to heed what he said, bat
remained, to the astonishment of his visitor, absent and
frowning, and suddenly getting up, with au expression of
energy, exclaimed, "No, cartes! It shall never be said of
us that we abandoned Hungary when her time of trouble
cams."