The Express.
London, England, 1861-02-25 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS. SUNDAY En0(1110.

The latest and presumably most authentic news
of the long deferred " address" is to be found in
the following paragraph of the Moniteur :

The labours of the committed, in the Senate and Corps
Legidatif, charged to draw up the addressee to the Em-
peror, are in a very advanced date. It is thought that the
draft of the Senate's address may be read at a public sitting
on Monday, and that the debate, which in the old Chamber
of Peers was wont to be opened on the day after the reading
of the draft, will begin on Wednesday at farthest. As to the
Corps Legislatif, it is thought that the draft of the com-
mittee will be presented to the assembly early in the week.
The Patric is requested by M. Aug. Chevalier to
contradict the statement made "in several foreign
and provincial journals," that he has been pro-
visionally charged with the political direction of
the Constitutionnel and Pays. The fact is, I believe,
that the negotiation which was set on foot with M.
A. Chevalier on this subject has gone off. I hear,
however, that M. de Persigny intends to get pos-
session of those two journals for the government
service.

It has been stated that the Abbd Maret, a priest
of Gallican opinions, lately nominated by the
Emperor to the see of Vannes, has declined
the preferment, out of deference to the Pope, who
refuses to confirm the appointment. The Patric,
however, gives a " positive " contradiction to the
report of his resignation, and as this contradiction
is accepted as conclusive by the Monde, which is
"very sorry to hear it," I suppose there can be
no doubt about the matter. The see of Vannes
I must now remain practically vacant until either
the Pope becomes more tractable or the Emperor
shakes off the trammels of the Concordat. It
appears that the Pope has put a considerable pres-
sure upon Cardinal Morlot, the Archbishop of Paris,
to get him to resign his chaplaincy at the Tuileries
and his seat in the Senate, by way
of shaking off the dust from his feet as a
testimony against the Emperor. But the Cardinal
very cunningly tells the Pope that if he resigns
any of his offices he must make a clean job of it
and give up his archbishopric as well as the rest.
This does not suit the Pope's book, because he
knows the Emperor would put a decided Galilean
at the head of the diocese of Paris, and so Mgr.
Morlot remains at his post.
The Prune says of the Bishop of Orleans' letter
to M. de la Guerronnibre, " the style is vigorous,
the phraseology happy, and the arguments old."
M. Peyrat will reply to the letter in the Prase tO-
-

The Pays learns from Rome that the Pope has
placed on a proscription list the names of twenty-
five ringleaders of the manifestation on the Corso
which hailed the fall of Gaeta.

Whenever the Emperor finds his schemes for in-
terference in foreign countries seriously thwarted,
his favourite device is to cry out for a congress.
If you won't trust me to act by myself (he says), let
us do it together ; if you doubt the wisdom of my
advice, I am ready to appeal to Europe ; and forth-
with the government journals yelp in chorus that
there never was anything like the candour and
moderation of the Emperor. But it will not soon
be forgotten that, in answer to one of these fami-
liar, dodges, Lord John Russell stigmatised a
European congress, viewed as a tribunal for coer-
cing other nations, as a "tyrannical areopagus,"
the principle of which was inimical to all liberty.
At this moment there are pretty evident symptoms
that the French scheme of permanently occupying
Syria met with a check in the conference
held in Paris the other day, and now the
journals have got the office to go in for an
armed European intervention in Turkey. There is
no disguising the fact, says the Presse, that Turkey
is a minor under the guardianship of Europe. The I
first thing to be done is " that Europe should take
up an armed position in the heart of the Turkish
empire. In substance Europe is a federation, and
a federal intervention is what France proposes. It
is impossible that she should not obtain it." The
Pays speaks precisely in the same sense.

PARIS, SATURDAY Emma.
The Bishop of Orleans has sent his promised
answer to the Guerronniere pamphlet to the press.
It is in the form of a letter to the Viscount de la
Cluerroniere, and begins as follows :
Monsieur le Vicomte,-1 have read your new pamphlet,
" La France, Rome, et l'ltalie," and I am deeply grieved
to see such a cause supported by you. I am more particu-
larly sorry when I think, not of your talent, and character,
but of your functions. You are the director of the prem,
and you write with the permission, mud consequently with
the authorisation, of the Ministerof the lotenor. Hitherto
the veil thrown over the anonymous pamphlets which pre-
ceded this one of yours reduced us to conjectures—-
choly conjectures, indeed; but we had no positive proof.
Now we have the certainty that you are authorised by the
government ; the government thinks it right and proper
that the sovereign pontiff, already so unfortunate, should
be denounced to public opinion by_a councillor of state.
The Bishop then follows M. de la Guerronnihre
through his history of the Papacy during the last
ten years refuting every proposition as he goes
along. lie maintains that when the war against
Ares ria was undertaken the catholic party wore
duped by the Emperor's promise that he would
respect the Pope's temporal power, and by repeated
and emphatic assurances to that effect given by
M. Baroche in the Corps Legislatif, in answer to
the anxious inquiries of catholic members. He
names M. de Montalembert and M. de Fallon: as
the persons 'stigmatised by M. de la Guerroniiire
under the vague definition of the " catholic party,"
and extols the services which they formerly ren-
dered to the Emperor. He denies that the Pope
ever refused reforms, and avers that the cry for
reform in the Papal States was only a pretext for
spoliation. He taunta the Duke de Gramont for
the sneering way in which he speaks in his
despatches of the " pious Bretons," who went
to Rome to offer their services to the Pope, and
gives it to be understood that it was entirely owing
to the "church party," now contemned and re-
pudiated, that the Emperor was enabled to "pass
triumphantly through the ranks of these same
pious Bretons" on the occasion of a recent tour.
His letter, which breathes the spirit of the church
militant, concludes in the following terms :
Frame, which beyond all doubt has hitherto shown more'
love for Piedmont than for the Pope, may yet defend the
Pope. Will she do so! Tell us, sir ; tear the veil which
coyote your recent words, explain this indecent mystery,
renounce these involved phrases and this unworthy equivo-
cation. What ! " Italy and the temporal papacy have not
yet found the conditions of their equilibrium," say you.
Either these words are devoid of meaning or they infer I
know not what impossible combination. The time has gone
by when, as was proposed by the " Pape et le Coupes,"
the Holy Father was to be left with Rome and a garden.
Piedmont now requires Rome for its parliament and for
Victor Einmatiners residence. The Pope will have nothing
left but his garden and his house. In other words, the tem-
pond power will be abolished ; the Pope and thecardinals will
receive a salary and be provided with • lodging. You do not
propound this consequence, sir, but everybody deduces it
from what you have written. You know history, Monsieur
le Vicomte. Charlemagne would not make the Pope his
chaplain—the Pope would not be chaplain to the great
Napoleon. and you suppose that a Pope is capable of being
the chaplain of Victor Emmanuel! The power which France
made, which France restored, which centuries have re-
spected—that independent see of the Pontiff of the human
race which Paris would not cede to Vienna, nor Vienna to
Madrid, sow Madrid to Munich, you propose to convert into
a Piedmonts., probed ! And then, because we consider
this power, which you would abolish, as essential to the in-
dependence of our faith, you scrum us of confounding tem-

peril thinp with spiritual. We are party men, the court
of Rome is misguided and obstinate. You counsel an ire.
possibility, and then you h Rome for repudiating
your advice. Be sincere au:dere:reel, air. Follow out your
arguments to their legitimate conclusion. One may have two
policies, but not two conclusions. Now you have two. De.
aide which you will adhere to. If you wish for the mainte-
nance of the pontifical sovereignty, frankly advise the Em-
peror's government not to allow Piedmont to lay a finger upon
it. If the abolition of that ancient power is your aim; if is
these sad times, when public morality often receives such rude
shocks, the mast august representative of faith and Christisii
morsht7 is to be sacrificed, say so ; if that be your opinion
uphold it. But at a moment when your pamphh t may rill
up the measure of the undeserved misfortune' of the Pope,
at a moment when it may encourage France to abandon the
temporal power of the holy see and encourage Piedmont to
attack its—ah, at least do not lend words to insult the
victim Frux, Bishop of Orleans.
It is understood that the Bishop of Orleans has
sent his letter round to the other bishops of France,
asking for their adhesion. I only hear of two who
have refused their signatures.
A French bishop who has lately had an inter-
view with the Pope gives out that his Holiness is
firmly resolved not to quit Rome under any cir-
cumstances whatsoever, and reports the following
as the substance of a statement made by the Pope
in the course of conversation. The Pope has not
the leant doubt that sooner or later France ma
withdraw her troops, and that the Piedmotitee
will take possession of his small remaining territory.
But this " crowning act of spoliation" will in no
way change the conduct of the Holy Father. " 1
may perish," be says, "but the papacy will not
perish. I may suffer martyrdom, but the day will
come when my successors will enter into the full
possession of their nights. Saint Peter was crucified,
and yet I am here." It being remarked to the
Sovereign Pontiff that he would very soon be
penniless, he replied that he was quite devoid of
anxiety upon that subject, since he should always
be sure of finding three francs a day to live upon,
and that was all he wanted.

The ex-King of the Two Sidlies, in declining to
swept the chateau of Pau for his residence, is
reported to have made use of the following words
to M. de Gramont :—" I cannot accept this kind
offer. The Emperor Napoleon is my natural ad-
versary. The Bonapartes cannot love the Bonr.
bons. But I declare this, that the Emperor of tho
French is the only sovereign who has held out a
hand to me in my distress.'
It appears to be quite decided that Francis 11.
and his Queen will not go to Spain at present. The
Spanish government feels hurt that he should have
preferred to make his exit from Gaeta in a French
ship rather than in the one which Queen Isabella
had in waiting for him. According to the latest
news, their Neapolitan Majesties will leave Rome
on February 28 for Bavaria, and will take up their
residence at the Chateau de Bans, near Lichtenfels,
a picturesque old abbey, well known to tourists,
situate at a abort distance from Munich, and
belonging to Duke Maximilian of Bavaria, the
father of the young Queen.
According to accounts coming from • credible
source, Prussia and Austria in the late conference
were far from giving to the French project for a
prolonged occupation of Syria that support which
was expected—or rather pretended to be expected
—by France. The period of two or three months
longer which has been spoken of is not a concession
to, but a restriction of, French pretensions. The
Porte very firmly insists upon not granting more,
and that upon the ground only of the convenience
of the French army—not upon the necessity of its
presence in Syria for another hour. Lord Cowley
warmly supported the views of the Turkish pleni-
potentiary. M. Thouvenel is very sulky about the
matter, and it is hard to say what will come of
it. There is a report that the Grand Vizier u
coining to London and Paris on a special mission.

The Opinion Nationale, in the following depre•
catory paragraph, announces that England is press.
jug France to join her in making war upon Japan
We are assured that England, who is always ready to
take France for an ally to further her own interests, is now
proposing " a common expedition against Japan." The
Opinion NatioNak said the other day what it thought of
the Japanese people, of their merits, and of the injuries
they have suffered by their contact with European. We
mama that we cannot comprehend the utility of the pro-
posed campaign, for which them seema to be no appreciable
ressoo and the only result of which would be to ruin our
commercial prospects in that quark", and to make us
hated in the East.

The Bourse was steady to-day, but with very
little business doing. The Rente closed at yester-
day's prima. Mobilier fell 1.25. The railways
were a shade higher. The Caisse Mires rose nearly
10f., closing at 90. There is no confirmation of a
report that M. Rothschild and other bankers were
likely to buy up the Roman railways, the port of
Marseilles, and other undertakings of M. M'ires
The Bulletin de Paris says that out of the 500 mil-
lions which Mires undertook to get for the Turkish
loan he only realised 250.