The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-04 00:00:00

TUE POPE'S CONCORDAT WITH TILE LINO

OF WU RTILMBERO.

(mow ova own cosamoroPolurf.)

ROCS, Avers? 11.
In my letter of the Jed August 1 informed yes
that in the consistory, held at Bologna on diatoms.
leg 'Moire, would be made by his Holiness to tar.
thi r treaties with some of the German Powers.
The teat of the convention then announced between
the Holy See and the government of Wurtemberg
hs just sprevetd in the ()flew! Gazette. After
the official preliminaries, the Ant article establishes
the continuation of existing treaties respecting the
gsahorne of Itothenberg. Art. 2 prescribes the
formula of the bishop's oath of fealty to the
King, to be sworn " shut deco Episcopum."
Art 3. Me royal government is to endow the 'I
bishopric with ,rnmoveable prwerty as soon as eir- I'
mnstance. will allow. Art. 4. The bishop is to
govern hi. diocese according to the sacred canons
approved of by the Holy See, especially in the con-
Iltriment of benefices (excepting those of private
laspatronano.); the nomination of his vicar, coun-
sellors, and assessors; the appointment and diem-
eon of wholutie examinations, the conferment of
mend orders, the regulation of religious rites, the
sonvocation of diocesan synods, the right of attend-
bit provincial councils, and of establishing religious
ertlen of both sexes, after due consultation with the
royal government. Art. 5. The bi'shop's tribunal is
to gin e v Mince in all ecclenadical and matrimonial
ellUges, referring the civil effects of the latter to the
secular judge, and to censure lay transgreseors of
sechraiastic-al laws. The Holy See consents that the
secular courts shall judge in mite mixing from pri-
vate juspat roller iss, and (" temporom rations Sabine)
in merely cis it snits of eccleeisaties' and also that
criminal suits against ecclesiastics shall be judged
by the secular tribunal, whose acts, however, are to
be communicated to the bishop in mess of sentences
',death or prolonged imprisonment. Art. 6 stn-
Wishes freedom of communication, on ecclesiastical
imetters, h.tween the bishop, clergy, and people,
with the Holy See, all whose ordinances are to be
published without the previous inspection or appro-
bation of the royal government. Art. 7. The hahop
is to watch over the religious education of catholic
youth in blic and private schoole, and appoint the
religiose .ks tabs used, likewise to nominate the
niligioas instructors. Art. 8. The bishop may erect
a seminary, according to the Council of Trent,
the administration and direction of which will be
subject to his authority, and the professors named or
Removed at his pleasure. Until this is done, in the
existing government colleges, the bishop is to have
the right of inspecting the religious education and
domestic discipline, conferring with government if
be consider any change necessary, and the govern.
ment making no change without previously confer-
gig with the bishop, who is also to appoint or remove
the rectors and repeaters, avoiding such as ate not
acceptable to the government. Art. 9. The catholic
theological focally of the Royal University is placed
under the entire rule and inspection of the bishop.
Art. 10. Ecclesiastical property is to be sacred and
halienable, but liable to taxes like other property,
Use administrator of church Footway to make an-
nual reports to the bishop. The present
'system of administration to be maintained.
bet in name and by authority of the
bishop. Vacant benefices to be administered
bya mixed commission of catholic-li, half named by
bishop, and half by the royal government, and
rd over by the bishop, or his delegate—the
to be entirely appropriated to ecclesiastical
purposes. Art. 11. The bishop is to have direct
sommunication with all the royal magistrates. Art.
It AU royal edicts or laws contrary to the present
convention are to be abrogated. Art. 13. Any
Mature misunderstanding is to be arranged
rantiable, and ratifications to be exchanged in two
months from the date of the convention, April 8,
1837, signed in Rome by the plenipotentiaries, Car-
dinal Reisach and Baron De Ow. The Pope's apos-
tolic letter, dated at Bologna on the 14th of the
blends of 1017, winds up with the usual magnilo-
%sent phrases to favour of the convention, and me-
naces any one attempting to infringe it with " the
indignation of Almighty God, and his blessed &poe-
tise Peter and Paul.

Bach is the substance of this treaty between the
Holy See anal the protestant government of Wur-
lemtbmg.
Here we are getting all the festive demonstrations
it readiness far the reception of his Holiness next
latarday, sad pasteboard architecture is in rapid
rgilin the form of arches and colonnades. It
nied that a loan has been concluded with
Mews. R4thschild, the ratification of which is ex-
pected from Paris. The copper money now in dir-
e:elation is to be taken,by that capitalist at 4:Jbaiocchi
the chilo.

Exchange on London, 4741. goman console, 911.

DENMARK.

(ram ova OW

COPENHAGEN, Aro. 30.
Whale the Holstein ?states are engaged in de-
liberation that ere likely to have &decisive effect on
the definitive political ergeolostion of the Danish
State, a series of measures me being prepared, within
the Kingdom proper, which show that the Danish
thrrernment is willing to penes ere in the path of
by abolishing various restrictions which
itriclfirpede the free development of the social, in-
thutnal, and commercial well being of the country,
and by introducing institutions calculated to promote
the growth of liberty. The Diet of the kingdom
wall commence its sos-ion after that of the HoWele
Estates has cloyed. end eubeequently the Council of
State for the entire monarchy will assemble. To
both these latter awemblies will be submitted mea-
sures of the greatest importance, sod with which the
Public are already acquainted, the Government hav-
en allowed them to transpire, in order to Ono
?oldie opinion an opportunity of pronounce(
itself in refert nee to them. Among those
to be submitted to the Diet of the Kingdom
I may mention, as more especially deserving notice, •
law relative to the abolition of privileged corpora-
tions. and another on the introduction of trial by
jury. Regarding the latter, which has oaly trano
pired within the last few days. the public press has
not yet pronounced its opinion: but the forraer,which
has been before the public for some time, has given
rise to very warm and lively discuseions. At present,
the system of guilds sad corporation* exists here in
all its rigour as regards all handicrafts, and in a
rest swumm as regards all branches of the
Wail trade. Admission to a trade.guild can
only be obtained on condition of submitting
to two examinations or tests of skill t the

bit, if satisfactorily passed, conferring the rights of
•journesman worker, the second, those of a master;
and as time examinations, as a general rule, nece•
lilac a great expenditure of time and money, they
often render it impossible for a poor man to acquire
an independent position. As the system of pri-
vileged corporations, moreover, entails a variety
al other self-evident evils, which all act to the
detriment of industry and commerce, the Govern-
ment is perfectly right in proposing to abolish it,
and is strongly supported by enlightened public
*pinion, the communal council of the metropolis,
a body elected by the citizens, and to whom
the project has been submitted, having more espe-
lastly pronounced in its favour ; and there is thus
every reason to hope that the law will be adopted
b die Diet, although the existing corporations will
offer a most strenuous opposition to this attempt to
despoil them of their ancient and exclusive richt&
Among the measures to be submitted to the Coon-
eil of State is a revision of the existing Customs
Tariff, and probably also a law relative to the level-
ling of the ramparts and other fortified works that
narround Copenhagen. Ever since the coin-
asenorment of the present century the Danish
Customs Tariff has been numbered among the
meet liberal, the dues being principally levied
*a a mean, of revenue, and being only in a subor-
dinate degree protective. The proposed reform will
give ',still greater development to these liberal prin.
apt's, as they will abolish the protective duties
which have hitherto been levied on porcelain wares,
refined sugars, and salt ; and they will moreover
sitssimplify the existing Tariff, &y redwing tha
of articles which pay duty from 425 to 21,7.
lose reform—whiel will, without doubt, ht
nestaly wakened by the publio—are to be sub. .