The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-19 00:00:00

EXPEDITION IN THE &TRAITS OP

KEhTOII.

( From yesterday's Moniteur.)
The Minister of Marine has received from Ad-
miral Bruat a letter, dated Oct. 2, containing the
following information :

"The expedition against Taman and Phanagoria had
been postponed through various causes, and I had de-
cided on directing Commander Bouet to carry it out
with the means he already had at his disposal, and
without waiting for further orders. lam happy in being
able to announce to your Excellency that this expedition
has been completely successful, and that the results are
not without importance, for they deprive the enemy of
the basis of operations he might have selected for a
winter campaign. Taman could receive and shelter
several thousand soldiers. At Phanagoria vast edifices
might serve as hospitals or barracks.
"Commander Bouet has not yet been able to prepare
a complete report of all the circumstances attending this
expedition. I hasten, however, to transmit to your
Excellency the details he gives me.
"On the 24th of September the combined expedition
set sail from the Gulf of Kertch and steered for Taman.
Commander Bonet had collected ten gun-boats ; Captain
Hall had taken away three of them, one paddle-steamer,
and one steamer of light draft, well adapted for the con-
veyance of troops. Oa arriving off Phanagoria, Com-
mander Bouet had a few shells thrown into the interior
of the redoubt for the purpose of causing it to be
evacuated. In the meantime the gun-boats laden with
troops continued their route, and effected a landing one
mile to the east of the fort, at a spot where the cliffs are
low enough to allow the plain to be swept from the sea.
The Cossacks, however, collected from all sides, and
several araba.s were on the move, carrying off into the
interior whatever could be hastily removed. The dis-
embarkation met with no opposition. At four o'clock
in the evening. the troops were collected in the establish-
ment, which had been completely abandoned, but left
intact. Before night all the arrangements of defence
were made. The Allied troops had before them from
six to eight hundred horsemen, who retired as soon as a
few shells were thrown among them. The next morn-
ing we wore occupied with demolishing such of the
houses of Phanagoria as might furnish materials for the
construction of barracks at Cape St. Paul.
" We found at Phanagoria sixty-six pieces of cannon
and four mortars, which were already unserviceable.
At Taman we discovered eleven 24-pounders buried in
the sand, and broke up their carriages. Commander
Bouet praises highly the active and cordial co-operation
of Captain Hall and Colonel Osmond. He thought
that by the 2d or 3d of October the destruction of Taman
and Phanagoria would be complete, the removal of the
materials on Cape St. Paul finished, and that be should
be able to return with the troops and the flotilla to the
Gulf of Kertch.".

CONCORDAT BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND

THE HOLY ,SEE.

We borrow from a letter sent from Rome to the
Venice Gazette (an official journal) the following
analysis of the Concordat which has been con-
cluded between the Holy See and the Austrian
Government :

The Catholic religion shall be maintained and pro•
tected, with all the rights and prerogatives accorded to
it by the holy canons, in every part of the empire where
it dominates.

The Placetum Regium is abrogated.
The relations of the bishops with the Holy See in
spiritual affairs, the relations of the bishops with their
clergy and the people, their instructions and enjoinment*
in spiritual affairs, are free.

The nomination of the vicar and the college, the grant-
ing or refusal of ordination to such as appear unworthy
of it, the foundation or collation of curates, the institu-
tion of publie prayers, the convocation of the synods,
the publication of pastoral letters and injunctions, the
prohibition of dangerous books, belong freely to the
bishops alone.

Tile religious education of youth, the chief superin-
tendence over religious instruction, are confided to the
bishops, and subjected to an ecclesiastical inspector of
all the primary catholic schools.
Tne appointment of the catechists is confided to the
bishops, and the teaching of theology or of the canon
law is forbidden to every one without their approbation.
Ecclesiastical affairs are judged by ecclesiastical judges
according to the rules of the canons or the instructions
of the Council of Trent, and matrimonial affairs alone,
in their relations with the ecclesiastical effects of this
sacrament, are brought before the lay judges.
The bishops have the full right of punishing those
priests who transgress ecclesiastical discipline, and of
inflicting penalties upon such as violate the laws of the
church ; whereas temporal justice can only take cogni-
sance of civil affairs, and of the crimes committed by
ecclesiastics ; but in this latter case the bishop must be
previously informed.
In prisons, the ecclesiastics will be separated from lay
prisoners; in churches, the immunity will be maintained,
in so far as the public safety may permit.
The disputes of laymen with respect to patronage will
be judged by temporal judges.
Verbal or written defamation of the Catholic religion,
of the holy liturgy, as likewise of the' bishops or priests,
will be interdicted.

The bishops of the province will be heard for the pre.
sectation of new bishops to the Holy See.
All rights claimed by the bishops over the seminaries
are recognised, including their nomination of the rectors,
professors, and teachers. •
The priests are chosen from among the candidates,
the first dignitaries of the cathedral chapter are appointed
by the Holy See, should there exist no right of patron•
age, the others by the Emperor, with the exception of
those proceeding equally from the right of patronage or
being connected with the free disposal of the bishops.
The right of appointing priests to all the canonicates,
and to all the livings where a right of patronage exists,
the result of a scientific or pious foundation, belongs to
the Emperor, on condition that the election shall fall on
one of the three candidates whom the bishop shall have
proposed after a preliminary examination.
The Holy See has the full right of creating, with the
Emperor's consent, new dioceses and new parishes.
His Majesty engages to make an adequate allowance
for such livings as are not yet properly endowed.
The law relative to the property of the church will be
administered in conformity with the instructions of the
canonical institutions ; in what concerns possession, the
rules prescribed by the canons will be observed.
Free intercourse between the religious communities
and their superiors who reside at Rome are guaranteed ;
these latter will have the full right of visiting the monas-
teries of the monarchy, and of publishing 'circulars touch.
ing the discipline, Ste.
The religious orders have the right of opening novi-
ciates, bishops-that of instituting, with consent of the
Government, both menageries and convents.
The prop rLy of the church is declared sacred and in•
miolable, and the church is maintained in its full right of
acquiring property.
No suppression or sale can take place without the
intervention of the Holy see ; the rights of the bishops
remain always intact.
The estates of the church will be administered accord-
ingapTpohientreigdhftorotiliceoal iinni,ettraithtieosnios of
ravaacinantatmlievdinwg
to the canonical instructions ; a commission will be
sherever
it still exists, and his Mbajesty undertakes to procure an
endowment having legal force wherever it no longer
exists.

All other affairs, not included in this Concordat, will
be regulated in accordance with the doctrines of the
church and the regulations approved by the Holy See.
The Cuncordat is declared to be national law in per-
petuity, and it abrogates all the laws and arrangements
that hare hitherto regulated ecclesiastical affairs in the
state.

An association Las been formed at Stnttgardt (Wur-
temberg) for purchasing provisions by wholesale,
selling them to the poor at cost price.

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