The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-02-12

LETTER FROM PARIS.
SPECIAL CONTINENTAL CORRESPONDENCE or THE
EVENING TELEGRAPH.
PARIS, January %, 1867.
The CrOwninE OF the Ediace.


has just been taken by the Emperor, it can
not be concealed that the wishes of the nation
at large are not completely satisfied. Rehec-
ton will no doubt serve to show its practical
value, but for some days past hope had risen
so high in the public mind that the first inn
preston will be one more akin to disappoint-
ment than to satisfaction. The right of
address, conferred by the decree of the Oath of
November, is completely suppressed. We
would have preferred that it should have been
allowed to remain for the first session of each
Legislature. But however that may be, the
right of Interpolation and the presence of the
Ministers in the Chambers does not appear to
us to be a compensation for the absence of all
discussion on the address.
We have no grounds, as yet, for forming a
judgment respecting the limits within which
the right of public meeting will be permitted.
A bill on this subject will have to be laid before
the Legislature. The honor of taking the first
step belongs to the Emperor, and we shall see
whether the Legislative body will give a libe-
raj Interpretation to the purpose of the sove-
reign. Are we to believe that the sole change
which will be made in the laws respecting the
press will be the transfer to the Correctional
welded by the Government? That a journal
should not be liable to be warned suspended
or stopped by simple administrative act is
without doubt, an important concession; but if
these powers be transferred in their whole ex-
tent to the tribunals just named, the press will
have before it an irresponsible judge in the
place of one who was accountable to public
opinion, and its material condition will not be
really changed Does the Government intend
to maintain the necessity for ministerial autho-
rization, the deposits of caution-money, and
the fiscal duties which weigh upon journals
On the explanations which may be given upon
these different points, and the practical apph-
cation which may be made of the principles
laid down in the Emperors letter, will depend
the final impression which public opinion will
retain respecting these important measures.
The New Bill the Press I'm France.
The first corollory of the new constitutional
reforms in France will be the presentation to
the legislative body OF bill ON the press. We
learn that this is already being drawn up, and
will be submitted Immediately to the eXamina-
ton of the Council of State. The probability
is that the principal provisions will be taken
from the act of the 22d of March, 1922 which
also submitted Ofenses of the press to the Cor
rectional jurisdiction The notifications which
are to be introduced into the legislation on the
press will doubtless have, for consequence, to
suppress the previous authorization at present
required for starting political journal. In
conformity with the Emperor's letter, bill
on the regulation of the right of meeting is
being actually drawn up. 1t is expected to be
shortly laid before the Council of State, in
order to be submitted to the Chambers in the
early part of the session, at the same time as
that on the press.
The Russian Paternal Government
The Government of St. Petersburg is now
holding down poor Poland with an iron hand.
Our correspondent in Warsaw writes us that,
since the rupture of diplomatic relations
between Rome and st. Petersburg, and the
breaking up Of the Concordat which subsisted
between Russia and the Holy See the Catholic
clergy of that country are in an extremely diff
cult position. There is no longer any ques-
tiOn of the free exercise of Roman Catholic
worship; and the assertion may be made with
out exaggeration that, from the bishops down
to the country cure, the entire clergy are
placed under the surveillance of the most inter-
meddling police in Europe The schismatic
clergy, with which the Russian Government
has infested the country, cannot declare that
sermons should be preached in the Catholic
churches whilst they are forbidden in the
Roman Greek Church.
In every discourse from the pulpit the Mus
covite clergy and the police send out political
illusions, and threaten the preachers with
exile to Siberia. A cure of the district of
Sandomez quite recently informed our cor
respondent that the head of the police in that
town had just prohibited priest from preach
ing on the Sabbath if he did not wish to be
sent to Warsaw in chains. Whoever knows
how profoundly the Catholic faith is rooted in
the hearts of the. Polish people, will easily
understand how greatly this system of violence
has excited public opinion against the Govern
ment of st. Petersburg III the kingdom of
Poland.
M. Rouher and the Holy See.
The latest accounts from the Holy City inform
us that everything is quiet in Rome, which is
source of uneasiness to the Cardinals, as it is
well known that the Democratic committee is
actively at work. The French Minister of
Foreign Affairs has sent note to the Holy
See urging it to abolish the custom house bar
rers by means of an arrangement with the
King of Italy, and to secularize the Govern
ment completely in the provinces of Frorinore
Velletr, and Vertubi; moreover, to grant
greater freedom to the municipality of Rome.
A Military Execution In Paris.
great sensation has been caused in Paris by
the execution of the two Corscan soldiers,
Ciosi and Agostini, for the murderous attack
in a wine shop on man named Vitte, at Cham
perret some weeks since. They were both
Shot a few days ago. at Vincennes. After
hearing Mass in the chapel, Ciosi asked for a
morsel of bread and a glass of brandy, and
both culprits were supplied; the former also
smoked cigar on his way to the place OF
execution. Agostini's fortitude failed him at
the last moment, and he had to be bound to
a post on the ground. Ciosi maintained his
GOODNESS to the last confessed his guilt, and
said he was ready to die. At his request, his
eyes were not bandaged. AT the hrst sho'