The Express. — 1867-11-02 (London, England)

CONTEMPORARIES.  (THIS DAY.)  To the Timei the threatened conflict in Italy seems to be for the present averted, and leisure is gained for negotiations. The late encyclical letter shows that there can be no compromise with the Pope, and events must take their course without him. In 1859 he could not resign his sovereignty over the legations. In the following year he could not put up with the lore of the Marches and Umbria. Now, too, he will say " Non possuntus" to the cession of Viterbo, Frosinone, and Velletri. Before long he will be equally restitf against the fate which bids him be satisfied with the Vatican and a garden. The Daily News entertains • hope that France and Italy will now be able to arrange the terms on which the Pope may be relieved of his temporal sovereignty and the French of the burden of the occup►tion. The Herald says there will be • unanimous assent amongst all classes of Englishmen to the sentence of death pronounced upon the five Fenians yesterday at Manchester. The Post also looks upon the sentence rui the first step in the right direction. Let no misjudged leniency sacrifice the national security to • morbid sentimentalism for • patriotism which is a falsehood. The Telegraph ways the verdict, solemn in itself, will acquire additional solemnity from the ratification of the British nation. The crime was simply a vulgar, dastardly murder. It was vengeance wreaked upon one of the humblest agents of justice, and no sophistry in the world, no appeals to false patriotism, can raise the crime above the rank of ordinary assassination, or beguile mankind to bestow the slightest pity upon the convicted felons. The Standard puts in • plea for the unfortunate man Green who has been sentenced to 20 years' penal servitude for attempting to discharge • pistol against his wife, whom he had detected in a criminal intrigue with a young man lodging in his house. Nobody would have felt very sorry if the jury bad stretched a point or two in favour of the poor fellow who sat, overwhelmed with grief, whilst the case against him was proved by the wife who had brought herself to shame, and him to ruin. With the crown, acting through its responsible ministers, it now rests to exercise the prerogative of mercy, and the Standard trusts that poor Green may speedily receive an intimation that be has been deemed • proper subject for • remission in harmony with that prerogative.  the members of the established church, do not as a body support its claims. A few perhaps may incline in its favour ; but it has been shown that many influential voices amongst them oppose it strenuously ; and—what is even more significant—that the establishment has been losing support and converting adherents into enemies. That it should have thrown itself into the arms of the Orange Society may perhaps be excused on the plea that it only follows a natural instinct. Its identification with Orange. ism, however, disposes at once of various arguments based on its assumed acceptance by the nation at large. No one can say that Orangeism is popular with the Irish people ; and the church establishment, which has chosen to cast its lot with Orangeism, would clearly have destroyed its popularity with the nation, if popularity it had ever had. This, however, was never anything but a pleasant fiction ; and the expression of the sentiments of protestant dissenters in ulster has sufficed to scatter the last shreds of it to the winds, and to isolate the institution which has relied on it for support.