The Express. — 1862-11-22 (London, England)

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.  (PION OWN OWN  PARIS, FerDAT EvJarmo.  " Prince Napoleon's pamphlet," as by anticipation it has been conventionally called, is nothing more than a collection published by the prince's secretary, M. Hubaine, with the approbation and assistance of his imperial highness, of the official and authentic documents which were referred to by him in the great speech delivered in the Senate on March 1, 1862. The public has now an opportunity of consulting at leisure a series of diplomatic papers extending ever two centuries, which prove that the most eminent French statesmen who represented France at Rome during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, uniformly pointed out the vices of the Papal government. A French court-martial at Rome has just condemned two Roman peasants to death for the murder of a soldier, named Braman, of the 19th Regiment. The soldier, with two of his comrades, was caught in the fact of stealing grapes iu a vineyard at Viterbo—a very favourite pastime as it seems with the French garrison there. The owners of the vineyard, who bear the formidable names of Saturnino Terribili and Valentino Terribili, were watching their property, with a loaded gun, and it was proved that one of them did shoot the French soldier, in a very cold-blooded manner. After the murder the culprits took refuge iu Cardinal Bedini's carriage, and were conveyed by him to a sanctuary in which the Roman government pretended that their persons were inviolable. The French commander-in-chief, however, intimated to Cardinal Antouelli that lie should recognise none of this medheval nonsense in a case where French subjects were concerned. The Terribilia were dragged from the sanctuary and brought before a court-martial. The Capuchin monks made great efforts to suppress evidence in the case, but the French military authorities got quite enough to satisfy the court-martial. The men are condemned to death, and the sentence will, doubtless, be executed. The officer acting as judge-advocate pressed for an example, as, he said, the prisoners were actuated by hatred to the French army, and not by a desire to protect their grapes. What a singular jurisdiction is that of the French courtmartial in this case ! The eldest son of the church —who protects the temporal power—cannot trust the Pope to do justice upon his own subjects for vulgar civil crimes, but tries Roman citizens by court-martial, as if the French army were in an enemy's country. Correspowleuee gives currency to a rumour that the ministerial council to-day was occupied with the "pretensions" of Prince Alfred to the throne of Greece, and speaks of a paragraph the Muniteur and a collective note of France and Russia on the subject. It is now certain that the three French vessels fitting out at Toulon are under orders for Greece.  The Esprit riddle gives out that the Emperor means to go ou with his scheme of mediation in America by himself. That is precisely what Pnnch of this week tells him he had better do. At the Bourse the rise of yesterday was maintained in the Rente, and surpassed in many other securities. Mobilier rose 17fr. 50c., and the Orleans Railway sfr. The other railways were Hr. or 2fr. higher. The Italian Loan fell 20c.