The Express. — 1863-01-06 (London, England)

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.  (MY OM OWZ  PARIS, MONDAT EVINING.  The Emperor took advantage of the very fine mild weather to go to St. Germain this morning on a shooting excursion. He was seen rattling along the Rue Rivoli at 9 o'clock in a sporting char a haw, accompanied by five marshals of Franoe—the Duke of Magenta, Marshal Magnan, Marshal Niel, Marshal Regnault de St. Jean d'Angely, and Marshal Randon, Minister at War. M. Rouland, the Minister of Public Instruction and Worship, was invited to join this warlike party. Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clothilde (who inherits the sporting taste of her father) bad a hunt of their own to-day in the forest of Meudon.  The Patric has reason to know that the Sublime Porte, relying on the protocol of April 13, 1859, intends to send a commissary into the Principalities on the occasion of the seizure of arms in Berrie. England and Austria are said to approve of the project, but serious objections to it are raised at St. Petersburg, and the Patrie seems to think that France leans to Russia in the matter. It raises • point of construction on the wording of the protocol, which says that the infraction justifying such an interference by the Porte " must be first ascertained " (prealoblentent constant) by the representatives of the powers, and this has not been done. A great deal has lately been said of reported differences, of almost a threatening character, between Prussia and Austria. But the news from Germany on the subject is obscure and contradictory, and little reliance can be placed upon the versions given by Paris journals pretending to be well informed. The Temps says on the subject :  We agree on this «median with the German correspondent of the Moniteur, and think that nothing mono= will oome of the conflict. It suits IL de Bismark at the present moment to make as much noise as poseible apropos of the unity of Italy, in order to weigh upon the chambers, and keep down the internal crisis. The Cologne Gazette thinks this, and can find no rational explanation for M.  de Bismaries military demonstrations. It defies him to find money for going on with a warlike policy, unless he makes his peace with the chambers.  A clerical organ in the south of France, L'Opinion du Midi, strongly urges the catholic& of Nimes to petition the mayor and municipal council to refuse the usual subvention to the theatre, unless the manager will undertake not to play the most successful piece of the day. Le Fib de Uibuyer. In the neighbouring town of Beaucaire the clergy have just made a desperate but unsuccessful effort to prevent a protestant from having decent burial. It had been usual in Beaucaire, as is still the practice in but too many other parts of France, to bury protestants ignominiously in the ground reserved for criminals and suicides. Lately, however, and in pursuance of the law, • portion of the cemetery was marked off for protestant graves, and was separated from the remaining part by • ditch ; but on the occasion of the first interment of a protestant proposed to be made there, the Beaucaire priests protested with so much ado, that the mayor suspended the funeral, and telegraphed to the prefect for instructions. The priests said that the ground marked off for protestanta was consecrated, and that the inhumation in it of a single heretic would " pollute" the whole cemetery. The prefect replied that the mayor was responsible for the police of the cemetery, and that his duty was to see the interment effected in spite of every resistance. Moreover, he sent him a central commissary of police to support his authority. The funeral procession set out for the cemetery, but on arriving there it was found that the grave was not ready, the gravedigger having left off his work in obedience to an order from the curb. The protestant corpse was therefore obliged to be deposited in a provisional sepulchre, and it was not for two days afterwards that the gravedigger was forced by the gendarmes, under threat of imprisonment, to do his duty. The civil authority ultimately prevailed, and it remains to be seen what steps the clergy will or can take to cure the pollution. The Bourse has been quite brilliant, and the Rente has risen half a franc.