28 AUGUST 1886, Page 3

The Government of France is descending to very mean and

paltry expedients indeed when it peremptorily expels an English chaplain from his French home, after a residence of upwards of six years in France, for presenting a little address of respectful sympathy to the Due d'Aumale on his exile. This is what has happened to the Rev. W. J. Drought, till now chaplain at Chantilly, who committed this unpardonable crime. The Due d'Aumale had been very generous in his contributions to the support of the chaplaincy, and it was not unnatural that Mr. Drought should be grateful. The French Government, however, insist on the suppression of all feelings of gratitude towards; those whom the French authorities choose to persecute and to send into exile.