The Express.
London, England, 1864-05-12 00:00:00

Y li, 1884.

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LATEST IN TE LLI E.
Tali-CONFERENCE T Y. •
The Pitts Prase says :—" We are • assurek that
at the meeting of the conference to-morroir(to-
day), the plenipotentiaries of Austria and Prussia
will present a, common programme for the final
settlement of the Sleswig-Holstein question. We
believe, however, that an absolutely complete union
of the two powers does not exiit, and that the
popular meeting which took place at Rendsbturg on
Sunday last really rules the situation. Whatever
resolutions may be taken by diplomatists they will
not overturn this manifestation, and the best thing
they can do is to aeoept it as a salutary warning.
Let diplomatists allow the people who are most in-
terested to decide for themselves ; let them consult
the population of the duchies, and they will thereby
avoid all danger by avoiding all responsibility,
whilst at the same time they will save their own
pt die
The indipendance says that the French Minister
of Foreign Affairs intimated last week, in cons.
munications to .the representatives of Austria,
Prim* and Denmark, that the French govern-
ment would regard it as a very serious matter if
the acceptance of an armistice was refused.
The People's Gazette of Berlin pronounces against
the annexation of Sleswig-Holstein to Prussia, and
says :

When after the battle ofiferiao the moment appeared
to have arrived is which France would make the conquest of
all Italy, Europe learned from the Milan prookmatice that
this was not to be. Despite the great defeat indicted on
one of the beet armies of the Coatinent, Frame dared not
to brave Europe a to lace its frontier, with the sword of a
Ceetqueror. She was satisfied with Nice and Savoy, which she
obtained sot by conqaest but by diplomatic amusement.
Nobody, however, doubts that France like Pined ton-
measly by the formation of the Italian kingdom. She ham
obtained more strength by this policy than she would have
done by the conquest and annexation of the Llamas.
This example must not be fret upon us. The Muria: of
being able to change European frontien by the 'wad is
yet more apparent for no after the affair of Duppel than it
was to the cooqoerors of Austria dier the battle of Bal-
lerina Bat the remit of the Dapped altar will
be secured in an independent Sleswtg.Hoktein, which will
have more need of Premien protection thee Italy besot the
protectiou of the conqueror of SoUeriao. We must nut
I indulge in dreams contrary to the mature of things when it
k sufficient to take advantage naturally of circumstances
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hi order to derive from them the greatest possible ed•
vantage.

The Nord observes that the distinction between
the annexation of the duchies to Prussia, and their
ccnstitution as an independent state will not
poem's in the eyes of Europe the impor-
tance which the Berlin journal attaches to
it. Whether the King of Denmark be re-
placed by King William or by the Prince of
Augustenburg, the balance of the power would
in either case be disarranged to the profit of
Prussia ; for the Prince of Aegustenburg will never
be anything more, and the Berlin paper admits it,
than the protegi of the government of Berlin-4
sort of Prussian prefet.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

MINI ova owi

PARIS. WIDNIIIDAT EVINING.

The Bourse was weak to-day. The trivial rise
caused by the news of the suspension of hostilities
has been barely sustained, and the fall oft in Con-
sols occasioned discouragement. Rents closed at
yesterday's price, 66fr. 75c. for account, and fell
100. for cash, doable at 66fr. 55c. Mobilier fell
lfr. 25c.

A cricket match, between Paris and Nottingham,
will be played on Whit-Monday and Tuesday, on
the Paris cricket ground, in the Bois de Boulogne.
The Paris players are, I believe, all English resi-
dents—cricket not being a French game.