The Express.
London, England, 1863-08-04 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARK MONDAY EVENING.
The following paragraph in the France, if true,
is of first rate importance :
Our London correspondent informs us that the Eoglisli
cabinet, which had at first adhered to the project of an
identical note in anew, r to Russia, now hesitates to commit
itself to that coons. The Queen's government thinks that
in the present state of circumstances it is desirable to give
Russia time to reflect without forcing her to give ► new
answer immediately. U this news should be confirmed, it
would give an entirely new aspect to the Polish question ;
and the consequence might be that an entire stop would be
put to the diplomatic conversation between the three powers
and Russia.

Here we have shadowed forth the prospect of a
sudden rupture of the famous understanding be-
tween the three powers which we have been so
long assured was being drawn closer and closer
every day. I am disposed to think that there is
some foundation for the news, and for this reason,
that it is stated in other quarters that the Emperor
Napoleon, not satisfied with the wonderful unani-
mity of the three powers as to the requisitions to
be made to Russia, wanted to come to a prelimi-
nary understanding as to what was to be doue if
perchance Russia should refuse to comply with
them. There is the true and logical touchstone
of the unanimity, and that test it will not bear.
The diplomatists who represent the three powers in
the paper war are quite agreed in their desire to
succeed ; but if paper pellets fail, as they will do
in all probability, the issues at stake are so tre-
mendous that harmonious action would become
impossible without an infinitely more complete un-
derstanding than prevails at present.

The Temps mentions • circumstance which
strengthens the inference deducible from the quo-
tation in yesterday's Moniker of the article in the
Deutschland—viz., that the supposition prevalent
in these latter days of Prussia having become
a convert to the views of the three powers with
regard to Poland was altogether • mistake. This
rumour, you may remember, had its origin in the
feudal organ the Kreuter Zeitung ; and it has
since been contradicted by another journal
under the especial patronage of M. de Bismark,
which says, with fatuous haughtiness, that Prussia
is the arbiter of Europe and a power which seeks
no alliances but waits to be solicited. Now, accord-
ing to the information of the Temps, the article in
the Kreuter Zeitung was simply an intrigue of the
feudal party, which feigned an approximation to-
wards England for the sole purpose of ousting
Count de Bernstorff from the London embassy and
replacing him by a man more devoted to the
ooterie which now rules in Berlin. Count de
Bernstorff, although not accounted • liberal, has
acquired, from his long residence in London, con-
stitutional leanings which are abhorrent to M. de
Bismark and his friends.

If it were not for the fear of a war with Russia,
which throws every other question into the shade,
the French doings in Mexico would certainly occupy
a front rank in political speculations. As it is,
Mexican news, dressed up for parade purposes, and
doled out, in its objectionable features, by instal-
ments does not altogether escape comment. A
journal favourable to the occupation—the Nation—
says :

The French regimenta which are to remain in Mexico will
be numbered in duplicate. There will be in that oouotry
and io France two corps bearing the same number. The
object of this measure is to prevent any diaorgaaisation of
the army, and it moms to indicate that the occupation will
be of long duration—it is said, five yews. The French re
gimeota detached to serve in Mexico will be considered as
being in the service of the Mexican government, and
will be paid by it. For the formation of those regiments
men will be taken now forming part of the expeditionary
corps, and who may be disposed to contract an engagement
for five years, so that those detached corps will be, as it
were, oomposed of volunteers.

The above paragraph draws forth the following
observations from the Temps :
We are greatly astonished to find such news accepted by
the Nation. The French army is one essentially national,
and numbers no mercenaries. It is an eesential rule of the
French army that no orm of its members can be let out either
gratuitously or for hire to any foreign government. After
Ifel we had an army of occupation in Spain ; at this
moment we have a similar army in Rome ; but it never
entered into anyone's heed to say that either of these armies
was in the service of Spain or of the Pope. What the
/lotion might have gild is that there is an intention to inflict
upon the Yezieens a war contribution to pay for our
occupation. Such a project is, in fact, imputed to our
goverameat.