The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-02 00:00:00

EXPIUMS FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR ows onassromnrr.)

PARIS, TOISDAT &MVO.

The following article in the Pays is undoubtedly
semi-official, and may be safely taken as explaining
the views which M. Drouyn de Lamps wishes it to
be believed for the moment are those of the French
government with regard to the astounding reports
now current of a radical change iu the foreign
policy of France. It will be seen that the idea of
• Russo-Prussian alliance, notwithstanding rhetori-
cal precautions, which characterise it as premature,
is very seriously entertained. The Pays says :

For some days past there has been a talk of an appron
mation between France, Russia, and Prussia. People have
even gone so far as to announce a new Franco.ltioso-
Pruden alliance. Moat of the journals, in their ver-
sions of these rumours, have been guilty more or
lees of exaggeration. A political situation so deliberately
created as that which has preoccupied the govern-
ments and the public for several months past is not to be
reversed so easily and so quickly as some people are pleased
to say. An alliance such as that spoken of is not to be im-
provised. At any rate it cannot be without serious and
very positive motives. It appears to us desirable to redone
things to their real proportions, and to explain the truth
of the situation. The first cause of the rumours circulated
is manifest. An unlooked-for event occurred in Gummy,
which by its intrinsic importance, as well as by the mystery
attending it, could not fail to attract the attention of the
political world. A congress of sovereigns met at Frankfort.
Its deliberations remained secret. Is the work which its
vete will sanction intended solely to develop the prosperity
of Germany by organising a better mode of action re-
specting its internal affairs ; or is it of a nature to modify
the situation of Germany with regard to other countries
and affect her foreign relations? That is the NOHOW, ques-
tion which has occupied every political mind. Certain
powers, on account of their peculiar situation, were more
especially anxious about this question than others. Russia
is on the borders of Germany. At divers points she has
interests in common with those of that country. She
could not possibly be indifferent to an act which might
very considerably change the constitution of the federal
power, and the mode of employing the forces of which it
can dispose. Prussia, herself a German power, could not,
either, see with equal eye a work destined without her
being consulted, and which was destined to make profound
changes in the institutions of Germany. And, finally,
France, although confident in the moderation and the inten-
tions of Austria, and contemplating her efforts without
regret, supposing them to be confined to the internal reor-
ganisation of Germany, is too near a neighbour of that
country on many points, and has too clear a right and duty
to keep herself au courant as to everything that concerns
European order, not to share the solicitude of Russia and
Prussia in respect to the great act preparing at Frankfort.
The same natural preoccupations existed therefore simtd-
taneously in the councils of the three powers. This analo-
gous situation oaturally also led them to exchange their
apprehensions and their impressions with each other. A
sort of understanding has in this way been established be-
tween them on the special point which wss the object of
their intercommunication, and which, moreover, it should
not be forgotten, was as yet only based upon eventualities.
This is all that has passed up to the present time between
France, Russia, and Prussia. There has not been, as will
be perceived, any treaty of alliance either signed or pre-
pared, and no resolutions taken. Will anything further
occur later? We cannot tell. That will depend, doubt-
less, on the character of the act concerning which the sove-
reigns have been, and still are, deliberating at Frankfort.
Nevertheless, we cannot deny that in the political simne-
-1 Wu in which Europe is at the moment of the Fraekfort
Congress, the communications and deliberations between
France, Russia, and Prussia have • real importance. Al-
though caused merely by an eventual question, they have
had for effect the modification of the previous stets of the
polities] relations of the three Poway. Is it not permissi-
ble to see in it a new hope for the arrangement of the qua- ,
lion which divided them as to the preservation of the peso. 1
of Europe I

WICATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

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