The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-22 00:00:00

FOLPRESS FROM PAM&

(fox OUR ORS 00111WIPOINDIINT.)
PARIS. MONDAY Emma.

The Pays hears from Berlin that a serious differ-
ence of opinion exists between the King of Prussia
and the Prince Royal on the one hand, and X. de
Bismarck on the other, in relation to the Duchies.
The minister thinks the best plan would be, having
regard to the interest of the Duchies themselves, to
annex them to Prussia, but the King is of opinion
that the Duke of Augustenburg's pretensions are
legitimate, and ought to prevail. It occurs to me
that this alleged struggle between the ambitious
minister and his not over wise sovereign may be a
sham fight.
A Ministerial Council was held to-day at the
Ministry of State for the special purpose of con-
sidering a project for the extension of the powers
of the councils general and municipal councils.
This is believed to be what is called the "grand
plan for administrative decentralisation," for the
initiative of which M. Rouher claims credit.

The Pattie gives a very long list of public works,
which, it says, have been recognised by the ad-
ministration as of public utility, and are at this
moment under the consideration of a special com-
mission. The cost of these are estimated at
100,000,000 fr., and, as the Patric very strikingly
says, this figure will give some idea of the extensive
demands which the Minister of Public Works is
prepared to make upon " extraordinary resources."
The present list is only an instalment ; M. Dela-
:naive's journal promises a further one shortly.
The " Roman question" is for the moment
settled as far as it is likely to be for some time, and
the few articles which some of the French journals
continue to publish about it are mere waste of ink
and paper. Of all the absurdities, and their name
is legion, which have been served up to the public on
this head, the most absurd of all is the idea that the
court of Rome will mend its ways and accept the
Convention. That fervent catholic and aulic coun-
cillor, the Chevalier Dehranze, the editor of the
Ifeniursof Diptunintique, who took a leading part in
diffusing this optimist view, has suffered the
humiliation of a public rebuke in Rome, where the
official journal, L'Osserratore Romano, tells him it
is astonished that he should affirm "the thing
that is not."
M. de la Gueronnire's vain endeavours to
reconcile the Convention with a settled intention
on the part of the French Emperor to maintain
the temporal power at all hazards, has drawn down
upon him the following censure from one of the
two masters whom he would fain serve peri passe ;
the semi-official Roman Correspondence says :
We look upon La France as more dangerous sad more
hostile to the Holy See than the Siie4, Opinion Nationale,
lii:bats, sad other open foes.

Count de slontalembert has been holding a catho-
lic conclave. Monsiguore Talbot, Monsignor* de
Wroth., the Pope's minister at war, who is the
brother of the Countess de Mostalembert, and last
(can we say least 1) Mr. Pope Hennessy, M. P., are
now in Paris, on their return from a protracted
visit to the count's country house.
M. Atbanase Coyuerel, the elder (a representative
of the people in 11343), has obtained permission to
deliver a series of lectures on the " First Centuries
of Christianity," in Herz's Concert-room. The
Umion, vexed at liberty of speech being granted to
a protestant clergyman, sneeringly inquires whether
the entertainment comprises a musical accom-
paniment.

According to another report, it is not M. Coque-
rel, sen., but his son, who was lately accused of
heresy and prevented from preaching by the pro-
testant presbytery of Paris, who is about to lecture
in the Salle Herz.

It is stated in an interesting work on educa-
tion by M. Jules Simon, the deputy, entitled
" L'Ecole," which will be published to-morrow,
that the amount of assistance given to the state
schools in the time of Napoleon I. was only 30,000 fr.;
the grant is now 7,000,000 fr., and that enormously
increased sum is yet far from sufficient. M. Jules
Simon, than whom few men have so much prac-
tical knowledge of the condition and wants of the
poorer classes in France, as is shown in his work
"L'Ouvribre," now gives a history of primary edu-
cation from its earliest days down to the present
time.

A letter from Berne, of the lith, brings the
news that Dr. Demme had married Mdlle.
Flora Trumpy on that day. The young couple
were going to travel and it is doubtful whether
they bill live in Berne for some time. Madame
Trumpy is quite insane, and fancies that her trial
is yet to come.

I did not think it worth while to give additional
circulation to an obvious canard, published as
latest news by the Opinion Nationale, to the effect
that people at Vienna were much alarmed at the
concentration of a Russian army, of 00,000 men,
ou the north-eastern Austrian frontier, and on
that of Bessarabia. The story, now denied by the
Pays and Patric, turns out to be an old one, which
appeared in an obscure print in "northern"
Germany several days ago.
There is a talk of a ➢lexican emigration company
about to be founded in Paris, with the authorisa-
tion of the French government, and under the pa-
tronage of the Emperor Maximilian.
At the Bourse the Rente closed without change
from Saturday, but Mobilier fell Ilfr., and I under-
stand that after regular hours business was done in
the Brute at lower quotations.

A DMIILAL2T, Nov. 21. APPOINTMENTS. •••-
sistant Surgeons C. F. Williams, to the Impregosble ; J. C.
Orin, to the Victory. Assistant Enloe,: H. Hall, to the
&mow. Psomortoy.—Lieutenant C. Funk, Walker, to be
oomtosoder.

THE ALLEGED FEDERAL ENLISTMENTS. —A letter
from the Home.oftios. yesterday. ieforrned the Mayo► of
Liverpool that the whole of the evideiros in the teas of the
alleged recruiting for the Federal army had been laid before
the law officers of the crown for their opinion, cad that
further communications would be made to his worship se
soca as that opinion should be known. Yesterday a sub-
scriptioa was being made ea 'Cheap, for the purpose of
Galatia, the mew, about fifty in number, who left the Great
Western on Saturday and came ashore.
PATENT MUSEUM, SOUTH KEHISINGTON.—Nnm-
bor of visitors for the week ending Nov. 19, 1,302. Total
number since the opening of the museum fres daily (12th
May, 1668), 869,461.