The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVE

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he paned naturally enough to
tome Right when the Red
accomplished. And from tha,.
in the Republican Assemblies, it
natural that he should return to the public
service as a Minister of the Prince President of
the Republic. His conduct of the foreign policy
of that transitional regime was something more
than conservative, it was • bait to the
good opinion of all the absolutist Powers ; and
yet not inimical to England, where, at a
later date, as Ambassador, M. DROUTE DS
L'Huvs made many friends. To the Coup d'etat,
however, M. Dzotrra Ds L'Hirrs emphatically
belongs, and there is probably no man whose
presence at Court is more agreeable to the
EMPEROR. To his discretion some of the most
difficult transactions of the last ten years have been
entrusted. His resignation of office after the failure
of the Vienna Conferences in 1855, and of his
Senator's rank in 1866, marked him sa
an exoeptional personage among Ministers and
Senators of the Second Empire. It is impossible
to deny that the accession of M. DROUIN Di
L'HITYB to office at the present juncture, as the
champion of reactionary sympathies, of selfish
interests, of territorial compensations, of resistance
to all the rights of Italy, of military intervention
at Rome—a policy fundamentally opposed to
the principles on which the Second Empire
professes to be based, but flattering to
all the bigotries and grudges of the old political
parties—is an event too likely to result in the
gravest consequences to Italy, to France itself,
and to the pesos of Europe. The withdrawal of
M. DE LavaxErrs from Rome, and the mission
of an extreme Ultramontanist in his stead, proves
that the party of the boudoir and the sacristy is
triumphant, that the " Catholic world" is all in
all, and that Italy is literally " nowhere."

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Bariin,

the 14th, Ml

All

the liberal sections of the Chamber ofteputies
assembled yesterday evening at a banquet. The
President Grabow, the Vice-President De /lockup).
Dolffs, the deputies Carlowitz, Gneist,'Elanchen-
Julienfeld, Lette, Borache, Schulze-Delitzsch, and
other eminent members of the liberal majority were
present at this farewell dinner. The press was also
represented therein great force. M. Grabow proposed '
the Liberal Party ; M. de Bockum-Dolffs, I
the President; M. Waldeck, the Commission on the
Budget ; M. Schulze-Delitzsch, the Press, in whose
name M. Zabel returned thanks. Much enthusiasm
and animation prevailed. There is reason to hope I
(says the Cologne Gazette) that the same perfect
union of all parties in behalf of the constitution
will be established in the provinces among the
electors of both classes."
Of the seventeen members of the Berlin Cham-
ber of Nobles who lately voted for the budget
conformably to the constitution, 13 have caused the
following declaration to be inserted in the minutes
of the sitting :

The undersigned declare that they have not been able to
conciliate with their duty towards the country and their
fidelity to the King the refusal of their constitutional as-
sent to the budget of 134 millions of tbalen voted by the
Chamber of Deputies for the year 1862.
The New Stettin Gazette was seized on the 12th on
account of an article on the debates in the Prus-.
sian Chamber of Nobles.

(azure's ntroaswe.)
FRANCE. _

PARIS, Ocr. 17.

The Moniteur of to-day announces the appoint-
ment of Marshal Canrobert to the command of the
military division of Lyons, and the Duke of Ma-
genta to that of Nancy.

THE HERZEGOVINA.
RAGUSA, Ocr. 16.
The houses in Zubzi are being rebuilt with the
assistance of the Turkish troops.
The authorities are supplying money and pro-
visions to the inhabitants of the Herzegovina.

THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, Oct. 17.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Delta, with the heavy portion of the above mails,
arrived off the Needles at 12.40 p.m. to-day.