The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-27 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

FRANKFORT, Om 26.

TbeNeueFratikfurterZeitung publishes a telegram
from Vienna, stating tbat Count Rechberg has re-
ceived a satisfactory reply to the note which he had
emit to M. Drouyn de Lhuys in reference to the
Convention of the 15th of September last.

PUBLIC WORKS IN FRANCS.
PALK Oor. 26.

It is stated that a project is under serious con-
sideration of establishing a public works fund, to
occupy the same position towards undertakings of
general utility for the whole of France as is ful-
filled by the works fund for the City of Paris.
The amount set apart for the new fund is not yet
decided, but it will probably be raised by a loan
applicable to the great works of public utility which
have been recently discussed.

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA.
LIVERPOOL, WIDIIIISDAT.

The Royal Mail steamship Asia, Captain Moodie,
which sailed from Boston on the 17th, and Hali-
fax on the afternoon of the 14th, arrived here
shortly after b o'clock this evening.

PARIS. WZDNIEDAY Emma.

All doubts about the Emperor's departure for
Nice are set at rest by the ifonifeur du Soir, which
announces that be left St. Cloud at noon this day'
for that destination, to pay a visit to the Emperor
and Empress of Russia. In addition to the aides-1
Ide-camp, Admiral Juries de la Grinders and
General Fleury, Napoleon 111. is accompanied by
Count Walsh, chamberlain ; the Marquis de Caux,
equerry ; Captain Count d'Espenil, orderly officer ;
and M. Pietri, an attachiS of the private secre-
tary's department. A more dismal day for the
I journey oould scarcely be. Torrents of rain have
I been falling all day, and from the lowering aspect
of the sky, there seems to be plenty more coming.
Before leaving St. Cloud the Emperor presided at
a ministerial council. The Lyons journals say that
the Emperor will sleep in that city to-night
Nothing more is said of the Czar going to Com-
piegne, and, indeed, • Frankfort telegram, stating
that he is expected at Darmstadt on Oct. 31, seems,
to show that the visit, if ever contemplated, as I
think it was by Napoleon lIL, has been given ep. I
The news I sent you that the Czar would leave
Nies on the 29th will turn out to be true.
The Lyons people will probably have made their
preparations to give the Emperor a night's lodging
in vain. According to the latest news his
Majesty is to go into Nice without stopping. There
is a report that the two sovereigns will go together
from Nice to Toulon, on board the Aigle yacht,
and that Count de Chasseloup Laubat, the
Minister of Marine, will accompany them with the
entire Mediterranean squadron for an escort.
There was a panic at the opening of the Bourse,
during which the Rent. went down as low as 64fr.
43c. Notwithstanding the very natural explanation,
given by the Monsieur for the suspension of the
sittings of the Italian parliament, many people I
persisted in talking of a coup d'etat at Turin. A
more serious cause for disquietude was a revival of
the rumour, notwithstanding the contradiction of
' the Conatitutionnel, that there is to be, •
new loan of 300 millions, under the pretext
of "public works." M. Haussmann is, we
know, in favour of this scheme of raising
the wind, and it may be doubted whether M. Fould
is strong enough to oppose it. The fall in the
Netherlands Bank ahares gave rise to sinister
rumours about the position of a director of that
establishment which are contradicted. The market
recovered sensibly for the close, and Rents left off
at 64fr. 704., with • rise of 10c. Mobelier rose
2fr. 50c. Railways are almost without change.
The Progrds of Lyons says that Jules Gerard,
the lion killer, has personally contradicted the re-
port of his death, which came to France from
Liverpool. It is sad to think that the shock of
the false news killed his sister, who died suddenly
in an apoplectic fit when she beard it.
Bishop Banchieri, the head of the Lazarist Mis-
sion in Abyssynia, died at Massenith ou Sept. 11.

PRUSSIA AND THE DUCHY OF LAVEN-
BURG.

The Inclependance Beige of Tuesday evening says :
"The manifestation of the Lauenburg nobility in
favour of the incorporation of the duchy with
Prussia has created serious alarm and energetic
protests throughout all Germany. The Berlin
ministerial paper, the Northers Gazette, endeavours
to reassure the public mind by representing the
demonstration in question as a spontaneous move-
ment of confidence and sympathy, fur which Prussia
is grateful, but which she cannot encourage because
sacred
of Austria over this small country are as
sa her own. Of the Germanic Confederation,
the rights of which are equally incontestable, not a
word is said. It pretty clearly follows from the
declaratioa of the semi-official organ, that Prussia
is not wanting in willingness to appropriate a por-
tion of the common conquest ; but that she meets
from her ally with a resistance to her desires, the
legitimacy of which she is obliged to recognise by
disavowals of the kind we are citing."
The Nord of yesterday says : "Two days ago we
expressed some doubt of the accuracy of a piece of
news given by the Lubeck Gazette upon the subject
of a resolution by which the Diet of the ducby of
Lauenburg had asked for the annexation of that
duchy to Prussia. Under present circumstances,
we said, none of the Diets of the three Deno-
German duchies can legally assemble and pass re-
gular resolutions. What the Lubeck Ga-xtte called
a resolution of the Diet of Lauenburg is probably
only a desire expressed by a certain number
of the members of that assembly who have
spoutaneouly assembled ; though the resolutions
in this extra legal meeting can in no way
Crdefhe duchy. However it may be, the Gazette
of Northern Germany, the semi-official organ of
the Prussian government, bestows some reflections
upon this subject, which prove that the ides of an
annexation of Lauenburg is seriously entertained,
and that if Prussia now affects a wish to respect
the " moral rights" of Austria, she will finish by
yielding "to the desires of the population of
Lauenburg."