The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-30 00:00:00

EMPRESS FROM PARIS.

ARCHDUKE MAXIMILIAN AND THE
MEXICAN LOAN.

(FROM OCR OWN CORRISPOIWIN7.)
PARIS, TuzsDAT EVENING.

The delay in the reception of the Mexican depu-
tation at Miramar, to which I alluded yesterday
without being able to explain it, is now the great
question of the hour. Telegrams from Vienna are
kept back, but I believe there is no doubt that at
the last moment a serious difference has arisen, or
rather exploded, between the Emperor of Austria
and the Archduke Maximilian. The archduke is
not only willing but eager and desirous to be Em-
peror of Mexico ; but he has all along intended to
keep his reversionary and contingent right of succee-
sion to the Austrian crown and also to the royal
property in Austria. But now the 'Emperor, who
never much liked the Mexican speculation, and has
probably been reserving this objection in petto,
joins his family in insisting that the "Emperor of
' Mexico" must relinquish all his rights as a member
of the royal family of Austria. The Archduke
Leopold and the Baron de Meysemburg are said
to have gone from Vienna to Miramar with con-
ciliatory proposals, and no doubt great efforts are
making, both in Paris and Brussels, to overcome
the difficulty, but nothing is positively known as
to the result of the moral pressure put upon the
archduke to make him carry out his en-
gagements to France and Mexico. There are
rumours to-night (which I should accept with
greater confidence were it not for the fact of some
despatches being certainly kept back) that all is
favourably arranged, and that the archduke's
departure is certain. Until his definitive acceptance
of the crown, the decrees authorising the loan
which sets the financial world agog necessarily
cannot be signed, and its issue will be therefore
adjourned till next week, if not longer. The excite-
ment relative to this affair daily' increases. It
is well known that the Emperor Napoleon
and his government will give the loan
every support. The opposition to the terms
of it raised by a portion of the English
press on behalf of the old bondholders does not
seem to produce much effect. The great subject of
anxiety is whether tbe archduke will go out at all.
But if he does, and the :can should be effected,
there is a strong current of opinion that the con-
ditions offered to the old bondholders embrace as
full a measure of justice as can be afforded until
the new government is firmly established in
Mexico. I have reason to think that in the event
of the bondholders refusing assent to the offer
made, the counter move against them would be to
issue the loan exclusively in Paris, and to have the
funds reserved for the bondholders retained in
hand until they take what is esteemed here a more
enlightened view of their own position. No arrange-
ments have yet been concluded for the agency
through which the issue is to take place here, but
the competitors for the privilege are numerous and
on the increase.

The Bourse was very heavy. Rente fell 15c. for
caste and 20c. for account, closing at 65fr. 80c. in
each case. Mobilier fell llfr. 25c.

The France has a stately article arguing that no
conferences or proposals for settlement of differ-
ences in Europe will ever come to a satisfactory
issue so long as any vestiges remain of the treaties
of 1815.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

Tart/DAT. MAWS SO, S A.M.

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