The Express.
London, England, 1864-05-31 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, MONDAT EVENING.

The France contains the following information
as to the proceedings of the Conference, which, ac-
cording to other authorities, remain veiled in the
strictest secrecy-4 renewed pledge to which was,
they aver, taken by all the plenipotentiaries on Sa-
turday :

We receive from London information which we believe
to be =act, on the subject of the lest meeting of the en-
tertain. The sitting was taken up with propositions and
counter-propositmas. Naturally each party put forward in
the Bnt inner* its most extreme demands. It
was essnarlied that the present mooing wee the ern at
which the question at nee were dimmed fuedemeatally.
One of these, the meet delicate of all, and the on which
more then any other betrays arrieres prissier, is the (ins-
tate—So wham shall belong the sovereignty of the duchies!
By a tacit anent this question seems to have been kept in
the background, and reserved for ulterior deliberations. It
was, ilaseelore, principally upon the mode in which the par-
tition of the denies shall be 'Ceded that the discuuluin
turned. Our letters from London my that the Germans at
fastillemended a complete sepsratin of filleswig and Hol-
stein from Deaniark ; bat that these pretensioes
being toe radical found no support in the conference, A
*miter proposition was thee brought forward by Begbad,
recommending the partition of elleserig. The Gann plied-
poteetieries then made a series of Twin as to the frontier
line. The Danes declined any newer on the subject esti'
further Ernestine, ooakl be ranived. A proicaptioa of
the amities wee spokes of, bat so resolution taken

The Mositeur du Soir says that the neutral
powers, for the sake of humanity especially, insisted
upon a prolongation of the ezmistioe, and urged
the belligerents to obtain further instructions with-
out delay.
The Pays says that Denmark will not consent to
reign the blockade unless the Prussians evacuate
Jut mad.

The Stele calls attention to the importance of
the electoral campaign which begins on Jane 18,
for the nomination of a first series of new members
of the councils-general. Satirically observing that
the notice given is only just the legal minimum,
it still hopes that the opposition will find
time for effectual organisation. The scarcity
of independent candidates which on former
occasion enabled the government nominees to walk
over the course is not now to be apprehended, be-
cause the last general elections for the Legislative
(Torts proved that in spite of multiplied difficulties,
and although the right of public meeting does not
exist, it is both practicable and safe for opposition
candidates to appeal to the constituencies. There can
be no doubt that the augmentation of the opposition
members in the chamber from five to five-and-
twenty has produced an immense revival of political
feeling in the country, the result of which will pro-
duoe a marked effect upon the local elections now
coining.

The Moniteur condescends to pander to the
ignorance and narrow-minded jealousy of a portion
of the French public by representing that the
demonstration against File de l'Air, which oc-
curred at Epsom, was provoked by the fact of her
being a French mare ; and it complacently con-
trast, to the advantage of French civilisation and
courtesy the applause which saluted the English
horse Ranger when he beat La Touoques at
Bureaus, in June last year. The editors of the
Moniteur must know perfectly well that Alla de
l'Air was hissed, not because she was French, but
because (rightly or wrongly) the public believed
that she had been " pulled " in a
former race, in order to dissimulate her
power of running. Plenty of French bones
have gained races on the English turf before
without any such brutal notion u that
of waking a set at them on account of their na-
tionality having occurred to any of the spectators.
I do not suppose, however, that the Moniteur will
care to rectify its error.

It has been already stated that Ifeysrbeer's will
made provision for the speedy production in Paris
of bis great unpublished opera Vet friaries. It is
now said that M. Perrin, the manager of As apses,
is about to proceed to Berlin to hasten the preli-
minary arrangements, and that the partition may
perhaps be put in rehearsal in July.

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MR. GLADSTONNS WO&W RPRZON.

Mr. Gledstone's speech of the 11th of May is
this dey published by Kr. Murray, with the following
" Advertisement " by the author :

" Is this speech will be found the it:premien of en *sit*
that the legislature should exclude frOm the fraziehise ou
two grounds only. Pink it should seclude those who are,
presentably, in themselves unfitted to exercise it with
intelligence sad integrity. Secesdly, it should exclude
thaws with respect to whom it might appear that, though
no panneal ;Witham as be alleged egaiast theca, yet
political dagger might arise from their admire= ; aa,
far example, through the disturbance of the equilibrium of
the ocastitnent body, or through virtual monopoly of power
ia a dagle class. General statements of principle, advanced
is debate, If they are such as, is the view of candid minds,
to require explanation, ought to find it in the mutant of the
speech which contains them. Objection has beet!
talon, and twee alarm expremed, with respect to tail
breadth of the particular statement now hi question.
I °steno& make any other reply than to publish it, as it was
delivered, together with Its context, and to leave it, =West
only to equitable allowance for faults of hasty expressios,
to the discerning consideration of the reader. Another

objectios I could more readily have conosived ; namely, this :
that a proposition, apparently of wick coops, is reduced by
large sod scarcely &Amble szorptioas within rather nu-
row limits. Still, the exceptions appeared slow with the
proposition, and formed part of it. If, indeed, lam asked
whether it wu a deliberate and studied announcement, I

reply that it was not ; it was drawn forth on the moment by
a course of argument from the oppocents of the measure,
which appeared to assume that the present limitations
of the franchise, disavowed as they have been by such as
sommulatioe of authority, required no defence from their
newly-Men edvocatra, and were to be accepted without in-
quiry, as In themselves, at least presumptively, good avid nor-
maL Bet lam aware that this circumstance, if the opinion
be blameable, will afford no apology. Further, I spoke
with reference to the present, or rather indeed with a view
to retrieving arrears of the past ; and neither time, nor as I
think man, permitted me to attempt the solution of pro-
blems of real intricacy, which belong wholly te the
future, sod which are little likely to become practical
except for another generation. If I rivet the
manner is which my declaration has bees later-
peened. it is chiefly because of its tendency to produce
in other quarters at exaggerated estimate ; likely, when
brought down to the dimensions of fact, to cause disappoint.
meet. The queetion is, whether the statement be a gratui-
tous and Millie( novelty, or whether it is rather the
practical revival of a strain which, five years ago, was
usual and familiar ; which had then derived abundant
countenance from the very highest organs of political
articulation, sad which now only sounds strange booms, I
within that period it has falls. iota desuetude.
As the opinion of an individual, the whole matter ix of
trifling coesequeues. But the oossisteney of potties and of
parliaments ima rub** of weight and moment ; for apes
this depends that store of public confidence, which is el
such inexorable neemity, and of mush inestimable value,
for the maintenance of our free and happy government"