The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-04 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

On the ith will take place the clotting of the two
Chambers of the Council of the Empire of Austria.
It will be marked by an unusual ceremony. The
Emperor Francis Joseph will renew, on this occa-
sion, the formal engagement to maintain the con-
stitution. The chambers will be convoked afresh
as soon as the provincial diets shall have terminated
their labours.

(110TZWII 1111101.018.)
AMERICA.
SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 4,

The North German Lloyds' steamer New Yorkhaa
arrived here with 10 passengers, 325,073 dole. in
specie for England, and 10,500 dole. for Bremen.
She left New York on the 22nd November, and
spoke on the 27th the English brig African, bound
west, and on the 3rd inst. the English ship William
Stewart, oft Land's End.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
The France gives the most ill-natured turn pos-
sible to the news generally believed to-day, that
the majority of the English cabinet has expressed
an opinion that Prince Alfred must not accept the
throne of Greece. It says that Lora Palmerston, Lord
Russell, and Mr. Gladstone were all in favour of
the candidature, had obtained the Queen's consent
to it, and bad instructed Mr. Scarlett accordingly,
but that they have suddenly altered their views
from fear of a rupture with the United States.
The Scotia (says the France) has brought the in-
telligence that the merchants of New York show
a hostility to Great Britain "which nothing can
appease" on account of the affair of the Alabama,
and the threat of the governor of Bermuda to
fire upon Commodore Wilka. It is only, as the
F, mice would have it believed, in consequence of

this situation that the latest resolution of the

English cabinet is to allow Prince Alfred to be
elected, but to refuse on hie behalf after the vote•
The France is not satisfied now, and would have

England take positive measures to prevent the
Greeks from so much as paying her a compliment.
A Vera Cruz letter of Nov. 1, in the SWele, says :
The ooriseere end officals of the Ponta et Chamois'
who have arrived here to make a railway from Vera Cruz
to Orizaba, find themselves in a very perplexing position.
It is almost impossible to get labourers of any sort for
love or money. The engineer-in•chief has just come from
New York, where, it is rumoured, he has purchased 400
tons of rails, but he was not able to get a single man. At
Havannah be had no better luck. Employing soldiers in
these works is not to be thought of, as they would surely
fall sick from the exhalations. Within the last four days
the remainder of General Forey's forces have disem-
barked. En attendant their march to Orizaba, which they
cannot commence at present, in consequence of the insuffi-
ciency of the means of transport, the troops will encamp
in the neighbourhood of Yens Cm; within a distance of
three or four leagues.
It is important to observe the date of the above
communication, November 1, than which the
Moniteur has nothing later. General Forey him-
self had gone forward as far as Orizaba, but the
bulk of his reinforcements remained at or near Vera
Cruz, the state of the roads and the want of mules
and other accessonee preventing them from march-
ing. This is precisely what I said several days ago.
With the exception of the disastrous march of
General Berthier's corps (about twenty miles in a
week), which was left by the last accounts at the
deserted town of Puente Nacionale, General
Forey'e army has not been able to move.
M. Emile de Girardin makes a modest entry in
the P wise this evening, without resorting to the!
facile honours of large type, which small deer of
the Gueronnihre class have brought into disrepute.
Having evidently not a great deal to say for his
opening article, he begins by pleasantly observing
that all writers, even the most feeble, have, like all
kings, even the most powerful, their flatterers. M.
de Girardin represents himself as having been se-
duced by flatterers to quit the " laborious repose"
of the study of the ideal in which he has been indul-
ging for the last live years, to take part in the
"useless struggle" of actual politics. He can give
no better reason, he says, for yielding at length to
offers which he had long resisted than the fact of
his long resistance. He holds that the art of flat-
tery resembles the art of war in this, that the
besieger will always, in the long run, get the better
of the besieged. This old athlete of the press
(throwing off now the humility of his opening lines)
tells his adversaries of all shades that they have •
done no good since he left off writing. They have I
brought to light no truth, ensurel the triumph of
no principle. All great questions which were in
suspense remain in suspense still. After a
tirade against " half measures" in the old style of
this " absolute" reasoner, and a parenthetical
approbation of President Lincoln's proclamation,
as a tardy homage to a principle which the Czar of
Russia himself has been obliged to sanction in his
own dominions, the restored editor of the Prase
alludes to the Roman question se one on which his
own mind is made up. In one of those antithetical
sentences which were for years the staple food of
the Charieari, he says that " wherever there is a
question there must necessarily be a solution."
The Emperor has it in his power, if he likes, to
achieve the right solution, because in everything
that he has seriously attempted he has succeeded.
M. de Girardin cites, with seeming approbation,
a saying of the Emperor in justification of the
coup d'etat : " I left the domain of legality
to enter on that of right." Endorsing this
dangerous doctrine, he would have the Em-
peror "do now iu 1862 with regard to foreign
policy what he did for home policy in 1852."
Then, making a wordy distinction which means
nothing, he says be would have him make not a
coup d'etat but a coup de raison. The imperial
eagle should not skim the meadows like a scared
goose, but soar into the clouds. If he will only
s rise to the proper height M. de Girardin under-