The Express.
London, England, 1865-10-23 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

mom an owl

OtirL 1

VIENNA. Oct. 22.

PARIS, Sonnar Enema
The fiat refusal of the Senate of Frankfort to
4tbmit to the dictation of Austria and Prussia in
e matter of the patriotic Germanic meetings wont
to be held in that free town has produced a situa-
tion in Germany which would be considered very
merlon's were the public) not accustomed to associate
all political agitation at Frankfort with delay and
unproductive talk. This negative condition, how-
' ever, cannot last for ever, and there is matter for
reflection'in the assertions which oome from Berlin
and Vienna that in the case which bas happened of
the refusal of 'the Senate " the two great powers
will be under the necessity of resorting to fitting
means to establish a normal situation." The
Patric says that " these means are already
decided uporie, and cannot fail forthwith to be
acted upon." I cannot but doubt whether
when it comes to action of such a serious character
as interference with the privileges of Frankfort
would be, Austria and Prussia, whose views and
interests are in many vital points so 9i:inflicting,
would be found able to agrek Bismarck, no
doubt, has stomach for the breaking,up of Germany
and the foundation of a Prussiaii•empire on Its
ruins ; and there are indications that he exchanged
ideas on the subject with a kindred spirit, the
" great man of the epoch," at Biarritz. It ig very
curious that the last number of the Bans 00110114.
preview, a publication with a strong official bias,
should advocate the theory that it was altogether
a mistake to suppose, as it has been thought of old
time, that the security of France required her to
have small and weak states on her frontier, and that
a strong united Germany, even although it; popula-
tion might be somewhat larger than thatiof France,
would be in no way dangerous. This reasoning,
which implies, of course, "proper compensation "
for France on the Rhine, coincides remarkably with
a number of feelers about the remodelling of the
map of Europe lately put forth with more frequency
than ever.

The lifottifear cites in its first page the following
passage from the News Y'rentric ablate, of Vienna :
Sufficient attention hes not been paid to these words of
Napoleon III.: " The expedition to Mexico is the most is.
portant act of my reign." England has her East Indies and
Fromm ought to have her West bodies, not only as a colony,
but se a sinter nation developing itself freely and procuring
for its adopted metropolis an many advantages se it derives
from M. Independently of the material benefits which
France will find is Mexico, the Emperor may say, with
noble pride, that out of an agglomeration of heterogeneous
elements he hes made a great and flourishing nation. It
will assuredly be the most considerable and most glorious
act of hie reign.
Is this conspicuous citation in the French official
journal meant as a contradiction of the Semaine
Financieres assertion that the French troops
are shortly coming away ? The doctrine of
this paragraph is totally at variance with
the grounds originally assigned for the inva-
sion of Mexioo, totally at variance with the
official representations on the faith of which a
reluctant support has been hitherto given by the
Corps legislatif to the costly and unproductive
enterprise, sad one which must inevitably lead,
sooner or later, to far stronger despatches from
the United States than the one lately denied, but
now admitted to exist. Nothing is more certain
than that America will not allow France to put
itself at the head of a West Indies in Mexico, and
although the present government at Washington
does not want war, the opinions of the country are
utterly hostile to the Emperor's dream of making
himself master of the isthmus of Panama. To
speak plainly, the United Stakes can prevent him
from keeping a permanent hold of the Americas
continent, and they will most certainly do it. Tall
talk is of no use, he will have to deperpir, or, as
the more vulgar transatlantic phrase runs, to
" hook it."
The Paris clergy are following up the Pope's lead
in making war against Freemasonry. On Thurs-
day a number of members of the Union Macon-
nique followed the coffin of a brother to the church
of St. Nioolas dee Champs to attend the funeral
service. The care refused to let them enter the
church unless they took a small masonic emblem
out of their buttonholes. Thereupon the mourners
agreed among themselves not to set foot in the
church at all, and they made a collection outside of
the doors of the sum whirl they would have paid
for chairs and various church claims and sent the
amount to the office of the journal the most ob-
noxious to the ultramontanista, the Siirds, to be
distributed among the poor of the pariah.
M. Dusautoy, the court tailor, is announced as
a candidate for one of the vacant seats in the Corps
Legislatif ; if the precincts of the Tuileries could be
erected into a separate borough his election would
be certain ; but I doubt his success in the country.
Marshal Canrobert, following the example of the
Prefect of Police, has served out flannel or anti-
cholera belts to the army of Paris.

THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL&

SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 22.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Poseek, Captain Field, with the heavy Calcutta,
Chin, and Australia wale, arrived this morale& She brings
89 peseengers, amongst whom is the Rev. Mr. Gardner,
chaplain Sober Msjesty'sforoes from Gibraltar. Mr. giraffe,
perm of the company's steamer Behar, died es board tbe
Potash on the 18th lest.
The Pooneh hes on freight 8 packages specie value
165,000 i., also 6 pecker* valuables, and 2,022 oachsecc
cargo, incladicg 1.755 balm raw eilk, vane IV4OOOI.
Alen the mast of Portugal the Posask experiseeed
strong gales from S.W. to N. W. sod thick hazy weather,
across the bey herd northerlywalla, and up Chasm' lists

weather. '
Her Majeety's ships Assurance, Pates, Oookstrice, 1
Hibernia. and Beteepinea, were at 11alta.
GIBRALTAR. Om 16.
The pleura °hasp is the weather appears to have bad
• berie6cial effect ea the public health. Cholera has sow
nearly diaappaared from amongst the entire populatioe,
civil and military. A great improvement m also reported in
the public health of Sas Roque. The atmospheric chine
asare to have been equally henehota to the Re audits
sefthbourhood.
According to private letters the deaths hi Sarno from
cholera are estimated at about 50 a day.
The follewbg British yeessis hawk snived hen :—Os the
fltb, Memos 'IMMO. 6 da)e om Liverpool ; 10th.
steamer Delta, 6 days from Southamptoe ; 11th, steamer
William Co t6lda a from Carib! ;131h, skewer lonia,
71 days from LivmPral ; and steamer Messins, 8 days from
Powwow,; sad es the 16th. beirathis Haweedak, 17 days
fresi Liverpool; sad bark linehantrwm, J 0 days from New-
castle.
The British brigsatis• Remareb, from Tills/eel do
hitonio, with sulphur ore for Liverpool, put in bare 611
aight of the llth, kooky
_.
Her Maieseya ship Presets is to the Iserhass.
lorfir,ehrfssat! trst:23—?.a; Leeds", 90
Yaneillea staye
ider.lie 491;
. XII*, 8 days' sight. I to 1 die; Cadiz, 4 dia ; Malap,
I db. ; 11•4* par to I ilia. Theo exchanges are eosallsa,