The Express.
London, England, 1865-06-30 00:00:00

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PARIS, lons 29.
The Paris of this evening states that the nego-
tiations between Rome and Mexico ars still go-
osedfigg.
The same paper annonnixe that M. lloin returned
to Paris on Tuesday last.
In the Corps lagislistif today the bill relative to
the construction, on she Champs de Mars, of the
building for the International Exhibition was passed
bi 212 to 27 votes.

AUSTRIA.
VISNNI., Jam II
The ministerial crisis still continues.
PESTR. Jun 29.
It is stated here among the magnates that Count
Moths Almasy will fill the office of Minister of
nuance in the Austrian cabinet; at any rate
negotiations for the soospianos of a postfoSo have
been commenced with the count.

SPAIN AND ITALY.
KaDRID, Raw 29.
Several journals assert that Senor °lame will
go to Italy as envoy extraordinary to King Viotor
BranianueL

COMMERCIAL TREATY BETWEEN BEL-
GIUM AND TBB BOLLVIREIN.
BERLIN, Jun 29.
The ratifications of the oommercial treaty be-
tween Belgium and the Zollverein, (*minded on
the 22nd of May last, were exchanged to-day at
the ministry for foreign affairs.

SLESWIG-HOLSTEIN.
1110.11 N, Jars le.

The official Slastrenttriger of today says :--"The
rumour of the recall of Prinoe Hohenlohe in come-
quence of the protest forwarded by the Bleswig-
Holstein government is unfounded. The prince
will complete the inquiry for which he has been
deispatolied. Herr von Zedlita, in answer to the
protest of the government of Sleswig-Holstein, re-
plied that he could discover no cause for such a
recall, there not being the remotest reason to sup-
pods that the prince had exceeded the limits of his
instructions."

111X2EZEI8 MOM PARIS.

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PARIS, TuoIsDAT Bvianao.
The defeat of M. Meynadier in the electoral circum•
seription where the Duke de Morny was wont to be
almost unanimously elected, has produced, says M.
Pripet, in the Avenir National, much emotion.
The Prance, while lamenting the event and record-
ing that the official candidates, after having failed
en masse is Paris, have been beaten at Dijon, Cha-
lons, Rochefort, ka, asks "What does all this
mean r The simple question is not difficult to
answer. It means that the opinions represented by
official candidates are net those of the electors. The
Prance pretends that if the Opposition increases in
numbers it gains nothing in moral force. This is an
egregious mistake. The moral force of the Opposi-
tion is progressing in a far larger proportion than
its personnel. In preceding sessions the govern-
ment reckoned almost as many triumphs as sittings.
No► its victories are painfully pined and are not
unmixed with defeats. In the recent debate on
the budget the Chamber threw out the scheme for
building a new Post-office, and voted against the
tax on horses and carriages. Large minorities have
recorded their votes against the government on
other subjects. The sale of the state forests is so
much disliked that it will probably not be assented
to. Only yesterday M. Rouher failed to satisfy
the Chamber that the government plan for building
a palace in the Champs de Mars for the
Universal Exhibition of 1867 was a wise one ;
the debate was adjourned till this day,
and at the moment I write the result is
considered doubtful. Such an attitude on the part
of the Corps Legialatif would have been thought
astounding fair years ago ; now it excites no sur-
prise.
Ton will have noticed in the Moniker a circular

of the Marquis de Lavalette's to the prefects, in-
structing them that at the coming municipal elec-
tions they are to leave the constituencies abso-
lutely free to exercise their spontaneous choice, and
that authority is not to interfere' either to recom-
mend or to oppose any candidate. This lan-
guage sounds well ; it is doubtless meant to
he understood as the announcement of a great

liberal reform, and to a oretain extent I scarcely
doubt that it does mean a reform in fact. But
there is a very suspicious exception in the circular.
The proposition is laid down that municipal elec-
tion/ are essentially non-political, and then it is
said that if " imprudent men " should endeavour
"contrary to the public sentiment," to alter the
character of the election with a view to " personal
ambition or agitation," then and in that case the
prefect. are not to tolisate them. All this is
very complicated, and must be unintelligible
to those not familiar with /dais Napokonienaes.
How it can be necessary to drill universal suffrage
in case it should be in danger of going against the

"public sentiment," Is a moat dificultproposition.
Tl►e circular, while preaching liberty, leaves the
pretests a discretion to interfere whenever they
find disagreeable candidates in the field.
The Groat de France mentions an amusing in-
stance of the discrimination and sagacity with
which the officials of the bureau of the press exercise
the prerogative of seising foreign journals. The
Evening Monifeur lately described and commended
a caricature of Pasch—l cannot say which. Well,
Os number of Punch containing this very caricature
has been confiscated in the French Post-office on
aecount of it.

H. Donny the great publisher, has been sell-
teuoed by the Correctional Tribunal to pay a fine of
SW& for having published an unstamped edition
of Prince Napoleon's speech.
The fourth number of a workmen's journal,
called La Tribune Oneriire, has been seised.
Tim Proeureur-Imperial has suddenly become
alive to the libellous character of a book called the
ei lielmertistes," which has been on isle unmo-
lested for the last year ; the work as now seised,
and will be proseented.

in Opposition candidate for the Council-General
in the Landes, lit Lease, was sleeted last Sunday
lov a majority of 1,041 against 819 ; but unfortu-
nately the successful candidate, who had gone to
Vichy for hie health, had died there before the
close of the poll. '.,0
The regular cabmen deny the acammoy of the
statement that they begged pardon of X. Ducoux.
On the contrary, they say that he, finding that the
previsional jarveys were not up to their work, made
overtures to them, and promised a rise of wages.
The story, however, wantsprecielon, for some as 7 the
augmentation is imn° and others 60 centimes.
There will be litigation about the caution money of
the recalcitrant men which has been paid into the
Cabs) of Depots and Consignations. The contpawy
contend that the cabmen by relining to whorls
their duties bad finilsosil their
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