The Express.
London, England, 1862-08-27 00:00:00

JAPAN.

From Japan we learn that Lieutenant-Colonel
St. John Neale, who succeeded Mr. Alcock, has
been iIL He intends shortly to move from Yoku-
hamato Yedo. Mr. Gower goes to Hakodadi as
Acting Consul. The Japan Express has been
started at Yokuhama. It is printed from wooden
types, and upon Japanese paper.
On the 29th May there was a typhoon off the
coast of Japan, in which H.I.M.S. Dordogne lost
all her masts.

After the late elections in Prussia, the Saturday
Review published an article on Prussian politics, in which
the present ministers were bandied severely. The Krell.:
.Z,itung, indignant at the manner in which its friends in
office had been treated, translated the article and printed it
with editorial remarks intended to rebut the offensive
statements of the London paper. The Berliner Al!go.
swine also reprinted the article; while the Borns
Zeitung gam it with the omission of the most
unpleasant pessagaa The legal advisers of the ministry,
however, saw a breach of the law in the publication of such
libellous matter, and all three papers were proceeded
against. The trial came on last Wednesday. It was to no
purpose that the editor of the Kreuz pointed out that his
intention was to defend the ministry from the attacks of
the English press. The editor of the Berliner Allgenseine
did not appear, and so wee proceeded against in MINIUM
ciam. The counsel on behalf of the ministry fixed the
damages against them two defendants at 455. and 30s. re-
spectively ; and against the other paper at 60s. The court
condemned the former two to a fine of 30s, each, and the
last to 60s,

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PARIS, TUIMDAY EVIMING.

I am informed that the note in the Moniteur of
yesterday was foroed upon the Emperor by the
generals at the camp. If this be true, we may
look upon the said note as a tribute to Chauvinism
rather than an enunciation of VA policy. To my
mind it has quite this character. My informa-
tion may be incorrect, or only partially
true ; I will, therefore, state the opinions
of the principal morning papers upon this matter.
The Conatitutionnel claims for itself a complete

rapprochement with the Moniteur on what it
pronounces to be a "declaration of the French
government." It quotes a sentenoe of its own in
answer to M. de is Guerronniere,which is certainly
sufficiently similar to one contained in the note,
as to suggest the possibility of their having been
both drawn out by the same hand. It is this.
"When our flag floats anywhere under the reign
of a Napoleon, it retreats not before threats, and
what it protects is well protected." The II
question of the future solution is left,
according to the Constitutionnei, pretty much
where it was. "Nobody has now the
right to say that it does not still remain in the
terms in which it was placed by the diplomatic
documents communicated to the great bodies of
the state, and by the explanations so unmistakeably
categorical of M. Billault in the discussion of the
address to the Senate and the Legislative Body."
Now M. Billault, it will be remembered, gave it as
the deliberate conviction of the government that
the continued occupation of Rome was a violation
of the rights of Italy. It Paulin Limayrac (for
the article is by him) thus concludes his comments
The policy of the imperial government is derived from
itself alone (ne reeve que d'elle-inEsse):; it is inspired by its
own principles alone. Neither reactionary nor revolu-
tionary, preoccupied alone with the greet mission which has
fallen to it, faithful to its traditions, it risen and maintains
itself above passions and parties. Errors and ingratitude,
come whence they may, are powerless to turn it from its
path. It remains still the same before a threatened revo.
lution—it will continue to remain the same before that re-
volution when conquered.
The Debate says :

The declaration of the Moniteur, if it is not so
precise and explicit as might have been wished, has
nevertheless a sense and a bearing which we are
anxious to point oat. The official journal gives an
important share to the exigencies of the moment,
and a share which appears to us to a oertain extent legiti.
mate and necessary. But it does not make to reactionary
passions and to the hopes and calculations they have already
founded upon the present misfortunes of Italy, those con-
oessions which they believed they already grasped, and
which they had announced with so much eagerness,
emphasis, and assurance. To the declaration that military
honour now obligee the government more than ever to de-
fend the Holy Father, it does not add a word which
may lead to the belief that the government in-
tends either indefinitely to prolong the occupation
of Rome or to guarantee to the Pope the in-
tegrity of his remaining territory. As will be secs, if the
Moniteur does not explicitly confirm, yet it dose not deny,
the very precise declarations published a few dais ago in
the Constitutionnet. We think we may affirm that upon
this point the silence of the official journal is.no less expres-
sive than its words. This is all we wish to point out with
precision.
The &kit is conspicuous by the absence of all re-
marks upon the subject. The clerical organs natu-
rally put the beet possible face upon the matter,
but it is easy to see that they are struck by the
absence of any mention of the pontifical sove-
reignty.
M. de Morny opens his address to the Conseil-
G‘ndral of the Puy-du-Dime by these significant
words :—" I have hitherto at the opening of every
session of our Council-General found pleasure in
explaining to you the policy of the Emperor's
government This time I shall abstain from so
doing." The ground is obviously too dangerous to
tread upon.
The Bourse was greatly agitated at the news of
the landing of Garibaldi in Calabria. Italian
Renter fell 80c. for cash, and 70c. for account,
leaving off at 70fr. 20c. ant 70fr. 25c. respectively.
French Route also fell 25c. for cash, and 20c. for
account, leaving off at 68fr. 60c. for both.