The Express.
London, England, 1856-01-12 00:00:00

HERAT.

We (Morning Post) have authority for stating that
advice. have been received direct from Perils, which
in no way confirm the statement that came through
ladle, of the capture of Herat by the Persians.
All that has happened at Herat hu been a conflict
b:tween two Afghan factions, in which one has
triumphed. _ .

The limn has received the following telegraphic
despatch from its Vienna correspondent, dated
Thursday evening :
"CONSTANTINOPLE, iht. 4.

" According to &drifts from Teheran the British
Minister has demanded his paasporta, on account of
a personal rnieundentanding with the Court."

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(sum out ow"

PARIS, FRIDAY /VINING.

What's the matter with the Senate P Such is the
question which all the astonished readers of the
lifoniteor of this morning put to every ose they see,
and few there are who get any intelligible answer.
The public mind was occupied with the Council of
War at the Tuileries, the Czar's counter propositions
to the Austrian overtures for peace, the avowed neu-
trality of Denmark, the reported neutrality
of Sweden, the scarce concealed hostility of
Prussia, the duplicity of Austria, the wavering of
Saxony and Bavaria, the forthcoming loan, and the
daily fall in the funds, but up to lut night no soul in
the universe, not in the secret of the Moniteur article,
was thinking about the French Senate. What is the
Senate P who are the Senators P and what are they
for P are questions which I can assure you the bulk
of society in France are as ignorant of and indifferent
to as the folks in England, who, I take it for granted,
neither know nor oars much about the matter. How-
ever, it has been thought necessary for high reasons
of state which are carefully concealed to give the
Senate a public scolding, and to proclaim to the
people of France that the fifth wheel of the coach, of
which all they know is that it costs them a good deal
of money, does not go.
I believe, from rather good information, that the
key to the enigma is this :—Last motion some of the
more ambitious Senator., who are not content to en-
joy their 30,000 fr. in quiet, bothered the Emperor
about the insignificance of their position in the state.
They took nothing by their motion. It is anticipated
that at the approaching sittings they may come
forward again. The article in the Moniteur
hu, I am told, the double object of refus-
ing by anticipation their requests for more real
power, and at the same time, to suggest that if they
wished to give themselves importance, they may
represent to the Emperor a. being the darling widots
of the country certain things which he wishes to
have accomplished, such as the appointment of the
Empress as Regent, the nomination of Prince Napo-
leon as Viceroy of Algeria, and—if used be—the
abolition of the Salk law.

The following is the concluding cartion of the
article referred to by oar correspondent:
_ _

The 'keen is, above all, a great political and morel
power. The legislator isf 1862, when instituting it, did not
mean to male it the feint reflex of soother
Methadon, that belongs to history. He wished to
arena a corps to suit the pros:meet he was bending and
adapted to our social state, ouch as this last has sprung out
ef this Presets revolution. He has sedgind to this goers a
part equally exalted se It is Important. In regular and
calm periods, It can suggest all the great musings of public
utility; it bean the peltinn of the cairns ; it
eaamises the onditios of the country; it inquires
Into its ands ; it gamine whatever may tionduse to the per-
fecting of its criminalise; it points out useful reforms;
it proposes real improvements. In extraordinary period.
it may, like the paliareasts of old, stop power when going
astray ; it watc►n over the safety of the country, the
integrity of die national territory ; the respect du to the
sationaleompeet ; the maiatessafe of all the principles and
interests of 'misty.
In order that this part it las te perform may be esteemed
by public option Ns highly es the author of the constituties
wished It to be important sad privileged, the &eats has
merely to sole boldly the spirit of its own high mission. It
depends on itself to make its leisure more useful than at 1
labour woe of that sansibly, whose place it fills at the
Luxembourg. Besides, it was intentionally that the con-
stitution of 1862 bestowed co it time. Time means study,
innovating, standee. Time presuppose the incessant
inquiry into all din is demanded by the mural maltase of
the people, its welfare, the interests of sideslips, the
development of labour and of credit; the prosperity and
safety of Freest. Time, for antenna, is equivalent tt
the power of enrching after what is good, of die-
earning it, preparing it, popsies, deisading, and
accomplishing it. Time 1 This is what the perils
randary easemblies did not have; this is what tke
Insisters, overwhelmed as they are with so many earn and
respossibilities, still desire sad ever must desire. What
greater force could be gives to as assembly, which, possess-
ing the right of initiative, has the power of insuring surer s
to all that is really useful ? _

T►es, to summarise the parts belonging to the eonrtita•
dos, the Emperor reveres by mesa. of his reinisten. This
sielstry hes theCouneil of State for a vigilant

fellow-labourer. The control is fully avd freely ewer
sued by the legislative corps. Lastly, uan &dime of the
goveroment site the senate. Whilst all the other powers,
and the Emperor himself, are abettod by the innumerable
question' of each day, and by the immense cares of foreign
aced home policy, the Senate only descends to perform its
(motions of ob s lion in order to re-ascend, and there
discharge its high protecting duties is behalf of society.
Regelatieg the government when its soden is irregular,
rousing it should it slumber, the Neste thus exercises an
everoctive legumes over the periodos advance of the
government ; ao the support sad enoeillor of the throne, it
brings to it, In addition to the tribute of its experience and
the result et its investigations, means perpetually stew for
achieving good and for daserviag the gratitude of the
people•

THE SOUND Dom—A private letter from Altona
mentions that the Danish Government bus now lost all hopes
of bringing anything like a Conference together on the
subject of the Bound Dam. The Oovernmeot Is described
is this letter le la the greatest embarrassment and dir union
as to the course to be pursued towards the deg of the United
&atm, en its ant attempting to pats Eronenborg daty free,
after the expiration of the present treaty. It is, naturally
enough, feared that the attempt, if successful, will be imi-
tated by other nations, and the example become widely c ,n-
-wises. It is even dinned that the Danish authorities
nave at least deliberated upon the plan of letting the Moe.
diens through unneoleeted, but of keeping an account
against them fee preseatation when the subject of the Bound " • . . . . .
De, a shall have beim adjusted—Shim:4mo Gantt. The apaolsa uovernment, vetta a view or intro-
. dating the Eoglirh system of keeping accounts in their
MIaCHANT NAVY or PIUSILL—An Alicia return,
just published at Broth', shows that the macchant navy of naval depsnments, have despatched Brigadier Juan de Dies
Prune, at the beginning of the present year, consisted of Eames Yequierdo, belongieg to the naval establishment et
900 'easels of 1".°48 fox harden—whisk it 23 "06, aid that country, to visit England, ftr the purpose of olysiaing
3,273 lona more tins at the eorrrepeedieg period of hat
a knowledge of the method of keeping accounts used la ber
year. In the coarse of last year 67 vessels Oars built, bat
DO others was lost and 14 sold. Majesty's dockyards.