The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-09 00:00:00

THE POLICY OF FRANCE.

According to the Independance Belge the conclu-
sions which have been arrived at at Biarritz will be
shortly expounded in a circular, the work of M.
Rouher. This circular will contain the following
propositions :—" We could not intervene at Rome,
for Prussia, which has engagements with Italy,
would doubtless have been compelled to make a
hostile demonstration, and we should have been
dragged into a war not only with the bands of
Garibaldi but with the entire Italian nation risen
to protect its dignity. Italy is a great nation to
which we cannot dictate orders. If France (the
circular will proceed to say) had wished
to make conquests she would have taken
Bavaria and Belgium after Sadowa, and would
have urged Prussia to take all Germany in-
stead of restraining her. Our ambition counselled
it, our disinterestedness kept us from it. We shall
not intervene any more in 1808 than we did in 1866 ;
any more at Rome than at Berlin ; but at the same
time we shall not allow others to intervene either
in Denmark, Holland, or the East."

(MITER'S TELEOR.IIIB.)
PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, Ocr. 9.

The primary elections for the Prussian Chem_
bars will be held on the 30th inst., and the election
of the deputies on the 7th November.

THE NORTH GERMAN PARLIAMENT.
BERLIN, Ocr. 8, EVENING.

In to-day's sitting of the North German parlia-
ment the preliminary debate took place upon the
Zollverein treaties, which were almost unanimously
agreed to.
The budget then came on for discussion. Herr
Demichen moved to add to the budget a bill ren-
dering the Federal Chancellor legally responsible
I for the proper application of the monies voted.
Replying to a question from Herr Schultze, respect-
ing the entry of Mecklenburg into the Zollverein,
President Delbruck said that steps had already
been taken in Paris with the view of removing the
obstacles which prevent that grand duchy from
joining the customs union, but what success had
attended these steps he could not yet communicate.
It was desirable, he added, that Laueaburg, on
account of its geographical position, should not be
admitted to the union before Mecklenburg.
Heir Demichen's motion was rejected, and the
whole budget was adopted almost unanimously.

NORTH AND SOUTH GERMANY.
MUNICH, OcT. 8.

The Zollverein and salt treaties were laid before
the Lower House to-day, the government urging
their adoption. During the debate Prince von
Hohenlohe made a speech, in which he said, " The
Bavarian government does not desire the entry of
the southern states into the North German Con-
federation, nor yet a constitutional alliance with
Austria. On the other hand it does not desire an
isolated Southern Confederation, or one co-opera-
ting with France. The Bavarian government pur-
sues neither a policy aiming to make Bavaria a
great power, nor one which would make her play
the part of a mediator between Prussia and Austria.
It desires only a national union between all the
southern states and the Northern Bund. Negotia-
tions, with this object in view, are still pending.
In the opinion of the Bavarian government the
treaty of Prague prevents the entry of a single
southern state into the Northern Confederacy.

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.
VIENNA, Ocr. 8, EII:RING.

In to-day's sitting of the Lower House of the
Austrian Reicharath, after the report of the Confe-
rence of the Austrian and Hungarian delegates had
been brought in, Baron Von Benet presented to the
house the bill relative to the amount to be contri-
buted by Hungary to the general expenditure, and
the interest on the public debt of the empire, and
also the treaty of commerce between Austria and
Hungary.

PESTH, OCT. 8, Er E I NO.

In to-day's sitting of the lower house of the
Hungarian Diet the railway committee proposed
to the Home to sanction tho railway loan.

VIENNA, Ocr. 9.

Yesterday evening the Municipal Council of
Vienna determined to present to the Emperor an
address protesting agr'nst the address of the Aus-
trian catholic bishops, which deprecated any modi-
fication of the concordat.