The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-19 00:00:00

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The Timu express its disbelief in the sinister
designs attributed to the meeting of the French and
Austrian emperors at Salzburg. In • war against Pi nests
in conjunction with France the Austrian government could
rely neither on its German subjects, to whom the contest
would seem fratricidal, nor on the Magyars, who by their
success in such a struggle would only re-establish that
ascendancy of the German element in Austria which they
have lately overthrown. On the antipathy of the
Austrians and of other Southern Germans to their
northern brethren it is idle for • foreign power to
rely. In the Luxemburg affair, in the North Schlos-
s g differenoe, the Emperor Napoleon may have
seen how the bare threat of French interference
was sufficient to heal up any German rlizsension.
However much Austria may lament her exclusion
from Germany, she must be well aware that it is not
through France, and still leas with France, that readmis-
sion is to be obtained. The most natural and most neces-
sary alliances have been broken up, and anything like •
new combination has become impossible. If, their, the
Emperor Napoleon has any idea of inducing Austria to
join him in a breech of the pesos, the Times believes no
less than hopes that his journey will be to vain.
The Standard says that, though the great questions
now agitating Europe will be diseased, it does not ex-
pect that the meeting will have any immediate or appa-
rent result, and it doubts rely much whether any of the
events which may occur in Europe dur:og the next few
months will be traceable to the conferences at Salzburg.
Europe, obein vas the TekgrapA, will to-day see with
curiosity, but without alarm, an interchange of courtesies
at Salzburg between two powerful emperors who are
brought together by • common interest in the tragic fate
of a third. It was quite natural that some undefined mis-
giving should bare been aroused by a public itnnonneement
that such an interview was to take place. But, whatever
may be the future consequences of this marked repproche-
wrest between two powers so peculiarly sheeted as France
and Austria, there is little around for the prevailing sort
of half-belief that the meeting is the precursor of some
special alliance, or, indeed, anything more than what it is
mid to be, • friendly manifestation of sympathy on the
part of the French Emperor with his much-tried and
sorely-harassed imperial brother.

or 118. ISTLXION.

The suspension of a cabinet minister is, says the Daily
New, a new thing in politics. But Mr. Johnson has
"suspended" Mr. Stanton because he is not empowered to
remove him from office without the consent of the Senate.
Up to the closes of the last session of the thirty-ninth
congress the President of the United States enjoyed this
prerogative of removal in common with the crowned beads
of Europe. Bat one of the incidenta in the great struggle
between the executive and legislative departments of the
Federal government has been the passing of an act of con-
(ream taking away the power of the President to remove
any civil officer witboat the consent of the Senate. The
law, however, left him power, in certain cases, to rue-
pond any officer during • recess of the Senate, such
'eversion to be announced to that body within
twenty days after its meeting for the next session. But
such cases were strictly limited to those in which the
officer shall " be shown, by evidence satisfactory to the
President, to be guilty of misconduct in office, or crime,
or for any reason shall become incapable or legally dis-
qualified to perform its duties, in which ease, and in no
other," the act goes on to say, " the President may sus-
pend such officer, and designate moms suitable person to
perform temporarily the duties of such office." When
such suspension has taken place it is required of the Presi-
dent that he shall report to the Senate not only the fact
of the suspension, but "the evidence and reasons of his
action in tho case," and in the event of the Senate not
agreeing in those reasons, the officer resumes his poet with
only the loss of the salary and emoluments which ►ccrued
during the period of his suspension. Mr. Stanton was
the repreeentative of congress in the cabinet, and it is not
likely, in the opinion of the Daily New., that the Senate
will eousimi to his removal.

The Telegraph has little doubt that Mr. Stanton has
carped certain functions of the executive, with the
avowed object of siding the purposes of the republicans.
It is understood that he has repeatedly, cet his own re.
spon•P ility, Wood orders to the military commanders in
the South without even eon/citing the President, and has
also intercepted or withheld the instructions of Ma thief