The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-20 00:00:00

ENGLAND AND THE CONFERENCE.

The correspondence of the Foreign-office with
the great powers relative to the proposal to hold a
conference to preserve the peace of Europe has
been laid before parliament.
The following is Lord Clarendon's comment on
a reply which rendered the proposed conference
impracticable :
The Austrian ambassador communicated to me this
morning the despatch from Count Menadorff, of which I
inclose • copy, being the reply of the Austrian govern-
ment to the invitation to attend • oonference which had
been presented by your excellency and your French and
Russian colleagues. I told Count Apponyi that I claimed
no right on the part of her Majesty's government to re-
monstrate against the course which • great and indepen-
dent power like Austria thought proper to pursue for the
maintenance of her dignity and in defence of her interests;
but that as England was deeply interested in the pmer-
ration of peace, and as her Majesty's government had
spared no effort to prevent a war which they thought
would be without sufficient cause, and, therefore, un-
justifiable, I must be permitted to express my
sincere regret that Austria should have put her veto upon
the meeting of a conference which other powers had
agreed to attend for the purpose of deliberating upon the
questions that now endangered the peace of Europe. I
begged leave also to say that, in my opinion, Austria would
have stood better in the eyes of Europe, if the vievrsandthe
arguments contained in the despatch which his Excellency
had just had the goodness to read to me bad been stated
by an Austrian plenipotentiary at the conference, where he
would have had the opportunity of learning how they
were judged by the representatives of other powers, and
how far they might be capable of modification, as well as
bow far other powers might be brought to view matters in
the same light as Austria.

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO CONTINENTAL PAS-
SENGER/S.—Mr. Forbes, the general manager of the Lon-
don, Chatham, and Dover Railway, has forwarded to us
for publication the following notice, received from the ma-
nager of the Northernot Franca Railway:—" Sir,—l beaten
to inform you that the Rhenish Railway has just advised
me, by telegram, that merchandise by fart servioe and
goods altogether, as well as passengers and luggage, can
no longer be conveyed to any destination beyond
in the direction of Hanover, Marburg, Hamburg, Bremen,
Lubeck, Brunswick, Magdeburg, Berlin, Breslau, Ramie.
berg, Riga, Stettin, Eydtkuhnen, St. Petersburg, Warsaw,
Leipzig, and Dresden. Communication is maintained, up
to the present time, with the Rhine, Z. e., with Cologne,
Dusseldorf, Coblence, Mayence, Frankfort, and Wiesbaden.
(Signed)—J. Penn, general manager.—Paris, June 17."
LONDON AND NORTII-WESTERN RAILWAY COM-
PANT.—The concluding Wharnaliffe meeting for the pre-
sent session of this company was held yesterday at the
Euston station ; Mr. J. P. Brown-Westhead, M.P., in the
chair. Only one bill remained to be submitted, and that
was not promoted by the company. but it contains pro-
visions of user and authority to subscribe if they think St,
and, therefore, required their sanction. It also directly con-
nects the Great Western Company with the lines to which
it relates, and the chairman m moving the usual formal
resolution approving the bill, which was unanimously as-
sented to, remarked that it was quite as well that it should
be so. The bill authorises the 'Wolverhampaon and Wal-
sall Railway Company to make deviations from their au-
thorised railway, and to construct certain short branches
in connection therewith ; and provides for other purposes
with respect to their undertaking. The meeting ter-
minated with an interchange of compliments between the
shareholders and. directors.
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