The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-21 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21.

CIRCTILKR NOTES addressed to diplomatic repre-
sentatives abroad are not, it should seem, des-
tined for publicity in official journals. We speak,
of course, of the continental usage. These thugs
are managed somewhat differently in England.
Such Notes are of a " confidential " character in
the sense of being designed for the instruction and
guidance of the agents to whom they aro addressed,
and for communication to the Foreign Secretary
of the Government to which they are accredited,
but not necessarily for communication in writing.
They may be simply authorised to be "read,"
without leaving a copy of the text. M. DE Mous-
TIER'S Circular Note explaining away the import-
ance of the Salzburg interview was a document of
this nature ; it was designed for the direction of
the diplomatic agents of the French Government in
their conversations on the interview in question, but
it was not intended to be made public except
in an indirect and unofficial manner through the
columns of one of those compliant journals,
neither official nor independent, which are fr.s oured
wish some of the open secrets of the Government
teat uses them, on condition of be;ng always ready
to accept a disavowal. M. DR MOUSTIER'S Cir-
cular saw the light in the Patric, Count Bis-
M•ltelefl Circular, dated the ith inst., corrobo-
rating and completing that of the French Minister,
is conveyed to the world in a manner more cir-
cuitous. It has appeared, not in a serriofl;cial
organ at Berlin, but in a Wartemberg newspaper
published at Stuttgart. It is addressed to the
diplomatic representatives of the Court of Berlin,
who are instructed to read it to the Foreign Secre-
tary of the Government to which they are accre-
dited. Nothing more worthy of great Power calm
in the consciousness of its strength, and averse from
equally giving and from takingoffence, has proceeded
from the Prussian Cabinet since the Treaty of
Prague. It has the double merit of a resolute frank-
neas and a proud reserve ; but the frankreas is cour-
teous and considerate, and the reaerve is free
from obscurity. Count BISMARCK does not
protest against the rumoured political combina-
Vona at Salzburg ; he admits, with just a shade
of irony, perhaps, that such rumours had a certain
air of probability under the circumstances of the
meeting of two powerful Monarchs. But he has
learnt from Paris and from Vienna " that the
" internal affairs of Germany were not the
" topic of the conversations at Salzburg," and he
regards these reassuring explanat;ons as " more
" especially fortunate, since the recep-
" tion which these rumours and suppositions
" met with in all Germany show once more how
" insupportable to the German national sentiment
" is the idea of seeing the development of the
" affairs of the German nation put under the
" tutelage of a foreign element, or governed by
" otherconaiderations than those which the national
" interests of Germany demand."
It would be difficult to touch with a finer or
firmer hand, with more delicacy and dexterity
that chord of " national sentiment" which was so
resolutely struck the other day by the Grand
Duke of BADEN. Count BISMARCK'S language is
not defiant, but conciliatory when he ventures to
hope that the efforts of his Government "to
" direct the current of the national
" development of Germany into a bed
" where it can produce not a disturbing
" but a fruitful influence ;" to " avoid all that
" would precipitate the national movement ;" "to
" appease, and not to excite," will be crowned
with success " if foreign Powers will avoid with
" equal care everything which can lead the Ger-
" man people to believe that it is the subject of
" foreign combinations, which would legitimately
" excite its sentiments of dignity and national in-
" dependence." Count BISMARCK is able to call
the Governments of South Germany to witness
that the Cabinet of Berlin has strictly abstained
from exercising any moral pressure upon their re-
solutions, and that it has not taken any undue ad-
vantage of the reconstruction of the Zull-