The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-31 00:00:00

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T; ???,41,AT EVENIN.

The vira4rapit in tit.: Po we is doubt-
le4,4 with the fav,,,,i1t!,!,• rumours which,
:!,,. play of trans:us...mils for the settlement,
Ire
t,, At the Bums,. :

~,,%; ,!, .It •, the Prussian .111..1...n1ur, ingoing lin

We believe :I.,4rrieswitla him the most
-.ion-. and that lie mid it easy to induce
the to reeiproc..t. them. Mde t.oltz in
hi. int.., a • with the Elms me, awl !ii his conversations
wi!li the 11.nister of Foreign .%tr.iiis, has had the fullest
01.1.n:in.:a.. of convincing hinivelf that on the part of
By •i:theiuo.tsincried ire to maintain friendly
.01 Prussia. It is 1...:5ii.1c that the presence of
th .1.1. i .tist at Berlin may ...iitrihute to modify the
. section of the ltS,.t II Pi es, and moderate its
ton- s!.cii -peaking of France.
I et rely upon tlk. aPlSllralleetl of either
.i/••• or the f ell the extent of he-
ti. t.i it there is any radical change in the
sit 'Gm,- But if the reports of De ark having
• r!vnch protection and made acceptable.
1.. Prussia are true, it may well
tha: the ground on which the French
,verwueut sent the recent communication,
e‘ high i 4 not a " note," has been cut from
till kr 1:, and that the Musatc,o. speaks
Ow literal truth when it says there is not at this
moment any " diplomatic question " pending
of a nature to lead to any difficulty. The assumed
intentii,ii of the French Emperor to make war for
• increase of territory as soon as he can form a
eu.licient army is no doubt not embodied in the
1..110, of a diplomatic question at present. As long
as he is not committed to such a war it is not un-
reasonable to hope that lie may think better of it.
But mere words, though they may cause a momen-
tary rise at the Bourse, will not allay the universal
suspicion of Europe in regard to his designs. For
that purpose there must be unmistakeable acts, a
palpable reduction of the army to a peace footing,
and a renunciation of the large permanent levies
contemplated by the Army Reorganisation Bill.
The Moniteur, yesterday, while affirming that the
Minister of War intended "to send back to agri-
culturists 8,000 or 10,000 of the horses purchased in
April last," did not say how many were purchased
then, nor whether the purchases were yet going on.
Now, the Epoque mentions this evening as an im-
portant fact that for the last two months large pur-
chases of horses for the French army have been
made at Stint Michael's and other places on the
Italian frontier.

to•,110M.

The Sok, of Milan, speaks of purchases of cattle
for French account on a large scale.

There is a rumour that Prussia has offered Den-
mark territorial compensation for Duppel and
Alsen. The Berlin National Gazette recommends
Denmark to think of the fate of those who have
relied on French patronage—the Poles, the Confe-
derate States of America, and Maximilian.
M. Emile de Girardin has convoked a meeting
of all the proprietors and editors of the Paris press,
at his house, No. 40, Rue Pauquet de Villejust, to
consider whether it is possible to obtain earlier and
more reliable telegraphic information than that
supplied by the Mayas agency, whose way of work-
ing its monopoly has lung been the subject of
serious complaints.
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