The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-04 00:00:00

EXPRF-SS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, MONDAY EVININO.

Those semi-official public instructors, the Con-
stitationnel, Pays, Etendard, and Patrie, have not a
single reflection to offer to their readers on the
" circumstances," evidently moat important, al-
luded to but not explained in the Emperor's letter
to M. Drouyn de Lhuys, as the reason why it was
necessary to accept his resignation. The clerical
journal the Monde offers the following observa-
tions, which are quoted in several of the evening
paPers
The bearing of this change is rather difficult to estimate
all at once. If we out our eyes a few years back, we find
M. Drouyn de Lhuys resigning his poet, a first time, at the
moment when our policy, declaring itself in favour of
Piedniontese ambition, became disquieting for the inte-
grality of the temporal power. A few years later, in 1862,
the war in Italy being ended. Piedmont aggrandised, and
the treaty of Zurich executed in that negative way which
we all know, M. Drouyn de Lhuys resumed his portfolio
and place in the Senate. That circumstance occurred just
after the diplomatic campaign undertaken at Rome by M.
Thouvenel and the Marquis de IA Veldts', and the
milit►ry enterprise of Garibaldi. The diplomatists had
failed at Rome, the Condottiere at Aspromonte; the Italian
government was desirous of making a weapon of defence
out of its resistance to the schemes of the revolution ; M.
Drouyn de Lhuys, still crowned with the halo of his reale.
nation, was the expression of a formal opposition, tem
porary at least, to the projects of Piedmont on Rome,
and his return to office was interpreted by all in that
manner. The change which is now being effected,
the retirement of M. Drouyn de Lhuys some weeks
before the term of the September convention, cannot be
considered as facts of small importance. The attitude
taken up by M. Drouyn de Lhuys had made his ministry,
as respected the Roman question, one of transition only.
His acts, his circuity's, several of which contained formal
declarations in favour of the independenee of the Holy
See and protests against the invasions of Piedmont, would
have made the acceptance of the crowning of the Italian
edifice a difficult matter for that statesman. There are
certain disavowals a man cannot inflict on himself.
The Union says on the same subject :
The resignation of M. Drouyn de Lhuys, the honours
heaped upon M. Benedetti, and the interim ministry of the
Marquis de La Valette, have a manifest connexity, which
the Monitear reveals without explaining. • • There
was a talk of the retirement of M. Dronyn de Lhuys at
the moment of the signature of the Convention of Septem-
ber 15, and again when the debates in the Turin
parliament betrayed the Piedmontese interpretation of that
convention. At either of those periods such a determina-
tion on the part of the mMister would have been under-
stood and appreciated. Can it be that the approach of the
11th of December, by which day the convention must be
entirely executed, is the reason for his retirement now ?
We are reduced to vague conjecturer. Can the course of
affairs in Germany have anything to do with the
crisis! Was M. Drouyn de Lhuys more in-
clined to an Austrian alliance than to marked
cordiality with Prussia! We do not know. But it is
impossible not to be struck with the coincidence that he
leaves the ministry at a moment when M. Benedetti,
the present ambassador at Berlin, receives the highest
honorary distinction, and when the Marquis de Moustier,
M. Benedetti's predecessor, and the first envoy to the
Court of Prussia under the second empire, is called to the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Mdlle. Corn6lie Meyerbeer, the youngest
daughter of the composer, was married at Wies-
baden on the 27th August to M. Richter, an emi-
nent printer, and a professor in the Berlin School
of Fine Arts.
At the Bourse Italian rose 55c., but in other re-
spects the market was not so good as on Saturday.
Rente fell 15c. both for cash and account, closing
at 69fr. 75c. and 69fr. 85c. Mobilier fell sfr.
The money article of the LiberU says that though
the ministerial change announced in yesterday's
Monifoir is interpreted favourably to peace in
Germany the recall to Europe of the Marquis de
Moustier from Constantinople is thought by some
to indicate a revival of the portentous " Eastern
question."

THE EMPRESS OF MEXICO AND THE
KING OF THE BELGIANS.

A correspondent of the Avenir National writes
as follows from Brussels :
Persona have been much surprised in Brussels that the
Empress of Mexico, on coming for the first time to Europe
since the death of her father, Leopold 1., did not
at once pay a visit to her family here. It
appears that a point of etiquette has been the cause of it.
The Empress felt hurt because the King of the Belgians
had sent no one to receive her on her landing at Saint
Nazaire. A correspondence on the subject has since taken
place between the brother and sister—the difference has
been arranged, and the Empress will come to Brussels on
her return from Miramar.

At Vienna the cost of the war, including the
loss?. undergone by the neutral countries and the indem-
nities to be paid, is estimated at 40,000,000 i.
The Nourelliste of Rouen relates that as the per-
formance of the Vieux Garcons at the theatre of Dieppe
was about to commence three eveninp back a gendarme
arrived to arrest an actor named Deschamps, who
fills the part of lovers, for neglecting to present him-
self to fulfil his militatj duties, he having been
' drawn in the conscription. The director was about
to return the money to the audience when the
actor obtained permission to play his part that evening,
promising to give himself up on the following morning.
M. Deschamps appears, however, to have no ambition for
military glotf, for he had no sooner ended his duties at
the theatre than he hastened to the milway and started
for Paris. He was, however, Mopped at one of the inter-
mediate stations by a telegraphic despatch and sent back
to Dieppe under arrest. The ladies of the Casino have
sines opened a subscription to purebase a subatitute for
'him.

Tug LATE ACCIDENT ON MOAT BLANC.—M-.
Bulkley Samuel Young,, 8.A., of King's College, Cam-
bridge, brother of Sir Clicarge Young, and one of the sons
of Lady Young of Cookham, who lost Ids life lately while
descending from the summit of Mont Blanc, took his
Vrduring the gear, when he irradnated as 28th
anegler, and 17 wood clam of the Classical
Tripes. He went from Eton to Kin's as Eton scholar, in
1862: In 1864 be took Sir Wllliiare Brown's medal foe
Latin epigrams. The " Dead March" was performed in
Kings's College Chapel at the afternoon service on Sunday
by order of the Vice-Provost.