The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-11 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROU PARIS.

(111011 OUR OWN

PARIS, FRIDAY Evisisc.
There is but one voice to acclaim that the 1,,
don Conference has succeeded in averting
There is even no difference of any importance
the versions given by several evening papers of ti
terms which now await only a formal signature
be certainly given to-morrow. It seems to
agreed on all hands that Luxemburg is to be,
tirely severed from Germany ; Prussia to evacn,

very speedily ; the fortress to be dismantled ; the
province to be neutralised under the sovereignty .4
the present King-Grand-Duke ; and the neutrals}
to be guaranteed by all the powers.

One report says that Pru;sia will withdraw het
troops within three or four weeks.

The Frew alone suggests that Prussia, after
promising to withdraw, may perhaps back out of
the engagement on the pretext that France
tinues to arm, but this seems to me quite an is.
admissible hypothesis.
The France says :
_ _ _

The friends of peace owe much to England for the pew,
tical spirit and wise foresight which Lord Stanley km
shown in the conduct of this important and delicate din
Rarely, in leed, has a question so pregnant with compile.
tions been settled with so much decision and promptita4e,
The Council of State is understood to harm
adopted in substance all the amendments to th,
army bill proposed by the committee. In cow.
qnence the change from the original project tai
Ibe very considerable. It is now proposed that th
minimum of the army, whether active or of ail
reserve, shall be 800,000 ; no further force to
raised without an annual vote. Of course the op.
position will object, and most rightly, to so high,
figure as a minimum. The official exoneration at
men drawn for the army by a money payment to
the State is to be abolished ; and the old system
under the Act of 1832, by which substitutes well
purchased privately at the market price is to be re.
!rived. This change will probably reduce the price
I of a substitute far below 3,000 fr., which is the
present rate. It is, however, to be stipulated tbg
every substitute shall, in addition to the agreed
price, pay 200 fr. to the fund for army pensions.
This clause provoked a good deal of discussios.
On the whole there is reason to hope that the bill
to be ultimately voted will not be anything like
such abed one as that which excited a general out.
cry in the country when it was launched as &
feeler a few months ago.
To-day the pictorial journal La Lone was tried
by the Correctional Police for having published &
caricature of the famous M. Louis Veuillot, of the
Univers, without the permission of the Minister of
the Interior. M. Veuillot, who acted as informer,
states in his journal that he instituted the preen-
tion not on amount of himself, as he is notoriously
too meek to resent injuries, but because relinia
was turned into ridicule in his person. No report
of the trial is legal. The court sentenced tie
editor of the Lune to a month's imprisonment.
The Countess Vimercati, one of the Princes
Mathilde's ladies of honour, is dead. She was the
wife of Count Vimercati, who has for several pan
played a considerable part in important negotia-
tions between France and Italy.
The Bourse, supported by uniform good news of
the Conference and the rise in Consols, was et•
trumely firm. Rente rose 25c. both for cash sad
account, closing at 69fr. 6c. and 68fr. 95c. Italian
rose lfr. 95c. upon M. Ferrara's financial statement
Credit Foncier rose 17fr. 50c. ; Compton
d'Escompte,lofr. ; the Northern Railway, 17fr.5trt;
and Lyons, 10fr. Credit Mobilier and its de-
pendent securities continued to participate elightly,
if at all, in the general improvement.

ITALY.

(raw' ova owx cosaxaroxoixr.)
FLORENCE, MAT 7.

Signor Ferrara has asked and obtained widest
difficulty from the Chamber of Deputies permisee
to delay his promised exposition of the finsaCil
state of the kingdom and the proposed bases of ks
future financial policy till Thursday next, the 9th
of this month. As I remarked in a former lette,
the time which the new minister—who, as is .41
known, undertook the arduous task proposed
him very much against his own inclinati.m.asd
solely from motives of real patriotism—has had id
the preparation of a financial policy, and the as
rious measures arising out of it, has been wonder
fully short. Nothing but the moat strenuous an
plication, and a power of work truly herodesa
could have sufficed to accomplish in the time the
amount of labour which the task entrusted w
Signor Ferrara implies, and the small graceof
two or three more days has accordingly been cher-
fully conceded.
Some of your contemporaries have been give'
what professes to be a complete explanation of the
mysterious circumstances connected with the hi
of the Ricaaoli ministry. But it is worth whikto
caution those who take an interest in contener•
rary Italian politics that none of these accounts us
to be accepted as wholly correct. It is prole*
true that great efforts have been made by anal
the irresponsible advisers around the King
bring about such an attempt to govern without
parliament as that which cost Clutrles the F.
his head. But I have reason to believe that the
story of these intrigues which has been give' is
wrongfully injurious to the King ; and that. "0
the other hand, a perfect knowledge of the fun
would show that one of the statesmen whom thin
stories are intended to defend is more piny is
the matter than his Majesty. To the Kin, he'
ever, must be awarded the very serious Mole i
failing to understand the position of a cons,l?
tional monarch to such a degree as to eneour4
around hint and to listen to, if not to be led h!,
unauthorised and irresponsible advisers, Op ise
jects are quite other than thew of the recgius4
ministry of the country, and whose means for the
advancement of those Mess*

patible with the carryin)

stitutional government
One thing oonnectei
at least certain—that

tation by the circumstath
consenting to take a
without in any way

causes or motives of it,
able for future service

can justify or excuse
guilty of the grossest
ing to conccahnents ft
character, and most i
of the country, for Olt

which are the bane an

I think I may vent*.
confidence that all thi
with reference to the

to between Italy and]
troops by the former
aro wholly devoid of I

beginning to believe ii
for the present. But 6114

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The jury
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HLVY
morning on
many y
half-peatew :3
of rain, wit
thunder. '
heavier, th,
vivid, and
sheets nth
against the
with fear(
alarm. Fli
of thunder
was so hea
clocks were
bling the v
of the stop
only. No
air, but th
outskirts of

se objects are wholly ine")* net qUite e;
ying on of responsible and 0.0. eUf a little
tools for no
abuse Isle o
ed with the fall of Riae'ha whom I was
the has so damaged his repo' he
could mend
dances of his retirement, I'l Ur. Nneowtn!
a quite unaccountable step, Al and I,
Ore
• attempting to explain is Ur. Clarke
E
it, as to make himself %mita' snhuntt.dl
ice of his country. Nothisl :orto ,fbat
ie his silence. He has be2° hte, finshe
moral cowardice in consent' i:hthe
.nete
a
fatally damaging to his ion wtho
injurious to the best intoesn c'n their ro
he sake of those rare. nbde:d
std canker of Italian social life. the
Lure to assure you with pelted 4:__l;istitiee
he assertions of the Parisian. ;t7te,s Cos
and
agreements having been coot sod submi,
France for the furnishing of
se
rto the latter in cam of (Y, to consider
foundation. People here ale world have
in the preservation of PO,' disin„„
should it be otherwise, I thin' lobe caret,