The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-30 00:00:00

INTELLIGENT

LATI
.t. 4100.
THE APPOINTMENT OF BARON VON
BEIIST.

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The Dibuts of to-dey speaks of the appointment '
of Baron Von Benst to the.ofiloe-of Foreign Affairs
in Austria in the following terms :
The Autry d IL. de Beast into the Aptrian Cabinet, of
which there seems no longer any doubt, is generally con-
sidered as a manifestation of hostility towards Prussia.
If this view be correct we must assume that Austria is not
resigned to her exclusion from Germany. It is even said
that she regards the present state of thinp as transitory
and is only holding back in order to recover strength
enough to renew the struggle which, in the first in-
stance, was so fatal to her. We need not say how exag-
gerated this supposition appears to be to us. It by no
means follows that because Austria feels a strong resent-
ment against Prussia a new war, either proximate or re-
mote, is inevitable between them. There is always too
much of the unforeseen in human affairs to
he able to calculate on them with mathematical preci-
sion. That which it seems should happen does not always
happen, and the very opposite sometimes happens. We
have not the least doubt of the bitterness entertained by
Austria, which Is only too well justified ; but we
believe that if Austria muses this feeling, if she
does not endeavour to get the better of it, and turn
bar attention to other objects, it will only serve to keep up
vain illusions and to make her lore precious time. It is
not towards Germany that Austria can now direct atten-
tion with advantage to herself. She bas a difficult pro-
blem to solve, and it does not appear what benefit she can
derive in this respect from the cooperation of XI. de Benet.

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E ESTABLISIIEDtifURCH OP ENGLAND AND
, THE iIieISCOPAie CHURCH IN SCOTLAND.
The following address to the Archbishop of Can-
lefbury lies for signature at the chief church publishers' :
"TO HIS GRACE THE LORD ARCHBISHOP OP CLIFTERBOZT,
PRIMATE OF ALL LSOLAXII, AND IIZTROPOLITAN,
" We, the undersigned, bishops, clergy, and laity beg
to approach your grace with the exprwsion of our deep
thankfulnees for the net of year grace in layfar, be
foundation stone of the cathedral about to be huilt
in the diocese of Moray and Boss. The recant as-
tute (27 and 23 Piet., cap. 94) had indeed removed the
civil disabilities which political causes dons bad imposed
upon the legal inter-ooninuanien of the English and
Scotch churches ; but the set of your grace upon this
occasion has strengthened the spiritual bond which
has always subsisted between the two churches.
Moreover, we rejoice that your grace has been fully aware
of the danger which arise* to the church out of the
charge of non.estholicity so continually preferred
against her by the church of Bone. It is by
dwelling upon bar isolation from the other churches
of Christendom that the Roman church has sucoeeded
in seducing from her pale many whom attacks upon
her order and doctrine would have failed to
shake. Without entering upon the question (at
present scarcely ripe for discussion) of our rela-
tions with the churches of eastern Christendom, but
entertaining a deep conviction that, under the bleating of
Almighty God, the church will derive from full inter-eoel-
minion with the church in Scotland, in the United States
of North America, and in the dependencies of the British
Crown, much strength and comfort in her hour of trig, we
beg respectfully to place in your grace's hands this me•
morial of our gratitude for this additional proof of your
grace's loving care for that portion of the church of Christ
over which you have been calla to preside."