The Express.
London, England, 1866-05-25 00:00:00

FORRIGN AFFAIRS.

If the Archduke Maximilian, one of the greatest per-
sonages in Europe, could be tempted by Mexico, where he
is confronted with a turbulent people and opposed with
strong antipathy by the great republic which is his neigh-
bour, no wonder, observes the Tina, that Prince Charles
of Hohenzollern, a captain of Prussian Dragoons,
has not been able to resist the offer of •
pleasant and comfortable throne in the Principalities.
But there are difficulties in the way. The states-
men who have represented Europe thought that the
Principalities would have a rarer guarantee of inde-
pendence
if they remained even Nominally • part of the
Sultan's empire, but in the last 10 years they have made
considerable progress in self government, and in the
opinion of their popular leaders, another step towards na-
tionality is to obtain a foreign prince al Hospodar. By de-
claring the father of Prince Charles • naturalised Roumain,
they hope to comply with the letter of the constitution.
How far the powers will be satisfied with this ingenious
expedient remains to be seen. The conference is to meet
to-morrow, at the invitation of the Turkish ambassador, to
deliberate on what has taken place. It is proposed that
the conference shall protest against the proceedings of the
Prince as an act of usurpation. Thus, at • time when more
important interests are to be discussed, the affairs of this
little State are likely to give some trouble to the plenipo-
tentiaries, if they persist in upholding their old opinions.
As far as the English people are concerned the Time*
believes there will be little objection to let the Roumains
take their own course.

The Daily New remarks that there is no confirmation
of the report of the entry of the armies of litusaia and
Turkey into the Principalities, and it is difficult to believe

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be inferior to that of afiCamsalman to dispute the election.
At all events, the Daily News confidently assumes that no
liberal government will be a party to handing over the
Danubian Principalities in any font& way as a territorial
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eompennation to Austria for the renunciation of the Em-
peror's rights in Venice.
The Pod says that we may now hope to see a songless
most in Paris about the second week in June, and that it
is not improbable the powers attending it will be repre-
sented by their respective Ministers of Foreign Affairs ;
if this supposition prove correct, M. Drouyn de Lhuys,
Lord Clarendon, Prinoe Gortschakoff, Count de Bismarck,
Count de Mensdorff, General dells M•rmora, and the
Baron de Kubeek will assembas to endeavour to solve the
knotty questions connected with Venetia, Bahleswig-
Holstein, and the Germanic Confederation.
The Herald does not believe a conference is likely to
avert • war. If it meets, it will meet without any defined
intentions, any line of action, beyond an avowed preference
for talking instead of fighting, so long as there is • bare
shame that talking may do something. The very can-
menosment of the debate will lay bare irreconaileable dis-
cord on every subject that is touched upon. The power
that first proposed the congress, finding that resort fail it,
may thus feel called upon, as it professed to be in 1859,
to promote the peace of the world by action of a more open
and energetic kind.