The Express.
London, England, 1857-03-25 00:00:00

THE BOURBONS.

I mentioned some time since (writes the Paris
correspondent of the Amu) that difiteenoes had arisen
between the representatives of the two trenches of the
Bourbons shoat the non-rscognition of the tricolor flag
by the Count de Chenbeed. In the month of August
last s letter was withered by the Duke of Ne-
mours to me of the lading members of the
Fetsionist party In Paris, in which he announced
that, es an understanding could not be come to, the Princes
of Orleans considered themselves as released from every obli-
gation they might have oontracted. The Fusionist leader kept
the contents of the letter to himself till the mouth of No-
vember last, when he communicated them to • well-known Le- I
'Wrest and requested him to bring them to the knowledge
of the Count de Chambord. Two muteness only were en.
traded and sent to the lead of the house of Bourbon. The
Count was hurt at a communication being made to him in

such a form; he replied that he regarded it as eon sense,
and that he should still confider that matters revalued an-
changed. In the meantime occurred the death of
M. do Salvandy, which gave occasion for the letter
of the Count de Chambord to M. Pagan, in which, it may
be remembered, the assurance was repeated of the political ,
reconciliation remaining established between the elder end
younger branch of the Bourbon family. The Orleaniets
were thrown into great confusion at the protest of the Duke
of Nemours, and they bunted that a categorical explanation
should be demanded. The Duke of Nemours consequently
addressed a letter to the Count de Chambord, to which
the Count replied. The Duke's letter lam not acquainted
with ; but a friend has sent me from London a copy of the
reply of the Count de Chambord. It is as follows
"My Cousin,—l have read your letter with deep regret
and sorrow. I ens pleased to think that we had under-
stood in the same manner the reconciliation effected be-
tween um now four years ago. That re-establiahment of
oar political and family relations, while it wee gratifying
to my heart, seemed to my judgment a pledge of salvation
for France, and ono of the Armen guarantees of her future.
In order tojostify my hope, in coder to render our union
at the same time efllcacious and worthy, there were want-
ing only two things which yet were my easy—to remain,
on your part as on mine, equally convinced of the necessity
of our union, and to maintain a ontildroce equally solid
in our mutual sentiments. I have not doubted your de-
votedness to the principle of monarchy; and no one can
call in question my attachment to Francs, my respect for
her gay, my good wishes for her greatness and her liberty
and my sympathetic gratitude is given to those who lave
at every period done for her what is good, useful, and
great. I have never ceased to think, I have always said, I
have always believed and still believe in the impropriety of
regulating, before the moment comes when Providence shall
impose on us that duty, questions which the interests and
the wishes of our country shall resolve. It le not while we
are Sir from France, and without France, that people an
dispose of her. Ido not the Ina preserve my profound con-
viction that it is in the union of our house, and in the
common &done of all the defenders of monarchical
institutions, that France will be one day saved ; and her sad-
dest trials have not weakened my faith.

" Hamm.'

The Fusionists me exceedingly irritated at such cone-
"oedemas between the families, and the quarrel about a
white or a porn-coloured piece of silk or bunting ia some-
thing ludicrous, and shows the hollowness of the pretended
teronciliation between the families. The princes seem to
forget that the bear has first to be caught before one can sell
his skin.