POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY MORNING.
The ..ifoniterir of yesterday published a report of General Montauban, from which it appears that there are some inaccuracies in the accounts of the plundering of the Palace of the Emperor of China. The General states that the booty was divided between the Allies.
Baron von Schmerling, the new Austrian Minister, has summoned and lectured the officers of his department ; lectured them all, and dismissed some.
" The more liberal German jouanals attach little importance to the recent change in the Cabinet, because a reactionary Minister-President still has the ear of the Emperor,' and the Vienna organs of the press say it would be absurd to suppose that Count Rechberg and M. von Schmerling can long serve together as Ministers of the Crown. The new Minister of State is of opinion that radical reforms must be made in all the branches of the ad- ministration, and the Minister-President is disinclined to make any 'veil changes in the present system. The one represents the more liberal part of the population of the Empire ; the other the ultramontane, aristocratic part, which is essentially reactionary."
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