The Press.
London, England, 1857-11-14 00:00:00

THE PRESS, NOVEMBER 14, 1857.

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as regards the Two Duchies, and that in the first
note addressed to the two German Powers it
clearly explained the real situation of things, has
come to a determination to maintain a passive attitude
during the discussion in the Diet, and to abstain
from all official steps until some decision has been

come to.
With respect to the feelings of the great Western
powers in relation to this subject, a letter from
Copenhagen says that the public seem pretty
certain that the sympathies of France will go with
Denmark should Germany drive matters to extremi-
ties. As regards England, on the contrary, rumours
have of late been current, which, if true, seem to
indicate that the cause of Denmark will not find
much sympathy here. It is said, and it has been
repeatec in the German papers, that Lord Claren-
don has despatched a diplomatic agent to the Duchies
to ascertain what are the complaints and the wishes
entertained by the latter. This agent is said to have
travelled in the course of two months not only through
Holstein and Lauenburg, but also through Schleswig,
and to have formulated the complaints of the popula-
tion, which he has found just and reasonable, in

thirty points.
The huNpendance Beige has announced that the
Danish Government intends to send a new note con-
cerning the Holstein affairs to its diplomatic agent
abroad ; but this announcement seems to be based
upon a mistake. The Danish journal, Berlin des
Tidende, on the contrary, in its last number,
says that no new note will be issued, but only a
memoir, to form a kind of appendix to the last cir-
cular note, and meant to elucidate some points in
connection with the amount of taxation imposed upon
Holstein.
The state of public feeling in Sweden is decidedly
in favour of an offensive and defensive alliance with
Denmark, and of the preservation intact of Scaudi•
navian nationality.
AUSTRIA AND TURKEY.
TIIF NAVIGATION OF THE DA/C1:11E.
The Ost. Deutsche Post of the 6th announces
that :
A. new and valuable addition has been made to the
edifice of international r►ghts. We announced last week
that the Commission of the States bordering on the
Danube, sitting at Vienna, had terminated its labours, and
that the adhesion only of the Porte was wanted to con-
clude the treaty. This adhesion arrived yesterday. At
two o'clock this afternoon the members of the commission
met in the council room of the palace, and the treaty of
navigation of the Danube was signed by all the representa-
tives of the Sovereign States.
The high disinterestedness of which Austria has given
proof in these negotiations, the acceleration of the work,
the removal of all obstacles and petty interests that ham-
pered the great principle of the freedom of the river, the
sacrifice the Austrian empire imposed on itself in gnaran•'
teeing to the Danubian Steam Navigation Company, robbed
of its privileges, an annual revenue of 1,9120,0110 florins,
are now appreciated, though with a had grace, by the
French official press; and the Constitutionnel does us the
justice to acknowledge that our information as to the
labours and intentions of the commission was well
founded.
The Porte has drawn up a second note against the
union of the Principalities.
AMERICA.

Intelligence from New---inrk to the 29th ult. states
that the aspect of commercial affairs was, on the
whole, more favourable. There was no political
news of importance.
A telegraphic despatch from Washington, dated
Oct. 28, published in the New York Herald, stated
that the Cabinet had resolved to construct the four
additional steam sloops-of-war.
An article in the New York Herald draws attention
to one probable result of the recent commercial
failures. A vast body of young men, it observes,
will be thrown out of employ, and a stimulus given
to the filibuster spirit it has never yet enjoyed the
advantage of.