The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-18 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL LVTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, FRB. 6, Evc•rmo.

Money easy ; gold, 58i per cent. premium.
Stocks firm and advancing, market very excited ;
New York Centrals, 13.3 i ; Ill;nois, 132 ; Erie, 111;
Six per Cent. U.S. Bonds, 1071.
All other markets unchanged.

TEE DANISH FRIGATE OFF PLYMOUTH.
(THIS DAY.)

PLYMOUTH, Tllostauy Moaarnio.

The Danish frigate Niels ins!, 46, which left here
yesterday morning, was actively employed all day within a
oomparstively short distance of the harbonr. She +unbarred
to bring to and overhaul 10 or 12 merchant ships, including
an American barque bound to London, which subsequently
received a Channel pilot. At one time the frigate was
well east of the port towards the Start, when one of het
boats was between the Eddystone and the Ramthead to the
westward. Two boats were detached from her ; each con-
tained 30 men well armed. The wind was then northerly ;
a light tweeze. During the day the frigate was occasionally
descried from the Citadel. This morning she has not yet
been seen.

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING.

The North German Lloyd ste►men between London ►nd
Bremen have been trsnaferred to the Russian flag, and the
Company's steamers running to New York ria Southamp-
ton will probably very soon mil under the same flag. The
Hann, having uedargoeo a thorough overhaul, is ready to
take her departure for New York on the 2nd of March.
The New York is receiving aew boilers.

The Duke Scotti has just returned to Milan from
Rome, where be went to demonstrate at the head of •
" temporal " commission in favour of the Pops. Haviag
received his share of blessings, he wanted to show himself
radiant with happiness to the public eye of Milan, and ac-
cordingly went to the Soak. As soon, however, as he was
sun entering his hoz, the whole crowded house roes, and
there was • loud cry, "Turn the Duke Sootti out!" "Let
him go to Rome !" These and similar exhortations Lk him
no doubt about the temper of the assembly ; and be accord-
ingly withdrew.

The Times publishes to-day an elaborate defence
of the conduct of Germany towards Denmark, from the
pee of Professor Max Muller. The professor &dares
Prince Frederick to be the "rightful heir" to Ed-
' stein, wbces birthright the Gasses Confederation
is "bound to protect at all bawds," for "bad
there been no meddling with the laws of meow
eion" he would have seconded the throes of Holstein "es
a m►tter of course." To this view (the Times remarks)
there are four obvious objections : first, that his claim to
succeed is Holstein epos this hypothesis, instead of Wag
" a matter of coarse," has bees ably untested by Danish
jurists; secondly, that there has been a very importsat
meddling with the encesmioe law, and that with the corset
of the Duke of Augustenburg himself ; thirdly, that the
dub received a compensation for his reonaciation, not of
his rights, but of his pretensions ; fourthly, that he and
his whole family are absolutely excluded, as the isms of a
merits of miealliamme. The first of these objections in
simply ignored by the professor ; the second and third are
pooh•poohed as filmy excuses for an set of spoliation,
aggravated by bribery ; and the fomih, we regret to add,
is =pr'emed•

The Green Bay A drank states that old "Aunt"
Polly Dozetitter, a motherly Oneida squaw. lisle; about
Ms miles from that city. was the sorsa of the sow Mrs.
Geseral McClellan. Several spooks sines, " Aunt' Polly
seat her pbotorraph to Mrs. MoClollso, sad shed bus in
!shim Mrs. !Whalen not oal sent her photograph to
Polly, bat accompanied tt with a slug of mosey.
—Missouri paper.