The Express.
London, England, 1864-06-28 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 28.

ENGLISH history is settled, if not transacted in
Parliament. Accordingly, it was in the two
HOUSES that the PREMIER and the FOREIGN MINIS-
TER solemnly recorded and registered, so to speak,
last evening, in the presence of eager and excited
audiences, the long series of harassing negotiations
which have resulted iu the dispersion of the
Conference, and the resumption of hostilities
between Germany and Denmark. In the whole
Coulee of Lord PALMERSTON'S " perspicuous but
" not satisfactory narrative," as the leader of the
Opposition described it, there was not a single
statement of fact with which every reader
of • newspaper wan not perfectly fa-
miliar—even to weariness—beforehand. Yet the
House, full to overflowing with representa-
tives of the people and of popular curiosity, hung
upon the PREMIER'S lips, as though every word he
uttered were • revelation. Such is the respect
which, even in days when three Sovereigns and
their ministers, meeting at a German watering
place, cannot keep the secret of their moot private
interviews and conversations, the Parliament and
public of this free constitutional country entertain
for the solemn deliverances of Ministers of the
Crown, on those great and rare occasions which
mark an epoch in the history of England and of
Europe. Ncr is there any lack of mutual con-
sideration and respect in the patient waiting from
the beginning of May to the end of June, for
the official disclosure, at the end of the fifth
act, of the "secret of the comedy." Not
until last evening was the part which the
Government has taken in these international trans-
actions indelibly recorded for all time to come.
Lord PALIIEENTON and Earl RUSSEIJ. have now
given permanent form and substance to loose ma-
terials of contemporary history, so that future
generations of Englishmen may turn to a certain
page in Hansard and learn whether in such and such
a crisis of European affairs the policy of Eng.
land was a policy of peace, but not of pleasant-
ness ; of interference, but not of action ; of
discursive and diffusive benevolence, but beginning
and ending in good advice which friends followed
to their cost, and adversariesaccepted as a joke.
Two-thirds of the Ministerial explanations last
evening were in the nature of things as novel and
instructive as a iiraci!os- re rbal, and the extraordinary
audience in either House of Parliament winced
perceptibly under the recital of • story of mistakes
and failures so elaborate, so diversified, so
persevering, so protracted. Neither Lord
PALMERSTON nor Lord RUSSELL in his narration
of the dispute between the German Powers and
Denmark failed to do justice to the sympathies
of the people of this country for the weaker
State. While ready to admit that the Danish Go-
vernment at the outset of the quarrel had been
somewhat in fault, they showed that it had been
willing to repair whatever wrong zould be laid to
its charge, and that the arrogant aggressiveness of
the German Powers had advanced step by step
wherever Denmark, in deference to the counsels
of her friends, gave way. Indeed it appears that
the Danes, although Lord PALMERSTON commends
their tenacity rather than their accommodating
temper, hail given up everything to their enemies,
until that last frontier line was reached, beyond
which their friends declared they could not and
would not be invited to recede. It was not,
according to the emphatic declaration of Bishop
M oie RAD, until it was proposed by England, in
compliance with German demands, to throw that
last frontier line of the Schlei into arbitration, that
Denmark refused assent to any further compromise
of her rights. Even the German Powers would
only consent to arbitration on condition of declining
the award. Denmark, morally at least, will have
gained rather than lost in public opinion by these
apologies for abandoning the weaker cause to its
fate.

But it was not to listen to a faint vindication of
the conduct of Denmark, or to cautious animad-
versions on the German Powers, that all the pile.
rtes and benches in both Houses were thronged
yesterday afternoon. It was to learn the course