The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-24 00:00:00

DENNI ARK AND THE DUCHIES.

The protocol of the proceeding in the transference
ai the government of Holstein, referred to in
enlays Express, is published in the Ham-
bbg papers, signed by Cannt Reventlow, Gene-
ral Thurnien. and Count Mensdorff. The latter
announce that nothing but the means of transport
at their disposal cooditions the departure of the
troops. The fortress of Itendsburg is to be gar-
risoned by the Holstein and Lauenbcrg contingent.
It is stated, that all the officers who commanded in
the Schleswig Holstein army during the late war
will be ordered to leave the country. In recording
the termination of this prolonged contest between
the kW.) governments of the Duchies and the
Sovereign, a parting glance at its chief stages
may be useful. The Schleswig Holstein difficulty
wee mainly out of the royal patent of Mu
rch 21,
1840, in which the King of Damask dosimod the
union of Schleswig and Holstein to Isedlasalwad, and
proclaimed his intention to effect the "inespastabis
union of Schleswig with Denmark" by mews tit
common constitution. The members of the Staab
wssembled at Hendsburg, March 18, 1848, and seat a
deputation to Copenhagen with • view to turn the
Ting from his purpose. They were unsuccessful,
and the Duchies took up arms, assisted by the
Germanic Build. Negotiations for peace were
commenced in London, but Denmark refused to
acknowledge their basis. On the 28th of August.
1618, the pocihention of Malmo was signed, and the
war was suspended. Negotiations for an armistice
and • permanent peace were carried on in London
during the next year, hut still without result.
Oa the 18th of July, 1819, reliminaries of a
peace were signed by Prussia and Denmark, but the
strife continued. The attempt made in the same
year to attain to an agreement, by sending " men of
confidence" from Kiel to Copenhagen, remained
without mutt. Denmark insisted upon the in-
animation of Schleswig. In the spring of 1850,
a new attempt at direct negotiation was made by
the Statthalters, but was:again unsuccessful. The ne-
gotiations at Berlin meanwhile led to the conclusion
of what was called the simple peace, by which
Prussia, acting for Germany, agreed to leave the
Duchies to settle with their indignant sovereign as
they could. The Schleswig-Holsteiners still re-
sunned in arms, the Prussians were withdrawn,
and the Danes advanced and occupied the greater
part of Schleswig. Sanguinary conflicts took place,
which the disorganised state of the confederation
rendered it powerless to 'prevent or obviate. The
*Stirs of Germany touched a crisis. The Olmiits
punctuation took place, and a federal army, ac-
companied by Prussian and Austrian commissioners,
arrived in the Duchies in January, 1851. Dane
and Hohteiner submitted, peace was imposed, and
negotiations for • final settlement were carried on.
By the end of December, 1851, the Danish monarch
had come to recognise the necessity of abandoning
kis plan for incorporating Schleswig ; he dismissed
his -former ministry, who would have carried the
kingdom of Denmark to the Eider; and M. Bile
=Bated at Berlin and Vienna a treaty, the aim of
is to secure the integrity of the Danish
gasairch , while guaranteeing the administrative
~aiepeatlence of Schleswig and its old union with
Maistrin. The concluding act of the drama, as it is
biped, is that which is recorded in the lines which
pus& this brief statement.

ITALY.

ROMAN STATES.

The agents of the Anglo-French company for the
Construction of certain railways in the Pontifical
States hays arrived at Rome. They had deposited
200,000 crowns (more than a million of francs) as
caution-money. This company is not that repro-
vented by M. cis Montiar, with which, it is said, it
wu disposed to come to an understanding. If the
government accepted their propositions, Ow would
at once set to work. There was some rumour of
lighting the principal quarters of Rome with gas, by
the company formed ►n 1847, and who had then paid
In a stun of 10,000 crowns as ecution-mossy.