The Express.
London, England, 1863-12-29 00:00:00

r 9, DECEMBER 20, 1863.

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(unnia'a Tarawa.)
THE OCCUPATION OF HOLSTEIN.

DRESDEN, Djc. 2&

The Dresdner Journal of to-day publishes the
Danish reply to the demand of the Powers who
have undertaken Federal execution for the evacua-
tion of Holstein and Lausnburg.
The Journal says :—" One can guess from the
tenor of the Danish note what reception the Confe-
deration may expect for the resolutions at which it
has arrived upon the basis of the identical note in
an Huropean and political point of view."
The Danish note supports the opinion of the
minority in the Federal Diet in the vote of the ith
inst, and states the urgent necessity of putting au
end to the uneasiness brought about by the reso-
lution then passed.

HAMBIJBA, Dac._2B.

The towns of Neustadt, Bsansetedt, and Marne
have proclaimed the Prince of Angusienburg,
isatt the participation of the slikkanitima, MO
HoWsin soldiers of the Dinh& army, who had been
ordered to the north, refused, on arriving at Ploen,
to proceed further. The Saxon troops have left
Altruist, which has been entered by the Hanoverian
troops.

THE SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN QUESTION.
FRANIVORT.OI{.THE.MAINF,, Dim 28.

At an extraordinary sitting of the Federal Diet
to-day, the representative of Hesse Darmstadt
moved the immediate occupation of Schleswig to
ensure the rights of the German Confederacy.
Austria and Prussia proposed that Denmark should
be called upon to withdraw the ordinances refer-
ring to the incorporation of Schleswig with Den-
mark, and that the diet, in case of this not being
done, should reserve to itself the right of taking
further measures as to the succession question.
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These proposals were referred to the committees
on the Danish question.

FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MADZE,
D. 28, EVENING.
_

The Anstro-Prussian motion in the Federal Diet
requires that eventual measures of the Confede-
tion for the protection of the rights of Germany to
Schleswig shall be taken into oonsideration.
An English note was read and referred to the
committee upon Holstein affairs. The note officially
communicates to the Confederation the existence
of the treaty of May 8, 1862 ; and adds, that if by
over-hasty measures the Confederation departs from
the course thereby marked out, most serious com-
plications may ensue. England is, however, ready
to take part in a Conference, at which representa-
tives of the Diet should be present as well as the
Powers which signed the treaty.

BERNE, Dec. 28.

Frederick, Duke of Augustenburg, has announced
to the Federal Council and the other European
governments his accession to the throne of Schles-
wig and Holstein.

DRESDEN, Die. 28.

A telegram received from Frankfort-on-the-Maine
states the tenor of the Austro-Prussian motion to be
a summons to Denmark to suspend the November
oonatitution, and that in case of non-compliance the
Confederation should occupy Schleswig; also that
the military committee should take into consider-
ation the requisite more detailed military measures
for that purpose.

OOTHA, Dec. 28.

Duke Frederick of Augustenburg received an
official deputation to-day from the University of
Kiel, consisting of the Deans and Professors Fricke,
Neuner, Littinann, and Thoulon, who were the
bearers of an address of allegiance from the
Academical Conaistory.