The Express.
London, England, 1864-06-25 00:00:00

THE BLOCKADE OF THE GERMAN PORTS

The following note, received by Earl Rummell,
from the Danish Minister at this court, is published
in a supplement to tipm London Gazette issued last
evening :

Legation of Denmark, Jose 24.

My Lord,—By your Etceicency's note of June 14, I was
marled to give M(01111114011 as to whether, in the event of
hostilities being renewed on the 26th instant and a blockade
of Ogilliaa porta by Danish ship of war re-eetablebed, doe
noire of such blockade would be given and due time
afforded to British merchant reads to leave the poet pro-
posed to be blockaded. I did not fail to submit, at roe,
your lordship's note to my government, and I have sow the
bosom to rate is reply, thr it hostilities 'honkd borrowed
on the 26th, the blockade of the ports of Orme; Sense.
mikado, Wolgast, Greifswalds, Stralsund, Barth, Darr.
and Palau is the Baltic, r well as the blockade of the ports
and inlets in the Duchies of Sleewig arid I:Joinery which
was raised on the 12th of May, in conformity with the stipu-
lations of the suspension of hostilities, will immediatelv be
re-established ; that neutral ships which, after the renewal
of the war, might street to eater bey of the blockaded
ports, would not, however, In subject to capture sakes
when previous soars of the mestabliel. =est of the
blockade had bees received by them, either is the ordi-
nary way or through the ships of the blockading squadron
amid ; and that a short but endlerat apace of Laos would be
accorded for leaving the blockaded ports to those neutral
ships which, at the time of the re-establishment of the
blockade, might be in those ports.-1 have, ko.,
T. MLLE.

The Yorkshire, from Melbourne on the sth of
I Apra, has arrived in the Manuel abs briars SOD pee-
magma, 17,063 mums of gold, sad a cargo comietiag prin-
cipally of wool. She landed liar mails sad three pansesgsre
at Falmouth.
Tax Dzsrstrenos or sus ALAPAYL. —The buff-
predeace Beige says " The Southern journal. r t Paris
an vising with each other in pitying the fate of the poor
Alabama, wickedly sunk by that monster the Seaman&
We do not dispute the liberty of their sympathies or at
their tears. Let them weep as much as they Skims, whet
they eall a glorious misfortema There is the glory of the
brigand as those is that of the soldier. They are at liberty
to give their satire misnientsoe to the former. We prefer
Moieties, sad beam the reams why we are not tempted to
weep at the just punishment isfficted upon •
I privateer which has become celebrated simply by
pillage and the destruction of defenceless merchant
aerials. 'AL, if she had only succeeded in boantioe mashies
the Imam, the most disconsolate of her mousers, • bow
quirky eh. would have settled bee adver,ery.' How doe.
the Preece bow that. Sam it. client bas given so proofs of
her valour except against sdversaries who °evened no re-
mamas? It is the case of • highwayman who during • long
ICI
career Las rifled a Hummed inoffeseive travellers without
ever failing. One gm day he meets • policeman, who ar-
rests lira and handcuffs him. The Frame might Nat ea
wall weep over his asfertune, sod "salaam, ' Ali, if the
handcuffs bad not been clapped oa him, how he would have
polished off the policeman.' This would ba "either lees
meal nor to logical than the complaints sad the panegyrics
that are stow beteg expremsd.*
METROPOLITAN BOARD or WORK& —Tbe weekly
amestiog of the board was held yesterday ; Mr. Theraitss is
the Moir. The heard °posed the leaden for the osestras-
Woe of the eastern portion of the aorthern low level sewer.
The tenders were as follow:—Meese. A. W. Kitson,
337,4994 ; Mr.T. Pearson, 265,600 i. ; Mr. Therm, 309,0001.;
Mr. George Forme'. 269,000(. ' • Mews. Bremer and Co.,
238,0001. ; Means. W. Mozon and Co.. 247.6401. ; Mr. W.
Dethick, 233,000. • Mr. W. Webster, 229,0001. The heard
Ikea west late seirmaittes ; end es the r..edmis.ics of the
public it was announosd that Mr. Webster'. tender for
ntoow. had bees accepted. Tbs other business was of no
meths interest.
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FRIDAY, Joss 24.—Admissions os payment, 2,600; ditto
by roans tiegada. 1.235 ; total. 3,835.
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