The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-01 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

DKNMARIC AND GIBMANY.

The negotiations for peace seem to proceed but
slowly. The Danish plenipotentiaries are seeking
to obtain guarantees for the preservation of the
Danish language in the churches and schools of
the northern parts of Sleewig, but these the Ger-
mans refuse.

It is generally believed, both at Vienna and
Berlin, that the Berlin cabinet continues to oppose
the requirements of the Austrian government re-
lative to commercial affairs, and that this, for the
present, has caused some ill feeling between the
two powers.

BRIGANDS UNDER PAPAL PROTECTION.

A letter from Turin, dated Monday says :
"Your readers have heard of the brigand Crocco :
his crimes have rendered him only too celebrated.
This wretch, tracked everywhere, his band dis-
persed, has voluntarily made himself a prisoner in
the hands of the pontifical authorities at Agnani.
Four other brigand chiefs delivered themselves up
at the same time. They were despatched the
next day to Rome and consigned to the new
prisons. The French authorities immediately
demanded that these five brigands should be
handed over to the Italian military authorities,
but up to the present time they have met only
with distinct refusals. Is there not something
very significant in the fact of these wretches being
placed under the protection of the Holy See?"
An English gentleman who happened to see these
brigands when the train stopped at Albano, says of
them :

The leader wee shorter than the others, and seemed
younger (none of them were over 30). From not knowing
Spanish I could not attempt the staff so I applied myself
to the chief, but he was extremely reserved, and after
answering some of my inquiries by mono syllables, and
showing a decided disinclination to converse, I had nothing
left me but to sit and admire his beautiful costume. I had
never seen a real brigand before : be had a splendid profu-
sion of rich curly auburn hair, his hat was not the conical
one as represented by Eastlake and others, it was ►ow
crowned, the narrow brim wee trimmed with gold, and be
wore a plume of feathers of various colours. His coat and
waistcoat were both embroidered with gold, and across his
chest were a profusion of gold chains elaborately festooned.
One was attached to a magnificent gold watch, another to
a pm-picker, and so on. Over his coat was a massive chain
of silver in large links supporting a large powder-bask
slang behind his bock. They all wore ear-rings, but those
of the chief were half moons dangling ally tronolante, and
his fingers were covered with gold and diamond rings.
I was somewhat surprised when on stopping at she
Ciampino station one or two of them jumped out of the
carriage and walked about to stretch themselves, leaving
the gendarmes inside until the train was ready to start, when
they got in again and took their place.. On arriving at Rome
they drove in open carriages to the barracks of the gen-
darmes in the Piazza dell Popola, where quartets were
allotted them, and on asking the impiegata, " who paid
their fares from Frosinore by rail," he answered me that they
had each been provided with a free military pus, such as
the government gives to soldiers.