The Express.
London, England, 1864-07-11 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY ECG}, JULY 11,

Congress ; yet we are not to supiose_that 0
would have gone to war for Poland, after all tb
heroic resolutions and speeches, aro join*
Congress of Paris for the rese t of the 11
of Europe. Their policy writs' „been tq
intents and purposes the saturtaa t poll, of

present Ministry, and yet it would have been en•
tirely different in design and execution. They
would have said and done nothing in a very dig-
nified wanner ;• and &resift lust influence
would at this moment be the envy of friends
and foes.

If the representatives of Denmark at the Con-
ferenos, who were listening so intently the other
day to the Ashantee debate, in earnest expectation
of a Tory victory, had been present in either House
last week, bow mast their hopes have sickened
as one Toryleader after another got up to declare for
peace, and to accuse Lord Rt-seat t. of having carried
diplomatic intervention so far as to call for the
concert and on-operation of the neutral Powers in
behalf of the Danish monarchy and kingdom. It
s not the fate of Denmark, however, ea we all
know, that was decided by Parliament in the early
grey light of last Saturday morning. Mr. Ergo-
taxs'a amendment, the one affirmed by the
majority, expressed no doubt accnrately enough
the common sense and feeling of the country.
The people of England have felt acutely
and profoundly for Denmark in this sad
and cruel war ; but sympathy, however heart-
felt and sincere, is not policy ; and certainly a
single-handed war against the whole German race
for the " rectification " of a frontier between
Germany and Denmark is a policy no Englishman
in his senses would dream of. Lord Rresm.i.
has earnestly responded to the feeling
of his countrymen, and conscientiously re•
presented the policy of England ; and we trust
this debate may have convinced the Fonzion
MINISTER that the people of England desire nothing
so much, so far as their foreign policy is con-
cerned, as to mind their own business and let the
kingdoms and dynasties of continental Europe take
care of themselves. England does not consider
her just influence lowered or the securities of peace
diminished by the example of her own moderation
and forbearance, or even by her outspoken vindica-
tion of international morality and justice. The
moral influence of England is not to be fouled
by faction, so long as she remains, not only the
mart, the market, and the workshop of the world,
but what is more and better, the sanctuary of
freedom.

For the rest, we are persuaded that Parliament
will not regret the surprising victory of Saturday
morning. For surprising it wu that, after so des-
perate • contest, Government should command a
majority larger by five votes than that with which
it came into power ; and that even in the House
of Proxies it should be beaten by so inaignificant a
majority as nine, and even there be able to show
an actual majority of " present " votes in its
favour. Something of the pardonable exultation
which ministerial members of the Lower House
may feel is, we dare say, not entirely foreign to
the sympathies of the minority. Many of the Oppo-
sition would perhaps confess • very mitigated dis-
appointment at a division which enables them to
look forward to an unbroken shooting season and
a quiet recess, without the fear of the hustings
before their eyes, and the wild cry of " Who be-
" trayed Denmark I" in their ears. And
majority and minority alike will not
regret in time to come to have been spared the
remorse of branding their country with disgrace,
and inflicting a stigma upon a Minister whose name
is indistinguishable and inseparable from the
honour of England. For the Tories there remains
a defeat to be digested ; for the Liberals a victor
to be consolidated and improved. We would
humbly suggest to oar friends the moral of this
victory. The Liberal party exists, not for the
convenience of a Ministry, but for liberti legi•l+.-
tion. May its confidence be justified, and its
fidelity be confirmed.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
official residence of the Pint Lord of the Treaturye
in Downing•street. The ministers present werl
Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Ear,
Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey,
Earl Russell, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwe",
Earl De Grey, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset. the Right
Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Earl of Clarendon,
Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon.
C. P. Villiers.

OPERATIONS ON THE GOLD COAST.

FURTHER PAPERS.

This morning further papers relating to mili-
tary operations on the Gold Coast were ironed. They con-
sist of despatches from the Governor and from the Secretary
of State, and of correspondence between the Admiralty and
the Colonial-olive. Among the papers is a despatch from
the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, 3LP.. to Governor Pine,
dated the 23rd of last month, in which we read :

" The unfortunate circunistaaces of the present year
may encourage the Ashanti:es M the design they appear to
lave entertained of renewing their invasion when the
season for military operatioas shall return. I think it
right, therefore, to convey to you the general views of her ,
Majesty's government upon the measures which, in con-
cart with the officer commanding the forces, you
should take to provide sgaiost that danger. The duty of
defending the extensive territory included in the Protec-
torate ma only be satisfactorily dischsur I if the chiefs to
whom it belongs are united and resolute in their own de-
fame. If they are not united, and will not take upon them.
salves the principal part of the exertions nuesory, it will
sot be possible to defied them without exposing the Quesa's
forme to the Asks of a deadly climate, and to the hazard of
being virtually defeated by the disastrous consequences of
that climate, before they have been able to bring the native
enemy to the issue of arms. The proper coat" therefore,
is to take every possible means for bringing the chiefs to a
united and decided system of defame, and for this purpose
to give them advice, to supply them judiciously with
military stoma, and In concert with the officer is command
of the forces to furnish them with such assist-
moos as he may be able to afford, without ex-
posing his officers ►nd men to any protracted residence
is the interior, especially at the unhealthy season, and
without weakening his force upon the oast so as to en.
danger the safety of the settlements themselves. I must
repeat the caution which I conveyed to you in my despatch
of gird ultimo, that you should avoid, if it be in your
power, the Deoessity of bringing to the settlement a number
lof the Queen's troops too great to be properly acoommo.
dated on the coast. Instructions to the same effect will be
seat by the Secretary of State far War to Lieut -Colossi
Conran, sad I shall request the Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty to direct the attention of the commodore on
the station to the possibility that you rosy God yourself
again engaged in measures of defence against ao invasion by
the King of Ashanti's. Since, however, the experience of
the peat year has exhibited in so strong a light
the great difficulties which 'Mood operations on
the pert of her Majesty's forces, I rely on your
using every exertion to avoid a renewal of the war.
Yon have already received from the Duke of Newcastle the
full 'remotion of his uproot' of your conduct in respect of
the origin of the late war—l mean your refusal to swim.
dm so a cruel death the two refugees demanded by the King
of Amirante" ; bat that approval I now desire to repeat ; and
I take the opportunity of impressing upon you the great
importance of your being clearly In the right In any case of
difference which may hereafter arise. I trust that you will
be cereal to assure yourself that you are sequaiated, as
far as possible, with all the circumstances which may be
alleged m either side, and that you will not permit yourself
to become involved in any hatile operations until you shall
have first exhausted every legitimate means of preserving
peace."

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It •
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:08OR MAW% Rice
lailte Coast and CondOm of raris,pttanded
ketruhl iotgatilL de Cola Captain Beth. arrived 111
thaberday. r
The Ccr.ult acd Omuta= of Paris dined willthstir Majesty
sad the royal family.
The Belgiaa Minister and Madame Van de Weyer also
had the hoover of dining with the Qum Lad royal family
as Friday. '
The Qualm, aroompanied by the Priem:as Louis of Homo
Prisms Louise, sod the Countess of Paris, drove oat to a
enrage and four this morning, attended by Colonel the
Hoe. A. Har.linge.
Prince Lt...is of He.. accompanied by the Count of
Paris, watt out riding.
The Queen held a ceased today, at 1 o'clock. Proment
the Ball Granville, Lord Simmer of Aldsrley, sad the RJght
Has. Sir George Grey.
Mr. Help . was the Clerk of the Council.
Berl Granville had an audience of the Queen.
JULY 10.

The Queen, Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, Princess
Helens, moor s Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince
L sopeld, with the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, attended
Divine lietvlos this morning in the Private Chapel.
The Rev. W. H. Brookfield, chaplain in ordinary to the
Questa, officiated.
Prince mid Prisms Louis of Hesse, attended by Madill'.
de Granny and Captain Von Westerweller, honoured the
Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer with their
company at dinner at New Lodge on Saturday.
The Prince and Prince's of Wales, attended by the
Marchioness of Carmarthen and Captain Grey, arrived at
the Castle this at lemon on a visit to the

The Prince of Wales rode to Lord's Cricket Ground on
Saturday morning, attended by Captain Grey.
The Princess of Wallis took a carriage drive. attended by
the Marchioness of Carmarthen.

In the eveoiog their Royal Highneemee went to the
Adelptti Theatre.

The Prince and Princes' of Wide% with the Marchioness
of Cannartaen aria Captain Grey in wsitiag, attended
Divine sarvios at theChapsl Royal, Si. James'e, yesterday
morning.

The Communion Service w road bv the Rev.
the Sab-deco, the Rev. C. Nene, and the Rev. H.
Melville.

The key. H. Melville preached the sermon from Hebrews,
c. 13, y. 2

Astbam—" Plead thou my muse" (Mond), tong by
Master T. Bratowe, Moors. B &ruby, Beason, and
Lawlor.

Mr. Cooper presided at the organ.

The Areibisimp of Armagh, the Duke of St. Alban's, the
Marquis of Bath, Earl of Morley, Earl of St. Germans, Earl
of Luau, Viscount Sydney, Lord Southampton, and Lord
LLasovar, were puma during the service.

Fart Gnu:milk, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, and
Lord Stanley of Alderley, acoompanied by Mr. Arthur
Helps, Clark of the Council, keilHowit on Saturday at noon
by special train tram the Paddington Station of the Great
Western Railway, to attend the Queen's Council at Windier
Castle. After the council the ministers returned to London.

Despatches wets received on liatnrday, at the ColoniaL
office, frost the Geveemore of Malts end the Mauritius.
Despetebee were sent to the Governors of the North
American Provinces and Beenands.

DEPARTURE OT THE QUIZ!! TOE OSBORNE.—
(Taw Dxr.)—Tble afternoon her Majesty, accompanied by
the to* family sod the members of the Court, cal leave
Windsor Castle for Osborne. The royal party ell travel
by special train on the Great Weida,' Railway to Basing-
stoke, and thence by the Sontb•Westera Ri,lway to the
Royal Clarence Victeslling-yard, (import. The Queen is
expected to remain at Oeborne some four or fire week+, at
the ead of which a trip 101 be ma le to Balmoral.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales will rotors to Marlborough HOOlll this lemma
from visiting her Majesty at Windsor Castle. We under-
stand thst their royal highneeess will pass a few days at
the White Lodge, Riehmood-park, before they leave town
for the lassos.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Walea,Captain Grey, Lady Carmarthen, and mite, ho-
noured the performance at the Adelphi Theatre with their
pemence as Saturday evening.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and Prism,' Mary will leave their resideoce at St. James's
Palate oil Saturday but for Cam:midge Cottage, Kew, for
the mom It I. said that their Royal Righeetsee the
Prince and Prioosel of Wales will honour the Dachau of
Cambridge by their company at Cambridge Cottage before
the close of the ammo.

AMIZBLY AT CANDELIDOI HOUS/L—Vlsoollllt ILTI4I
Viscountess Palmerston estertgard • select party at
dinner as Saturday evening at Cambridgwhouss, Mom&lly.
After dinner Lady Palmerston bad a crowded asaembly, at
least 500 members ol the diplomatic corm sod of the
aristocracy being present. tog•mlasr with a large number of
the noble premier's political supporter+ in the House of
Oommons.

The Fox Club dined together at the Trafalgar,
Greenwich, on Satarday. There were present :-7'he Earl
' et Albemarle, the Earl of Zeeland, Vireonnt Errantry, Lord
Unaware Lord Konya, Mr. Frerlerick Dundee, M.P., Mr.
E. A. Sanford, Sir William Gilasoo-Craig, Sir Hoary G.
Connell, the Hon. Hamilton Duman, Lord Aberomosby,
'the Ho.. Fitzpatrick Versos, the Right Hoe. Dr. Lashing.
too, Major-Geoeni Sir H. F. Aerie, M.P., Lieuteoant-
Coloael Ferguson Davis, M.P., Sir Montaigne Cholmeley,
M.P., Celoael Shafto Adair, Mr. Hugh A. Choloseley,
Mr. Huron H. Vivian, ]LP., Lard Says and Selo, Lord
Stafford, Lord Camoys, Sir William Scott, M.P., Colonel
Chatham Cokes! Cunene*• Lard Carew, he.

The Earl of Derby is recovering from his severe
attack of gout, lad the noble earl is regaining his strength
slowly. The medical tepees yesterday was favourable,
bat it is doubtful if his lordship will be able to resume his
duties in the House of Lords during the present 111011400.
Admiral [tows and the Karl of Stamford and
Warrington now write to Lord Bateman:—" My lord,
The Worcester Ban Committee having made the grave
sensation against your lordship through Lord Covestry,
we were induced to write our letter of 4th of July. We
therefore delay our answer to your test letter instil we bear
what evidence they me produce. If that letter is sot clear
and satidactory, we shall have no beeitatiou in withdrawing
the letter alluded to."

Her Majesty's ship Racoon still remains in the
Firth of Forth, moored off lochailm, on which island the
crew are at present encamped. No new case of name
laving broken out daring the week, it la thought likely
that the camp may be broken up is about a week, sad that
the vessel will proceed ou her cruise to Norway. Mean-
time the Aurora, Captain Sir L M'Clintock, has arrived
in the Forth, for the purpose of taking Priam Alfred es
board, and it is expected that the two ships will rendezvous
in • few weeks at Froyee. on the coast of Norway, mid
that the Prince will proceed thither to his former vessel.
Mireille is to be repeated to-morrow and on
Thursday, at her Majesty's Theatre. On Saturday •
" miscellaneous " performasos is announced, for the benefit
of Mr. Maplesoe.

The programme for the week at Covent Carden
include. the last perforates.. of DOIS Giovanni—Made-
moiselle Patti as Zeeline (to•night) ; the Trariata —Made-
moiselle Artot as Violeta' (to-morrow); the Prop/ate—
Sigma. Tamberlik as Jess of Leyden (Monday); Faust e
Maroherito —Mademoiselle Path's lest sonogram,. this year
es Margherins (Friday); and the last performance of M.
Ballo in Masotera (Saturday). The Etoik is Nord, with
Madame Wotan Carvallo as Catarina, is eatmunesd for
Saturday week. Meanwhile the mem' —one of lb* most
soceeedal as revved—is rapidly drawing to a close.
A Mr. A. W. Moore sends from Chamouni an
amount of an ascent of Moat Blanc made oo Saturday,
the 26d bast, when be proved the practicability of
aocomplishieg the whole distance in a Daigle day,
thereby avoiding the uncomfortable night quern"
materially reducing the charge for provisions, and
entirely obvi►ting the necessity for porters. lie was as only by his guide, Christian Abner. Under
ordieary circumetaeoes, he my., a pedestrian in good con-
ditioo might fairly hope to accomplish the entire "coarse" 11
in eighteen house.

THE HEALTH OF THE LORD MAYOR.—We are
clad to be able to Haig that the Lard Yayer le so rapidly
reoevermg hornthe streets of his remit anolaset, that his
medical advisers ere et orients that he w4U be able per-
sonally to engage in the active duties el the Add whir
traey in the nano of a few Says.

...?‘.l A GEN
1' bANIBH POLL
I • "Beige of yesterday
lays : tion suddenly fo R.
Christian .to engage in direct negotiations fo.
peace with the hostile courts, in consequence of the
disaster of Alsen, sufficiently indicated that the
treasure of the war patty at Copenhagen was be-
ginning to weaken. The addressee of the Chambers,
approving of tho absolute abandonment of the
Duchies in exchange for the complete emanci-
pation of Denmark from all Germanic influence,
afford the beat proof of it. The conser-
vative journals first, and in their wake the
Daebladet, which is known to be the organ of
the party of the Eider, had shown without disguise
the desperate situation of Denmark, and pro-
claimed the necessity of taking a definitive part. It
was under these circumstances that King Christian
decided to send his young brother to Germany to
offer peace, and to dismiss the Monrad ministry,
which was too much compromised for its con-
tinuance in power not to be an obstacle to the
mama of the negotiations which are going to be
opened. The despatch which brings us this news
adds that the King has charged Count Moltke.
who was formerly part of the Bluhme ministry,
with the formation of a new cabinet. The necessity
of making pesos, even at the price of great sacrifices,
being once recognised by Denmark, the German
powers probably will not refuse to treat on this
basis, and it is to be presumed that negotiations
will proceed rapidly. Among the rumours which the
brusque determination of the King of Denmark has
given rise to, one has been circulated at Paris
according to which King Christian offered to the
allied courts to enter with the whole Danish
monarchy into the Germanic confederation on
consideration that the personal union of the
duchies with the crown of Denmark should be
preserved. We do not see what great advantage
Germany would find in such a combination, and
we are certain that it would please neither the
Danish people nor the European powers. We
regard it simply as a conjecture."
The Temps of to-day says that the entering of
Denmark into the Germanic confederation would
be tolerated neither by France, England, nor
Bassin. It would perhaps tempt the German
population, by the prospect of supremacy in the
Baltic, but it would raise the liveliest resistance
in the Danish nation, the war party still pre-
serving a marked preponderance in the Rigaraad.
"The more we consider this Danish question as
affected by events the more," says the Temps, " we
are convinced that there is but one radical solution
for the difficulties of the present and the threats
of the future, and that is the Scandinavian union.
Apart from that there is nothing but the insuffi-
cient palliation* and convulsions of a government
at bay."

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(Expena's rizsausts.)
THE SWEDO-NORWEGIAN FLEET.
STOCK HOLY, JOLT 10.

The screw line of battle ships Carl Johann and
Stockholm, and the steam corvettes Vanadis and
Getle, have pnt to sea with orders to cruise
between Gottenburg and Falsterbo, on the south-
west coast of Sweden.

SWITZERLAND.

BERNE, JILT 11.

A fresh popular vote, which was taken yesterday
in the Basle district by order of the Federal Council,
resulted completely in favour of the government.

THE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN'S ENTRY
INTO MEXICO.
PARIS, JULY IL

.
Official despatches received here from Mexico vah
St. Naraire announce the solemn entry of the
Emperor Maximilian into the capital on the 12th
June, amid unanimous and indescribable enthu-
siasm, in which the names of the Emperor and of
France were not forgotten.