The Express.
London, England, 1852-05-10 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

The Vienna Gazette, of the 4th, contains the nomi-
nation of Count Menadorif as Austrian ambassador
at the Russian court.

NASSAU.

On the 3rd inst., while the Duke of Nassau was
riding in the Park of the Chateau, his horse reared,
by which ho was thrown off, and broke his arm.

WIESBADEN, MAT 4.
The proposition of the deputies Braun and Lang,
for continuing the Zollvervin without making the
entrance of Austria a preliminary condition, has been
carried in the Second Chamber with only ono dissen-
tient voice.

DENMARK.

A correspondent states that that most intricate
and complicated business, the succession to the
Danish throne, is now regulated. The legal claim-
ant of the throne has been set aside, and the proteo
of Russia is to be guaranteed its possession on the
death of the present monarch, Frederick VII. The
final conference of the representatives of the great
powers of Europe, who have occupied themselves for
more than two years with the subject, took place on
Saturday, in the Foreign-office in Downing-street,
when the protocols diplomatically legalising the
result were signed. It is fortunate for the reputation
of the veteran diplomatists engaged on this occasion,
that the settlement they have at last obtained of this
question has been greatly facilitated by the
timely withdrawal of tho Duke of Angus-
tenberg, the rightful heir, whose claims, however
much they may have been disputed, are
in reality founded on Danish law and European
equity. Had the Duke of Augnstcnberg not so
withdrawn, the great powers would have been com-
pelled, to obtain any result at all, to have decreed, in
defiance of all law, truth, and equity, that his claims
were not well founded, and that he otight to have
been passed over. They have been spared the com-
mittal of a flagrant and scandalous act of injustice,
to which, however—and this ought not to be over-
looked—they were, with one or two exceptions, well
inclined. But opposed to united Europe, excepting
the King of Prussia, who has always supported his
claims, exiled from his home in Schleswig, his whole
family proscribed, his estates attainted on account of
his participation in the late war in Schleswig Hol-
stein, and compelled to subsist on the narrow pittance
derived from a small estate in Sweden, the Duke of
Augnstenberg has at last been starved into submis-
sion. For the sum of 2,230,000 thalers, or 340,0004,
the duke foregoes not only his birthright, the succes-
sion to the Danish throne, but all right and title to
the family estates within the Danish monarchy.
The succession to the Danish throne is to be con-
veyed, by a succession of resignations, to the chil-
dren of Prince Christian, of bonderbeg Olucksburg.
The intermediate heirs to the throne, with the ex-
ception of the heir apparent, who is sixty-two years
old, and without children, are all females, who,
though they can succeed in Denmark, cannot Ric-
ceed in Schleswig or Holstein, where the Salle law
is not recognised. They, therefore, all resign their
claims on behalf of the second daughter of Princess
Charlotte, the widow of William Landgravo of
Hesse, who is second also in succession. This
daughter, who claims in direct descent from the
female line, is married to Prince Christian of Son-
derberg Olucksburg, who, from the withdrawal of
the Duke of Augustenburg, becomes the direct heir
of the male line. From this marriage have sprung
several children, and to their heirs male, three in
number, the throne of Denmark is to be guaranteed.
On the death of the present King, Prince Christian
Frederick, of Sonderberg Olucksburg, who is now
nine years of age, is to ascend the Danish throne.

•
A letter from Fribourg, the Suisse of Berne, of
May 7, states that a pacific demonstration on a large
scale is about to be made in Fribourg against the
constitution. Of 22,000 inhabitants of this canton
18,000 refused to take the oath, and of the 4,000
who did not take it the greater part were in a man-
ner forced to do so, to preserve their places or to es-
cape tines. It is now proposed to get up a monster
procession to the great council to complain of the con-
stitution never having been ratified, and to expose
their political views.