The Express.
London, England, 1864-01-26 00:00:00

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TIEPOT AIITHENTIQUE DE LA REGIS,
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FRENCH SNIYFT at 16a. per 114 lbs., kilograms's@ ; ditto ditto
Foreign, et las. Bd. per 114 lbs., ktiogramose. French Cigars.
from Is. to Ss. per, down. Warranted Baranna" Cigars,
Tobaccos, and Snuffs. aa Imported by the
FRENCHIMMIAL leg PIOCADILLY,

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TROUSERS.--Special attention is called to the
new WINTER STOCK : ana gentleman who do not mind
mtn/la fair prim foe a rood pair of Trousers can depend on
and patterns that. cannot be e: at
HAMILTON and KIMPTON
106. Strand, opposite Enke

ALFRED WEBB MILES,
Everybody knows Mr. l
REMOVED from Bond-istreet, toig,2%ll.ooll3lllEET,
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him) In all the New Patterns for Winter, " batter than ever."
SPECIAL NOTICE TO GENTLEMEN.
A. W. MILES begs most respectfully to announce that his
stock In the various departments of his establishment is now
replete for Overcoats, Vestlnaa, Bedford Cords, and SClliiti
waterproof cloth for hunting. wooldyed Black and Blue
Frock Coats, 60s. A choice of MI pieces of indestructible
wooded West of Zngland Cloths. =TABLIBILED 1841. Only
address

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 26.

Tux Princes of Germany are teaching us the
vanity of human hopes. Yesterday morning there
was room for the reasonable expectation that Aus-
tria and Prussia would seize the opportunity
afforded by tho honourable proposal of Denmark,
and use it in the cause of peace. The Danish
Government went to the utmost verge of its power
to meet their demand. It could uoi annul the
common Constitution. Had it pretended to do so
its set would have no legal validity ; it would, in
fact, have entered on the path of revolution. But
it could convoke the general Parliament of the king -
dom and propose that measure, and this it offered
to do. The Danish Government having thus given
the fullest proofs of its conciliatory disposition,
the non-German portion of Europe was justified
in hoping and requesting that Austria and Prussia
would delay the execution of the military mea-
sures they bad openly announced until the Danish
Parliament could be assembled. But the wish was
too reasonable to be gratified ; the short-lived hope
has already vanished. Austria and Prussia have
positively refused to suspend or delay the march
of their troops into Sleswig, and are about to add
an invasion of that Duchy on their own account
to the Federal usurpation in Holstein.

Until the first fatal shot is fired it will be a duty
to believe iu the possibility of preserving peace.
A week or ten days must elapse before the whole
of the Austrian and Prussian troops designated
for the occupation of Sleswig can be arrayed on
the frontier of that Duchy, and the interval will
permit of renewed attempts to induce them to re-
consider their resolution and reflect on its tremen-
dous consequences. We cannot doubt that on this
point our own Government will treat them with
the utmost frankness. If the German Courts are
under the impression that they are engaging in a
private quarrel with a small kingdom, which may
be easily crushed or dismembered while Europe
stands listless by, Lord Psualisrox and
Earl RUSSELL will no doubt take effectual
means to dispel the dangerous illusion.
There are mighty Powers, regular and irregular,
who only wait and pray for the moment when
Austria and Prussia shall commit themselves to
hostilities on the Eyder in order to carry out
schemes long matured and ready for instant exe-
cution, which would involve all Europe in war.
If the statesmen of the two Powers do not know
this they must be blind indeed; and if, knowing it,
they nevertheless wantonly kindle the flames of war,
they are culpable even to criminality. It is im-
possible to affirm of any State that it would be
able to stand aloof from such a war. If any
nation desires peace more than another it is Eng-
land. All our interests, all our principles, call for
a policy that promises to secure that blessing. But
it is possible that Germany may teach us to be-
lieve that a policy of forbearance and abstention
is not the way to attain it. We hope not,
because Austria and Prussia are both Powers with
which we earnestly desire to maintain friendly re-
lations. It is in their power to enable us to do so,
if they will only respect the rights of independent
nations. The English people agree with the rest
of the world in regarding the interference of Ger-
many in the internal affairs of Denmark as a gross
and flagrant outrage on the rights of that State.
On this point, as the meeting of Parliament will
soon show, all parties among ns are at one. The
overbearing conduct of Germany has increased the
strength of those sympathies with the Danes which
first took their rise in • sense of the justice of
their cause.

If we could believe that the course of the two
German Powers was still governed by the best
statesmansh;p of the two countries, we should
have better hopes of peace than we are now able to
indulge. The athisere of the Emperor of
ArsrßlL must well know the risks to which they
expose their Sovereign and his people when
they engage in • distant enterprise condemned by
Europe ; and probably we should do no more than
justice if we assumed that t►ey would act with
more moderation and forbearance but for the sup-
posed necessity of attending the steps of Prussia
towards the Eyder. Yet, to calm observers at a
distance, it is evident that Austria would be
in every way safer in leaving Preemie
alone to all the chances of • dark and rash
policy than in sharing its risks. M. BUDIAICI it
a mere political pirate, whoa in his unbounded
presumption and vanity, is leading his %two ,
into • war in which be will have to fight
Denmark and Sweden, and probably other
Powers, on the Schlei, Francs on the Rhine,