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

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCII

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DENMARK.

OOPENHAGEN, SZFT. 8, 10.20 A.K.

Deputations from the north of Sleswig have
arrived here. They bring addresses to King Chris-
tian demanding protection for their nationalities.
The Czarewitch left here yesterday. His Imps•
rial Highness was accompanied by the Crown Prince
to Elsinore.

Distinguished Danish orders were bestowed by
King on the members of the suite.

THE BANK OF FRANCK
PARIS, Serr. 8, EvErma.

The return of the Bank of France published
to-day shows the following changes compared with
the previous account :—lncrease : Cash in hand,
1 2-3 millions ; bills discounted not yet due, 2 mil-
lions ; Treasury balance, 3 2-3 millions. Decrease :
Advances, 1 million ; bank notes, 1511 millions ;
current accounts, 4 2-3 millions.

THE BANK OF PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, SEPT. 8.
The Bank of Prussia has raised its rate of dis-
count for bills of exchange to 6 per cent.

THE PARIS BOURSE.
PARIS, 81Pf. 8, 3.28 P.M.
The Bourse has been heavy. Rentes closed at
66.70, or the same as yesterday.

AMERICA.

(nom °Era emu'.

NEW YORE, AtGuErr 26.

The plan recommended by the Times of pre-
venting the Irish from coming to America
by enlightening them, through the Irish press,
as to the horrible treatment they are likely
to receive on their arrival here, will not,
I think, prove successfuL It is not the ac-
counts they get of America either through the
American or British press which induce them to
emigrate, and nothing the preen can say will keep
them at home as long as they are in oommunica_
tioe, through the post-office, with their friends on
this aide of the water. What brings such
crowds to New York by every packet.
ship is the letters which are written by
the Irish already here to their relations in
Ireland, accompanied, as they are in a majority of
cases, by remittances to enable them to pay their
passage out. It is from this source, and this
mainly, if not only, that the Cork or Galway pea-
' sant learns all he knows about the United States,
and lie is not in the least likely to trust
to any other. There is something amusing in the
simplicity of the London writers, who talk as if
Paddy and Biddy, before making up their minds to
cross the Atlautic, carefully perused the blue
hooka, the New York correspondence of the
Tunes, Mr. James Spence 's "great work,"
Mr. Beresford Hope's lectures, and Mr. W. S.
Lindsay's speeches, and did not come to a
decision until they had carefully collated the
opinions of rival authorities on the subject of the
financial policy and prospects of the United States.
The fact is they never look into book or newspaper,
and are not in the least disturbed by the "awful
exposures " of Federal rascality, and awful prognos-
tications of Federal ruin, which appear daily in the
London press. You tell them in vain of the ruffians
who wait for them in the dock at New York, with a
soporific pill in one hand and a pair of handcuffs
in the other, ready to hurry them off to a dungeon
or to the army the minute they land. All that
they know is, that Tim, their cousin, went nut last
year, that Jerry, their brother, went out in the
spring, and Judy, their sister, in the summer, and
that they all got ashore safely, find work abundant,
and are in receipt of better wages, eat better food,
and wear better clothing than ever before. You
may write as many leading articles and publish as
many warnings as you please ; it is Tim, and Jerry,
and Judy they will believe, and not you, particu-
larly when in support of their statements the latter
forward a five pound note or two to help to induce
the recipients to follow. The facts are pro-
bably very much as these letter-writers relate
them. Ten thousand emigrants arrive at
this port in a week. Two, or perhaps
half a dozen, wander out to see the city, im-
mediately on arriving at the emigrants' depot, ac-
cept the invitation of a bounty broker to " take
a drink" before they go very far, are cozened or
drugged into enlisting, cheated of half their bounty,
and wake up some tine morning to find themse:ves
on the James River, in the hands of a drill sergeant,
who is not in the least moved by their sad story.
But the remaining 9,994 bear nothing about it,
pass out of the emigration building quietly, and
find places in the city or through the country in
which they are very comfortable, and think them-
selves, in spite of the daily demonstrations which
appear in some of your contemporaries, of the
worthlessness of Mr. Chase's currenq, very well
paid.

I do not deny, as you know, that gross outrages
are committed on emigrants ; but the number of
them bean such an exceedingly small proportion to
the total number of arrivals, that it is absurd to
suppose that they will have any sensible effect on the
emigration. The danger of shipwreck is a much
more formidable one than the chance of being kid-
napped in New York, and yet the chance of being
drowned at sea will never induce the mass of Irish-
men to starve and wear rags at home when they can
get good food and clothes here. I admit that a
labourer with a family, even if he receive two dol-