The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-18 00:00:00

AtISTBIA.

VIENNA, Imo. 17.

On account of the present agitation prevailing in
Poland, the Galician Diet is, among the number of
those Diets which have not been convoked for the
2nd March next.

A domiciliary visit was made today at the house
of Herr von Rogawski, a member of the Reicharath,
in consequence of which he was arrested.

THE VISIT OF THE KING OF THE
BELGIANS TO ENGLAND.
BRUSSELS, Fin. 17.
The King of the Belgians has deferred his visit
to her Majesty Queen Victoria until the christen-
ing of the infant Duke of Cornwall.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.
BERLIN, Frs. 17.

Private letters received here from Wanew state
that, on the 10th inst., one squadron and a half of
Russian dragoons, led by • single officer, entered
that city in the greatest disorder. It was concluded
from this circumstance that an engagement un-
favourable to the Russians had been fought in the
vicinity of Warsaw. General Kotzebue has been
nominated adlatus of General Berg.

Seri or Tee GREAT Eafrrewe Srsamairre.—
Taelerder the were sales room at Liverpool was crowded
with merchants and shipowurs on the ceramen of the sale,
this time " without reeerve." of the Great Easters steam-
ship. The auctioseer warn Mr. Cunard, of Cuoard, Wilson,
and Co., and the conditions of sale were for the most part
the ordinary ones, with the addition that if the purchaser
made any objestioe which the vendor weld mot rupees he
was at liberty the remind the contract ou ratan* the
deposit The auctioner explained that there was a clear
title guaranteed to the ship, which would be made out eatis-
tenuity to the purchaser. All claire would be dincharged
by the vendors ; the mosey in the meantime remaining at the
Liverpool Beak, to be returned if the title were round in.
complete. The first bid was for 20.0004, made by Mr. Y 11,411011
behalf of the Great Eastern Steamship Company (Limited).
Tb. MX, bid wu for 25,0004 by Mr. John Rae, but as Mr.
Rao declined to count to the deposit of 10 per out., the
bid wan not entertained. The next bid was from Mr.
Mlles (shipowner), for 21,0001. Mr. Yates then bid
22,000 L, which It.. Mlle, sapped with 23,0004, but at
length the vessel was knocked down to Mr. Yates
for 25,000/. As the company which Mr. Yates represeets
has previously purchased heath of the Great Ship Company
amounting So 70,000/., the &renal cost of the vessel to the
mew cesapaur. &Hew mociviur the divideeda on the bonds
parchaud, will be about 80,0001. At the close of the male
Mr. Rae made a claim to the ship, oa the ground that be
bad bid 25.0001. and had not had time to arrange relative to
to the deposit. The claim, however, was not entertained
by the auctioawar.
RiPIiILsiNTATION or DOWIAT. Mr. H. Ker
Selmer, the after repreasatative of the county of Dome;
yesterday morning lend an address annouocing that the
political connexion which has subsisted between him and
the electors of the county must be seemed. The canes of
the retirement of the bon. gentleman, which wan not alto-
gether unexpected, is ill-health. It to sot yet known whether
there will be a sonteit for the vaceat seat. Mr. /toyer,
who for SOCA years represented the county in the 000 .1111111-
tint interest, has issued an address, having lieu requested to
allow binned to be nominated by • large number of the
eowniturents. He mays:—" You have 'beady three
several these conferred re mac the high bower
of .bitiag your repressotative in the Commons
Home Parliamect and although cuisucoseeful at
the election of 1A57, I then received so larre an amount of
support that I trust I am not presareptoons in offering
myself again a candidate for roof votes and favour. I have
so sew protegees of political faith to make. Have always
been of *pnce that the limited monarchy under which we
have the happiness to live assures • larger amount of free-
dom. combiried with order and security, than any form of
rement with which we are sequaiuted. While, there-
fore, I shall be ready to assist in promoUng all ineseures for
the public good, and the removal of any abases in our insti-
tutions, I shall bold it my first duty to resist all such inoo-
esteem sa, under the pretext of improvement, might
endanrer the great foundations of the constitution in church
end state."

lIcDIAN Omelets CommEnsion.—A voluminous
seport and appendix were lama
Lett'esterda by the COMMie.
doe appointed on hod Nay lndian
to inquire iota the
complaints by °Moen of the late Indian army, that the par-
liamentary stipolations in their favour when that anny was
amalgamated with the home army bad not bees pima effect
to. The report eaten with great minutiae' into these
eomplaints, sod the cow mioolooers, orresion geoerally with
the observations made in the report, all ems it, one or two,
however, ezpremrisq dissent ou a few particular points.
Mr. Robert Woodward, of Artery Castle, Bawd-
who formed wm reekilest minima in iverpool,
hztet to the Moyer of Liverpool that he loss
to for placing at the dispoml of the Mayor
I,oool=edistribnied to dis aroma local amities al
biws•

THE DANISH QUESTION.

Vent on own onasmormsnr.)
FRANKFORT, Fm. 14.
While military operations approach their end
by the success of the Austro.Prusaian army, the
dilfioulty for the two powers of steering a middle
course between two extreme views increase. It is
obvious now that between Augustenburg and
Glucksburg is the bone of contention. Austria and
Prussia do not care for the former, but require
good guarantees against future encroachments of
the Danes, while a strong party, if not a majority,
in the Diet, wants to take up the cause of the Duke
of Augustenburg at any risk. The Conference
will therefore have the difficult task of reconciling
the pretensions of the Danes with claims which no
German government can give up. It is much to be
regretted that Englishmen continue to take • one-
sided view of the question, and think that by the
withdrawal of the November constitution the Ger-
man grievances would be removed ; for even this
could only be a negative concession, which would
leave all the engagements of 1.852 unfulfilled.
It is just as though one person had •
claim upon another, who, by giving up
a title deed, thereby rendered himself amenable
rairrateivil instead of the criminal law. When, in
Diet is sertmed by force-cdesems to **-
establish the Danish authority in Holstein, certain
engagements were entered into by Denmark, but
never fulfilled, and in order to make their fulfil-
ment impossible at any future time the November
constitution was proclaimed. This was plainly
stated by the ministers in the Danish Assembly, and
the object of the war is to remove that impedi-
ment to • settlement, and Austria and Prussia
must of course now insist on stronger guarantees,
as the former nee have proved abortive. Their
position is certainly not an enviable one. Public
opinion and the minor States press hard upon
them, and it would be irrational for them to bring
about a permanent disruption by exasperating every-
body too much, and playing thereby into the hands
of France,which during the whole of her history has
always profited by the internal divisions of Ger-
many. The Lorraine bishoprics were lost in 1552 ;
Alsace in 1648, by the two religious wars, when
France interfered for an idea which she put down
by lire and sword in her own country. This was
the price of the liberty of the German princes then
against the aggression of the Emperor, as Savoy
and Nice were the price of the liberty of Italy.
Whenever the Germans are united France takes
good care not to interfere with them, and what she
thought unadvlsable in the days of the German
Empire, she will certainly not think advisable when
the natioaal feeling baa to be taken into ac-
count ; a feeling which would bring forces into
the field not dreamed of at any former period
of history. According to Koll's celebrated statistics,
the population of German proper was, in 1861,
45,400,000 ; with the Prussian provinces not be-
longing to the Confederation, 49,800,000 ; and with
the Austrian, 71,633,460. The middle and smaller
States numbered 18,016,934. The standing army,
fixed by resolution of parliament in 1848 at 2 per
cent., which resolution has outlived its author,
amounts to a million and a half, and if backed by
the national feeling it would be preposterous to
threaten such a combination with the wrath of
France or any other neighbour. This would
therefore not be the proper way to set-
tle momentous difficulties. With regard to the
views entertained by the popular party and the
minor princes, I might just give you two facts from
to-day's joublications. The central committee of
German deputies can on the minor princes to watch
the armaments of Austria and Prussia which are
not required by the Danish war, and the real object
of which is now clear by the occupation of Holstein.
The middle and minor States would be brought to
the last degree of humiliation if they did not send a
strong force to Holstein to oppose the Austro-
Prussian army. Bavaria and Saxony have called
a meeting of the minor princes at Wurzburg for
to-morrow, in order to discuss measures to uphold
their independence by common action, as, accord-
ing to all that has transpired, a decision of the Diet
in favour of the Duke of Augustenburg would not
be submitted to by Austria and Prussia. As only
seven States—viz. Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover,
Baden, Weimar, Nassau, and Hease—will attend,
and as even these are far from agreeing, it is
evident that Austria and Prussia command already
a majority to a certain extent The King of
Wurtemberg will not attend, as he considers the
whole movement as a revolutionary 000 ; and the
Elector of Hesse, because he is convinced that
the minor princes will never decide on a common
action if things should come to extremes. Austria
and Prussia will, therefore, have a much harder
fight in Germany to carry their views than in
Sleswig, and the future of Europe will depend on
the support they meet with from the various
foreign powers at the Conference which will meet
when hostilities are over. England, which, as
even the most violent party leaders admit, has no
other interest in the affair than the maintenance of
pace, will have the decision almost entirely in
her own hands if she advocates • settlement by
which the rights and the nationality of the Germans
in the Danish monarchy are carried to the sante
extent as they were before the unfortunate letter
of Christian VIIL Neither the ultra-Danish nor
the ultra-German views can be carried out without
a universal war. It cannot be denied that the
national party in Germany has contributed much
to make the dispute unintelligible to fore•gnera by
putting the legitimate righta of the Duke of
Augustenburg in the foreground, and by recurring
to obsolete treaties instead of the broad basis of
popular right., which the Germans in the Duchies
can claim, as the Italians and Belgians did under
similar circumstances.