The Express.
London, England, 1864-01-04 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1864.

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(azum's Tripoli/As.)

THE FEDERAL EXECUTION IN HOLSTEIN.
HAMBURG, JAN. 2.

A 'message received here from Rendsburg states
that the Danes had not, up to yesterday afternoon,
evacuated the Crown fort.
HAMBURG, JAN. 2, Evisma.

The passage of 12,000 Austrian and Prussian
troops is announced for Sunday. The quarter-
masters were expected to arrive here to-day.
A report is current that Obergerichtsrath Hes-
riche of Gliickstadt, senator Thomson of Kiel, and
Bureauchaf Griebel of Plon, have been appointed
to replace the dismissed government authorities of
Plon.

A rumour has obtained upon the Bourse that
considerable numbers of troop' are still expected
to arrive in Hamburg.

HAMBURG, Jam $.
The district of Dithmarschen, in Holstein, has
also been occupied by the Federal troope.
The Eider round Rendsburg is frown.

Adviess from Altana state that tba Danish hell*
evacuated the six Holstein villages to the north of
the Eider upon the evening of New Year's Day.

KIEL, JAN. 2.

Duke Frederick of Angustenburg has received
congratulatory deputations from all parts of the
country.
The Duke, in reply to the leader of a grand
torchlight procession, spoke of the necessity of
union between the government and its subjects,
and expressed the confident hope that he would
soon assume the government,

THE KING OF DENMARK'S VISIT
TO THE ARMY.
RAMI3CRO, JAN. 2.
Advice received here from Flensburg state that
the King of Denmark arrived in that city yesterday.

REJECTION OF THE AUSTRIAN MOTION
BY THE FEDERAL DIET.
FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, JAN. 2.

At the sitting of the Federal Diet to-day a
motion introduced by Baron Kubeck, the Preaideut
of the Diet, to the effect that the hereditary Prince
of Augustenburg should be immediately summoned
to leave the duchies, was lost by 9 to 7.

DISMANTLING OF THE FORTIFICATIONS
OF CORFU.
TRIESTE, JAM. 2, Erwin.

Atlvices received bare from Curfu state that the
canuon of the Vido, the fort commanding the
harbour, were dismouuted and taken away upon
the 28th ult.

The English troops will shortly leave, partly for
Malta, partly for India.

ITALY.

TURIN, J. 2.

A complete denial has been given to a statement
recently furnished to a German newspaper by its
Turin correspondent. The statement was to the
effect that the Italian Minister of War had for-
warded a circular to the military commanders ex-
plaiLing the arrangements made fur war against
Austria in the coming spring.

His Majesty said in the speech from the throne
that the tobacco monopoly will be abolished next
April. Tobacco may henceforth be cultivated in
Madeira and the Azores. The budget was satisfac-
tory, and no deficit existed.

THE MEXIcAN QUESTION.—The Meteoriuf Diplo-
mat i tie of yesterday states that a proof of the perfect conooid
subsisting between the Emperor Napoleon and the Archduke
Maximilian will shortly be given by a visit of the Archduke
to the Court of the Tuileries. The same paper sa►s :—" The
alarmists who are anxious to rpread the opinion that the
Archduke will not be able to obtain either men or money to
establish a monarchy in Mexico, will be not a little surprised
to learn that offers from English, French, Belgian, Dutch,
and German capitalists are constantly received at Miramar.
We could mention three large financial fines who have
already sent agents to Mexico to prepare for the
creation of credit institutions to operate in
that coautry as soon as they snail have ob-
tained the sanction of the new sovereign. A
further most important fact is that none of them associa-
tions auks any other guarantee than the accession of the
prince." The Memorial also coutaits a statement said to
have been made by the Archduke Maximilian to the editor.
The Archduke dwelt upon the devotion with which he
should endeavour to justify the confidence of the Mexican
people. It would be his dearest care to ►void his crown
being soiled by a drop of Mexican blood. Should he, how-
ever, find himself unable to er.ure the concord and inde-
pendence of his empire, he would rather abandon the crown
than occasion Heil war, leaving the appreciation of his con-
duct to the impartial verdict of history.
OCTWARD AMERICAN MAIL4.—On Saturday the
Cunard Royal Mail steamer Scotia was despatched from
Liverpool for New York, with mails for the Coiled States
and British North America, together with about 70 passen-
gers and a full cargo. On Wednesday next the Inman
steamer Etna will leave the Mersey for New York, with
the United States mail.. Letters, Ice., will be received at
the General Post.otEce, Liverpool, until 2 o'clock p.m., and
for deepatcb via Cork till 8.10 p.m., and bearing late fees
of Id. until 9.15 p.m. The Scotia arrived at Queenstown
at 11 a.m. yesterday, embarked mail■, passenger., and the
latest telegrams, and proceeded for New York at 4 p.m.
All well.

DEMPATCH OF THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC
MAILS.—The Royal Mail Compaoy's steamship Seine, Cap.
Min Revett, sailed from Southampton on Saturday at
3 p.m., with the mails for the British sod foreign West
Indies. Mexico, the Pacific, California, Central America,
&c., together with 5.3 pasemigers. The Seine took out on
freight English specie, 28,7501. ; jewellery, 1.3001. ; French
specie, 4001.; jewellery, 8,0401.; 615 bottles quicksilver,
value, 4,5001. ; lead a full cargo of Preach acid English
merchandise.

THE STEAMSHIP GREAT EASTERN LOTTERY DIS-
TRIBETION.—Our Liverpool correspondent states that the
shares in this undertaking are being rapidly token up, sod
that there is every likelihood of the money being raised in •
few days. The amounts received from subscribers are
banked in the lames of responsible mercantile men well
brownie Liverpool.

FRANCE.

(nee one owe oonaledeenenr.)
PARIS, SATURDAY Evans.
M. Boudet announces the diapason for 1864, as
far as concerns the press, by a new year's decree
'depending the Courrier du Dinuowhe for two
months. This is a supreme warning for the press
in general, since it shows in a fearfully practical
manner that warnings are not mere formal censure".
The decree recites that the Courrier du Dimanche
has already had two warnings, and then it applies
In all its severity the coup &Etat legislation, by
virtue of which any journal may be suspended on
the third occasion of its saying anything which the
executive power may choose to construe as an
offence. The article which is now made the
excuse for suspeuding one of the best
independent journals of Paris was written by M.
Prevost Paradol in the number of December 27.
The indictment (which in this case serves for a judg-
ment) is that the article "misrepresents both the
causes and the consequences of the loan voted by
the Corps Legialatif, and by insulting irony en-
&savours to provoke hatred and contempt of the
government, whose policy ho calumniates." M.
Prevost Paradol is one of the most distin-
guished writers of the French press, if in-
deed' be be not the most able of all, which
I am inclined to think he is. His extremely
polished and refined style of writing is the very
type of that "moderate" opposition which M. de
Persigny, in a moment of rash candour, admitted
was the sort of opposition which the French govern-
ment could least brook. There is nothing in
common between what is called the "licentious-
ness" of the press, and M. Pandora writings.
He never appeals to low and vulgar passions, never
uses coarse language, never presumes upon the
ignorance of his readers, never suggests the thought
of any physical resistance to the powers that be,
and in his controversy with government
never invokes anything but reason, and that
in phraseology so choice as to be scarcely
intelligible to any but the most educated
classes. Anything more unlike the received cha-
racter of a pestilential, seditious writer than M.
Provost Paradol can hardly be conceived. And
yet this learned man, this accomplished scholar,
this rare penman, is personally persecuted by the
French government, which long ago made it unsafe
for the Dilsits to keep him on its regular staff, drove
him out of other publications, and now adopts the
grave step, on his account, of taking the bread out
of the mouths, for two whole months, of
the numerous people, writers, reporters, com-
positors, folders, porters, dc., who form the stall
of a newspaper. The thing is of very bad augury.
M. Boudet, the present Minister of the Interior, is
a man of whom the public know nothing. When
be was appointed to supersede M. de Persigny after
the elections of May, 1862, it was hoped that he
was meant to be the organ of a more liberal policy.
But the signs of any such improvement are looked
for in vain, and this warning shows that M.
Boudet, even if we give him credit for good
intentions, is but an arrow in the hands of
the giant, and baa no power, name, or influence
to repress the excesses of arbitrary rule. The sub-
pension of the Courrier du Dimanche will last
throughout the session of the Corps Legislatif. No
doubt the intention is to strike terror into the
other journals and prevent them from 'making
remarks upon the debates on the Address, which
are about to come on in the lower house. The
Nation, in regretting the suspension of the Courrier
Dimanche, inquires what the government can
expect to gain by such a harsh act, at a tune when
it is ascertained beyond doubt that liberal measures
are everywhere the most popular and the most
useful.

The Temps says that the French government is
less opposed to-day than it was yesterday to the
proposal for a conference to settle the Danish diffi-
culty. This news, if true, shows that the limited
Congress, like its predecessor in the kingdom of
dreams, the general Congress, is going to the dogs.

The draft Emblems of the Corps Legislatif will
probably be read in a public sitting ou Monday.
The France thinks it will speak in favour of peace,
so far as it is compatible with honour, and of " pro-
gressive " liberty. This revelation, if it be one, is
quite meaningless.
The Bourse opened with great firmness, the
Emperor's short speech to the Corps Diplomatique
being favourably interpreted ; but in the latter part
id the day there was a reaction, and Reute fill
15e., and blubilier 11.25.

THE BRAZILS AND RIVER PLATE.

The Royal Mail Company's steamship Parana,
Captain Pellicoe, with the above mails and 76
passengers, including his Excellency Count de
Ribeiru, from Lisbon, arrived at Southampton on
Saturday. Her freight consists of specie. 2.3001. ;
14 packages diamonds, value not stated ; 11 bales
iudiartibber, 51 boxes preserved meat, 50 barrels
tapioca, 1,106 packages tobacco, 42 boxes crystals,
236 bales cotton, 308 packages °mopes,
and 150 packages suudnea. The Parana
brings home five prisoners, part of the
crew of the ship Flowery Land, accused of
murder, piracy, and robbery ; also two of the crew
as witnesses ; the remaining prisoners and wituesses
(seven in number) left Monte Video per steamer
Uruguay four days before the English mail left
that port.
The Parana experienced from Lisbon to Usbant
strong S. W. gales, heavy sea, and fierce squalls of
wind, hail, and rain, thence to Southampton strong
S.E. gales. The screw steamer Sicilia, of Glasgow,
from Monte Video to Liverpool, with shaft broken
and propeller carried away, on the 18th November,
in lat. 29.50 S., lung. 50 W. made Rio de Janeiro
under sail on the 9th December.

The Parana has brought home from St. Vincent ,1
Captain Bannister, 17 of the crew, and 9 passengers
of the bark Great Britain, of London, bound from
that port to New Zealand, which vessel was
totally lost on the north-west end of St. Jago,
where she struck, at 5 a.m., on the Bth December,
and shortly after went to pieces. Owing to the
heavy surf the crew and passengers lost nearly
everything. Captain Bannister speaks highly of the
hospitality and kindness he received from the resi-
dents and authorities of the Island of St. Jago,
who did all in their power to render assistance,
the governor despatching a Portuguese war schooner
to the wreck, which conveyed the crew and pas-
sengers to Porto Prays.
Her Majesty's ship Dotterel was at Buenos
Ayres, the Satellite, Forte, Stromboli, Curlew,
Triton, Spider, and Sheldrake were at Monte
Video ; and at Rio de Janeiro were the Egmont,
Columbine, and Alecto.

BUENOS AYRES, Nov. 27.

Since the sailing of the French packet several
very important eveuta have occurred. Penaloza,
the last of the rebel gauchos, is dead. Congress
has been closed. The national debt bill has been
passed. The foreign claims have been adjudicated.
The nation is at peace. President Mitre's
government is well supported, and the country
going rapidly ahead.
The death of Penaloza promises well for the
material interests of the ootiatry. His perpetual
guerillas were costing the country millions, in-
creasing the taxes, and tending to keep alive that
spirit of rebellion which has proved so long the
bane of this republic.
The closing of congress is worthy of notice. The
bill authorising the laying of telegraph wires
between this city and Rosario, granting a oonosssion
to Mr. Wheelwright, has been passed. The long
disputed question respecting the debts of the old
government has been settled, the repudiation pro-
ject has been rejected, and every creditor of the
nation on proving his claim will be paid.