The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-18 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 18.

Ota readers will learn without surprise the fact
which we were able yesterday to announce, that
the Danish Government has accepted the proposed
Conference on the affairs of the Duchies. From
the moment that the British Government showed'
itself resolved to cast the responsibility of prolong-
ing the war, to the danger of the general peace of
Europe, not upon the aggressors, but upon
their victim, this result was inevitable. The
Danes, unfriended, trust only in their own valour,
and defend themselves as well as they can, but
they could not accept the character and position of '
obstinate peace-breakers.
The Conference has been accepted by Denmark
on the basis of the negotiations of 1831-62, and
lrithaut as armi,tiee. The second of these two
conditions was in part determined by the first. There
can be no armistice until a basis for negotiations ac-
ceptable to all the parties has been found, and it is
still to be ascertained whether this is the case.
The war was begun on the pretext that Denmark
bad violated the engagements which she took in
1831-52, and the natural course would be for the
Conference to Si the long-disputed meaning of
those stipulations. Denmark still acknowledges
their validity, and holds herself bound by them,
although she might fairly maintain that such of
them as were contracted with Germany only,
have been dissolved by war. On the meeting
of the Conference it will be seen whether
the great German Powers still acknowledge
them. If they do, there will be an end of the
ambitions designs which have been imputed to
Prussia and Austria. If they do not, those
Powers will have to avow that they are in Sleswig
and Jutland by no legal right, but only as con-
querors.

- The British Government having thus gained the
assent of the immediate belligerents, w:11 probably
forthwith address its proposals to the Germanic
Confederation. The action of this unwieldy body,
however, is proverbially slow, and weeks may
elapse before its definitive resolution can be made
known.

Jr would ill describe the fury of the organized
Tory assassination plot last night, were we simply
fn record that the debate was opened by Sir BERRY
STRACEY with the most solemn levity, and closed by
Mr. Cud (of Finsbury) with his accustomed dignity.
This conspiracy, at least, was a serious affair. An
iretructive and valuable discussion of the Govern-
nt Annuities Bill was snapped up in order
that the great STANSTELD hunt might begin, for
which a mighty Tory " field " and • ,
brilliant Tory pack were panting. The mover, ,
with many protestations of the " painfulness "
of his task, travelled thirty years out of his
instructions, and harked back to an early episode
in the strange romance of MAZZINCS life to come
at last to the imputation against Mr. STAN,
FELD, of being the friend and associate of
an organizer of conspiracies and an instigator of
assassins. And then ho taunted Mr. &Axel-LLD
with being ant-ry the other evening at the insinua-
tions of the French Procureur-GenjraL Mr. STAN,
eto quietly amid without the slightest irritation
gave once more a simple and straight-
forward reply. lie had not denied his per-
sonal friendsll it for Mazzier ; it was ob-
vious that a man in Mazziet's position must
have his letters from the Continent forwarded
to other ad.4-cs.ses than his own : letters
of which Mr. sr,..esreuu had no knowledge
at all had repeatedly come to his house ; but as
far as this particular present charge was concerned,
no letter, so far as he could ascertain, had been
addressed to his house, to the false name mentioned
by the Procuretir-GaiTal ; as for the rest, M. Mar-
ZUNI had been the first to undertake that no
further communications for him, from any
of his correspondents abroad, should be ad-
dressed to Mr. STA NSF ELL'S house. The scheme
of the T. ry party last night, however,
consisted iu accusing 3lazzier of all the
unproved polit:cal el hoes that had ever been laid
to his charge I.y his enemies on the Continent,
tad in bringing the whe:e burden of those crimes
to hear upon Mr. S I.ANsi ELI. as a member of
Parliament and of the present Administration.
It was nothing to these honest men that Mr.
Nraeseeue had on the first occasion, as again last
night, replied by a plain categorical denial to the in-
famous interpretations of the French prosecutors.
No doubt there was a certain malignant ingenuity
in this scheme ; yet it failed, as it deserved to fail,
not, unhappily for the credit of the House, because
the calumniators were converted to good feeling by
the noble language of Mr. Borne, or to a judicial
fairness and soberness of temper by the reasoning
of Mr. t LA I ~TuN E, but by the sheer force of nuns.
bers on the Ministerial benches. The Phi:.
mice, though lie stood chivalrously by his subor-
dinate, was perhaps not as happy as usual
in his tactics. lint on the whole we believe the
re-tilt will be sate.faet)ry to the majority of mem-
bers on both sides in their calmer moments this
morning. And they will not regret having spared
the chosen victim of party rage and party rapacity.