The Express.
London, England, 1864-08-18 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(Estrrze's rarsouns.)
THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.
VIENNA, Ammer 17.
It is positiveky announced that the instructions to
If. de Quaade for the opening of peace negotiations
will arri►e from Copenhagen to-morrow.

POLAND.
WARSAW, Acorn 17.
Ilessioki, Landowiski, and Soluuidt ha►e been
con►icted of attempts on the life of General Berg,
and the first-named has been hanged.
The sentence of the two latter was commuted,
after their arri►al at the gallows, to 20 years' bard
labour.

Six other individuals, convicted ot complicity
in the above-mentioned attempts, have been sen-
tenced, some to 12 and others to 15 years' hard
labour at the mines.

THE PARIS BOURSE.
PAILIA, Amacurp 17, 3.30 P.M.
The Bonne has bees quid. Reston skald at
64.40, or 6c. lower than yesterday.

GERMANY.

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-(now oca owe COSISSPOSUINT.)
FSANKFORT, AUGUST 16.
There is now held here a volunteer meeting for
rifle practioe, where forty-six towns of the Rhenish
districts are represented. The view taken by the
patriotic party of the unfair proceedings of Austria
and Prussia cannot be more fully stated than it is
in the address of welcome delivered by the presi-
dent of the volunteer committee of this town. He
said ;—" Since our last meeting our brethren in
hileswig-Holstein have been freed from the Danish
yoke ; from the Dannewerke to Alien victory has
followed upon victory. Has our liberty been
benefited by it I Have our expectations been
realised T Has Germany become free, united, and
strong ? I cannot say, Yes, they have,' for the
battles have been fought in a spirit of conquest
by princes—not in the name of Germany ; and it is
nut the people that will profit by the victory, but
the separatists. Still, though we have been disap-
pointed in our expectations, we must still have faith
in the future progress, the regeneration, and the
greatness of Germany ; and if this faith is lesslively
in the large states, then the small states muststickto
their historical destination to be for ever the home
of liberty, and the nurseries of German spirit ; for
only that people is despicable which have no self-
respect. Therefore the people in the small German
states must be a free people always in arms ;
this is our mission, and for this purpose we meet
here now." The feeling prevailing in the non-
Austrian and non-Prussian parts of Germany cannot
be better embodied than in thews words--it is a '
feeling of utter disgust that a war, taken up on
the sound principle of standing manfully up
for the rights of German brotherhood should
end in a miserable and shabby chaffering about
territory, whereby the people on the spot are
taken quite as much account of as the heads of
cattle or sheep. The language of the Prus-
sian government papers, and even of some of
the iberal party, is a shame to our so-called
enlightened nation ; there is no other question
argued but that of priucely rights, of a set-off for
war expenses, of Prussian hegemony ; and the rights
of the Sleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg people are quite
as ouch cared for as under the sway of the first
Napoleon, on which German historians have
dilated for fifty years. It is the same spirit of
arbitrary will and conquest, and as Austria can
unfortunately be very little relied on, and is very
likely to be bribed by Prussia by some commercial
concessions, and by getting back her war expenses,
of which her empty exchequer is in great need, the
other foreign powers ought to look more sharply
in the question, and not allow Prussia to win a pro-
vince where she professed to defend the indisputable
rights of the Sleswig-liolateiners, or their separate
existence under the legitimate thooeseor to the duke-
dom. It must be said, to the honour of the liberal
party in Austria, that they at least stand up for
the rights of the Duchies, and, urge their govern-
ment to act in the German spirit which was
the pretext for the war. Prince Frederic William
of Hesse has now addressed a petition to the
diet, in which he asks for the recognition of his
notorious and undeniable right to the duchy of
Lauenburg. The only argument on which he rest*
his claim is, that he only waived his right to the
Danish throne under the supposition that the
integrity of the monarchy would thereby be main-
tained. With regard to Lauenburg, none of his
ancestors had any claim on it.
The government of Badeu has got into differences
with the catholic clergy and its head, the Arch-
bishop of Fribourg, about the education question ;
the influence of the clergy on public schools having
been restricted. The archbishop having homed a
violent pastoral letter, the government answers
that the said letter contains nothing but
untruth, misrepresentations, and exaggerations, for
the purpose of making catholica believe that
their religion is in danger. It was utterly
untrue that the catholic church is hindered
by recent legislation in the fulfilment of
its duties. The Protestant clergy, though
suhjact to the same enactrueuts, have not raised any
objections, and are certainly not less oonaciautious
than the catbolics. The people will soon be
aware by what party and to what purposes the
clergy withdraws from the school board, and
government will try to do without them and main-
tain the Christian spirit of public schools. The
catholic church will only undermine its own
authority by its systematic aggressions—always
and everywhere the same endeavours of the clergy
to get hold of the children, and to reconquer
thereby the ground they have lost with the present
generation.

THE PAPAL STATES.

A letter from Route of the Btb says :

Thanks to the railway, Castel-Gandolfo is ouly se hour's
dietetics from the capital ; those whose duties ea them
Dear the Pope Gas therefore easily go there, and there is
willies to provost Ids HOllllllllll from carryiog on hi usual
affairs as well as if he was at the Vatican. With regard to
than affairs, much laughter has been caused at Rome
by a letter inserted in the Paris Monitors, is which
a egirreeposdost nprenente the Pops se the most
bssily-ooeupied sovereign In Europe. As to the busbies
treasacted by hie Holing with his ministers, it
takes place regularly twist a week, aid laths about an
hour each time. The sovereign therefore devotes
two hours a•week to the political, !lentil, commercial,
sod military administratioo of Rome and of the five pro►ieoes
of which his territory is composed. The inhabitant, of
Cbstel-Gandolfe, delighted at ening a little movemeatintri-
diced into their steal solitude. lately gave the Pope a Nt .
sad in the small square before the mimeos of the pains
had a display of fireworks is his ►occur. At the Vatican
the Swiss Guard dame watches. I do not speak of she
Guard Noble, the envies of which is special, but at Canted-
Gandolfo the Pope has three guards, Swig, Frani. cad
ZOWIVIIS. Noose knows to what this luxury at surnillagee
is to be attributed is a gauntry where hie Holiness has
nothin to fear from impose.

" WeVl OOT NO CHILI:181N ! "—The Nolione
of Plareac• slates from Roam that the mother of the Jewish
boy Odom, lowing a few &triage pee Lithe Asylum of the
Oatimenment to aloha bar sea, and having used sone strong
llamas as the essmioa, was hameilately arrestid and
mat to prism
A Worzaex or rat GRAND& Assts—An old
soldiey mare then isimadred yeani et age, has **died at
Meatestail. mar Ramose (Diorite). He watered She array
at the beighteisi of the Revelation. sad terminated We
military aurae at Waterloo. He asveroalered from Mort
sod dies:l6llot a dom.