The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-01 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, Jar. 30.

The ministry have required of the Cortes to sus-
pend tkeir sesaiou for a fortnight, to allow time for
their preparing several bills. The Cortes have as-
sented ■eauimousiy.

Advice's have been received ban Havana to the
31st ukt., and St. Domingo tothe 10th lust. The in
aergent General Fiorentino bad shot 25 prisoners-
Gerirwal Santana had gone to a conference with
Varga'. _

MADRID. JAA. 30, Evening.
The usual monthly aviation for the Making fund
of the Passive Debt took place to-day.

The prices fixed by the Clovers meet were, for first
clews iptutior, 46.60 ; seissail class, 30.31 i ®d
secomi Ones exterior, 3606.
Tosillisis•were *eat is diA4 'OO reels ci the
weeiwAillinstbsteriat,
seem' claw exterior, of which only 3} millions
were accepted.

FURTHER DEPREDATIONS BY THE
ALABAMA.
SINGAPORE, J. 4.

The Alabama left this port on the 24th ultimo,
and afterwards in the Straits of Malacca burnt the
British ship Martabau, from Moulmein, and the
American ships Sonora and Highlander.

CONFEDERATE PRIVATEERS AT THE
AZORES.

LISBON, J. 31.

The Portuguese steam-frigate Blindelho has
sailed, at the urgent demand of the American mi-
nister, to watch the movements of the Confederate
privateers at the Azores.
The frigate Royal Oak has arrived here.

THE BRAZIL MAILS.
LISBON. J. 30.

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Coubpahy's ship
Magdaleua, with the above wails, arrived here to-
day.

RIO, JAN. S.

Exchanges on London, 27. Coffee : Price of
good first., 8,850 to 0,000. The shipments of coffee
since the departure of the last wail amount to
74,626 bags, 22,565 of which were for the Channel.
Sales of coffee, 34,100 bags ; stock, 110,000 bags.
Freight for the Channel, 455. to 50s.
At Bahia, Exchange on Loudon was quoted 27i.
Cotton, 25,000 to 26,000 Fels. Sugars, white,
3,200 to 3,400; brown, 2,800 to 3,000 reis.
At Pernambuco, Exchange on London, 271.
Ida Sugars, white, 4,200 ; brown, 2,700 to 2,800 refs.
Cotton, 24,500 to 25,000 reis.
The Memageries ltnperiales steamship Guienne,
ith the outward Brazil mails, arrived at Pernam-
; bueo on the 14th instant.

(By Telegraph from Lisboa.)
BUENOS AYEE-3, Dm :10.

Wet salted ox bides, 314 to 3.4- ; dry Americau,
35 to 33 ; wool, large movements, and prices at:-
vat:iced best lots, 90 to 110 ; tallow, 14a ;
lumber, 30 to 33 ; dour, lower ; refilled sugar, dull
and uucLaugerl.

MONTE VIDEO, JAN. L

Exchange, 52. 11We:4—important sales on ;
wet -salted hi•le44, 3.75 ; dry American, 5 to 5.20 ;
tlii German, U.W. Wool, 4.20 ; tallow, 1.75.

THE ARCHDUKE 3IAXIMILIAN.
PARIS, J. 3L

The At'inorial D;plmna&;yno states that the Arch-
duke Maximilian and Archduchess Charlotte, before
coming to Paris, will take leave of Queen Victoria,
the cousin of the Archduchess, and of the Belgian
court.

THE POLICY OF THE DANISH
GOVERNMENT.

The following is a translation of the speech of
Ruh p Monrad, the President of the Council, at
the Laudsthing (Upper House of the Danish
Rigelag) on the 23th ult. :

lassurne that you are acquainted with what I have
already said upon this question (the Sleswirlioltheinl in
another place (the Folksthing, or Lower House of the Rigs-
deg). I shall therefore cooties myself principally to re-
presenting the political position which the government is
forced to take up, and that so clearly and definitely that
no doubt can be entertained. A political position is mainly
determined by the political questions which exist. We
are, therefore, properly concerned neither with past nor
future events, but ouly with those lying before us in the
immediate present. Gentlemen, you will all adroit that a cer-
tain settlement of the relations of the State was aunounced
is the proclamation of Jan. 28. 1&.2, and that certain nego-
tiations and assursoces preceded that proclamation, which
in their entirety constitute what may perhaps be briefly
' termed the agreements of 1551.52. I shell not go into wore
detail at present into the form of those assurances, but
shall simply confine myself to their consideration as they
now exist. I believe we must all admit—l, at least, have
not heard it controverted— that the present existing set-
' tlemeut of State relations doe* not correspond with the
bases upon which the arrangementiof Iza'Zil.s2 were founded,
hut we are certainly at the same time all of opinion
that the fault of this deviation does Dot lie with the
Dauisti (;overnment, but with the German Confederation,
which has forced Holstein from its couuexioo with the
other portions of the monarchy. We Sr. also probably all
more or less of opinion that the presumption has been
violated upon which the entire organisation was based, as
plainly and distinctly laid down by the man who conducted
these negotiations. This presumption was that the Ger-
manic Confederation would confine itself strictly within the
limits of its territorial competence. The question may,
therefore, arise, Lew far the agreements may be regarded as
binding upon us. This is the specially vital political ques-
tion of the day—how far we, for our parts, are forced to
regards these agreements as binding. I admit that they
contain certain obligations for the Danish government, upon
which I new 1 not now &Lite ; but I maintain that they also
contain certain rights for the Danish government,
via, that no such state u Sleswie-Holstein shall
exist. When, therefore, an hoc. member expresses
his conviction that the German governments intend to
create a state of Sleswig-Holstein, I reply that our beet safe-
guards against such a course are the agreements of 1851.52. •
For although they contain certain obligations binding upon
ns, they include at the same time a strong protection •
against the establishment of a Sleswig-Holstein state. In
the present position of political affairs, therefore, his Ma-
jesty's government recognises the agreements of 1851.59 ia
their full extent, in regard to the obligations they entail
and the rights they confer, for the two things, rights nod •
duties, hang together. It is impossible to release ourselves
from the one without giving up the other. I hope this
will be regarded as so clear an expression of opinion that no
farther doubt upon the subject can arise. But it is mid, •
should war occur will the agreements then be recognised as
binding? I might reply, that it is difficult to look so
far tato the future. I might say that the °vests of the day
—the events, indeed, of every day—entail the necessity of
forming such important resolutions that we may wall be
justified in leaving the solution to the future. It
has also been said, when war is undertakes, we ought to
knew for what we are about to fight. I will tell you,
gentlemen, for what we are about to fight. We are about
to fight to prevent a foreign power forcing Wolf into Sloe.