The Express.
London, England, 1864-01-14 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY *EVENING, JANUARY 14,

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(istrra's almasAms.)
THE EXECUTION IN HOLSTEIN.
ALTOIZA, JAR. 13.

A proclamation by the Federal Commisaioners
has been issued to-day, ordering a provisional regu-
lation of the customs. Dating from the 22nd ult.,
Denmark and Schleswig are to be considered, with
reference to customs, as a foreign country.

The navigation dues are to be paid according to
the rate up to the present in force. The import of
goods subject to duty tan only take place by lani
rid Rendeburg and Levensau.

The reason given for this vote was, the import-
ance of the fleet in a strategical and commercial
point of view.

PittiSSlA.
REJECTION OF MD EXTRAORDINARY
MILITARY BUDGET.

BitELM, JAN. 13.
In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies
the vote upon the military budget was taken.
The conservative members, the ministers, and
a few catholic members only voted for the expenses
of the re-organisation of the array (5} million
theist's) as proposed by the ministry. The minis-
terial proposition was thus rejected by a large
majority. . . . . .

The further proposition of the ministry, that
the Chamber should grant the expenses as an
extraordinary credit, was likewise lost by 280
to 35.

SWEDEN.
CONVOCATION OF THE STOBTRING.

STOCKHOLM. JAIL 13.

The statement that the Swedish government will
convoke the Norwegian Storthiug for the grant of
an extraordinary credit is confirmed. The aesaion
will open on the Ist of February.

UM.

MR 0. zwzroir M.P..ONPMS AMERMAN AND
SOMLESPIIG-1101.4781S ogritsaroas.

On Tuesday evening Mr. C. Buxton; M.P., de-
livered an address at the Cromer Beading-rooms on the
priaolgal events of the year IMO. Mr. Roan took the
chair, sad briefly introduced the lecturer.
Mr. Buxom, referring to the deetreetion of Kagesima,
expressed kb belief that it was not an sociderit, but was
purposely done by the English admiral, and he could not
help roped* the act as a stain upon English humanity,
and likely to produce no small de of bitterness. (Hear,
hear.) After some lengthened o .Memitions upon the pro.
ruem of events in America, be stated his opinion that
ring the peg year the result upon the whole had
been decidedly ia favour of the North, and expressed his
belief that the war was rapidly tending. to the complete
emsocipation of the slaves. (Cheers.) Whim the war firm
broke out he candidly owned that be did sot believe that
it would have produced that effect ; but already 600,000
formerly slams, bed obtained their end
people formerly
received into the Gamin of the Northern army.
(Ohms.) He rejoiced that those slaves bad been able to
emeps. Of course for a moment the matter was • difficult
ersv, for the Northers generals hardly knew what to do
with them. 40,000 of theu skew bad been drilled sad
sewed ;
_60,060 were employed on publics work' and things
of that kind ; but what was perhaps more satisfactory rm.
that on the sea Weeds near Charleston, where tie beet.
cotton was grown, 12.000 blacks were employed as freemen
upon the plantaticess oe which they had previously worked
as slaves. They were showing • degree of iodostry, dad-
lity, and aptitude for work in which they could not be
emended Maw English labourers, They must all lomat
over the horror sod misery which this civil war had
bat he trusted that they might live to use gnat good wYst
frees it, and that the slaves ironid is ammo ei
Ham become freemen, cad show themselves worthy of the
freedom which they had obtained. (Cheers.) After rapidly
sketching the history of other events and discussing the
questions they were calculated to suggest, Mr. Buxton ob-
served that two main political lemons were oomprieed ie the
indents of the pest year. Bath of them showed how matt
more mankind was in reality swayed by imagination than by'
• matter of fact devotion to the good things of life, each
as wealth or physical comfort. One of these lessons wee
this—that while men would beer almost any sufferings and
almost any injuries with patience. there was cos wrong to
which they would almost always oppose • pursiceate and
unceeelog reebtance, and that was subjection to the dorm-
Moe of • kinks power. (Hear, hear.) Rome, Venice,
Hungary, Holstein, Poland, had all been showing how un-
bearable was en alien yoke, even where, as in the case of
Holstein, it was unattended with actual oppreseion. " The
other political lemon" proceeded Mr. Boston, " which the
experience of the year has taught m seems to be this: most
of us used, I think, to entertain the hope that as the despotic
powers of sovereigns waned Wore the growth of liberty and
self-government, and the admia of intelligence and educe-
Hon, war must become more and more rare, and at length
mart vanish fromthe civilised world. (Hear, hear.) But the
events of the year which has gone by have set before as,
with • vividness which to my mind is most mounsfel, the
truth that the people are scarcely more to be treated with
the maintenance of peace than the despotic sovereigns of
days gone by. (Hoer, hear.) Wheu we look seems the
Atlantic we see one of the most highly educated peoples ea
the fete of the earth, educated not by books alma but by
freedom, prosecuting with misname fury • war with Utak'
brethren, at • owlet life. and treasure, and happiness which
by moot bystanders are deemed impracticable and vain.
(Hear, hear.) In Europe • still more astonishing example '
is given of the readiness, oot of sovereign, bat of their sub-
jects, to rush into war upon protegees so metemptible that
it might well, as Shakespeare says, " make the wale weep "
be vitiates them. I really do think that of all "the fan-
Untie tricks " that ever were " played before high
heaven," ore of the most preposterous is the
enterprise upon which the people of Peoria have
launched kr the invasion of Deamark. (Hear, hear.)
That the Pruswian people in the very crisis of their great
straggle for constitutional liberty, on which we have all
been gazing with such deep interest, should throw up the
game, sod fling themselves into the heeds of that wretched
charlatan Count Bismarck, and their nanoweenled King,
for the oaks of giving what they call autonomy to Holstein,
while they themselves are spurned like dirt beneath the feet
of their own rulers, dose seem to me to be a prodigy of
folly such as we have never seen before." Mr. Buxton then
dwelt at length oe the disesteem consequences to which the
invasion of Denmark would probably lead, to all ponies elm
gaged, and ~hided by thanking his audience for the
patience with which they had listened to him for about an
hour and a half,
A vote ci Umiak. to Mr. Baton for his leonine was after-
wards gives.

THE RAGGED . SCHOOL :UNION OF

LONDON.