The Express.
London, England, 1864-06-27 00:00:00

TEE =PRESS, MONDAY

the Order of Stephen, may snap his fing arthe
foolish liberals who imagined that the, &Ad nee
him against Denmark and then *roe , bipn away
as a broken tool. To the Emperor of Ms Iramrca
also this renewed alliance of legitimate sovereigns
must be an instructive spectacle. This is the
answer of the despotic Powers to his appeal on
behalf of the "legitimate aspirations of peoples."

Our course in this matter is tolerably clear even
before Ministers make the statement expected tlis
evening. We are spectators of the commencement
of a great reaction, to which the compacts of Kis-
singen and Carlsbad give a formidable and European
character, and from which ere long important
events must spring. We must beware of prema-
turely engaging our force. Our attitude is one
of observation, and our wisest temper petience.
The German Powers may in their arrogence ven-
ture on outrageous measures, such as we can easily
annul by the use of our fleet, and the Government
should be ready to do so if necessary. But under
present circumstances nothing is so much to be

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deprecated as a rash resort to hostilities, which
by engaging our power would leave us helpless
while questions of the highest European order were
being disputed. We need have no fear that the day
will not soon arrive when we shall be able to vindi-
cate our influence in presence of Austria and
Prussia.

THE Conrrmr.scr..—The plenipotentiaries ac-
credited to the London Conference met on Satur-
day at the official residence of the First Lord of
the Treasury, in Downing-street, at one o'olock.
All the members of the Conference were smembled.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in Downing-street. The ministers present were
Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Clianoellor, Earl
Granville, the Duke of Arun, Sir George Grey,
Earl Russell, the Right Um. Edward Cardwell,
Earl De Grey, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right
Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Earl of Clarendon,
Lord Stanley of ilderley, and the Right Hon.
C. P. Villiers.

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unekfif hlldmult of Ifne of Re oast
im-
portant deliberations in which English statesmen
have in our time been engaged. Parliament
and the nation will, we believe, be told that
the government, having duly considered the
course of the negotiations from the beginning,
and more especially the proceedings of the
Conference, of which the protocols will be laid
before parliament, think it consistent with the
national honour and their own former policy
to abstain from war. That a conjuncture might
arise in which it would be necessary to recon-
sider this determination they admit, inasmuch as
the existence of the Danish monarchy is a matter
of importune to England and Europe ; but as long
as the war is confined to the continental dominions
of the King of Denmark, there is, we are informed,
in their opinion, no sufficient reason that the policy
which they have maintained hitherto should be
abandoned. As the Conference came to an end
with the rejection by both belligerents of the pro-
posals made by the neutral powers, and as Den-
mark has deliberately expressed a desire that the
war should proceed, the British government thinks
itself not bound to interfere as long as the cam-
paign remains within the limits which must have
been contemplated by the Danes when they made
their choice."

The meeting of the supporters of Lord Derby
will be held at the house of tbe Marquis of Salis-
bury to-morrow, and some definite resolution will
thee be arrived at as to the course the conserva-
tive party shall pursue.
The protocols of the Conference are exceedingly
diffuse, and, it is said, at the suggestion of one of
the members, a ruumf was drawn up which will
place the whole matter before the public iu concise
and intelligible language.