The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-24 00:00:00

SWEDEN.

(110 K ova OWN COSZISPONMINT)
STOCKHOLM, Oat. 17.
Scarcely has a week elapsed since the return of
Baron Ented-Hondo from biz secret mission to Paris,
when now Admiral Virgin has undertaken a diplo-
matic journey, the real object of which is studiously
kept a secret, but it is generally believed that he
also gone to Paris, and it is added that be is the
bearer of the King's ultimatum as to the conditions
he requires as the price of his throwing up his neu-
trality and joining the Western Powers in the pro.
sent= of the war. Such a step would not fail to
make him very popular, and it would be receivcd
with the greatest enthusiasm throughout the whole
of the Scandinavian peninsula. Admiral Virgin was
last year for a short time Swedish Envoy Extraordi-
nary in London. As captain in the navy he com-
manded the frigate Eugeoie, of 44 guns, in her three
years' scientific circumnavigation of the globe (1848
to 1860).
At the present moment there are lying in this port
about thirty decked and open Russian craft of different
sizes, which have broken the blockade and crossed
over from the °oast of Fathonia, bringing cargoes of
cow, potatoes, hops, hemp,and tallow, to barter tor that
precious article of consumption in Russia alt. They
buy this article here for 6 dollars per barrel, and
state that if they return home in safety they shall sell
it at 30 dollars, this realising SOO par cent. The
captains report that on their voyage across they
saw nothing of the British and French cruisers.
The winter is now fast approachiog in this country.
The mountains are already covered with snow; at
Odle the frost set in so far back as the 4th inst.. and
the thermometer here, even at mid-day, is but very
little above the freezing point.

(MOIL OVZ owl COZZIISPOZDINT.)
COPSNSAGEN, Oar. 18.
Although it was no secret that the King bad con-
tracted a morganatic marriage with a former milliner
of the name of Lola Rasmussen, whom be hes
elevated to the rank of Countess Banner, yet that
step had never been publicly or officially madi known.
It therefore caused great sensation when the Ring, at
the court and levee he held on his birthday at the
pekoe of Chrietiansborg in this city, caused her to be
present, and presented to her the foreign ambassadors,
requesting the latter to notify his marriage to their
respective courts. On new year's day she is to be
elevated to the rank of Duchess. Her antecedents
and former mode of life bad better be passed over in
silence.
Yesterday the Leg held a grand sitting of the
Privy Council of the State, after which all the
ministers received honours. The Premier and
Minister of the Interior, Bang, is created President
of the Council; the ministers, Col. Von Lfittichau
(war), Roasted (Schleswig), Simony (justice), Col.
von Andres (Seances), and Hall (callus), are invested
with the Grand Cross of the Danoebrog Order, and
Captain Miebelsen (naval minister) is created a
Chamberlain. The ostensible object of these honours,
so lavishly bestowed, is to commemorate the happy (P)
inauguration of the new constitution for the whole
monarchy, foe the ministers have been but a few
mouths in Matte, and during that period have certainly
done nothing to merit in particular such a shower of
the royal favour.
A new pamphlet, entitled "The Hereditary
Prince, the Fifth Paragraph of the Constitutiori for
the whole Monarchy, and its coneeqessom," from the
pen of a well-kaewn writer, the Baron Dirkicek.
Holmfeldt, bee just been published here, in which the
aatbor eedsavoars to explaia the refusal of the prince
to acknowledge and sign the constitution, as consider-
ing himself so Ipso the next in succession to the
throe., without being booed to recognise the condi-
:ions imposed cc him, as such, by the 6th paragraph,
which is as follows:
"Previous to the accession of the King to the reins
of government, he is bound to deliver to the Privy
Coattail of State, in writing, his assurance on oath to
observe, without failure and without reserve, the con-
stitutional laws of the Magda°, both with respect to
the joint affairs of the whole united monarchy and
the separate affairs affecting only the single compo-
nent parts of the kingdom. This act of assuranos ie
to be preserved by the Coattail of State engage the

archivcs of the kingdom. should the King be pre-
vented by absence, illness, or other causes, from im-
mediately taking the oath required, the affairs of
government will be carried on in the King's name by
the Privy Council of State, till such time as the King
shall have fulfilled the above•mentioned conditions,
unless they shall have been altered by a subsequent
law."