The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-27 00:00:00

THE RESS, RANTTEDAYEVENThria, FEBRUARX 27, 1864.

MALMESSURY (no doubt a competent judge of poli-
tical incompetence)said in Parliament, est Tlttnedar,
that he never saw so much ignorance displayed in
the public treatment of any question as in the
treatment of this question ; Parliament and the
press were all wandering in hopeless error; and no
wonder, sines, according to the noble lord, it is
impossible to comprehend the subject without
mastering all the diplomatic correspondence re
specting it which has taken place between the va-
rious Governments for the last fourteen years. We
do not for a moment dispute Lord MALMISSURY'S
opinion ; but a case which it is impossible to under-
stand except upon such conditions is certainly not
one for which a self-governing people will go to
war. Lord MALMESBCRY, of course, has all the
facts at his fingers' ends, and clearly perceives
their bearings, and Lord PALMERSTON has recently
laid claim to similar proficiency ; but these noble
lords can do nothing for the Danes without the
active support of their intelligent and convinced
countrymen. For solid objects and broad prin-
ciples nations have always been ready enough to
fight, but objects and principles of that order
can be made intelligible to the many in a few
sentences.

If the House of Commons does its duty it will
insist on knowing by what title the Govez ament
intends to invite the authors of this riffisnly et-
tack on Denmark to confer with it on the politi-
cal organization of that country. We have no
more business to settle the terms on which Slag-
wigers shall live with Danes than Austria has to
decide the nature of the political connexion
between England and Ireland. It would be • tine
thing for M. BISMARCK and Count R. !CH BERG to
get England to countenance their pretensions to
regulate Danish affairs by convening • Conference
on the basis of that claim. No wonder
they are so ready to accept our offer. But that is
the only purpose for which we are wanted by the
German Powers, and when we have served it we
shall appear to the world what our statesmen are
making us—the tools and dupes of Germany,
whose projects may then be safely revived in all
their enormity. Lord Paul a•sroN talks as confi-
dently as he has talked before of the integrity of
the Danish monarchy as the basis of a Conference.
But already the German Powers have decided to
rend Sleawig and Holstein, once for all, from
Denmark, and for ns there remains in • Confer-
ence nothing but • demonstration of the
imbecility and contempt into which we have
fallen. Tf there were in either House of Parlia-
ment, in or out of office, a statesman with the
soul of CANNING, we should be saved from this
lower depth of humiliation. It is astonishing
that Earl Russel.., who has spoken so often and
so eloquently against interference in the internal
affairs of foreign States,should now make proposals
for that very purpose tothe Powers whose meddle-
someness has been the curse of Denmark these
sixteen years. It is quite impossible for the
Danes, as it would be impossible for any people,
to tolerate this incessant interference of foreigners,
and they would far rather fall honourably in de-
fence of their country's independence than be pro-
tocolled into permanent subjection to the stranger.
At all events, let us have nothing to do with de-
vices for depriving them of liberty to manage their
own affairs.

His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Com-
manding-in-Chief will hold a levee at one o'clock
on Tuesday next, the let March.

Ebt Court.

WLXDSOR CASTLE, Fix. 26.

The Queen, attended by Viscounteea Jocelyn,
drove out this morning. Major-General Seymour attended
on boneback.

Prisons Helens and Princess Lou.., attended by Lay
Caroline Barrington and Lieut.-Colonel Hon. 1). de Hoe,
went to London.

The Grand Due.besi of Mecklenburg Broglie and Prince
Edward and Prince Gustav of Saxe Weimar visited the
Queen and remained to luncheon.

The Prince of Wale§ rode yesterday morning, attended
by Major Tarlac
The Pruseess of Wales drove out ia the afternoon, at•
tended by the Countess De Grey.
Brumes Hellos and Prison. Louise visited the Prime
and Princess of Wales at Marlborough hones. Lady Caro-
line Barrington and Lieut.-Colonel the Hon.. D. de Has
attended their royal highnesses.
The Prince of Wales attended the debate in the House of
Lords.

The Prince and Princess of Wales dined with the Duchess
of Cambridge, at St. James's Palace.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colosdal-office
from the Governors of the Mauritius, Gibraltar, and Canada,
and from the Lord High Commienoser of the beim labia&
Despatches were sent to the Governors of Malta, Hoeg
Koog, Labium, the Anstraliaikolooies,and:to the Lord High
CommiaMoner of the lonian Islands.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at-
tended by Major Teesdale, yeeterdsy afternoon visited the
exhibition of Cal Werner's drawings of Jerturlsm.
Bethlehem, and the holy places at the Institute of
Painters in Water Colons, 53, Pail-mall-
- .

Her Royal Highuesa the Duchess of Cambridge
gave ► grand astertainment last evening, at bet apartments
in St. Jame**, Palace, to their Royal Highomsee the Prince
and Princess of Wale. Their Royal Highnesses the
Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz and the Prisms
Mary were also enema. The following wars invited to
meet their royal highness :—The Prises and P 6401101
Edward of Saxe Weimer, Prince Gustav of Saxe
Weimar, the Marchioness of Ely. the Earl and
Counter of Derby, the Earl of Maltnesbnry, Lord
Courtsnay, and General Peel. Later in the evening his
Excellency the Danish Minister, the Earl de Grey, the
Earl and Countess of Fife and Lady Ann Duff, the Countess
of Sefton and Lady Cecilia Mayans, and the Earl of
Sefton, joised the royal party.

Her Royal Highness the Princess Augustus
of Sate-Coburg. with her young family and numerous suite,
an now at Claremont.

The Countess Russell had a small and early
party last evening at her residence's Chesham•place, which
was attended by the diplomatic corps and several memben
of the aristocracy.

The 31arrinis and Marchioness of Salisbury en-
tertained at dinner Last evening, at the family mansion in
Arlingt.,:irstzeet, the Earl of Carnareon, the Earl and
Countess Stanhope nod Lady Mary Stanhope, Lord
Llanover, Lord Stanley, M.P., Sir Hugh and Lady Cairns,
Mr. Freda. Mr. Arthur Russell, &c.

The private view of the Society of Female Artiste
took place this day at their gallery in Pall.rnall.
. .

, -
Herr Joachim is advertised flfl intending to pmus
• part of May end the month of .Tune in England. Signor
Sivori is also annoanoed.

The anniversary meeting of the United Service
Institute will be held in the lecture theatre of the insti-
tution, on Saturday, Much Z. The chair will be taken by
Sir Edward Coat.

The president of the Royal Society has issued
invitations for nonrerpa:i,ni, to be bald at Burlington
House on the 12th of March and 30th of April.
The lieutenant-governorship of the Royal Mili-
tary College at Sandhurst will become vacant immediately
by the promotion of Colonel Rochfort Scott to be Major.
General.

We nit, and Nary Gautte) understand that
Mr. Whitworth will be prepared to deliver at the Wool.
each Anemia, about the middle of March, the guns which be
has manufactured to compete with those already delivered
by Sir William A:nutmeg ; cooesqtwotly, the important
trial which is to take place between the principles of these
two eminent artillerists will, in all probability, eonr shortly
after Foster.

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LATEST INTELLIGENOK t
_ .
THE POSITION IN JUTLAND.
No change has yet taken place in the positioi of
the Austro-Prussians in Jutland. The Pruasians
still occupy Holding. That small town with a
population of 20,000 souls, is situated at about
three miles from the frontier of Sleswig, on the road
to Fredericia The town is defended by well-
constructed fieldworks, but the Danes, feeling
the impossibility of seriously resisting on that
point, against the efforts of the allied army,
evacuated it in order to concentrate themselves
on Fredericia, where they have considerable means
of defence. This last-named town in fact com-
mands, bythe Little Belt, the passage to the island
of Fiouia. Like Duppel, Fredericia possesses the
great advantage of being in direct communication
with the sea by means cf the fleet, and of thus
being able without difficulty to receive supplies of
provisions and military stores. The town is sur-
rounded by a bastioned wall. In front, at a distance
of from half a mile to a mile, are seven large redoubts
and &strong fort erected on a rising gromuL That fort
can contain from 30 to 35 guns, and is united to
the town by a covered way. The place may accom-
modate a garrison of from 20,000 to 23,000 men,
and thus support with advantage the chances of a
regular siege. It is easy to conceive the importance
of the strategical position occupied by the allied
army at Holding, which is only about 7 miles from
Fredericia by a good road. This occupation is a
perpetual threat for the Danes. The allied army,
thus placed between Duppel and Fredericia, the
most important refuge of the Danes on the main-
land, may await events, and iu case of need remove
their means of attack from one point to the other.

arrieed at that port. A proc?rne►bal has been
draws up, and legal piessedings are being takes.
I believe that the steamer did not come to dis-
charge its cargo in Spain. She carried two 12-
pounders, munitions of war, and an armament of a
special kind. These arms, the list of which I shall
leave on the table, were without doubt intended
for naval warfare, and it also believed that the
vessel itself was intended to be armed, since the
ports were new. She had on board, besides Con-
greve rockets, boarding hatchets and sailors,
clothing. It is not strange that the cargo should
be destined for Italy. This is all the government
knows about the matter."

concluded with the compliments which Greco never
ceased to pay to him.
The counsel for the defence had no course to
take in face of the confessions of the prisoners,
and the overwhelming evidence against them, but
to endeavour to enlist the sympathy of the jury in
favour of their antecedents, and to plead for ex-
tenuating circumstances. This task was performed
with great ability and eloquence by all four of the
advocates.

BL Anon (for Greco) said that when an advocate
was alone in a prison cell with a prisoner about to
be tried for life or liberty, the feeling of
pity gradually expanded into one of sympathy.
He would defend Greco seriously, completely, and
he was sure, honestly. Greco was born at Pizzi,
in the Neapolitan states—not at Pavia, as stated by
mistake. His father had saved King Murat's life
at the risk of hi, own. Young Greco had been
educated in a seminary—not, as had been in-
sinuated, on account of any religious vocation—
but because no secular education was to be had in
the neighbourhood. It was not true, therefore,
that he had at any time been actel upon by super-
stitious feelings. He had studied music with
some success, and had begun to study
medicine. But a time came when there
were in Italy neither advocates, physicians, nor
mnsirians —in 1859 everybody was a soldier ;
everybody was inspired with the idea of Italian
unity, and it was not to be denied that Mazzini was
in Italian eyes a great representative of a nations
sentiment. Greco had suffered his magical in-
fluence.

The upshot is that Greco and Trabucco are
transported for life ; and Imperatori and Scaglioni
are sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment.

THE PIRACY BY CONFEDERATES NEAR
MATAMORAS.

LIVERPOOL, FIIDAT.

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To-day the police-court was crowded, owing to
the three men Quinces, Kelly, and Fans. alias Clements,
charged with piracy in acionexico with the American ship
Joseph L. Gerrity, being brought before the magistrates.
The piracy has already been described, and is familiar to
our readers. Captain Nicholas, of the Joseph Gerrity. de-
posed that on the 16th Nov. but he sailed from Matamoros
for New York, with • cargo of cotton. Before leaving
Melanoma six passengers came on board, and everything
went well until about half-past 12 o'clock on the
night of the 17th, when he was seized, while on
deck, by one of the passengers named Brown, and
Kelly. together with two other pusengere named Wilson
and O'Brien, who placed revolvers to his head and said,
"If you shout you ate a dead man." At shim time the
watch had gone below, sod he was keeping • look out
while one of the crew bad gone aloft to look at the jib-
boom. He could not make any resistance, and was conveyed
to the forecastle, where he was locked up. Shortly after
this one of the boy, offered some resistance, and was brought
into the forecastle with • wound upon his head. Witness
then beard s shot fired, and immediately afterwards the
mate was also brought to the forecastle. The passengers then
took complete command of the ship, and Major Hogg, one
of their number, and the commander of the party,
asked witness for • paper to show the Federal
cruisers that the cotton was northern property. Witness
eaid be had no paper, and Major Hogg thee raid. "If I
Shti.c: an deceiving me, I will plc. ten or eleven
of chain round your neck and throw you over-
board." Clemente told witness that he ought to be glad
that he bad fallen into their hands, for if he had
fallen into the hands of other persons who were
at Mammou be would have been murdered. When off
Cape Yucatan Captain Nicholas and his men were placed in
the ship's boat with three days' provisions, and after they
had been knocking about for seven days they ultimately
reached Oistriche, the prisoners and their companions in the
meantime going to Belize, where they sold the vessel
and her cargo, Inspector Carlisle stated that when
he apprehended Clements the prisoner said that Captain
Wilma and Major Hogg, of the Confederate army. had
engaged them to go on Ward the Joseph L. ota as
passengers, end to take the ship and cargo, and to the
captain- adrift. Major Hogg served them with revolver,
and showed them a document, signed b General Bee, and
issued by Jeff. Davis. One of the pr stated to an
eating-hones keeper that he bad been engaged in the slave
trade on his own account, end that, having been captured
with 800 slue', he was sent to Fort Lafayette for four
years. At the °occlusion of the evidence, Mr. Raffles, the
stipendiary magistrate, rid:—This case is one of grave
Importance, and I mud not give • hasty decide°. I shall
remand these men for seven days, and in the meantime I
shall take such steps as ate beet calculated in my *lucent
to aid me in arriving at • right conclusion.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

BATCRDAT, Fl2lOBlB St 8 Li&

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Nabs 99.32 291
abettors I 29.92 30
Leith 129.92 36,
Ardromen 29.87321
Greencastle.— 29.81 36,
Galway
VeleulM-04407 tia
Cape Clear 29.89 401
ieumustoiva IVA* 40
Liverpool ,M.117-19
Holyhead 99.78 37,
Yembroke 9.81191
Pesammo 99.79491
Brest 19.73,43.
MINA ;Z1.61115,
tocholort '.73148'
Pt) mouth 38
Weymouth '29.77139:
Portsmaith _499.7939!
Ueda 49.9431.
Dover ,51.8490
Yarmouth 19.81114
3carberouBh 19 90 38
Molds 2l hi 12
Hellgolaml 19.94,33

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