The Express.
London, England, 1848-04-13 00:00:00

DENMARK.

The following letter is from our own correspondent
COPENHAGEN, BiLacic 28.
•

The first act of legislature of the new government,
officially proclaimed on the same day on which the appoint-
ment of the ministry was publicly announced, on Saturday,
the 25th inst., is " a provisional decree relative to the press."
By this judicial confirmation of the previous royal charter of
freedom to the pram, all former decrees and laws issued since
the edict of Sept. 27, 1790, relative to the press, are re-
pealed. The punishments' appointed by that royal ordi-
nance are abolished, and simple imprisonment, according to
the judgment of the law, substituted. All censure abolished ;
and " no action can be hereafter Instituted at the instiga.
this or on the part of any foreign power for alleged offence,
but through the medium of diplomacy, when the minister
of justice (lord chancellor) decides that there is sufficient
ground."
Seven thousand of the ten thousand infantry, cavalry and
artillery now in this city have received orders to march.
These, together with the cavalry and infantry stationed in
North Jutland, are to be concentrated on the frontier of
Sleswig. No forces will be transported by sea from this
city, but their route will be by Corseur, ceasing the Great
Belt to Nyberg, and across the island of Funen. The sloop-
of-war Nayaden, 24 guns, was towed by a steam-ship out of
the roads yesterday ' • and the 16-gun brig St. Thomas sailed
to Dyboth, bound for Kiel. The armed steam-ship the
Hecht is lying oil' Kiel, ready for action.
The following royal proclamation has been issued this day :
"Men of Sleswig,—ln this hour of grave impart your
King tarns to you. A few months are gone since I ascended
the throne of my fathers, proud in the thought of bestowing
in order and in peace, of my own free-will, a free constitu-
tion on my people. Unprecedented events make Europe
shake. Holstein, as a German federal state, should
have its own administration. For that I have
given my royal word. The constitutional unity I had hoped
to establish was thus neces‘arily renounced. Ye men of
Sleswig, I have said it, and I say it now, in conjunction with
Denmark and with your own concurrence, ye should have •1
tree popular constitution. Your independence as inhabit-
ants of Sleswig shall, together with that free constitution, be
secured by your having your own diet, your own admini-
stration, your owu courts of law, an equal share in the
fiaauces according to the population, a just employment of
the surplus of the state revenue, no consumption dues,
equal right tothe German and the Danish tongue at the meet-
ings of the states-general as well as at the diet. Men of Sits-
wig—Ye will not cast sway the blessings of social order and
freedom for the sake of serving the faithless machinations of
ambition ! Ye will not deny the loyalty ye have inherited
from your fathers ! Ye will not sacnfice your independence
and your welfare ! Your King calls you, by the paths of
law and honour, to lead you to peace and freedom. Ye
will obey the voice of duty and liberty. With the whole
strength of Denmark will I stand by you soon, and see ye
face to face...--FUNDISKIC It.—A. W. MOLTlLlL—Christian-
borg, March 27, 1848."

ROME, Arad. 1.

Amid the clash of arms and the din of European
tumult, a silent but significative event has just taken
place here which in other times would have claimed a
full page in contemporary annals. The Society of the Je-
suits has been finally ordered to quit the capital of
the catholic world, and their colleges suppressed and
their head-quarters removed, with general and staff,
out of Rome. Where they will next set up their
central banner is a puzzle. Not in Italy, most assa-
redly, every one of the various states of the penin-
sula having shown marvellous unanimity in consider-
ing them the agents of Austria and the foes of free-
dom. Yesterday Cardinal Castracane received the
orders of Pius IX. to communicate to General Roo-
thaan (an honest Fleming) the decision of his Holi-
ness ; to the effect, that he must march
bag and baggage out of this city, and
giving him and his associates reasonable delay
to pack up. The vast property which had fallen into
the hands of the society for the last thirty years,
during which they had the unlieputed control over
the consciences of the rich and nobles of the land, is
to be now transferred to the administrative capacity
of Cardinal Vizzardelli.
The war of the Sonderbund in Switzerland may be
considered as the opening chapter c f the recent revo-
lutions in Europe, and the final suppression of the
mum trterrima befit is bat poetical justice. Yet there
is much to regret in this unlucky denouement. I speak
not in a political sense, for the Jesuits were, po itically
speaking, a recognised nuisance on both sides of the
Alps; I merely would remark that their removal
from the Roman College will leave, in a lite-
rary point of view, an awful gap not easily
filled up. They had confessedly placed in the
various chairs of that noble building, men of un-
doubted capacity in the different departments of
divinity, astronomy, arehmalogy, classics, eloquence
and mathematics, and their places cannot be easily
supplied. The museum of father Kirker will de-
siderate its intelligent keeper; the watch-tower of
father De Vico will scarcely discover any fresh new
comets ; those who have theological nuts to crack
will sigh for the acumen of Perrone ; and the pulpit
of the Gesn will mourn for the outpourings of Grossi
and Zecchinelli.
But the Pope has spoken. " Cassio, be no longer
officer of mine ! " The whole body will probably
seek the field of missionary exertion, and fling them-
selves upon the empire of China, where they may
recover their old ascendancy, and be out of the
reach of the Abbe Gioberti, whom they in an evil
hoar deprived of his chair at the university of
Turin, and who has visited them with terrible retribu-
tion. The Epacka of yesterday (a very moderate journal)
has a leader on the subject, in which it notices the
failure of an attempt to get up a mob demonstration
of trastererini in their favour. It assures the clergy,
both secular and regula-, that they live in the hearts
of the people. It exhorts them to avoid becoming
tools of power, and to take warning by the melan-
choly fate of this order. "Take pattern from the
saints of Gad : from Chrysostom, who denounced the
effeminate and corrupt tyranny of his time ; freq!
Ambrose, who rebuked a royal murderer ; from Ber-
nard, who preached the holy war against the brutal
foe ; from Savonarola, who was the evangelist of free-
dom; from Pio Nono, who unites the virtues and attri-
butes of them all. The alliance of any part of the
priesthood with absolutism has always produced in-
fidelity and hypocrisy,—that cursed alliance in Italy
is at an end!"

Int court.
The Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady in Waiting to her
Majesty. arrived at Osborne on Tuesday.
Mr. Scotland had an interview with Earl Grey
yesterday at the Colonial-office.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had
acomrnittee meeting yesterday at their office in Whitehall-

THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY yesterday re-
ceived a deputation of the clergy of Pal yof London who
waited upon his graoe, at Lambeth ,to congraiulate
him upon his elevation to the archieyttscopal see.
BANQUET TO VISCOUNT HARDINGE AT THE
CARLTON Guru —Last evening tho noblemen and gentle-
men members of the Carlton Club gave an entertainment
to Lieut.-Oen. Viscount Hardinge, G.C.8., on his return
from India. The banquet took place in the spacious new
coffee-room of the club-house, covers. being laid for above
200. Lord Sahoun presided, and was supported on the
right by Viscount Hardinge, the Duke of Richmond, the
Duke of Montrose, and the Marquis of Salisbury; and on
his left sat the Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Athol',
the Marquis of Abereorn, and the Earl De Grey. The
principal table presented a superb display of ornamental
plate, contributed by the Earl of Eglinton and other noble-
men belonging to the club, and the whole was illuminated
by massive gilt candelabra.