The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-17 00:00:00

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.

ARTICLES OF PEACE BETWEEN DENMARK
AND PRUSSIA.
We receive from Berlin the following preliminary
articles of this treaty :
The duchies are to have a separate constitution for
their legislative and internal administration, Schleswig
separate also from Holstein, but leaving intact the
union which connects the duchy of Schleswig with
the crown of Denmark.
The definite organisation of the duchy of Schleswig
is reserved for future arrangement. The English
mediation shall be continued for that purpose.
The duchy of Holstein shall remain in the German
confederation, and partake of the future constitution
of Germany. And a 1 maierial, but not political con-
nexion, shell endure between Schleswig and Holstein.
The King shall grant to the duchy or Holstein a con-
stitution.
After the conclusion of the definitive peace, the
King of Denmark is to take the initiative for nego-
tions relativeto the succession in the duchies of Schles-
wig and Holstein, in accordance with the great
powers.
The contracting parties will request the guarantee
of the great powers for the future state of the duchy
ity I of Schleswig.

BLACKBALLING A LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY.—
An extraordinary ground meeting of the Army and
Navy club is to be held on the 21st inst. The
object of this meeting, we bare reason to believe,
is to take into consideration the late ballot, at which,
owing to a combination among a certain class of al
an, nearly every candidate was blackballed, including one
of the Lords of the Admiralty. These arrangements, if we
may so use the e don, are not of uneoramon occurrence
in the profiwional club; and, if we are not mistaken, a
similAr meditated design, by the sante clam ot °Main, owing te
an imaginary affront whip had been cast upon them, was car-
ried out • few years since at the Junior United Service Club,
when the fact having bees taken into consideration at a
general meeting, the ballot was rendered void, and the can-
didates were elected by acclamation. We presume the same
expedient will be adopted in the present cam— United Set-
vit. Gazette.
Titan MEN WEIS DROWNED near the east end of
the Breakwater in Plymouth Sound oa Saturday. The
Oipeey, one of the vends under a contract with the novena-
mutt for taking out the stone, under*, direction of William
Wary, the master, whilst making her way oat, when near
the east end of the Breakwater, wu struck with a sudden
gust of wind, and before the men onboard succeeded to use
of the sheets, she heeled to and went down, and all on
board were drowned.
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ATTEMPT To MEADE:B.—Stoney Stratford has
during the past week been the seen* of much excitement.
Oa the night of Monday the premises of Mr. Nixon, a
winner in the town, were discovered to be in flames. The
assistance of the neighbours was immediately cbtained, and
by great exertions the fire was got out, but not until upwards
of 1001. damage was done. Before the fire was extinguished,
two other fires were found to be raging is the immediate
vicinity of the town, and for want of the necessary assistance
in time the premises were destroyed. The fact of three firm
occurring almost simultaneously naturally caused much
alarm and anxiity, bat no other conclueon could be come
to than that they were the set of a vile incendiary or of
a maniac. On the following day, as Mr. Nixon was stand-
ing at his shop at mid-day, he was fired at deliberately by a
miscreant armed with a fowling-piece, the contents of which
consisted of large sized shot, which entered Mr. Nixon'*
neck. Strange to say, that whilst the wounded man wee
being attended to, the attempted murderer entered the shop
sad strove to set fire to the contents, but was seised in she
act, and after considerable resistance was 'scared. On Wed-
nesday he was removed by Mr. Henderson, superintendent
of the Issal rlies, for examination before the bench of
looldidillisa at Newport Pagnell, where he gave the name of
Jams Amid. A (*Wiliest' that Mr. Nixon was in too
desseress a slats to attewl to give evidence being produced,
the plower was remanded until Friday, when he was taus
beAus NMI nischeratos I. this town, and 'sada remanded ea
assume 1111 das awns' MOM of Mr. Nixon. It has bees
esserlainsi that the plasm la related to that iadivldad hi
niesskephami he sine time past has exhibited mash anis°-
. deg semi WI without any -known motive.
A SOMOLASTIO SINSCIIRE.—The Blackburn GI/SM"
MN lima nut be rather a sang thing. 4. presentne
at wits the Bev. J. &melt," says the Preston Chronicle,
N boa me sshotan, except his own two sans I No assistant,
Its maims the same stipend as his prodeossace, who
radstipey three