The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-26 00:00:00

excite the same curiosity op meet with the same good treat-
ment shown to the carnage of Napoleon in the possession of
Madame Tussaud. An matinee of this neglect has come to
light at Konigsberg. At the battle of Belle Alliance—as
the Prussians call Waterloo--a carriage belonging to Napo-
leon was taken by a Major Keller. After having rcmaiaed
hidden and neglected for many years in an old artillery
shed, it has been sold to a cabman, and now takes its stand
regularly among the Droachken in waiting for a fare, with-
out attracting more than a passing glance.
The Keen,: Zeitung is dreadfully angry with the perform-
ance of the " Prophet" on Easter Monday, which is a
sacred day in Germany. The anti-Christian tendencies
which the ultra protestant Gerlachs and Stahls have dis-
covered in the opera, and the fact of Meyerbcer's being of
Jewish extraction, account for the ire of the reactionary
journal.

THE EJECTED CLERGY OF SCHLESWIG.

Since the days of James 11. and Charles 11. no
evangelical country has been the scene of proceedings like
those now pursued towards the Schleswig clergy, who have
shown their aversion to the incorporation- lan of a power-
ful Danish party, and their adherence to the known rights
of the duchy. Down to the sth of the present month, one
half of the two hundred ministers of Schleswig have
been driven from their homes and their flocks,
some banished from the country, and others who
have left the duchy to escape persecution have without
trial been excluded from all opportunity of return.
Among the number of these are many whose conscientious, i
I pious, and stedfast characters, joined with high mental'
culture, would have rendered them the ornaments of any
church to which they might have belonged. They have not
been punished for abusing their offices, but, as the lately-
published testimony of that good man, Elaus Harms, proves,
because they would not consent to pervert it, or for other
reasons which do them equal honour. It may be.permitted us
to state some of the principal of these reasons, in order that
the world may know how Denmark is dealing with the
church of Schleswig, and at the sante time how great is
the debt which Germany owes before God and man to
these persecuted pastors. These, as given from the Monthly
Magazine for the Evangelical Chun It of the Rhine Pro-
vince and Westphalia, are as follows :
I. When, in the year ISM the provisional government,
constituted partly of the Stattlialterseltatt guaranteed by
Germany, and to a certain extent acknowledged by Den-
mark, succeeded the former Danish government, the
vacancies in churches and schools which from time to time

arose were, ofcourse, not left anoccupied,since that would have
been tantamount to 'coy ing these congregations and schools t
be dispersed. When afterward, the Landes-verwaltung was
established in Flensburg for one portion of Schleswig, Tilly
laid down as a principle that all the officials appointed since
1818 should be removed. 'l•his principle was not acknow-
ledged by Eulenberg or Hodges, but notwithstanding the
intended result was arrived at in practice, and at least 12
pastors have been dispossessed of their offices on this ground
alone.

2. When the strut& of the duchies had come to turn
upon the popular quaution whether Schleswig belonged to I
the King of Denmark or. to the Duke of Schleswig, in order
not to introduce strife into the devotions of the church, it
was resolved, in pursuance of an understanding between
the civil authorities and the clergy, that neither the King
of Denmark nor the Duke of Schleswig, as such,
should be named in the prayers, but that the words
inserted instead of the prayer fornierly used, should be,
" Lord bless our prince and all who are in authority." But
the Landes-Verwaltung thought proper to make the church
the battle-ground of parties, and prescribed its own prayer
for the King. When many of the clergy continued yet to
pray for the monarch in the ambiguous form, they were
marked by the Danes, and 11 of them have been displaced
for their conduct. _ _

3. As the Chief Pastor, the General Superintendent, and
the Provost declined to co-operate in these proceedings,
or otherwise with many other pastors remained faithful to
the Statthalterschaft within whose dominions their terri-

tones in whole or in part lay, these also were marked out
for displacement ; so that the two Superintendents-general,
Eidson and Behhoff, in Schleswig and Appenrade ; the
Provost, Prahl, at Haderleben, Volquardts, at Flensburg,
and Harries, at Husum, and other pastors, have been de-
prived of office on this ground. When the Danes,
an spite of the general amnesty, had drugged the
Pastor Lorenzen, of Adebye, a prisoner to Copen-
hagen, and dispossessed hint of his living, the Provost,
Feddersen of Harding, and Boysen of Schleswig, fled, with
twenty-one other ministers, to Holstein : these have been
despoiled of their livings, without the trial to which they
were willing and ready to surrender, and their places have
been given to others. In this way, seven provosts and
and twenty-five pastors, have been

diiipossessed.
4. Since the removal of these provosts and superintend-
ents had been effected without any trial or show of law,
but in violation of the laws of the church, and the esta-
blished rules of procedure, so many of the clergy subject
to them felt bound to consider them as still their ecelesias
tient superiors, and to regard themselves as still bound to
obey them in all spiritual matters arising in the discharge
of the office ; and, on the other hand, to refuse allegiance to
the Danes who had been thrust into the vacancies thus vio-
lently created. On this ground twenty pastors have been
ejected from their benefices. A very large number have
been displaced for no specific reason. Of the men appointed
Ito fill their places, above fifty are born Danes, and have
never been submitted to the examination prescribed by the
church of Schleswig Holstein. Many of them cannot
speak German, and have conducted the service in the
Danish language. Among the deprived or exiled
preachers, who are now left without bread or
home, are some seventy heads of families ; more
than 130 children have been struck by this blow. These
pastors do nut complain ; they do nut even ask for help
front German men and women ; hut the tears which they
behold in the eyes of their wives and children, will cry out to
heaven against us unless they fall on and melt our hearts.
Indifference on our part will encourage the Danes to pro-
ceed yet further, and practise the same cruelties on the
clergy among our Holstein brethren, fur the two German
commissaries are nut known to have stipulated for any gua-
rantees against this mischief from Denmark. Besides
the 101 pastors spoken of, forty-right masters of schools
and gymnasia have been deprived of their offices on simi-
lar grounds. We now call not only upon the teachers of
Germany, but on all right minded men and women of every
class and creed, to conic forward and mitigate the sufferings
of these patriotic men. We call upon the men of business
to open subscriptions throughout Germany, and urge the
public to organise to promote this good work. And since these
dispossessed and homeless men will need a permanent means
of support, we especially recommend them to communities
having rights of patronage, so that they may again hate as
office and bread.

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C M. Aaxn-r, ..LEEN, TIIII. C. BILARDIS,
J. A. DURNEtt, Dl. ItAAFFT.
Bonn, April 16, 18,51.

CV Court.

WINDSOR, FRIDAY.
To-day was the birth-day of the Princess Alice.
A manual°, in honour of the auspicious event, was per-
formed shortly before 7 o'clock, by the band of the royal
regiment of Done Guards on the East-terrace of the
Castle.

The following were the pieces performed :
Pas heiluutdc, La Juive" NTT
Overture, " Feet" Lin ipsintner
Waits 6. D. Ilietern.
Selection, 4. Pert*
Quadrille, GrensJa" D'Albert
Her ltoyal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at an
early hour to pay a viva of congratulation to her Majesty
and his Royal Highness the Prince Albert. Vier Royal
Highness afterwards returned to Frogmore.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess d'Orlcans, accom-
panied by the Count de l'aris, and the Duke de Chartres,
and the Duke and Duchess de Nemours, accompanied by the
Princess Marguerite, the Duke d'Alencon, and the Count
d'Eu, arrived at half-past one o'clock at the Castle, and par-
took of luncheon with the Queen and Prince.

At three o'clock, a performance by Moss. and Madame
Robin took place in the throne-room, where a temporary
stage had been erected. Her Majesty and His Royal
Highness the Prince Albert, with their Royal Highnesses
the Princess Alice, the Prince of Wales, Pnnce Alfred, the ,
Princess Royal, and the Princesses Helena and Louisa,
accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of
Kent, the Duchess d'Orleans, and the Duke and Duchess de
Nemours, with the Count de Paris, the Duke de Chartres,
the Princess Marguerite, the Duke d'Alcneon, and the
Count d'Eu, entered the throne-room. The ladies and
gentlemen of the royal household in waiting were in attend-
ance. The following was the performance : " Les Canaries
Voyageurs," Le Baton Magique," "Le Timbre de
Criatal," " La FidOit,, d'un Ange," " La Seconde Cue de'!
' Madame Robin," " La Quille," '.L'Arlerjuin de Dergame,"
" Le Coffee Transparent," " La Dispantion do Madame
Robin." Her Majesty afterwards conveyed through the
lord-in-waiting her approbation to Monsieur Robin.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess d'Orleans and the
Duke and Duchess dc Nemours, accompanied by the Count
do l'aris, the Duke de Chartres, the Princess Marguerite,
the Duke d'Alencon, and the Count d'Eu, left the Castle
shortly befure live o'clock, returning to Claremont and
Esher.