The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-22 00:00:00

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.

By electric telegraph from Hull, we learn that the
Queen of Scotland steamer arrived there on Sunday
morning, hiving left Hamburg on Friday. The
11.;rsenhalle of the loth contains the following :
An adjutant of General Von Halket, en route with
despatches from head-quarters, asserts that pesos
with Denmark bad been concluded; this, however,
not having been confirmed by a kter train how
ltendeburg, still remains doubtful. Gen. Yoe
Halket had transferred hie head-quarters to App.-
made. The Hamburg senate had received an official
notice from the Swedish Consul-General, stating that
the measures his government had thought it expe-
dient to take for the safety of the united
kingdom of Norway and Sweden, were es•
tire ly of a defensive character, and even if troops
were sent to the Danish islands it would not &garb
the commerce or navigation of Germany. unless those
of Norway and Sweden were interfered with.
From Rendsburg, under date May 17, we learn
that General liedeman, having refused to include the
Scbleswigera in the exchange of prisoners, farther
negotiations had been broken off by Gen. Wrangel.

TURKEY.—CONSTANTINOPLE, MAY 3.-0 a the
27th ult., Hall was dismissed and Mehemet Ali Patha was
appointed his successor as capudan pasha. The satisfactioa
occasioned by this event was not of long duration, for at
o'clock on the following morning the astounding intellizetoo
spread through Pero. that Reachid Paces, the grand vine!,
had been turned out of office and utterly di-graced. Rams
had sent a commissioner into the Danubian priocipalitin to
report to the cabinet of St. Petersburg on the state of that
part of the Ottoman empire, without demanding permisum
of the Porte or even informing the Turkish government al
the matter until it was un fait accompli. Ilald Pack o a
creature of Russia, and it was to annoy that power that he
was dismissed from his place. Well-informed persons sal
at the time that it was a very rash thing on the part d
the Grand Vizier so boldly to throw down the gauntlet Is
Russia. Everything was most favourable fur such an at.
tempt, for a conspiracy had for some time existed spool
Reechid Pacha, at the head of which was Said Plebe, dm
Commandet-iu Chief, and Hamid Bey, the Lord Chamber
lain. The very day on which Hall was dismissed, Sad
Pacha had an audience of the Sultan, in which he employed
every possible argument to induce his Majesty to disaus
the Grand Vizier. He said it was impowibte to appease the
discontent which prevailed amongst good Mussulmans ; that
Reschid's only object was to please Europeans, and that!
he (Said) were deprived of the support of Hall in themenet, he could do nothing; that one of the great ca
discontent amongst the people was the increasing dearness
of provisions, and that the Grand Vizier, whose duty it was
to look to such matters, never gave them the least attentse.
On the departure of Said, Harold Bev and his
friends in the seraglio followed up the 'blow struck
at Reschid by the Grand Seraskier, and that with
such good effect, that the Sultan, breaking into
• sudden fury, ordered the instant disgrace of his vi-
zier, and that the circumstance should be made pub-
lic at day-dawn on the following morning. Said riche,
Hasid Bey, and the other conspirators, received, under
hand, all the support and encouragement that the Rusks
envoy had at his command, I was at Constantinople on CM
27th of April, and I remember that the satisfaction the
friends of progress in Turkey felt on learning the dismissal d
Hall, was mixed with fear at the thought of its draw*
down upon Reschid Pacha the anger of Russia. There awe
then no foreign representative at Constantinople who Mall
give his advice or support to the grand vizier. M. de Tint
stood alone, the only recognised representative of a proFarlY
constituted government, and he certainly is not to be
blamed if he made the most of his position. I*
mediately on iteschid Pacha's disgrace ta:ng known, Idr•
Alison, her Majesty's oriental secretary at Constantino*,
sent a courier overland to Vienna with despatches annotate-
ing the event to his government at home, and to Sir Swat-
, ford Canning, whom he supposed to be at Vienna. Unfit-
tunately; Sir Stratford had left for Munich before I[r.
Alison's courier arrived. It is pleasing, however, to dusk
that it is not a man of retrograde principles who has bees
appointed to succeed Reschid Pacha. Sarim f ache is mg
able statesman, well acquainted with European polities, 01
well as the various elements of which the people are con-
posed over whom he is Galled to legislate.

VOTING B GOVERNMENT EXPLOTEES.--AII Offieft
serving in the department of stamps end taxes, having beta
recently dismissed for voting at the last general electiomand
there being reason to believe that the case referred to is not
revenue one in which persons holding Mikes in the several
departments have violated the law by Toting or
otherwise interfering in elections of members of the Roam
of Commons, the Lords' Commissioners of the Treamg
have, by an order dated the 9Lh inst., directed that the o,
an of customs be distinctly informed that their lomshipt
are determined to carry the law into effect, as regards the
dismissal of revenue offices' interfering at elections.