The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-21 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCJE.

(azirrift's TILEGILAMS.)

IMPORTANT FROM AMERICA.

(Per Norwegian.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 10.

General M'Clellan has been relieved of the com-
mar.tl of the army of the Potomac. General Burn-
side has been appointed his succeaaor. General
YOClellan has virtually retired from active service.

A correspondence between General Halleck and I, .
the Secretary of War has been published, in I ,
which the former states that he issued 1
peremptory orders to General M'Clellan on the
6th of October to cross the Potomac and give
battle to the enemy, or drive him south. General
M'Clellan failed to obey this order, on the
ground that he was short of supplies. General
Halleck, however, states that General M'Clellan's
requisitions were promptly supplied, and there was
Inothing to prevent him from advancing.
General M'Clellan's removal has caused consider-
able excitement in the army, and among the people
generally. All the republican journals endorse
the President's action. The New York World,
however, thinks that Jefferson Davis could have no
better aid than General M'Clellan's removal.
The New York Herold thinks that the removal
will be received with doubts and apprehensions by
the Conservatives.
. I It is reported from Louisville that the Confede-

rates, under General Breckenridge, 28,000 strong,

have attacked Nashville on two sides. They were
repulsed on one side, but the result of the attack
ou the other is not known.

Changes in the Federal cabinet are talked of.
The Harper's Ferry Investigating Committee
have censured General M'Clellan for marching
only six miles a day in pursuit of the enemy.

General Lee has evaded the Federals, so as to
avoid fighting in the Shenandoah Valley, and is
supposed to be at Gordonsville.
Two divisions of General Rosencranz' army had
arrived at Nashville.

No confirmation has been received of the reported
surrender of 3,000 Confederates at Plymouth, Caro-
lina.

The draft in New York city has been postponed
indefinitely.
General Beauregard has ordered all slaves and
non-combatants to leave Charleston.
The Hammonia, Glasgow, and Bohemian have
arrived out.

COMM ERCI AL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, Nor. 10, Evexisc.
Money tighter ; gold, 32it premium. Exchange
—Bankers' bills, 147. Stocks steady ; New York
Central, 103.1 ; Illinois, 79i ; Nye, 64E. Cotton
very firm ; middling upland, 62c. Flour, good in-
quiry at an advance of 10c.; wheat 3c. higher.
Provisions quiet. Coffee advancing. Sugar and
molasses very firm.

MEXICO.

VERA CRUZ, Ocr. 19.

General Forey is at Orizaba, making prepa-
rations for occupying all the passes which command
Puebla.
General Ortega has been appointed commander
of the Mexican troops.

DENMARK.
The following, being the full text of the reply of
the Danish government to the note of Earl Russell,
of the 24th September, in reference to the affairs
of Schl.swig-Holstein (a telegraphic summary of
which has already been published), has been re-
ceived at Mr. Renter's office :
"Monsieur,—l believe it due to the interest which
Earl Russell has always manifested towards
Denmark to reply without delay to the despatch
(a copy of which is subjoined) which Mr. Paget
communicated to me yesterday, and which has
caused us the more surprise and regret as, up,
to the present time, Earl Russell had expressed
very different views from those towards which
he now seems to incline. Earl Russell commences
his lespatch by putting aside the position of
Holstein iu the monarchy as no longer forming the
object of discussion. We also think this question
exhausted, but in the sense that the definitive

solution only depends upon the regulation of
certain points wham necessity cannot be denied.
With regard to the demand of the German Diet,
our attitude is clear and plainly defined. We have
shown that the privilege which the Diet requires
for the Holstein Estates of voting the comnion
budget and the general laws, so far as regards
the duchy, is as contrary to public right as the

demand is insupportable from the point of view of
the competence of the Diet to prefer it. We
have nevertheless declared that we should be
ready to accede to this demand, whatever that
course might entail upon the integrity of the
monarchy, if this eventual position of Holstein
could be defined iu such a manner that the re-
mainder of the monarchy was not reduced to con-
tinual dependence upon Germany, and if by this
sacrifice our relations with the Confederation could
be re-established upon a durable basis. We have
entered into negotiations with Prussia and Austria

the provincial states of Schleswig it will follow the
same liberal principles which guide it in its admi-
nistration. It will especially follow them in the
drawing up of the new electoral law, which it is
universally admitted constitutes the most indispen-
sable element of every fresh arrangement of affairs
in the duchy. Lord Russell next touched upon
the question of the common constitution as far as
it concerns the kingdom and Schleswig. I have in
1 this respect nothing to add to that which you have
already said to the minister, and you will beg of
his lordship to see in the explanations which
you have already offered him the definitive expres-
Rion of the views of the government of the
1 King. I shall not enter into any details to
prove how little foundation exists for the objection
that the constitution ought to have been submitted
Ito the vote of the different special representative
bodies of the monarchy. I have already demon-
Istrated this point sufficiently. But whatever might
have been the opinion of the Frankfort Diet with
I regard to the right of the Holstein Estates,
I prefer to believe that, as far as concerns
the kingdom and Schleswig, Earl Russell, although
expressing an opinion, will not misunderstand the
imperative duty which forbids the King to sub-
mit himself to the judgments of Germany in the
appreciation of that which he owes to those of his
states which do not belong to the German Confedera-
tion. Little astbe common oonstitution is tainted. with
1 any formal defect, equally little would it be possible
to replace it by the organisation of which Earl
Russell has attempted to sketch the principal fea-
tures, without the monarchy being dissolved, and
without that very integrity which it was the
I object of the treaty of London to preserve
becoming greatly compromised. In his despatch
Earl Russell himself has set forth with perfect
accuracy the dangers which such an organisation
would convey to large and powerful monarchies.
With stronger reason be will readily acknowledge, I
believe, that in a state like Denmark this organisa-
tion would produce anarchy, and be followed
by the complete dismemberment of the monarchy.
The maintenance of the common constitution for
the kingdom and Schleswig is therefore a question
of life and death for Denmark ; and the more the
government is penetrated with this certainty, the
more it is determined not to depart from the line
of conduct marked out for it by this conviction.
" I request you, sir, to read this despatch to the
minister, and leave him a copy of this. lam
thoroughly convinced that Earl Russell, even in
giving the advice which has just been transmitted
to us, did not intend to place himself in
opposition to the sympathies which be has always
manifested towards Denmark. This sincere interest
and the reminiscence of the political antecedents
of his lordship give me the firm hope that
he will find in our frank explanations
sufficient motives for not further uphold-
ing the proposals which I feel persuaded
ho could only have put forward, because it is not
as evident to him as to us that their adoption
would be the prelude of the annihilation of the
constitutional life in Denmark, and would speedily
imperil even the existence of the monarchy.—l
have the honour, Sze. (Signed) "C. Hsu..
" M. von Bille."