The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-03 00:00:00

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES,

Our latest intelligence from Schleswig-Holstein
announces the progress of negotiations with a view to
induce the Danish government to recognise end beet
with the regency, who have transferred themes lees to
Kiel. Should this object be attained (of which we
are informed there are some hopes) the office of the
commission nominated by the three powers would be.
come mediatorial, and might be productive of be.
nefit. As a government, the commission has little
chance of being peaceably recognised. The armistice
is in full operation. In the German papers we find
further details relative to the riots at Flensburg,
noticed in our Saturday's publication.
DISTURBANCES AT SCHLESWIG.
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A letter from Flensburg of the 27th August stye:
"Yesterday evening a most fearful affray took place
on the occasion of singing the national airs by the
two parties by whom the city is di tided. It assumed
such a character that recourse was obliged to be had
to arms, and several soldiers were wounded. A
Prussian patrol cleared the streets at the point of the
bayonet, threatening to fire upon the people. Not-
withstanding these excesses, the Prussian troops
quitted the city today. The Danish pray
broke into several hops,' and pillaged them. They
also broke open the residence of Senator Huunirg<es;
the gendarmes, and some convalescent soldiers were
sent for, and advanced, bayonet in hand, towards the
mob, and, having in vain called upon them to die-
pens, they fired, a boy was killed, and some others
severely wounded.

The inhabitants have formed a body of security;
but the excents of the Danish continues, up to this
evening, to a very great extent.
The Danbh troops arrive 1 here towards evening;
they have occupied guard, but they have flat mar-
fered, and our police has not the necessary m anti of
preventing the further shedding of blood.

FRANCE.
PARIS, SATURDAY, 6.30 P x.
A local journal publishes the following as the
speech of M. de Limartine on opening the Council
General of the Saone et-Loire, of which he has bten
chosen chairman :

Gentlemen,—ln paying to our President by seniority the
tribute usual on these occasions, permit me to reply falsify
to the kind mention which he has made of my situation before
you. It is truly said that the ordinary, nay the legitimate
fluctuations of opinion, toes about end submerge fur a long
time the men who, like me, have found theme, Ives, not by
merit but by chance, grappling in the events which an
stronger than they. I say 53 without a blush, for these every'
are sometimes stronger than a whole ration- Their fuse,
their political consideration, their credit with the nations
confidence, necessarily and justly undsrgo the infloece2 of the
counter-blow and reaction. They would be out of their
senses to complain of that, particularly when they have the
rare fortune to find amongst countrymen the closest to they
I not only justice, but indulgence, affection, and a kind reaps
tion, such SS your suffrage' bear witness to most strongly at
this moment fcr me. No, I have not descended, wheal fled
myself again on the level of your esteem and of your "lee
don. The union, during which you have ordered me to
act se president appears to me to open under more favour-
able auspices than the t.receding one. The country his
passed three-fourths, nay, I am inclined to thick altogether,
through those dangerous interregnums, these terrible trim,
which are always to be found in the existence of Ration' be
tween an old order fallen to pieces, nada new one to be enes
blished, particularly when that new order is to be
organised in the proportions of an immense and regular
democracy. In that constitution of the universal repine-
tatiou of the people, the councils general have less to chines
in their nature than our other fundamental institution'. Te
councils general were already a republican institution Mani
the Republic, but they had a bane less wide, and a minim
less universal. Let us therefore conform to the mei•
nently p^pulu nature of our institution. The councils general
ought to be the Republic localised over the whole sedge
of the territory. Let us render it sensible, visible, and psi.
pable to the people in three manners—by an economical ad.
ministration of the fortune of the tax-plyin and ef there.
perty of the rich; by an energetic impulse given to peliis
works in the department for the working classes; and by a
generous prodigality, Chrissirn and political at the sass
time, of succour, instrucii-.n, end aid to the weakens,
ignorance, and misery of the suffering part of the
tion. I feel confident that the spirit of these ccuncil7Pull:
advance the spirit Or the body which has been pleased to
choose one for its interpreter; and it is under the auspice:ill
them unanimous ideas that the session of 1849 opens.