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

Schleswig should have an independent legislature aid
adminis.ration. Prussia has obtained this, and Den-
mark has yielded it.
Again, the Times lands Lord WFSTMORELAND for
haring disposed the King of PRUSSIA to make three
concessions which his Majesty did not make. The
nmes goes three milts round to pay a com-
pliment to Lord WESTMORELAND for doing what be
did not do. The concessions which produced the'
signature of the trenty were made by Denmark, and
were produced at the instance of Lord PALMERSTON
and of Russia, at Copenhagen. Lord Warr/gong-
LAND had no more to do with them than the man in
the moon. The limes praises Lord WESTMORELAND
for persuading (what he could not have persuaded)
the King of PRUSSIA to do—what the King of
PRUSSIA never thought of doing.
Denmark made the concession of the inderendenee
of Schleswig, but regretted it. And in order to de-
feat underhand the concession thus wrung from it,
the Danish court sent orders to its negotiators at
Berlin to sign on the 7th, and sent orders at the same
time to its generals to make an attack on the 6th—
first, for the purpose of taking revenge, and secondly
with the hope of irritating the Scbleswigers into a
rejection of the conditions of peace and into a con-
tinuance of the war. We are yet to learn whether
the Danes have succeeded.
We have heard a great many serious and too many
well-founded accusations made against the King of
PRUSSIA ; but we never heard anything so disgraceful
laid to his charge as that for which he incurs the
praises of the Tines. That journal states that the king'
made a false move when he first supported the
Schleswigers, and that he indulged in the perverron of
history and law for ambitious motives. But be is now
represented as anxious to retrieve his error, sad,
after having inveigled the Schleevrigers ioto
resistance for his own Prussian purposes, as hav-
ing abandoned them to be first slaughtered
and then crushed, when he has no loeger a
selfish purpose in view. If the Bing of Parent acted
as the limes states him to do, his Majesty would
deserve to be spat upon by every honest, liberal, sad
humane man. We do not believe the King of PRUSSIA
capable of such felony. He may bare been carried
away further than was prudent or right in abetting
the Schleswigers, or interfering at all. But.
having done so, he has adhered to them to a certain
extent, and has obtained for them their indepen-
dence, which Denmark never before was willing to
grant. The King of PRUSSIA has done this, not Irons
fear of German irritation, for Germany is crushed—
thanks to the folly of the republicans. But the king
still feels the necessity of keeping to a certain degree
-k terms with public opinion, and of not eacrificir

to absolutism, at least to foreign absolutism, more
than is required by the necessities of the time.
The Times says the battle of Fredericia hastened
the conclusion of peace. We are confident it did no
such thing, but that on the contrary it may
prove in more ways than one a great obstacle
to that peace being carried out. The success
will intoxicate the Danes, will exasperate their
opponents, and create a mutual state of feeling that
will render even the observance of an armistice almost
impossible. We are confident that the Danes fought
the battle, chiefly with this view, in which we sin-
cerely trust they will be disappointed.
In another column will be found the conditions of
p.ace, which are certainly not all that the &hies-
wigers had hoped. They are no doubt separated I
from Denmark ; but what degree of freedom, or what
kind of a constitution they are to have, depends upon
the King of Durum. This, with the nonsense el
a material union, yet political disunion with Hoists*
will create the greatest discontent in the duchies.
Besides the treaty and its terms, there is, however,
also the armistice, the clauses of which are, some of
them, most preposterous. What, for example, is to
be thought of Schleswig being temporarily governed
by an English (!), a Prussian, and a Danish commis-
non, and to its being garrisoned by Prussian, Danish.
and Swedish (!) troops—the Sweden in the north, the
Prussians in the south, and the Danes in Alum. We
trust that no English commissioner will be sent upon
a teak for which an Englishman must be most unfit.
Another circumstance worthy of remark in these
conventions is, that the King of PRUSSIA has con-
cluded them on his own behalf. He stands
forth no longer as Emperor de jure or de facto, in
embryo or in prospeetu. He merely promises to ask
the other German states to ratify this treaty, which
for contrariety sake, the smaller German states will de-
cidedly not do. Mecklenburg, Hanover, Prussia, and
Hamburg, will, however. And so we shall see an end
of the blockade. But as to the quarrel, with the ques-
tion of the succession still to be mooted, and of the
constitution still to be oetroyed, there is no chance,
we fear, of terminating that.