The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-29 00:00:00

WEST INDIA AND MEXICAN

MAIL.

The Teviot. with the West India and Mexican
mails, has arrived at Southampton.
The Teviot Demerara 19 Dec.; Berbice,
191U0( Trini , 22nd; To o, 21st ; Barbadoes,
3ret v'tntigua, Jan. 3rd ; Ma 'nque, 2nd ;. Grenada,
; Curacoa, 23rd ; orto Rico, jolli Jan. ;
Tortola, 4th ; St. Thomas' , 4th ;•Bermuda, 10th ;
New Orleans, 20th Dec.
She brings 135,000 dollars, 120 serous of cochineal,
gam,ne of jalap, two bales of tobacco, 42 cases of
c 27 bales oft plantain 13bres. Purchasers for
cotton at New Orleans have been, for France, the con-
tinent of Europe, and the North. English buyers
operate very sparingly. The sacs were unusually
active. The Indus and Madrid have arrived.
Paredes was lying ill at Talancigo, and Santa
Anna in retirement at Tehuacaa. The Mexican army
was nearly extinguished. Negotiations with Trial
nearly been renewed, with prospects of peace.

LYDIA MAIL.
The Indus, with the second portion of the last
Overland India Mail has arrived at Southampton.
She experienced dreadful weather in the Mediter-
ranean ; both topmasts splintered by lightning.

THE LATE RING OF DENMARK.
Christian VIII., of Denmark, whose demise we
stated on Thursday, was born in 1786, and succeeded to his
uncle, Frederic VI., in December, 1839. Frederic was a
popular monarch, who had, by successive acts in 1831 and
1834, established estates, or representative assemblies, in the
several provinces of the Danish kingdom : and in these the
liberal party went on each year demanding and obtaining
fresh eonceasions.
Christian ascended the throne with a high character. He
had stood up for the independence of Norway against
Sweden, had granted that count'', a constitution, had flung
himself among its people, and been elected by them a
monarch. Though he submitted to the desires of the Con-
grew of Vienna, he still had given proofs of spirit and
hardihood.
To this Christian joined marked taste for literature and
the fine art. He had lived for a long time at Rome, and in
habit of intimacy with Thorwaldsen. Andersen bean
witness that literature and its professors equally attracted his
veneration ;—and the natural bent at his mind was
towards moderation. There is some resemblance be-
tween his life and that of the present King of Bavaria.
Both lived as princes at Rome, both attached to the fine
arts, to literature, and to liberal ideas. Yet both were
alarmed on ascending the throne at the clamorous demands
of the liberals, and both ended by disappointing them. The
King of Denmark did not, however, go the lengths of the
monarch of Bavaria. And indeed any libzrel progress in
Denmark was soon cut short by the divisions and] ealousies
between the German and Danish parties in the duchies, but
especially in Schleswig. On one occasion the great diSpute
was what language should prevail. Frederic the VI. had
favoured the Danish, and now the Germans sought to forbid
the Danish altogether. The good king, on the question
being referred to him, decided that each mamba ahooli
speak in the tongue which he knew best—a osaiime Ira
was considered very pusillanimous and gave rased illsw
faction.
A more serious subject of discussion arme in 1842, gni
gave rise to much heat in 1844, viz., the rigbt of succeseksa.
As the throne of Denmark pulsed to female helm&
and as Holstein was a male fief, the question
was, how should the succession be regulated, both with re-
spect to Schleswig and to Holstein? At length the King
came forward in 1848, and by letters patent made the sin-
gularly modest declaration that Schleswig must remain in-
dubitably attached to the Danish monarchy, but that, as to
Rob:Ain, the right of succession was donbtfaL