The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-04 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

NORTH SCHLESWIG.—PRUSSIAN Ill*LE.
The Dog!,hart, of Feb. 28, considers it very sin
guitar that the King of Prussia passed over in utter
silence the vote given in North Schleswig.
" The speech from the throne," it says,
" contains many things ; it is in ruddy
an °ratio pro corona; a programme f.w
the eventual Emperor of Germany ; but of Article
V., in the Treaty of Prague, it does not say a
word. Amongst other things we read that ' the
German movement of the last ten years has been
inspired by no tendency hostile to our neighbours ;
by no lust of conquest.' Amongst those who had to
listen to these words in respectful silence were not
only the Poles from Posen—these almost secular
victims of Prussian conquest and Gerntan propa-
gandism—Hanoverians, Saxons, Frankfurters, and
Hessians, whom the right of conquest alone has
forced to bend under that hand of Prussian iron
which is concealed under the glove of German
nationality—but there were also listeners in the
representatives of the Danes of Schleswig who had
three years ago so fine an opportunity of expe-
riencing the tendencies of Prussia towards her
Danish neighbours, and who still feel every day
the effect of her thirst of conquest."
The bagbladet calls onyrussia to fulfil Article V,
of the Treaty of Prague, by taking the vote of the
population as to whether they will attach
themselves to Denmark or to Prussia, and
complains bitterly that an oath of allegiance to
Prussia is demanded from the public functionaries
in Schleswig, and the use of the Danish
language prohibited. At a dinner proposed
to be given at Sonderburg to MM. Kryger
and Ahlmanm the two Danish representatives,
&Prussian gendarme armed cap-a-pie entered ':lien
the guests were seated at table, in order to prevent
any speeches or songs. When the dinner was over
the polioe-officer ordered the landlord to put out
the lights, and on his refusal to comply the chief of
police, Toosbuy, was called in, and on his repeat-
ing the order the lights were extinguished.

CONSTITUTIONAL PROGRESS IN AUSTRIA.
The following passage occurs in the imperial
patent of the Emperor of Austria of the 26th of
February, for the dissolution of the Bohemian
Diet :

Having seriously at heart the development of the pros.
perity of all parts of our empire, and being firmly resolved
to aid their efforts, which tend to the development
of intenml liberty, we believe that our first
and most important duty as sovereign for the
present consists in quickly bringing to a conclusion, and
that in a salutary way, the settlement of the constitutional
question for the whole monarchy. The Diet has itself en.
pressed the conviction that this task is necessary sad
urgent. But as the majority of the Diet has taken a step
which, if we approved of it, would prevent the attainment
cf this end, we think it our duty to appeal again to our
people of Bohemia.

THE RIGHTS OF PROPERTY IN RUSSIAN-
POLAND.

The Courier if Wane of Feb. 21 contains the
following circular, addressed to the provincial go-
vernors by the Governor-General of the Western
Provinces :

It has tome to my knowledge that • report has beet
spread amongst the Polish landed proprietors of the pro.
vinces placed under my authority that changes are to be
made in the imperial ukaaes of the 4th and 12th January,
Iraifi, under which the sequestrated lands and the
!awls of persons deported must be sold to persons
of Russian origin, within a period of two years,
dating from the 22nd of December, 14t i. le
order to remove this unfounded n port. I recommend you,
the provincial governor, to have published in the official
journal of your province a notification that the above.
named imperial ukases will be executed without mitigation
er modification, and that all the hinds which are intended
for compulsory sale if not sold before the 22nd of December
in the present year will be put up to auction without
delay.
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Adjutant-General ('aunt &MA:WM
Willis, Fob. 19, 1867.

(REITER'S TELEGRAMS.)
THE DUKE OF EDIN WHO H.
Lisix oN, MARCH 2.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh
landed to-day from the frigate Galatea, and dined
with the royal family at the palace. lie afterwards
accompanied the king to the Opera•house of San
Carlos.

ITALY AND PERU.
FLORENCE, 31.uicH 4.

The Peruvian government has given notice of
the cessation of the treaty of co rcu between
Italy and Peru in September of the present year.
The Peruvian government have taken this step
on account of the principle recently adopted by
the South American Republics of not forming ulte-
rior engagements with European Powers without a
preliminary commercial and financial understand-
ing between themselves. The Peruvian minis-
ter assured the Italian representative that
the cessation of the treaty in no way
affected the cordial understanding existing be-
tween the two States. The Italian minister has
been instructed to exp►ess the same assurances on
behalf of his government to Peru.