The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-22 00:00:00

SWITZERLAND.

A loiter from Beret, written oti July 16, sari :
" The Federal Assembly is going to prorogue itself
till the month of October probably. Sumo yesterday
the is much occupied with the arrival of Mr.
Dailey Mann, a diplomatie spat of the Ualted
Staten ecevedited to the Swiss eoeflideretlon. Mr.
Dudley Mann presented his credentials yesterday to
the prodaset of the Federal Council. This is. the
Best time the United States have born represented by
it.eial missies is Switzerland. The conledsratioo
wretz4t by the occasion to extend her commercial
sad fix them by independent treaties, end
to secure advantages for the numerous emigration
which irises surly from Switzerland to seek turbine
is the United &mar

ITALY.
PIEDMONT.
The Anomie:a menaces tkat Mossignor Varesini,
archbishop of Samari, has been o'ndemned to one
month's imprisonment and fine, for his circular in op-
position to the law Shicardi.
DUCHY OF PARMA.
Our readers are aware that two or three days since
the Date had unexpectedly quitted the states. A
correspondent from Milan affirms that the govern-
ment of Vienna has for a long time formed a project
of replacing the Duke by a regency, oomposed of
three
to the peducalrsona, u
crown ntil the majority of the Prince the heir
ROMAN STATES.
_ _

A.aiseting 011ie Committee of Ci;rdinals, at which
the Pope presided, was held on the 4th, at which
Monsignor Onoli, Pro-Minister of Finance, was de-
sired to attend. The result has not transpired, but it
is believed that there will shortly be pubiished a
decree relative to in augmentation of the income tax.
M. Theodolfe Memel hos been appointed minister
without a portfolio. This appointment appears tem-
porary, and to be the initiative of the application of an
important principle. It is reported that it is not
Monsignor Mattecioei, but M. Mertel, who will suc-
ceed Monsignor Oniansauti, in the Ministry of Grace
and Justice.

his said that Monsignor Hildebrand Ruffini has
received some new nomination. Some say that be is
intended to be appointed Assessor-General a the
Polio., in lieu of the Count Dandini, who will be re-
moved another office. By others it is stated that
the direction of the polioe will be created into a mi-
nistry, to which M. Ituffini will be appointed.
The Illsorsigmento of Turin having stated that
there was in the Roman States 12,000 political pri-
emigre, "It is a mistake," officially responds the
Journal de Borne,—" there are but 10,823."

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.

A telegraphic despatch received at Berlin brings
the intelhgenoe that the Duchies have been declared
by Denmark in a state of blockade, and that foreign
consuls have been informed thereof.

Our correspondent writes u follows:
KIEL, irLY 17.
It is stated that a Danish commissioner arrrived at
Kiel on the 17th to arrange a truce of three days, but
was dismissed unheeded by the government. A royal
proclamation has appeared requiring all persons to
submit themselves to the King of Den-
mark, and promising thereupon a general amnesty,
the confirmation of present offiaal appointments with
certan exceptions, the recognition of the German
nationality of Schleswig, and its non-incorporation.
Should not hostility on the part of Holstein prevent,
it is promised an assembly would be immediately
called, to be composed of the most distinguished men
in Denmark and each of the duchies ; the Schles-
wigere to outnumber the Danes and Holsteiners ; the
two latter to be equal in number. The Duchy of
Laeenberg is to send members. The opinion of the
assembly shall be respected, so far as this is reconcile.
able with the welfare of the whole monarchy. The
proclamation is dated Frederiksborg, 14th July.

HAMBURG, .11:1:1r Is.
This morning's train brings the account that the
Dana lauded on the Island of Fehmarn from two
sides, and took away the ferry boat which plies be-
tween that island and the oppcsi'e Holstein coast.
A telegraphic dispatch from Cuxhaven, dated
half-past 11 o'clock this morning, states that cannon-
ading of heavy ordnance has been heard for about
two hours, apparently in a north-westerly direction,
the wind being north-tact. _

JULY 19.

The number of the Danes occupying Flensburg is
stated differently. The version which deserves moat
credit is, that they only mustered 2,000 men. The
scouts whom they sent out were driven back by a
German patrol. Their name for not appeasing
sooner and in larger numbers is probably their desire
that the effect of their proclamations should become
known before they maim any attack. Those pro-
clamations, however, are complete failures. The per-
fidy of those who edited them is so ill-concealed that
any one not purblind must see it. They require nu.
conditional surrender, and then everything shall be
forgiven and forgotten. But that is what the
Duchies do not want; they want justice. The Ger-
man nationality is promised,—the enjoyment of equal
protection in Schleswig as in Denmark; and
yet this very proclamation is written in the
Danish language, which is not understood by
' one-half of the population, and of that half the majo-
', city is persons not able to read the proclamation. The
bait thrown out to those persons who hold official
situations, sounds vary like irony. The ircorporatim
of Schleswig into Denmark is relinquished; but who
would trust to the promises of parties whose
treaties and oaths are repudiated. The bur-
thens of the people of the duchies would not
be lightened by an absolute government. Nut
only would they bo obliged to pay what debts
they incurred to carry on the war ; but the Danes,
who have for centuries been in the habit of putting
their hands into the pockets of the Sehleswig-Ha-
steiners, would now make over their debts to them.
If a real conciliation were intended, the people ought
to elect their representatives, and the verdict they
find should pass into law. In short, the whole is •
perfidious do, from beginning to end, and is more apt
to irritate than to reconcile the German people to the
Danish rule.

The Doke of Augustenburg is not at Alton*, as
was stated by some of the papers, but with the army.

COPENHAGEN, Amy 15.
To-day's number of the Flyrepost wailfuls the con-
jecture that the steamers Waldemar, Schleswig,
Skirner, and Nordatjoruan have been appropriated by
tho government to its own we. The Statthalterchaft
has prohibited direct intercourse with Denmark ; we
are, therefore, without papers from the Duchies. It
is stated that Tallish has been named by the King
administrator of the Duchy of Schleswig. The Burger
Guard of Copenhagen has offered to discharge mili-
tary duty in the city, in order to spare the troops.
The military power, however, does not seem disposed
to leave the city in the hands of the Copenhagen in-
surgents. The newspapers hire have been basting
in every third line of tho support of the Russian
fleet. Now they assert that the Englieli fleet has
been placed at the disposal of the government to sub-
due the Holstein rebel.. Count Pietism is to return
to Berlin as Danish ambassador.