The Express.
London, England, 1850-09-04 00:00:00

BETWRRS LORD PAL-

lassroxf AAMAIOt RiWasIAN MIXISTER.

The following deugstehee have used between
Leed Palteenton and IL 'von Soblelnitz relative to the
affairs of the Duchies:

LODZ P

r TO lIIt. HOWARD, MAROS D'ASPLIZI

OP TIP 3111[218111.1011714 AT =ALIN.

Sir,—l have the honour to invite you to draw the serious
and urgent attention of the Prussian goveenicent to the fast
that inumdiately after the denature of a treaty of peace
emeloelett MS! Denmark by Preemie, act lag not only in her
own same, bat la that of the Getmanie coofederaey, the
lieutenancy that now governs Holstein gave orders to the Hot
stein army to invade Schleswig, end by so doing ►e committed
an act of oppression which is a violati ea of the pores which the
Germania confederation should hem observed under the
stipulation of UM treaty entered into by Prussia.
We should be wanting in respect to the Prussian govern.
meat were we to mime that the engagement accepted by
Prussia would be null and void, and have no practical result ;
or were we to suppose that Holstein, which forms part
of the Gersten confederation, and which, as such, should
ham bees bound by the engsgements of Pres‘ia.
wee free to recommence hostilities, which had been ensponded
during the armiltice. The respect due to good faith in
diplomatic engagements seemr, consequently, to demand that
the Peussian gourmand should, without delay, take all the

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miens in its power to engage the government of Holstein to
respect the engagement which Promia contracted in the name
of Holstein as well u in that of the other members*, the Ger-

The government of her Majesty hopes

rincemly and anxiously that Pnuaia will act in this sense,
and will efficaciously and definitively prevent Holstein from
making the signature of peace the signal for renewed hostility.
July 31. (Signed) PALMERSTON.
In. reply to this note the Prussian Minister of
Foreign Affairs, M. von Sehleirsitn, addressed the
following note to Count Perponche•, then charge
d'affairtic in London, in the absence of Chevalier
Bunsen :

The Brit4b charge traffaires, Mr. Howard, has communi-
cated to me a despatch from the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, of which I forward you a copy. You will see to this
despatch that the Secretary of State of her Britannic Ma-
jesty expresses a wish that the government of the king should
by all Mane ha is power lifg• the lieutenancy-general to

°ease hostilities, which are qualified as a breach of the
of the Zed of July.

The government of the Ring ahltnewiedges and does Justice
to the lively desires expressed by the Secretary of State of
her Britannis Majesty, of wing a osesetlen of the 'Hu-
sks of blood in the doable', end a return to peace ; it shares
sincerely in this desire, and thinks it bu often given proofs
of its sentiments ha this respect.

But the government MUSS first remind her Majesty's .6 as-
tray for Foreign Affairs, that It has no other means of influ-
ence than to give advice to the two parties in promo* ;
sinew it is net authorised S. exercise a different action on an
authority erablished by the confederation in Holstein;
especially it has not the right, before the ratification of peace
by the confederation, to render the lieutenancy-general
responsible for its violation; nor could it do so atter ratifica-
tion, except in the name and by the special delegation of the
confederation. The government of the King sincerely
regrets that each a ratification has not hitherto
ukat places. Bet it say suppose that, the faet Is

net unknown to the Searetary for Foreign Affairs,
that the difficulties encountered in the way of the ratifi-
cation have not proceeded from Prank, but that on
the contrary they have their origin elsewhere, and are the
fault of a sate of things haying ao reference to the question ;
that Prank, in feat, her done all that lay in its power, and
with a certain self-denial, to restore them.
The government of the Hag is, thalami, not authorised
to intervene de facto in Holstein, even in • case where the
realisation of laterantlon should require the assembling of
en army corps proportioned to the forms of the derbies,
whose will is rapparted by an army of upwards of 30,000
men--rusk, esrtaialy, cannot have been the wish of the
British Secretary for Foreign Affairs to ask of Prussia.
But, in any ease, Prussia meet destine, most distinctly,
any obligation on its part to intervene in the duchies which
might be deduced from the treaty. The mere reading of that
treaty showsthatPresekhasnerer takenanyenehangegentent.
It is for this reason that we have been net a little surprised
at seeing Lord Palmerston quote this treaty in his deepatch.
Nene knows better than the mediating power that • simple
perm was ooncluded between the parties with the express
intention of allowing events to take thar course' and of
abandoning to W contending parties the settlement of the
differentia between the deaden ad their sovereign—the
eventuality of a erasion by arms being expressly taken into
aosonat. Prom* therefore, would fail in her engagements
were she to Intervene la one seas or the other.
This view of things, India is Justified by the treaty, is,
moreevet that of the other eentrectfeg party, Denmark
leaving taken no soap isdieating in the slightest manner that
it supposed Prank bound to oppose de to a resumption
of hostilities. The merman of the King must abandon
ulterior =HMOs to be tekee.to the esiefederation, which,
from the nature of things es well es aesording to the treaty
of pease, meet lateness wheelies/ he rights or duties are
invaded by events. The
in goweament of the Ling COD pre-
jer Ills ades in this remiss, led mess MOM the dead=
t tioidsa .
Ton will speedy expose le bee Deitssabr Mojeorre &sere
way
totem is geoids. elf the Hag's goverament by read-
ing
=the Meg net sal, slaws a dea th n at the
should be pesestally snagged, but that it eadea-
yours also, by all the mules to its power, to realise this wish,
by acting with both parties Is a way of mesiliation.
August 13. (Binned) VON ticansoorn.
We base news from Berlin, of the let inst. M.
von Scbleinitz had left for Ostend. Before leaving,
M. son Schleinitz made answer to the epoisioeerb com-
munication made by Mr. Howard, r ye to the
protocol of Loudon. Prude, in this lot despatch,
declares that it cannot associate itself in any such
protocol, and declares its determination to reserve
the rights and interest' of Germany which might be
hurt by the document in question.
In addition to the correspondence above given, it
appears that the Prussian government ha received
another note from Lord Palmerston, which that
statesman persists in saying that Prussia is' obliged
reestablish pesos in the duchies, and he complains
thee the preliminaries of the peace of the 10th of
July, 1849 (for the independence of Schleswig), have
been abandoned.
Prussia hag, it seems, answered this communication
by exposing anew the arguments contained in the

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Ithenilesiiiiigireen position between Eckerehirde and
the town of Schleswig, serial his soldiers have 00/14.
VIM nearly a month. The baths of Idstedt - wan
It drat represented by the Danish newspapers and
their hiendsee a fail and complete victory to the
Danish arms, a victory from :he Albedo of which it
would be itnpmettile for the insurgent duchies
to recover. The Danish general was over-
whelmed with praise, the bravery of his troops
was /Token of to the most rapturous terms, and
eVery-poisible argument was employed to convince
*shiest Krogh of the necessity of advancing farther
borthirerd, and completely destroying the rabble of
nil artily, as the papers termed General Willisen's
well disciplined and organised troops. Notwiths'and-
log the brilliant newspaper articles, and notwith-
standing hie great victory, General Krogh preferred
the /drafty of the poeitiou he bed gained ; and fortify.
lug hinitielf within it as much se possible proceeded
to oppress Schleswig by means of forced contributions
in such masses that the inhabitants were utterly
unable to comply with them. During the four
wetka of Ms occupation of Schleswig, General
' Krog)i, assisted by Tillistb, the indefatigable civil
' imeenietersie for the dimity, has levied provisions
tied hollicient to meet the demands of his army
winter. Against such measures no
obit AV eal be made, since Schleswig most be to-
g ed as a conquered erritory, but there are retinae
ways; of levying contributions, and of these General
' Krogh chose the most cruel. Not content with pro-
. viding for his army, however, General Krogh levied
• each enormous quantities of provisions of all kinds
that the storihonses in the island of Alsen were un-
able to receive them. Under there eircutnataaces
' General Krogh hit upon an expedient of twofold ad-
Wintsge. Toe superfluous provisions were sold to the
lihmean - squadron, whereby the friends of
Thishairk were provided with fr,sh food at
a' Is price, aid the erpty coffers of the
amity/ fressary in some degree replenished. The
populace of Copenhagen did not disapprove of
the proceedings of General Krogh, and expressed
their satisfaction in various ways at the 'severity
with which the insurgent duchy was treated.
Gradually, however, when they round week after
week paused away without any forward movement
being made by the army, thdr patience began to
dwindle, and General Krogh was called upon in not
'ray measured language to take greater advantage of
tire brilliant victory at Idstedt and to proceed at once
to the an/tuft of Rendsburg. In my last letter I
Sketched as well as I was able the position
of General Krogh on the east, and ex-
pressed the belief that it would be impossi-
ble for General Willisen to undertake any successful
movement against it with so swill an army. It was
the opinion of many officers of experience and know-
ledge, and you may imagine the astonishment of
everyone when this morning information was brought
in that General Krogh had abandor ed the left por-
tion of his position between Fekernfoide and
Misstmde, and had even crossed the Saki with the
greater Dart of his left wing. 'This retrograde move•
meet of the Danish left wing throws open the whole
of the Danish Wohld,t bat broad promontory, bounded
on the north by the Schlei, and on the south
by the Bay of Eckerniiirde, sod which con-
tains some of the richest and most productive
estates in Schleswig. What interpretation will be
put upon this movement in Copenhageu is matter of
speculation, just as much as the cause which has led
to it, is doubtful here. By some it is said to be a con-
viction in the mind of General Krogh that his posi-
tion was too extensive, wlile by others it is brought
into connetion with the death of General Men. It
was once before reported that this general had been
shot at Durenstedt, and the ri port was fully credited;
until, from an application made to the government
by the French consul at Kiel, it appeared that the
officer who was shot upon that occasion was Col. La-
tour du Pin, a Frenchman in the Danish service. Since
then, however, nothing whatever has tmuspirel re-
specting Gen. Mize ; from lettersreeeived from credi-
ble authorities in the town of Schleswig, the general has
never been seen since the affair at Dureustidt, that an
officer of high rank lay severely wounded in the
Prince's palace, and that he was euppo ed to be dead.
It is a fact ;too that General Krogh entertained the
superior officers of his army with a grand dinner a
few days ago, and that General M.za woe not pre-
sent. Oce of the prisoneis taken at Suderstapel
three days ago declared that two staff officers had
been wounded at Durenatedt, but professed igno-
ranee of their names. If General Meza is really dead
tie Danish army has lost its ablest officer, and as they
have but few staff officers his death is perhaps soffi-
t cient ground for the retrograde movement of the
' Danish Lit wing.

GERMANY.