The Express.
London, England, 1861-07-11 00:00:00

DENMARK.

The Gazette du Weser states that it learns from a
reliable source that orders have been received for
the reduction of the troops at present iu the
Duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg to their ordi-
nary strength. This measure will put the Danish
army, with the exception of the artillery, on a
pesos footing.

AMERICA.

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LIVERPOOL, WEDNPADAT.

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The screw-steamer Jura, which touched at Lon-
donderry yesterday, arrived here this morning.
By her we receive New York journals of the 27th,
and Quebec of the 29th ultimo, with telegraphic
advice. from New York (already published) to the
evening of the 29th.
The elections in Canada were progr g without
disturbance. The returns generally were favour-
able to the government candidates. Elections
were also progressing in New Brunswick, and, so
fix as known, had resulted in a decided victory for
the late government.
His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, after visiting
Niagara, had returned to Canada Rut. He was
at Lachine on the 27th, and Montreal on the 28th
ultimo, and was expected reach Quebec on the
evening of the Jura 's departure.
There was a report that Lord Lyons and the
other foreign ambassadors at Washington intended
to remove their head-quarters to Baltimore, until
the national trcubles shall have been settled.

The case of the British ship Hiawatha, seized by
the United States naval authorities for an alleged
infringement of the blockade at City Point, Vir-
ginia, was still pending in the United States Dis-
trict Court, New York, and was regarded with con-
siderable interest, as involving the whole question
of the blockade.

The New York Tribune, which gave currency to
the statement that peace propositions had reached
Washington, publishes the following telegram upon
the subject from its special correspondent at
Washington

Washingtou, Jane 28.

The Secretary of State authorises a denial of our state-
ment that peace propositions have been submitted. We
' expected that of course. Diplomacy has the same pre-
rogative as grand lamenv. and can plead " not guilty" te
the indictment. Let the administration recal James E
Harvey from Lisbon, and break up the camps on the other
side of the river for an advance to Richmond, and the
country will believe him and discredit us. Otherwise they
will take his disclaimer for just what it is worth, and no
more.
Another Washington telegram says :

All the reports and specigatiels &boa • disposition in
Washington on the part of the President or Cabinet, Ge-
neral Scott, or anybody eke, to favour compromise or delay,
have no foundation in truth.
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That the President's Message at the opening of the extra
session of Congress will recommend any compromise, having
for its object the reconciliation of those now in arms against
the Federal government, no one at all acquainted with the
views of the administration believes. On the contrary, it will
be doubtless found that the course already initiated will be
firmly maintained in consequence of the inaugural address ;
and on this as on all other subjects the administration is
one, undivided, and indivisible. Lord Lyons, accompa-
nied by the Secretary of State, officially visited the Presi-
dent to-day, in order to deliver to him the Royal letter an-
nouncing the death of the Queen's mother, the Duchess of
Kent.

General Dix had ►o interview with the Secretary of War
and General Soott this morning, end will at once assume
the command of the Federal forces across thr Potomac. The
government is understood to have changed its plans within
the last fortyaight boars. The campaign in Virginia will
hereafter be carried on with more vigour, and advanced
movements will soon be made.

The cause of ;hii)gei7ielieved to be an unmistake-
able demand of our troops and the country at large for
decisive action against the rebels. Secretary Chase, to his
financial report to the President and Congresa will in all
probability, and I may say positively, recommend a mode.
cats revision of the Morrell Tariff Bill.

The Washington correspondent of the New York
Times gives an emphatic denial to the reports that
General Scott had changed his plans, and that he
purposed an immediate commencement of active
operations. He declares that unless something
should transpire to hasten events, we are further
than ever removed from a battle. The only con-
flicts likely to occur for some time are mere skir-
mishes between scouting parties. The writer then
proceeds as follows :

The first step in General Scott's programme is the eon.
oentration of Federal troops in Virginia and the other
border states in such large bodies as to make it
madness for the rebels to make any attack. While thus
intimidating them the presence of our forces will encourage
the loyal citizens to rue in sufficient numbers to prevent
any furtheroutrages, to cut off their resources, increase the
dissatisfaction in their camps, and cause desertion, and by
thus hamming them, ultimately demoralise the rebel
forces, and drive them from the border states. He is con.
fident that this accomplished, the loyalty of the border
states is fixed. Then it is his purpose to transpoi t by sea
an immense force to operate against the Gulf states.
Thee will be landed under the protection of our men-of-war
at the prominent points on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts,
and thus threatened by approaches from the sea, the authori-
ties of the different states will at ones recall their troops
from the main body, and thus break up their grand army,
and make it powerless for offensive movements.
The fragments in the different states being then cut off
from supplies from the border states, will be driven to
accept terms from Washington.
It is no part of the plan, as at present arranged, to attack
the debris of the rebel army, or to attempt to retake any of
the stolen forts, as the restoration of them will be made one
of the conditions dictated to the rebels when they find them.
selves forced to accept terms. General Scott IA confident
that the troops will not remain at any point more than two
or three days, which will suffice to accomplish the pure
of defeating any further offensive movements of the rebels.
This will avoid the danger of an exposure to the malaria of
the southern coasts dunng the hot months. By January
he thinks that the rebellion will be entirely defeated, and
the Union reconstructed.

The Memphis Avalanche of the 26th Rays :

The editor has been shown a despatch from the Southern
commissioners now in Europe, brought through Canada, to
the effect that the sum of two millions has been offered as
an advance on the cotton crop and that France and Eng.
land will soon acknowledge the Southern Confederacy.
The Avalanche firmly believes the despatch to be
true.