The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-10 00:00:00

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OUTGOING MAILS
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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10.

WE announced on Setarday that peace was signed
between Prussia and Denmark. Never was word
=may misapplied. For that peace will have
nothing, we fear, but the signal for the break-
WIZ of civil war. The Danish King has 12,000
men 'enacted on the frontier of Jutland, with 18,000
men concentrated in the isle of Alien. To-morrow is
the day by which the Prussian troops will have with-
drawn. And to-morrow, we have no doubt, will wit-
ness the irruption of the Danes—the rising of the
men of the duchies to resist them. And great must
be the slaughter, for fierce will be the conflict of the
battle-field.
Ws cannot but think that European diplomacy,
when it did interfere, might have interfered to some
lame humane end than this. We are aware, indeed,
that*. British minister, in joining his voice to that
of Time and Russia, and in signing the protocol
whit we spoke of in a leading article of Saturday,
was actuated chiefly byy.e desire to induce both the
Dense and the Schleswigers to abstain from strife,
and conform their conduct to the wishes of such
powerful allies. But the effort is ineffectual and late.
Had the King of DENMARK granted the esmo posi-
tion to the duchies, to which their ancient laws and
constitution entitled them, this civil war would have
been avoided.
The result of the first operations of that war, we
firmly believe, will be the defeat of the Daces. Bar
the Schleswigers are exasperated by the refusal of any,
even the most moderate terms. The King of DEN-
MARK merely offers an amnesty to those who will
desert their cause and colours. And then he is to
appoint a mixed commission of Danes and Schiele
wigers, men of his own royal choice, to determine
what institutions the duchies shall have. Englishmen
never submitted to have their rights and constitu-
tion me trodden under foot, and their brethren
the Angles of Schleswig will perish on the battle-
field rather than submit to it. And yet their re-
sistance is vain. For if they repel the Danes, as they
probably will do, the Russians are there in numbers
to reduce Schleswig, as they have done Hungary, and
thus parade their victorious arms on the shores of the
Northern Ocean, as well as on those of the Black Sea
and the Danube. Is this to be the result of English and
French diplomacy, Russian bayonets on the Elder,
forbidding constitutional right, and Russianiaing Den-
mark, under the pretence of un-Germanising it ?
Even if peace could be restored, and the question
settled by such violent means, though it was at the
expense of the happiness and liberties of a noble po-
pulation, it would still be something. But there is
no prospect of the kind. Russian and Danish troops
may subject Schleswif. Bat Holstein is a land of
the German confederation, which Germany cannot per-
mit them to overrun. An especial article of the treaty
of peace forbids it to be so overrun. It stipulates
that the German confederation must be called on to
restore peace in Holstein, and not to hand it over, like
Schleswig, to the despotic power of the King of DEN-
MARK, but to see that its old and free institutions be
given it by the duke. Bat with the Holeteiners
enjoying independence, will the Schleswigers ever
rest under Danish tyranny ? Will not the question
be for ever open, and men's minds so galled, that
their whole thoughts will be, when the next war or re-
volution may arise in Europe, in order that they may
take advantage of it ?
We do most emphatically cry out and repeat, that
the subjugation of these duchies by military force, and
above all, by a Russian military force, will not settle
anything, will not render Denmark either stronger
or more compact, and will attain not one of the desired
ends. With the Russians at Copenhagen or in
Schleswig, there can be no constitutional government
there, no more than in Hungary. And the question
has rally become one of despotic government or repre-
sentative institutions. Is England to enforce the one,
sr to recommend the other ?
We are not of those who wished England to inter
*re in the Danish question. Whilst the Tunes and
the Aberdeenites cried out that a fleet should be
sent, and the King of Dxsmeax be aided by it to
reduce his rebellious subjects, we begged to recommend
Iso interference at all for or against the King of
DENMARK or his subjects. But let us protest
I against a monarch overthrowing the old institutions
and liberties of his country, and persisting to
do so, merely because he has got Russian counsel and
Russian agents at his back. Our moral support on
such a question and such a country as that, is of para-
mount force and importance ; and would go a great
way both to dissuade the King of DENMARK of his
despotic obstinacy, and the Prussian government of
say wish to enlarge its league at the expense of
Denmark.
The question is fraught with danger. And that
danger can only be removed by preventing any re-
currence to violence or war. North Germany at
present has a fair chance of maintaining its inde-
pendence and developing a system of constitutional
government. Prussia, however it may have aban-
doned Schleswig, still maintains a hold front *giant
both Austria and Russia, insists on persevering in its
Union and its Erfurt parliament, and also
beide that Holstein shall be respected as part of
the Olefederation. In either state °b=
the presence of a Russian army in De
met lead to the most serious conseseemses.
If Bassin be successful, if she carry her point, and
sassed in intimidating and despotiming North
Germany, then England, her liberal tendencies, prin-
ciples, and institutions, will have not a friend in
Europe. There will not be adry spot for the dove to
rest amid the general deluge of despotism. On the
other hand, if Russia is resisted, she can only be re-
sisted by calling forth the popular sentiment and the
popular power. And of this we may guess the con-
sequences. We, therefore, implore the British govern-
ment to interfere, ere it is too late; give advice to
the King of DENMARK to trust more to conciliation
than subjugation, and to a due respect for the an-
cient rights of his subjects, rather than to a display
or use of military power in Holstein for tyrannical
and arbitrary purposes.

To judge from recent instances in this
journal, railway meetings are not likely to
opass off
more peaceably in August next than they did in Feb-
ruary last. For at the late assemblies of the Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, of the Yorkshire
and Lancashire, and of the South Eastern companies,
there was just as mach violence, intemperance, and
disturbance, and as many outrageous charges and
foolish motions as followed the sudden burst of rail-
way anarchy some two years ago.
No doubt it is very painful and distressing to
have dividends drop from 7to 2 per cent.,—to have
the legality of preference shares contested and dis-
puted, lawyers giving opinions the most opposite and
couffieting in the Fifths of this Company, and the
Thirds of that Incorporation, and bills carried through
parliament to raise additional millions by still further
depressingthe original stock. But passion and vitu-
pnation, scandalous accusations, and attempts to
convulse railway directorates are not, it is quite ob-
vies', the most likely means of retrieving sinking
fortunes. And the rush to tho spirit closet, after the
rase has struck, is almost of a piece with the coarse
the more violent of railway shareholders pursue
whenever they meet their directors.