The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-19 00:00:00

DENMARK.

The Miniiteur says, on the subject of the notes
presented on the sth of December by Austria and
Prussia, in reply to the Danish note of the 26th of
October, that the two German Powers complain
that the latter document is silent as to the relations
to be established between Holstein and Denmark,
and that the Danish concessions are on the whole
unsatiafactary and incomplete. In answer to this
Denmark will declare, as it has repeatedly done,
"that it bad engaged-1. To give to Schleswig a
separate provincial representation ; 2. Not to
annex that duchy to the kingdom proper ; 3. To
authorise the use of the two languages, German
and Danish, in the districts bordering on Hol-
stein, and containing a sort of mixed population,
and that theme three conditions have been reli-
giously fulfilled. It would follow that Germany
could have no longer anything to do with the
affairs of Schleswig, and that any intervention on
its part beyonii,the limits of Holstein and Lanen-
burg would be an aggression on Denmark's rights
of sovereignty, which she repels with all her might,
and which would make it imperativeupon herthenee-
forth to consult only her security, her dignity, and
her interest."

THE New REGISTRAR IN BAN K ILUPTCY.—The Lord
Chancellor has been pleased to appoint Henry Philip Roche,
Es q., of Lincoln's Inn, banister, to be a registrar of her
Majesty's Court of Bankruptcy in London, in succession to
Mr. Registrar Abrithall, who has been appointed a °monis-
rimier to act in the Newmistlempon-Tyne district. Mr.
Roche was called to the bar in 1848, and has since practised
at the Chancery bar. Mr. Roche, in conjunction with Mr.
Hszlitt, also • registrar of the court, had the honour of
being employed by the Lord Chancellor in the preparation
of the Bankrupt'', and Insolvency Consolidation Bill of
1860, and of the Bankniptcy Act, 1861. Mr. Roche took
his seat as registrar in Mr. Commissioner Evans. court, on
Monday, sad ha will en Saturday attend at the Debtors'
Prison, Whitscronestmet, far the purpose of discharging
that ea—Oesefte 111 Bankruptcy.
A BAG BRIOADR.—A curious experiment is, it
is rid, shortly to be tried to turn the scarcity of rags to
good account. A rstoollectiog brigade is to be formed,
to onesiat of boys—of course otherwise neglected and m-
ewed for who are to be organised under a committee,
and who ars to p from door to doer, *skin our wives
sad servants whether they lune say rap to sell The boys
are to have trucks, sod will be furnished with weights sod
scales, and will buy our rags at • settled price, giving •
printed memorandum for the weight and price. The boys
will then take their rags to • store-room, where they will
be sorted and prepared for the wholesale dealers. The rag
bripds, like the shoe-blink brigade, will be dressed in
uniform, and will be under proper onkel and oars, morally
and pecuniarily.
Vlii MEADER AND SUICIDE AT SHIETETELD.-011
Tuesday evening, the deputy coroner of Sheffield held an
Meson at Sheffield on the body of Eliza Fisher, aged 21
yews, whose death had resulted from hijack:. received on
thatch inst. The young woman, it will be recollected, was
shot in Dtrlishrstreet
.East,
.by her stepfather, :Thomas

Towassol(loy Amu& imd hid a And ),bekasse sliebad
into ameba asarshasi ts return to his bowie ; T de-
stroying bintere klausedlidely after shootiag Mr. The ball
had pained Uresigh Use lower portion of BMWs right bog.
and lodged be the right lobe of the liver. A verdict of
" Wilful murder" was recorded against Townsend.
EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR AT WARRINOTON.—OR
Saturday night last, about half-past tea o'clock, a Are was
discovered at a haystack, at Howley, Wurhigtes, which, it
was evident, had been caused by an incendiary. After the
tames were subdued, some men heard a ruin proceeding
from behind a heap of earth shoat a hundred yards from
the stack. There the owner of the stack—a small farmer,
Rained Bowers—was discovered, with his arms fastened be.
lied Dim by means of a hedge stake, and his legs bound
together, to prevent his escape. The man's statement is,
that u he was going home on Saturday night he WY met
by two men, who seised him and threw him down ; a third
Wel his legs and fastened his arms in the manner deseribed,
said on hie attempting to make a noise they knocked his
bead against the ground. His cannot account for the fact of
his being found about twenty yards from the spot where
this occurred. He also states that his purse, containing
two sovereigns and 7s. dd. in silver, was token from Iski
pocket. The following morning the chief enastable, as
visiting the pima, found a puree, but no money. The hay-
stack was insured

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