The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1861-01-21 00:00:00

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THE DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1861.

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the army•what it ought to be for .the future
protection of Prussia. Let us net," added
his Majesty, "indulge in any illusions. If Ido
not succeed in turning aside thOr conflict,
„we
shall be engaged in a combat in which we
.mnst vanquish if we are not willing to perish."

This closing observation is possibly open to the-
reproach pf excessive frankness, not a common

fault among Continental potentates. Napoleon
111., for instance, would never intimate to his
generals that they are about to enter upon a
combat in which defeat is annihilation. The
Prussian Monarch, on the other hand, with

Teutonic bluntness, disdains to condesoend to
prevaricate ; he does not pretend that the increase
or reorganisation of the army is essentially a
pacific symptoms He is fully aware that Denmark
is only his nominal enemy in the Schleswig-
Holstein difficulty, and that the real question at
issue is not whether Denmark is to continue to

set the convention of 1840 at defiance but
whether France is to have the Rhine.
Nor is there any other quarter from'which Prus-
sia has any ground to apprehend danger.. Eng-
land. is certainly not the ominous quarter in ques-
tion; neither is Austria; neither is Russia. Eng-
land, connected with Prussia by the royal families
of both countries,- has, besides this powerful
reason, every other reason that can be imagined
—political, social,. and religious—to uphold the

integrity and independence of Prussia. More-
over, public opinion in this country, which over-
rules even the estates of the realm, would scout
the idea of a quarrel with Prussia on any ground
whatever% England is, therefore, out of the ques-
tion; and so is Austria, though for other, but not
less convincing, reasons-. Nor .is Russia the
quarter «•liete the storm, is rising ; seeing that,
What with the Crimean struggle, and what with
the abolition of serfdom, she has not only no
strength left remaining at present, even if the
inclination to arouse Germany against her ex-
isted; bid she has much, need of the support of
Prussia% The only quarter open, therefore, is

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of the word, be regarded as of a very I
tion oath as Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, and the
bellicose character; and, as such, it is well consequept obligations above referred to. This
calculate& to excite very great uneasi- event had scarcely passed ,by when His Danish
ness in urope, as a German war would inevitably
Majesty thought fit to annex the provinces lying
issue in a general war—if a general war should
not precede it. " For you, my dear Minister of to the north of the Eider ; and thus lie‘ declar.6d
War " said the. King, " I have not prepared a bed Schleswig to be part of his kingdom, and the river
of roses. You must courageously labour to make named to be the southern boundary of Denmark ;

about the same time the other province, lying to
the south of the Eider, was appropriated by
Germany, and thus the two were sepaiated, and
Holstein became subject, for a time, to the
Frankfort Diet. The inhabitants of the formerly

united Duchies, however, remained true to their
ancestral traditions, and not only took the field

against the usurper, but kept their ground and
succeeded in maintaining a determinedly hostile
position. Their claim was not so much to be
freed from the sway of the Vanish sceptre, but to

secure the ancient union between the two duchies.
The Schleswig-Holsteiners were ultimately un-
able to attack the Danes, :but the Danes were
equally unable to drive the Schleswig-Holsteiners
out of the fOrtress of Rendsburg. It is important
tt note that it was in this peculiar state of

matters that Austria and Prussia interfered and
brought about a new arrangement upon the terms
of which the whole of the now pending dispute
immediately hangs.
A bargain was struck—or, in more diplomatic
phrase, a convention was entered into—whereby
it was stipulated that the Schleswig-Holsteiners
should surrender the fortress of Rendsburg, and
submit to Denmark, on the solemn assurance of

the Germanic Confederation, that it would
guarantee the renewal and perpetual maintenance
of the union between Schleswig and Holstein as
one united Duchy, under the King of Denmark,
as their sworn Duke. This guarantee was given
by all Germany to the garrison of Rendsburg
before laying down their arms; and it was under
this guarantee) and upon this condition alone, that
the Schleswig-liolstein forces retired from the
field and sanctioned the restoration of their
country to Denmark. It is very clear, therefore,
that it lies with Germany to see that the King of