The Express.
London, England, 1864-05-31 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 31.

THERE can no longer be any doubt that England
has not only given up the London Treaty, but
formally proposed in the Conference a settle-
ment based on the dismemberment of the
Danish monarchy. The proposition is, we be-
lieve, that the Duchies of Holstein and
Lauenburg, with a slice of Sleswig, should be
constituted into a separate state, the remainder of
Sleawig being permanently incorporated with the
Danish monarchy. We have no wish to speak of
this arrangement in any harsh or hostile spirit,
nor do we propose at the present moment to dis-
cuss its intrinsic merits or demerits. Had it been
arrived at by direct negotiation between the belli-
gerent*, and thus appeared in its true character
as the unfortunate, but perhaps unavoidable result
of a disastrous and most unequal war, it
would no doubt be entitled to respectful,
and even favourable consideration as the
avowed termination of a war of conquest. But
that the dismemberment should be not only @mo-
tioned, but actually proposed, by the very Power
that has in a special sense constituted itself from
the first the guide, philosopher, and friend of the
Danish monarchy, is an instructive commentary on
the pretensions we make to regulate the affairs
of the world. Six, or even three, months
ago, every Englishman would have scouted with
just indignation the bare supposition that England
would ever, under any circumstances, take the
responsibility of proposing the partition of the
Danish State. A year has not yet elapsed
since Lord Pm.massrost exposed in Par-
liament the sinister intrigues of the German
Powers ; denounced in energetic language their
rapacious designs, and concluded with the famous
declaration that if the Danish monarchy were
attacked, Denmark would not be found alone in
the struggle. There was an intelligible ground
for this sort of language, as we were at the time
pressing unwelcome proposals on the Danish Go-
vernment, on the implied understanding that their
acceptance would ensure our active support.
During the recess the vigorous despatches of the
FOREIGN Sacarrsav well maintained the high tone
taken by the head of the Government in Perlis-
ment. We still counselled concessions at Copen-
hagen, holding at the same time language of very
decided warning and remonstrance towards Ger-
many. At our instigation, and expressly in order
that Federal execution might be stayed, the Danish
Government recalled the March patent by which
it had established a separate administration
for Holstein and Lauenburg. But Federal execu-
tion went en notwithstanding. We protested still
more strongly against the invasion of Sleewig, and
in order to arrest it induced the Danish Govern-
ment to give a pledge respecting the revoca-
tion of the November constitution. But our
protests and promises, instead of delaying the
threatened invasion even for an hour, only accele-
rated the movements of the German Powers in
the field, and were diplomatically repelled with
cynical coolness and disdain. In like manner at
every stage of the conflict—at the attack on
Duppel, and at the invasion of Jutland—we have
denounced afresh the bad faith and injustice of
the German Powers, have remonstrated and pro.
tested, and in the end counselled new concessions

or made fresh proposals. At length, all these
efforts having failed to arrest the progress of an
unjust and desolating war, instead of acknow-
ledging our utter inability to help the cause we
believed to be just we assembled a Conference,
and from that moment all that has followed might
have been foreseen, and was, in fact, predicted
with words of solemn warning. Our diplomatic
efforts within the Conference, during the last six
weeks, have run exactly the same course they did
out of it daring the previous six months. There
has been no manomvring, everything has proceeded
just as was foreseen, until at last, having assem-
bled a Conference for the purpose of upholding the
London Treaty and maintaining the integrity of the
Danish monaruhy, we formally propose to set aside
the one and destroy the other.
If it is asked, how we could have avoided occu-
pying this position, except on the alternative of
war, the answer is easy. If we were re-
po' ved not to give material aid to Denmark,
the proper and becoming course would have been
to withdraw from active interference in the struggle
when our representations were no longer treated
with respect. If we were powerless to help Den-
mark, we might at least have abstained from any
direct participation, any moral complicity in the
injuries inflicted on her by a violent and unscru-
pulous foe. When our strongest protests and
remonstrances against their lawless acts were
treated by the aggressors with mingled insolence
and levity, our only dignified and consistent course
was to retire at once from the useless and humi-
liating struggle, and leave the full responsibility of
their conduct on their own heads. Instead of this,
at every fresh rebuff we have officiously persisted
in making fresh efforts to gain a hearing, in
offering fresh concessions and makingnew proposals.
This unworthy and humiliating policy has now
reached its culmination. We insisted on presanigthe
powers that had insulted us into a Conference, if
not on our terms, at all events on their own, and
we see the result. As the aggressors refused to
be fettered by any conditions or to enter the Con-
ference on any basis save the right of conquest,
they have naturally carried thicgs with a high
hand, and done very much as they liked. Under
such circumstances all that could be hoped or ex-'
posted was that they might be induced to accept