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London, England, 1864-05-25 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25.

Ir is, of course, as yet impossible to say posi-
tively what the Conference may do or undo at ita
next sitting. But if the positive assertions of
foreign journals as well as distinct rumours nearer
home may be trusted, the fears expressed at the
outset by those who are seriously concerned for the
honour of England appear but too likely to be
realized. The Queues Government, it is said,
abandoning the Treaty of London, to maintain
which the Conference was avowedly assembled,
is prepared to support a scheme foe dividing
the Danish monarchy, whose integrity it had
pledged itself to support. According to this
scheme a considerable portion of the existing
state is to be cut off from Denmark, and
formally handed over to Germany. Supposing
this result to 4•• arrived at, the imposing ma-
chinery of • Oonferenoe would have been called
into operstionmerely to receive orders from Berlin,
and passively register M. ox BISMLERIN decrees.
Now, while this would undoubtedly be a signal de-
feat forall the neutral Powers, the discredit and the
humiliation would of course fall with peculiar
weight on the Power that is exclusively respon-
sible for the assembling of the Conference.
But for the British Government there would have
been no Conference at all, and if the Danes, being
left to make peace for themselves, had suffered
loss, the loss would have been simply the fortune
of war, wrung from them by superior force, not de-
liberately sanctioned by those who had assumed the
position of arbitrators or mediators in the conflict.
It is impossible at the eleventh hour to evade
the responsibility we have unhappily assumed by
our words and acts. We have taken the
most active share in the whole matter from the
first, pressing proposal after proposal at Copen-
hagen, which the Danish Government accepted in
the faith that we should give them, if not in the
field, at least in the conned chamber, something
more than merely moral support. At the outset
of the war Lord PALIMISTOIf and Lord
Erma' denounced it in the strongest
terms u unjust and unjustifiable, and they
were apparently only withheld from going further
by the assurances of the German Powers th►t they
would respect the Treaty of London. The Con-
ference was assembled to give effect to those
assurances. If, under these circumstances, we
accept, or possibly even propose, a diamember-
ment of the Danish monarchy—which we have
indignantly denounced as utterly unjust—we not
only stultify ourselves before Europe, but gratui-
tously endorse with our approval • war of mere
compost, and solemnly sanction the violence and
wrong of the aggressors.

Let it be remembered that this is not a question
of peace or war. Any anxiety the public may
have felt on this account it felt because it
was apprehensive that the Government would, at
some point or other, feel compelled to support its
policy, and defend the cause of the independence
of States by arms. Peace is in no danger from those
whom no iniquity of violence can move to resent-
ment. With Denmark too weak, and the neutral
Powers unwilling to resist the ambition of Prussia,
people may go on buying and selling stocks and
shares in safety. The question now is whether, having
resolved not to stand in the way of the aggressor,
it is necessary that we should thereupon join hands
with him and give him active assistance in finish-
ing his work. This is what our Government is in
danger of doing at this moment. When our
Ministers began to force the proposal of a
Conference upon an unwilling world we pointed
out, again and again, that unless we were prepared
to insist on aoertain areount of justice, the only result
of the Conference would be to make as partners in
a partition treaty. And the whole subsequent
course of events has justified the remark. Nobody
wanted the Conference. Denmark might have
been dismembered without it. The Danes could at
any time have obtained peace with Germany by
consenting to its terms, for even Prussia makes
war for an object, and not for war's sake. The
difference is that without a Conference the bel-
ligerents would have settled their quarrel upon
their own responsibility ; whereas with a Conference
we voluntarily assume a share in the responsibility
of act. which we have indignantly denounced. This
L what we are about to do. Our Government has
received no commission from the nation to take
past in the partition of Denmark. It dares not
propose such a policy in either House of Parlia-
ment. By what right, then, does it pursue in its
foreign negotiations • course which is condemned
by every national sentiment and by its own re-
iterated professions T Surely, if we cannot with-
stand the inroads of German ambition, we are still
an independent people, so far at least as to retain
the privilege of holding aloof from transactions
which we abhor.

IT is understood that the Birkenhead steam-
rams intended for the Confederates have been
eold to the British Government. This trans-
action will extinguish the hopes of those who
hoped that the approaching trial at bar before
the full Court of Exchequer would have the effect
of furnishing the shipowners of this country with
an authoritative exposition of the Foreign En-
listment Act which might serve as a guide for
the future. But, on the other hand, the law
officers of the Crown may congratulate themselves
that they have got rid of the difficulty and anxiety
which seemed destined to attend their efforts to
overcome the subtle devices of Messrs. LATRD and
other agents of the Confederates to elude the
la,

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Lbeeteemet-Oolocel Koppel, tree peeeeet at the pseilie el
the Imps at the Bares Guards yedeedsysterniag in homer
at the Queen's birthday.

The -rdiumme of Wales, seccarranled by the Prime=
Mary et Ontibridge sod Uwe dAolplins of Mecklenburg
Strata, and Weeded by Lady Morton and Lisaterrentv
Gemini Madly', was also present et the parade of tees
at the BIM Guards.
The Prima el Wales rode on horseback, attended by
Me* Tends's.
The Priassead Prisons of Wales teak a carriage drive in
the Mtwara&

The Daka sad Thither of Moatissaske, sad the Princess
Marie Isabella of (Mesas, sad the Disko of Osombsidge,
Tidied the Prime sad Printer of Wales at Marlborough-
beam

The Prince sad Pitman of Wake, easomthanied by the
(hand Duke of Mecklenburg Sirelits and Prince Adolphus,
went to the Prineents Theatre in the evening, attended by
lady Morton and Major Tisdale.

Tie Prince of Water hes bownwed Mr. Bernal with
sitting for his portrait for the picture of Hyde-paik.

Viscount Palmerston, K.G., First Lord of the
Treentery ; the Pawl of St. Germans, G.C.8., Lind Steward
Viscount Sydaey, G.C.8., Lord Chambseloia of her
Majesty's Household ; the Marquis ci Anatomy, Maslow
of the Horse; the Right Hot Sir George, Grey, G.C.8.,
Sereetary of State for the Home Department; Earl
Rumell, RAG., Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ; the
Right Hos. Edward Cardwell, M.P., See story of State
for the Colonies ; Earl Ds •ffilawy and Itipoe, flowneary of
State for Wm ; the Bight Zia. Sir Charles Wood, G.C.8.,
Secretary of Stets for India ; the Right Hot the Clow
cellar of the /kr/baguet ; and the Duke of Somerset, the
First Lard of the Admiralty, gave state disown last even.
lag in celebration of the Qusee's birthday.
The Royal Body Guard of the Hos. Corps of Gentlemen*
at-Arms bad a full dress dieser at Bs. Jllllll4ll'S Palace
yesterday evening, to celebrate her Majesty's bhihdey, at
which the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, C. 8., the late
Captain of the expo ; Lord Robert Montagu, M.P. ; and
Sir Henry Robinem, formally the lieutenant of the corps,
were present.

The Archbishop of York gave a grand dinner
last evening at his residence lir Beigraveaqusre, in *debts-
Boa of the Qmon'a birthday. There were among the goads
the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of Armagh,
the Bishop of Loadoe, the Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop
of Lichfield, the Bishop of Bath and Wells, the Bishop of Re-
cheater the Bishop of Momenta sod Bristol, the Bishop of
Cybele, the Bishop of Cork, the Bishop of Down, the Bishop
of Cleary, the Dean of Lincoln (Bishop designate of Peter-
borough), the Rev. Thomas Fuller and the Rev. A. W,
Thorold, chaplains of the Archbishop of York.

The Attorney-General (Sir ROundell Palmer) gave
a grated baaquet last night at the Albion, ia odetestion ol
bar Majesty's birthday, to the Queen's counsel sad the lead-
ing members of the bar. Covers were laid for 100; and
among the company ware—Tbe Solicitor-Getwasl, R. P.
Collier, Fag.; the Quesa's Advooste, Sir B. Phillimons, Q.C.,
D.C.L. ; and Bar William J. illezeadeir, Bart., Q.C.,

The Earl of Dudley has arrived at Dudley House
for the orosoct.

The marriage of the Hon. Ellen Stuart, seoond
daughter ot Lord sad Lady Blaotyre, with Sir David
Baird, is Sled to take place on the 15th proximo.
The Duchess de Moray and suite have arrived at
the Clarendon Hotel, from Paris.

The Duke of Argyll has become one of the nice-
presidents of the Working goes Club and Institute Taos.

THE ROTLL VISIT TO CAMEHIDOL—CLINERIDON
MAT 24.—The following is a lies of those upon whom
bosomy degrees will be conferred during the ensuing royal
visit —His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge, his Royal Highness
the Prince Louis of He.., Earl Granville, the Duke of
Manchester, Rail Stanhope, Reel Speneer, the Fort
Cartuirvoe, Viscount Palmerston, Viscount Eveniley.
Lord Alfred Hervey, Lord Leigh, lard Hank. Fir &tweed
Lytton Salyer Lytton, Sir William Page Wood, Sir Charles
Wood, Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, Cameral William Thomas
Madly; the Rev. the Dem of Weelmioater, A. J. B.
Hope, Esq., M.P., Dr. WIA•011 (President of the College of
Physicians), W Charles Gabriel Cobet, Dr. A. W. Hoff-
man, l'l4llllllolr Wheatstone. All the above.msoMoned
will be crested Hoaccrary Doctors of law by special ince.
At a meeting of the oorporatioe this morning, the prectiotfr
don of an saline, to their Royal Highosseee was agreed
to. and also that the same should take place near the old
media bead, near the old London enbranee into the town,
and also that the electric light be Stied up cm the top of
the great tower of St. Mary's church, and used during the
nights of the 2nd end 3rd of Jane. From the &cakr
house downwards, the busy bum of preparation is going on,
sad all tells of anticipation of approaching fertivity.

During the sermon in Christ Church, Belfast,ou
Pawky madag, some .Lips oa the roof took fire from the
; the fire did so harm, bat it clamed a peak is the ooa-
peratioo. The people rushed to the doom sod ea the pe
was turned off, they earambled oat is the dark as well as
they could, happily without my eerier maidens.

The result of the annns:l fellowship examination
in Trinity College, Dublin, which terminated on Saturday,
was declared on Monday. The =earful competitor is Mr.
John P. Mahal v, who obtained 1,1154 Burks. Mr. Mahally's
collegiate career has been an unusually brilliant one. In
1858 be pined a classical ocholarthip ; in 1859 he we.
elected a um►ersity student, and won the Wray prim In
mathematics, besides two gold medals in classics sad logic ;
and in 1862 and 1863 be was *warded the Madder prise.
This splendid honorarium, which solaces the disappointment
of the highest in merit of the deluded oandidates for fellow-
ship, has this year been awarded with a college premium al
611. to Mr. Anthony TrailL

Dr. Bazili, daribaldi's medical attendant, has
published a pamphlet on tke nature of the wooed in the
foot of the illustrious general, of the surgical operatic=
performed on it, and on the general method of cure adopted,
and which coatains anatomical drawisp in counexicia with
the subject of the pamphlet.

The Bridgend Chronicle states that Mr. Sims
ROOM is a native of Swansea, and that there is • monu-
ment there to his mother, who died is giving birth to the
famous singer is lira Os the monument it is stated that
she was the wife of Mr. Jake Reeve, comedian.
Some wheat ears were shown in Dorchester
market last Saturday. Snob • sight is rarely seen so early
as the 21st of May.

The case of "Ferguson v. Hely," in which a
clergyman. the Rev. Samuel Femme, rector of Norm,
county HiAmoy, sad his daughter obtained &mega
amounting to 5,0001., has ended happily io the marrisge of
Kiss Ferguson to the defendant, which took place in
on the eth instant

At the Court at Balmoral, May 24, the Queen
- Sovereign of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, his
i
hese graciously *mad by letters patent nadir ber royal
sign manual sad the great seal of the order, to dispense*
with all the statute. and regulations usually observed in
regard to installation, and to give sod pant unto George
Granville William Duke of Sutherland, aid George
William Frederick, Marquis of Ailesbury, knighlac7E
said most noble order, sod invested with the assigns
thereof, fall power and authority to exercise all rights and
privileges belonging to a {might companion of the Most
Noble Order of the Garter, in is full and ample a manner
as if they bad been formally installed, an, decree, rule, or
nage to the contrary notwithetanding.—Gazette,
ktoT AL COLLEGE OF Sum:Moles OF ENGLAND.—
The followingpotlecnen, having undergone the necessary
examination for the diploma, wars admitted membered the
oollage at a meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 94th
inst., via : —Messrs, Oliver Humphrey Fowler, Kingsavrie,
Hants ; Edward Roberta Smith, Dudley ; Francis Mears
Beckett, Oanterhury ; Henry Nelson Edwards, Finsbury.
square • Henry MelviU Brewer, Neort, lionnionthahire ;
George.Gon Denies, Grantham • and Charles James Wills,
Stockwell (students of Si. Battgolossew's Hospital); Wm,
Melville Knipe, Leigh Shim, Worcestershire ; Andrew
Wise, Plutnsteed. Kent ; and Augustin Barber Fry, SM.
ford (of Guy's Hospital) ; Frederick Fludd Dickinson,
M.D. Queen's University, Ireland, Wicklow; Joseph
Baum Dublin, an Thomas Richards Phillips, Dublin
robin,

.4 FURIQUI3 SAITLES.

APTIJILE OF CONFRDERATE
RIFLE PITS, 4,000 PRISONERS,
I AaFSERALS, AND 90 WINS.

-RETREAT OF GENERAL LEE.--
ADVANCE OF SIGEL AND
BUTLER.

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(Per Ow City a Weahisigtoo, vii Oeos►hsve%)
NEW YORK. NAY 14, Mozitum

No fighting took place st Elpottaylvania on the
11th inst. Marly on the morning of the 12th
Hancock vigorously charged and captured the
Confederate rifle pita in his front, with
4,000 prisoners, 2 generals, and 30 guns. The
battle continued furiously throughout the 12th,
but all efforts to further penetrate Lee's lines were
unavailing.

During the night of the 12th Lee retreated,
leaving only a line of skirmishers in Grant's
front. On the morning of the 13th instant
Grant started two divisions to ascertain whether
Lee was occupying a new position in the vicinity
or making a thorough retreat.
Reinforcements are being rapidly despatched to
Grant.

Federal cavalry has destroyed portions of rail-
road in Lee's rear.

Sigel has destroyed Charlottesville, Lynchburg,
and Gordonsville-road.

Butler is advancing against Drury's Bluff.
There is an unreliable rumour of Sherman having
occupied Dalton.
Banks has retreated from Alexandria, en route to
Semmesport.

_
NEW YORK, MAY 14, 11 A.m.
The very latest accounts report Lee having
crossed the Po River.

Gold, 172 i.

[OLICSWW-ROLSTREE AND THE .0011FER-
ENCE PROJECTS.

The Paris oorrespondent of the Independent*.
Beige says that the German propositions respecting
fileswig-Holstein are as follows :—Holstein, Sles-
wig, and Lauenbourg to be united in one duchy
with its own institutions ; no employs in Sleswig
who was not born there, and who has not studied
at the University of Kiel ; Kiel to be • federal
port ; Rendsburg • federal fortress ; upwards
of 230,000,000 of francs to be paid by
Denmark for the expenses of the war. The
writer says, " It is added that in this case the
German governments would consent to the per-
sonal alliance of this duchy, with its own institu-
tions, with Denmark, but I have some hesitation
in placing faith in this last assertion. As for the
neutral powers, they would pronounce for the divi-
sion of Sleswig at the lute of Flensburg, and the
union of the south with Holstein under a regime of
personal union, or else the abandonment of the
German Duchies and of the most southern part of
Sleswig to an independent prince."
The Paris Temps thinks it impossible that Eng_ I
land and France can have consented to the esta-1
blishment of Holstein and South Sleswig as a se-
I
parate state. " England," it saga, "cannot make
so complete an evolution ; and France herself, if
she abandons the treaty of 18152, cannot go further
than the simple advice to submit the so:ution to
the Duchies without prejudging it in any way."

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A letter from Berlin n the continental papers
states that at an interview at Hamburg between
the Prince Royal of Prussia and the Duke
of Angustenburg, a complete agreement was come
to as to the relations which should be established
between the Prussian government and that of the
duke in the event of the latter acceding to the
throne of the Duchies of Sleswig-Holatein. This
arrangement would consist chiefly of a military and
maritime convention, and of stipulations relative
to the canal between the Baltic and the North Ses.

(astrrirs rziaaatit.)
THE RUSSIAN BUDGET FOR 11$4.
ST. PETERSBURG, MAY 24, Ennui°.
The Russian budget for 1864, which has been
published to-day, shows an equilibrium.
The public revenue is estimated at 401 millions
of roubles, of which 355 are from ordinary sources,
18 millions from Treasury Bonds, and 28 millions
from the Anglo-Dutch loan.
The expenditure is estimated at 364 millions of
roubles, to which there are to be added 37 millions
for extraordinary military expenses.

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W.N.W. to N.N.E. and 00Aana. N. to W.. freak some
beak. freak awn abewess.
showery.
8.1 to B.W. sad N.W.. Winn& N.N.W. to W.S.W.,
!moderato to freak frisk maw shovers.
showers In places.
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dents to stem&
showers to places.
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Cotner Jrwms.—A rare assemblage of superb
court jewels was yesterday divined of, among other
valuable property. at the great Metropolitan Auction Mart,
in King-street. Covent-garden, by Mean. Debeultam, Elton,
and Sous. The following attracted muck posies :—A
splendid emerald, surrounded by brilliants, as • ring; • very
fie* single stone brilliant ring ; • large single brilliaat, set
as • ring ; • large brilliant, surrounded by 14 smaller
brilliants, as • ring ; • lustrous brilliant, serroanded by
rum, as a ring ; and • rose diamond, of great purity and
lustre, set as • ring—the whole 2254 A Russian bracelet,
of fine gold, weighing arc 13dwts. llgra , the mire
formed of the choicest brilliants and Ire beautiful tur-
quoises, in a case-136 guineas. A mepificent brilliant
bracelet, the bead designed in stars and links. the metre
consisting of four firm large brilliant., three circles of bril-
liants, diamond scroll-work, and a rich and large sapphire,
in • came-140 guineas. A brilliant Court beeklam, formed
of 55 old English cut single stop brilliants, set tram-
&woolly in enlists ; an important state ornament—
"RlMY. A beautiful roes diamond ring ; pother
equally fine ; an emerald of very line colour_ withbrilßwt
.boulders,est as a ring ; a beautiful Deckle*, and pee-
dant. composed of two emeralds, of fine colour, surrounded
by brilliants • • Sower comet brooch, composed of a
flee single brilliant centre. surrounded by roses ; and
an enamel riba•d brooch, with cross pendant, set with
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4 loloured, 11.
The Queen went out In the afternoon . AM -.IC .--
rimer Lamaism and Priam, Hen& estates.
Gold, 172 e.