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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 28.

THE numerous instances which have lately occurred
of liberal and popular parties struggling against an
overwhelming force, rejecting all terms of accommo-
dation, and resolutely preferring to perish altogether
rather than compromise their rights, is a very re-
markable feature of the time. Old parties, and
governments, and statesmen, however absolutist,
have shown themselves most ready to bow before an
adverse storm, to accept any terms, even universal
suffrage, when there was a necessity fur yielding. But
popular parties seem to acknowledge principle alone,
and are mad enough to ignore exped:ency altogether.
Thus, the Sicilians persisted in defying Naples, and
preferred being crushed so obtening but hslf
the conditions they demanded. The same may
be said of the Romans, the Sardinians. And last of
all, it is the csse with the people of Schleswig.
We sincerely regret that this gallant and enthu-
siastic people cannot be brought to accept the condi-
tions offered to them. These are certainly not what
the Schleswigers deserved, or what the King of
PRUSSIA promised them. The prospect of being
separated from their brothers of Holstein, with a
knowledge that the union of the Duchies made their
force, and the necessity of accepting whatever con-
stitution the king of DENMARK may think fit in his
hatred to octroy them, is neither flattering nor con-
soling. But the Schleswigers 'should feel that their
cause is identical with that of German unity, inde-
pendence, and freedom, and that if the great German
nation unable to secure and defend these, how can
the Schleswigers hope to defend their asserted
rights? The King of PRUSSIA himself bows to cir-
cumstances, and dissnwrestbs his head from the impe-
rial crown that already bound it. The Germans adjourn
their great national desire, rather than wade to it
through commotion. TheSchleiwigers should adopt
the prudence shown by parties greater and higher
than themselves, and submit. . .

On the other band, the negotiators in this business
have made a sad bungle of it. If the terms of peace
were to be unpalateable to the people of Schleswig,
some feeling, at least, of decency and justice ought to
have been consulted in the arrangement of the
armistice. Yet some of the conditions of that armis-
tice are of so preposterous a kind as of themselves to
provoke opposition. Take, for instance, the prok ct of
governing Schleswig during the interval between this
and the final treaty by a Danish, a Prussian, and an
English commissary. A country has b'e n in inser-
rec.ion for its nationality, and you subject it to the
rule of strangers ignorant of the country and of
its language. Conceive Col. HODGES or Mr. HOWARD
going to Schleswig to govern it as commissioeer ; it
would be like sending Csunt Svafiros and the Abbe
GIOBERTI to form the provisional government of
Ireland. The result of such a commis•ion entering
upon the functions of goversment would be that every
employe, from the head clerk to the under-constable,
would throw up. his office in disgust, and every in-
habitant would join in a system of at least passive
resistance.

One objection to the English commissioner is,
first of all hie incompetence, and then the neces-
sity, if his authority be impugned, of supporting it
either by an English force or by the troops of some
other country. Of all tasks, the last that an English
functionary should undertake in any foreign country
is that of coercion. And so strongly is this felt at
Stockholm that his Swedish Majcaty has, we under-
stand, refused to furnish the neutral corps for
garrisoning the north of Schleswig, demanded of him
according to the tenor of the treaty.
The Times would set about the redaction of
Schleswig by the sabre. The writer in the Times is
as much a Cossack, as his comrade of the Chronicle
is a Croat. Let Mr. COBDEN insinuate that the
Emperor of RUSSIA is not quite CRtESUS, and
the member for the caret Riding is straight
condemted to the knout of the Acglo-Rus-
sian press. Let it be hinted that Sardinia durst
demur to the terms that Atlanta dictates, and
let it be added that France considers such conduct on
the part of Austria as overweening, then starts np
the Croat-Colloredo organ to pelt and threaten all the
world, as if it was Hungsrian, with its leaden ana-
themas._ - -

The Times would make short work with the Schles-
wigers. It would disband the army and dissolve the
government of the Duchies; and it imagines that
warrant for this is found in the treaty. Tte fact is
the contrary • the Schleswig-Holstein army is not to
be disbanded. It is merely bidden to retire into
Holstein, and we trust it will obey. The Stadt
Haltershaft is equally to be maintained in Hol-
stein. And we believe the King of Prussia
incapable of perpetrating the infamy, so vehemently
recommended by the Times—that is, of imitating the
conduct of England with regard to the regency of
Oporto, and after first interfering for and abetting the
liberal party, to betray and hand it over to its sworn
foes. The king of PRUSSIA cannot imitate a policy
that was so disgraceful to the British name, and
which has contributed more than anything
else to destroy all the influence of England and
respect for it in the peninsula. We may care little
what Portuguese or Spaniards think of us, but the
King of PRUSSIA cannot afford to be stigmatised
throughout Germany as the abettor of the Schles-
wigers in 1848, and their betrayer in 1849. It is,
however, on the assumption that he will play this
disgraceful part, that his Majesty receives by antici-
pation the praises of the Times.
After all, we do not think that had the three
powers taken council together as to the best mode
of rendering Schleswig definitively German, they
could have adopted any better or surer method than
the one they have adopted. And if they want to ren-
der that consummation still more sure, they have but
to adopt the recommendation of the Times, employ
violence, dissolve native corps and councils, support
I the English commissioner in his rule by a Cossack
body-guard, proscribe all those who held functions
during the late war, and in a word, treat the Schles-
wigers, and their representatives and rulers, as the
Portuguese and the Junta of Oporto were treated.
Why not at the same time make Lord RODEN Lord-
Lieutenant of Ireland, give him an Orange body-guard
in lieu of a council, and let the principle of govern-'
in Ireland be the same as is recommended in
Rome, in Path, and in Schleswig—viz., " crush and
slay?"

Lv another column will be found a document, the
publication of which we hail with nnmingled plea-
sure. Its form is that of a declaration addressed to
the people of England on behalf of the great body
of their Irish brethren on the church question. It
bean the signature of eighteen representatives of
counties, and of fourteen representatives of cities and
boroughs—Dublin, Limerick, Galway, and Cork
being amongst the number ; and its purport
is to give a prompt and peremptory de-
nial to the unfounded allegation put forward
by certain parties in parliament as well as through
their organs in the press—that the mass of the in-
habitants of Ireland have in any measure ceased to
regard the exorbitant and exclusive endowment of
tke Anglican church in that kingdom as an insult, a
fraud, and a wrong.
We rejoice to find such a number of the Irish re-
preventatives thus practically and wisely acting to-
gether in vindication of the sentiments and in-
terests of their country. Our wonder has often been
excited at the prolonged trance to which this
vital question of sectarian ascendancy seemed to be
oonsigned. Of the unchanged and unchangeable feel-
ings of nine-tenths of the people we bad never any
d ,übt. They would not be men if they could learn
to view with unconcern the maintenance, in every
parish of the realm, of an alien priesthood, richly
endowed out of the national resource!. Truly has
the protestant hierarchy been called " a symbol of