The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-14 00:00:00

HIGH. WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 14, 1864

While the Prince and Princess of WALES seem to
be prospering in their visit to Denmark, and im-
proved in health and spirits on their projected
c)urse, it cannot but be felt by many how different
it might have been. It is generally a sad task to
compare what is with what has been, and the lost

chances of the world fill many a gloomy page o:

its history. Still in this instance of the visit of the
Princess of WALES to her own country, it cannot
be denied that we have a particular proof of the
instability of human greatness, and the insecurity
of prosperity under the brightest auspices and most
flattering promises that the world can give. While
it is a graceful act on the part of the Prince and
Princess to visit the spot which is endeared to one
by remembrance and the other by associations, the
considerations that will henceforth attach to the
place must in a degree be fraught with glooai. It
roust be painful to reflect upon the disappointment
of the Danes as regards the benefits that they hoped
would accrue from the English alliance. It was
not thus that they had hoped or expected to welcome
back their Princess, and to receive the heir of the
English Crown, who had signalled their land by
choosing the daughter of their King to be his
Queen. It cannot be that the afflicted people of
that ill...lased and forsaken country can entertain the
same feelings towards England now as they experi•
eneed a year ago. They have been taught a bitter
lesson of the want of good faith on the part of Eng-
land, and learned the unwelcome truth that Ger.
many, in the hour of her most extreme aggression,

is considered more worthy of our support and
countenance than they are. The Treaty of
1852, which was expected to do so much good
to Denmark, has been given up altogether, and the
brave people of the independent little country are
to see their possessions torn from them, and their
treasures seized, while the English, compelled to
acknowledge the injustice of the acts, will not lift
a finger on their behalf. Such recollections as these
must unquestionably cast a blight over the recep.
tion of the Pricce and Princess, and it is quite idle
for the devotees of Germany to say otherwise.
Deep sorrow is ever abiding, it exhibits not the
wild untutored expressions of excitement, but it
knows not the sudden reaction of evanescent de-
pression, In this generation at least Thumurk can
never be the alma in heart or sentiment as she
Was when she touk Ivr.ve of ALEXANDRA, on the
eve of her bri&ht and promising wedding. It is
well to contemplate tha subdued pleasure with
which the Danes tow meet her whom they parted
from under such different circumstances. In many
countries it would not have been practicable for
this visit to have been performed at all, arid cer-
tainly not during this year. The feeling of dis-
auointment at false expectations, the sense of mis.
pkaced trust, and the thought of abused confidence
"would have been ail too strong and overpowering,
but the Danes resemble the English in t heir honest
and hearty appreciation of character. They feel
that their young Princess has never forgotten in
the midst of her triumphs in England A:at she was
the daughter of Denmark, and that the Prince, had