The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-18 00:00:00

DENNAR

X AND GERMANY,

(From the Special Correspondent of the limes.)
ELSINORE, July 13.
The announcement of the formation of a nevi
Cabinet, under the presidency of Count Carl Moltke,
which was made in the semi-official organ, the

Berlingske Tidende, on Sunday evening last, and
which I communicated in my Monday's letter, turns

out to have been premature. Oa the evening of the
same Monday, after the departure of the mail, it
was understood that the new President would be

not M. Moltke, but M. Biuhme. The intelligence
has since been steadily confirmed. This m ero per•

sonal modification, however, does not alter the
tendencies of the new Council, which remains, as it

was, the Peace Ministry. M. Moltke and M. Q uaade
continue to b 3 attached to the Cabin.?.t as " Minis.

ters without a portfolio," and will, it is said, with
or without that title, go forth as diplomatic agents
to the Courts of Barlin and Vienna, Paris, and
London. T::e whole of the Danish nation, from
the King to the last drummer iu the army, seems
now fully aware that the war was a " m.istak©"
from the beginning; a mistake arising, in January
last, from an expectation of foreign support, which
turned out to be fallacious ; and grounded, in June,

upon the necessity of breaking through the tram-
mels of neutral diplomacy, and joining issues with
the enemy, so as to stand face to face with him
alone. Denmark could hardly hope to swim out of

the deep waters of her present difficulty so long as
her hands were helplessly clinging to the broken
reed of foreign mediation. Once more a free agent,
Denmark may hope to obtain from the Germans a
new truce bearing all the character of a real and per•
manrnt armistice ; an armistice either contracted
for a specified term, say of nine months, or at least
not to expire without one month's notice. It is ex-
pected that the terms of this new armistice will be
on the part of the Austro-Prussians the evacua.
lion of Jutland and the release of the Danish

prisoners of war; on the part of the Danes, the
raising of the blockade, and the restitution of the
captured German vessels.
It would not be easy to say on what ground the
hopes of the Danes for so advantageous a respite
may rest. All that they seem positively to know
is that they neither can nor will fight any more,
and it is perhaps allowable to presume that war
cannot go on on one side only, and that even Germans
will be loth to strike where they meet with no re-
sistance : " Memo in terra," as the old Italian saying
is, " non fa piu guerra."
There are other reasons, however, besides this
somewhat blind trust in the magnanimity of what
has been hitherto rather an ignoble foe, to induce

a belief among the Danes—a belief that their sitna
tion is by no means so desperate as it may seem, and
a hope that they may after- all yet fall on their feet.
I saw yesterday a gentleman of very high rank
in this country, a gentleman brought through his
connections into close intimacy with the Courts and
Governments of Germany, and especially of Prussia.
lie bad seen M. von Bismark very lately, and had a
higher opinion of that statesman's rectitude and
moderation than the world at large is disposed to
entertain. M. von Bismark, this gentleman says, does
not conceal or disguise his desire that the Duchies of
Schleswig-Holstein should remain, as they now are,
in Prussian hands. Could any amount of political
skill or military strength enable that ultra-Conser.
vative statesman to annex those provinces to the
monarchy of Brandenburg, the material interests
of his own State would be paramount with him
over every other consideration but he sees enor-
mous difficulties in the attitude of foreign Powers;
by no means re-assuring, in spite of the hesitation
of long suffering England and of the ominous re
ticence of designing France—difficulties in the dispo-
sition of mind of the SchleswigsHolsteiners, who
give unequivocal signs of their aspirations to inde-
pendent existence, and of their stanch devotion to
their proclaimed D eke. Sooner than allow either
Augustenburg or Oldenburg, or any other idol of
the people or minion of Russia to aseend the Ducal
throne, M. von Bismark, his friends and admirers
aver, would wish with all his heart, and would strive
with all his might, to bring back the Duchies under
the allegiance of Denmark. The Prussian Cabinet
have not so good a reason to be satisfied with the
behaviour of the minor German Princes as to evince
any anxiety to add to their number, nor do the:,
feel a sympathy with the leaders of the Demo-
cratic party, the agitators moving Heaven and earth
in the name of nationality, and threatening the peace
of the country in the name of Vaterland, to wish to
give them a rallying point, a natural chief and
standard-bearer in Kiel, to accustom the German
people to look upon Schleswig-Holstein as their
own handiwork, to identify it with their great re-
volutionary schemes, a monument of what united
Germanism was able to achieve, and what it might
hereafter aspire to.
The Prince of Augustenburg always flattered
himself he could rely on the goodwill of King Wil-
liam of Prussia ; but the King's favour will avail
him but little without the good pleasure of the Prime
Minister, It was not without reluctance, because
with no hope of any immediate advantage for the
Prussian Monarchy, that M. von Bismark allowed
himself to be dragged by popular clamour into
hostilities with Denmark. So long as the Eider-
Danish Party lorded it over, aud, as it were,
" terrorised " Copenhagen, neutralising the peace-
ful intentions and the German sympathies of the
Court, any good understanding betwen Denmark
and Prussia was too plainly out of the question. But
now all is changed ; the Prussian army, by its ex-
ploits at Missunde, at Dybbol, and Ale, has not so
much defeated the Danish troops, as it has routed
the revolution both in Denmark and Germany ; it
has secured in favour of the Prussian Prime Miniss
ter the mastery of the situation. A Cabinet with
such men as M. Moltke or M. Bluhme at its head
comes into power with views professedly opposite to
those of his predecessor. Had either of those two
gentlemen held the supreme power in his hands
instead of M. Hall or Bishop Monrad, there would
either never have been a subject of collision
between Germany and Denmark, or the latter would
have so framed her policy as never to supply the
former with a pretext for hostilities against her.
What could not be done in 1862, or in September,
November, or January last, may, the Danish friends
of peace expect, be achieved at the present day. The
Duchies of Schleswig-Holstein may return under
Danish allegiance on conditions securing a perfect
political as well as administrative autonomy in
their favour. Denmark will desist from any'of those
denationalizing attempts which set her German
subjects so strongly against her Government. The
cause of nationality, as represented by the rabid
EidereDanish party, will receive a blow in Denmark
which will by a conirecoup be equally felt among
the hair-brained demagogues in Vaterland. It
Denmark chooses as leaders of her Government
men according to M. von Bismark'ke own heart, the
worst causes for the dissatisfaction of • that mighty
statesman against her fall to the ground ; a
natural understanding, alliance end solidarity be-
tween the two anti-revolutionary Cabinets are esta-
blished ipso facto, and the stronger party can hardly
do less in support of the weaker one than to enable
it to hold its head above water, by the recovery of
those Duchies, without which all government in
Denmark, or indeed the very existence of the coun-
try, would become an impossibility—those Duchies
which Prussia does not well see how she cats keep
for herself, and which she is equally unwilling to
make over to an enfant gate of rampant demagogy
' or to a mere tool' of Russian ambition.
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MALT FOll. FEEDING CATTLE.—An experiment
was concluded in Cumberland last week which ib
interesting to farmers and others, r.s showing the feeding
properties of malt and barley. On the 9th of April last
eight Irish heifers, as near equal in quality, size, and weight
as it was possible to find them, were fastened up in the pre-
mises of Mr Wyndham, brewer, Cockermouth, to fatten.
Four of these were fed upon barley and four upon equal
measures of malt. The result at the end of 13 weeks was
in favour of barley by 301 b upon the four, which sold for
L 6 10s. more money than those fed upon malt. The owner
lost hs, per head by the experiment.
It is rumoured that Mr Fechtor intends to pro-
duce the " Lady of Lyons," and that be is looking for a
lady to play Pauline to his Claude lidelnotte. lie has not
at presenl accepted any country engagement.
;The London Review states that Mr. and Mrs.
Wigan are looking out for some building in London which
cau easily De crAverted into a acrii4l and eleip%ht theatre.