The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-13 00:00:00

The Prince and Princess of Wales in
Denmark,

COPENIIAGE, Thursday,
Even if the Prince and Princess of. Wales had not

arranged to pass a few days quietly at Fredensborg
Castle,;which lies about 27 miles from Copenhagen,
the drenching showers that have fallen almost con-
tinually since their arrival in Denmark would put
anything like sight-seeing out of the question. A
heavy, socking, noiseless rain, such as English
agriculturists would delight in, and to which the
inhabitants apparently are well accustomed, for
they walk about with or without umbrellas, en-
tirely disregarding it, covers the streets with little
.sheets of water that throb like pulses as they are
beaten and swollen by further drops descending
every moment. If a temporary cessation does take
place and a ray of sunshine tempts the visitor half
a street from his hotel, he speedily has occasion to
desire his overcoat and his very strongest boots.
D:oskics, indeed, and even in some quarters omni
buses running upon tramways, afford the means of
locomotion under cover, but, as in all the northern
cities, these have a place of their own, which must
not be interfered with.

At Fredensborg yesterday the birthday of the
Queen of Denmark was privately, but net on that
account the less warmly celebrated. At 12 o'clock
all the principal personages resident in the Castle,
and also the members of the Corps Diplomatigne,
had the honour of being received and of tendering
their congratulations. In the evening there was a
dinner party, at which about 40 sat down to table.
The circle included all the members of the Royal
family at present staying at Fiedensborg to meet
the Prince and Princess of Wales, Sir A. and Lady
Paget, with Mr. Gosling and Mr. Scott, of the
British Embassy, the immediate suite of their
Royal Highnesses, the commander of the yacht
(Marne, and the captains of her Majesty's
steamers Aurora and Salamis. After dinner his
Roybl Highness the Prince of Wales proposed the
health of the Queen of Thnmark, and immediately
afterwards the King of Denmark proposed that of
her Majesty Queen Victoria. The company then
separated, the remainder of the evening being spent
in private.

Owing partly to the very unfavourable state of
the weather, and to the fact that communicatio❑
with the capital by railway is still impeded, soma
uncertainty prevails as to the actual proceedings of
the Royal party. It is probable that the Prince
and Princess of Wales will remain at Fredensborg
until the beginning of next week, and that they
will then proceed to Bernstorff, which, before the
King ascended the throne, constituted his family
residence. This castle being much smaller than the
one where they are now staying, the Prince and
Princess will take with them only a portion of
their suite ; but, on the other hand, its proximity to
Copenhagen will afford opportunities for visiting
many objects of interest with which the capital
abounds. It is nearly certain that the Royal party,
or at any rate the Prince of Wales, will visit Stock-
holm towards the end of the month, but the design
at one time entertained of extending the tour so as
to include Moscow and St. Petersburg has been
abandoned, owing to the lateness of the season.
The time of year is already advanced for Sweden,
and a month later travelling i❑ Russia would be at-
tended with extreme difficulties.

Concerning the visit of the Prince and Princess to
Copenhagen at the present moment public opinion
has been a good deal divided. Naturally, when a
nation undergoes humiliation and defeat, when it is
conscious of outrages on the part of others and of
some mistakes committed by itself, it is not in the
mood for seeing anything coleur de rose. Whatever
foundation there may have been for the expectations
based on an English alliance, these expectations
undoubtedly were entertained with a blind unques-
tioning faith, and when these were disappointed the
mortification was proportionately bitter. The signa-
ture of England to the treaty of 1852 was looked on
as the one good name on the back of the bill which,
if all others failed, was to secure performance of the
contract. Since it has proved that this task was
more than England could or would undertake, the
Dauisli feeling towards that country and Ira panple
has, to say the least, cooled very sensibly. There
are symptoms, however, that clearer views and wiser
counsels are already beginning to resume their
sway, and that the violent languege indulged in
recently by a section of the press finds no approval
from the more enlightened portion of the commu-
nity. Dagbladet, the organ of the more influential
Opposition, contrast the enthusiastic demonstra-
tions which took place before the departure of the
Princess Alexandra, with the silent welcome that
meets her as Princess of Wales, and sets itself to
explain why there are now no fetes in her honour.
It is not,
Dagbladci says, that any less warm feel.
ings are entertained towards her personally, or that
any doubt is felt of her affection for Denmark ; but
the displays when she was about to leave for Eng.
land possessed a double signification. They were
intended to celebrate not merely a personal but a
national union. She returns at a moment when the
nation is bent down beneath a great calamity, and
when the hope that sustained it has been utterly
shattered. There is no longer the capacity to re-
joice ; there are no roses to ecatter before her,
because they have all been strewn upon the tombs
of those warriors who have fallen. Daybladet ex-
presses satisfaction at the presence of " the Eng.
fish Crown Prince" as a guest in the country from
which his wife was chosen, but sa: Thu "'nes
must still regard him a 9 the rep.. ~c.ntative of
Great Britain, which abandoned them to their
enemies, and allowed might to trample over
right, though both seeing and condemning their
faithless violence." Further on the same paper
adds—., We cannot accord to
his private sym-
pathies for the righteous cause of Denmark so much
weight as we should do to those of a man in lees
exalted position." This article reflects very faith-
fully the feeling hero at the present moment. It
is or e, it will be perceived not written in a tone of,
personal unkindness, but rather of dissatiafaction
as was seen in the
welcome
with the policy which England thought it best to
pursue. Years must elapse before that feeling
wears away, and should there be any political party
interested in its continuance it may be maintained
for
an
ic
of
defirn iit:jupoerre, iotdh.o
goodßu kindly heart of the
t,
nation underlies, and with opportunity will sur-
mount all international bitterness. In any case he
must indeed be a sew. politician who would mar by
the introduction of political topics the happiness
of a young mother in blowing to the
people among
whom her childhood was passed the husband of her
choice and the first fruit with which that union has
been blessed.
Tho Russian Grand lhate, with whose stay in
Denmark rumour connected the possibility of
another Royal alli,nce with the reigning family,
has just taken his departure. Before doing so, he
presented to General Lindenehrone a very valuable
gold snuffbox as a memorial of the visit. The whole
of the Grand Duke's Stuff were decorated by the
King of Denmark.
The Chevalier Irmanger has been appointed to
act as equerry to the prince of Wales during his
stay.

FRIDAY.

Were it not for the time and outlay involved iti a
dvisitou b t toed l thesey co
b northern regions, they would un-
doubtedly more favourite field of
travel than the now dusty tracks of Central Europe.
A people honest and hospitable in the highest dee
gree, a country interesting in itself, and to the very
atones of which tradition Clings
ene a
with the richness
and tenacity of nose—these, independent of the
treasures of the capital, are a few of the attractions
held out by Denmark. It is true that of late years
Scandinavia at large hue been honoured by English.
men with a degree of attention greater, perhaps,
than was bestowed upon it at :any time since the
ninth century, when clergymen added to the Litany
a special invocation for deliverance a furore Nor-
manorum. But in the stormy waters of the Baltic
lies the great safeguard of the North from ever
being vulgarised, as other parts of the Continent
have been ; and her people, happily unaccustomed
to be stared out of countenance, and not rendered
callous by excursion trains, pride themselves, even
in these days of gloom and national depression, on
the goodwill and courtesy they show to strangers.
Fancy a gentleman with 4 card entitling him to the