The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-25 00:00:00

Diet have taken up at such an assembly if the viea
torions armies of Austria and Prussia were not in
Schleswig ? And if we weigh the considerations
and scruples which have prevented mere participa-
tion in the action already in progress, how can
we extract from them the confidence which is in-
dispensably necessary if we are to combine our
policy with that of the Diet P Although we
thankfully acknowledge that individual Govern-
ments have joined us with correct and patriotic ap•
preciation of the common object, it has yet been
rarely that we have been able to obtain a majority at
the Diet in this sense ; and we have experienced
with regret that we have been compelled to rely
upon our strength and that of. Austria for the main-
tenance,
not only of our own, but of acknowledged
German intereats, and the protection of German
shipping, and that the slightest support requested
from our Federal allies was refused, in consequence
of mistrust and theoretical deductions; and yet we
are able to maintain that the cause which we and
Austria at present advocate has not yet suffered from
this unnatural and lamentable dissension between a
majority of Federal Governments and the two greater
German Powers. We cannot, however, avoid ex-
pressing the urgent desire, for the sake of the future
of Germany, that the German Governments will not
fail to recognise the existence of this position, and
will weigh the disadvantages which it must bring
with it to all German relations and material inte-
rests. The Federal Governments cannot deny that
the course they have pursued has not furthered their
own aims. It is in their power alone to restore the
correct and natural condition of affairs; and we con-
fidently hope that upon calm consideration this ex.
perience will not be lost upon them.

"I beg to request your Excellency to bring these
considerations to the knowledge of the Government
to which you are accredited, and empowered you
for that purpose to read this despatch.

'' THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS."

THE WAR IN DENMARK,

(From the, Zimes Special Correspondent lately with the

Allied Armies.)

BERLIN, May 22.
The hope, never bright, that the London Confer-
ence would succeed in settling the Danish question,
fades and grows daily fainter, so far as the Berlin

public is concerned. How will the quarrel end, to
what terms of composition will it be possible to

bring all parties concerned, are questions which

everybody asks and nobody ventures to answer.
The keenest politicians, the most wily diplomatists,
are at fault and will not risk an opinion. The Inez:o
termine long looked upon as that to which all might
be brought to consent, the personal union with

Denmark of a Schleswig and Holstein " for ever
undivided." is now rejected by both parties. The
only thing upon which Germans and Danes can be
got to agree is its rejection for totally opposite res.

sons. The Danes deem it too much; the Germans
too little. If the German Powers end the neutrals
could come to an agreement as to what settlement
ought to be made, it is presumable that Danish
tenacity in refusal would not he allowed to bar the
termination of a state of things which keeps Eu-
rope in agitation, and may yet, if great care be not
taken, lead to wars far more serious than that just
now suspended. Here nobody seems willing to
credit the possibility of a recommencement of the
conflict between Denmark, now cut down to two
islands and to a nook of North Jutland, and the
two great German Powe:s. 1 am quite sure ne'::rier
the Prussian nor the Austrian army lat;;,3, engaged
desire it; they feel there is no rr
...town to be gained
by the prosecution of ao r.-,icqual a conflict. Neither
is it desired in 8e,'..,n ; least of all, I imagine, can
it be wished .or in Vienna. A prolongation of the
armistir-e is much talked of and thought very likely.
&S for the Conference, such deliberations have been
known to last for years. Should hostilities be re-
sumed, one hears frequently asked, will England
go to war on Denmark ? Do not the same reasons
exist to hinder her doing so that withheld her from
preventing the war altogether ? I suppose nobody
doubts that if England, when the Germans entered
Holstein, bad sent a squadron to the Baltic and had
declared the passage ot the Eider a callus belli, the
Eider would never have been passed. It is pretty
well known why she did not do this ; it must be a
. matter of opinion how far the mistrust was war-
ranted that restrained her from adopting that de-
cided course which, whatever its perils, would cer-
tainly have prevented the invasion of Denmark.
Speculation now is busy as to what will be the
first thing done when the Conference meets again.
There aro persons who think it by no means im-
probable that M. de Beust will bring forward a pro•
posal to constitute Lauenburg, Holstein, and South
Schleswig into an independent State—Lauenhurg
to given up by Denmark in lieu of North Schleswig.

What would Prussia ray to this ? The project might
be agreeable enough in the highest quarter, always
supposing that the Crown of the new German State
should be worn by Prince Frederick of Augubten-
burg, whose chances, be it observed, aro at this me.
ment looking better than they for some time past
have done. The present Prussian Ministry could
not support the scheme without incurring the charge
of gross inconsistency ; but consistency is not always
de rigeur with adventurous statesmen, and such a
move would win for the Cabinet a great number of
supporters—in fact, would give it a great party in
the country. I do not, however, mean to imply
that such a course is likely to be adopted by the
Bismark Government. It would be in strong oppo
sition to the latent project of annexation to Prussia
attributed t the present Premier, and by him con-
stantly denied. Apropos of that alleged plan, the
Arnim address hangs fire, so far as its presentation to
the King goes. I have not yet heard of the depu-
tation being received by his Majesty. Meanwhile, it
has caused a decided schism in the Censervative or
absolutist party. The Kreuz Zettung declares itself
most decidedly against annexation, as well as
against the Augustenburg, and upholds the Austro-
Prussian alliance as the only means of keeping down
the democratic and revolutionary element in Ger-
many. The Schleswig-Holstein press also strenu-
ously opposes annexation to Prussia, but desires
the closest possible connection with that country of
the newly modelled Duchy that is to be—close con-
nection in military and naval matters, and h Cue.
toms' union ; Sehleswig-Holstein ports for •an
.
ships; the fortified line of the Bide-
erusea
.
to be occupied by Prussian t-
.and the Schlei
vary; Prussian comm
_seeps whenever neces-
tig
last h
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11 ted a canal con-
this d the North Sea. To carry out
nee n the Bali'..
an
take esejsot preliminary steps haVe already been
.ea towards the fort atlon of a company. The
late Minister Von thr Heydt's name heads the list
of the cetea.ittee, whose members are chiefly Berlin
bankers and merchants. From Eckernforde to
Husum is the most promising line, and the one
that would probably be eeletted.
Letters which I hale received from North Schles-
wig within the last day or two do not show a state
of tnings favourable to the realisation either of that
onion of the Duchies with Prussia Whit!) the Cross
Journal opposes, or of that ,eudetring alliance between
Prussia and Austria which the Berne paper ardently
desires. "la consequence of the rumours afloat,"
says one of my correspondents,
Of ambitious designs imputed to ate tismall Ro-
vernment, a remarkable and funning diattge has taken
place in the language oftheitittu-Schleswig-Holstein party
whose members thvstly begin to rave as much against
Prussia as they formerly did against Dezupp.rk, t ata not
sure if this be not in some degree due le the presetice of the
Austrians, who seem to be popular alike 'with Danish Mad
G erman Schleswigers, and who may not imptebably have
f
an-..led the flame of suspicion against Prussia. This
feeling towards the Prussian is most extraordinary and
unmistakeable ; indeed, they take no pains to conceal it,
they would prefer
ut rather make it a favourite topic of conversation. I have
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