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Denmark. Their reply is decisive. It declines the
Prussian proposal, which is supported by the Pleni-
potentiary of the Germanic Confederation alone.
The result of this deliberation prows that the
manner of solution indicated by the Court of Pruse
sia has not secured the united suffrages of the
Conference."
The Conference assembled on Jane 22 to hear the
decisions which the belligerent Powers had taken
upon the proposal made by the Government of her
Britannic Majesty with the view of calling on a
friendly Power to settle the question of boundary,
which was now the principle dlfi2ulty that delayed
the pe&fic solution of the dispute.
The reply of the belligerent Powers did not re-
spond to she wishes of the Government of her
Britannic Majesty. Austrie and Prussia, " while
showing themselves disposed to accept the media-
tion of a neutral Power not represented in the Con-
ference, were willing to engage beforehand to con-
eider themselves definitively bound by the opinion
which might be expressed by the mediating Power,
as circumstances did not allow them to accept an
arbitrative decision.
The Danish Government expressed a refusal even
more decided. They declared that, to their great
regret, it was impossible for them to give their
consent to the proposal of the English Cabinet.
The Plenipotentiary of Denmark explained this
refusal by the necessity which obliged him to re-
gard the boundary proposed on the 28th of May
as final, so as not to allow him to agree to an arbi-
trary decision which might modify that line.
Lord Clarendon combated the opinion. While
representing facts in their real light, he showed
that the lino indicated on the 28th of May had been
proposed in the interest of Denmark and of peace,
and not with the intention of laying down a prin-
ciple from which there could be no departure.
The Plenipotentiary of Russia concurred in the
opinion of Lord Clarendon. He affirmed that Lord
Russell never intended to propose that as an ulti-
matum., nor to impose it as such on the belligerent

Conductor, Mr. Costa.
After which the Divertissement, L'lle Enchant6e. Sup-
ported by Mdlle. Salvioni, Mdile. Carmine, 3(111e. Navarro,
Assunta, M. -)esplaces, and Mr. W. 11. Payne.
Commence at half past Eight.
!'it tickets, 7s. ; amphitheatre ,•tals, 103. 6d., 75., and ss. ;
omphitheatre.",2s. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had
tt the box-offic - under the portico of the theatre, which is
,pen from ten to five, and at the principal musicsellers' and
,lbrartans'.

THEATRE ROYAL HAYM ARKET.-
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone.
THIS EVENING. THE BALANCE OF COMFORT.
Air. Howe and Miss L. Angel.
Alter which, DAVID GARRICK. Messrs. Sothern,
Chippendale, Buckstone, Rogers, Clark, Weatheriby, ;
Mesdames Snowden, Nelly Moore, Fitzwilliam.
Followed by LORD DUNDREARY MARRIED AND
DONE FOR.
To conclude with TURNING THE TABLES. Mr.
Compton, Mr. Howe, IC.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining.
THIS EVENING will be performed a new and original
Drama, by R. Slous, Esq., entitled LIGHT AND SHADOW.
Mr. D. Murray, D. Fisher, J. W. Ray, J. Nelson, B.:c. ; Miss
Stafford and .51iss Caroline Carson.

After which, the new pray by John Oxenford, Eel., THE
MONASTERY OF SP. JUST : Messrs. Vining, H. Mare-
ton, J. Nelson, J. W. Ray, li. Mellon, W. Robins, Seyton,
Chapman ; Mrs. H. Marston, and 3ldlle. Stella olas.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-.
Bole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.

THIS EVENING, SIIAKSPERE'.S HOUSE. Mr. J. L.
Toole, Mr. R. Phillips.

Followed by THE DEAD HEART : Robert Landry
(his original character), Mr. Benjamin Webster, supported by
Messrs. A. ::•tirling, .1. L. Toole, T. Stuart, Paul Bedford,
13.11ington ; Miss Woolgar (Mrs. Alfred Mellon), Mies Kelly,

Afterwhich, THE AREA BELLE, with a Norrible Tale :
Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, H. Boraerltiss Woolgar, and
Mrs. H. Lewis.

Commeuee at 7.

rowers.
The Ambas=sador of France and the Minister of
Sweden expressed themselves in the same sense.
All the. combinations brought forward to arrive
at an agreement on the line of the frontier having
unfortunately been rejected, the Prince de la Tour
d'Auvergne thought fit to lay before the Conference
a new proposal. He said—
" When the Government of the Emperor gave

ROYAL ST, JAMES'S THEATRE, under the
Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER.

Crowded with rank and fashion.

Re• engagement of those ce'ebrated and popular artistes, Mr.
an 1 Mrs. Charles Mathews.

Amongst the artists engaged will be found the popular
names of Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews. Mr.
Frank Matthews, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Paul
Bedford, Mr.:F. Robinson. Mr. Ashley, Mr. J. Johnstone;
Mies Herbert, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss H. Simms, Miss
A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss
Wentworth, Mrs. Stirling, and Mrs. Chas. Mathews.

their adhesion to the plan of arrangement proposed
by her Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of
State, in the sitting of the 28th of May, they i'oped
that the united efforts of the Plenipotentiaries of
the neutral Powers, seconded by the conciliatory
disposition of the Plenipotentiaries of the bellige-
rent Powers, would succeed in bringing about
between the interested psrties an understanding
as to the tracing of the line of frontier.

EVERY EVENING: at 7, A SHEEP IN WOLF'S
CLOTHING. Mrs. Stirling, Mr. J. Clarke, and Mr. F.
Rcbinson.

At 8, the Comic Drama of USED UP. Messrs. C. Mathews,
Ashley, J. Johnstone, 3lontague, W Chamberlaine ; Miss
Patti Josephs, and Mrs. Frank Matthews.

At 10, LITTLE TODDLEKINS, Mr. Charles Mathews
Mr. and Mrs. F. Matthews.

To conclude with BRISTOL DIAMONDS. Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Mathews, Mr. Ash ey, Miss Wentworth.
In Rehearsal, FAUST AND MARGUERITE. An Im-
morality, by F. C. Burnand, Esq., in which Mr. and M:s.
Charles .lathews will appear.

"These hopes have unfortunately not been
realised. All the arrangements propcsed have been
rejected, and no compromise seems as yet to have
any chance of being ackApted. In this position of
affairs, the Government of the Emperor consider it
their duty to make in the interests of peace a final
suggestion. It is in virtue of their nationality that
the northern districts of Schleswig are to be as,igned
to Denmark, and those of the south to Germany.
It bas not been thought expedient to make an
appeal to the wishes of the population where those
wishes seem to be manifes:. ; but they might be
consulted where they are doubtful, and where no
other means exist for establishing an agreement.
While admitting the impossibility of taking nation-
ality as an absolute rule in the division of the mixed
districts of Schleswig, the Government of the Em-
peror are, however, of opinion that it would be
right to obtain, by means of a vote of the com-
munes, the elements of appreciation on which it
should be agreed to base a decision. This vote by
communes would allow the most exact account to
be taken of each nationality in the definitive tree-
ing of the frontier.
" In order that it might offir in other respects the
guarantees desired, it would be well to stipulate
that all military forces should previously be with-
drawn, and that the votes should be given free from
all pressure. Each Power might, moreover, send
delegates to the spot in order to insure the perfect
impartiality of the scrutiny."
Lord Russell, in asking the opinion of the Danish
plenipotentiaries, said that as regarded the Eng-
lish plenipotentiaries, they would be disposed to
concur if the Danish Government thought proper
to give their adhesion.
M. do Quaade replied that he was, of course,
without instructions cn the subject, and that he
could not even conssnt to accept it ad referendum.
He alluded to his declaration of the 2d of June, in
which he said his Government would make great
sacrifices in order to obtain the restoration of peace,
but that there were limits beyond which they could
not go, and his instructions forbade him to consent
to any other line than that proposed by the English
plenipotentiaries in the sitting of the 28th of May,
and accepted by Denmark.

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This declaration ended the debate. It showed
at the same time the obstacle which the most per-
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been able to overcome.

It is before this insurmountable difficulty that
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The Engagement between the Alabama and

the Kearsage,

SOUTHAMPTON, June 28.
The following is a correct list of the killed,
drowned, and wounded belonging to the Alabama
in her engagement with the Kearsarge :
Killed.—John Roberts, John Adams, James Hart,
and James King, seamen ; Christian Past, Peter
Duncan, and James Weir, firemen.
Drowned.— F. M. Johns, purser's steward ; A.
Norhook, ship's cook ; P. Mayers, earpc ter'a
mate; A. G. Bartell', captain's steward; Henry
Fisher, George Appleby, Walter Vaindes, John
Williams, Jahn Wilham, John Buckley, Charles
Colson, Thomas White, and David Henry, seamen ;
Andrew Shilling, fireman ; D. H. Llewellyn,
assistant surgeon ; William Robinson, carpenter ;
William Robertson, third assistant engineer:
Wounded—Robert Wright, captains main top;
Peter Hughes, boatswain's mate; William M`Gin-
ley, captain's coxswain ; John Neil, seamen;
John Carew, Robert Divine, Jacob Verbor, David
Williams, seamen ; Thomas Winter, Samuel Wil-
liams, Martin King, firemen; William Morgan,
captain fore-top.

Threatened Arrest of " Manhattan."

NEW YORK, June 14.

My last letter informed you of an appointment
at eleven o'clock with Major-General Dix, the com-
mander on this station. He was punctual to the
appointment. He is a fine, gentlemanly old man
of 70 and odd years. He remembered me as Mr.
Calhoun's old private secretary. I cannot narrate
all that took place ; but the general laboured under
the impression that I was the incarnation of all that
was bad in the Southern Confederacy. It was of
no use my telling him that I was for the Union.
He did not seem to believe it. H© honoured
ma by saying that both ambassadors (Dayton and
Adams) thought I did more injury to the cause of
America than any other man could do. He said he
was in favour of arbitrary arrest in my case—that
he would stop these letters in future—that the past
ho would leave to the Preaident—that he would
sand those papers
(file of Standards) to the Presi-
dent, and await his decision—whether to send me
to Fort Lafayette or Richmond.
We shall know the President's decision by -Wed-
nesday, June 15. If he agrees with General Dix,
this is the leat letter you will gat from me, unless
I am sent to Richmond. It will probably make
both Mr. Mason and Mr. Slidell laugh at the idea
of sending me to Richmond. If the President does
this, I will continue my letters. I believe at Fort
Lafayette there is no writing paper.

THE MIIEDER AT PENGE.—At the Lambe!,
Police court yesterday, Edward Turner, aged 19,
and Johu William Clark, 23, were again placed at the bar
before Mr Elliott, for further examination, for the wilful
murder of Louisa Dyer, at Penge. Soma further evidence,
not very conclusive in ito nature, was taken, and the Pri"
toners were naiia remanded,

JOHN bCOTT, Sole Agent

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1864.

The collapse of the Poreign Policy of Ministers
is nothing less than a catastrophe. All their delays
have ended in failure. All their solemn mystifi-
cation has closed with a ridiculous fiasco. "Wait
—and you shall see ! Wait—and
youear shall
what in
everything ! Wait—and fox a
interval of
we have been about during this long
reiterated procrastinations ! Have Patience—only
have patience !" That has been their one incessant
response to all inquiries a response acting
like the most Effectual of Parliamentary gags
upon oven the most eager of independent
Liberals below the gangway—nay, upon even the
most restive among the rank and file of the Oppo-
sition. Well—the house has waited, the Opposi-
tion has preserved silence, in compliance with these
demands from a In Treasury bench for patience and
taciturnity. The sif-command exercised by the
House generally as well as by the Opposition in pal ■
titular, has from first to last—who shall gainsay it ?
—been exemplary. Ministers have no reason
whatsver to complain of the House as a body, or of
he Opposition as a party. For whatever has come
of it all, they (Ministers) have only to thank them-
,elves. And, what has come of it—we know now
at last and perfectly. What has come of it—is
failure the most complete and comprehensive. The
,sritten negotiations have resulted only in the
printing of a blue book. In nothing more ! The
Conference Las risen, after all its preposterous sit.
tinge, leaving matters exactly where they were
bthrehand. The Plenipotentiaries have meal.

RUY A L ITAL I A N OPEIt A, Ned 'here in London only for the express
Covent-garden. p Irpo se of wrangling over a big table
The n'tility, ,entry, subscribers, and the public are respect.
fuly informed that the Season will ciose on Saturday, in Da toning-street, and then (after the
July 30.
There will in this reek be five opera nights, viz. Monday, lap se of a certain number of weeks) of going (I bock
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and ..-, aturday.
A..- of marching down the hill of diffi 1 after
THIS EVENING (Tuesday), June 2.9, will be performed,. ag' lip it
like th® deliberate Scotchman in the jest-
for the third time on the Italian stage in England, Flotow s bo,
opera, STRADELLA. Leonora, Mdlle. Marie Batter; Bar-
berino, ell ty
th ey had marched up it so ceremoniously and even
Signor Ronconi ; Malvolio, Signor Ciampi ; Bassi,
Signor Capponi ; and Stradella, Signor Naudin, his 2d ap-
pearance in that character in England. 05 to ntatiously like the King of FRANCE with his

40,( )00 men in the ludicrous couplet. Beholding
the exact fulfilment of one's often•expressed antici-
pa' lions as to what that result must be, with Earl
RUSSELL at the Fortip-office—ono is almost tempted
for once to emulate poor simpleminded Mrs.
NICKLaBY, with her self-complacent anticipation
of the realisation of her little prophecies—'And
when I say I said so—don't yon say I didn't !"
That a melancholy failure such as this of the foreign
policy of Ministers, should have befallen that policy
of the Government, under the Secretaryship at the
Foreign-office of Earl RUSSELL, frightful though
it is for the nation to realise, thus painfully, under
the gaze of all Christendom, cannot in reason be
matter for very much astonishment. Tne marvel
is, simply, that it should have been allowed by
the Prime Minister to wind out its whole
tangled reel of ignominy, uninterruptedly—
that Prime Minister being no other than
Lord PALMERSTON! It is when we come to realise
it ell—that is, the whole of this lamentable and
really ignoble situation of England as she stands
now, isolated and derided, among the nations of
Europe—it is when we come to realise all this,
through our undimmed remembrance of Lord PAL.
MERSTON'a long-protracted and resplendent career,
that we regard the position of his Ministry at
this moment with a pang of profound grief.
Otherwise than for our wondering (almost
incredulous) recognition of the fact that it
is no other than Lord PALMERSTON, who
is the Chief of the Administration that hes
come thus deplorably to grief under the scorn.
flu' gaze of Europe, our feeling in the matter
must have been purely, and simply, and solely one
of intense and unmitigated indignation. But—
remembering the extended and illustrious career of
this great statesman—
" Who would not mourn if such a men there be I."—

such a one, so pre-eminently distinguished, fallen
thus at the close of his career into a plight so de.
plorable—
" Who would not weep if Atticus were he ?"

If among all the great statesmen of this country
now living there was one identified more conspi-
cuously than any other with all that is proudest,
haughtiest, most chivalric in the typical character
of Englishmen, as a race, that man was this last de-
scendant of a great Saxon Earl who flourished
anterior to the Conquest—that man was HENRY
JOHN TEMPLE,third Viscount PAL3IERSTON. He who,
as about the knightliest chief among the knightly
chiefs of his age, was described so finely but a very
few years since by one of the most eminent leaders in
the formidable array of the Conservative Opposi-
tion now confronting him, as "Riding to War no
vizor to his helm !" Riding to War, forsooth! We can
but think now with a pang, while watching the
strange and wholly unwonted course thus taken by
him—Riding to War ! Say rather, with a pang almost
of vicarious shame while saying it—say rather than
" Riding to War"—Sneaking to Peace ! "No
vizor to his helm?' Instead of that with the golden
spur half shorn how his heel, with the hitherto
unemirched plume upon his battle-dinted hel-
met broken and draggled ! Yet this is the
same world-famous English Statesman before the
terror of whose name remote enemies of our country
and of our Government hesitated when they were
merely meditating a slight to the name or the
honour of England ! It is the same great English
Statesman of whom the late Sir HOBBIT PEEL
—the great Sir ROBERT PEEL—once, upon a me•
morahk nrcasinn, er.cifimerl in vi
Commons, in the midst of a general sense of exul-
tation among those who actually heard the words
uttered, as afterwards among those who read
them as reported in the public newspapers—" We
are all proud of him !" Our one only consolation,
in his regard, new is to think of what he
has been for more than half a century ! One of
those statesmen the nation has been proud of! And
this during more than half a century ! For, it was in
1809, during the height of the mighty power of
NAPOLEON, when that last and greatest of the
World's Conquerors was not so much Emperor of
France merely, and King of Italy, and Mediator of
Switzerland, and Protector of the Confederation of
the Rhine, as he was Master and Lord Paramount
of Continental Europe—it was at a period so
remote as that from this present hour, it was as far
back as in 1809 that Lord PALVERSTON first assumed
a distinguished position in the House of Commons,
and in England, as an Administrator. Then—
five-and•fifty years ap:i—he was appointed Seca
retary at War upon the resignation of Viscount
CASTLEREAGH. Previoualy, in the y ear immediately
preceding it, namely, in 1808, he had made his
first notable speech in Parliament, when opposing
Mr. PON SONBI'S motion for the production of papers
relative to Lord CATHCART'S expedition to—
Copenhagen ! During the previous twelvemonth,
that is, in 1807, he had already been, although at
the time but in his twenty-fifth year, as one of the
Junior Lords of the Treasury, a member of the Tory
administration of the Duke of PORTLAND and Mr.
PONSONBY. It was in 1809, however—as many as
fifty-five years ago—that he assumed, as we have
said, a conspicuous position among the statesmen
and administrators of England by becoming
Secretary of War in the room of Lord CASTLE-
REAGH, during the height of the Great Na.
poleonian wars. Since then he has been, as
the world full well knows, almost continually
in office, now as Secretary at -War, now as Foreign
Secretary, finally twice as Prime Minister of
England—to end his great historical career at last
with an anticlimax as deplorably incomprehensible
and humiliating as that now revealed to the bewil-
dered apprehension of the country (hitherto so
" proud of him,") through his astounding
Ministerial statement last evening in the
House of Commons. As frightfully demon-
strative of the depth of humiliation to which
his proud spirit has at length con.
descended, under the guidance apparently
of Earl RUSSELL'S saturnine and sinister
influence as a Foreign Minister, it will be sufficient
to excerpt but one single passage from the close of
Lord PALMERSTON'S speech last evening, when
making this perfectly astonishing, and still to this
moment utterly incomprehensible statement—the
passage, namely, in which the Veteran Prime Minis.
ter last evening remarked :—" I do not mean to say—
and I think it right to put in that reservation—l do
not mean to say that !..f the war should assume a
different character, and
mark ass at
ank
ei n
—d p ednod ennott Power if the existence of Den
I
,: should
bee
tion sEayti"thi)eats
had atreason to c:pect we should see at Co-
penhagen the horrors of a town taken by assault—
the destruction of property, the sacrifice of the
lives not only of its defenders but of its peaceful in-
habitants, the confiscation which would arise, the
capture of the Sovereign as a prisoner of war, OR
EVEN TS OF TEAT BIND--(> oh, oh')—l do not
mean to say that if any of these events were
likely to happen, the position of this country
in'i://4 not pooaibly in a fit tubj4t for to conoidera.