The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 1, 1864.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
THE GREAT WTLL CASE.
This morning the Lord Chief Justice commenced his
summing up in this case, first remarking on the importance
of the issue joined, and then proceeding to read the evidence.
It is uncertain at what hour the verdict may be delivered.
If possible, we shall give the result in a later edition.

NOTIFICATION OF BLOCKADE.

(From a Second Supplemen! to the London Gazette of Friday,
the 29th of Febraary.—MOnday, lebrua ry 29.)
FOREIGN-OFFICE, Feb. 29.
It is hereby notified that Earl Russell, her Ma-
jesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, has received from the Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the
King of Denmark at this Court a notification, dated
the 26th of February, 1864, of the blockade by the
Danish naval forces of all ports and inlets on the
east coast of the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein
from the 25th of this month (February), with the
exception of Neustadt, the Islands of Als and Aeree,
and such other places as are actually under the au-
thority of his Majesty the King of Denmark; and
further notifying that the blockade will succes-
sively be raised for every place that tames again
into the power of the Royal Government, and public
notice thereof be given. _

The following is the official communication re-
ceived by Earl Russell :
Legation of Denmark, Feb. 2G.

My Lord,—I am directed by my Government to inform
your Excellency that, according to an official notice issued
on the 18th inst. by the Danish Ministry of Marine :
" All ports and inlets on the coasts of the Duchies of
Schleswig and Holstein will be blockaded from the 25th of
this month, with the exception of Neustadt, the Islands of
Als and Aeroe, and such other places as are actually under
the authority of his Majesty the King.
" The blockade will successively be raised for every place
that comes again into the power of the Royal Government,
and public notice thereof be given."—l have, &c.,
TORBEN BILLE.
The Right Hon. Earl Russell, &c,, Foreign-office.
Lord Russell has also received the following de-
spatch from Sir Augustus Paget, her Majesty's
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
at the Court of Copenhagen, forwarding a copy of
a note which had been addressed to him by the
Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs, notifying the
establishment of the blockade, and stating that
neutral vessels will be allowed to the let of April
to clear out of the blockaded ports :
Copenhagen, Feb. 22,

My Lord—l have the honour to enclose herewith copy of
a note which I have received from M, Quaade, enclosing
the notification by the Minister of Marine that after the
25th of this month a blockade of the east coast of the
Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein is to be established with
the exception of certain places therein specially named.
M. Quaade also states that any neutral ship then lying in
a blockaded harbour will be allowed till April 1 to leave it,
either in ballast or with cargo ; and if in any special case it
should happen that this delay is not sufficient for the clear-
ing out of the neutral ships, the officer in command of the
blockading force is authorised to grant, on demand of the
consular agent, a further delay for their free departure.
I have sent copies of this note and its enclosures to Mr.
Consul Taylor, and hava instructed him to inform the
Vice-Consuls in his district of the intentions of the Danish
Government. —I have, Scc„ A, PA.GLT.
The Earl Russell,

(Translation.)
Copenhagen, Feb. 20:

Sir—l have the honour to inform you that from the 25th
of this month all the ports and inlets of the east coast of
the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein will be in a state of
blockade, with the exception of Neustadt., the Islands of
Als and Aeroe, and other places actually under the autho-
rity of the King.
While transmitting to you herewith some copies of the
publicition in which the Minister of Marine notifies the
blockade, I venture to have recourse to your kind interven-
tion to request you to be good enough to give notice to the
consular agents of your Government resident at the block-
aded places, notifying to them at the same time that all
neutral ships which at the commencement of the blockade
are in a blockaded port will, up to the Ist of April, have the
right of leaving either with cargo or in ballast:
If, from special circumstances, the delay fixed for free
exit is not found sufficient in any particular case, the officer
charged with the blockade is authorised to arrange for a
longer term with the Consular agent, on receiving an appli-
cation from him to that effect.

Receive, &c.,

G. QuAADE.

A Curious Case,

An application was made last week to the Civi,
Tribunal of the Seine under the following circum

stances :

A widow lady named Hautefeuille, whose hus-
band died in 1844, became insane some years after-
wards, and was finally declared, by a judgment
of the Tribunal of the Seine, in July, 1862, in-
capable of managing her affairs. Previously
to this judgment, Madame Hautefeuille had
confided to her confessor, the Abbe Canbert,
manager of the School of St. Genevieve, a con-
siderable part of her fortune. In August, 1862,
the Abbe Beaurain, who had succeeded the Abbe
Caubert as manager of the school above-men-
tioned, restored to M. Moulin, the husband of one
of the lunatic's daughters, recently appointed her
guardian by the tribunal, 22 Roman bonds, and an
inscription of Piedmontese rente producing a yearly
dividend of 200 fr. These securities represented a
total of about 28,000 fr. The Abbe Beaurain also gave
M. Moulin a note of hand for 8,000 fr., which was
paid in the October following, and received from him
a receipt in full of all demands. In July, 1863, how-
ever, M. Moulin commenced proceedings against
the Abbes Caubert and Beaurain, to recover a fur-
ther sum of 12,000 fr., on the ground that Mine.
Hautefeuille had not confided to M. Caubert secu-
rities worth only 28,000 fr,, but a sum of 48,000 fr.
in cash, and he demanded to be allowed to prove-
1, That Mme. Hautefeuille had frequently expressed

to third persons her intention of leaving her pro-
perty away from her two daughters ; 2, that she had
borrowed money and given it to the Jesuits ; 3, that
she had led a miserable life, as if she had no resources
whatever; 4, that the Abbe Beanrain admitted that
he had received from her 48,000 fr. in each; and 6,
that the Jesuits had a quantity of furniture be-
longing to the lunatic which they had not paid
for, as they pretended. The applicant's counsel
stated that Mme. Hautefeuille had been under
the influence of her Jesuit confessors ever since
1844, and had confided to them whatever money
came into her possession, and had received little
or no interest for it. His client was therefore
justified in taking measures to recover the full
amount of the principal. The application was
opposed by the Abbs Caubert and Beaurain,
whose counsel sti gmatised the present proceed-
ings as an attempt to extort money from his clients
by charging them with scandalous dishonesty. All
the money due to the lunatic's estate had been re-
stored, and the applicant himself had gave a receipt
in full of all demands. The Tribunal, after hearing
the Public Prosecutor, Who strongly reprobated the
applicant's conduct, rejected all Moulin's demands,
and condemned him to pay all costs.

Dr.PUSEY has evidently
got a profound conviction
that true unity of spirit is engendered by common
repulsion rather than common attraction. " Any one," he
confides to the Record, "who
knows anything of human
nature, knows in what countless cases the fear of Hell first
drove men to their forgotten God and Saviour," and there-
fore he calla the Lord Chancellor's recent judgment in the
case of " Essays and Reviews" soul-destroying, and, on
exactly the same principle, he offers to ally himself with
the Record, on the ground of a strong common repulsion to
that Judgment—an offer which the Record, recognising in
the most cordial spirit that common hatreds imply a truly
Christian unity of spirit, gladly accepts, calls Dr, Pusey's
letter " admirable and faithful, " and sounds the
call to common action on the part of all who think
with the new Puseyite and the old Evangelical party
that, as Dr. Pusey naively remind us, " Good when He
revealed Hell, knew the creatures which ho had made better
than these people." This, then, is to be the basis of the
new coalition between the dregs of the Puseyite and the
dregs of the Evangelical party—for common belief, the
assertion of the verbal inspiration of the Bible, and the
Gospel of Hell everlasting ; for common action the subver-
sion of the Privy Council's judgment. Dr. Fussy writes,
and the Record receives what he says, exactly as if our
Lord had come preaching and revealing not Himself and
the Kingdom of God, but the Devil and the Kingdom of
Hell, in order that the scared human race might walk back-
wards from the bottomless pit, and so recoil into their
Saviour's arms. It is a curious example of a great spiritual
engine with the wheels reversed.—Spectator.
" We have received accounts," says the Tosaon-
nais, "of the Iphigenie frigate, which left this port
on the Gth January, having on board a number of convicts
for New Caledonia. She touched at St. Vincent's (Cape
do Verd Islands) on the 27th of that month. Some cases
of scurvy had appeared among the passengers, but, owing
to the precautionary measures adopted, the disease was soon
checked, The conduct of the convicts on board was very
satisfactory, A number of them, under the direction of
the Abbe lienouard, the chaplain, had learned religious
ells tubes, which they sang during the performance of mass
9 ,Sundays,",

The Dano-German Correspondence.

Another portion (No. III.) of this correspondence
was published yesterday. It brings down the
despatches to Dec. 16, 1863, and includes no less
than 450 documents. The most interesting of the
series to the general public are those relating to the
mission of Lord Wodehouse to Berlin and Copen-
hagen. In a despatch, dated the Bth of March, Earl
Russell sends Lord Wodehouse the following in-
structions

" It is not my purpose either to point out how
these engagements have been observed or to affirm
that any of them have been violated. It will be for
the ministers of Austria and Prussia to make their
complaints on this head. It is the desire of her
Majesty's Government to see these questions sub-
mitted to a calm examination by the non German
Powers.

"You will accordingly communicate the views of
her Majesty's Government to the Ministers of
France, Russia, and Sweden, and you will endea.
your to make your joint representations to the
Danish Government conformable in substance, if
not identic in terms.

" The result to be arrived at is the fulfilment of
the treaty of May 8, 1852, and of the engagements
entered into by Austria, Prussia, and Denmark in

1851-52. The mode of arriving at that result can-
not be laid down. Patience and impartiality on
the part of the great Powers will conduce greatly
to that end, and will contribute in the same propor-
tion to the maintenance of the peace of Europe."
In a despatch, dated December 1, 1863, Lord
Wodehouse gives an account of an interview he had
with Herr Von Bismarck. After alluding to some
minor points, he narrates the following conversa-
tion :

" M. de Bismarck said that the demands of Ger.
many were the same as they had always been—
namely, that Denmark should fulfil her engagement
not to incorporate Schleswig with the kingdom
and to grant a common constitution in which
Holstein, Schleswig, and Lauenburg should enjoy
equal rights with the kingdom. I replied that her
Majesty's Government were persuaded that it was
hope:ess to enter into a discussion as to the common
constitution. The last eleven years had been passed
in fruitless attempts to reconcile the German with
the Danish views of what constituted equal rights.
Was it probable that the Danes would ever submit
to give the inhabitants of the Duchies, who were a
minority, the same number of members in a common
parliament as the Danes, who were the majority ?
Would such an arrangement be consistent with
fairness or justice? M. de Bismarck said that the
Danes would not have a fair equality of members
with the Germans, because there were a larger
number of Danes in Schleswig, who would no doubt
return Danish members. His excellency developed
at much length his views as to the common consti-
tution, but I cannot say I heard from him anything
which has not been repeated over and over again in
these interminable discussions. I still pressed him
to state some other alternative, but he said this was
for the Danes, and. not the Germans, to propose.
" I then asked him what the German Powers re-
quired as to the constitution recently signed by the
King of Denmark. Upon this point he said there
could be no compromise. The constitution must be
declared before January 1 to be inapplicable to
Schleswig, otherwise the German Powers would
hold themselves released from all their engagements
to Denmark, including the treaty of 1852. They
could not be satisfied with the mere postponement
for the present of the meeting of the new Rigsraad.
" I said that I supposed that he would be satisfied
if the King issued a declaration that the constitution
could not be carried into effect as regards Schleswig.
It might be necessary, if the question was not con-
cluded by the existing Rigsraad, which expired at
the end of the year, to call together the new Rigs-
raad, by which alone the law could then be altered.
"His excellency said, provided Schleswig was
exempted from the oreration of the law by some act
done by the King before January 1, when the new
constitution came into force, he did not care by what
assembly the law was ultimately abrogated. How-
ever, it would, he was convinced, be necessary for
the King of Denmark to dismiss his present minis-
ters ; a coup d'etat would be the best solution of the
difficulty. The fact was that Germany would never
be on good terms with Denmark as long as the
present democratic institutions of Denmark were
maintained.
" I said I regretted to hear this language, which
amounted to a declaration that the German Go-
vernments were really about to interfere to change
the domestic institutions of an independent mo-
narchy, and I pointed out strongly to M. de Bis-
marck the danger which the German governments
ran of exciting revolution at home by lending them-
selves to the designs of the Schleswig-Holstein
party. Nothing, I said, could justify the conduct of
the Prince of Augustenburg.
"1 concluded the conversation, which was con•
ducted with the utmost courtesy by M. de Bismarck,
by requesting that he would give me a memorandum
of the demands of the German powers. M. de Bis-
marck readily consented to this, and a memorandum
was accordingly drawn up (of which I enclose a
copy), and which it was agreed, if approved by the
King and the Austrian Minister, should be initialled
by M. de Bismaick, Count Karolyi, and her Ma-
jesty's ambassador.,
"The following is the memorandum :
"The Austrian and Prussian governments require
that the Danish government shall carry out the
engagements entered into by Denmark in 1851.52;
so that, apart from the Federal ties which concern
only Holstein, Schleswig shall not be more closely
connected with the kingdom of Denmark than Hol-

stein,
" They therefore consider that the Constitution of
Nov. 18, 1863, is a violation of the engagements of
Denmark, and they require that measures shall be
taken, before January 1, by the Danish government
to prevent that constitution from being carried into
effect as regards Schles wig.
" When such measures shall have been taken,
they expect to receive from Denmark propositions
as to the manner in which the engagements of
1851.52 are to ba