The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-30 00:00:00

DENMARK AND GERMANY.

(Iron; the Times' Corresponcle;et
VIENNA, Aug. 27.
At 8 o'clock in the morning of Thursday, the
25th instant, the King of Prussia left this city for
Ischl and Salzburg, and in the course of the after-
noon the so long interrupted negotiations for peace
were resumed. The plenipotentiaries held another
sitting yesterday, and they are to meet again to-
day, but the question at issue is so very compli-
catee. that many weeks are likely to elapse before
the negotiations are brought to a close. Two com-
mittees—the one military, the other financial—have
been formed, and they have already commenced
operations. The military committee, which is com-
posed of Colonel Kauffmann for Denmark, Lieut.-
Colonel von Schonfeldt for Austria, and an officer of
engineers, whose name is not yet known to me, for
Prussia, is now poring over Danish ordnance maps,
and trying to hit on an eligible boundary line be-
tween the Danish province of Jutland and the Ger•
man Duchy of Schleswig. The Financial Committee
is said to be composed of M. von Quaade, for Den-
mark; Baron von Werther, Prussia ; Baron von Bie-
geleben, Austria; and Baron von Scheel.Plessen and
a M. Reineke, a North German banker, the Duchies.
Some time ago I informed you that the inhabitants
of Schleswig and Holstein would have to pay a high
price for their independence, and it now appears
that the claims made on them by Austria and
Prussia on the one side and Denmark on the other
amount to 65,000,000 dollars, or thereabouts.
Baron von Scheel-Plessen has drawn up a memorial
on the subject, in which he claims for the Duchies,
as a set-off against the quota of the National Debt
which will fall to their share, a part of the State

property of Denmark. It is even said that the
non-official representative of the Duchies, who is a
persona grata at Berlin, claims for them a part of
the Danish fleet. Schleswig has from time imme-
morial belonged to Denmark, and it is therefore
almost impossible to say what part of the
State property belongs to the kingdom, and
what part of its ancient dependency. M. von
Quaade leads a very retired life here, and has little
or no communication with the members of the diplo-
matic corps, but by some means or other it has come
to their knowledge that he is trying to persuade
the representatives of Austria and Prussia to recog-
nize the validity of certain treaties, one of which is
said to give to Denmark the right to join tha Ger-
man Confederation. The Duke of Grammont is said
to have declared that his Government would cbjeot
to the conclusion of a Federal alliance between the
German Powers and Denmark, and there is no
reason to doubt that the report is in substance
correct. M. von Bismark is still one of the
representatives of Prussia in the Conference,
but ho is very impatient to get away,
and has already informed his colleagues that
he must be in Berlin again on the 7th of September.
The King of Prussia, who purposes staying at
Baden Baden until the 9th of the next month, is
said to have obtained from the Emperor of Austria
a promise to attend certain grand military ma-
noeuvres which are to come off in the autumn in
the neighbourhood of Berlin. It is not unlikely that
the Emperor of Russia will meat the Emperor
Francis Joseph in the Prussian capital; and, if such
should be the case, there will not fail to be another
loud outcry that the groat Northern Powers are
plotting mischief.
The relations between the Austrian and Prussian
monarchs and their respective Ministers are ex-
tremely intimate, but it is doubtful whether a
regular treaty of alliance has been concluded here.
Men in office say that the two Governments have
agreed strictly to uphold the principle of legitimacy,
and no one who knows anything of Messrs. von
Rechberg and von Bismark, will be disposed to
question the correctness of the statement. A well
informed friend tells me that the French Govern-
ment is ill-pleased with the rapprochement between
Austria and Prussia, and I am at no loss to conceive
that such is the case. It stands to reason, that
neither the Emperor nor the King can wish to give
offence to France, but certain it is that they tacitly
avow that a good understanding between them is
necessary to their well-being and safety. As a
matter of course there are still many subjects on
which the Austrian and Prussian Governments are
at variance, and one of them is about to be brought
to an issue. The Imperial Government being re-
solved, if possible, to get into the German Zollve-
rein, has put the following categorical questions to
the Prussian Cabinet-1. Does the Berlin Govern-
ment recognise the right of Austria to join the
German Customs-Union ? And 2. Will the Berlin
Government come to a preliminary understanding
with the Austrian Cabinet before it ratifies the
Franco-Prussian Treaty of Commerce ? In order
to keep Count Rechberg in a good humour M, von
Bismark said that some concessions might perhaps
be made, but it is my firm conviction that Austria
will be entirely isolated if she does not at once
modify her tariff. M. von Blumfeld, who is the
managing man in the Department of Commerce,
holds firmly to the system of high duties, and
he is said recently to have declared, that if
Prussia should remain obdurate such a vast coun-
try as Austria can manage to get on without a
commercial treaty with her or any other foreign
Power. To use the language of a German financier
of high reputation, " the Aulic Councillor von
Blumfeld has about as much knowledge of commer-
cial matters as had Louvois, the ill-famed Minister
of Louis XIV. of France." A few days hence the
commercial negotiations between Austria and Prus-
sia will be renewed in Leipsic or Breslau. It is un-
derstood that Baron Hock, who is one of the few
employ es in Austria who have rational ideas on corn.
mercial matters, will represent this Government.
Great importance is here attached to the resolution
taken by the Schleswig-Holstein Deputies at Neu-
munster on Wednesday last. There were 51 market
tons and boroughs in Schleswig and Holstein, and on
the day abovementioned 41 of them, which were re-
presented by 81 deputies, solemnly declared that the
Duchies only wished for such a union (anschluss)
with Prussia as was in the interest of Germany.
It was added that the inhabitants of Schleswig-
Holstein objected to a Provisional Government, and
wished to be placed under the rule of Duke Fre-
deric of Augustenburg without any further delay,
The Government does not now meddle with the
question relative to the succession, and doubtless it
will remain passive until it clearly sees its way in
the Customs-Union question. Should Prussia make
concessions Austria will play the game of that
Power in the Duchies, bnt if she should persist in
refusing to do so, this Government will hardly fail
to urge the Bund to declare in favour of the Duke
of Augustenburg, the validity of whose claims to
the succession has never been seriously questioned.
The Emperor and the King of Prussia were much
together while the latter was here, and when they
separated at the railway terminus they shook hands
three several times, and as often embraced each
other in foreign fashion. A few days since M. von
Bismark received a telegram from Berlin, in which
it was said that there was likely to be a large sur-
plus in the revenue during the current year. "You
see the results," said the reactionary statesman, turn-
ing to one of his German colleagues, "of our being
without a Diet."

Many persons have been arrested in the Southern
Tyrol on a charge of having conspired against the
State, but I am not disposed to attach much im-
portance to the circumstance, as the Austrian police
is in the habit of lighting on mares' nests. The last
conspiracy in Hungary turned cut to be a phan-
tasm, and it is probable that the plot recently dis-
covered in Venetia is nothing more. Baron Bacb,the
Austrian Ambassador at Rome, who is now here,
is to represent this Government at the Court of His
Majesty, the ex-King of Naples. Great severity is
now displayed towards the Poles who are confined
in Moravia and Bohemia, and Count Rechberg per-
emptorily refuses to set M. Langiewicz at liberty,
although the Swiss Government, whose subject Le,
has become, offers to guarantee his good behaviour.
There must be a very bad feeling in Dalmatia
towards the Imperial Government, for M. Baja-
monti, on whose account the Provincial Diet was
dissolved, has been re-elected by the Chamber of
Commerce in Spalata, and also by the inhabitants
of that city.