The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-28 00:00:00

the agreement entered into by the representatives
of the Powers assembled in Conference. This shame•
less violation of treaty is in strict accordance with
tho policy which Prussia has pursued throughout ;
and we regret to say that the submissive patienco
i
with which this outrage is endured is Equally n
accordance with the course consistently followed by
the Government of England. It is with feelings
into which shame enters, as largely as anger, that
we describe the outrageous conduct of Prussia and
the sufferings of the unhappy Danes. Lord Russell
is satisfied, no doubt, to reflect that whatever ho
may have done or left undone, he has at least saved
his country from the calamities of war; that what-
ever exactions may be levied upon Denmark, our
income tax is only 6d. in the pound; that however,
completely ruined may be the trade and agriculture
of Jutland, oar commerce continues to increase and
flourish; and that, however frightfully the Danish
army may have suffered in the unequal struggle, no
English soldiers fell at Dybbol, and no English guns
were sacrificed at the Dannewerke. He congratu-
lates himself on having forced his country to play
the Levite's part and, seeing the friend that had
fallen among thieves, to p IEB by on the other side.
But we—and among us the nation at large—feel
anything bat gratitude towards the Foreign Secre-
tary for an immunity from sacrifices and from danger
which has been purchased at the expense of hon-
our. We recognise that selfishness is as hateful
and cowardice as loathsome in a nation as in an
individual ; and we agree with Lord Ellenborough
that the wealth and power of England impose on
her other duties than those of idle enjoyment and
slothful indifference, and that it is her duty as a
great Power to do good and prevent wrong. More
than this, we believe that such persevering and
continual dereliction of that duty as has marked
the course of the present Government can only end
in depriving us of that position. We hold our rank
among nations only on condition of performing the
duties of that rank; and Heaven has so ordered it
that the non-performance of those duties will of
itself involve a forfeiture which English pride will
not find it easy to bear. International rank
depends on international public opinion ; and
already in that opinion the position of England Is
lowered and degraded. As Lord Ellenborough
truly says, the opinion of a Power which is not
prepared to maintain its vote by the sword is of no
account in the counsels of those who are; and so
long as it is understood that England does not mean
to fight when her advice is slighted or her dignity
affronted, so long slights and affronts will be her
daily portion. Such diplomacy as that of Lord
Russell, who writes peremptory despatches which
he is not prepared to support by vigorous action,
who meddles with advice and remonstrance, at the
same time that he announces that he is not going:
happen what may, to interpose with shot and shell,
and who lectures Powers that he is not ready to
fight, while he undertakes to direct the policy of
allies whom he fiaally refuses to support, has no
other effect than to bring England into deeper con-
tempt and odium. France sneers at us for our prua
dente, and censures us, not unjustly, for the sudden
retreat by which we left her in the lurch, betrayed
in the presence of her rival and humiliated in the face
of Europe. Germany hates us for our denunciation
and Denmark bitterly reproaches us that we de'
nounced her wrongs so loudly when we had no
notion of resenting and redressing them. Our law
fauage, as Lord Grey said, has been the scolding of
an impotent old woman, and the regard that is noif
paid to anything we may say is proportionate to
the past energy of our action, not to the violence of
our words. It is not unnatural, therefore, that the
authority of England in Europe should scarcely be
greater than that of Spain. It will take a great
war, and many years of heroic sacrifices, to retrieve
the injury we have suffered from Whig cowardice
and Brummagem economy. Lord Russell's 0011
plea for himself is, that we were not bound to in"
terfere alone on behalf of Denmark, because France
and Russia were equally bound to defend her. Si
for that matter, were Austria and Prussia, ber
spoilers; and if their attack could not exonerate 130
from our obligation,- neither could the defection of
France and Russia. If, indeed, Denmark had been
attacked by a combination which we ourselves were
powerless to resist, there might be an excuse for
our leaving her to her fate, provided we also air
stain from embarrassing her by our advice. But,
as it was, we have no excuse to plead. We slain'
doned her in the face of an enemy whom we could
have beaten, after giving her advice which implied
conditional support. Who ventures to say that
England is not a match, in a sea-girt peninsula.
for Austria and Prussia ? And England would not
have been alone. Who ventures to say that, with
the aid of 30,000 English and 30,000 Swedish
troops, the Danes would not have held the Dunne'
werke or even the line of the Eider ? Who sup'
poses that Austria would have dared to go to wilt
if an English fleet had appeared off Trieste while
the Italian army, 300,000 strong, was gathering
on the Mincio and the Po; if France and Russia
held aloof, we had yet the means of bringing against
the aggressors a force which they could not have
overcome and a peril which they could hardly have
faced. We had the power of saving Denmark ; we
should have saved her had our Government dared
to fight, and probably without fighting ; we were
bound in duty and in honour to save her, and 11;
abandoning her we have lost more than the cost of
an unsuccessful war.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

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LIVERPOOL—FRIDAY.
There was only a moderate attendance of the town and
country trade to-day, and wheat met with a limited buss'
nese at an advance of ld to 2d per cental. Flour difficult
to sell even at a slight reduction. Indian corn finds buyers
at a decline of 3d per qr, Oats and oatmeal very dull'
Beano steady, but slow.

STAMFORD—FRIDAY,
White wheat, 40s to 42s ; red, 36s to 40s per 36 stone'
Barley, malting, 30s to 34s ; grinding, 27s to 30s pet flr:,
Oats, 17s to 22s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 40s to —s Per
qr. ; new, 36s to —s.

LINCOLN—FRIDAY.
With a fair quantity of wheat, last Friday's extreme rate°
were well mamtained. Barley quiet, and unchanged
price. Beans scarce. A fair business in peas.
White wheat new, 395.t0 435 Barley, grinding.. 28s to 324,
Red do, 37s .to 41s Oats, old, .. 24s to `26°
Old white —s to —s New do 19s to 29
Red do. —s to —s Beans. 38s to 400
Barley, malting...34s to 36s j Beans, new.. 34s to 3P4

WAKEFIELD—FRIDAY.
The wheat trade was steady to-day, and prices were f 111.1,11
up to last week. In other articles there was no water!
change.

Averages for the week :
Wheat 1,021 qrs., at• e•oa • • • 39s Gla
Rye
8ar1ey......... 7 --'
Beaus —.
Peas
Oats

CORK—THURSDAY.
Is, ed
The following were the quotations this morning :•----K,
wheat, 8s Od to 8s 10,1; white, 8s Od to Os 8d , barleY, i
ld to Os Od ; oats) 58 8d to Gs 4d ; black do., 5s ad t°
5s GI

COAL M
Pnoes of Coal per Ton at

.11KET.
the dose of the martet.

s. d.
Buddle'aWest Hartley 15 9
Cowpen Hartley 15 9
Lambert's West Hart-

el, cl,

1ey.... 15 3
Tanfield Moor Butee 14 0
Wylam 16 6
West Wylam l5 6
Eden Main .. ...15 0
Byass's Bebside West
Hartley ....15 6
Hastings Hartley ....15 9

Walls Encl. 6
Wharncliffe .......... 14 ,
.
Hartlepool ........ .. 16 '6'
K elloe ........15 6
Braddyll's Hetton 15 6
East Hartlepool l6 6
Hetton l6
9
Lieu& Hall 15
,A 9
South Kelloe ,-- 9
South Hartlepool 15 6
Whitworth .....
Haswell ..• ;`;',
South Hetton II 6
Stewart's 16 6
Tunstall ....
it, 110 ; soli. 121.
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