The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-28 00:00:00

GERMANY AND DENMARK,

Some of the German journals give the following
as the conditions which Prussia and Austria, and
particularly the former, will insist on for the re-
establishment of peace :—" Ist. Complete separation
of the duchies of Sleswig, Holstein, and Lauenburg
from Denmark, with the exclusion of the portions
of Jutland locked into the north of Sleswig. 2d.
The foundation of a special state under the sove-
reignty of the prince whose rights ehould be recog-
nised by a Federal tribunal. 3d. Prussia shall
reimburse to Austria the war expenses, which for
that power amount to from five to seven millions of
crowns. The duchy of Sleswig shall be occupied
by the Prussian troops, and the finances of the
duchy shall be administered by Prussian func-
tionaries until the surplus of the receipts shall
amount to the sum which Prussia claims for the
payment of the war expenses—namely, 20 millions
for Prussia, and 7 millions for Austria. 4th. The
fortress of Rendsburg will become a Federal one,
but shall be occupied by Prussian troops. stb. The
port of Kiel shall become a station for the fleet of
Prussia, which power will establish there docks, &c."
The Indepentiance, after giving those conditions,
remarks :—" The importance of the share in these
arrangements which Prussia claims by reserving to
herself the occupation of Rendsburg, and making
Kiel a station for her fleet, cannot fail to be remarked.
While awaiting the moment when Denmark shall
declare herself prepared to submit to arrangements
so onerous for her, and when the Diet will resign
itself to the exclusion of which it is the object, a
rather marked movement egainst the exclusiveness
with which the cabinets of Vienna and Berlin
appear to be animated, has been manifesting itself
in the policy of France since the stay of 111.Dreuyn
de Lhuys at Vichy. There are rumours of the
approaching appearance of a manifesto in the Moni-
teur, or a note, or a pamphlet, the object of which
Mould be to show the necessity of fixing the prin.
"ciPtes of a fresh international jurisdiction, in order
to prevent the abuse of might, as the former public
law tends to disappear, and the new public law,
which takes as its basis the will of the populations,
is not yet generally recognised. We believe that
instead of those manifestations, the French Govern-
ment will confine itself, if this is not already the
case, to communicating to the cabinets of Vienna
and Berlin its opinion that the Germanic Confede-
ration ought to be called on to take part in the
negotiations for peace with Denmark. In support
of that step it would show that the exclusion of
Germany at the period of the negotiations at Lon-
don in 1852 greatly contributed to the present
complications, The same error would certainly
produce the same effects; the Duchies might at a
later period invoke that exclusion to liberate them-
selves from the fresh obligations contracted in their

name."
A Berlin letter of the 33d, speaking of the Rends-
burg occupation, says :—" Count do Bismark's ex-
pression of Might takes precedence of right' is
sufficiently well known, but if the secondary States
do not allow themselves to be led into an openly
secessionist policy, Prussia will certainly not carry
the affair to any extremity. In the first place, it is
right to declare that the Hanoverian soldiers had no
intention of attacking the Prussian hospitals ; and
next, the population of Holstein was entirely un-
connected with those sanguinary quarrels, Count
de Bismark has simply profited by the disorder to
seize on the most important fortress in Holstein. Iu
official regions here the feeling against Saxony is
very strong. Baron de Beust is said to have medi-
tated a coup de main, which would have placed
the government of the Duchy of Holstein in the
hands of the Duke of Augustenburg, in order to
create an accomplished fact to oppose to the
policy of the cabinets of Berlin and Vienna. To
foil those 004 Prussia had prepared ft proposal

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PRICE .ld.
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to be presented to the Diet for the withdrawal
of the Federal troops from the Duchies of Hol-
stein end Laucuburg, and for reconstituting the
Federal contingent of the Duchies without modi-
fying in any way the present administration. The
right of the Diet over those two Duchies is
incontestable. It is Count de Rechberg who com-
municated officially to the Cabinet of Copenhagen
the conditions under which the two German Powers
were ready to open negotiations of peace. The jour:
nals publish a letter addressed by a M. Schramm to
the inhabitants of the Duchies, in which he openly
advocates the incorporation of the latter with the
Prussian monarchy. M. Schramm, who was fora
merly a republican, but deserted his party to join
the reaction, thus continues at Berlin the propa-
gandism for Prussia which forced him some time
back to quit the Duchy of Sleswig."

THE OCCUPATION OF RENDSBURG,

BERLIN, July 26.

The official Staats•Antiger of to-day publishes
the following communication, which it states to be
derived from a well informed source:—

"In the contact which has occasionally taken
place between members of the allied army and of
the Federal executive division stationed in Holstein,
an irritated feeling has for some time past been ob-
servable, which finds explanation, if not excuse, in
the situation in which the Saxon and Hanoverian
troops have been placed by the policy of their Go-
vernments since February of the present year. Fur-
ther, it is well known that the Federal commanders
were in many instances compelled by their special
instructions to annoy the allied army both when ad-
vancing against the enemy and actually engaged,
by all kinds of trivial formalities, refusal of quarters,
Sze., and thereby to obstruct its efficiency. At the
same time it is readily acknowledged that, so far as
we are aware, everything was done upon the part of
Lieut.-General von Hake, the commander-in-chief
of the Federal division in Holstein, to render those
obstructions as little disadvantageous as possible to
the allied army, notwithstanding the instructions
of the Diet, On the other hand, it is also not to
be denied that the Hanoverian troops in especial—
and we regret to say we cannot entirely acquit the
officers—expressed their annoyance, fully intelli-
gible to every military man, at the unpleasant
position in which they were placed by the sin-
gular policy of their Government, by turning
their iil.humour against the members of the vic-
torious
allied army. These troops had, on the con-
trary, the very best claims to the sympathies of
their German companions in arms, and would una
questionably have greeted their Saxon and Hano-
verian comrades with hearty joy if it had been
granted to the latter to take part in the conflict
against Denmark, in place of carrying out a long
since objectless execution in forced inactivity in
Holstein. A to some extent official expression of
the dislike prevailing towards the allied armyamong
the Hanoverians was first received by the occur-
rences at Rendsburg upon the 29th June.
The greatest astonishment and most intense an-
❑oyance were justly aroused, not only among the
public, but also in the allied army, when it was
seen from the newspapers that the Hanoverian
Lieut.-Colonel Dimmers, at that time Federal com-
mandant of Rendsburg, had thought proper to have
the flags of the allied army, hoisted by a private
individual among other flags in his joy at the cap-
ture of Alsen, hauled down by a patrol. It is un-
necessary to discuss here how far the commandant
was right with that individual, and ought perhaps
to have made him accountable for his act ; but he
ought never to have permitted himself so gravely to
insult an allied army, bleeding from fresh wounds
after recent victory, by the forcible removal and
confiscation of its flags. The commander-in-chief
of the allied army was therefore unquestionably
fully justified, after receiving an official report of
the occurrence, and finding it in the main to con-
firm statements of the newspapers, in applying
forthwith to Lieutenant-General von Hake with the
demand that Lieutenant-Colonel Dammers should
be relieved of his post as commandant of Rends.
burg, and that this measure should then be notified
to the commander-in-chief of the allied army.
Lieutenant. General von Hake thereupon gave
the required satisfaction, and informed H.R.H.
Prince Frederick Charles that he had ordered
Lieutenant-Colonel Dammers to be superseded.
It is probable that this occurrence is intimately,
connected with the gross excesses which were com-
mitted a few days later—the 17th and 18th—
against Prussian soldiers by Hanoverian non-com-
missioned officers and men. Street riots arose out
of a soldiers' fight in a dancing-house, to all ap-
pearance previously concerted. Prussian sentinels
were grossly insulted, and even the hospitals dis-
turbed by stone throwing and threats against the
wounded and sick ; even on the night of the 18th,
three Hanoverian officers not on duty drew their
swords upon a Prussian patrol to effect the libera-
tion of a Hanoverian con-commissioned officer who
had attacked a sentinel.

These occurrences required the most speedy satis-
faction. The commander-in.chief of the allied army
could not permit members of the forces to be further
exposed, at an important station, to insults dictated
by envy and hatred, and the repose of the badly
wounded and sick to be again disturbed by similar
tumults. Major-General von Goeben therefore re•
ceived orders to move into Rendsburg with a com-
bined brigade upon the 21st, and to make himself
master of the place.
This order was carried into effect at noon of the
day specified: A Prussian commandant was ap-
pointed, and the posts were occupied by Prussian
troops. The Federal garrison which has hitherto
occupied Rendsburg voluntarily evacuated the place
before the entrance of the Prussians, and occupied
some of the villages lying south of the town in the
course of the forenoon. We understand, further,
that his Royal Highness Prince Frederick Charles
communicated the arrangement made to General
von Hake by letter on the 21st. General von Hake
protested against the entrance of the Prussian
troops, and is reported to have added a second
formal protest by order of the Federal Diet. We
fully admit the extreme unpleasantness and diffi•
culty of the position in which the Federal troops
in Holstein have been placed since the commence-
ment of the year by the fault of their Govern.
ment s, and we can understand that the most
recent consequences of the deplorable excesses
in Rendsburg have rendered this position
almost unbearable to military feeling. An army,
however, in front of the enemy cannot allow itself
to be insulted with impunity in its rear, and was
unable to permit its efficiency to be injured by the
possible repetition of excesses at an important
station, by its connection with its base being cut off,
and by the quiet of its sick and severely wounded
being threatened. Those who have placed the
Federal troops in so false a position must take the
responsibility of the present situation.

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