The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-21 00:00:00

England, Prussia, and Denmark.

The following is an authentic copy of the corres•
pondence between M. von Bismark and Lord Rus-
sell which has been so frequently discussed in the
French and German press :

(Translation.)
Gastein, Aug. 9, 1864,

Your Excellency will have already received the prelimi-
naries cf peace which were concluded in Vienna on the Ist
of this month, together with the convention for the suspen-
sion of hostilities, since they were despatched from Berlin
some days ago. Both documents are now published with
the mutual agreement of the throe contracting Powers, and
I respectfully request your Excellency to present to the
British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs the accompa-
nying official note of the same.
`Your Excellency will at the same time express to Lord
Russell the hope that the British Government will not refuse
to recognise the moderation and placability which have been
displayed by the two German Powers. During my presence
in Vienna Lord Bloomfield cap essed to me the wish of his
Government that Prussia and Austria should not impose
upon the Danish Crown conditions too hard and unbearable.
I answered him that nothing was farther from our inten-

tions than an unjust severity, and that we should only make
those demands which were the necessary result of the situa-
tion, In complete understanding with the Imperial Aus-
trian Government.we have remained true to this purpose;
and while on the one hand we were obliged to insist upon
the entire cession of the three Duchies as an indispensable
demand, without which neither the national feeling would
be satisfied nor the sacrifices justified to which the obstinacy
of the Danish Government forced 11% so on the other head
we have in all other points beyond this been as compliant
as possible with the Danish Government. Even now 'Keenly
maintain the demand which we had already had to make
at the Conference after the Danes themselves had de-
clared that the relation of a personal union were impossible.
That now, after the renewal of the war, there could no
longer be any question of the cession of a part of the duchy
of Schleswig which we had formerly regarded as admis-
sible, was not even doubted in Denmark. But we did not:go
before our original demand. We demanded no portions of
the kingdom of Denmark, although we held completely in
our hands a large and important province, and without any
possibility for the Danes to deprive us of it. The exchange
of the Jutland enclaves was, under such altered circum-
stances, suggested by the nature of the things ; the continu-
ance of these enclaves would have been for both sides a
great and hardly bearable inconvenience, and, in truth, it
could not have been considered as an unreasonable demand
if this little direct sacrifice had been demanded from the
kingdom of Denmark, which was only indirectly affected by
the cession of the Duchies, and in which, in fact, the real
cause of the war lay. We preferred to allow an exchange
to take place, and to give for the enclaves a complete com-
pensation in territory; we have even left to Jutland one
enclave, Ripen, to which the Danish Plenipotentiaries
ascribed especial importance, and by an arrangement of the
frontier we have made possible its complete union—a con-
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allowed the perfectly justifiable demand for war expenses,
which had been mentioned at the Conference, to drop, in
order not to impose so heavy a burden upon a land which,
notwithstanding this, must necessarily go through a finan-
cial crisis, which wo would wish to lighten for it and help

to get over.
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in view at the establishment of the preliminaries of peace.
We did not wish to dismember the ancient and venerable
Danish Monarchy, but to bring about a separation from it
of parts with which a further union had become impossible
through the force of circumstances and events, and we
must not pass it over in silence through the fault of the
Danish Government. The Danish Monarchy is not im-
perilled in its existence ; not a single condition of its existence
is damaged, is has received no wounds which cannot be
healed. It now depends upon the Danish Government and the
Danish people whether the natural and peaceful relations
with its southern neighbour shall be re-established, and
whether unrestrained intercourse shall become a source of
wellbeing and prosperity on both sides.
I respectfully request you to lay these considerations be-
fore Lord Russell, and to that end I empower you to com-
municate to him this despatch.
Count Bernstorff.

VON BIS MARK .

Sir—l have received from M. Katte a dispatch of M. de
Aug. 20, 1864.
Bismark to Count BernstorFil:rteoiggent-hefar with an official copy
of the preliminaries of peace signed on the Ist August at
Vienna.

Her Majesty's Government would have preferred a total
silence instead of the task of commenting
on the conditions
of the peace. Challenged, however, by M. de Bismark's
invitation to admit the moderation and forbearance of the
great German Governments, her blajesty's Government feel
bound not to disguise their own sentiments on these matters.
Her Majesty's Government have indeed from time to time)
as events took place,
repeatedly declared their opinion that
aggression of Aust.' is and Prussia upon Denmark was un-
just, and that the war as waged by Germany against Den-
mark had not for its groundwork either that justice or that
necessity which are the only bases on which war ought to
be undertaken.

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cessary on the part of Germanysthey deeply lament that
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Considering the War therefore to have been wholly unne-
ges acquired by successful hostilities should
have
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used by Austria and Prussia to dismember the
Danish monarchy, Which it was the object of the treaty of

1852 to preserve entire.
Her Majesty's Government are also bound to remark,
when the satisfaction of national feelings is referred to, that
it appears certain that a considerable number, perhaps two
or three hundred thousand of the loyal Danish population,
are transferred to a German State, and it is to be feared
that the complaints hitherto made respecting the attempts
to force the language of Denmark on the German subjects
of a Danish Sovereign will be succeeded by complaints of
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Conferencel pursuance of a
the attempts to force the language of
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Germany upon the
Danish subjects of the German Sovereign,
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RUSSELL

Crown.
If it is said that force has decided this question, and that
the superiority of the arms of Austria and Prussia over those
of Denmark Was incontestable, the assertion must be ad-
ulated. But in that ease it is out of place to claim credit for
equity and moderation.
Her Majesty's Government see with satisfaction, how-
ever, that the wording of t
of Christian
Ist Article fully admits by
implication the right an IX. to rule over the
Duchies of Holstein, Schleswig, and Lauenberg,for, if they
were not his to hold, they could not Wills to give away. In
considering this question her Majesty's Government have
always had in view the elements of a solid and durable
peace. Even in cases were it is justifiable to depart from
the settlement of established and recognised treaties, it is
essential that the new settlement should not partake of the
of allegiance aro required,
weakness of the old—that when new elements of dominion
conditions of peace.
rations should be satisfied, and ould willingly embrace as
and new bonds
It is in this point of view that her Majesty's Govern-
ment are anxious to see the destiny of the Duchies, which
are now to be separated from Denmark,
speedily and satis-
factorily settled. They desire to see the wishes of the
people of these Duchies consulted on the choice of their
permanent new
future Sovereign, and to see the Duchies receive free con-
stitutional institutions. In this manner alone the welfare
and peace of Europe as well as th 3 future tranquillity of
the Duchies, will be secured, for her Majesty's Government
cannot feel at all secure of the Prospects of lasting peace
until the wishes of the people of Holstein, Schleswig, and
Lauenburg"_have been fairly and fully consulted. An ar-
rangement which should set aeide those wishes and sup-
press free institutions would only be a new source of dis-
quiet and disturbance in Europe.
You will read this despatch to M. Bismark, and give
li,m a copy of it.
I am, &c.,
W. Lowther, Efq•

MADAME TUSSADD'S,--We are pleased to find
that Madame Tussaud's Historical Gallery, in Baker-street,
continues to be well patronised by the public generally.
Indeed, at no other place of amusement in the metropolis
will be found so extensive a collection of rare objects, pur-
chased at almost fabulous sums by the spirited proprietors,
as are to be met with in the exhibition. The relics of the
great Napoleon, Wellington, and other distinguished cha-
racters, may be seeUs