The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-23 00:00:00

said Herr von Bismark to Lord Wodehouse
in December last, " as democratic institutions exist
in Denmark, peace cannot subsist between that
country and Germany." As the Dano-German war
proceeded, attentive observers saw that this state
ment of the Prussian Minister furnished the key t°
the real motive of the hostilities. All that the
German Powers ostensibly demanded was granted,
or at least guaranteed, before the Austro-Prussian
army crossed the Eider ; but, nevertheless, the tide
of invasion pressed on unchecked. Alarmed for the
safety of the sister kingdom, as well as for her own,
Sweden thought seriously of assisting Denmark,
when at once, without a note of warning, Russia--
the friendly counsellor of the Danish monarchy---
threw an immense army on the frontier of Finland.
The concert between Russia and the German Powers
then became apparent, and in Denmark Western
Europe was justified in believing that she saw her
own liberties threatened. Under these circinn-
stances the despatches which we felt it to be our
duty to publish, and which it is needless to say We
should not have done if we did not feel perfectly
assured of their authenticity, disclosed facts which
bore all the stamp of credibility. By one statesman
they were at all events regarded as genuine, and the
testimony of so veteran a diplomatist as Lord Strat-
ford de Redeliffe may fairly be balanced against the
doubts of those who are officially bound to attach
implicit belief to the assurances of persons having
the strongest interest in proclaiming them to be
spurious. Believing, as he does, that in truth 011
attempt is being made to revive the Holy
Alliance,
Lord Stratford de Redcliffe was right in bringing
the subject formally before the notice of Parlia-
ment; and it is not the first occasion on which a
solemn protest has been made in the House of
Lords against those principles of government
which the Holy Allies would fain lay down for
the guidance of European States. Into the la'
trinsic evidence of the genuineness of the
documents which we published, and on which
Lord Stratford de Redcliffe based his obser-
vations, it will not be necessary to enter at length
but we may observe that the reply given by Earl
Russell tends rather to confirm than to remove the
opinion which we have always entertained. Lord
Stratford de Redeliffe pointed out that in Prince
Gortschakoffee private communication to the Russian
Minister at Berlin, accompanying a despatch dated
February 10, 1864, the Vice-Chancellor stated that
its contents had been privately communicated to the
English Ambassador at St. Petersburg, to which
the only reply that it was in the power of Earl
Russell to make was that a conversation had been
reported by Lord Napier which might certainly be
considered as referring to the contents of that 3e-
spateh, but which also supply the groundwork far
the fabrication of the document in question. The
same answer was given in explanation of the state-
ment in another of the despatches that cornrow:ilea-
tion had been made to Mr Layard regarding its
contents, It is, of course, easy to meet assertions
with denials, and to argue against the presumed
authenticity of documents by showing the possibi-
lity of their being forged, but it must be admitted
that, in the two instances in which a tolerably fair
test of their genuineness was furnished by the l"
trinsic contents of the despatches, the result was
favourable to the presumption that they were Ile"
spurious. But assuming that these despatches are
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what they purport to be, and that an attempt '
actually being made to re-establish the Holy Alli-
ance, has Europe anything to apprehend ? Sue"
was the question put by Earl Russell last evening!
and answered by him in the negative. The flail
Alliance, says Earl Russell, has been inoperative
for upwards of thirty years, and it is useless to
revive it. It is true that in the year 1821 the Holy
Allies crushed a revolutionary movement in Italy'
and that in 1823 France marched her armies jot!
Spain, and, in conformity with the principles on whie'
the Alliance was of iginally projected, stifled the wiee„
of the Spanish people. On both those occasiee'
England protested, but her protests were unavailing.
But in the year 1830 the tide turned. The Frencli
nation changed its government, and those who de-
clared that the voice of Sovereigns alone was tile,
voice of God made no attempt to coerce the popular
,'
will. In 1848 revolution spread like an epidenlue,
across Europe, and the Holy Allies made no dill"
to check its progress. In 1860 the Neapolitans
dethroned their monarch, and, two years later, tile
King of Greece was driven in exile from his doinl:
nions, but in neither the one case nor the other al",
any State stand forth as the champion of monarchica'
rights. The scheme of a Holy Alliance may there-
fore, as Earl Russell reasons, be considered as es
ploded, and its resuscitation as impossible. But t°
our minds it seems that it is precisely because the
despotic Powers of Europe have for so many years
been unable to exercise that dictatorship
which they
at one time actually set up, that every attempt made
by them to revive their ancient policy should be
most jealously watched and unhesitatingly frus;
trated. It is because kingly authority has fallen of
late years into so much disrepute that the Czar °`o
'
Russia, the Emperor of Austria. and that champion
of Divine right, the King of Prussia, are desirous
cf establishing it on a more secure basis. But 04
may rest assured that they will fail. What is now
passing in Germany ought to satisfy them how idle
it is to suppose that Europe, in the middle of the
nineteenth century, will consent to be governed by
a council of crowned heads. In Southern and
Western Europe there is not a State which has nel
passed at some time or other through the throes
revolution, and which has not adopted the doctrine,
so blasphemous in the opinion of the Holy Alliee;
that kings are made for peoples, and not peoples e
kings. But, independently of these obstacles, th;
promoters of a second Holy Alliance must ltne t
that a combination of States which threaten must
lead to a counter combination of those which concel.v.
themselves endangered. Any attempt to retells;
the scheme broached in the despatches which Ws
published on the 2d and 4th of July must lead to
defensive and, if needs be, an offensive alliane`
between the Western Powers.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL-FRIDAY.

Thero was a good attendance to-day of town dealer rel
and fair of the country trade, but wheat met only a
ir
business at about last Tuesday's prices. Flour in
al :iie
request, at fully previous rates. For oats and oatme the
demand is limited, and no improvement in prices. -1-3e3"-to
brought last Tuesday's prices. Indian corn in Inoder4
demand, and 6cl less money.

STAMFORD—FRIDAY.
White wheat, 44s to 47s ; red, 39s to 43s per 36 stoner°
Barley, malting, 28s to 345; grinding, 27s to 29s per cle;
Oats, 20s to 245; per 24 stone. Beans, old, 40s to •—•0 P
qr. ; new, 35s to 38s.

WAKEFIELD—FRIDAY.
The wheat trade was firm to-day, and the prices of !lot
Friday fully realised, but the demand was not so actlYes
Beans and oats rather dearer.
Averages for the week :
Wheat .1,811 qrs., at 43s 11d

LINCOLN.
White wheat new, 46s to sls
Red do. 4ls to 46s
Old white 43s to 46s j
Red do. 38s to 42s
Barley, malting 328 to 34a

.--FRIDAY.
Barley, grinding .27$ to 3. g
Oats,:old, .. . 24s to 27°
New.do 20s to 230
1 Beans.. 37s to 49_0
1 Beans, new.. 34s to 30'

CORK-THURSDAY,

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The following were the quotations this morning :"""
wheat, 8s Oct to 8s 10d ; white, 8s Od to 9s 8d , barl°4•to
ld to Os Od ; cats, Gs Oct to 6s 8d ; black do., 55
5s Ild.

BRISTOL SUGAR—FRIDAY.
There has been very little doing here in sugars, and fbe
sales have not exceeded 200 hhds Barbadoes. Prices 31
fully 6d lower than last week, and a further decline long
for. Refiners' produce continues to come forward freelici
Rum quiet, and the sales for the month have not exceeded
100 puncheons Demerara, which brought is 70 to Is ,
per proof gallon.

Births.
BA.THURST.—On the 21st inst., at 27, Hertford-street'
Mayfair, the Hon. Mrs. Allen Bathurst, of a son. Av
COLEBROOKE.—On the 22d inst., at 37, South-street/ i'f"
colebrooke, of a son.
VERSCHOYLE.—On the 20th inst., at 23, Chapel' streele'
Belgrave-square, the wife of Lieut.. Colonel VerselioY '
Grenadier Guards, of a daughter.

Marriages.
EARLE—CODRTNGTON.—On the 21st inst., at St. 11312,10;
Knightsbridge, Lieut.-Colonel Earle, Grata'. 0
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Guards, second son of Hardman Earle, Esq.
Tower. Liverpool, to Mary, second daughter of' Allert
Garter
Sir w. J. Codrington, 1i.C.8.
IIAnLAND—HORSFALL.—On the 21st inst., at Colton
Church, the Rev. Edward Harland, vicat Colwich4ll
Elizabeth Dorothy, eldest daughter of T. B. kior°—
Esq., M.P., of Bellanaour Hall, Staffordshire.