The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-03 00:00:00

DA NISH DESPATCHES.

The folio\ vi ng is the continuation of the series of
despatches red ;ently laid by the Danish Government
before the Ri gsraad :

DESPATCH FROM THE DANISH AMBASSADOR IN
BERLIN.

" Nov. 3, 1863.

" Sir,—A: a observation was addressed to me yes-
terday by Si r Augustus Paget, in reference to my
despatch to you (No. 25), which, as it appears, was
suggested t 3 him by M. de Balan, in whose presence
Sir August') s had read the despatch. The remark
was upon tl Le following subject:—
" You wi 11 observe that when I speak in that
despatch of the complete and unlimited budget which
would event ;pally be submitted to the deliberative
vote of the Estates, I express my idea by availing
myself of 0 tese terms—the budget of the ensuing
year. I ret member that in taking cognisance of this
document--which he did the day following its de-
pArture, manifesting much satisfaction, and his
en tire approval—the Minister raised no objection
to the manner in which I had understood Herr von
Bismarck's demand with reference to the time when
thi t enlarged financial competence should come into
opt ration. Now, after his conversation with M. de
Bad an, he foresaw a difficulty relating to the current
yeas-, and asked me whether the Government did
not intend to apply the new principle to the present
yew!.
" My reply was that we feared the misunder-
standings which could not fail to result from such a
promise. For it was evident the Holstein Estates
could. not meet until after the imminent danger of
an execution should be removed, and that negotia-
tions with the Estates upon the new budget could
at soonest take place in the first month of the en-
suing year. This term would suffice for next year's
b udget ; but the wish to submit to the Estates to-
w arts the end of the year a budget for that same
ye ar would appear rather too much like mystifica-
tiot I, as there would be no means of checking outlay
alreatdy made. The vote of the Estates would con.
Bequ.vntly be of no possible effect.

"I. added that Idid not conceive interest could
attic h to a proceeding which all the world must
know could be nothing but a mere form. For, apart
from the misunderstandings which this step would
certainly not fail to call forth, the principle would
be sufficiently established by the appreciation of it
we were ready to make. Furtner, sir, as you are
aware, the budget for the current year has already
been once laid before the Estates without their
having thought proper to discuss and vote upon it.
" Sir Augustus Paget entirely appreciated these
observations of mine, and told me he would write
in this sense to his Government and to Sir Andrew
.Buchanan.—l have the honour, &c., " QUAADE."

D,T;SPATCII FROM THE DANISH AMBASSADOR TO

BERLIN.

" Nov. 3, 1863.

6‘ M. le Ministre,—The despatch, No. 25, your
excellency has been good enough to address to me,
unde r date of the 31st inst., arrived yesterday even•
ing, Ind I have communicated it to-day to the
\ltnis ter-President.

" I :lave already informed your excellency by te.
legraph that, as to principle, M. de Bismarck in
genered agrees with the King's Government. That
is to say, the Minister admits the condition relative
to the national debt, but he did not abandon his
objections with regard to the other reserves con-
t mined in the despatch until after I had
p ointed out to him that a distinction was
:`c be drawn between the above-mentioned
condition and that which the King's Govern=.
went had reserved to itself with regard to
the part of the normal budget based upon the rem
quirements of Government and of interior adminis-
tration. As to the national debt, the King's
Government was responsible to the creditors of the
State, and it:could only withdraw itself from a por-
tion of that responsibility upon condition of such
,:lortion being assumed by another ; but as to the
lserve relating to the civil list, to outlay in favour
at the confederation, and to expenses necessitated by
the Ulterior administration of the country, it was
evident that the King's Government did not con-
template, in granting the Estates the right of voting
the items of the budget bearing thereupon, prevent.
ing them from making these different items the ob-
ject of their deliberation and resolutions. I added
that I, for my part, had only understood by the in-
tiodnotions of the reserves in question that the
King's Government desired to guard expressly
arainet the eventuality of a refusal of supplies
Stenerverweigerung ') upon the part of the
Es `.ates.

"The impression made upon me by the interview
I have had with M. de Bismarck confirms me in the
opinion I have already mode known to your excel.
lency, i.e., that the abandonment by the King's
Government of the Holstein normal budget in favour
of the vote of the Estates would deprive the Diet of
every ground for carrying out the execution, and
that the condition relating to Holstein's portion of
..the national debt would be accepted by the Prussian
Uovernment.

" But the great difficulty which still remains to
be' solved is that of the form for giving effect to the
eventual intentions of the King's Government.
" Until to-day Sir A. Buchanan and I, with per-
haps M. de Bismarck, have thought it would be
possible, analogous to the precedent furnished in
1861 by the international negotiation, to obtain by
w ay of the united committee the decree or Federal
d,smand upon which the King's Government makes
the execution of its decision depend ; but when I
presented myself to day to the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, he had just received from Frankfort pre-
liminary notice that M. de Sydow had encouatered
sentiments in the committee which caused him to
foresee that the majority of his colleagues would
decline to bring in a serviceable form before the
Diet a communication made by the Prussian Go-
vernment as to the intentions of that of the King.
" The method of proceeding previously concerted
between M. de Bismark and the English Ambas-
sador would, therefore, probably be ineffectual ;
and under the circumstances, M. de Bismarck is
the less inclined to have recourse to that method,
as it does not appear to him desirable that Denmark
and Prussia should fiad themselves together in a
minority in opposition to the other members of the
Diet at the present conjuncture.
" I asked M. de Bismark if he could not point
out to me some other form which I could propose
to the King's Government, but he replied the only
form in his opinion now available was that the ini-
tiative should Le taken by the Cabinet of Copen-
hagen, either by a decree to be issued in Holstein
—and under this head he did not see why prefe-
rence should not be given to the decree which, more
than any other, would deprive the Diet of every
motive for execution, i e., the withdrawal of the
patent of 3oth March—or by a declaration to be
made at Frankfort. I asked the Minister, further,
if it would not suffice that I should be authorised to
convey the eventual intention of the King's Go-
vernment officially to his knowledge, especially re-
questing him to communicate that intention to the
Diet. Bat he told me this was impossible.
Towards the Diet the Prussian Government
was in the present question exactly in the
eame position as the King's Government, and
as for intervention with the united committee
without goodwill, upon the part of its members,
the organisation and routine of the Diet offered ab-
solutely no means of action to the Prussian Govern-
matt.

"M. de Bismarck above all strongly recom-
mended the withdrawal of the patent of March 30;
and in reply to the objections 1 brought forward,
having regard to the dignity of the King's Govern-
ment, to considerations of internal policy, and even
with the contents of the document in question, the
Minister pointed out that in the main there wasno
difference between what he proposed and what the
Copenhagen Cabinet was disposed to do. We were
willing to admit the Federal competence for Hol-
stein, casting aside material objections by which
we had hitherto allowed ourselves to be guided, and
why not make the admission in the form pointed
out by the Diet itself? lima presmd. The Diet
could not delay in taking its resolution. What this
resolution should be the Federal decree left only two
alternatives—acceptance or nonacceptance of the
Thnish declaration. In the latter case the King's
government would probably have a last delay, but