The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-24 00:00:00

OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL.

The Baroda, from Southampton on May 12,
arrived at Malta on the 20th at 9 a.m., and sailed
at 4 p.m. for. Alexandria.

The Massilie, from Marseilles cn .lay 20, reached
Malta on tree 23d at 1 a.m., and left at 8 ma, for

Alexandria.

PRUSSI A.
BERLIN, MAY 24,
The Spenersche Zeitung f to-day publishes a
;elegram from Vienna asserting that the represen-

,atives of England and France have made decla-

rations to Count Rechberg, abandoning the treaty
agreeing Holstein
as
a separate State, to the union of South
nf
SchleswiglBs2and
with
in-
dependent of Denmark, and absolutely rejecting a
personal union with that State.

BERLIN, May 23.
A deputation of seventeen members presented to
the King to-day the address proposed by Count
Arnim■Boystzenburg, and bearing 30,000 signa-
tures, requesting that Schleswig-Holstein might be
made an independent State. The address was read
by Count Arnim.
The King replied as follows :

" I receive this address with pleasure. In con-
juction with my illustrious ally I shall take
measures for preventing the return of Danish
oppression, and any further disturbances of peace
on the northern frontier of Gcrmany.

" The allies have sought for this object, and are
striving for it at the Conference, reserving the
entire freedom of action to which they are entitled
by the conduct of the Dines, and by events.
" During the pending negotiations I can give no
further explanations relative to the nature of the
solution of the question ; but I may express my
confidence that the sacrificA made for the German
cause will also conduce to the interes's of our more
immediate fatherland."

The Crown Prince of Prussia has left for Stettin
to assume the command of the 2,1 Army Corps.

His Royal Highness is expected to return this
evening.

A banquet is to be given at the new palace in
Potsdam to-morrow in celebration of the birthday
of her Majesty Queen Victoria.
The Augsburg Gazette confirms an account
already given by sme of the German journals of
the declarations made in the name of the King of
Prussia, both to the German and the other foreign
Courts, for the purpose of putting an end to all
comments on the projects of annexing the Duchies
to Prussia, which, that journal declares, sre formally
rejected by the Prussian Government. The Kreutz
Zeitung of Berlin also opposes, in a long lead•
ing article, the projects of annexation. The
feudal journal argues that Austria and Prussia
ought to employ the force and the prestige 'which
they have acquired by their recent victories
in combating and overthrowing democracy in
Prussia and the rest of Germany :—" Desires of
increase of territory," says that journal, " would
turn Prussia far aside from that object. Any vio-
lation of public law or any act of injustice weakens
Prussia for the struggle imposed on her at home and
in Germany. Desires of annexation are an ana-
chronism and a reminiscence of a less advanced pe-
riod. We have now to solve much more serious
questions. Tho position of. Austria and Prussia
since Dnember, 1863, has been exalted, for a little
increase of territory and population to enter the ba-
lance as the result of their action. Ail Conservatives
have constantly expressed the greatest indignation
against the annexation of Victor Emmanuel. Will
this anger end by conducting us in the same course?
We shall not vanquish the revolution in Prussia if
we follow the revolutionary path."
The Kreutz Zeitung ranks the Prince of Augus-
tenburg among the democrats, and is, therefore, as
little favourable to that pretender as to an annexa-
tion of the duchies to Prussia, and its sympathies
appear to be in favour of maintaining the duchies
in the Danish monarchy on condition that Schles-
wig-Holstein should be protected against Danish
democracy.