The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-06 00:00:00

MARK-LANE.

The supply of English wheat on sale at Mark-lane to-
day was but moderate. Both for red and white qualities,
however, the demand ruled inactive, yet no change took
place in prices, compared with Monday.
In foreign wheat only a moderate business was transacted.
Prices, however, ruled stationary. Tho show of samples
on the stands was by no means extensive.
Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly, at late rates.
With barley the market was fairly supplied. Generally
speaking the trade was dull, at about Monday's currency,
The demand for malt was in a sluggish state, at late rates,
Oats, with which the market was fairly supplied, moved
off slowly, at the prices current on Monday.
Beans and peas were in slow request, on former terms,
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In flour sales progressed slowly, at previous quotations,

ARRIVALS THIS WIZEK.
Wheat Barley. Malt. Oata. Flour.
English.-- 1,450 490 2,170 1,23) ; 830
Irish..
6,(20 1,C90 I 7,830 I 100 ske,
10,800 brls,

;SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
CHESTER RACES.—Turs DAY.

HANDICAP PLATE.

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CHESHIRE STAKES.

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Despatch of English War-Vessels to tll.l
Baltic,

(From the Morning Test.)
The auspiciously-named frigate which has been
despatched to the North Sea will be hailed by the
Danes in this darkest hour of their need as the har-
binger of light and hope. The Aurora has sailed,
taking with her the Black Eagle. Her mission is
to watch the Austrian fleet, and in the event of its
shaping a course for the Baltic the Channel fleet
will at once sail with the avowed object of saving
the Danes from being overpowered at sea. England
cannot see a German armada go coasting along her
shores on its mission of destruction, and allow the
finest fleet in the world to remain at anchor as the
aggressive force passes them in the Downs. Our
diplomacy has been cajoled and defeated. we
have been played with and laughed at, but we have
yet to see that such an insult tJ our national honour
cau be tolerated. The German Powers are treading
on dangerous ground, carelessly and haughtily.
They are puffed up with the pride of their little
victories. They treat the Danes as conquered, and
they consider the neutral Powers incai able of convi
bination, and afraid to act alone. They look on
Sweden as timid, Russia as occupied at home,
France as indifferent, and England as permanently
peaceful towards the world in general, and Germany
in particular. They believe themselves to be masters
of the situation, and they use and abuse their
position.

Here we have the key to their conduct at the Cone
ference. They never mean to make peace on the
basis of the Treaty of 1852, and hence all the delays
as to the preliminary armistice. M. Von Bismark
is willing to go through any polite forms, but he
only uses them as a cloak to his real designs. He
has pushed forward step by step, on the principle
that England never interferes with accomplished
facts. So he gradually brings about one after
another, till he at last shall announce the dismem-
berment and annihilation of Denmark, his calcula-
tion being that, even in that supreme hour, Eag.
land will say, " The thing is done, we cannot undo
it; let us chronicle the fact in our new maps of
Europe." His astonishing and easy success makes
him, however, overbold. And at length, after a
long and steady flow of triumphant aggression, the
tide is on the turn. The arm of England bars the
passage to the Baltic, and her iron clads are ready
to save Copenhagen and the islands.
It is a great error to suppose that England will
not move without France. That Power naturally
hesitates to engage, without strong provocation, in
a vast continental war which would cost at least a
hundred millions of treasure and a hundred thou•
sand lives ; and her naval action on the Baltic neces-
sarily implies her military action on the Rhine.
'With us it is different. If we were involved in war,
it would merely require the services of our Channel
and Mediterranean fleets. The Germans could not
toueh us, while we could blockade their ports, and.
a blockade in the Adriatic would probably throw
Venetia and Hungary into immediate revolution.
The revolutionists are surprisingly quiet at pre-
sent. They are biding their time. It would be
doing great injustice to the ever active conspirators
to suppose that they are without plans. We have
no doubt all is calculated and all is ready. It is for
the foolish statesmen who are so blindly urging on
their country's forces in a career of lawless annexa-
tion to name the day and the hour for the great
outbreak. Then comes the turn of Italy and of
France. Then will the spoilers be spoiled in turn
—Denmark be set free Europe liberated—the
East of Europe reconstituted, and the Rhine
" revendicated." We have foreseen it all, and
laboured anxiously against it. Lord Russell, in all
honesty of purpose and with the highest intention,
has strained every nerve and used every argument
to bring the disturbers of the peace to a sense of
their own danger. But the clever statesmen of
Berlin have again and again trifled with and de-
ceived us, while they have energetically developed
their long determined plans. Their victory as matters
stand is complete. Denmark is beaten and crushed,
arid but detached fragments of her body corporate
exist to show that she still has a name. Assembled
Europe hesitates and bungles round a table in

Downing-street, and the Germans imagine they can,
when they please, dismiss the Plenipotentiaries from
their vain task to their respective homes, and tran-

quilly carry out their settled intention of absorbing
a free country. As Austria has found her best
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strength in Hungarian hussars and Italian Chas.

seurs, so Prussia looks to a new and bellthy vitality
in a navy built and sheltered in what were Danish

ports, and manned by Danish seamen. Bat it is not
to be. The hour of awakening is arrived, and a

severe retribution will attend those who neglect it.
We have been very unwilling to move. We are

slow in moving, but at last the force of this country
is moving. Even now our action is very cautious,
but only the last provocation is needed to make it

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decided and rapid. If the Cabinets of Berlin and

Vienna do not give way in their extravagant pre-
tensions—if they still make an armistice impossible
and peace hopeless, they will assuredly have to
reckon with the opponents whom they are irresis-
tibly drawing on to the vindication of public law
and European order.

Bank of England Iteturn.--Last Evening.
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Sth Victoria,
cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, ,the 4th day
of May, 1864: