The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-26 00:00:00

were not prepared to pay the price of national
honour and national security. (Hear.) Her Majesty's
Government had shown, under the chiefshi p of his
noble friend Lord Palmerston, whose name would go
down to posterity connected more than any other
man with the national defence of England—that
Government had shown their determination to
place those defences on a satisfactory footing. But,
on the other hand, this he could say, that her Ma-
jesty's Government were as anxious as any men in
the country to bring the expenditure of the country
within the narrowest limits consistently with the
requirements of the public service ; and by that
means to effect every reduction of taxation that
might be legitimately possible. Although his
right hon. friend, the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, would have the money which was needed for
the public service, there was no man in the country,
he would undertake to say, who was more zealous
than he in the cause of financial reform. But it
must be borne in mind that we have a vast empire
extending into every quarter of the globe, and that
our ships are in every port, and our commerce is
upon every sea, and if he did not misinterpet the
feelings of this country, though sometimes there
was grumbling at the cost of colonial expenditure
and naval armaments, that they were not prepared
to abandon their colonies, nor give up their com-
merce. If they were not prepared for that, and if
they wished to remain a great nation spreading
their arms unto every part of the world, and enfold-
ing the globe within them, they must be prepared
to bear the various burdens and discharge the
various duties of that great position. (Cheers.)
Several other toasts and speeches followed include
ing that of the "Borough Members," which was
acknowledged by Mr Greenwood, M.P.

The Prince and Princess of Wales in

Denmark.

{_From the Times' Special Correspondent.)
COPENHAGEN, Wednesday.
Yesterday morning there was a grand hunt in the
Deer-park attached to the Castle of Bernstorff, and
his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was very

successful in-his shooting. Among the results of
the morning's work were too deer with long

branching antlers, called in the Dani&h " kingly
deer," and one of a smaller size, all three falling to
the gun of his Royal Highness. It is said to be

his intention to send one, if not both, of the larger

deer to England to be stuffed, as trophies of the

occasion.

In Copenhagen the public occupied itself gene-
rally in making acquaintance with the Osborne,
which had been moored up the river to :a position

almost in the centre of the town. The Royal yach

was freely thrown open to visitors, who expressed
the greatest interest in all the arrangements on

board, as well as gratitude for the extreme courtesy
shown to them by the officers and crew. Next to
the apartments of the Prince and Princess, which

were always inquired for in the first instance, the

chief desire seemed to be to see the room of Ludy
Spencer, in whom, of all the English suite, the

Danish interest and admiration appears to centre.

Another large section of the inhabitants of Copen-
hagen was engaged in a manner quite different
from the visitors to the yacht, but one at the same
time affording a very practical test of the feeling

excited by the R)yal visit. From a late hour on
Monday, all Monday night, and at break of day on

Tuesday, the crowd of persons anxious to obtain
tickets for last night's performance at the opera was

growing in numbers, until at last the queue fairly
stretched across the spacious K mgens Fytov. Even
there the number of the disappointed was very

great, for many of those who had purchased tickets
did so only with a view of retailing them again, and
the consequence wag, as the day advanced, that for
tickets which at the bureau had cost 10 marks, or
about 43 in England, £1 and upwards was paid in

he course of the afternoon. Some few persons more

liberally minded towards strangers did indeed con-
sent to part with their tickets at an advance of 100
or 200 per cent., but were regarded by those in the
trade as guided by wholly erroneous principles, and
acting probably with ulterior motives. The per-

'ormances commenced at 7 o'clock with a shot

comedy called "Intrigues," and shortly after that
hour the house was filled in every part, so closely

indeed that one had occasion to wish more than once
during the evening that the architect, in the views
binding him with regard to ventilation, had been
less fixed in the idea that he was building for a cold
climate. The house is calculated for the accommo-

dation of 1,200 people, and on this occasion its cipa-
city was tested to the utmost. The seats, however,
once they have been reached are sufficiently roomy
and comfortable. In point of decoration there is not
much to bb said. The interior wears a neat, cheer-
ful appearance, without much attempt at a display;
and with regard to lighting there is a curious ar-
rangement by which the great chandelier is drawn
up into the roof during the time that it is desirable

to concentrate light upon the stage, and let down
again between the acts. The royal party had not
been looked for till the commencement of the ballet,
but before the first piece, lasting somewhat over half

an hour, had been played through they were ob-
served to enter and take their seats in the royal box
at the left hand side of the stage. The visit was
understood, and indeed stated, to be a private one;
consequently no demonstration of any kind was
mado on their entrance. The King sat nest the
stage, with the Princess of Wales beside him ; the
Queen, in like manner, had the Prince of Wales at
her right hand ; he therefore sat nearest the body of
the house, in a position where he could be generally
seen. The Crown Prince of Denmark and the Princess
Dagmar occupied seats in the earns box, a little from
the back. In the corresponding box, at the other side
of the house, were the Landgrave of Hesse and Prince
Htsse of Glucksburg, with the principal ladies in
attendance upon the Royal party—namely, the
Countess Reventlow, Countess Spencer, Madame
Bille, and the Countess de Grey and Ripon. For
the other members of the English and Danish suites

who were not able to fled room in either State box
places were reserved at the ends of the dress circle
nearest to their own party. The ballet, in four acts,
arranged by Hof-ballet Master Bournonville, and
entitled " Valkyrien," commenced about 8 o'clock.

t wasadinirabiy put upon the stage, and the plot

was calculated to bring in a forcible light before an
English mind many of the more prominent tradi•
tions and features of the Scandinavian mythology,
so entirely distinct from the softer fables current
among southern nations. The curtain, upon rising,
disclosed one of the messengers of the gods flying
through th© clouds with a war trumpet similar in
tone to those which the Rey al party the previous
day sounded in the Cabinet of Antiquities. This
note was always a sure harbinger of war, and, obe-
dient to the call, immediately appeared a troop of
those Daughters of the Air whose occupation it was
to flat over the combatants in battle, to imitate
their struggles in the higher atmosphere, and to
denote with their spears those who were to fall.
These had scarely time to fix themselves in the at.
tention of the spectators when the clouds, opening
suddenly, disclosed the throne of Odin, with its at•
tendant ravens, who flew off to execute some mes-
sage of the war-god. He then, putting off his state,
and disguising himself as a bard, prepared to
engage in the affairs of men ; and this opening
glimpse of the upper regions formed as it were
the prelndo to the entertainment. A young
and an old warrior became after this the leading
characters, round whom the action of the piece
revolves, They are seen engaged at their or'sons
before a miniature Stonehenge; they appear at the
Court of an ancient Xing and take service in his
armies; they execute with the companions of their
contemplated expedition a wild chant du depart,
keeping time by clanging their swords upon their
shields, and finally their galley is seen ploughing
the waves in the distance. Odin seems to have
In
suggested, if not compelled the expedition,
oppo-
sition to the evident reluctance of the Monarch,
who is deeply attached to the young chief; but, in
his supposed capacity of bird and prophet, his
voice must be f ended to. One of the Daughters
of the Air, the graceful prinat donna of the corps
de Lallet, who has selected the young chief as the
special object of her care, tries hard for permission
to follow him in his excursion, but Odin will not
allow her to depart tiq the war trumpet again an-
nounces that a feast of ravens is at hand. Then
she flits across the see, oud coon •iarivts where he