The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-11 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY
FEB. 11, 1864.

Yesterday's rumour of an mis ,
tace appears now
to have been altogether unfounded. The wish was
probably father to the thought of it. But the report
has now been doubly, and for the time being at least
quite positively, contradicted. A telegram from
Paris denies the accuracy of it altogether. While
the semi-official Nord-deutsche•Allgemeine-Zei-
tung, says the same, if possible, yet more expli-
citly. The Prussians, this Berlin journal remarks,
so far from being in any way likely to consent to
an armistice, will, for a certainty, not
rest satisfied so lor g as a biogle DattiBll
soldier can be found any where upon the
soil of Schleswig. And that there are Danish
soldiers still there, notwithstanding the astounding
withdrawal of the main army en masse to the Island
of A:set3, appears to be indisputable. A portion of
that main army, it now turns out, instead of re-
(•R hall we say escaping ?)
reatir to Alsen, under
command of that now most unpopular veteran
thl Danish commander•in-chief, General DE Nina,
marched northTgrd9, it nlw appears, at the
''Bauble quick," hotly pursued by the allied
.
invaders. In truth, it is hardly probable, now
that the Austrians and Prussians have so much way
upon them, as we may call it, in the forward rush
of their military successes, that they should lightly

consent, quite abruptly, to pause for however brief
an interval, thereby impeding their onward progress.
Meantime, since the battle at Oversee, the Aus-
trians under GABLENZ, and the Prussians under
MULLE have not been idle. Flensburg, as a matter
of course, was, immediately after their signal defeat
of the Danes at Oversee, entered in triumph. But
there already in Flensburg the victorious allies found
the Prussian cavalry, under Prince FREDERICK
CHARLES, occupying it the latter having
reached the town in one day's advance from
Arnie. Unsatisfied with the mere occupancy of
Flensburg, the victors of Oversee, still led by
GABLENZ and MuLLE, after a brief repose
of twenty-four hours, pressed forward in the direo-
tion of the entrenchments at Dappel.

While thewar is being thus prosecuted by the belli•
gerents, the dawdling hesitations of our own Go-
vernment in arriving at any determination what-
ever, as to a definite policy of any kind, certainly of
any comprehensible kind, is giving rise to all sorts
of ugly rumours, rumours of the most sinister and
ominous description, at Berlin, at Vienna, and
at—Paris. It is easy enough, of course, to put
aside as altogether idle, to appear to laugh
to scorn as a thing wholly extravagant
the notion of there being any estrangement of an
appreciable kind between :the Governments of
France and England, by reason of Earl RUSSELL'S
impertinent mode of declining, in the name of his
QUEEN and Country, any participation on the part
of England, in the labours of the Congress proposed
by his Majesty the Emperor of the FRENCH. With
the jauntiest air of almost indifference, so idle does
he affect the rumour to be in his estimation,
Lord PALMERSTON thrusts aside the mere hint of

any such estrangement as a notion alto-
gether preposterous. And yet, what man is
there in the three kingdoms gifted with a particle
of sense, who for a single moment gives credence to
it ? It is only necessary for that matter to look at
the Paris journals in order to see, that—not the
rumour laughed at, but the denial of that rumour
with a laugh—it is, that is preposterous. Why it
is a thing notorious, in point of fact, both in London
and in Paris, that there is this estrangement—all
Lord PALMERSTON'S assurances to the contrary
notwithstanding. Nor, can the fact that it is
so, be regarded as a matter in any way
surprising under the circumstances. Judging from
our own feelings, it would on the contrary have been
very surprising, indeed, had it been otherwise.
Which one amongst us, is there, who would not
have felt estranged by a rebuff so singularly dis-
courteous and so wholly unprovoked as that to
which the Emperor NAPOLEON found himself
abruptly subjected by the decision arrived at by
his cordial ally—or rather, it should be said,
by the sneering cynicism of manner with
which that decision was announced through
the now notorious despatch penned by that
most perverse of letter writers, the noble earl the
English Foreign Secretary. Estrangement there
is between the two Governments—thanks to our
our own. And Europe may soon have cause to re-
member it, by reason of several, now imminent,