The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-25 00:00:00

nel, at the close of which she will leave for the
Brazils, calling in at Plymouth Sound.
The Dutch 50-gun screw frigate Nar;er, which
arrived at tho Nore on Thursday, after being in
collision with a merchant vessel off the North Fore.
land, as already detailed in The S has been in•
spected by Vice. Admiral Sir C. Liibot,
naval Commander.in-Chief, who with his suite
visited every portion of the vessel. Previously to
the inspection the captain and principal officers of
the Nargen paid their respects to Vice. Admiral Sir
C. Talbot. The frigate is quite new, and in excel-
lent condition. The damage she has sustained
appears to be rather serious; but the exact amount
cannot be ascertained until the frigate has been
docked. On Saturday the War Department trans.
port Bomarsund, Mr Spicer master, went down from
Chatham and unshipped the powder and shells from
the Nargen, for conveyance to the magazines at
Upnor Castle, where her ammunition will be stored
during the time the frigate is under repair. She will
remain at her present moorings until Thursday next,
which is the earliest day the tides will allow of her
being floated into the basin, and docked for the
purpose of making good her repairs. This, in accord-
ance with orders received at Chatham, is to be
undertaken by the dockyard shipwrights. During
the time the frigate is under repair, a portion of the
naval barracks will be appropriated for the accom-
modation of the officers and crew.

The Schleswig-Holstein Question,

FRANKFOB.T.ON.TIIE.MAINE, Oct. 22.

A meeting of the Committee of the Assembly of
Members of German Diets took place on the 16th at
Weimar, to receive the political and financial report
of the managing subcommittee, andLtake into con.
sideration the present position of the Schleswig.
Holstein question. The meeting was attended by
delegates from Bavaria, Brunswick, Coburg, Franke
fort, Gotha, Hamburg, Hanover, Hesse-Darmstadt,
Prussia, Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Weimar, and
wrurtemberg.
The report laid before the meeting entered first
into details of financial matters possessing no gene-
ral interest, and passed then to a recapitulation of
the course of the committee since the last meeting
(April 9 and 10). It entered upon a statement of
the success of the chief measures advocated by the
Committee, and concluded by detailing the steps it
recommended to be pursued. The following report
of the subsequent proceedings, and the views ex-
pressed by the Committee, are furnished by the See.
retaries of the Assembly :
" In the debate which ensued the Committee had
first to take into consideration the progress of the
movement up to the present time in view of the re•
suit to be attained by the impending conclusion ef
peace. When, after the death of Frederick VII.,
the entire German people demanded with unanimity
hitherto unexampled, war for the separation of the
Duchies from Denmark, and institution of the legi.
timate heir to the throne, the great German Powers
declared at the sitting of the Federal Diet of the
28th of November last year, that they considered
themselves bound by the Treaty of London, and
would require nothing more from Denmark than
the fulfilment of the obligations undertaken by that
treaty. Faithful to this declaration they sent their
troops some weeks afterwards to Schleswig, not to
wage war against Denmark, but to take the duchy
in pledge upon the basis of the London arrange.
ments. In the meantime the national movement
had fcund common expression of the unanimous
will, based upon the union of all patriotic parties,
in the resolutions of the Assembly of Members of
the German Diets which met in Frankfort on the
21st Dec., us well as some organisation in the com-
mittee of 36 chosen by the Assembly, and about 700
Schleswig-Holstein associations connected there-
with. Through the moral pressure they first exer-
cised upon the middle States, and by the help of the
latter also upon the two great German Powers, they
succeeded, aided by the blind obstinacy of Denmark
and the valour of the Austro-Prussian troops, in
driving these two great Powers further and further
past their original limit, so that at last the loose tie
of personal union was all with which they attempted
to hold fast to the London Treaty.
"In the Easter meetings held throughout the
who'c of Germany, nearly 300 in number, the na-
tion once more solemnly and decisively declared its
will in regard to the impending Conference of the
European Powers. When therefore this Confe-
rence met, the protest signed by 1,388 members of
German Diets was issued and laid before it. This
document alluded to the solution required by right
and the will of the people, and contained a solemn
protest in the name of the assembled nation against
every settlement of the future of the Duchies with-
out, and in opposition to, their own wish. Shortly
afterwards followed the protest against the arbi-
trary division of Schleswig, to which nearly 400
associations, almost all the Diets then sitting, and
two large popular assemblies in the Duchy,
gave in their adhesion. These different ma-
nifestations have assuredly not been with-
„,„t, ieenseeee upon th. German and foreign
Powers, of which theverbal and written expressions
of English statesmen alone give sufficient proof.
The campeign recommenced after the failure of the
Conference finally led to the entire prostration of
Denmark and the conclusion of the preliminaries.
The simultaneous appearance of the Oldenburg
candidate called forth a further protest, in which
the immediate recognition and institution of Duke
Frederick were demanded. The position of the
Schleswig-Holstein question has since undergone no
further material change, nor has any groat and
universal expression of the popular will taken place.

" The Committee estimated at its full value the
greatness of the result gained for Germany by the
liberation of the Duchies. The nation has the greater
reason to appreciate this success with satisfaction as
it has been mainly owing to the newly strengthened
power of the national mind, and the national will,
that the victory is due. This satisfaction, at the
same time, must not go so far as to lead us to easy
security and tame resignation in all that may hap-
pen. The separation of Schleswig-Holstein from
Denmark was merely the first half of the national
programme, and we must not forget that even this
was only attained by a course diametrically opposed
in more than one direction to that desired by the
nation and marked out by right. The second and
not less important part of the problem—the consti•
tution of an independent State of Schleswig-Hol-
stein under its legitimate Prince elected by the
people—has not even yet found its accomplishment.
It has still to contend with serious difficulties; the
national interests bound up with it may still be in-
jured in the greatest degree, and it is especially the
guides of the policy of the two great Powers
whose proceedings constantly challenge anew the
distrust of the nation. As they declined to allow
the people of Schleswig-Holstein to partici-
pate in the conflict, as they subsequently refused
it a voice in debating the terms of peace, so they
still withhold from it the execution of its right to
participate in the decision of the internal future of
the country.

"The committee was, therefore, unanimously of
opinion that the movement should be continued
with all possible energy, and that in particular the
committee itself, as organ of the assembly of mem-
bers of the German Diets which replaces the Par-
liaments not yet attained, should not cease its
action until the national programme in the Schles-
wig Holstein matter should be thoroughly cmied
out. Up to that time the union of all patriots formed
for the settlement of a cause removed from party
strife should be unalterably upheld.
"It is especially important to dwell upon the
hitherto disregarded and_still threatened right of
determining their own future accruing to the
Schleswig _Holstein people. This right demands,
above all, the immediate convocation of the Diet
elected according to the fundamental law of Sept.
15, 1845, and the final recognition and institution
of Duke Frederick. This rife,`. further demands
free determination of the new relations of the cone.
try towards Germany. basal solely upon Grrmen
interests and its own; of the question whether any
and what treaties shall bo concluded with Prussia ;
of the adhesion of Schleswig holstein to the Zoll-
verein, advocated alike by its own interests and
those of Germany ; and, lastly, of the entrance of
Schleswig into the Germenic Confederation, en
ieuent already provided for by the constitutional