The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-13 00:00:00

Circular Despatch of IL De Quaacie,

The following circular .• atch has been sent by
the Danish Minister of F., .kn affairs to the Danish
representatives at foreign Courts :

Copenhagen, April 6.
Sir,—Since my despatch of the 15th of March, the in-
explicable proceedings of the Prussians and Austrians in
the continental portion of the Monarchy, and notably in the
Duchy of Schleswig, have increased upon a constantly
increasing scale. The invasion pursues its subversive task
with redoubled violence. The Allies treat this Duchy as if
there could never be a question of restoring it to its legiti-
maet Sovereign, and as if, far from being, as it has always
been a country essentially Danish, it were only a former
portion of Germany which had been torn from some Ger-
man Sovereign by the usurpationfof Denmark.
The functionaries who administered the Duchy in the
name of the Royal Government have been successively dis-
missed. One only of all the bailiffs (baillis) of the continen-
tal portion of the country still holds his office; three only
of all the towns have retained their burgomasters ;13 other
magistrates and 12 assessors in courts of justice have been
removed from their posts. The bishop of the diocese of
Schleswig and 40 clergy have been ejected. All the head
masters and rectors of colleges have been discharged, and 37
out of 42 professors have been compelled to relinquish their
position. The seminary for primary teachers in the northern
portion of the duchy has been closed, and all the professors
have been sent away. Similar facts are renewed daily in
other branches of the administration. The Austro-Pruesian
Commissioners have net even scrupled to remove in a body
all the members of :the Com t of Appeal, the highest tribu-
nal of the duchy, having its seat at Flensburg.
What is the object of all this violence and all this usurpa-
tion? Is it not evident that they tend to Germanising the
duchy at any price—a country in which only one-third of
the people speak German, and which has been an essenti-
ally Danish country from the remotest antiquity ? And, in
fact, as early as Feb. 19 the Commissioners had ordered
that German should be the sole language for churches and
schools throughout almost the whole of the districts in
which the dialect of the people is mixed ; and this oppres-
sive measure has now been completed by the dismissal or
suspension from their functions of nearly all the curates and
teachers in those parts. At the public school of Flensburg,
where the language of tuition was alternately Danish and
German, instruction his been ordered to be carried on in the
latter only. Finally, it has been forbidden to employ Danes
in causes brought before the Court of Appeal of the duchy,
thus preventing the ent'rety of the Danish inhabitants—that
is to say, about two-thirds of the population of the Duchy—
from availing themselves of their mother tongue More the tri -
bunal called on to decide their most important interests. The
absurdity and iniquity of this measure are eminently appa-
rent, and the Commissioners have been careful to impart to
them greater prominence by ordering that judgments de-
livered in the causes of inhabitants of the northernmost
districts shall be accompanied by a translation in:the Danish
language.

Tho destruction of all the symbols of the King's sove-
reignty is equally continued. It was commenced by remov.
ing the Royal escutcheon and cipher front all public build-
ings. The use of postage stamps and paper stumped with
the Royal Crown has now been forbidden. It was even
thought urgently requisite to abolish by express decree thy►
customary prayer for the Royal house, offered up in all the
churches after Divine Service.

All persons keeping books of account have been prohi-
bited from making use of the monetary system of the Mo-
narchy, and have been ordered to employ the system called
courant, which is only used in certain portion is of the north
of Germany. At the same time, not content with authoris-
ing the circulation of Prussian and other German dollars
with Hamburg small money, it has been thought conve-
nient and fair to interdict the circulation of the small coin
of the Monarchy. The recent Customs law, common to the
Kingdom and to Schleswig, as well as a law concerning
navigation,both of which were to come in force after the Ist
of April of this year, have been enepended.

The Commissioners also continue to lavish offices upon
persons who played a prominent part in the insurrection of
1818, or who have subsequently displayed revolutionary
tendencies. After having begun by appointing the former
Minister of War of the insurrection bailiff in the south-
eastern portion of the Duchy, and after having conferred a
similar office in the south •western portion upon a man who
formerly became notorious by demanding that the leaders
of the insurrection should declare that Eing Frederick
VII. had forfeited the throne, the Commissioners believed
they could not place the supreme direction of the public
schools of the Duchy in safer hands than in those of an in-
dividual who, owing to his practices in favour of the insur-
rectionary cause, had been expelled from the town of Flens-
burg in 1849 by authority of the International Committee
charged to govern the Duchy during the armistice, and one
of whose members was Count Euleaburg, the Prussian
Plenipotentiary. Of the divisional chiefs whom the Com-
missioners have appointed to the central government, one
held office in 18.50 as the head of a department under the
insurgent administration, the second fought in the ranks of
the insurrectionary army, and the third, although at that
time a Royal official, made common cause with the revolters.
At the period of the accession of King Christian IX. two
only among the Schleswig clergy refused to take the oath
of allegiance to his Majesty, and were displaced. The Com-
missioners have been sedulous to profit by the opportunity
to show how they understand the respect for the King's
Sovereignty they had promised before Europe. They have
hastened, therefore, to reinstate these two clergymen in
their cures, and have, at the same time, conferred another
cure of souls upon a candidate who had otered homage to
the Pretender, Frederick of Augustenburg, as his legiti-
mate Sovereign, These secessionist demonstrations are
everywhere looked upon with favour by the authorities of
the invasion, who do not even scruple to permit factions
assemblages to prolaim solemnly the accession of the Pre-
tender to the "ducal Crown."

In other respects annoyances of every kind run their
course against the inhabitants who have remained faithful
to the legitimate authority. Those who are not thrown
into prison are frequently given over to the arbitrary treat-
ment of the soldiers.

In short, upon all portions of the territory placed under
the authority of the Commissioners extreme activity is dis-
played to overthrow the ancient legal order, to establish
new institutions suited to effect a complete separation be.
tween Schleswig and the Kingdom, and to denationalize
rapidly and efficaciously the peaceable population laid under
a foreign yoke, This is the explanation why every step at
present taken in the peninsula at the instance of the autho-
rities of the invasion is carefully and skilfully calculated to
support and.encoarage the
efforts of the revolutionary party,
whose openly avowed object is to succeed in detaching
Schleswig from the Danish Crown, and, while uniting it
closely with Holstein, to cause its incorporation with Ger.
many.

I request you, Sir, not to omit completing by the pre-
ceding details the communications you have already been
able to make to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of -----
upon the singular manner in which the two great German
Powers think proper to treat the possessions of the Icing.
I have the honour, &c., QUAADE.

TnE CARTOON IN " FUN" to-day is something
admirable—being a scene between " Hero and Bard."—
Bard—Come, I say, old fellow, don't go and snuff me out;
get it over before the 23d. Hero—Ah S I wonder whether
my countrymen will remember me three hundred years
hence ?

PROBATE COURTS.—The annual accounts ren-
dered by these courts show that the fees received
in 1863, in England and Ireland, amounted to £1.25,006.
The salaries and expenses, including £16,993, expended by
the Board of Works upon probate courts and district regis-
tries, absorbed £119,455 ; but, in addition to that, £107,293
has to be paid as compensation to proctors and officers of
the late courts, making the whole charge £226,748, or
£lOO,OOO more than the receipts. The amount of compen-
sation payable diminished in the course of the year to the
extent of rather more thin £3,000 by deaths.

THE MACKEREL FISHERY.—The Cornish fliher-
men and scinowners have every encouragement to antici-
pate that the present season will prove even more profitable
than the productive season of 1863. During the past
week many good catches have been made, and prices have
gone down in consequence. On Thursday the Mount's
Bay boats sent per rail 60 ton, or 2,400 baskets, containing
about 144,000 fish. Prices averaged from 14s. to 15s. per
hundred. A large quantity has been retailed throughout
the country at five, six, and seven for Is, ; the quality is
generally very fine.