The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-13 00:00:00

The Prince and Princess of Wales in

Denmark,

COPENHAGEN, Thursday.
Even if the Prince and Princess of. Wales had not
arranged to pass a few days quietly at Fredensborg
Castle,lwhich lies about 27 miles from Copenhagen,
the drenching showers that
have fallen almost con-
tinually since their arrival in Denmark would put
anything like sight-seeing out of the question. A
heavy, soaking, noiseless rain, such as English
agriculturists would delight
in, and to which the
are well accustomed, for
inhabitants apparently
they walk about with or without umbrellas, en-
tirely disregarding it, covers the streets with little
sheets of water that throb like pulses as they are
beaten and swollen by farther drops descending
every moment. If a temporary cessation does take
place and a ray of sunshine tempts the visitor half
a stre©t from his hotel, ho speedily
desire his overcoat and his very has occasion to
strongest boots.
Droskies, indeed, and even in some quarters omni
buses running upon tramways, afford the means of
locomotion under cover, but, as in all the northern
citiea;these have a place of their own, which must
not be interfered with.

At Fredensborg yesterday the birthday of the
Queen of Denmark was privately, but not on that
account the less warmly celebrated. At 12 o'clock
all the principal personages resident in the Castle,
and also the members of the Corps Di plomatique,
had the honour of being received and of tendering
their congratulations. In the evening there was a
dinner party, at which about 40 sat down to table.
The circle included all the members of the Royal
family at present staying at Fredensborg to meet
the Prince and Princess of Wales,
Sir A. and Lady
Paget, with Mr. Gosling and 11r. Scott, of the
British Embassy, the immediate suite of their
Royal Highnesses, the commander of the yacht
Osborne, and the captains of her Majesty's
steamers Aurora and Salamis. After dinner his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales proposed the
health of the Queen of Danmark, and immediately
afterwards the King of Danmark proposed that of
her Majesty Queen Victoria. The company then
separated, the remainder of the evening being spent
in private.

Owing partly to the very unfavourable state of
the weather, and to the fact that communication
with the capital by railway is still impeded, some
uncertainty prevails as to the actual proceedings of
the Royal party. It is probable that the Prince
and Princess of Wales will remain at Fredensborg
until the beginning of next week, and that they
will then proceed to Bernstorff, which, before the
King ascended the throne,
constituted his family
residence. This castle being much smaller than the
one where they are now staying,
the Prince and
Princess will take with them only a portion of
their suite; but, on the other hand, its proximity to
Copenhagen will afford opportunities for visiting
many objects of interest with which the capital
abounds. It is nearly certain that the Royal party,
or at any rate the Prince of \Vales, will visit Stock-
holm towards the end of the month, but the design
at one time entertained of extending the tour so as
to include Moscow and St. Petersburg has been
abandoned, owing to the lateness of the season.
The time of year is already advanced for Sweden,
and a month later travelling in Russia would be at-
tended with extreme difficulties.

Concerning the visit of the Prince and Pritcess to
Copenhagen at the present moment public opinion
has been a good deal divided. Naturally, when a
nation undergoes humiliation and defeat, when it is
conscious of outrages on the part of others and of
some mistakes committed by itself, it is not in the
mood for seeing anything coleur de rose. Whatever
foundation there may have been for the expectations
based on an English alliance, these expectations
undoubtedly were entertained with a blind unquese
tioning faith, and when these were disappointed the
mortification was proportionately bitter. The signa%
ture of England to the treaty of 1852 was looked on
as the one good name on the back of the bill which,
if all others failed, was to secure performance of the
contract. Since it has proved that this task was
more than England could or would undertake, the
Danish feeling towards that country and its people
hag, to say the least, cooled very sensibly. There
are symptoms; however, that clearer views and wiser
counsels are already beginning to resume their
sway, and that the violent language indulged in
recently by a section of the press finds no approval
from the more enlightened portion of the commu-
nity. Dagblada, the organ of the more influential
Opposition, contrast the enthusiastic demonstra-
tions which took place before the departure of the
Princess Alexandra, with the silent welcome that
meets her as Princess of Wales, and sets itself to
explain why there are now no fetes in her honour.
It is not, Dagblada says, that any less warm feel.
ings are entertained towards her personally, or that
any doubt is felt of her affection for Denmark; but
the displays when she was about to leave for Eng
land possessed a doable signification. They were
intended to celebrate not merely a personal but a
national union. She returns at a
moment when the
nation is bent down beneath a great calamity, and
when the hope that sustained it has been utterly
shattered. There is no longer the capacity to re-
joice ; there are no roses to scatter before her,
because they have all been strewn
upon the tombs
of those warriors who have fallen. Dagbladet ex-
presses satisfaction at the presence of " the Eogs
lish Crown Prince" as a guest in the country from
which his wife was chosen, but
says, "The Danes
must still regard
him as the representative of
Great Britain, which abandoned them to their
enemies, and allowed might to trample over
right, though both seeing and condemning their
fadida—thles,s,
`Ye violence."cannot
accod
Furtherr :a his private sym-
pathies n the same paper
a
for the righteous cause of Denmark so much
weight as we should do to those of a man in less
exalted position." This article reflects very faith-
fully the feeling here at the present moment. It
is ore, it will be perceived, not written in a tone of
personal unkindness, but rather of dissatisfaction
with the policy which England thought it beat to
rs
Years must elapse before that feeling
wears away, and should there be any political party
interested iu its continuance it may be maintained
and
igthood opportunity
kinilY
will sur-
mount heart of the
nation
pf
welcome
ofElsili
re ,
the for an period. But, as waslnany case
seen in the
he
all international bitterness.
must indeed be a slur politician who would mar by
the introduction of political topics the happiness
of a young mother
in showing to the _
underlies,people among
whom her childhood was passed the husband of her
choice and the first fruit with which that union has
been blessed.
The Russian Grand Mike, with
wn •
ose stay in
Denmark rumour connected the possibility of
another Royal alliance with thereigning
has just taken his departure. Before doing so, he
presented to General Liedenchrone a very valuable
gold snuffbox as a memorial of the visit. The whole
of the Grand Mike's Staff were decorated by the
King of Denmark.
The Chevalier Irmang.er has been appointed to
rrince of Wal
act as equerry to the es during his
stay.

FRIDAY.

outlay involved in a
visit
they would un-
doubtedly become a much more favourite field of
travel than the now dusty tracks of
Wire
to
these i t
northern time
regions,
eg and
in n 8 ,
Central Europe,
hospitable in the highest de.
A people honest and
grey, a country interesting in itself, and to the very
been honoured by English.
dependent of the
treasures of the capital, are
.a few of
sat:dnetsenofanNiNt'byienhf trmandsist_ionticl ler:,gsin
the attractions
held out by Denmark. It is true that of late years
than was time since the
Scandinavia at large has
men with a degree of attention greater, perhaps,
added to the Litany
a special invocation for deliverance a furore Nor-
munoruin. But in the stormy waters of the Baltic
wee7itubrcyst,°wwleiedn ucpleorngylt.meetn:anY
lies the great safeguard of the North from ever
being vulgarised, as other parts of the Continent
have been ; and her people, happily unaccustomed
to be stared out of countenance, and not rendered
callous by excursion trains, pride themselves, even
in these clays of gloom and national depression, on
the goodwill and courtesy they show to strangers.
Fancy a gentleman with e. card entitling him to the