The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-26 00:00:00

GENERAL VON HAKE.

" I have respectfully to inform your Excellency
that the outrages committed within the last
few days by soldiers of the Federal garrison
against Prussian sentinals and hospitals demand
an immediate guarantee against the repetition of
such and still further insults and dangers to the
chief station and depot of the allied army.
"His Majesty, my King and master, has there•
fore been induced to issue the following order :—I
am to take possession of Rendsburg, and make my-
self master of the place. In consequence of this
Major-General von Goben *rill present himself be-
fore Rendsburg at noon, upon the 21st, with 6,000
men and two batteries, in readiness to undertake
the occupation of the posts.

"It will depend upon the moderation, tact, and
energy so frequently shown by your Excellency
whether this inevitable step, indispensable to the
honour of the Prussian army, shall be carried out
in such a manner that the regulation of the entire
affair may be left to subsequent diplomatic negotia-
tion."

" GENERAL VON RAKE TO PRINCE FREDERICK
CHARLES.

" Your Royal Highness's communication of the
inst. has been received by me, having crossed Col.
von Fabrics, despatched upon a mission to head-
quarters. In view of the truthful explanations
which my officer will have given your Royal High-
ness as to the military riots in Rendsburg, I feel
firmly convinced that military measures of so re-
markable a character would not have been adopted
if your Royal Highness had been already is posses-
sion of my officer's Herbal report.
" It is impossible for me, therefore, to consent to
the occupation of Rendsburg by Prussian troops,
but also clearly out of my power, independent of
other important reasons, to think of offering mili-
tary opposition with a weak garrison of four corn-
parries.

I must therefore decline all responsibility, and
leave your Royal Highness to be answerable for the
consequences. In case of your Royal Highness ad.
hering to the intention you have expressed,, I shall,
however, for the present, withdraw the troops from
Rendsburg to avoid a conflict."
It has already been communicated by telegraph
that General von Goben occupied the town and
fortress of Rendsburg with a combined brigade at
noon on the 21st.

THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.--During
the five days the show was open at Newcastle last week,
114,281 persons were admitted, and the money taken at the
entrances amounted to £8,171. The aggregate amount taken
at the Leeds meeting was £10,889 ; Newcastle, therefore,
occupies the second position as regards the number of
visitors and the amount of money taken,

Under the title of " La France et Europe," the
Pays publishes another article, warning the two
German Powers not to imagine themselves at
liberty to dispose as they please of the Danish pro.
vinces. The late debates in the English Parliament
on the diplomatic documents published in London,
but repudiated by the three Northern Sovereigns,
show that all parties in England are of opinion
that for the advancement of progress and civilise.
tion and for the maintenance of peace, the union
between France and England should be made more
and more intimate :—" And let no mistake be made
in the matter," says the writer, " when on both sides
of the Channel an intimate alliance and a cordial
understanding are spoken of, it is not in view of a
material war, to be made and carried on in com-
mon with cannons and muskets. No one anticipates
anything of the sort. It is in view of common efforts
to be combined in favour of civilisation, peace, and
liberty. Civilisation, peace, and liberty appear to
still have in old Earope stubborn and incorrigible
adversaries who concert together to impede their
normal develepluent, end the calm and legitim,,te
el-pension of those principles. Well, the statesmen
eiFeenee and England say with reason that the pro-
jects directed against liberty are without danger on
the day then the two great 'Western Powers,
which are at the head of the Rations, labour toe
gether for the general prosperity and for tb a
emancipation of humanity. Whilst in both houe,es
of the British Parliament the Mieisterial mem-
bers, as well ea those of the Opposition, recog-
nise the value end utility of the Anglo French
alliance, the Ambassadors and Minister of the
Northern Courts and of the Governments of Ger_
many make energetic protestations of their lively
sympathy for the Court of the Tuileries. All the
Cabinets of the European continent make it their
duty to declare that they attach the greatest price
to remaining in harmony with the Cabinet of Paris.
They assure that Government of their ardent desire
to live in the best intelligence with it, and affirm
that never a hostile thought nor a warlike inclina-
tion had entered their minds. In a word, if all do
not seek the alliance with France with the same
eagerness, because all do not follow the same
liberal and progressive, pacific, and civilising
career, all at least endeavour to reassure her as
to their feelings and intentions; all prove clearly
the high esteem in which they hold her, and the
extreme confidence which they accord to her.
We may be allowed to eulogise the Emperor's
Government for those results which spring from
the w isdom and moderation it has shown in the
question of the Duchies. France has not to trouble
herself materially either about the plans more or
less contrary to right and equity which Austria and
Prussia appear to pursue with the complicity of
Russia relative to Denmark. Those projects do not
affect us directly; they interest infinitely more the
Diet, whose authority they suppress, and the Con.
federation, whose dissolution they prepare. The
Emperor's Government, cannot, however, remain
indifferent to acts which at the same time shock the
old and the new public law—to a violence which no
longer belongs to the present age, and which re-
veals a spirit of conquest so contrary to modern
manners—and to diplomatic arrangements which
attest the intention of opposing the pacific and
regular advance of ideas of progress and civilise.
tion. Those are tendencies and fads to be re.
gretted, and are too much in opposition to the
requirements of peace and the principles of liberty
of our times for the chastisement not to follow the
fault, since he who sows the storm must of necessity
reap the whirlwind. France of 1789 and of 18"
must disapprove by her language of such tendencies
and such facts, in order to show clearly that she
o:la givelcll
belongs to young Europe, and not to the old, and
this she does with the moderation and disinterested-
ness which characterise her present policy. The
position which the Court of the Tuileries has derived
from the contrast between this disinterestedness and
hmuordrcyr moderation and acnadreetrheo
of violence
h e and ambition
other
io
to that Government at the present moment an
in-
mense political ascendancy, and a considerable moral
influence.
That ascendancy an influence
how
true u eplace
e at
dthe
se r,
it
ice is
of which
uni4
she will know
vernal progress and

DEATH OF MRS. WOOD, TIIE VOCALIST.—This
once celebrated vocalist expired on Thursday last
at Bala& Ball, Bretton West, near Wakefield, where she
had resided for the last 12 months, Mrs Wood had retired
from public life for many years, and devoted her talents to
the teaching of music at Leeds. It was at the national
theatres, Drury-lane and Covent-garden, that Mrs Wood,
as Miss Paton, first won her great fame as a vocalist, and
gained a hold upon the admiration of the public which never
ceased until her final retirement from the stage. Her I cper-
toire, When her fame became established, extended through
the whole range of English opera, in which there was
scarcely a piece which she did not adorn by her attractive
vocalisation and dramatic talents. It was in the zenith of
her reputation as a vocalist that she was married to Lord
William Lennox. The union, however, did not prove a
happy one, and no very long time elapsed before a separa-
tion, followed by a divorce, took place. She subsequently
married Mr Wood, himself a vocalist of considerable talent.
As Mrs Wood she continued to maintain the high position
she had achieved as the first of English female vocalists,
gradually contracting her public engagements, however,
until she finally retired tram the stage, and took up her
residence at Wakefield, where she lived lor several years.
She afterwards removed to Leeds, where, as already stated,
she occupied the position of a teacher of music.