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

The Danish Question.

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 prod
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 Europe stubborn and incorrigible
adversaries who concert together to impede their
normal development, and the calm and legitimate
expansion of those principles. Well, the statesmen
of France and England say with reason that the pro-
jects directed against liberty are without danger on
the day when the two great Western Powers,
which aro at the head of the nations, labour to.
gether for the general prosperity and for the
emancipation of humanity. Whilst in both houses
of the British Parliament the Ministerial mem-
bers, as well as those of the Opposition, recog.
nise the value and 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 wisdom 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 facs 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 1864
must disapprove by her language of such tendencies
and such facts, in order to show clearly that she
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ness which characterise her present Pliny. The
position which the Court of the Tuileries has derived
from the contrast between this disinterestedness and
moderation and the egotism and ambition which
moderation
hurry into a career of violence other Polders, give
to that Government at the present Moment an im-
mense political ascendancy, and a considerable moral
influence. That ascendancy an
influence it is which
she will know how to place at the service of 111114
versal progress and true liberty."

DEATH OFtedMsit-oBe.al WOOD,
expired
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E 0 VOCALIST.—This
0 ThursdayculsT as
. Tlhiat
at Buleliffe Ball, Bretton West, near Wakefield, where she
had resided for the last 12 months, Mrs Wood had retired
cle r a
from public life for many years, and devoted her talents to
the teaching
onoe
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 reper-
toire, when her tame 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 ezgagenaents, however,
until she finally retired from tlie stage, and took up her
residence fi'L Wakefield, where she lived for several years.
She afterwards removed to Leeds, where, as already stated,
the occupied the positiCill of, a teacher 9f music.

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