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of the 3d October, I shall halt .'fisi:l4lsee the )
monarchy under the safeguard o
laws as soon as the country shall :s.o.nKr'o4;P/—,
pacified. The strength of the execntivenlow4Ais, S
in my opinion, secured by the precision equally with
the well defined establishment of its limits ; it is
therefore my intention, in carrying on my Govern-
ment, to fix such boundaries as may guarantee its -
stability. I firmly hope we shall prove that well-
regulated liberty is perfectly compatible with the/
reign of order.

PR1CE...... ...4d.
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"I shall know how to respect the one and to
cause respect to be shown to the other. I shall
hold high the flag of independence, the symbol of
future greatness,
with the same vigour.
"I ask the assistance of all Mexicans who love
their country to aid mein accomplishing my splendid'
but difficult task. Union will mcke us strong, will
procure for us peace and prosperity.
" My Government will never forget the gratitude
it owes to the illustrious prince whose generous
support has brought abcut the regeneration of our
beautiful country.

"Upon the way to my nee, country it is nay in-
tention to visit Rome, tr, receive trona the hlnds of
the libly Father those benedictions so precious to
all sovereigns, and which are doubly important to
me, as called upon #o found a new empire."

Circular Despatch of M. De Quaade,

The following circular despatch has been sent by
the Danish Minister of Foreign affairs to.the Danish,
representatives at foreign Courts :

Copenhagen, April 5.
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 ,f Schleswig, have increased upon a constantly
increasing scale. The invasion pursues its subversiva task
with redoubled violence. The Allies treat this Duchy as if
there could never be a question of restoring it to its legi&
meet 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 tnrn from some Ger-
man Sovereign by the usurpation:of 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 (balls's) 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.Prussiaz
Commissioners have not even scrupled to remove in a body
all the members of ,the Cont 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 is
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;retyof the Danish inhabitants—that
is to say, about two-thirds of the population of the Duchy—
from availing themselves of their mother tongue before 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 bye translation in:the Danish
language.

The 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, from all public build-
ings. The use of postage stamps and paper samped with.
the Royal Crown has now been forbidden. It was even
thought urgently requisite to abolish by express decree the
customary prayer for the Roy Al 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 .s,ystern called
courant, which is only usod in certain portions of the north
of Germany. At the same time, not content with authoris-
ing the circulation of Prussian end othtr German do2lare
with liaraburgismidl 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 cz;me in force after the Ist
of April of this year, have been suspended.

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The Commissioners also continue to lavish offices upon
persons who played a prominent part in the insurrection of
1848, or who have subsequently displayed revolutionary
tendencies. Alter 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•westem portion upon a man who
formerly became notorious by demanding that &e leaders
of the insurrection should declare that Ring 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 Eulenburg, the Prussian
Plenipotentiary. Of the divisional chiefs whom the Com-
missioners have appointed to the central government, one
held office in 1850 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 is
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 factious
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 throws
into prison are frequently given over to the arbitrary treat-
meat 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
y and efficaciously the peaceable population laid under
the revolutionaryi
rapidly
aafpoirdelign yoke. 'raja is the explanation why every step at
present taken in the peninsula at the instance of the autho-
ritiesis
ll e efforts
carefully
of and Skilfully calculated
party,
to
wsuhpopsoertoanpendly avowed object is to Succeed in detaching
of the invasion
encourage
the
Schleswig from the Danish Crown, and, while uniting it
closely with Holstein, to cause its incorporation with Ger.
m any.
I request you, Sir, not to omit oompleting 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 King.
I have the honour, &c., QUAADE.

THE 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 I I wonder whether
my countrymen will remember me three hundred Years
hence P

PROBATE COURTS.--The annual accounts ren-
dered by these courts show that the fees received
in 1863, in England and Ireland, amounted to £125,006.
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 compesation 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 FISIIERY.—The Cornish fisher-
men and seinowners 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.