The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-28 00:00:00

GERMANY AND DENMARK,

Some of the German journals give the following
as the conditions which Prussia and Austria, and
particularly the former, will insist on for the re-
establishment of peace :—" Ist. Complete separation
of the duchies of Sleswig, Holstein, and Lauenburg
from Denmark, with the exclusion of the portions
of Jutland locked into the north of Sleswig. 2d.
The foundation of a special state under the sove-
reignty of the prince whose rights should be recog-
nised by a Federal tribunal. 3d. Prussia shall
reimburse to Austria the war expenses, which for
that power amount to from five to seven millions of
crowns. The duchy of Sleswig shall be occupied
by the Prussian troops, and the finances of the
duchy shall be administered by Prussian func-
tionaries until the surplus of the receipts shall
amount to the sum which Prussia claims for the
payment of the war expenses—namely, 20 millions
for Prussia, and 7 millions for Austria. 4th. The
fortress of Rendsburg will become a Federal one,
but shall be occupied by Prussian troops. sth. The
port of Kiel shall become a station for the fleet of
Prussia, which power will establish there docks, &c."
The Independance, after giving those conditions,
remarks :—" The importance of the share in these
arrangements which Prussia claims by reserving to
herself the occupation of Rendsburg, and making
Kiel a station for her fleet, cannot fail to be remarked.
While awaiting the moment when Denmark shall
declare herself prepared to submit to arrangements
so onerous for her, and when the Diet will resign
itself to the exclusion of which it is the object, a
rather marked movement against the exclusiveness
with which the cabinets of Vienna and Berlin
appear to be animated, has been manifesting itself
in the policy of France since the stay of M. Drouyn
de Lhuye at Vichy. There are rumours of the
approaching appearance of a manifesto in the Moni-
teur, or a note, or a pamphlet, the object of which
would be to show the necessity of fixing the prin-
ciples of a fresh international jurisdiction, in order
to prevent the abuse of might, as the former public
law tends to disappear, and the new public law,
which takes as its basis the will of the populations,
is not yet generally recognised. We believe that
instead of those manifestations, the French Govern-
ment will confine itself, if this is not already the
case, to communicating to the cabinets of Vienna
end Berlin its opinion that the Germanic Confede-
ration ought to be called on to take part in the
negotiations for peace with Denmark. In support
of that step it would show that the exclusion of
Germany at the period of the negotiations at Lon-
don in 1852 greatly contributed to the present
complications, The same error would certainly
produce the same effects; the Duchies might at a
later period invoke that exclusion to liberate them-
selves from the fresh obligations contracted in their
name."
A Berlin letter of the 33d, speaking of the Rends-
burg occupation, says :—" Count de Bismark's ex-
pression of ' Might takes precedence of right' is
sufficiently well known, bat if the secondary States
do not allow themselves to be led into an openly
secessionist policy, Prussia will certainly not carry
the affair to any extremity. In the first place, it is
right to declare that the Hanoverian soldiers had no
intention of attacking the Prussian hospitals ; and
next, the population of Holstein was entirely un-
connected with those sanguinary quarrels, Count
de Bismark has simply profited by the disorder to
seize on the most important fortress in Holstein. In
official regions here the feeling against Saxony is
very strong. Baron de Benst is said to have medi-
tated a coup de main, which would have placed
the government of the Duchy of Holstein in the
hands of the Duke of Augustonburg, in order to
create an accomplished fact to oppose to the
policy of the cabinets of Berlin and Vienna. To
foil those plans ritiSsia had prepared a proposal