The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-02 00:00:00

A Danish View of Federal Execution.

We extract the following from the last number
of the Dagbladet :
" Will any honest men say that the intervention
in Holstein comes under the head of Federal execu-
tion ? In the instructions given to the commis-
sioners it is expressly-laid down that they have to
administer the affairs of the Duchy, reserving to
the Sovereign all his rights and without doing pre-
judice to them. Is it, we say, in conformity with
the tenour of that order completely to ignore the
existence of .the King of Denmark, by allowing
the inhabitants publicly to proclaim a new sove-
reign ? The execution is nothing less than a mask
to foster revolt.

" In the interest of peace Europe rejoiced.when,
on the 7th December last, the Confederation voted
by a small majority execution instead of the occu-
pation of Holstein. What has now become of the
distinction between those two ideas ? Had occupa-
tion been voted, it would have been a direct infringe-
ment of international law A heavy pressure has
been exercised upon Denmark to compel her not to
consider the execution a cams belli, and to resist
it by force of arms. The Powers who have made
their will prevail at Copenhagen, and who, dis-
daining to listen to the wishes of the nation, have
extorted that concession from the Government,
have acted under the supposition that it was simply
Federal execution, and that any attempt to make a
demonstration in favour of the Duke of A ugusten-
burg would be rigorously prohibited. What will
they say now, after it has been proved that the
Plenipotentiary Commissioners of the Confederation
patronise and facilitate everything which tends to
deprive the Crown of Denmark of the Duchy of
Holstein ? This pressure of the neutral Powers at
the present moment is our greatest evil. We do
not hesitate to say that the whole Danish people
chafes with indignation at the inconceivable atti-
tude assumed by the neutral Powers, who style
themselves the friends of Denmark."

THE WINGS OF BEES (whose nature it is to
creep into small flowers).—The contrivance they
are supplied with is very curious. They have four wings,
two on each side, and the upper wings fold once, length-
wise, when the insect walls; but, when it purposes to fly,
it straightens this ,wing, by the act of raising it, and the
same action hooks the lower wing to it firmly, giving it all
the force of a single broad wing. The microscopic shows
that, at the base of each of the little wing-cases, which
measure, at their broadest part, only one sixty-second of an
inch, there is a (haute little comb, formed with beautiful
regularity, and having ono hundred and twenty teeth.
The use of this comb may be to remove all particles of dust
from the long, feathery wings before the wing-cases elose
over them.

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