The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-26 00:00:00

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Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton ..Nov. 18.1
via Marseilles Nov. 12,
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lbina, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Nov. 2
via Marseilles Oct. 27.

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via Marseilles , 27.
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by U.S. packet.... 28.
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EMIGRATION TO MEXICO.—The Pi. ess of Vienna
states that about 400 indigent families established at
Vienna have decided on emigrating to Mexico. A plan
was at first conceived of raising the lands necessary for
ittheir removal by means of a lottery of 300,000 florins. That
proceeding was not, however, approved of by the finance
department, and the intention now is to raise a sulmrptiou
in the capital for the purpose,

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more sharp, and its reproof becomes tenfold more
cutting. The war was undertaken ostensibly to
please the Schleswig-Holsteiners, and now they are
held up as objects of pity, because they have not
been allowed to enjoy their rights and share in
their inherent privileges. The inhabitants of the
Duchies will, doubtless, long deplore their infatua-
tion in endeavouring to separate themselves from
Denmark. They have brought their own fate upon
themselves, but this does not justify those who have
been acting under a mask. It must be gall and worm-
wood to the wily diplomatists and astute statesmen
of Prussia and Austria to find their motives called
into question, and their intentions thus impugned.
They must see the awkward position in which they
are placed, and the disadvantages under which they
labour by the attacks proceeding from such a quar-
ter. These home thrusts are difficult to parry, and
there is little gain and glory in seeking to do so.
The purpose of the committee is so far a worthy
one, that it suggests the carrying out of an un-
deniable claim, and urges the enactment of
measures which are intrinsically just and
straightforward. There is no doubt that unless a
very different leaf is turned over, the Schleswig.
Holsteiners will have very little vaice in th 3
arrangement of their own affairs, and thus will
henceforth be comparative dummies among States,
instead of, as they fondly hoped, an independent
and unmolested kingdom. It cannot be expected
that much sympathy will be felt for them because

they have played a very insincere part; but jus-
tice is the same in any case, and nothing can possibly
excuse the conduct of Austria and Prassia in deceiv•

ing and imposing upon the credulity of unsuspecting
States, and taking advantage of their dissatisfac-
tion to work out the selfish ends of their own de-
sires. The committee are not likely to effect much,
however right may be their views or decided their
tone, for this affair is pre-eminently one of those in
which might has triumphed over right throughout.
It cannot be that any State which has been insane
enough to trust Prussia with its cause, and suffer
her to be the arbiter of its destiny, can possibly
enjoy rights, privileges, or peace. It seems cer-
tainly unfair that the people of the Duchies should
not settle their own future, but that by no means
makes it certain that such will be their lot. It is
too late now fir any attempt to mend matters by
any confederation. But still it is so far satisfactory
to notice that disaffection is rife in the camp, and
that where it was vaunted universal concord pre-
vailed. We witness anything but harmony—in
fact, the germs of discontent that may yet produce
a sad and serious effect on the offending Powers--
a more striking instance of mismanagement has
seldom been witnessed than this Schleswig-Hold
stein affair—and it will only be a just retribution
that sees all the parties concerned in the transfer
of allegiance, utterly disappointed, and griev-
ously deceived. The frustration of such efforts as
theirs is only what is to be expected in the long.
run from their discordant elements.