The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-07 00:00:00

bone may be thrown a hundred are sent empty
away ; and these do not easily go back to their
kennel, but keep whining and snarling., appealing
to the Band, to the great and little Fatherland, to
Heaven an:: earth, against the Aastro•Prassian dog
in the manger, who hesitates about devouring
Schleswig, and will not suffer it to be devoured by
otha-s.

However natural and even reasonable may have
been the yearnings of the Schleswig-Holsteiners
after union with what they call their country, it is
not likely that they will at any time fall under any
Garman Government one tenth as good, as provident
and liberal as that of their late Danish masters.
The Danes, as I have had frequent occasions to
show, carried their leniency to their disaffected
subjects to a fault. There was hardly a country in
the world where freedom of speech and action was
carried to a greater extent. Not only privy con-
spiracy and rebellion but even arrant treason were
winked at. Flensburg patriots, as I saw with my
own eyes, went over to Kiel to swear allegiance to
the Prince of Augustenburg, both in their own
name and in that of their townspeople, and they
came back to their homes unmolested and un-
challenged. The Danish soldiers billeted upon the
country people were as inoffensive, as respectful, as
indifferent to the sour looks of their hosts, as
tolerant of ill disguised insult and ill treatment as
so many angels. After all the convulsions of 1848.9
there was hardly an instance of a political prosecu-
tion in Denmark. Some of the self-banished
patriots shunned their country, as they had left it
for their country's good ; but Denmark had no
Spielberg nor Nisida. Amnesty was extended to
nearly all who would accept it.

It is not so with the men, justly or unjustly,
accused of Danish sympathies who are now tarry-
ing in the Duchies. The so-called patriotic leaders
hunt them down without mercy, they set up a mad-
dog cry after them, and the Austro-Prussian rulers,
who ought to see justice done to all parties, are too
:qady to back:these curs in their full cry. A newspaper
is forcf})lY suppressed in Hadersleben because " it
was published in the Danish language ;" and the
Flensburger Zeilung is bidden to publish Copen-
hagen news ae " foreign intelligence," under the
heading Ausland. The number of citizens, office-
holders, schoolmasters, and clergymen who are
compelled to seek shelter from popular fury, either
here or in Jutland, or even in the enemy's country,
at Hamburg or Lubeck, become daily more alarm-
ing. The Schleswig-Holsteiners were tired of their
Danish King Log, but have little reason as yet to
be satisfied with their Austro-Pr ussian King Stork.
They are disappointed, wrathful and fretful, and
they vent upon those who can make no resistance a
displeasure which they dare not exhibit before the
new taxmasters they were in so great a hurry to
have among them. The national German party are
anxious, above all things, that the Duchies should
be thoroughly.ane radically revolutionized. It suits
their purpose to exaggerate the ill-feeling of the
people against the Danes, to rouse them to all
sorts of riot and mischief. Nor are the Commis-
sioners of the two great Powers, especially the
Prussians, at all earnest in their endeavours to allay
popular fury. There is no man in Schleswig-
Holstein, no man in Prussia, Austria, or the minor
German States who clearly knows what he is driv-
ing at or what weuld answer his purpose beet. A
vague instinct prompts almost all parties to give
mischief full awing, that time may show what is to
come out of it all,—what chances each may have to
fish in the waters all have contricuted to trouble.

Talk of personal union, new Constitutious aim-
ing at an equitable acknowledgment of the claims
of rival nationalities ! Why, if Schleswig-Holstein
ever came back to Denmark, its preae,at occupiers
will take care that it shall be so fully disnrganized
and subverted that Denmark herself will find it
hardly worth having.

RAILWAY INTEI LIGENCE,