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by their various rechauffes ,-;.: iliewselves in diffe- .
rent costumes those who come willing and anxious
to " make believe very much" as the Marchioness
said to Mr. Swiveller about her diluted beer, cer-
tainly do not attempt to furnish any very refined
species of amusement. For any one, however, who
will sit out the dinner for the sake of the dessert,
there is reierted a rare and, in its light way, even
subtle enjoyment. The teat half hour of the "en-
tertainment is more than entertaining ; it is au
achievement which not only illustrates, it teen*
l
the very meaning we attach to the phrase "plastic"
art. Mr. John Parry—whom we Cali recollect, we
should thihki twbrity Years ar singing that ordia
narily vulgar species of song called e‘ coif" with
a hrtmodr and expression that allied them to comedy
rather than farce—Conies on ,to the scene alone
and in his own dads, and tella the tiadiance that
he is going to introduce them to Mrs. Roieleare
evening party. It may possibly slightly help the
illusion, he says, if, when he represents Mrs. Roseleaf
herself, he takes up a fan and bouquet which he shows
us lying on the piano, but he will not need any
other aid at all from costume. Thus much he says
simply in his own person, and the audience have
time, while he is saying it, to notice a face somewhat
wan, rather weary, yet with a colour slightly hectic,
perfectly refined, and yet with something of that
expression of mental bareness—of thought and
emotion with the bloom off by being laid bare to
others—which we somehow associate with a cha-
racteristic roundness, baldness, and absence of cross
lines of thought or feeling on the face. No face
could be imagined that offers at the first glance less
ea......____ promise of flexibility. You would say of it—as
THE "SATURDAY REVIEW" ON THE PRINCE OP Shake ere said of the elephant—that " its legs are
WALES AT THE LITERARY FUND DINNER.—The legs for necessity, not for flexure,"—that its lines
London season would be incomplete without the of expression are lines for necessity, not for flexure.
Royal Academy Dinner and the Literary Fund You have scarcely made up your mind that it is so,
Dinner. There is a common nature belonging to when Mr Parry sits down to the piano, and his face
these two national institutions, for such they are, at once assumes that stolid expression of hired
though there is a great difference between the drudgery, of business islanded in the amusement of
artists entertaining their patrons and friends of others, which, without an explanation, declares to
literature eating, drinking, and spesohifying in be- every- one the professional pianist engaged for an
half of an admirable charity for the worn-out pens evening party at which there are to be a few qua-
and dried ink bottles of the day. What they have drilles. While thus playing Mr. Parry announces
in common is that the notables of social rank, the the names of a few guests succeeding one another,
statesmen and political men, the writers and artists and presently rising from the piano he takes up his
of the time are expected on these occasions to deliver bouquet and fan, and the stolid persistency of the
themselves of set orations in praise of art and letters. hired musician is suddenly transformed into the
There is not a little interest in all this. The engaging suavity and complaisance of a lady-like
country lectures at the local Athenme delivered by hostess. Mrs Roseleaf is a thorough lady, slightly
holiday-making M.P.as have their value. One affected indeed, but with the affectation arising from
sometimes laughs at the parturient pains of a coon- an excessive audibility, not from any tinge of vul-
try gentleman delivering himself of a sort of would- garity. There is nothing very original in any
be academical eloge, and uttering the improptu thing she says—" Tlais is a pleasure indeed—so kind
reminiscences of history and classics for which he of you to come," and so forth ; but the spectator
is furtively indebted to the curate of the
parish, gazing through the best of opera glasses at the
But all this tends to keep up at least the preten-
sion of an educated standard ; and as every noble- gentleman in plain black clothes who is baying
all this, can hardly persuade himself it is a gen-
man of mark and every Cabinet Minister is always tleman at all, and not Mrs. Roseleaf. Indeed,
expected to be ready with some reminiscences of so strong is the illusion that when we come
general reading and literary or artistic talk at one away and recall the scene in memory, it is the
or other of the twin London dinners, the Literary hardest thing in the world to believe we have
Fond anniversary has its value. The charity which seen only one actor throughout, and that
it represents is well and usefully conducted; and
though an attempt was unsuccessfully made a few actor a gentleman not in disguise. Presently Mrs
Roseleaf inquires after the baby of one of her
years ago to discredit its management, general con- guests, and the reply indistinctly murmured is re-
fidence is felt in its efficiency. On Wednesday the fleeted with such extraordinary vividness in the
Prince of Wales commenced what we may almost dropping lines of unspeakable concern in her face,
call his public life by presiding at this dinner. that you know it must have been croup of a more
The occasion must have been a very trying one. than ordinarily dangerous kind. When the answer
These celebrations are attended by an exacting toithe next inquiry after a second childagain length-
and critical, though generous, audience. Men not ens out the face, it is to a less degree, and you see
only of mark, but of tried eloquence, and long ex- the amiable hostess's desire to blend her sympathy
perience in sitting at the middle of a great cross- with the cheering playfulness appropriate to the
table, would find on this special occasion a difficult occasion when ;her guests are not, after all, in too
task before them. The Prince of Wales had to much alarm to come to her party; and so with ,a
make his debut, not only as a Chairman and a pleasant regret of expression she slides back
speech-maker, but as a public man. It is an odd through some s uch remark as " Sad indeed, why
way that we have of introducing the Heir of Eng. you have had quite a sick house," to her gentle
land or the Consort of the Queen to the duties of company-smile. Then she introduces her little
station and responsibility by asking him to make a daughter to her friend, and the pleasant company-
speech on books and bookmakers in general. But smile grows tender with the illusions of maternal 1
the son had only to follow his father's admirable pride. The daughter is, of course, present only to
example. It were, of course, invidious to compare the spiritual gaze of the spectator, but few who re-
Prince Albert and the Prince of Wales on a similar call the scene will find it easy to persuade them-
occasion. Prince Albert's mind was cast in the selves that the little girl was only suggested to
professorial mould. Set speeches and occasional them, and no more there than any other of the
spoken essays of the formal and academic type— shadowy actors. While being praised for decorous
Papers, for such they were, carefully elaborated and pretty behaviour, the young lady snatches at
and thought over—were eminently suited to his the fan or the bouquet, and the mother's pride in
cast of thought. His education had fitted him to her good conduct changes gently into playful amuse-
compose and deliver them;. and a powerful and re. meat at her childish tricks. Then the little girl
flective mind, deeply impressed with the delicate retires and the party grows denser. You can see
responsibilities of his station, and perfectly aware that Mrs. Roseleaf moves about with greater diffia
that he had many prejudices to combat, was spurred culty and more anxious sense of responsibility. She
by the opportunity of making a public speech. It prevails on a Mr Jane to sing, and the fan and
was by his public speeches that the late Prince bouquet vanishing, we suddenly behold Mrs. Rose-
Consort slowly won his way, first to the attention, leaf no more, but a vain and self absorbed young
then to the respect, and lastly toths admiration of the man of muddy sentiment, awkwardly conscious of
country. The same inducements to a special energy literary pretensions, and with a stooping gait, who,
are not necessary in the Prince of Wales's case. with a glass in his eye, is watching discontentedly
His education had been different from that of his for an admiration which he does not seem to receive.
father. What is wanted in a contlitutional Sove- The extraordinary expression of turbid fermenting
reign is not so much genius and deep wisdom as vanities—not complaisant nor self-assured, bat
ease, a thorough sense of responsibility, good taste, suddenly exigeant, which now passes over the actor's
and right feeling. Splendid abilities are almost face is again completely transforming; age, chae
out of place in our Sovereigns.
The Prince of Wales meter, everything is absolutely changed; the scum
exhibited these qualities both of mind and character of gloomy hoobbledehoy is'n conceit spreads like an
in all that he is reported to have said on 'Wednesday unclear fluid over the whole face. He sings his
evening. He went in a business-like way to the song, " Would you love me, if you knew me
?"
purpose of the meeting, and we all like to see (" Words and music both my own," as he blurts
common sense taking the practical view of things. outs with a gloomy and clumsy vanity at the con-
After all, the Literary Fund is simple in its objects. elusion), interrupted by numerous announcements
It gives to decayed and poor authors some little of successive guests, at each of which Mr. Jens
solace and comforts in age and sickness ;it gives darts furious glances towards the door—and at the
aid secretly; its almoners are men of honour ; and end sceffi2s away from the piano with sulky eyes,
its managers know that letters would be dishon- at one inflicting retribution, and searching the com-
oared by the popular arts of begging, and by popu- piny for traces of admiration—amidst the profuse
lar reports and eloquent secretarial talk. The Prince thanks and apologies of Mrs. Roseleaf. Then Mrs.
of Wales said this, and, because it was a simple Roseleaf consults her husband as to the next part
thing to say, he said it simply and without affecta- of the programme, and decides to get the Faienzas
tion. There was good taste in avoiding the style to sing. The Fluenzas, however, are obviously
of an undergraduate's theme on the objects, plea- divided from her by a great crush, though no men,
sures, and advantages of learning in general; and tion is made of it—and the inimitable company-
there were too many old stagers present, who had playfulness with which she peeps through an acci-
themselves prolusionised in rectorial addresses and dental vista in the crowd and wafts with sweetest
lectures at country institutes, for the Prince to have fascination and smiling menace, threatening a re-
any chance in the high style of platitude and con- quest, the words,
"I'm coming to you," over the
ventional rhetoric. And there was good taste, and intervening space, is one of the most effective
good feeling also, in the brief but sincere tribute to touches in the piece. Mr. Fluenza has a fearful
his father's memory, and to his father's appearance i cold, and complying at his wife's instance gets
on a former occasion of the same nature. Altogether
through a single line of modulated cough—on which
the Prince achieved a marked succeed, if success Mr. and Mrs. Roseleaf interchange with each other
consists in having a sufficient purpose, and in a very expressive sentence or two of condolence—
attainington, a yotiag lady .
of conscious attractions, who
it. The Heir to the Throne of England and then we are introduced to. Miss Flora Gushing-
has a part to play, or rather a function to discharge,
eleaf—and whose sweet and axewhich is not without its difficulties ; but those difß.• sings an Italian duet with an admirer at the ur
culties are best got over by perfect and entire sin- request of Mr. Ros for . .
cerity and simplicity. Honesty carries a man, on admiration are a
long but still open demand,
the whole, through the duties of life better than very curious contrast to, of smoky conceit
the fumes
s
any other quality. The late Prince Consort was which clouded Mr. Jene's brows
And so the even-
honest and loyal to his duties, and he recognised ing party slides away—the pianist getting more
se
their special temptations. He met their subtlety by weary and utterly mechanical e his movements,
equal subtlety of intellect 1 his decisions showed the and more profoundly wooden-facets, as he plays
result of deep thought and long pondering. But the last Sir Roger de Coverley, and the company
this habit of mind has in its turn its dangers, espe- disperse. The marvel of the performance is
cially to a public man. If the late Prince Consort the extraordinarily powerful impression left upon
had not been loyal to his country, he might have the mind that the characters and faces we
been a very dangerous intriguer. He was too
.have seen are all really genuine and distinct ;—the
good to be dangerous, but his Character had all the inability to connect them with the black-suited gen-
e lementss of political skill and subtlety in it- If :be tleman, as we yet know, was the only person pre-
father's position had its temptations and snares, in sent. It is, in its way, the most wonderful triumph
his ease so happily Conquered' the sou's position is of powers of expression over plain material fact that
scarcel less difficult, though upon other grounds. can well be conceived. The only machinery used
yi
The heir to the throne cannot be very prominent, s the symbolism of voice, gesture, and lines of ex-
and yet, if he is net in some sense a public man, pressio.n,—and to counteract all these is the physi-
his dotintry will Complain. Nd Man is the worse cal evidence of our senses that no one is there but
for an apprenticeship to his calling ; but history Mr. John Parry in Mr. John Parry's ordinary dress,
presents a catalogue of heirs apparent to thrones —and yet we carry away the keenest feeling of only
who hate Certainly tidt leattied no* to rule by having seen Mr. John Parry at the commencement
political matters the and conclusion, and of having beheld in the interval
their expectancy of rule. In p
Prince of Wales may have, or rather must have, all kinds of invisible ladies and gentlemen, whose
opinions, but a constraint l • upon is aid
' him not to characteristic gait and expressions there was nothing
8 of youth and to show us except the changing postures and lines
express them. Yet the best year .
opening manhood are but idly spent tn.exclusive i _
in the actor's
person and face. The feeling it pro-
devotion 's this, Mr.
life without its duces almosti , .
Parry must himself get
to the pursuits of country
personal responsibilities. On every accoupnt! t h
here- confused between his real and some of his fictitious
see the Prince of c erecters.
fore, the country will gladly
Wales accepting, as he has already done, those op- THE
" LONDON REVIEW" ON " THE OWL" AND
portunities,rare though they be,of identifying himself THE FRENCH EMPEROR.—For some time a mystery
with some of those lofty public interests which have has hung over certain small and humorous extracts
made our and his England what it is. Among that have appeared, both in the Morning Post and
those public interests—the common ground of all in the Tames, heeded with the significant title of
educated and public men, in which party can have The Owl. What was The Owl? Where was its
no place and selfish aggrandisement is impossible— place of habitation ? Noboby seemed to know.
literature stands, if not pee-eminent, at least very " Monsieur, perche apparemment," said M. Talley',
high. The Prince of Wales has been educated to rand to a lame gentleman who was boasting that he
taste in art
appreciate literature ; an hereditary
in , never went to bed. Doubtless The Owl roosted
be natural his
and reverence for science mustsomewhere, but it had no known locus standi. All
father's son. If the Prince's sphere of usefulness that could be considered certain was that it was a
and the range of his possible duties
are but narrow, bird of audacious tendencies, and very much in-
the '
country will more thoroughly_l.appreciate
d it is of thegood dined to make fun of her Majesty's Government.
diligent cultivation of a scanty field' This week, however, The Owl has won for it•
hue been commenced
omen that his public careerself an European reputation. Across the Channel,
ae' case conducted
under auspices which, -
;e1 his fathers the Emperor's private secretary, M. Mocquard,
Even thehonest desire to
to public confidence.was alarmed by it, and hastily wrote to the French
a re-
tread in his father's steps will be loyally pp papers to contradict the truth of what, in the
kindred taste for letters, columns of The Cwl, never pretended to be more
- better
give princes friends which stand them in than an amusing joke. Sitting aloft on its post
stead than the minions of fashion or the parasites of or perch of observation, the Owl, for some weeks,
faction. Our real greatness depends, .
not upon our has been retailing to the public every kind of State
country which is not
arms, but upon arts, and the
material secret. The members of the Conference have been
hold o
great intellectually has but a poor hold n . taken off seriatim; Lord Russell has been depicted
prosperity. That the Prince of Wales is disposed as he might demean himself when offering a remark
highest sources of national -
frankly to recognise the in German to M. von Beast ; and the world has been
greatness is surely a matter for national congratu-
even favoured with a pretended copy of the des-
letion. patches sent to the admiral of the Channel fleet.
THE "SPECTATOR" ON Off .
T N PARRY AND tom- u •
• uring the last week, the mysterious bird of Minerva
ROSELEAF'S EVENING PARTY.--Few people com- published a clever squib, purporting to be a letter
paratively, we imagine, are aware how very extra- addressed to the Owl, by M. Mocquard, on the
has been for some time '
sub-
ordinary an intellectual feat sect o: the foreign policy of the Palmerstonian Mini-
nightly visible in London at oue of those evening stry. The Owl had not thought, we are told,
hat
of
"entertainments" which is to a play what negus is publishing at all for a fortnight; for it appears t
to wine, or at which the drama loses half its evil the publication of the Owl is irregular, and depends
by losing all its interest—the " Gallery of Illustra- on the sweet caprice of its editor. But when the
tration." Yon have indeed to go through something lettcr—verbosa et yrandis epestoia—arrived from
to arrive at it, for Mr. and Mrs. German Reed, the Tuileries, on the merite ei the sys'ern of "med-
while they provide no doubt all that a well-regu- die and muddle," the Owl felt it a sole yto
Isted mind ought to expect at an evening's enter- reconsider its decision, and came out into daylight
tainment, and apparently succeed in entertaining , upon the spot. When Sydney Smith complained

pendence of the vote be fully guaranteed, and proVided it
establishes in an incontestalle manner whether the inha-
bitants of f!chleswig-Holstein consider themselves to be my
subjects or subjects of the King of Denmark.
Although I had resolved to quit 1F,7
l no more, I
should neverthe
consent, in any case, to withdraw from
to
it '7:Ur-Mg the continuance of the vote, in order to take away
all appearance of pressure,
The love of the )sticlii!,..s for their independence is no
empty 'caprice. Th possess the qualities and the resources
1111eett'ii:ry for their development, and only regret not to
have been able to prove up to the present moment the
energy of their will by taking part in the combats engaged
for their cause. Let them l e only replaced in that state of
defence in Whibil they were when Europe, and not Denmark,
disarmed them, and they will prave by deeds that they know
how to conquer and maintain their independence;
I have not thought it sufficient to protest simply in the
name of my own rights and those of my country against
the violence that might be exercised against them, and to
claim my due when the question was discussed. I thought
it my duty to explain at the same time how the realisation
of these rights corresponds to the wishes of the people, and
how in respecting them the exigencies of justice and the
conditions of a durable peace will be conciliated. The past
attests that as long as the Schleswig-Holstein quarrel shall
not be settled in a legal manner, it will never cease to re-
appear on battle-fields and in European congresses until
,hat day when full satisfaction shall have b3en given to
Legitimate rights and to the national cause.
Kiel, April 16, 1864. (Signed)

FREDERIC.

SPIEIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

tueihnig less than a surgical operation would
ever get ajoke into a flcotchman's head, he never pro-
bably thought that a Charivar: world pats muster
among the crowned heads of Europe as a state
paper. M. Mocquard's sense of the ridiculous must
have been strangely swallowed up in the solemnity
of his position. His excuse is the less, for not only
is he mid to be familiar with English life, but he is
also a man of letters. The only thing to be urged
in his favour is the fact that his Imperial master so
often is wont to burst upon the world with docu-
ments of alsimilar description, that perhaps MnMoc-
guard trembled lest Europa should be imposed upon
hst a second forgery folk-wing so closely upon the
k,
forged Confederate despatch. It may pos-
sIZSI/ Ise—and may Lord Russell forgive us
for the iiresterent suggestion !—that IVT. 'Moe-
guard and Napoleon HI, saw the joke them-
aelves, but were afraid, from an experience of the
ih?ne.:'ll'eh Foreign Office, that the English Foreign
Office might act :tee it. They were naturally anxious
on account of Lord kinstell'e poor head. Politeness
would render it impossible for them to assume in
their diplomatic correspondence that the Queen's
Ministers might again be taken in. Accordingly
M. Mocquard sacrificed himself to the demon of
Parisian persiflage in order to save Lord Russell
from falling victim re another hoax. if this is the
real explanation, it says a great deal for M.
Mocquard's delicacy, We are afraid that the other
solution of the difficulty will, however, be more
generally received, and that the Imperial secretary
is destined to run the gauntlet of the wits of
France. He will be famous for all time for having
composed a political comedy on the subject of Abda
el-Kader,—for having introduced camels on to the
French stage from the Jardin des Plantes, and for
having mistaken the Owl for a newspaper of high
political gravity. The Owl, after this, like the
jester of King Louis, may abdicate and retire in
peace, for the cap and bells belong elsewhere. M.
Mocquard has vindicated his right to pass as the
greater owl of the two. M. Mocquard's blunder lets
us into a secret, and draws up for one moment the
curtain that hangs over the Emperor's private cabi-
net. This gentleman is the author of a consider-
able portion of his Imperial Majesty's correspon-
dence. We now know what M. Mecquard thinks
an Imperial letter at this crisis might be like. He
has the making of them, and he ought to know ;
and here we have what he acknowledges to be an
ingenious and deceptive imitation. A genuine let-
ter should show, we may infer, a frank disregard
of diplomatic etiquette. It should call attention to
the fact that Napoleon 111. is not merely the most
pacific, but the wisest and most dignified of
princes. He alone is right and consistent in his
policy; and through him France holds the arbitra-
ment of peace or war in the hollow of her hand.
There is nothing the Emperor more thoroughly
enjoys than patronising the English people. There
is nothing he finds harder to accomplish than the
maintaining his temper at the sight of English
foreign policy. If the Owl has not hit the exact
truth, it has gone uncommonly near it. What
alarms M. Mocquard is, that his master's sentiments
are proximately conveyed, and it did not easily
occur to him that the Emperor's real opinions could
have been inserted in an English comic periodical
at a venture. If the Emperor never wrote what
the Owl humorously put into his mouth, we may
surmise, without risk of error, that he thinks and
long has thought it. This is the only palliation for
M. Mocquard's obtuseness to a joke. The joke in
question was only a serious truth, expressed with
an improbable absence of formality and etiquette.
THE " EXAMINER" ON THE DANISH QUESTION.
—We do not know whether the Danish quarrel
may be considered as at an end. The Conference
certainly has come to no set or formal conclusion,
except so far as to consider the treaty of 1852 as
no more. It has adjourned for ten days, till the
28th. But this proceeded not from disagreement,
but on the contrary from a general though tacit
understanding that a compromise was necessary,
and was rendered imperative, not only by the posi-
tion of the contendirg parties but by the sentiments
of the neutral Powers. Not one of them were pre-
pared to go the length of war. Such a compromise
therefore, as the belligerent Governments, and the
equally urgent belligerent populations would con-
sent to, became inevitable. We have before declared
our disposition to see Holstein given to the Ger-
mans and Schleswig secured to the Danes.
It seems, however, that the attempt to
wrest the southern district of Schleswig
from Holstein would lead to disturbance and re-
sistance, and would require the prolonged sojourn
of armies upon the Eider. The Conference, there-
fore, or its members have, it is said, tacitly decided
that a dividing line must be drawn north of the
Eider. When and how that dividing line is to be
drawn, remains an unsolved prob,em, and a pro-
blem, as we shall see, not very easy of adjustment.
We had hoped better than this for the Danes_ But
on the whole, if they lose but half a million of dis-
affected fellow-subjects, and cut off all pretext for
any future interference on the part of the Germans,
the Danes may congratulate themselves on being
released with increased honour and scarcely dimi-
nished profits from an unequal contest. The Ger-
mans will have achieved, if they do take a southern
bit of Slesvig, the conquest of both banks and the
dominant approaches to Kiel harbour. They will
have get, in short, the moon they have been crying
for. The neat thing will be to go to a cooper's and
order tubs enough to float the Fatherland that is
presently going to be a great maritime people. The
toy shops, it is „aid, are already preparing tenders
for the German fleet of the Future, and a condi-
tional order for ships Ls already arrived at the
S.
Noah's Ark in Holborn. It was not easy, however,
to arrive at a hope of this conclusion, and during
the first sitting of the Conference the general im-
pression was ono of despair. When thC German
Powers denounced the Treaty of 1852, ant when
Russia and Denmark held it tenaciously, FraiSce
remained silent. TheEaglish plenipotentiaries were
at a less what to do. The German Powers went
even eo far as to demand that their Diet be consia
dered the fitting tribunal to decide the claim of
succession. If the Treaty of 1852 were set aside,
the German Powers might indeed pretend that the
Diet had claims to decide respecting Holstein.
But what had it to do with Slesvig ? If the dis-
pute was to be one of law and legal nicety,
there was no issue but an appeal to
force. A compromise suggested itself to all,
And as that compromise is in favour of the Germans,
the Danes certainly have shown praiseworthy for-
bearance in hearkening to it, and perhaps finally
accepting it. The supposed firmness of the Danes
was not, indeed, the only stumbling block. What
was chiefly fes rad was the criminal obstinacy of von
Bismark, who had conceived the idea of signalising
his administration by keeping Slesvig and Holstein
for Prussia. Such monstrous pretensions were in-
deed impossible of realisation—if anything monstrous
is itow impossible of realisation on the Continent of
Europe_ssinch.tlaey would unite all Europe against
them, if anytn:nz now can unite European Powers
against rapine thin! does not immediately claim a
pound or two of their Ovn flesh. But still feeble
opponents of his robbery in,beht have suggested to
the cunning and unscrupulous Palissian Prime Mini-
ster the means and the expediency of adjourning
the decision of the Congress, and finali; defeating
its aim in order to prolong the military occupation
of the duchies. This game, however, appeared too
dangerous and barefaced to King William, who, it
is said, incredible as it may seem, found it necessary
to come round and abandon his own claim, lest Bis-
mark's folly should place Prussia at the ban of
Europe, and produce a general coalition against her.
Were Prussia wise she would limit her efforts for
the present to commercial extension. She can do
more by her Zollverein than ever she will be allowed
to do by armies. Liberal commercial legislation,
joined with liberal political administration, would
make Prussia a great country. Military aggression
in the present state of Europe will not profit her.
There is indeed one important point of view is
which this Slesvig and Holstein question has not
been considered. It is the commercial. England
receives half a million's worth of cattle from that
region, besides corn and all kinds of provi-
sions, for which our manufactures go in
exchange. Up to 1848 the tariffs of Denmark and
the Duchies were different. In 1851 the one tariff
was established, by which the rate of import duty
into the Duchies was increased. We shall now see
this undone: and probably Holstein will sooner or
later join the Zollverein. Were she to do so
after the acceptance and ratification of the man
French Treaty of Commerce, there would bGe a dimi-
nution of tariff of well nigh 25 per cent. There are
difficulties, to be sure, in the way of Holstein joining
the German union, as long as Hamburg, Lubeck,
Lauenburg, and the Meckleuburgs remain out of it.
But, nation of shopkeepers as we are, these things
do not enter into the public head. No journal has
touched upon the subject, and it has been treated
disinterestedly and as a simple question of public
right and justice, without an allusion to figures, to
the advantage or to the balance of trade. If Ger-
mans would but consider these facts, they woud
abandon the charges which they make against us
of narrowness and selfishness. The fact is, the
English are a very earnest and right-seeking people,
ready at every just opportunity to fling material
interests to the wind. Not only material interests,
but personal predilections, yield here to the sense
of right, as has been seen in two great foreign
quarrels by the small influence of our natural pre-
dilections for the Germans in Europe or the men of
the North, with whom our natural sympathies are
strongest, in America.

THE JA.W-BONE OF AN Ass has done rior ck•
struction in this country than. it ever did is the hanag
Samson.—Americali paper.
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