The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-09 00:00:00

N°. 22.347

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Incorporated, with Limited Liability, under "The
Companies Act, 1862."
Capital, One Million, in 100,000 shares of £lO each. First
Issue 25,000 shares.
Deposit on Application r 1 per Share. Further payment on
Allotment £1 per Share.
DIRECTORS.
Francis Boult, Esq. (Messrs. Boult, English and Brandon.)
Alexander Duranty, Esq. (Messrs. A. Duranty and Co.)
William Harrison, Esq. (111- stirs. Harrisons and Latham.)
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T. Harrison Ridley; Esq. (Messrs. Ridley, Son, and Co,)
J. Barkeley Smith, Esq. (Messrs. Houghton, Smith, and CO.)
With power to add to their number.
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Henry Case, Esq.
BANKERS.
The National Bank of Liverpool (Limited).
The National Bank, Old Broad-street, London.
And its branches in Ireland.
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Henry Walker Lucas, Esq., 3, Copthall-buildings, London,
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SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Littledale, Ridley, and Bardswell.
TEMPORARY OFFICES.
and 5, Brown's-buildings, Liverpool.
PROSPECTUS.
This Company is formed, not for the purpose of establish-
ing a new Marine Insurance Office in rivalry with offices
already opened, but with the object of continuing the existing
Maritime Insurance business so long conducted by Mr. Henry
Case, under the firm of Price and Co., in Exchange-buildings,
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Mr. Case's services, as underwriter, have been secured
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upon the success of the Company, and without the payment
of any "promotion money," either in cash or shares.
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The success which has attended the operations of Marine
Insurance Companies in Liverpool, may be gathered from
the present vatue of their Shares in the market, viz.:—
Amount Present Equal
paid. price. to
The Thames and Mersey £2 £7 0 0 250 percent. pm.
The British and Foreign 2 415 0 137
The Union 2 5 1 3 156
The Empire
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The Mercantile ..... 1 1 15 0 75
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time to be stated in the notice of allotment.
Forms of application for shares may be obtained from the
brokers, and also at the temporary offices of the Company,
4 and 5, Brown's-buildings, Liverpool.
In cases where no allotments are made, the deposit will be
returned without deduction.

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Ts, be retained by the Bans era.
The Maritime Insurance Company (Limited).
To the Directors of the Maritime Insurance Company
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Gentlemen,—Having paid to the Bankers of the above-
named Corn any the sum of X , I hereby request
that you will allot me Shares in the said Company,
and I agree to accept such Shares, or any smaller number
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by post to my address, as below, the certificate for any Shares
which may be allotted to me.
Dated this day of
in f 1864.
Name ull
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THE MARITIME INSURANCE COMPANY (LIMITED).
Bankers' Receipt for Deposit.
To be retained by the Applicant after being Signed by
the innikera.
No.
Received this day of 1864, of lir.
the sum of Pounds, being a deposit of Xl. per Share
on Shares in the Maritime Insurance Company
(Limited).

x .
For•••, ......... •••••••

Bankers to the Company.

THE MEXICAN BANK (Limited).
Incorporated under the Companies Act, 1862.
Capital £2,000,000, in 20,100 shares of £lOO each.
First I:sue 5,000 shares.
Deposit £1 per share on application, and £1 per share on
allotment. Calls will not exceed £5 per share, at intervals
of three months.

DIRECTORS.
Frederick Harrison, Esq., Director of the London and County

Bank.
James L. Hart, Esq., Consul for Mexico (J. Hart and Co.),

London.
Abel Heywood. Esq. (es-Mayor of Manchester), Director of
the Alliance Bank.
Lewis Lan2worthy, Esq., Manchester.
William J. Marshall, Esq. (Wilson, Bowles, and Co.), Low': on.
John Paterson, Esq, Lhairman of the Standard Bank of
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Liverpool ; and 75, King-street, Manchester.
SOLICITORS.
London—Flux and Arzles, 9, Mincing-lane.
Liverpool—Fletcher, Hull, and Stone, Cook street.
RROKERS.
J. and J. Whitehead, 8, Moorgate-street, London.
Shore and Kirk, Manchester.
TEMPORARY OFFICES.
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IIUGHSON V. WINDITAM.
This action, which was commenced on Friday
last, and which was brought to recover a balance of
£414 alleged to be due to the plaintiff, after giving
credit to the defendant for payments amounting to
£275 for extra services rendered by him while the
clerk of Messrs. Chappell, the defendant's attorney,
in frequenting night houses, getting up evidence in
the defendant's divorce case, and expenses incurred
in so doing, was resumed this morning.
Mr. Karslake, for the defendant, summed up the
defendant's evidence, relying on the extreme impro-
bability of the defendant having entered into any
special contract with the plaintiff to pay him for
his services while he was the clerk of his attorney,
whom he had to pay for the same services, and also
on the improbability of such a contract being entered
into by the plaintiff, who had been an attorney,
without his making any written memorandum of it,
or making any allusion to it before the action was
brought: The contract rested entirely on the evi-
dence of the plaintiff himself, and was in no way
corroborated. He contended it was plain from the
letters produced that the £2OO, less discount, and
the £lOO claimed to be payments to him on account
by the plaintiff were, in fact, loans to him at his
pressing request, made by the defendant, that the
plaintiff's claim was wholly without foundation,
and his services had already been paid for in
Messrs. Chappell's bill of costs.
Mr. Powell claimed to treat the transaction as
one entirely of business, and proposed to rest his
case on the evidence, and to ask the jury had the
work been done, and had the expenses sought to be
recovered been incurred under a special contract
with the defendant. Not a single item of the charges
sought to be recovered had been pointed out in
Messrs. Chappell's bill, nor had they dared to pro-
duce that enormous bill to show such to be the case.
He contended that there was abundant evidence
to show that the special night work had been done
with the knowledge of the defendant, and some of it
at his special request. It was also proved that the
plaintiff had spent from 15s. to £3 a night in his
expenses. Yet the whole of the expenses allowed
him by Messrs. Chappell did not exceed ss. a night.
As to the special contract depending on the credit
the jury gave to the plaintiff, its denial depended
on the credit they gave to the defendant. If it was
asked who was the plaintiff, he had been an attor-
ney, and Mr. Chappell had known him for 20 years
when he engaged him in this matter as clerk. That
was some voucher for his respectability. But who,
he asked, was the defendant ? He was a young man
who a few years ago might have been said to have

probation.

the world at his feet—the descendant of an ancien
and respected family, with an historic name, and
possessed of a princely estate, and what was he now
as they had seen him in the witness-box ? If their
judgment was to be formed on the existence of this
special contract on the respectability of the plain-
tiff or the defendant, he confidently placed his client
in contrast with the defendant. His friend Mr.
Kerslake, when speaking of the plaintiff's claim,
had spoken of the cloud of vultures ready to pounce
on the defendant, circumstanced as he was, and with
such an unfortunate notoriety, and that his friends
advised him to resist to the utmost such demands as
this. Who were his friends ? Were they Mr. Bugg,
his attorney? or Mr. Chappell, his late attorney ?
Talk of vultures, the plaintiff in his demand was a
sparrow hawk compared with the attorneys in
whose hands he was. He strenuously insisted that
there was reliable evidence of the contract, that the
work had been done, and the expenses incurred,
and that the plaintiff was entitled to his verdict.
His Lordship, in summing up, told the jury there
was no question that the plaintiff had received a
sum of £275, and whether that sum was treated as
a payment or as a set off, the question for the jury
was, was it enough reasonably to satisfy the plain-
tiff's demand, assuming him to have done extra
work for the defendant P If they thought it
enough, they would find for the defendant.
The jury retired, and, on their return, found that
the sum the plaintiff had received was sufficient.
There was a verdict for the defendant.
His Lordship expressed his disapproval of the
manner in which the action had been commenced,
by causing the defendant's arrest, as a kind of ex-
tortion which ought not to have been attempted.
WELCH V. PASKE.
This was an action for a breach of promise of
marriage. The defendant pleaded that he did not
promise, and that the supposed promise had been
obtained from him by fraud when he was drunk.
Mr. Montague Chambers, Q.C., Mr. Robinson,
and Mr. Palmer appeared for the plaintiff ; and Mr.
Hawkins, Q.C., Mr. Joy ce, and Mr. Campbell
Foster for the defendant.
It appeared from the opening statement of the
learned counsel for the plaintiff that the plaintiff
was a young person, about 30 years of age, living
with her aunt at Croydon, who kept a baker's and
confectioner's shop, and that the defendant had been
an officer in the army in the East India Company's
service. In the year 1861 the plaintiff, while at-
tending in her aunt's shop, was frequently seen by
the defendant, who after asking permission to walk
out with her eventually wrote to her making her a
promise to marry her, and on the 6th of May, 1861
—" I promise you faithfully you shall be my wife."
After this promise the plaintiff had frequently
visited him at his lodgings, and once during an
illness had taken him some delicacies from the shop.
On the Bth of the same month of May the defendant
had written to Mr. Dennis, a grocer in Dorking,
and a friend of the plaintiff, telling him how much
he admired Miss Welch, and asking him to procure
a licence for him to marry her and also a wedding
ring. Miss Welch had lent the defendant £6 or £7,
and shortly after he chose to pay attention to a Miss
Slatter, the daughter of a linendraper in Dorking,
whom, to the great distress of the plaintiff, he
had paraded up and down before her aunt's
shop, and had afterwards married Miss Slatter,
which had been a heavy blow to the plaintiff. The
defendant, he should show, was well off, and niter
the death of an aged relative he would come into
possession of £2.700 a year.
Mrs. Harriet Jones, the aunt of the plaintiff,
proved that her niece was about 30 years of age,
and sometimes served in her shop, which was a
confectioner's. The defendant in March, 1861, was
living in Dorking, under the care of a medical man,
and in April he came to her shop for almond cakes
and French rolls, and asked if Miss Welch was her
daughter, and if she might be allowed to take a
walk with him some evening. She replied, " No,
not with my consent." He asked, " When did she
walk out ?" and she told him "sometimes in the
afternoon." He afterwards told her that he had
proposed to Miss Welch and she had accepted him,
and witness told him, " She was old enough to do
as she liked." He used to come two or three times
a day. He had written a letter to her niece once
in her house expressing his " disappointment at not
having been able to escort her. Such is life"—
and signed "yours ever."
Mr. Robinson pointed out that there were six
dashes under "ever."
Mr. Justice Byles—Do you 'mean this is for ever
and something beyond ? (Laughter.)
The defendant bad afterwards written the letter
containing the promise—" Aly dearest
promise you faithfully you shall be my wife.—Yours
ever —." This letter her niece had shown to her
to satisfy her that the defendant's intentions were
honourable. About June the defendant ceased pay-
ing his visits and married Miss Slatter, the draper's
daughter, who was " pretty well as to respectability
—middling." (Laughter.) The first time her niece
saw the defendant walking past the shop with Mies
Slatter she nearly fainted, and was very ill in the
autumn in consequence of his neglect.
Cross-examined by Mr, Hawkills--The defen-

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evariare.Frerfin'-e---icie, on the s-6-03.1-enet coast of Jlia.."7'
land, end but a few miles distant from the fron-
tier of Schleswig, stands in precisely the eame re-
!titian to the island of Funan which Duppel does
to that of Alsen. Fredericia, like Duppel, is
strongly fortified, and possesses all the natural
advantages which we have already rosieed
s pertaining to the latter. With a strong
force posted at Fredericia, no invading army cellist
enter Jutland without incurring considerable risk of
fiading its retreat to the South cut off, whilst at the
same time the occupation of both Fredericia and
Duppel would enable the Danes to attack both in
front and relit any army which wus so rash as to
enter the northern section of Schleswig. Believing-,
as we do, that the line of the Schlei, together vitas
the defences of the Dsnewirke and Missunde, wet e
untenable with the limited force at the disposal of
the Danish Cordaaanacr-in-Chief, we cannot belt)
thinking that he exercised a wire discretion in aban-
doning them and withdrawing his army to positions
in which they can he employed without the certainty
of gradual but sure annihilation. Such being the
present state of affairs, we must continue to watch
their progress with the same curiosity as heretofore.
Each succeeding day serves only to give birth to
new complications. The little Duchy of Laucnburg,
which together with Holstein, sent a joint represen-
tation to the Diet, and which, in the universal hub-
bub, was generally overlooked, has now been taken
under the special protection of the Confederation.
Lauenburg, with a loyalty and gallantry which
stand in bright relief when compared with the con-
duct of both Holstein and. Schleswig, refused to de-
sert its Sovereign, the King of Denmark, in his hour
of trial, and could neither be cajoled or bullied into
making popular demonstrations in favour of the
Duke of Augustenburg. The Diet have now re-
solved on undertaking the administration of the
Duchy, waiving for the present the consideration oa
the" title of the two claimants to its sovereignty. At
Berlin the semi-official organs of the Government
have hastened to disavow the interpretation putupon
its intentions by Lord Palmerston in the course of
the debate on the Address. Nothing, say they, can
be farther from Prussia's intention than to recognise
the integrity of Denmark. The announcement cer-
tainly does not take us by surprise, though it affords
a singular illustration of the anxiety which the
Prussian nation evince lest they should for a mo-
ment be supposed capable of acting with good faith.
Events are rapidly hastening onward, and the cur-
tain has just risen on one of probably the most ter-
rible dramas which have been played out in Europe
during the past half century.
HERALD.—The old story that when the defend-
ant had no case the plaintiff's attorney was to be
abused, is receiving some kind of illustration in the
progress of the Townley case. Sir Georg Grey,
being put on his defence for letting Townley escape
his proper doom, turns round and lays the blame—
not exactly on the lawyer, but on the law itself.
When we inquire out of doors " Who took Townley
from beneath the gallows," men will point to the
Home Office ; but when we consult a Ministerial
oracle we are told " It was Mr. Leech, cr Mr. Leech
and a bad law that wants mending." If we could
persuade the working men of Lambeth that the
blame was simply to be shared between a shrewd
attorney and a blundering or mischievous act of
Parliament, it would be all very well; but the fact
is, that the unsophisticated logic of the working
classes is not to be eosily persuaded out of its appre-
ciation of palpable facts. These people know very
well that Townley was as sane as Wright, and no
less guilty; but they see that the most frantic efforts
failed to rescue the latter, while the former was saved
from the gallows by a faulty certificate under a
permissive act of Parliament. In the case of Wright,
we have a tragedy, while in regard to Townley,
whose own crime was tragic enough, we have a
comedy of errors, followed up by a farce in which
Parliament is expected to take its part and keep its
countenance. Sir George, having hung a bricklayer
and spared a gentleman, comes down to the House
of Commoos to set matters right b aending the
law. In orden to dislodge the Home Secretary from
behind his stai.;_aing-horse it is not necessary to
show that he wilfu.'UY favoured the life of Townley
because in that case t:.te criminal was a gentleman,
or that he left Wright :In the hands of the execu-
murderer was a brick-
tioner beceuse the Lambeth .
he first place, that
v has sufficed to
layer: We need only say, in .4.
the conduct of the Home Secrete:.
make things present this ugly appetarance- Among
the ruder class of men, such an appearatece of things
is taken for the reality, and hence the law is
brought into disrepute where it is most important
that it should be respected. Having, therefore,
referred to this deplorable fact, we need only
show, in the second place, that if the Home Secre-
tary had simply been as shrewd as Mr. Leech, ho
need not have allowed that gentleman to make him
a species of catspaw for pulling the respectable Mr.
Townley out of his mortal predicament. In short,
we need not undertake to prove that Sir George
was intentionally partial in his administration of jus-
tice. It becomes a statesman not only to mean well
but also to do well. The Home Secretary has simply
blundered;_ but then the blunder happens to be
serious. The Home-office pleads that the law is
defective, and to give that plea a semblance of
reality Sir George comes down to the house with a
measure which is professedly designed to make the
law as good as it ought to be. Of course we have no
objection to see the law amended, but no alteration
in the law will settle the question as to whether or
not Sir George " made a mess of it" in dealing:with
the affair of Townley. There was an extraordinary
want of caution displayed by the Home-office
throughout the entire proceedings in the Townley
case that it is only a fair inference on the part of
the multitude that Sir George was a willing captive
in the toils of the prisoner's lawyer. " I could'nt
help it," says Sir George. " You didn't try," re-
spond the populace. And the question does not end
here. The Home Secretary has not only to settle
accounts with the working men of England, but he
has given affront to the country magistracy. Some-
how or other—and we do not undertake to explain
all the mysteries of the Home-office—Sir G. Grey
and our municipal institutions do not mix up well
together. Whitehall is hostile to the Mansion-
house, and the fountain of honour is intercepte d
from flowing through the precincts ;of the City.
Not content with snubbing the Lord Mayor, Sir
George has got himself into a wrangle with the
Derbyshire magistrates, and bids fair to come to
a misunderstanding with local authorities gene-
rally, excepting, perhaps, the Metropolitan Board
of Works, who serve as a very (good foil against
the civic corporation. However, Sir George es
going to amend the law in relatiou to lunatic
criminals, and t'ts doing so be seems to think that
he is making matters decidedly leaset. It is
to be hoped that:Parliament will not be
thus readily diverted from dealing with a grave
question. The eccentr _cities of the Home-
Office call for serious considCrationf
especially when
they go to such a length as to weaken the confi-
dence of the public in the impart: al administration
of the law. It is daily felt with haereasing forhcte
that the criminal law of England is be.'LIF
to a very great extent, under the cont rc).l, t, the.
ice le is
breou.g ,
Home Office. A great constitutional priL 1
the ,pious
thus placed in danger. Such being
state of affairs it is mere trifling to suppose tha.t the
simple modification of a statute which has bs'en
been made to bear a great deal more blame that
belongs to it will settle the real question at issue.
It is for Parliament to ask whether the action of the
which
hhe shall
possibility of achieving
law is to be made partial and unsatisfactory by thems
idiosyncracies of a Minister who see t
a peculiar pleasure in going out of o experience
give hisav awstayamtooudnot
stupid
e without thing
t h
hout i
any good. So far as the case h
soofmaennstouyPa
before Parliament it cannot 0 as gone at present
said that Sir George
Grey has at all improved his •
position, although
he
adopted the strategic movement of addressing the
house before the papers were in the hands of the
members—a manoeuvre which Lord Henry Lennox
in vain endeavoured
did well in to prevent. Mr. Macdonogh
urging that the House should make
itself thoroughly acquainted with the existing state
of the law,
and took the common-sense and only
correct view of the
case in urging that the existing
statute did not d
re uce the Home Secretary to a mere
automaton, and
that therefore, Sir George Grey's
first line of defence was altogether untenable. In
his other comments on the case Mr. Macdonogh
has only echoed the general sentiments of the coun-
try ; and we venture to say that Sir George Grey
never made a greater mistake than when he ex-
pressed his belief that the course which he had
taken was in accordance with public feeling. On
this, as on other points, the Home Secretary needs
to be enlightened, and we trust Parliament will
dispel a little of the mist which has gathered
around the official eyes,

dant was hying with Dr. Curtis, and had also
lunatic brother living in Dorking. The defendant
at first used to go to her shop to buy almond cakes
twice a day. The first time she saw him he had two-
pennyworth of almond cakes, and he asked to be
allowed to go into the back sitting room to eat
them. He had two almond cakes for a penny, so he
tto eight almond cakes a day—(laughter)—and
sometimes he had two French rolls twice a day.
She did not know whether her niece took him port
wine when she visited him, or whether the £7 the
defendant owed her niece was for port wine. She
had brought an action against him to recover that
sum. She could not tell when nor where this action
was commenced.

Francis Head Dennis, grocer, of Dorking, proved
having received the letter from the defendant asking
him to procure a licence and wedding ring for the
defendant on the Bth of May. He did not get them.
Mr. Velly, of Chelmsford, the attorney to the
trustees under the late Mr. Haylefoot's will, was
called to prove the defendant's means and expecta-
tions wider that will, but this evidence was objected
to and rejected. The defendant had changed his
name to Haylefoot. It was attempted to put in the
Royal licence obtained to change his name, which
recited his expectations under Mr. Haylefoot's will,
but this was also objected to as a copy and rejected,
his Lordship saying, if necessary, he would adjourn
the case to give time to obtain the requisite evidence.
Mr. Debenham, an attorney, who had served the
defendant with a copy of the writ in the action, was
called to prove a conversation in which the defen-
dant said, " They think because I am entitled to a
large property they will get something handsome,
but they will be disappointed. Mr. Puke was in a
great passion, because he had served him with the
writ, and said, " His wife was a lady, and in the
position of such." (Laughter.) He did not know
that this action was a speculation of Mr. Young,
the attorney for the plaintiff.
This was the plaintiff's case.
Mr. Chambers then summed up, and
Mr. Hawkins was proceeding to address the jury,
and said this action " was a warning to all gentle-
men who had a passion for almond cakes"—(a
lough)—when the junior counsel, who for some time
had been endeavouring to effect an arrangement, at
last did so, and

Mr. Joyce announced that it had been agreed be-
between the parties that there should be a verdict
for the plaintiff for £2OO damages, the judgment
not to be enforced until three months after the death
of Mr. Haylefoot, the tenant for life of the property
to which the defendant is entitled.

Verdict accordingly.
Mr. Justice Byles said the plea of fraud ought
not to have been pleaded, and had his strong disap-

SECOND COURT.

:Before Mr, Justice Keating and Common Juries,

SHEPHERD V. GARRETT.

The whole of Saturday was occupied with the
trial of this cause, involving bill transactions of so
complicated a nature that even the learned Judge
at first expressed his inability to understand the
evidence of some of the witnesses.

The trial was adjourned at the rising of the Court,
and resumed this morning.
Mr. O'Malley, Q.C., and Mr. J. Best were for the
plaintiff; and Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., Mr. Joseph
Brown, and Mr. Clover for the defendant.
The action was brought by the plaintiff, as en-
dorsee of a promissory note for £l,OOO, made by the
defendant in favour of a Mr. Parker. The main
plea was that Parker represented to the defendant
that a Mr. Gladstone was under a liability to him
Parker, to pay £l,OOO in respect of certain lands of
Mr. Gladstone which the defendant and others had
agreed to purchase for a railway, and that if the
defendant would pay Gladstone £6,000 in part pay-
ment of the purchase-money of such lands Mr.
Gladstone's solicitor, a Mr. Sandilands, would pay
the said sum of £l,OOO to Parker, and thereby Par-
ker induced the defendant to make the note declared
on to secure the payment of £l,OOO to the plaintiff,
that Mr. Gladstone was not in effect under any lia-
bility to Parker to pay £l,OOO for lands or other-
wise, and that there was no consideration for the
endorsement or for the payment of the note. The
question for the jury was whether the plea was
made out to their satisfaction, and the evidence dis-
closed a state of facts of the most complicated na-
ture, interesting, however, to no one but the parties
concerned in the transactions described.

The jury gave a verdict for the defendant.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS,

POST.—Although the retreat of the Danes from
,he Danewirke has caused but little surprise here, it

has excited great consternation and no little commo-
tion in Copenhagen. Looking on the map at the
long line of defences which the Danish army was
expected to hold, and having regard to the vast dis-
proportion existing between the invading and the
resisting force, it was almost with a sense of grati-
fication that we heard that the Danes had to all
appearances retired from the unequal strife. In
Copenhagen, however, the result is differently
viewed. For years the Danish people have been led
to believe that the famous fortifications on which

....
so much time, and labour, and money have been ex.
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pended, were impregnable, and the intelligence that
they have fallen ere the cannon with which they
were mounted had delivered a single volley has come
upon them with all the weight of a crushing and
unexpected blow. The city is in the greatest com-
motion. Its population are frantically demanding
to be led forthwith against the invaders. The Rigs-
dag in vain demand explanations from the Prime
Minister and the Minister of War of the circum-

stances which were held to justify the evacuation
of the Danewirke, and, in their first burst of indig-
nation, order the immediate dismissal of their long
tried Commander-in-Chief. Unused to their new
King, the people in their despair almost fancy that
they have been betrayed, forgetful that it is not in
the nature of things for a Sovereign to possess an
inducement for deserting his people. When it was
suggested to the last of the Polish kings, Stanislaus
Poniatowski, that he had sold his country to
Russia, he replied by the question, " What bribe
would you think of offering to a king for his
crown ?" The vague rumours which have found
their way into the French press, that a revolution
has taken place in Copenhagen, that the King of
Sweden has been proclaimed, and that King Chris-
tian has taken his departure for England, are
without foundation; but the fact that such rumours
could for a moment be entertained affords strong
evidence of the serious effect produced upon
the Danish population by their recent reverses.
To them the easy victory of the German forces ap-
pears utterly inexplicable, and they feel just as we
would feel ourselves if, in the event of invasion, a
hostile army managed to get to the rear of Ports-
mouth and so necessitated its evacuation ere a shot
was fired. But although the Danes have been obliged
to abandon the Danewirke, it would be a great error
to suppose that the war in Schleswig is at an end,
and that Austria and Prussia may congratulate
themselves on having secured possession of that
Duchy. This is far from being the case. The Danes
have certainly been obliged to leave the entrance to
Schleswig free, and to abandon what appeared to
us an untenable position ; but they have now retired
' on a line of defences which may with truth be con-
sidered unassailable. From the telegrams which
we published yesterday and this morning it will
be seen that, after evacuating the Danewirke,
Danish army retreated by way of Flensburg to Dap-
einfiddei
sadtiePnloyBit ion( )
somewhatt a the eastern
opposite the island
Dup-
pel, a very stronglyiitmfosmrtat
cor°ef3lAasttlisooenfnB' to
thelialtwePshwoireigths I
'mouth does to the Isle of the same
relation s a
Wight.e
From this position the Danish airmy can threaten
nads Duef
a-adz:
the
between German
the forces,
northern
es s ib le is about midway
Duchy, can renderpi)t it southern frontiers of the
northernor t
portion.hem , except
Indae t.
greatoondenritsiky,
to
of
otchceu—s—trong defences raised around
impossible
Duppel, the Danish forces will derive an additional
protection from their fleet, which will be , enabled
from the adjacent fiords to command with its guns
the approaches to the Danish position. The island
of Alsen will at the same time constitute the base
of operations of the Danish army, whilst all its sup-
plies will readily be obtained, owing to the Danish
fleet holding undisputed possession of the sea. Nor
is this the only strong position from which the
Danes may for many months carry on a defensive

MR. MAPLESON meditates, it is reported, Pic-
ducing " Tannhauser," at Her Majesty's Theatre, during
his Italian season.
Mr. Cecil Smith has been appointed Vice-Consul
at Granville, Franco.
A statement has been erroneously made in some
of the papers that Mr. Mayhew has been appointed British
Consul at Copenhagen. That gentleman hasM not received
e have any appointment from the Foreign-office. r. Turn
Con-
is
the British Vice-Consul at Copenhagen. Wno

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