The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-16 00:00:00

TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16, 1864•

Docks. The balance sheet shows an expendittre of £51,1321
including v 9,512 on profit and loss account The revenue
account shows that £4,329 had been recei'ed and £5,125
expended, leaving a balance of £796 against the company.

to the disadvantage of the extremely long line they
have to defend, and to the stantiness of the troops
they have to employ for that purpose. Whatever
may be said of the numbers of the Danish army, I
have reason to believe that not more than 30,000
men are at the present moment on the line—a line
for which 150,000 combatants would not be too
many. The amount of work falling to the lot of so
small a force, encamped against such fearful odds,
is not only wearing out the moral strength, but
actually exhausting the physical powers of the Danes.
Were the men even equal to their hard task, over
exertion would soon tell, and is now telling against
the horses. The inclemencies of a winter campaign
begin to show their effects even upon the robust
frames of the Danes. It is calculated that out of
the whole of their army 1,000 are already hors de
combat. A few have been killed, wounded, or
taken prisoners; but by far the greatest number are
laid low by illness, most of them victims to the
ague, the result of their exposure to this severe, yet
fickle climate. We had on Wednesday heavy rain,
with dark, lowering skies; yesterday a bright
morning, with gusts of cold wind and showers in the
afternoon. To-day a fall of snow, half melting on
the ground. The Austro-Prussians, more imper-
fectly clad and sheltered even than the Danes, must
be exposed to greater sufferings; but men are cheap
with them, and they can stand threefold the same
losses without inconvenience. Their casualties on
the field are described as very severe. I have seen
Prussian and Austrian prisoners brought in, but not
in very large numbers.
Heavy firing to-day on the side of Hadeby.
Should it leed to any important results, you shall
have the news by telegraph.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS,

Russell's signature, and probably dictated by a
telegram. So that although poor Mr. Adams was
awaiting in the keenest anxiety the effect of his
threatening letters, he was unnecessarily kept out
of the secret some three or four days ; Lord Rus-
sell's haste and Mr. Layard's ready obedience were
entirely thrown away by the tardiness of the Trea-
sury authorities. Lord Russell's remarks on the
insolent dispatch of Mr. Seward were even less
satisfactory. His lordship does not think it worth
his while to take notice of this Yankee trick ; and
Northern citizens, estimating the honesty of Eng-
lish statesmen by that of their own, will of course
believe that the offensive dispatch was really com-
municated and had the required effect. Surely a
Government that was fully conscious of its respon-
sibility and dared to do what was right, would, in
some way or other, mark its condemnation of the
insulting language published by Mr. Seward as
correspondence with the Government of this
country. Lord Russell, however, shuts his eyes
to Mr. Seward's insolence, and can see only
Mr. Adams's amenities. We candidly admit that
the latter gentleman has discharged a very difficult
task with great temper and tact. But no one denied
this ; in fact, Lord Derby, on a previous occasion,
expressly complimented the American Minister on
the mode in which he had conducted his relations
with the Foreign Office. It was entirely beside the
question to panegyrise Mr. Adams, in answer to a
remonstrance against his placid submission to Mr.
Se ward's insulting threats. However, the artifice,
transparent as it was, was not quite so bad as the
unwarrantable charge made against Lord Derby of
deliberately feigning an ignorance of correspondence
which he " must have read." The latter nobleman
at once repelled the charge, and it should never
have been made. One is tempted to ask what can
be expected of one who so recklessly imputes to a
statesman of Lord Derby's standing the meanest
" dodges" and pettiest of motives, and whether Lord
Russell, of all men, is not a little incautious in his
•eadiness to put an uncharitable construction on the
,anguage of a political opponent.

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amendment, which was also negatived, and the report o
the committee was eventually agreed to and referred back
be carried into eecution.
A motion by Deputy JONES being also agreed to, 11-,hat be—
fore any proceedings were taken, the committee should con
fer with the justices, with a view to see whether some
arrangement could not be effected to obviate the necessity
for applying to Parliament.
Alderman COPELAND, MP., presented a petition fr°l3l
the inhabitants of Conduit-street, and other tonatts of the
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Corporation, against this Royal Arcade between: itegt‘tnht-
street and New Bond-street Bill, which was referr,4 t°
Law and Parliamentary Committee, and the Court t.hll
learned.