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Denmark. Their reply is decisive. It declines the
Prussian proposal, which is supported by the Pleni-
potentiary of the Germanic Confederation alone.
The result of this deliberation proves that the
manner of solution indicated by the Court of Prus•
Ilia has not secured the united suffrages of the
Con feren ce."
The Conference assembled on Jane 22 to hear the
decisions which the belligerent Powers had taken
upon the proposal made by the Government of her
Britannic Majesty with the view of calling on a
friendly. Power to settle the question of boundary,
which was now the principle difficulty that delayed
the pacific solution of the dispute.
The reply of the belligerent Powers did not re-
spond to the wishes of the Government of her
Britannic Majesty. Austria and Prussia, " while
showing themselves disposed to accept the media-
tion of a neutral Power not represented in the Con-
ference, were willing to engage beforehand to con-
sider themselves definitively bound by the opinion
which might be expressed by the mediating Power,
as circumstances did not allow them to accept an
arbitrative decision.
The Danish Government expressed a refusal even
more decided. They declared that, to their great
regret, it was impossible for them to give their
consent to the proposal of the English Cabinet.
The Plenipotentiary of Denmark explained this
refusal by the necessity which obliged him to re-
gard the boundary proposed on the 28th of May
as final, so as not to allow hire to agree to an arbi-
trary decision which might modify that line.
Lord Clarendon combated the opinion. While
representing facts in their real light, he showed
that the line indicated on the 28th of May had been
proposed in the interest of Denmark and of peace,
and not with the intention of laying down a prin-
ciple from which there could be no departure.
The Plenipotentiary of Russia concurred in the
opinion of Lord Clarendon. He affirmed that Lord
Russell never intended to propose that as an ulti-
matum, nor to impose it as such on the belligerent
Powers. •

The Ambassador of France and the Minister of
Sweden expressed themselves in the same sense.
All the combinations brought forward to arrive
at an agreement on the line of the frontier having
unfortunately been rejected, the Prince de la Tour
d'Auvergne thought fit to lay beta() the Conference
a new proposal. He said--
"When the Government of the Emperor gave
their adhesion to the plan of arrangement proposed
by her Britannic Mojesty's Principal Secretary of
State, in the sitting of the 28th of Alay, they l".oped
that the united efforts of the Plenipotentiaries of
the neutral Powers, seconded by the conciliatory
disposition of the Plenipotentiaries of the bellige-
rent Powers, would succeed in bringing about
between the interested parties an understanding
as to the tracing of the line of frontier.
" These hopes have unfortunately not been
realised. All the arrangements propcsed have been
rejected, and no compromise seems as yet to have
any chance of being accepted. In this position of
affairs, the Government of the Emperor consider it
their duty to make in the interests of peaoe a final
suggestion. It is in virtue of their nationality that
the northern districts of Schleswig are to be assigned
to Denmark, and those of the south to Germany.
It has not beeli thought expedient to make an
appeal to the wishes of the population where those
wishes seem to be manifest ; but they might be
consulted where they are doubtful, and where no
other means exist for establishing an agreement.
While admitting the impossibiiity of taking nation-
ality as an absolute rule in the division of the mixed
districts of Schleswig, the Government of the Em-
peror are, however, of opinion that it would be
right to obtain, by means of a vote of the com-
munes, the elements of appreciation on which it
should be agreed to base a decision. This vote by
communes would allow the most exact account to
be taken of each nationality in the definitive trac-
ing of the frontier.
" In order that it might offer in other respects the
guarantees desired, it would be well to stipulate
that all military forces should previously be with-
drawn, and that the votes should be given free from
all pressure. Each Power might, moreover, send
delegates to the spot in order to insure the perfect
impartiality of the scrutiny."
Lord Russell, in asking the opinion of the Danish
plenipotentiaries, said that as regarded the Eng-
lish plenipotentiaries, they would be disposed to
concur if the Danish Government thought proper
to give their adhesion.
M. de Quaade replied that he was, of course,
without instructions on the subject, and that he
could not even consent to accept it ad referendum.
He alluded to his declaration of the 2d of June, in
which he said his Government would make great
sacrifices in order to obtain the restoration of peace,
but that there were limits beyond which they could
not go, and his instructions forbade him to consent
to any other line than that proposed by the English
plenipotentiaries in the sitting of the 28th of May,
and accepted by Denmark.

This declaration ended the debate. It showed
at the same tame the obstacle which the most per-
severing efforts of the neutral Powers have not
been able to overcome.

It is before this insurmountable difficulty that
the labours of the Conference have come to an end.

The Engagement between the Alabama and

the Kearsage,

SOUTHAMPTON, June 28.
The following
is a correct list of the killed,
drowned, and wounded belonging to the Alabama
in her engagement with the Kearsargo
:
Billed.—John Roberts, John Adams, James Hart,
.rmen
and James King, sea ; Christian Past, Peter
Dancan, and James TS eir, firemen.
Drowned.— F. M. ic,tins, purser's steward ; A.
Norhook, ship's cook ; F. Mayers, carpenter's
mate ; A. G. Bartelli, captains steward ; Henry
Fisher, George Appleby, Walter V suldes, John
Williams, John Wilhaw, John Buckley, Charles
Colson, Thomas White, and David Henry, seamen ;
Andrew Shilling, fireman ; D. H. Llewellyn,
assistant surgeon ; William Robinson, carpenter ;
William Robertson, third assistant engineer.
Wounded—Robert Wright, captain, main top;
Peter Hughes, boatswain's mate; William M‘Gin-
ley, captain's coxswain ; John Neil, seamen;
John Carew, Robert Divine, Jacob Verbor, David
Williams, seamen ; Thomas Winter, Samuel Wil.
liams, Martin King, firemen; Williaal Morgan,
captain fore-top.

Threatened Arrest of "Manhattan."

NEW YORK, June 14.

My last letter informed you of an appointment
at eleven o'clock with Major-General Dix, the com-
mander on this station. He was punctual to the
appointment. He is a fine, gentlemanly old man
of 70 and odd years. He remembered me as Mr.
Calhoun's old private secretary. I cannot narrate
all that took place ; but the general laboured under
the impression that I was the incarnation of alt that
was bad in the Southern Confederacy. It was of
no use my telling him that I was for the Union.
He did not seem to believe it. He honoured
me by saying that both ambassadors (Dayton and
Adams) thought I did more injury to the cause of
Ameriaa than any other man could do. He said he
was in favour of arbitrary arrest in my case—that
he would stop these letters in. future—that the past
he would leave to
the President,_that he would
Standards) to the Presi-
dent,send those papers (fife of
and await his decision—whether to send me
to Fort Lafayette or Richmond.
We shall know the President's decision by Wed-
nesday, June 15. If he agrees with General Dix,
this is the laat letter you will get from me, unless
I am sent to Richmond, It will probably make
both Mr. Mason and Mr. Slidell laugh at the idea
of sending me to Richmond. If the President does
this, I will continue my letters. I believe at Fort
Lafayette there is no writing paper. 1

THE MURDER AT PENGE.—At the Lambeth
Police-court yesterday, Edward Turner, aged 19,
and John William Clark, 23, were again placed at the bar
before Mr Elliott, for further examination, for the wilful
murder of Louisa Dyer, at Penge. Some further evidence,
net vary conclusive in its natuxe, was taken, and the pri-
soners were again remanded,

LONDON, TUEStiAY, JUNE 28, 1864.

The collapse of the Foreign Policy of Ministers
is nothing less than a catastrophe.
All their delays
have ended in failure. All their solemn mystifi-
cation has closed with a ridiculous amen, e Weir
—and you shall see! wait—and you shall know
everything ! Wait—and you shall hear what is
we have been about during this lorg interval of
reiterated procrastinations ! Have patience only
have patience!" That has been their one incessant
response to all inquiries a response acting
like the most effectual of Parliamentary gags
upon oven the most eager of independent
Liberals below the gangway—nay, upon even the
most restive among the rank and file of the Oppo-
sition. Well—the house has waited, the Opposi-
tion has preserved silence, in compliance with these
demands from the Treasury bench for patience and
taciturnity. The seif-command exercised by the
House generally as well as by the Opposition in par-
ticular, has from first to last—who shall gainsay it ?
—been exemplary. Ministers have no reason
whatever to complain of the House as a body, or of
the Opposition as a party. For whatever has come
cf it all they, (Ministers) have only to thank them-
,
321VeS. And, what has come of it—we know now
at last and perfectly. What has come of it—is
failure the most complete and comprehensive. The
written negotiations have resulted only in the
printing of a blue book. In nothing mere ! The
Conference lies risen, after all its preposterous sit-
tings, leaving matters exactly where they were
beforehand, Thl Plenipotentiaries have, aseem•