The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-18 00:00:00

DENMARK AND GERMANY,

Some further correspondence relating to the
Danish question has been published. The despatch
of M. Monrad to M, de Bille, dated Copenhagen,
June 28, has already been made public. The reply
of the British Government to Bishop Mound's
remarks is contained in the subjoined despatch,
which will be read with ranch interest :
EARL RUSSELL TO SIR A. PAGET.

" Foreign Office, July 6, 1864.

"Sir,—The Danish Envoy in London has'placed
in my hands a despatch which he has received from
Bishop Monrad, of which I send you a copy.
"Her Majesty's Government sympathise with the
King and people of Danmark in the severe trial
which they have been obliged to undergo, Her
Majesty's Government recognise the justice of
many of the reproaches addressed by the Danish
Government to the Powers which, having been
parties to the Treaty of London, have departed from
its provisions, and, under the guise of a Federal
execution in Holstein and of a temporary occupation
in Schleswig, have in effect subverted the authority
of the King of Denmark in these two Duchies.
" But it is of urgent importance to Denmark that
the Danish Government should look their present
situation in the face. When during the Conference
the Danish plenipotentiaries declared to the pleni-
pntAntiaries of hprVinjo.ty that tha of
proposed by the German Powers cduld not bt ac-
cepted byDenmark, her Majesty's plenipotentiaries
felt obliged to ask them how the Danish Govern-
ment could expect better terms by war,
"Accordingly, the possession of Duppel and of
Mean—which the Prussian plenipotentiary, sup-
ported by the Austrian, proceed to recommend their
Governments to leave to Denmark, if Denmark
would at once accept a frontier line to the north of
Flensburg—is now out of the question. A few
days of war have dispelled all hope of the renewal
of Count Bernstorff's proposal.
" The latter part of Bishop Monrad's despatch ex-
presses the hope that the Powers which have shows
so great an interest in favour of Denmark during
the negotiations will not abandon her daring the
war.

" It is true that the neutral Powers,moved by an
earnest desire to preserve the independence of Den-
mark, and by admiration of the gallant struggle
made by a brave nation in so unequal a contest,
have endeavoured most zealously to obtain for the
Danish Government such terms of peace as the
manifest superiority of Austria and Prussia in arms
and the views entertained by Germany would allow.
But I beg to remind the Government of Denmark
that while her Alajesty's Government, in conjunc-
tion with the other neutral Powers, were unwilling
to urge upon the Danish Government the accep-
tance of terms which that Government deemed in-
compatible with the safety and honour of Denmark,
her Majesty's Government have never engaged
themselves, nor can they now engage themselves,
to support the Danish cause by force of arms, or to
impose upon Germany the conditions suggested in
Conference.

" You will read this despatch to the Minister of
Foreign Affairs, and give him a copy of it.—l
am, &c. (Signed) RUSSELL.

The Chincha Islands—Robbery of Despatches

The Panama Star and Herald of June 21 con-
tains the following account of the robbery of de-
spatches sent from the Chincha Islands by Admiral
Pinzon to the Spanish Government
" Whoever the guilty parties may be, we cannot
but look upon such a robbery as an exceedingly
disgraceful one to those concerned in it, as it in-
volves innocent and uninterested
people, and sub-
jects them to most disagreeable accusations. Eine-
picion, we are told, rests on some of the passengers,
who were said to be sent as spice by the Peruvian
Government; bat we cannot believe that the Govern-
ment of Peru would resort to petty theft, either
directly or indirectly, to effect such an object, and
instead of believing that the robbers are emissaries
of the. Government, we prefer thinking they are ad-
venturers, who hope to secure some such information
as may be worth something to them hereafter.
Whoever or whatever they are, we hope they will
be discovered and punished, and that thus all blame
will be taken off the innocent
persons who are
now responsible for the theft. We learn from M.
de Zeltner, the French Consul at this port, that his
despatch bag from the commanding cfficer of the
French vessel of war at Valparaiso had also been
opened on board, and that the usual official de-
spatches for his Government, the French admiral,
and himself had been extracted, nothing being
found in the bag by him but private letters, M. de
Zeltnet exhibited this bag to the British Consul
and the commander of the British ship-of-war De-
vastation, who both concur in the belief that the
seal had been broken and the bag rifled of its con-
tents. A good deal of talk has occurred in our
usually quiet city by the report that the despatch
bag of the French Consul from the Spanish Squad-
ron at the Chinchas was broken open and rifled of
its contents on board the Panama Steam Navigation
Company's steamer Chile. The facts connected
with the affair, as far as we can learn, are as fol-
lows :—Whilst at Pisco an officer of the Spanish
fleet gave a closed despatch bag to the commander
of the Chile, requesting it to be delivered to
the French Consul lit Panama. Capt. Sivell,
as is usual in such cases, gave the bag to his
purser, instructing him to place it in the safe, which
he did, On arriving at Toboga, suspicions being
entertained by the captain as to the sttfety of the