The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-19 00:00:00

What Denmark Thinks of England.

The Copenhagen Dagblad of the 10th of March
says :—" The world is this day witness to an event
as rare as it is peculiar. Over the whole of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, so
far as the mighty British Crown extends its
sovereignty, wherever over the wide earth the
British flag waves, this day, the 10th of March, is
kept as a national festival and holiday. The im-
mense and laborious activity which has stretched
its arms round the whole orb of earth, and has re-
volutionised the world by its progress, ceases for 24
hour, as at the stroke of a magic wand. The whir-.
ring machines stop, hands and heads let their
wonted work fall, the husbandman forsakes his
plough, the merchant his desk, the coalminer his
pick, the workman his tools—the whole nation has
but one thought, to give himself up to festal mirth.
There is not one spot in all England where this day
will not be marked by rejoicing. From early morn
all will be astir in their best garb, decked with their
white bridal favours, the making of which has
brought bread to the starving Coventry weavers;
troops of the line and volunteers will parade to the
music of their bands, festal processions will
march through the Owns, and at a fixed hour
of the day all the many millions of human beings
with joyous looks will burst out in congratulations
and blessings. The joy will increase as' the day
wears on. School children and the poor will flock
around the liberal fare which wealth has provided
for them ; in public and private circles men will meet
to glorify the day ; speeches and songs will sound
loud, all inspired by the same feeling ; streams of
generous wine and the strong national drink will
gladden all hearts. And when evening comes, and
night falls, gleams of light will begin to spread over
the whole enormous realm. The cold formal towns,
black with coal smoke, will blaze with light, and the
uniform streets will swarm with joyous thousand,.
In gigantic London, which still peals with hurrahs
of its three millions, all will sparke and flash as in an
Eastern night; the beams of the Electric Light will
spread their brightness from the mighty cupola of
St. Paul's over the immense masses which roll
to and fro at its foot like a stormy sea, while the
Thames for many a mile reflects its flaring wharves
and gleaming bridges, and thus doubles the strange
spectacle of London illuminated for a festival.
Edinburgh, so picturesque, and so rich in memo.
ries, will beam with magic brightness ; its mediaeval
castle, Gothic churches, Greek temples, and steep
crags will stand out in light against the dark mid-
night sky, and high up from Arthur's-seat beacons
and bonfires will strive to outshine the ocean of light
at their feet. In the lively merry Dublin; in the cold,
rich Liverpool; in Manchester,once so busy, and now
so wan and wasted; in all these countless towns,l
the hearths and centres of enlightenment, of trade,
and manufactures, the same part will be re-
peated. On mountains and hillsides peasants
in their best will throng round huge blazing bon-
fires, which will send a greeting to their fellows
far and near, as it were in a many times magnified
St. John's Night in the North, until the whole
mighty land, from the Land's-end to John o'Groat's
House, will be like a dazzling firmament—like a
close cluster of great and small stars, which will
cause the lights of heaven itself to burn dim.

"And all this enthusiasm, all this festivity, all
this cost, and all this loss of a whole nation's ac-
tivity suddenly stopped—only because the Prince
of Wales, a youth of 21 years, is this day wedded
in Windsor's Royal Chapel to the Princess Alex-
andra of Denmark, a girl of 19, whom the English
nation as yet knows not, of whose good qualities
they have only hope but not experience to bear
witness! Is this the sensible and heavy English
nation, that for the sake of such an occasion can
fall into such boundless enthusiasm P Is this free
England, that can thus turn the wedding of an un-
tried heir to the Throne with an unknown Princess
into a national holyday ? Is this the mature Eng-
lish political self-consciousness, that can thus iden-
tify the royal house with the people in a way
that no Asiatic despot could ever force from his
slaves ?

" Yes ! It is the sensible, phlegmatic, free, poli-
tically developed England where all this happens.
And we speak of it just because the event to
which the world is this day a witness gives a les-
son both to Princes and Peoples which w ell de-
serves to be taken to heart. In the English nation's
enthusiasm at the marriage of the heir to the Throne
there is no doubt something of that exaltation and
exaggeration to which all national characters are
exposed by their very nature as soon as they pass
out of their definite track ; but there is no speck to
he found of that servility with which in so many
other countries expressions of devotion to the Royal
House are apt to be tainted. The Englishman feels
a deep respect and reverence with regard to the
Sovereign, but, inasmuch as he is wont to see in him
only the highest expression and organ of the will of
the people, and not at all a dispenser of grace or
favour; so is he ever conscious of the respect due to
himself and of his personal freedom, even when
brought face to face with the Royal family. The En-
glish Crown still claims to be by the grace of Gud,' but
in this formula the national consciousness only,
utters the thought which agrees with its deeply de-
veloped religious feeling, that everything in the
world is ruled by a gracious Providence, and not
any mystical tenet of the Divinity of the Crown ;
and so, in the deep reverence of the English people
for the Sovereign, there is nothing of that depend-
ence which in other lands is fostered by Absolutism.
For full two centuries the liberty of the people has
now ruled in England; after hard struggles, which
cost one King his life and another his crown ; after
unwearied and enduring efforts, which have been
continued down to the latest times, the English
State has developed itself to a shape which presents
a perfect balance of all the forces of society, which
is able to satisfy the progressive demands of the age
without violent changes in what already exists,
and which consequently seems to mortal eye to have
come nearest to a political ideal, and to have the
greatest prospect of standing the trial of all
shocks. In theoretical systems a constitutional So-
vereign after the English pattern seems to be a faint
and colourless form, almost a superfluous person.
He has HO will of his own; he is only the organ, the
instrument of a national will which stands beyond
his control, the mandates of which he, as it were,
blindly fulfils; and so, for the great German philoso-
pher, the very ideal of a constitutional Monarch was
an automaton, who could write his name indeed, but
for the rest, was neither able to do good or ill. But
what has happened is England during the last gene-
ration, and what culminates there this very day,
proves clearly enough how little real life bends itself
to such philosophic systems, and how ill theoricians
understand how to sketch realities. None of all
England's Sovereigns has so thoroughly and so
righteously comprehended the problem placed
before a constitutional Monarch as Queen Victoria.
For her the hereditary English liberty has not been
a fettering bond, but a principle willingly accepted,
and held inviolate as a religious dogma. She, sup-

ported it may be by a sagacious Consort, has never
at any time sought to set personal feelings or wishes
against the will of the people; she has conscienti-
ously carried that will out in all things ; and the
result has been that while the country has made
immense advances in prosperity, in power, in every
kind of development, while the people has grown
happier and more enlightened, the sanctity of the
Crown has been firmly established,and the Sovereign's
person has become an object of veneration, of devo-
tion, and of a real affection which ambitious despots
and patriarchal rulers by God's grace can never
hope to reach. The Sovereign of England does
not stand before her subjects as a lifeless automa-
ton ; she is powerless for evil, but has a rich influence
for good on society, on intellectual life, and on
taste; and this influence during Queen Victoria's
long and happy reign has bee❑ ever on the increase,
because she has been not only a true constitutional
Queen, but at the same time in her domestic life
has been a pattern for all. The pure and graceful
family lifp of the English Court, the affectionate
relations between man and wife, between parents
and children, the middle-class order and regularity
which have stepped into the place of the disgrace-
ful immorality of a former age, have infused into
the minds of Englishmen the highest respect for
the Royal family, and this, combined with the old
reverence for the Crown, has shaped itself into an
affection which embraces every member of the
dynasty. This unanimous feeling showed itself in
a couching way in the national mourning for the
Prince Consort's death ; it finds this very day an
overwhelming expression in the joy for the Prince's
wedding, under auspices which betoken a renewal
of that domestic bliss which for five and twenty
years has spread its beneficent and ennobling in-
fluence over the whole country.
" Well may England this day with undivided joy
abandon herself to the feeling which is excited by
this marriage, and arrive at a new consciousness,
and, as it were, gather herself into a focus. Rich,
powerful, free, and happy, secure in her whole poli-
tical edifice, safe against all outward foes, without
inward agitation which may threaten the nation's
happiness or welfare, quietly advancing in all di-
rections, the object of admiration and imitation, the
British realm may this day keep holyday. Tae
nation does homage to itself, to its own greatness
and fortune, when it pays its unanimous homage
to the young pair. It sees its own bright future
reflected in the future of happiness which
is opening for the bride and bridegroom.
What a difference between this happy land
and its nearest neighbour, whose feverish clutch-
ing at unbounded liberty and equality, whose im-
patient groping after impossible theorems have
only brought about a military despotism which
stifles all spiritual life ! What a contrast
to the great German Power, where a Sovereign
lost in mystical dreams of kingly power and stupid
soldier notions is contending hand in hand with a
crass, overbearing aristocracy, by force and guile,
against the constitutional liberty of the people, and
thus makes the kingdom a laughing-stock ! Or to
the huge Russia, who, by her revolting misdeeds,
has again driven a noble nation to a desperate
struggle, and now seeks to secure her booty by
streams of Polish blood and reeking villages. Or to
North America, where an unbridled Democracy in
Republican form has undermined ail feelings of
public morality, and now, after having begotten a
monstrous civil war, gives at every point witness of
its complete internal dissolution.
" In truth, the majestic festal drama which Eng-
land this day presents to the world contains a
fruitful moral. It proclaims to Princes that their
Thrones' safety and their own happiness are
inseparably bound up with the liberty of their
people, that there is no surer pledge for both than
respect for the rights of their subjects. And to
Peoples it announces, with the powerful voice of
experience, that true freedom only developes itself
where rights are reciprocally respected, and where
each onward step naturally springs from what has
preceded it. The Prince who follows this lesson
will receive a reward which surpasses all others in
the respectful affection of his people ; and the peo-
ple, which lives in the enjoyment of real freedom,
will, without self-denial and without servility, be
able to celebrate the festivities of its Royal house as
national holidays ; for the dynasty will be then in
all and everything the symbol of the country's own
liberty and happiness."

LAW INTELLIGENCE—March 18.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.

RE MARIA L. ELLISON.

This young lady, who was not long since defendant in an
action at law, came up on the question of order of dis-
charge. Her debts are between. £2OO and £3OO, of which
about £BO were for £lO damages and X7O costs in an action
brought by Mr. Morton of the Canterbury Music Hall and
of the Oxford Music Hall, for penalties, under these cir-
cumstances. The bankrupt had entered into a contract to
sing at the Canterbury and Oxford for 12 months nightly,
and to be liable to a penalty of £5 each night she refused
to sing. After some time, according to Mr. Sargood's
statement, Miss Ellison refused to sing without an in-
crease of salary. Miss Ellison, upon the other hand, de-
clared that the cause of her not singing was physical in-
ability. Mr. Morton, thinking such an example might
prove detrimental to his interests, and encourage other
artistes in his pay to act similarly, brought an action,
which was tried before Baron Martin, with the result
above stated. She had obtained from a Mrs. Harris
theatrical dresses, valued at about £2O, some of them
just on the eve of her leaving off singing, and she had nei-
ther paid for nor returned these dresses. Under these cir-
cumstances, Mr. Sargood asked the commissioner to annex
a condition to the o:der of discharge making her future
earnings liable to the payment of her debts.
The bankrupt said the dresses had been worn out or de-
stroyed. She deposed that she had not pawned any of
them.

Mrs. Harris deposed that the bankrupt had on a former
occasion admitted she had pawned the dresses, and that she
had declared that "she would sooner be dragged through
the gutter than pay Morton a farthing." The dresses could
not be worn out, for she had not worn them.
Mr. En Reed, upon the other hand, contended that this
young lady had been badly treated by Mr, Morton, who
had hunted this delicate young person from the Canterbury
to the Oxford.
Commissioner—How did he hunt her ?

Mr. Sargood—She went in a brougham. (Addressing
the Commissioner.) I am, sure, sir, you don't hunt in a
brougham. (Laughter.)
Commissioner (laughing)—No; certainly I don't hunt in
a brougham.
Mr. Reed—My client travels in a less risky manner, and
does not hazard breaking her bones.

Mr. Sargood (looking at the Commissioner)--That is
rather an unfair observation. (Laughter,)

Commissioner—l don't always break my bones. (Laugh-
ter.)

Mr. Reed proceeded to say that his client had been
afflicted with ill-health, and was physically unable to
sing. He produced a medical certificate from the house
surgeon of the Middlesex Hospital to the effect that Miss
Ellison had been under his care for five months for a re-
laxed sore throat. There was no ground whatever for
asking the Commissioner to annex a condition to the
order of discharge, statutable or moral. The case of
" Mew and Thorne," decided by the Lord Chancellor,
showed that a condition could not be annexed under such
circumstances. No offence whatever had been committed
under the 159th section of the act of 1861.
J ud gment deferred.

(Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.)
RE ARCHIBALD DOUGLAS HAWKSLEY.

This was an examination and discharge meeting. The
bankrupt was described as of the Dell, Eaglefield, near
Staines. The claims of unsecured creditors are £12,575;
ditto holding security, £4,453 ; property given up to as-
signees, £4,699; cash given up to assignees, £630; cash
due to Chancery, £300; property in the hands of cre-
ditors, £2,080; by reversions, £2,200; deficiency, £7,154.
The amount of expenditure for himself and family
during the year nest preceding his bankruptcy
was £1,100; for the previous year, £1,200. There is a
novelty almost unprecedented in the dreary annals of bank-
rupt's balance sheet. No less than four pages of the pro-
ceedings are taken up with what is called the horse account,
containing his dealings in horses and with horse-dealers,
horse-trainers, &c. The total amount of figures is .£6,547.
There is also a page headed "Betting," containing 29 bet-
ting transactions, the losses being upon the one side £8,632,
and the gains £7,184, leaving a loss of £1,448. There is
every variety of tradespeople hotelkeepers, grocers,
farmers, gunmakers, tailors, jockeys, opticians, shirt-
makers. Henry Fisher, Racing limes Office, is creditor
for £969; George Fordham, jockey, £263, for salary.
Without any discussion, an adjournment was ordered.

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