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LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1863.

As we anticipated, the Danish proclamation, wit
regard to Schleswig-Holstein, fair and temperate as
it was, has failed to satisfy the exorbitant demands
of Prussia. In the Chamber of Deputies on Fri
i.ay the question was brought forward by HERR
VON TWESTEN, who called upon the Government
to declare the engagements entered into with Den-
mark in 1851 and 1852 to be null and void, espe-
cially that part of them which related to the succes-
sion to the Danish Crown entered into by the
protocol of London. This was certainly bad
enough, since to interfere with the settled succes-
sion to the throne would be an evil of no small
magnitude, and the jealousy with which the Danes
guard the prospects of the youthful heirs to the
kingdom is proved by their reluctance to allow
Prince WILLIAM to accept the Crown of Greece,
although he is not the only brother of the young
heir presumptive. HERR VON TWESTEN, at least,
qualified his proposal by admitting that a verbal
opposition was all that he proposed at present,
since the internal dissensions of the country ren-
dered war impossible. The house itself, he added,
amid the vehement plaudits of the assembled de-
puties, would oppose the employment of hostilities.
This decided language gave HERR VON BISMARK an
opportunity of enunciating another of his peculiar
theories of constitutional government. We should
recommend this statesman to embody his doctrines
in a volume for the instruction of succeeding poli-
ticians. He might style it " The Minister " in
imitation of MACHIAVELLI'S " The Prince" and in
it he might lay down the limits of Ministerial
authority And representative submission; that is to
say, if he thinks the qualities in question should
have any limit at all. His views are certainly too
original and striking to be lost, and the "divine
right " of Prussian kings is fully matched by the
pretensions of the Cabinet of Berlin. The last dogma
is that " If the Government felt disposed to em
bark in war, it would do so without the assent of
the house." So then the Prussians rejoice in a
constituent assembly which is neither to control
the expenditure, nor to be asked to give its
assent to peace or war. We should like
to know in what department of the State the in-
terference of the Legislature will be tolerated. We
have yet to learn how air the advancing Liberal-
ism of Prussia will submit to this dictum. The
unpopularity of the Minister has already assumed
an aspect which threatens him with personal dan-
ger, but the general feeling in Germany will un-
fortunately be less opposed to an attack on the
liberties of Denmark than to any interference with
their own constitutional privileges.
Meanwhile Herr VON BISMARK has assumed an
attitude decidedly hostile to the Danes. The Go-
vernment, be said, would concert with its Federal
allies, especially with Austria, the steps to be taken
with regard to the Danish proclamation ; Prase% and
Austria having already, according to his statements
foreeerded separate protests. The Government of the
KING are, he said, mindful of the action due to the
national honour. This language seems to forbode
storms, 'chile the secret treaty with Russia, so
obstinately 'withheld from the Chamber very pro-
bably contains a clause stipulating for Russian as-
sistance in case of need. On the other hand the
Scandinavian Powers are prepaying for possible
action. According to La France of Saturday the
Swedish government is hastening on the works for
the reorganisation of the fleet, and for maritime de-
fences. It is rumoured that the fortification of
Carlscona, the chief maritime fort of the country is
being actively carried on, and that the harbour will
be rendered capable of sheltering not only
the Swedish fleet but the squadrons of
other nations. Orders have also been given for the
immediate iron plating of four vessels of war and
three frigates. All these preparations are not made
without cause. Sweden's dangerous and aggressive
neighbour has taken offence at the bold and inde-
pendent part assumed by Sweden in the Polish ques-
tion. It is rumoured that a body of men has been
moved into Finland, and that the Russian Ambas-
sador at Stockholm has received instructions to de
mand explanations. However far these rumours
are to be trusted, the aspect of affairs in the North of
Europe are certainly anything but peaceful. On
the one hand we have Russia bent on crushing
down a noble people, either with the swords of her
ruthless and infuriated soldiery, or by the aid of
promises made to be broken ; eager, too, to carry out
the legacy of her great Czar by extending her ter-
titories in every direction, and grasping at the
outlying
Possessions of her weaker neighbours. On
the same side is Prussia, inflated with the yain
desire to become a naval Power, a post for which
be is in every way „fitted, alike by the constitu-

tion of her kingdom, and the character of her
people. She has long cast envious glances at the
harbour of Kiel, and the Federal connection with
Holstein has encouraged her to hope for
its eventual possession. The amalgamation
of provinces into the acquisition of which
we had better not look too curiously, makes
her continually uneasy. She would gladly
strengthen her position in the North, and compen-
sate beforehand for possible interference with the
Rhenish provinces. This question will yet come
up to disturb Europe, unless a wiser ruler will re-
model the Kingdom of Prussia, accepting com-
pensation for the surrender of untenable possessions,
and, by putting himself at the head of German
Liberalism, place Prussia in a higher rank among
European Powers than she has ever yet occupied.
As it is, the affairs of Poland have aroused the alarm
of her despotic Government. The interests of Rus-
sia and of Prussia are alike concerned in the suppres-
sion of Polish independence,and are both against the
establishment of a strong Northern Power. Russia
knows that Finland may justly be claimed
by Sweden should hostilities once begin ; while
Sweden and Denmark both feel that they have
to protect not mere questions of privilege and unim-
portant possessions, but their independence and life
Happily both nations are possessed of able constitu-
tional Sovereigns who have won the confidence of
the people. Their views and interests are as iden-
tical as those of the two despotic rulers who,
whether as autocrat or constitutional king, sway
the destinies of the opposing nations at St.
Petersburgh and Berlin. The wishes of Eng-
land must all be on the side of the free
countries. The resuscitation of Poland, the esta-
blishment of a strong Scandinavian nation
by the addition of Finland to Sweden ; and
the presence of an independent Power in
the Baltic would remove those dangers always
threatening us from Russian ambition, and
would secure us potent allies in the North.
Our dynastic entanglements with Prussia may pos-
sibly hamper the action of our Government, but
the English people will scarcely tolerate any
Cabinet that suffers itself to be involved in the
retrogressive and arbitrary policy of Berlin. One
thing is certain, the peace of Europe will never be
secured until the independence of Denmark is ac-
complished, and the freedom of Poland is won.

The condition of Greenwich Hospital is not at
all satisfactory. After Committees and Commis-
sions have been appointed to inquire into arrange-
ments, a Bill was introduced into both Houses in
1861, but for some trivial reason withdrawn. So
that after the Admiralty had passed resolutions to
" amend the extremely defective Government of
Greenwich Hospital," nothing whatever was done.
It is a matter of serious regret that such faulty
management should prevail in an important place
of this kind. It is at all times unsatisfactory to
learn that sums provided for necessary undertakings
are perverted from their original ends; but to know
that those whom we most desire to serve are being
defrauded of their just dues, is enough to raise the
strongest indignation, and make one ask what is
the use of all this paraphernalia of official routine.
In the first place, there is bad management in the
plans adapted for those who receive the " out
pension of Greenwich Hospital." They are
only in receipt of £l7 yearly, which of course
is insufficient for their individual support, with-
out taking at all into account what would be
required for their wives and families. The
printed reports contain lists of those seamen
who were receiving relief in the unions and parishes
of England and Wales. Among those obtaining
indoor relief were some who had a right to be ad-
mitted into the hospital at Greenwich. It appears,
from these items of information, that the arrange-
ments are such that thin noble institution has far
from realised its mission, and that instead of an
entrance into it being sought after, it is objected
to. It is high time that some stringent inquiry
should be made into the causes that make our
seamen regard as distasteful the spot selected for
a home for their declining years, where a grate.
ful country would be proud to contribute sufficient
sums to make their existence within its precincts
not only endurable but enjoyable. As usual, in all
places where official routine is the order of the day,
all possible hindrances are put in the way of can-
didates obtaining admission. The restrictions are
not severe, but due care is not taken by the autho-
rities to make them generally known or easy of
attainment to the sailors. It is incumbent on
claimants to present themselves before the Admiralty,
and this arbitrary regulation is in itself a great
barrier to their ingress. It is the more absurd, as
for Chelsea Hospital they examine claims through-
out the kingdom, and the French adopt this excel-
lent means for the Hotel des Invalides. It appears
also from the report of the Royal Commission that
all ranks are confounded, and the " men who have
attained the rank of petty, and even of warrant
officer, are practically disrated and mingled
indiscriminately with the ordinary seamen, and
the refuse of the naval service. Distinguished sea-
men of many years' standing who have been
wounded, maimed in action, or other wise disabled
on duty, are confounded with others who have
never known active service at all, and who are
rather to be regarded as labourers or as domestic
servants than as seamen." Sir CHARLES NAPIER
has spoken very much to the point on this question.
He says that " Men who have attained the rank of
petty officers on board ship should have some rank
analogous to the same rank reserved to them when
admitted; once being made a petty officer, he
should be always a petty officer unless he should
be tried by court-martial and broken. He ought not
to be disrated by the circumstance of being in
Greenwich Hospital, any more than a lieutenant
should be disrated and made a midshipman. This
system is rife with annoyance, and
productive
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most deplorable results so far as regards
the views and gratifying
the peculiar feelings of
the class
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for whose benefit the institution was
designed.
men who are called boatswains of
the hospital, and whose duty it is to maintain
order, are selected because they can read and
write and bear a good character, and not at all
for their rank in the service.
Sir J. GRAHAM, with his usual acumen and in

telligenee, thus described the influence that the
various grades of distinction exercise over seamen ;
"The naval profession is remarkable for the de-
ference shown even in civil and social life by
junior officers to senior officers, and it is wil-

ingly paid by the junior officers, and I think

it is almost exacted by the senior officers."
It may well be asked, then, why impose rules and
regulations that are known to be in direct opposi-
tion to the innate ideas of all in the service, and the
carrying out of which is sure to militate against the
harmony and good feeling that should always
reign paramount in such places.
It would almost appear as if the ruling motive of
all who have had any voice in the arrangements
had been to deter as many as possible from entering
into Greenwich Hospital and to retain as few pen-
sioners in doors as they can. Another crying evil
is the increase in the salaries of the officers. Within
the last hundred years the cost of the military and
Imedical officers has risen threefold, while that of the
pensioner ham remained unchanged. The best satire

on these proceedings is contained in this fact, that
"between the years 1805 and 1859 the number of
pensioners in the hospital fell from 2,410 to
1,676, while the cost of the establishment
was much more than doubled, relatively to the
number of pensioners it was more than
trebled during the above period. Let us trust that
due attention will be paid to this question, and that
no inertness on the part of the Government, and no
indifference on the part of the Houses of Parliament,
will prevent the most searching inquiries being
made and the right of the matter being summarily
established. P. is too much to be endured that sums
should be squandered on overpaid officials, while
those whom the institution was founded to support
are neglected, and their wives and children, to
benefit whom was another object of its creation, are
left totally unprovided for. It may be too late in
many cases to repair the errors committed, but for
the honour of our country, let there be no more,
and let the defenders of our most sacred rights not
be overlooked. These men have braved the perils
of battles and storms ; they have endured hardships
in every climate to protect our hearths and altars;
and it is not the demand of charity but the voice of
justice that calls aloud for the vindication of their
rights and the due consideration of their claims.

M. Boucher de Perthes has recently discovered
in the flint implement. bearing beds of Abbeville a
human jaw, indicating a race of small stature, as the coeval
inhabitants of Europe with the mammoth and extinct great
beasts. This discovery has been narrated by M. Boucher
de Perthes himself in a French local newspaper, the account
stating that in a deposit known as the Moulin Quignon lee
Abbeville was a flint implement, accompanied by a human
jaw, both of the same colour, and, as he believes, undoubt-
edly fossil. The objects were deposited about 13 feet below
the surface, and close to the chalk rock which underlies the
tertiary deposits at Abbeville,
INSTITUTE OF PAINTERS IN WATER COLOURS.—
On Friday the Princesses Helena and Louise, attended by
Lady Barrington, Miss Hildeyard, and Capt. Sir W. Hoste,
R.N., honoured the Institute of Painters in Water Colours,
53, Pall-Mall, with their presence to inspect the collection
previously to the Exhibition being opened to the public,
MAJOR-GENERAL LINDSAY, M.P.—On Saturday
a dinner was given at Willis's Rooms by the mem-
bers of the United Service Institution to Major-Gen. the
Hon. James Lindsay, M.P. for Oxfordshire, previous to his
departure for Canada, where he is about to take the com-
mand of a brigade of the Guards. General Lindsay has for
a long time held the position of President of the Council of
that institution, and been mainly instrumental in resusci-
tating it and extending its usefulness. Sir John Pakington,
M.P,, occupied the chair, and was supported by Lieut,-
General P. S. Stanhope, Col. North, M.P,, Col. Dunne,
M.P., Admiral Sir G. Back, Colonel the Hon. C. H. Lind-
say, and Col. Sir Thomas Trowbridge. The rest of the com-
pany, which was very numerous, consisted almost entirely
of members of the naval and military profession. After the
customary loyal and constitutional toasts, the chairman, in
proposing " The Health of the Guest of the Evening," said,
the members of the institution could not allow Gen. Lind-
say to proceed on his honourable mission to a distant land
without giving him some further assurance of their respect
and goodwill, and expressing a hope that health and good
fortune might await him there. He then referred to the
invaluable services he had rendered to the institution, and
concluded by asking the company to drink the toast in a
bumper. General Lindsay replied in an appropriate speech,
in the course of which he said his object had been to render
the institution practically useful to the army and navy, and
to convert its museum into an entirely professional one.
Other toasts followed, including "The Chairman," and
" The Institution," and the company separated at a rather
late hour. The band of the Guards, under the direction of
Mr. Godfrey, played in the vestibule during the evening.
BRITISH MUSEUM.—The number of visitors to
the British Museum in 1862 amounted to 895,077,
an increase of 253,191 over the number in 1861. But in
1851, the first Exhibition year, there were above 2,500,000.
The number of persons attending the reading room was not
quite so large in 1862 as in 1851. It averaged 419 a day,
and each reader consulted on an average ten volumes in the
clay. The total number of articles received for the library in
1862, including broadsides and ballads, was 73,929. The
acquisitions in all departments of the museum were numer-
ous and important, The department of antiquities re-
ceived, besides many other things, some valuable objects
discovered in the excavations at Camirus, in the island of
Rhodes. 1,858 coins and medals were procured in the
course of the year. Rare and acceptable additions have
accrued to all the departments of natural history through
the International Exhibition ; the total number of speci-
mens acquired in the year was 28,873; but the cry for more
space continues. About 13,000 specimens were added to
the zoological collection. The sum of £22,536 was ex-
pended on purchase and acquisitions, but every department
was also enriched by gifts.
A ROYAL SIAMESE NOTICE OF DEATH.—The fol-
lowing circular has been prepared aLd addressed
by the King of Siam to his friends, on the bereavement ex-
perienced by the royal family of Siam through the death
of Prince Krom Mu'n Visnunath':—" The sad and mourn-
ful circular from His Gracious Majesty Somdetch Phra
Paramendr Maha Mongkut, the reigning supreme King of
Siam, intimating the death of His Majesty's most affec
tionate, well-beloved, and lamented royal second son, His
Royal Highness Prince Krom Mu'n Visnunarth', whose
loss is now mournfully sustained by His Majesty and the
royal family, and the principal members of the govern-
ment of Siam. * * This Prince Supratith, the head
of the household and treasurer of his royal father,
for his goodness, honesty, and faithfulness in the ful-
filment of his duties, &c. because more affectionate and well-
beloved to his royal father, and the royal family; and for
his courtesy, circumspection, &c., he was pleased and be-
loved by every member of the Siamese Government and
people in general, both native and foreign, so in the year
1856 he was required unanimously by council of govern-
ment to be appointed superintendent of the great govern-
ment treasury entitled with the dignified title of his Royal
Highness Prince Krom Mu'n Visnunarth Nibhadhorn.
He, with funds being his own property, entered into some
trading business, and being much represented by merch-
ants in general, both native and foreign, almost every
one of the farmers of the government duties in various
things and the collectors of revenue, have made over some
private portions to him more than to other princes of Siam,
consequently he became fortunately the richest prince in
Siam, and the most prosperous. * * Whilst he was
on board his steamer anchored on the lake or inundation
before the city of Lavo, on the night of the 3d November,
he was attacked with strong bodily affliction, which com-
pelled him to return home before his royal father, who,
after hearing of the sickness of his son, followed him
to Bangkok the next day. During the month of Novem,
ber the Prince was very ill and daily growing worse.
The Prince, knowing of his approaching and inevitable
death, called a writer to make out his last will, assigning
certain portions of his property to be distributed among
his eleven children and wives, and one of the nephews,
being his elder brother's son, who had been long under his
care, and a certain portion to be consecrated to the monas-
t. ry belonging to himself, now remaining in progress of r
building for the Buddhist religious service, and the remain-
der, being the greatest part of his property, was offered and
delivered to his esteemed royal father, the supreme King
of Siam, as he trusted that the King would attend well to
his funeral service, and subsequently favour his family
'and kindred. The Prince then requested his father to sit
at the side of his head, and his elder brother at the left
side, and talked with them distinctly and intelligibly
until the last minutes of his life, saying that he was
not sorry, because he knew that this path must be fol-
lowed by every human being, and that his life was ren-
dered short from the sickness to which his body had been
subject since his youth, &c. ; and solicited pardon from his
father and elder brother for hiieertain mistake during hie
life, and took leave of his father, brothers, and sisters, and
his own family, in respectful and regardful tone until his
last word. At eight o'clock p.m. on Thursday, December
4, 1862, his eyes became turned up, his speech was gone,
and only a slight breathing continued. Eight or ten
minutes after eight o'clock p.m. the Prince expired,
in presence of the high priest of Siam and his father,
elder brother,. and younger brothers and sister, and his
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the ensuing year, * * His Majesty trusts that this
news will produce great emotion in the breasts of those who
are under good religious feelings, teaching them that there
is an eternal life, as they may see that death comes to every
one of mankind in every age, region, or place and time
without exception, and that his friends will be glad to ob-
serve the mark or proof of His Majesty's true friendship
towards them too."
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train from York to Scarborough were very greatly alarmed
by a succession of heavy thumps given by the train when
at full speed near Rillington. It seems the men in the
service of Mr. George Tindall, a farmer at Marr-house,
were driving several horses across the line after dark, three
of which broke away and took down the line for a long dis-
tance. The night was thick, and the driver did not see these
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were much. alarmed, as the Whitby train was following
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