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directed to other parts of India, in a few years Denmark should be undisputed. This is not only
we should receive such an augmentation of supply 1 stated in express terms in the note of M. Hall to
that the great industry in which so many were interested I the Danish Minister here, but is much dwelt on in
would be set at liberty. But unless efforts were made by
the address of the Danish Chamber to the King.
the trade at home on the one hand, and encouragements
given by the Government on the other, we might long be In the note above referred to, the Secretary for
subjected to thisunfortunate distress, which was oppressing Foreign Affairs says—" Neither public law gene-
both the capital and labour of the country. The consuming rally, nor the diplomatic correspondence of 1851,
public of England ought to be placed in immediate contact authorises any intervention whatever of the Confe-
with the producing ryot of India. There was one very aeration of the affairs of Schleswig, and the King's
important point that the public and the press could not
Government would betray the most sacred interests
be said to have fully appreciated. They were continually
of the State if it made a compromise as to this eapie
told that demand for manufactures ought to increase more
than they did at present. The truth was that prices regu.. tal principle, that the authority of the Germanic
lated demand, and with the ruling high prices consumption Confederation can in no case be extended, beyond
was of necessity diminished. We had only a large demand the frontier of Holstein." In settling the Holstein
for corn and calico when the prices were very low. It had question on a basis favourable to the Confederation,
been stated that in 1860, when our exports were amazingly
the Danish Government have a right to demand
extensive, and when all was prosperity, that we were over-
that the dispute respecting Schlesw ig should
producing the manufactures. No doubt at that moment
we were producing sufficient for the demand ; perhaps, in a equally be concluded in such a manner as to pre-
trifling degree, in excess; but if our increasing production elude the Diet from advancing any future claims to
could have had corresponding reduction in value, we could jurisdiction in that province. The consideration of
with such moderately reduced prices have extended the the concession of Holstein by the Danish Govern-
scale of consumption. It was folly for the trade to expect ment is that their sovereignty in Schleswig should
that high prices and great consumption in the markets of
be henceforward undisputed. This is fair. Men-
the world had been identified with this great industry„ The
eared by the test of ancient custom and interne-
hon. gentleman concluded his remarks by hoping that
brighter days would soon dawn upon us, and that the tional law, Denmark should never have been called
present distress would soon be at an end. (Applause.) upon to acknowledge the jurisdiction of the Diet in
The report was unanimously adopted. Holstein. But if, yielding to " the force of cir-
Some routine business having been disposed of, the meet- cumstances," as M. Hall expresses it, Denmark has
ing separated with a vote of thanks to the chairman. been obliged to yield to the demands of the Confe-
deration, then she has a right to expect that her
sovereignty in the province of Schleswig shall not
only be acknowledged by the Diet, but shall be
practically guaranteed by those great Powers which
have thought proper to interpose, and have not felt
ashamed to lef,e means little short of direct coercion
to force Denmark into the concession she has now
made. It can hardly be the interest of England or
Russia to effect a complete disintegration of the
Danish Monarchy, but unless they seek for such a
consummation they will henceforth offer as stre-
nuous an opposition to further encroachments on the
part of the German Powers as they have hitherto
given to them an unqualified support. If the hi-
tegrity and independence of the Danish Monarchy
are objects dear to the statesmen of Europe, the
basis upon which the concessions respecting Hol-
stein have been made will be adapted as final. Any
further attempt at encroachment on the sovereignty
of the Danish Crown by the German Powers
should bring to Denmark not merely barren sym-
pathy, but the powerful assistance of those who
have the means of preventing a small, but inde-
pendent and well-regulated, State from being
crushed by a great Confederaey.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES.—For the last 30 years certainly there
has never been a day when the streets of Warsaw
might not have run with blood at a signal from any
bold man. Conspiracy and insurrection have never
been absent from the minds of the conquered. Men
and women, old and young, the possibility of a
struggle with the Russians at any moment has ever

been before them, and without claiming for them
more than for any other people unexampled hero-
ism it may be said that living with the prospect
c.f a sudden outbreak continually before their eyes
has endowed the Poles with a kind of reckless

courage which, as has been proved by many
examples; shrinks from no danger, and will rush
into a struggle with the enemy against any odds.
Probably in a few days this new Polish insurrec-
tion will be put down, and order will once more

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reign in the conquered cities. The silence of mili-
tary rule will overspread the land. All that the
outer world will know will be that executions have

taken place, that troops of unfortunates have been
marched off eastward, and will not complete their

journey until the vast tract of European Russia is in-
terposed between them and their homes. We cannot
think that the present outbreak will fare differently
from the 20 or 30 that have preceded it in the life-
time of the present generation. But there is enough
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COUNTRY MARKETS.

4,.. -

COLCHESTER—JAN. 24.
All kinds of grain about the same as last week, with a
moderate amount of business doing.
Wheat, white ..46s 52s Beans, Mazagan..3os 33s
red ...42s 48s middle & small.3ss 42s
Barley
Oats

,o show that the old hatred and the old savageness

of temper remain unchanged at the present day.
This we might have expected ; but there is another
feature of still greater interest—that the Polish

malcontents are able, in spite of Governors and
Generals, policemen and spies, to plan a most for-
midable rising against the Russian authority.
Whether the events of which the telegraph informs

GLOUCESTER—JAN. 24.
To-day there was a goad supply of English wheat, which
sold slowly, at barely late prices. Foreign was in limited
request, and in favour of buyers. Barley, beans, and oats
as before.

us were the consequences of a regular plan for the
destruction of the Russian troops, or whether the
news of one outbreak spreading through the coun-

CHELMSFORD—JAN. 23.
At this corn exchange to-day there was a fair show of
wheat for the season. Trade slow. Prices declined is per
qr on last week's rates. Spring corn barely maintained
late prices.
Wheat, old white 37s 54s Peas, Partridge....37s 400
new 37s 51s White 39s 40s
old red....42s 50s Boiling .. 40s 43s
new 38s 48s Dun 3ss 38s
Barley ..28s 36s Ditto new .. —s —s
Chevalier ..28s 39s Beans, Tick, old ..34s 39s
Grinding 22s 31s new..—s —8
Malt 6ls 67s Harrow Ticks ..358 40s
Chevalier . 64s 69s new.. —a —s
Oats 20s 28s Mazagan .......308 38s

try excited each section to deeds of violence, the
facts equally show the dangerous state of the coun-
try and the readiness of the people at any moment
to rise in a rebellion, however desperate. We in-

cline to the opinion that the insurrection is the
work of a central body of conspirators, for there is

a suddenness in the attack and a unity in the design
of it which seems to show that it was not a series of
desultory outbreaks. There was indeed a barbarity
in the proceedings of the insurgents which must be
regretted. On the night of the 22d the scattered
detachments of troops in the neighbourhood of War-
saw were attacked. The insurgents killed all the
soldiers they found in the houses where they were
billeted. If it be true that the troops were at-
tacked in every town throughout the province
on the same night, there can be no doubt that
the deed was premeditated, and that conse-
quently the Poles intended one of those gene-
ral slaughters which, whenever they have been
attempted, have always in the end brought
misfortune on the heads of the perpetra-
tors. The Russian account is that very serious
fighting had taken place at many points, but
that the troops had universally defeated the insur-
gents. The latter had burnt several villages and
had destroyed the telegraph wires, so that at the
present time the communication is cut off between
Warsaw and the frontier. Troops have been hur-
ried to the scene of the disturbances, the garrison
of Warsaw having been increased to 40,000 men.
The neighbourhood of Plock, on the Vistula, about
half way between Warsaw and the Prussian fron-
tier, was expected to be the scene of a sharp con-
flict between the military and the insurgents, as
the latter were in great force there. On the whole,
this is a most anxious conjuncture for the Emperor,
and we cannot wonder that he should have dis•
played some emotion when he addressed the army,
as reported by telegraph to-day, and denounced the
revolutionary party whose work the rising was. A
few days more must elapse before we can tell
whether this is to be a general insurrection or not.
But in whatever manner it may end it cannot but
recall the attention of Europe to this miserable
country. It proves that the Pole and the Russian
are as far from that fusion which has been the
cherished design of the Czars as 30 years since, and
that the conscience of the world must be periodi-
cally wounded by a nation unsuccessfully struggling
to be free.

MORNING POST.—It is with a sense of unsped

able relief that we hail the final settlement of the
Holstein question. We do so not merely in the
interests of Europe, which has from time to time
been agitated by the rival pretensions of the Ger-
manic Diet and the Danish King, not to mention
threats of Federal executions, but in the interests of
the Danish monarchy itself. Denmark has always
had our sympathies. We have ever consistently
supported the claims of the Danish Government in
respect to the disputed provinces. In the reasons ad-
vanced by the Germanic Powers for their interposi-
tion we always failed to discover aught but an
empty pretext for depriving Denmark of a por-
tion of her dominions. Prussia is the last
State in the world entitled to come for-
ward just now as the champion of con-
stitutional government. Austria, too, might without
difficulty find a wider sphere for the introduction
of constitutional reforms in her Hungarian and
Lombardo-Venetian territories than in the Grand
Duchy of Holstein. Notwithstanding, however,
that the moment seems singularly inopportune for
the formal recognition of the independence of Hol-
stein by the Danish Government, and the concebsion
to that province of the position claimed for it by the
Germanic Confederation, we are glad that a tedious
and irritating discussion has at length been brought
to a close. In the note addressed by the Danish
Minister for Foreign Affairs to the Ambassador in
London, and dated January 5, the announcement is
formally made that henceforth Holstein will be ac-
counted as one of the Germanic States, and that the
Danish King, in his quality as duke of that pro-
vince, will not only be prepared, as heretofore, to
fulfil his federal obligations, but will admit the au-
thority of the Diet to regulate the internal affairs of
the State. The Danish Minister has rightly pointed
out that the recognition of this control on the part
of the Germanic Confederation is not the simple
discharge of a duty imposed upon his Government ;
it is, in truth, a sacrifice extorted by the force of
circumstances, a yielding to pressure from without.
It must always be borne in mind that Holstein was
a province of Denmark before it became a member
of the Confederation. On entering the Confedera-
tion, the duchy of Holstein, like the other States
joined in that league, undertook certain obligations,
but never transferred its sovereignty to the Diet,
or bound itself in every respect to be guided by its
dictates. However, any misconceptions which may
have previously arisen are set at rest, and the rights
of the Confederation and the obligations of Holstein
are now settled upon what it is hoped will prove
an unalterable basis. But whilst the Danish Go-
vernment have been content to admit the claims of
he Germanic Diet in respect to Holstein, they
nave rightly imposed, as the condition of such
recognition, that the authority of the Crown in