The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-16 00:00:00

DENMARK.

On the 4th inst. an important debate took place
in the Swedish Parliament on the relations of
Sweden to foreign Powers. As might be expected,
it chiefly turned on the unhappy position at this
moment of the third Scandinavian folk-power,
Denmark. All the speakers in the Swedish House
of Burghers—the scene of this discussion—deeply
sympathised with us, and hoped that all obstacles
and dangers would be insufficient to prevent union
of the three Scandinavian peoples into one body
politic, or, to use the words of Mr. Fitzgerald the
day following in the British House of Commons—a
strong and independent Scandinavian Power in
Europe. The prevailing tone in the Swedish
Chamber was, that the Government and people of
Sweden could only give Denmark active assistance,
could only sacrifice men and money for the third
Scandinavian state in the common interest of them
all, in one word that the nation could only demand
of its Ministry an alliance with Denmark offen-
sive and defensive—on condition that Denmark
showed proofs of earnest resolution by the poli-
tical and administrative separation of Holstein from
the Rinie,h R,ELico,

The Danish people is quite agreed with
its Swedish brothers on this head. No Dane
will think of asking for a dollar or a drop of blood
from Sweden, in defence of a whole state, which
not only is a broken reed for oar Northern na-
tionality, but which at any moment might be led
into new channels, embrace other interests, and be
the grave of Scandinavian unity.
The Swedish chamber also pronounced its deep
sympathy for Poland, a feeling shared by all Scan-
dinavia. And by sympathy we do not mean the
cowardly part of a mere spectator, who looks on
while a gallant nation is massacred by barbarian
hordes; but we mean the active interest which be-
comes free nations. Sweden, as a sigi,er of the
reaty of Vienna, whose arrangements for Po-
land have been so wantonly trampled upon by the
Czar, has abundant right to remonstrate in favour
of the Polish people, and in so doing it will repre-
sent Norway and Denmark.
A discussion, whose detai's have not yet reached
us, took place in the 11,,use of Nobles. This led
to a declaration by Baron Minderstrom, the
Swedish-Norse foreign minister, that he would
shortly lay before the country a blue book on
toreign affairs. The noble Lord Derby, who will live
in our grateful remembrance for his magnanimous
words on our behalf in the House of Lords, will
thus soon have an opportunity of convincing him-
self as to the authenticity of the note attributed to
Baron Manderstorm.

A powerful impression has also been made in
our political circles by the vigorous defence of Den-
mark's rights in Slesvig, as a Danish crown-land
from the earliest ages, by Mr. Disraeli and Lords
Malmesbury and Wodehouse.
The Princess Alexandra will leave Copenhagen
on the 28th inst. At Kiel she will go un board his
Majesty's steamer Slesvig, commanded by his Ad-
jutant, Capt. P. Smidth. On Tuesday her Royal
Highness was chosen member of the Royal Copen-
hagen Shooting Guild. Mr. Friedlander, the bird
king, had the honour of handing over to her the
insignia of the guild. Her Royal Highness's dresses
are prepared in England, France, and Belgium.
The rest of her toilet will be provided by Mr.
Levysohn, of this city, and will not be surpassed in
elegance by the best articles from the Parisian
establishments.