The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-02 00:00:00

DENMARK.

COPENHAGEN, APRIL 2.
Last night a most important proclamation of the
King was published, referring to the separation of
Holstein from its connection with the entire

monarchy.
The introduction to this document says :
" The proclamation of the King of the 28th Jan"
1852, stated his Majesty's intention to combine the
different portions of the monarchy by means of a
common constitution, into one single well-regulated
State. This intention could not be realised, because
the Federal Diet interfered in the interior affairs
of the monarchy, and set up demands not founded on
Federal laws, and incompatible with the indepen-
dence of the Crown and the privileges of those por-
tions of the country not belonging to the Confedera-
tion. The estates of Holstein have in addition rejected
every proposition which might have led to an agree-
ment, and have declared themselves hostile to any
common constitution based upon united representa-
tion. Such a state of internal discord, by which
the development of the kingdom has been paralysed
for the last ten years, cannot longer continue. In
consequence of the unsatisfactory results of the last
Assembly of the Holstein Diet, we deem it our duty
as ruler to settle the position of Holstein in the
Monarchy as we consider most in conformity with
our Federal duties. For the present we confine
ourselves to the most urgent part of this task, re-
serving any further developments for a future
period.

"By this present
proclamation, therefore, we
grant to Holstein an
independent army. For the
future Holstein will share with the rest of the mo-
narchy the civil list, the appanages, the public
the navy the
debt, department for foreign affairs,
the administration of the domains, the customs, and

the postal arrangements, but even in reference to
these details the Estates of Holstein shall have the
right of decision,reserving further separation where
no agreement between
the Holstein Estates and the
Rigsraad (Council of the Empire) for Denmark-
Schleswig shall be found attainable." His Ma-
jesty further ordains that the Ministry shall sub-
mit to the Holstein
Estates bills, establishing con-
stitutional regulations for the general control of
the finances, a liberal electoral law, liberty of the
press, the right of petition and of association, and
religious freedom.
The proclamation calls together
the Rigsraad (Legislative Assembly for Denmark-
Schleswig) upon the
22d April next.

LISBON, APRIL 2.

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship
Parana, from the Brazils, has arrived here, and will
leave at 2 p.m. to-day for Southampton, with 132
passengers, £5,150 in specie, 500 packages of
tobacco, and 150 packages of sundries.

Briton Medical and General Life Assurance

Society,

hurt uvular

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, April 1.

The Queen, accompanied by her Roy il Highness
the Princess Louis of Hesse, walked and drove in
the grounds this morning.
His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, attended by
Major Cowell and Dr. Armstrong, arrived at the
Castle last evening shortly after seven o'clock.
Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by Prin-
ces Helena, Prince Leopold, and Prince Louis of
Hesse, met the Prince at the station of the South-
Western Railway.

" Administrative reforms, whatever their extent
,ind import, are no longer calculated to satisfy the
Poles. There is not a man in the country to be
gained over by the tender of mere administrative
improvement. The nation yearns for political life
and the restoration of independence. The most
terrific repression will never be powerful enough to
eradicate a spirit filling all Polish souls, and which,
I regret to say, tends, from day to day, to deepen
the gulf between the nation and the throne. It is
only by the revival of Polish independence and the
maintenance of no more than a dynastic connexion
with Russia that your Majesty cm' remove the pro-
bability of ruling, in no distant future, over a coun-
try consisting of ruins, and where public prosperity
is a myth of the past. I trust your Majesty will
not hesitate to adopt a less painful alternative at a
rime when insurrection begins to flag and subside.
Powerful and independent as you are, your Majesty
will not believe that to be generous implies to be
weak."

Fresh detachments of the Grenadier corps have
arrived at Warsaw. This force has been distributed
over the interior to guard against rural commotion;
but its place in Russia is being gradually filled up
by li,lrruck,., Bashkirs, and other Tartar horsemen,
In addition to this reinforcement part of the
northern garrisons are being despatched to the
south. As a necessary consequence rebellion Atains
a temporary ascendancy in Augustowo and Pluck.

'I he fall of Langiewicz is said to be the signal for
Mieroslawski's return to the camp; but rumours
are too vague as yet to allow of any credit being
attached to the story. Thus much, however,seems
to be certain—that the fall of his rival has not par-
ticularly contributed to endear Mieroslawski to the
nation.