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

DENMARK.

On ay. 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 people, 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 wurd that the nation could only demand
of its Ministry an alliance with Denmark offen-
sive and defensive—on condition that D ena.ark
showed proofs of earnest resolution by the poli-
tical and administrative separation of Holstein from
the Danish Realm.

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 our 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 sympa:hy we do not mean the
cowardly part of a mere spectator, who looks on
while a gallant nation is massacred by barbarian
hordes; bat 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 H”use of Nobles. This led
to a declaration by Baron MAnderstrom, the
Swedish-Norse foreign minister, that he would
shortly lay before the country a blue book on
foreign 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 i,n board his
Majesty's steamer Slesvig, commanded by his Ad-
jutant, Capt. P. Smidth. On ruesday her Royal
Highness was 01-osen 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.

PORTUGAL.

SOUTHAMPTON, Sunday Night.

The screw steamer Cossack, Capt. F. H. Ford,
from Lisbon on the 10th inst., arrived at 9 p.m.,
bringing £1,357 in specie, and a cargo of fruit, &c.
" The Ministry carried the Address in reply to
the speech from the Throne by 77 contra 51 votes,
in the House of Deputies, which has silenced the
reputed reorganization of the Loue Cabinet, and
given greater stability to Portuguese Sock, which
the dealers now buy freely at 471 to 477„ and are
backward in selling at 471.

" The Financial Department was not attacked
during the debate, as had been indicated by the
accusations promulgated in the Opposition journals,
and therefore the Minister of Finance did not use in
reply the documents with which he was prepared,
but in resume stated that the country, after spend-
ing £1,800,000 in roads and £2,000,000 in railroads,
of which 50u kilometres are finished, had raised the
revenue, as his budget would prove, to 15,000 con-
tos, abuut £3,330,000, being an increase of 5,000
contos, or £1,100,000.

" The absurd differential duties maintained in
favour of Portuguese ships, in return for England
opening her trade to their flag, and reducing all
duties upon their produce, wine, fruit, &c., is now
doing a palpable injury to their trade with London.

" Since the cessation of the Peninsular and Ori-
ental packets there are no regular steamers to carry
oranges to London, the best English market, which
enable, Mediterranean ports to supersede Lisbon,
and it is impossible to get up any regular line
of steamers to London while the differential duties
gives the Portuguese flag the preference for tea
and other valuable cargo which pay the best freights
from London to Lisbon. These artieles are imported
with great delay and great extra expense in Portu-
guese sailing vessels, which find it difficult to com-
plete their cargoes—they derive little or no benefit
from the trade, while the price of tea is unrea-
sonably increased for the common in Portugal, and
a great prejudice is done to its export of fruit.
" The exchange this packet, at tame months,
was—London, 54 to 54t ; Paris, 528 ; Hamburg.
481 ; Amsterdam, 42i ; Genoa, 524. Three per
Cent. Stock, 471, to 471. B•ink of Portugal Shares,
553 to 555; Oporto Bank Shares, 254 to 256.
" The foreign vessels of war in the Tagus when
the Cossack left were H.M.S. Revenge, Resistance,
Defence, Warrior, Black Prince, Trinculo, and
Virago, and the French steam transport Bretagne•
"Admiral Smart's squadron is expected to leave
the Tagus for England about the 17th inst."

ECCENTRIC MISAUOTATIONS FROM DICK ENS.—
On Saturday last, strange to say, we catch both the
London Review and the &Saturday Review tripping
when referring incidentally to the pages of the most
popular writer of the age. The latter (i.e., the Saturday
Review), talking of " Mrs. Jarvis's waxwork show," when
every reader of the "Old Curiosity Shop'' surely remem•
bens it well enough to be "Mrs. Jarley's." More flagrant
still is it to find a London Reviewer referring to Mrs.
Barden with her friends—Mrs. Mudberry "which kept a
wangle," and Mrs. Bunkin " which clear-starched." These
hitherto unheard of females representing, we presume, the
historical forms of Mrs. Saunders and Mrs. Cluppins—a
forgetfulness of whom is nothing less than an outrage to
every true Pickwickian.
A PAPER COFFEE CUP !—Any one who happens
t o desire a cup of tea or coffee finds that even when
he at last seems likely to obtain the object of his wishes, he
has still, before he can quench his tht ist, to solve an almost
insoluble problem. How can be drink his tea hot within
the space of three minutes ? As a matter of fact, only a
courageous fraction succeed in accomplishing the feat, and
rows of scarcely tasted cups testify the general failure.
Some ingenious German, who ought particularly to be com-
mended to the notice of Mr. Gladstone, has invented a paper
cup, which will completely hold a draught of the hottest
liquid, and can be bought for a farthing. By means of alin
invention, the good people of Berlin take up and drink at
heir ease, as they go along the railroad, the cups of eoff,t
which comfort-loving Englishmen find it impossible to
swallow without scalding their throats,—Landon Review.

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Feb. 14.
The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness
:he Princess Louis of Hesse, walked and drove in
the grounds this morning.

SUNDAY.

The Queen, the Prince and Princess Louis of
Hesse, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, and Prince
Leopold, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting,
attended Divine service this morning in the private
chapel. The Rev. Dr. Stanley, Deputy Clerk of
the Closet, officiated.

The Lord Chancellor and the Rev. Dr. Stanley
arrived at the Castle yesterday.
The Earl of Derby, the Earl of Clarendon, Sir
Chas. L. Eastlake, and Mr. Cubitt, M.P., the com-
mittee appointed by her Majesty to assist in the
selection of a design for the National Memorial to
the Prince Consort, attended yesterday at Windsor
Castle, where the designs have been placed, and had
the honour of an interview with her Majesty.

THE ROYAL MARRIAGE.—We understand that
the Danish Royal family and other illustrious fo-
reign visitors who will be present at the marriage of his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will not remain visi-
tors at Windsor Castle for any length of time, but will take
the earliest opportunity of commencing an inspection of
the wonders ot the great metropolis. Arrangements will be
made for their accommodation at the Palace Hotel, close to
Buckingham Palace, and the Queen's carriages, horses, and
servants will be placed at their disposal. A similar arrange-
ment was made on the occasion of the marriage of the
Princess Royal; but the Court authorities did not then
possess the accommodation of having a first-class hotel close
to the palace.—Court Journat.

Re erring to the fact that at the evening meeting
of the Royal Society on Thursday last, the Prince
of Wales was unanimously elected a Fellow of the Society,
the Atheneum observes—We believe that his Royal High.
ness, following the example of his illustrious father, will at
tend at some coming meeting of the society to sign his
name in the Charter Book, and be formally admitted. We
should hope that whenever the admission take place, there
will be a goodly muster of the Fellows to render due hon-
wr to the occasion,

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury
in Downing-street. The Ministers present were--Viscount
Palmerston, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, Earl
Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, SinG. C. Lewis, Sir Chas.
Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of
Somerset, the Right. Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right
Ron. Edward Cardwell, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers.

THE SPEAKER'S DINNER.—The Right Hon. the
Speaker gave his First Parliamentary full-dress
dinner on the evening of Saturday, Feb. 14, to the follow-
ing :—The Right Hon. Viscount Phlmerston. K.G., Vis-
count Bury, Viscount Castlerosse, Right Hon. Sir George
Grey, G.C.8., Right Hon Sir Charles Wood, G.C.8.,
Right Hon. Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, Right Hon. Edward
Cardwell, Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, Right Hon. Sir R.
Peel, Right Hon. William Cowper, Right Hon. Robert
Lowe, Right Hon. F. Peel, Right Hon. I'. E. Headlam,
Right Hon. William Hutt, the Attorney-General, the
Solicitor-General, Hon- Henry Brand, Sir William Dunbar,
Mr. T. G. Baring, Mr. Massey, Col. White, Mr. Knatch-
bull-Hugessen, Mr. Charles Gilpin, Hon. F. Calthorpe
(mover of the Address), Mr. Bazley (seconder), the Rev,
Charles Merivale (chaplain), and Mr. Alfred Denison
(secretary).

PARLIAMENTARY BANQUET.—The Right Hon. B.
Disraeli gave a Parliamentary dinner on Saturday)
at bi, residence, Grosvenor Tate. There were present the
Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Devon, the Earl of
Coventry, Lord William Grantham, Right Hon. the Lord
Mayor, Col. North, Mr. Wm. Legh, Mr. Seymour Fitz -
gerald, Mr. Baillie Cochrane, Mr. Hopwood, Col. Dunne,
Major Parker, Mr. Papillon, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Collins, Mr.
Malcolm, and Mr. Whitmore.

By the latest accounts from Grantham we learn
that the Duke of Rutland is progressing most favourably,
and hopes are entertained of his ultimate recovery.

rtie M srquis d'Almasey, Count Nickoline, and
Colonel and Madame de Lapriere have left the Brunswick
Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Paris.

The E irl and Cour tess of Lanesborough have
arrived at their residence in Great Stanhope-street from
Swithland Hall, Loughborough.
Tne Ear► and Countess of Devon have arrived
in town from Powderham Castle, Exeter, for the season,
The Countebs of Caledon bas arrived at her re
sidence, Carlton-house•torrace, from Caledon-hlll, County
Tyrone.

The Bishop of London and Mrs. Tait entertained
a select party at dinner on Saturday evening at London
House, St. James's-square,

Lord and Lady Proby are expected in town in a
few days from Elton Hall, Oundle, for the season.

Baron de Kate, the newly-appointed Secretary
to the Prussian Embassy, arrived at Prussia House a few
days since from Berlin.

We have to record the death of Lady Olivia Ber-
nard Sparrow, who had attained her 88th year.
The deceased lady was the eldest daughter of Arthur,
second viscount, afterwards created Earl, of Gosford, and
married, in 1797, Brigadier-General Robert Bernard Spar-
row, who died early in the present century, leaving a son
and a daughter.

The farewell concert of Mr. H. Phillips, which
is fixed for the 25:h, in addition to the interest at-
taching itself to his leave-taking, will also introduce two
daughters of the redoubtable basso, a soprano and a con-
tralto, who have studied for their profession out of Eng-
land,

OXFORD MUSIC HALL.—Mr. Morton ventures
more than any other mortal English musical mana-
ger. It should make some of the fraternity who pro-
iess so much and perform so little, f-el foolish to read in
the " Oxford " bills of the week an announcement of the
music to Gluck's " Alceste." —Atheneeum.
MR. BICKLEY'S GALLERY OF PICTURES.—The
important collection of ancient and modern pictures formed
by the late J. L. Bickley, Esq., of Westbourne-terrace,
was disposed of on Saturday last at the rooms of Christie,
Manson, and Woods, in King-street, St. James's, and
realised £2,300.
A PROFANE TOWN IN CALIFORNIA.—In the
northern part of California is a stream called Yuba
River. Across it some enterprising individual built a
bridge, and on the banks somebody else built three or tour
houses. The inhabitants called the place Yuba Dam.
Three bars were instantly erected, and the to am increased
rapidly. About noon one cold day, a traveller and a sojour-
ner in the land passed this flourishing locality, and seeing
a long-legged specimen of humanity in a red shirt smoking
before one of the bars, thus addressed him :—" Hello 1"
"Hello 1" replied the shirt, with vigour, removing his
pipe from his mouth. "What place is this ?" de.
manded the traveller, whose name was Thompson.
The answer of the shirt was unexpected. " Yuba Dam."
There was about fifty yards between them, and the wind
was blowing. Mr. Thompson thought he had been mis-
taken. " What did you say ?" he asked. "Yuba Dam "
replied the stranger, cheerfully. " What place is this ?"
roared Mr. Thompson. " Ya-ba. Dam," said the shirt, in a
slightly elevated tune of voice. " Lookee here," yelled the
irate Thompson, " I asked you politely what this place was;
why in thunder don't you answer ?" The stranger
became excited. He rose and replied with the voice of
an 80-pounder : " Yu-ba• dam I Do you hear that ?" In
a minute 1 hompson, burning with the wrath of the
righteous, jumped off his horse and advanced on the
stranger wi h an expression not to be mistaken. The
shirt arose and assumed a posture of violence and de
fence. Arrived within a yarn of him, Thompson said, "I
ask you, for the last time, what place is this ?" Putting
his hands to his mouth, his opponent roared—" Yu-ba-
dam I" The next minute they were at it. First, Thomp-
son was down; then the shirt; and then it was a dog-fall—
that is, both were down. They rolled about, kicking up a
tremendous dust. They squirmed around so energetically,
that you'd have thought they had a cozen legs instead of
four. It looked like a prize fight between two pugilistic
centipedes. Finally, they both rolled off the bank and
into the river. The water cooled them. They went
down together, but came up separate, and put out for the
shore. Both reached it about the same time, and Thomp-
son scrambled up the bank, mounted his warlike
steed, and made tracts, leaving his foe gouging the mud out
of one of his eyes. Having lett the business portion of the
town—that is to say, the corner where the three bare were
kept—he struck a house in the suburbs, before which a
little girl of about four years of age wes playing. "What
place is this, sissy ?" he asked. The little girl, frightened
at the drowned -rat figure which the stranger cut, streaked
it for the house. Having reached the door she stopped,
tuned, and squealed—" 00-bee-dam I" " Good heaven- I"
said Thompson, digging his heels between his horse's ribs,
" Good heavens, let me get out of this horrid place, where
not only the men but the very babes and sucklings swear at
inoffensive travellers."--.New York tribune.

THE PLANET MARS.—The position of the planet
was such last autumn that the entire circle of snow
around the South Pole could be distinctly seen, and with
such a well-defined edge as to have led to the conclusion
that it terminates iu a cliff. The equatorial region
itis is
ocerue:
pied by a broad greenish belt fringed with deep bays aandinlets, which may perhaps be water. In one place
lieve3 by an island, which exhibits the same ruddy colour
as the hemispheres eu each side of the central belt.