The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-31 00:00:00

Thus wrote Karl Blind a short time since :

"Personally, 1 am the most averse to a policy of con-
quest or ultra-nationalism. Switzerland, in its majority,
consists of a German-speaking people ; but, so far from de-
siring its re 'annexation to us, I rather would wish Ger-
many en toto to be annexed to Switzerland. It is true the
Helvetic Republic is the only country of which I could say
so much with regard to my fatherland. Again, there are
upwards of a million and a half of Germans in Hungary
and its annexes. But I far prefer Hungarian independence
and freedom, provided it be real, to the system of a crush-
ing, uniform centralisation as attempted by the House of
Hapsburg."

Turning then to the views of his Danophile ad-
versary (who wrote under the pseudonym of Suum
Cuique), Karl Blind continued :

"He makes bold to say that there does not exist any
country of the name of Schleswig-Holstein, nor is there a
people called Schleswig-Holsteiners 1' Now, this assertion
seems to me the very acme of tendencies towards encroach-
ment on other peoples' rights. After all, a people are them-
selves the most competent to declare by what name they
shall be known. Let the Danes by all means call them-
selves Danes; but for mercy's sake allow the Schleswig-
Holsteiners to retain an appellation which they find most
suitable to their own taste, " Suum Cuique" (that is, in
simple Anglo-Saxon, To every one his own') has evidently
chosen his pseudonym with an ironical reference to the
royal Prussian motto. By his inabi'ity to illustrate his
own case, the motto he has assumed is painfally exhibited
by the hardheartedness with which he grudges the people
of the Duchies even the poor consolation of enjoying their
own name.

" My adversary, in order to be very strong against Ger-
many, adopts the expedient of showing, on the one hand,
that the Prussian Court itself has conceded the Danish.
theory, and complaining, on the other, of the "ambitious
plans" harboured by the same Prussian Government with
regard to the Duchies. These alternate charges are of too
contradictory a nature to add much strength to the corre-
spondent's case. It costs, me, however, no effort at all to
furnish him with some more material for proving that the
Prussian Government have at certain times declared in the
most unmeasured terms against Schleswig-Holstein rights.
I quote from the note addressed by the Prussian Plenipo-
tentiary, Mr. Von Wildenbruch, to the Danish Ministry in
1348. There we read :

" Prussia wishes, before all, to maintain the Duchies
of Schleswig-Holstein in the possession of their King-
Duke, and she is as far from desiring to seek her own
interest in the matter, as she is from serving the ambi-
tion of a third party. In the interest of Denmark,
however, as well as of all neighbouring countries, it is
that the German Princes should vigorously act in this
question, and only the desire of preventing the radical and
republican elements of Germany from introducing their
dangerous influence has been the motive of the measures
adopted by Prussia. The entry of Prussian troops in Hol-
stein had for its object the securing the Federal territory,
and preventing the republican elements of Germany, to
which the Duchies, as a last means of self-preservation,
might have appealed, from getting the upper hand in this
affair. The idea of a North Albingian Republic, which has
already been put forth, is calculated seriously to endanger
Denmark as well as the neighbouring German countries.'
"And, in conclusion, the Prussian despatch said that—
' It is the advantage of Denmark herself which Prussia has
in view,' and that Prussia is ready to co-operate for the
maintenance of Danish power, which appears to be
menaced by the defection of the Duchies.'

" Unless this language be read in a preternatural sense
not warranted by the acts of the Berlin Court, your readers
will probably conclude from it, as I do, that the Schleswig
Holsteiners had a very questionable friend in the Prussian
King. And the way in which the drama of the War of
Independence was concluded—viz., by the intervention of
Frederick William IV. and Francis Joseph, who laid the
Duchies at the feet of Denmark—is the best evidence that
those German Courts which aro frequently said to be at the
bottom of the whole contest, are in reality only its mis-
mtTagers.

telling fact. Before 1848—that is, ill
those hopeless times when there could have been no expec-
tation whatever of armed help being given from Germany
—the Schleswigers already declared, in their own Parlia-
ment, for a junction with Germany. In 1848 they carried
it out by sending their deputies to the National Constituent
Assembly at Frankfort. To German Princes it was then
left to force them back under the Danish )oke.
" What more proof could there be of the popular cha-
racter of the Schleswig-Holstein rising ?"

...
I remain, sir, your obedient servant,
October 28. GERMA.NUS."

THE lA7ERIVA7IONAL EXHIBITION.

The last shilling-day at the Exhibition, though
it failed to realize the expectations which were
formed as to great numbers, yet overpassed by more
than 2,000 the returns of any other shilling day
since the opening. The total admitted up to four
o'clock was 68,701, of which 5,894 were by moon
tickets, 1,650 by shilling-day tickets, and 61,159
by payment at the doors. This, though a lower
return by at least 10,000 than was expected, brings
up the total numbers who have visited the building
since the commencement to 6,048,381, or just 18,000
more than the total numbers of 1851. As the at-
tendance during to-day and to-morrow is certain to
be large, and during sale days by no means incor
siderable, the present display is likely to close with
a respectable majority over the numbers of its pre'
decessor.

There was no particular feature to record of the
visit of yesterday. As usual, the picture galleries
and all beneath the domes and nave, with the machi'
nary annexe, were densely crowded, leaving the
side courts and galleries almost empty. Nothing
is more remarkable to those who recollect bell
equally the crowds were distributed over the Whole
area of the building in 1851, side collets, galleries/
and all, than the persistence with which on this
occasion visistors have congregated in the nave will.
It is this crowding in the main avenues which hag
given such a thronged appearance to the building
with only 40,000 visitors in it, and has led people
to imagine that the present structure is smaller.
The fact is, that the present Exhibition is more
than one-fifth larger than that of 1851, and has
more than one-fifth more walking space allotted to
visitors. But on this occasion the galleries seem to
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