The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-22 00:00:00

The Great German Powers and the Duchies.

KARLSBAD, June 17.—The knowledge that the
Prince of Augustenburg has forwarded further con-
cessions to Berlin than those he had declared at
Vienna has decidedly prejudiced the not in itself
particularly warm advocacy of his claim, by arousing
a feeling of deep depression at the unreliability of
the policy of the Kiel Cabinet. The strength and
persistence of this impression would probably have
been considerably greater if the Oldenburg protest
against the residence of the Prince of Augustenburg
in Holstein had not directed its main attack against
the policy of Austria, while the Grand Duke only li
thought it necessary to give personpl explanations
upon the matter in Berlin. It was not until the
Oldenburg concessions began to be talked of in di-
plomatic circles, if not at that time publicly known,
and their scope might be divined from the suddenly
altered tone of Herr von Bismark, that excuses
were made by the Oldenburg party at Vienna, and
the offer was held out of a personal visit of the
Grand Duke. The latter was declined, and the
necessity of the former denied, it being pointed
out, that according to treaty, Prussia could form
no separate agreement without Austria, and that
the Oldenburg negotiations in Berlin could there-
fore only have the value of a pour parler. It was
known, however, that matters had gone further in
Berlin. This and various ministerial statements in
the Berlin Chamber of Deputies seems to have
placed Austrian relations with Prussia upon a very
delicate footing. There is no longer any talk of a
meeting taking place between the Emperor and the
King at this place, and even their subsequent in-
terview at Ischl is considered far more doubtful
than it was a few days back. The scale in this
matter appears to have been turned by the Note
handed by Baron Werther on the 12th inst. to
Count Mensdorff, together with the conversation
relating thereto, whence it was seen that Prussia
considered her negotiations with Oldenburg as
stipulations, while Austria, considering them to
have been entered upon by one party only, will not
admit their validity in principle. It is looked
upon, in fact, as the destruction of the Confedera-
tion, and the utterly inevitable self-constitution
of the North German Middle States, and the pro-
jected arrangement is thought to place Hanover
in imminent danger. It is possible that those
organs which announce a complete " breach" of the
Austro-Prussian alliance make use of a very strong
expression, but it cannot be denied that the guiding
influences at Vienna have reached a point which
renders at least unconditional adhesion to the
alliance in principle extremely dubious. It is pos-
sible that practically a more decided advance would
be made in this direction, if a settled object, or
rather a settled way to the desired object, could
practically be found. This object is inclination to
apply the necessary means for the purpose stated
by the majority of the Diet on the 6th of April.
On the other hand, it has been •repeatedly said in
influential quarters that that majority is willing to
saddle Austria with all the burdens, the difficulties,
and therewith also the method of arriving a solution
in conformity with the resolution of the Diet, but
at the same time withholds from her even the
slightest advantage of such sacrifices for the inte-
rests of the Confederation and the Middle States.
Of what kind this ultimate advantage is thought to
be at Vienna is not apparent. The notion of com-
pensation may still perhaps be entertained ; but
whether it is to be of a territorial or a federative
character—i.e., the accession of the whole of Austria
to the Confederation—no Middle State appears yet
to have received an intelligible hint.

Gladiateur left the Rue de la Faisanderie yester-
day for Newmarket. With the exception of a little thick-
ness of the shoulder, he is pronounced by Paris judges to
be "perfection."