The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-16 00:00:00

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Peru was much excited by the events in Chili.

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 15.
The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia
and Princess Beatrice, walked and drove in the
grounds this morning.

Earl Russell had an audience of her Majesty.
The Count and Countess Bernstorff arrived at
the Castle yesterday, and had the honour of dining
with the Queen and the royal family.

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The King of the Belgians.

We are authorised to state that her Majesty has
received a telegram contradicting the report of the
illness of the King of the Belgians, or that his Ma-
jesty had left Ardennes as stated.

His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the
Countess Bernstorff returned yesterday to the Prussian
Embassy, on Carlton House-terrace, from Windsor Castle,
having been invited by her Majesty to meet the Crown
Prince and Princess of Prussia. In consequence the count
and countess were unable to visit the Dowager Duchess of
Cleveland at Downharn.

The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle, instead of
leaving town for Clumber Park, Notts, went on a visit to
Mrs. Hope, at Deepdene, near Dorking, where in all pro-
bability they will stay a fortnight.

SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN.

(From the Correspondent of the Morning Post.)

ALTONA, Nov. 13.
There is much truth in the remark• that Schles-
wig-Holstein is like a hedgehog, which never can
afford satisfaction to those who touch it ; and both
Austria and Prussia may have reason ere long to
regret that they have ever meddled with these
Duchies. In Schleswig, Prussia is not gaining
ground, though General Manteuffel is continually
making speeches in which he tries to flatter the peo-
ple, with whom all that he says goes in at one ear
and comes out at the other ; while M. Zedlitz finds
he has enough to do in making war against political
unions and meetings, and in resorting to a police
system of espionage wherever he fancies it can be of
use to him in restraining the liberal tendencies of
the inhabitants of the Duchy, whose attachment to
the Duke of Augustenburg and to Holstein is con-
sequently increased and strengthened.
In Holstein, Austria makes no progress, though
General Gablentz personally displays great activity
and zeal in his attempts to bring about reforms in
the Administration, in which he finds all his efforts
useless, because he cannot avail himself of the
authority of the " Estates" of the Duchy, which no
means have yet been taken to assemble. He is
likewise kept in constant hot water by the way in
which he is pestered by General Manteuffel to do
many things for which he is not disposed, but with
which he feels he is compelled to comply, because
he has got instructions to submit to the wishes of
the Prussian ruler in Schleswig "in all minor
affairs," and he cannot easily distinguish as to which
of the demands that are made this limit may pro-
perly apply.
In both Duchies the feelings that are entertained
as to the Germans may be thus described—Prussia
is hated, Austria is distrusted, and the other States
of the Confederation ale all• more or less despaired
of. And yet in neither of the Duchies do the
people despair of themselves, because they remem-
ber that they have already compelled the two great
German Powers to commence the war against Den-
mark, and to tear in pieces the London protocol,
which makes them believe that because they have
already so far succeeded, they must, by persevering
in the same course, continue to be fortunate, and
gain their end by the convocation of the " Estates,"
which would enable them to show to the world that
their independence is dear to them, and that they
will not break the faith which they had pledged to
their hereditary Sovereign, though he may, in the
meantime, have been treacherously deprived of all
authority and power, and condemned to play the
humiliating part of a mere looker-on in the country
where he is entitled to reign.
There is reason to believe that M. von Bismarck
is not at all satisfied with the result of his visit
to France. It is said that when he had an inter-
view with the Emperor he spoke of the necessity
of having the Duchies annexed to Prussia, to which
the Emperor replied that he must be aware of his
steady adherence to the principle of the population
being in such cases consulted ; and when M. von
Bismarck spoke of the mischievous agitation which
had the effect, in such circumstances, of inducing
the people to submit to influences which were not
favourable to Prussia, the Emperor did not deign
to give an answer. Nor had the Prussian Minister
better success with M. Drouyn de Lhuys, who,
after repeating what his master had said, merely
added, when the people were alluded to, "Du reste
le peuple s'est exprime assez." At the Prussian
headquarters. in Schleswig, while M. von Bismarck
was still in France, his return was eagerly looked for
as the signal for commencing the work of annexa-
tion ; but these military men seem to have reckoned
without their host, or at all events not to have been
aware of many of the difficulties and obstacles which
diplomatists have occasionally to encounter. Of
these, however, it is likely they have now got some
idea, for there is now an uncertainty and indecision
in all the proceedings of the Court at Berlin with
regard to these Duchies which formerly was not
apparent. As an example of this, it may be stated
that there is now sitting a commission for the pur-
pose of making inquiry whether the proposed Prus-
sian naval establishment should be formed in the
splendid bay-of Horuphof, in the island of Alsen,
or in Kid harbour, though the scale is understood