The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-08 00:00:00

THE ARRESTS IN SCHLESWIG•

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)
KIEL, Aug. 5.

The special committee of the Schleswig-Holstein
Association has just issued the following circular
with reference to the arrest of editor May by the
Prussians :

" An act of illegal force has taken place in our
country of a character hitherto unparalleled among
us. An inhabitant of the country, not liable to
military jurisdiction, against whom neither the
courts here nor in his native land of Prussia have
found causo to proceed for any offence whatever,
has been deprived of his liberty by military violence
and breach of the sanctity of domicile. This act
of violence has smitten a man who has deserved
well of us by the devotion of many years to the
defence of our country's rights, and has
smitten him undoubtedly on account of that
devotion. No matter whom the violent act
might have affected, its nature is essentially
that of suspending settled legal order. And this
act of violence has been executed, not by the com-
mon order of the Austrian and Prussian Commis-
sioners, who provisionally exercise the chief power
of Government in our country, but upon the order
of the one without the knowledge of the other, and
it is upheld against the wish and in spite of the op-
position of the latter. From the same quarter a
second act of interference with personal liberty has
been perpetrated in oppositiop to the Austrian Com-
missioner, and setting aside the regular authorities,
upon the person of the Prussian Deputy, Dr. Freese,
then residing in the country, under the threat of
military force. _ _ _

" The provisional state of affairs, which we have
already been so often forced, and notably at our
last delegated meeting upon the 19th April, to
characterise in the face of all the world as destrue-
tive of our most important material and moral inte-
rests, and as incompatible with the honour of Ger-
many, has shown itself in these late occurrences
to be utterly untenable and endangering the peace
of Germany as well as our internal affairs. The
German Government and the German nation can
no longer avoid compliance with our demand that
the constitutional power of Government should be
immediately handed over to our legitimate Prince
Duke Frederick. The recognition of the highly
critical position of the country has grievously affected
our native Government and the representatives of
the communes. In the expectation that they will
not allow themselves to be prevented from fulfilling
their serious duties in the fullest degree, it will be
the task of the population to support them in
their efforts by all legalised measures. A decisive

moment is at hand. Hope is permitted that it will
be peaceful, that we shall pass on to settlement
along the path of right with the aid of our legiti-
mate Government, and in agreement with all ele-
ments having a claim to co-operate in the definitive
arrangements of our country's affairs as an interest
of collective Germany, to which Holstein has always
constitutionally belonged as an organic portion,
and to which Schleswig must in future belong. Let
us endure with unshaken courage in the combat for
our own and Germany's sacred rights. Let us
draw still closer together. It is essential that the
entire population should stand shoulder to shoulder
as one man. Those associations which now have
no delegates will elect them as soon as possible, so
that in case of need an assembly of delegates can
meet at very short notice."

The Working Men's Peace Jubilee at the
Crystal Palace.

Yesterday witnessed at the Crystal Palace the
fructification of a very praiseworthy idea, originat-
ing, we believe, with Mr. Coningsby, an intelligent
working man, who is employed in striking off the
Crystal Palace medallions. Mr. Coningsby's idea
was to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the shut-
ting of the Temple of Janus as between this country
and France by an international exhibition, to which
English and French skilled workmen should send
the products of their industry, and in which they
should fraternise in the most cordial and mutually
confidential manner. The idea was warmly sup-
ported both in this cbunt•ry and France, several
leading journalists in the latter country taking part
in the movement, whilst the sort of sanction which
it received in this country may be best inferred from
the following interesting letter which Mr. Coningsby
read in the course of the inaugural proceedings :

" Dear Sir,—l much regret that I shall be unable to ac-
cept the invitation with which you and the committee have
honoured me, to attend the opening of the Anglo-French
Working Men's Exhibition. I feel assured that had my
dear husband been living he would have given his earnest
sympathy and support to an exhibition designed to promote
the cause—always so dear to his heart—of international
peace and goodwill, and so honourable to the men by whom
it was originated, and by whom it is being carried out.

With my best wishes for the success of the exhibition, the
progress of which I shall watch with deep sympathy and
interest—Believe me to remain, dear sir, sincerely,
"C. A. COBDEN.
" Dunford, Midhurst, Aug. 4, 1865."

_ .
The proceedings commenced in the central tran-
sept, wherein a very crowded company of the
friends of international unity had assembled. After
some introductory music on the organ the Rev. Dr.
Emerton delivered an impressive prayer, in which,
after a general exhortation to peace and goodwill,
the following passage occurred :
" Bless, too, -in an especial manner, his Majesty the Em-
peror of the French. May he henceforth continually prove
that not only in profession but in reality the empire is
peace, and so act in all things that the people whom he now
rules with so much firmness and with so much vigour may
hereafter have to remember him chiefly as having been,
under God, the giver of peace, the pimmeter of national
prosperity, the restorer of real liberty, and the benefactor
of mankind."
At its conclusion Mr. Hubert Maudslay, of the
eminent engineering firm of Maudslay and Field,
took the chair, and briefly opened the proceedings
by reminding the meeting that they had assembled
chiefly to celebrate the 50th year of uninterrupted
peace between England and France, and he thought
it could not be more properly done than by the
workmen of the two countries entering into a gene-
rous emulation in their skilled industry. The pre-
sent exhibition would, he believed, excel in merit
any of the workmen's exhibitions which had as yet
been opened in London. In conclusion Mr. Mauds-
lay paid a handsome compliment to the noble statue
by Theed of the late Prince Consort, which had
been lent by the Queen, a pleasing indication of her
Majesty's interest in all movements which originated
with the working classes of her subjects. At the
conclusion of the chairman's observations Mr. Con-

ingsby read the letter given above, and exhorted
the British workmen to give an hospitable reception
to their French contemporaries. He hoped, he
said, to organise a dinner on a large scale at the
Crystal Palace, in which our friends from
across the Channel should be suitably enter-
tained. Mr. Henry Maudslay followed, giving a
warm adhesion to the exhibition ; and the oratory
concluded with a few observations in French from
M. Potonier, and some very energetic ones from M.
Tallandier, in English, in which that gentleman
called Dr. Emerton roundly to account for having
iutroduced what he deemed to be a political allusion
into his prayer. He alluded to the passage which
we have quoted above, and said that the object of
the present meeting was not to 'glorify Kings or
Emperors, but to celebrate the fraternisation of the
peoples of two great nations. These observations
of M. Tallandier were received with great enthu-
siasm by the meeting. Finally, the chairman de-
clared the exhibition opened, and the audience
rushed to the gallery in which the goods of the two
nations were displayed. The great crowd which
had thus assembled prevented more than the most
cursory inspection of the contents, but we may say
generally that they were rather above the average
of workmen's exhibitions. The French contribu-
tors are as yet few in number, but much is pro-
mised, including some articles of a very high cha-
racter. Altogether, the exhibition is very credit-
able, the more especially as Mr. Coninsgby assured
us it was due exclusively to the exertions of work-
ing men, and had received no aristocratic or
wealthy patronage whatever.

THE STRAND MUSEUM.—One of the results of the
case " Ruddock v. Lowe," tried at Croydon last week, and
reported in this journal, has been the closing of the
"Museum in the Strand," over which Mr. Lowe presided,
and against which so many complaints have been lodged
with the parochial authorities.