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

FRANCE.

BOURSE, October 30.—The market has become
more buoyant and firmer, and a fair amount of
business has been done at improved quotations.
Threes have varied throughout the day from 70f.
80c. to 71f. 10e., and are now at the latter quota-

Lions. Railway share market also firmer. The
market closed as follows :-
4t per Cents .. 98 Bank Shares 3250
Do. end month.... Credit Foncier 1240
3 per Cents
Do. end month 7O 60 Italian Loan l2 50
New 3 per Cents .. Roman
Do. end month.... Austrian
Credit Mobilier....ll9o Spanish Threes sli
Do. end m0nth....1187 50 Home Debt

RAILWAYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans ' 1042 50 .. 1042 60
Northern
New. ditto . 792 .. -:—.
Lyons and Mediterranean 1183 75 .. 1182 50
Geneva 335 .. 360
Southern B7O • .. 866 25
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
.
Lou.bard
North of Spain
Saragossa ..
Ditto to Barcelona 355 .. 360

TEE BRAZIL MAIL.

LISBON, OCT. 30.

The Royal Mail steamer Magdalena, with the
Brazil mail, arrived here today, and will leave for
Southampton at 2 p.m., with 58 passengers, £60,067
in specie, 416 rolls of tobacco, 25 brie. of tapioca,
and 176 pkgs. of sundries.

RIO DE JANEIRO, OCT. 9.

Sealer Lopez, the President of Paraguay, is
dead, and his post provisionally filled by his son,
Francisco Lopez.
Exchange on London, 268 to 261. Coffee, good
first, 6,800 to 7,000 reis. Shipments since the de-
parture of the last mail, 30,250 bags, of which 6,600
are for the Channel. Stock, 18,000 bags. Freights,
255. to 30s.

At Bahia exchange on London was quoted 27.
Cotton, 25,000.

Exchange at Pernambuco, 27 to 271. Sugar,
4,200 to 4,400 reis.

The French steamer Bearn had not arrived out.
MONTEVIDEO, SEPT. 30.

Exchange, 401 ; wet salted hides, 56 to 62 reals ;
dry hides (American), 50 reals ; wool nominal ;
tallow, 20 reals.

The American papers make great sport of Mr.
Train. The National Intelligeneer of Washington says :
" We dismiss this harlequin, to whom we have perhaps de.
voted too much space. But not so England. The depth of
hate to which the heart of that nation must have gone be-
fore it could let loose this fellow on our shores amid our
present distresses is absolutely unimaginable. The Mason
and Slidell affair we can forgive. The Times and the Herald
we can forgive; but to permit Train to come here vras
ply diabolical and unpardonable. Perfidious Albion! You
had Train ; you might have held him; we should have
waived all questions of international law if you had not only
nabbed him but sent him to Australia. You had many
colonies open to you ; but, deliberately, you let him corns
here to this afflicted people. Is this what we reap h the
grain sent to Irelanadminonhger
petted your Prince had a right to expect? Oh! Albion,
how could you I"
The valley of Thann (Haut-Rhin) was three days
ago invaded by an inundation which caused consi-
derable i n linhabitants.
tshthe lfsawhat
te
of those
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derable alarm
small streams of water had suddenly income swol-
len,
but fortunately
dfofrrona the
and the Thurr overflowed its banks. Fears
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d a atm a onege
wastim edoennetetrotaiti,naend
bridge now in course of construction
precautions
which had been previously adopted
different properties from any to protect the
mischief caused by the overt( such calamity, the
been very material, Dv9 of the river has not

KARL BLIND ON SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,-A few days ago the Times inquired. whe-
ther Earl Russell had not allowed himself, in his
recent views on the question of the Duchies, to be
influenced by a pamphlet of Karl Blind, the German
democrat. On this occasion the Times tried to
make out that there was a similarity of views be-
tween Karl Blind's opinions and those of a Prus-
sian deputy of the " annexation" school. This

assertion of the Tinzes is, however, totally at
variance with facts, as you will see by a few pas-
sages I quote from a recent controversy between
that German democrat and an adherent of the
Danish interest. You, sir, have repeatedly shown
your sense of fair play in f o noble a manner that
I confidently trust the favour I here ask for will
be granted by you.
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 to tote 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), KAI]. Blind continued :
"He makes bold to say that there aims not exist any
country of the name of Schleswig-Holstein, nor is there a
people called Schleswig-Holsteiners 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 inability to illustrate his
own case, the motto he has*assumed is painfully 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 tho 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, bsfore 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 boen 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 langnage 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
llolsteiners 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-
managers.

" There is another telling fact. Before 1848—that is, in
those hopeless times when there could have been no expec-
tation whetever 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 f"
I remain, sir, your obedient servant,
October 28. GE.RMANUS."