The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-22 00:00:00

TURKEY.

It is stated in a letter from Constantinople of the
10th that the Austrian Government had given its con-
seat to the release of all the Hungarian refugees in
Turkey, with the exception of Kossuth, but that the
Porte had declared that all must be released or none.
The refugees themselves were, it is added, of opinion
tlytt all ought to be treated alike. The definitive
answer of Austria was expected with anxiety. Should
it be favourable, Perczel and Batthyani would, it was
said, take up their residence at Parts, and Kossuth to
London.

THE ARMY.—The colonelcy of the 48th Regiment
has become vacant by the death of Lieutenant-General
George Bliddlemoie.

DENMARK AND TH E DUCHIES.
(FaoM A C,ERht,rtiNDENT
HAMEURGH, Nov. H.—Public suspense here is
on the extreme stretch in relation to the mode and
Imanner ie which the execution of the terms of the
treaty between Denmark and Prussia, on behalf of
the Gernein Bond, st all eventually be carried into
and in the event of the S'attholders at Kiel re-
fusing to obey the summons which has b?en sent
their:, not only from CAint Tires, the President of
the Frankfort Bund, but now also supported by a
similar demand, in confirmation thereof; by the
Prussian Government very recently, to have their
army disbanded by the 15th of December next. It
is notoriously known, and such an act of non-corn
pliance is very much applauded by the friends of the
Holstein cause, that the insurgent Government of
the Duchies have disavowed the power of the German
Bund at Frankfort, under the patronage of Ansria,
to make such a demand, assuming that Prussia alone
had the right to send them any such orders, and to
which they would pay any attention. It has,' how-
ever, now happened that Prussia, from the powerful
demonstration made by the Austrian Government, in
combination with that of Bavaria, to have an ulti-
mate end put to the present complicated tifflirs of
Germany, and either to attain the fruits of a final
peace throughout this extensive empire by force of
arms, or by diplomatic arrangements, has thought
better not to run the risk of an appeal to arms, but
to endeavour to meet the demands of those powers,
now forming the German Bund, in an amicable man-
ner. And hence we have within the last few days to
record a notification from the Government of Prussia
to the Stattholderschaft at Kiel, to attend to the
formal summons sent them to conform to the
terms of a treaty for the pacification of the Duchies,
which she had of her own accord, and upon her own
responsibility, entered into with the Crown of Den-
mark on behalf of the said German Confederation, and
which treaty has been, after a lengthy deliberation
on part of the whole of the Sovereign States, rati-
fied by them. There remains, consequently, no fur-
ther excuse on the part of the Government of Kiel to
refuse the summons sent them by Prussia, nor to
expect any future assistance from this power to carry
on their useless hostile operations, by which so many
human lives have been sacrificed to their unjust pre-
tensions to deprive the King of DENMARK , of the
Duchy of Schleswig, to have in the end incorporated
into the German Confederation, and the German
Empire ; for Prussia to take possession of ultimately,
when it shall suit her aggressive policy to cause her
warlike eagle to put its claws upon both Duchies in
perpetuity, or else why has Prussia all along been
acting so unaccountable a part, and why her repre-
sentative in London gives himself so infinite a deal of
trouble to endeavour to persuade the British people
that Schleswig belonged to Germany and not to
Scandanavia ? The policy of Prussia has been so
evident in this instance, that otherwise she would have
felt the shame of upholding such a state of useless
bloodshed and waste of means in the unfortunate
Duchies, which might have been employed in a better
and a more upright and honourable cause long ago,
, and peace would have now been causing prosperity to
the people, instead of ruin and misery. Germany
has now had ample time and opportunity afforded
her people, at least those devoted to the cause
of Schleswig-Holstein, and sung and piped, and
street-organed her patriotic national begging hymn
quite enough (the " Meerumschlangen,") to keep the
sympathies alive, and to raise the wind in support of
those poor unfortunate victimized cripples of Idstedt,
of the Messunde, and., Friedrichstadt. I say Ger-
many's patriots have had ample time allowed them
by Prussia (and Prussian partizans among the mem-
bers of the Bund) to have done all that they
promised they would, and could have done, some
months ago, and yet have left so unaccountably un-
fulfilled, in respect to the promises made to the 1101•
stein insurgents, to supply them in case of need, with
men and money to carry on their military operations.
The Germans may say what they please, as an excuse
for this miserable and extremely shabby conduct to-
wards Schleswig-Holstein, in leaving their vaunted
promises unfulfiled to the extent which has been
needful for the Government to keep their army pro-
perly in the field. There have been some considerable
sums, unquestionably, subscribed for the support of
their favourite cause ; but in proportion to the extent
of the boasts and loud cries of liberty and justice, put
forth through the medium of their one-sided press, in
favour of Schleswig-Holstein among forty-one millions
of Germans—individually, on almost all occasions,
upholding to the skies the sacred cause in question—
the amount which has been brought together, by hook
and by crook, does, in reality, smell extremely of
trumpery, or a " tea and turn out party." Why, our
poor Chartist party in England have been known
to have done more in two months in support
of their own views, however they may have
been thought in the wrong, than the whole of Ger-
many has been scraping together during six months
and upwards, with the whole of the public press
throughout it in their favour. Such is a fact, and no
mistake, and yet Germans talk incessantly of liberty
and justice for Schleswig-Holstein ! And what is
now to be the result? 'Why the patriotic army of
the Duchies has beets ordered to lay down their arms,
or submit to a still worse degradation of having those
arms forcibly taken from it by an indirect order from
the Czar of Russia, using for his purposes an Austrian
army, one which has been employed during a period
of two years in putting an end to all other attempts
at reform at home and abroad—in Italy, Hungary,
and Hesse Cassel! It is, however, not liberty so
much that the Germans comprehend in this question
of Schleswig-Holstein as aggression against •a neigh-
bouring power, whose welfare and prosperity, in a
commercial point of view, they are anxious to trample
upon, in order that they may obtain the greater bene-
fits for themselves ; for the Danish nation is truly
free, enjoying all the liberty which the people desire,
and consequently are anxious for peace and tranquil-
lity, in order to reap the fruit of good government.
And as for the people of the Duchies who have an op-
portunity allowed them of speaking plainly their real
sentiments, scarcely one among them who desires
anything more than a return to the Danish rule in
preference to that of a set of men who are employed
for their own purposes in obtaining the future pos-
session of these splendid provinces for Germany, alias
Prussia, as before hinted at. In the Duchy of Holstein
nothing is now heard hut complaints against the
present unpromising state of things, and the con-
tinual demands for fresh sacrifices to carry on a war,
and to support an army, which having promised so
much hitherto, has performed so extremely little of
what was expected from it, when under the command
of the Prussian General WILLISEN, it started on its
valorous but unfortuhate excursion to the Duchy of
Schleswig, to annihilate at one single blow the
Danish army sent to carry out the commands of its
SOVERIGN, to support those who claimed the benefit
of peace in lieu of anarchy and German uproarious
misrule, which the Stadtholderate had introduced
under the influence of Prussian sabres and bayonets,
during a short period of its sway in that Duchy.
Whereas at the present moment, in this Duchy
of Schleswig, the people are not only not per
fectly satisfied with the Danish regulations, and the
introduction of order and tranquillity, but are made to
feel much less of the inconvenience of war than the
usual miseries attendant upon such an awful evil in
general inflicts upon a people under such circum-
stances as those now existing in that country. Even
the Germans there, who were formerly misled by the
representations of the party at Kiel, even to acts of
the most flagrant malversations against their rightful
SOVEREIGN, are beginning to see clearly that they
have been led by the nose, and in consequence have
withdrawn themselves from all further participation
in the revolt against legitimate authority.
The Danish army, consisting of an effective force of
35,000 men, without including the numerous
sick from the effect of the typhus fever, which has
been the usual consequence of a numerous body of
men confined to limited and extremely close and
damp quarters, is in a state of excellent discipline and
high spirits ; ready at any moment to meet their
boasting opponents wherever and whenever it may
suit their intentions to come forward to attack them
again On all sides their defences are well and sci-
entifically arranged, and every day they are making
fresh additions to them in parts where the Holsteiners
never dreamt of the like. On the other side the army
of the Stadtholderate is in anything but a comfortable
state, without sufficient officers to command their re-
giments effectively, and labouring under the pressure
of a want of confidence in their general, which is, above
all, so needful to insure success. Skirmishes are
daily occurring along the lines of the respective
forces; but in most cases the Schleswig-Holstein
A couple o days ago
a party of between 70 and 80 men, and an officer,
was surprised by the Danes, and 49 men taken p ri-
isoners. The papers endeavour to conceal these mis-
haps as much as possible to their full extent, but
private accounts have given this fact too clearly to be
concealed entirely. The press even attempts to deny
the assertion made publicly in the Berlin papers, and
republished in letters from Kiel, that the Government
of Prussia had sent a demand to the Government of
Kiel to have the army disbanded and reduced ; but
there is no denying this fact, any more than that
Hanover will not deny a pas-age through the country
to an army of Austrians.
The Prussian Government has caused the un-
fortunate Gefion frigate ultimately to be remow d
from the harbour of Eckernford, the scene of its dis-
aster on the sth of Aptit last year, the effect of which
has since been amply wiped off the score of Danish
bravery by the battles of Idstedt and the Missunde, !
as well as Friedrichstadt. This vessel has been
demanded by the German Bund, and will possibly
join the mud-lodged German fleet at Bremenhafen,
at least so say the German papers. The Danish
Governmeat having, therefore, now fully complied
with all the points of the treaty of Berlin, may look
forward with more justice to the permission to enter'