New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-04
TIE CONFERENCE At B1DENBADEN'
Frsm Our Own Correspondent.


mouctards, polceDcn, and gensdarmes, masquer-
AIDED into artists and dandes From the railway
station where be aghted, they followed him to the
Hotel of the Stephanie Bader where he took up lbs
residence, huzzaipg Outrageously on his several ex
hibtions before the public, although their cries OF
virc rEmpuew were regularly drowned in the
Kisses of the German spectators. The repulsvely
vulgar physiognomies of Generals Fleury and Fallly
in the Emperors suite, somewhat softened the
effect produced by the appearance the hero With
the eyes of the owl and the nose Of the parrot,
who, true to his mimic mission, bad donned the his
torcol gray coat. His private conversation with
the Prince Regent lasted only fortyfve minutes;
on al his other interviews with the IlOhenzollen he
had simultaneously to encounter the whole lot OF
little German pOtentates, so that there was hardly
an opportunity offered for the transaction of serious
BUSH ess Before his departure from Paris he had
given the signal for the issue Of Abouts pamphlet,
the title page of which had, however, to be altered
from &" Napoleon III. ct la Prusse," into " La
Prusse en- 1860" Before leaving Baden Baden, he
conveyed TO The King of Hanover the grand cross OF
the Legion Of Honor, significant act, since Boz
ries the Hanoyerian Minister, had only some weeks
ago raised the general indignation of Germany by
Eating that Hanover would sooner go over to
France tEan yield to Prlssan supremacy.
The real business of the Baden-Baden conference
will not commence before next week, when the
min sters of most of the German States, together
with Gen. Won RzkOwski, the first military com
missioner of Austria at Frankfort, and the presi-
dent of the Federal military commission, are to
join the Prince Regent. The main questions to be
decided turn upon the organization OF the German
Federal e my and steps to be taken against Den
mark, who I'm her course of open and spteiul vio
at0n of the Federal laws is known to be gOadcd by
France and Russia. In order to explain the pres
eDt Northern crisis, it viii be necessary to survey
briefly the different phases which the last conflict
between Denmark and the German Diet has run
through.
On October2 1850 as You will remember, the
King Of Denmark octrOyed a whole State Constitu-
ton (Gesanisia0tS rerfaSsarg) which not only
equazcd the law of succession to the throne for
the kingdom and the German Duchies, but created,
under the name of the Imperial Council (RcichS-
rath) sort Of general legislature for the common
affairs of the whole monarchy. Together with this
whole State Constitution, there wee Octr0yed new
| and separate constitutions for Denmark proper,
| for Schrswig and for the German Duchles of HOl-
| stein and Iauenburg provincial constitutions in
unison with the whole State COnstitutOn), and
| called "norma financial budget" determining the
ouota which each part Of the whole monarchy had
TO raw not for its own administration bat into the
| common excbeqner. The 'nOrmal" budget of
1855 was promulgated the express condition that
the respective quota imposed ON the different cOun-
| tries should never be augmented without the sane
tion Of the popular estates. In introducing the
| financial law Of 1855, the Central Government had
exhausted al its ingenuity for OSerchargng the Ger
man Duchies tO Inc profit of the Danish kingdom.
The revenues from the public domains the Duches,
although BY a notification, dated January %, 1852,
they had been acknowledged to belong TO the PrOyn
cial Administration, were made over To the common
| Il. no nhar, 4 Hipaat foNa
| which had always formed an exclusive resource OF
| The provincial treasury, Were, moreover, on false
| pretepges laid claim 10 BY the whole state-chest
| Not only was the standard most UniavOrabc to the
DuChies that OF population excepted IN The repair
tilon of the common taxes, but the Ducbles were
| even bound 20 pay two per cent beyond the quota
| payahlc according 10 That standard. Thus, apart
| irom the revenues derived from the domains, and
of direct taxes arbitrarily classed under that rubrc
| the Duchy of Holsein was alone to contribute the
sum Of 1856 1873 lx-dOllars Cor tae expenses
| If The entire monarchy.
| The octroyed Wholesale constitution. with its
ronal budget its Imperial Council, and It's new
tangled provincial Charters raised an immense out
| cry tbrouehout the Duches BY tie new law of
succession 10 the throne they found cmsclyes sepa
rated from Germany and bound over TO the dest-
| MES of Denmark By the institution of the lmpe-
rial Council (Reichsrath), in which they could never
| fancy 10 SWAY but a SINAI minority of votes, they
woJld In point of fact forfeit their national indie
uendence. and become subjected to the dictates of
| a Danish Legislature. BY the normal budget, at
last they were unfairly taxed for swelling the ma
terial resources of their antagonists at Copenhagen
| The consequent agitation IN the Duchies lasted
for more than two years and tfeir provincial Diets
had repeatedly, but yainly, appealed to the German
| Confederation, when the latter resolved ut last to
Interfere Here it ought to be- recoectcd that the
| King of Denmark in bis quality as Duke OF HO-
| stein and Lauenburg is a member OF the German
Considerations and bound to obey the resolutions OF
| the German Diet. Iiv a resolution of February III,
| 1855 the German Diet declared The whole State Con-
sttution Of October =, 1880, 10 be null and void as
| far az the German DUchies were corcerned-slmnl-
taneously il called upon the King of Denmark TO
take Immediately such steps as would restore the
relations between the Duches and the whole mon
| archv to Il state c0niormabe to the federal laws
and the promises made by the King himself in 1871
| 80. On February % 1853 the German DleV
| published another decree by which the King OF Den
| mark was strictly forbidden TO promulgate any new
laws contrary to it, own resolution OF February III,
and to alter anything in the status quo before the
! settlement Of Che constitutional question. On
| March 26 l-.iS the Danish King lodged at the
| German Diet u declaration to the effect that he
| was willing to conform 20 The resolution of Feb
| ruarv 90 hut reserved 10 himself to decide what
| administrative innovations he might introduce
| by virtue If the now super. cded Old pro
| yincial charter. In reply Ia this communication
the German Diet, on May 90 1895, passed another
resolution rejecting the Interpretation put by the
King on the decree of February %, interdictmg
again any change administrative or legislative, to
| the prejudice of the Duchies and holding out the
menace of a military federal execution to take place
| in HGl,tein if the Diet should become informed of
| any infringement of it, former resolutions. On
| AUGUST u l-;JS the German Diet went one step