The Sun. — 1863-09-09 (London, England)

RUSSELL. Lord PALMERSTON found the key to the riddle in the wild and fruitless ambition, long cherished by Prussia, to become a great naval Power. The countrymen of FREDERICK THE GREAT have good right to any pretensions they may choose to make in the way of military distinction ; bat, without any disparagement to a brave and enlightened nation, we may decidedly say that nature has denied them the requisites of a naval nation. Even the long sought possession of the coveted harbour of Kiel would not, in itself, convert a people, whose proper classification is into soldiers and civilians, into a nation of sailors, and the endeavour to force a war upon a peaceable and well-disposed nation will not tend to raise Germany in the estimation of the thinking portion of Europe, and will tend very little to the furtherance of her own interests. Denmark has now a fine career open before her, if she is suffered to run it unchecked by internecine strife. Her people have all the capacities for developing Into a great nation. Her sympathies and traditionsare liberal, her population brave and enlightened; her KING is beloved by his people and her Constitution is moderate and capable of  improvement. The intellectual powers of her race rank high, as many names known and honoured in Art and Literature testify. Politically, the last year or two has witnessed events of considerable importance connected with her fortunes. The alliance of her Royal family with the first of the great Powers of Europe cannot fail sensibly to affect her fortunes, notwithstanding the unhappy meddlings of an English statesman in an affair which we must charitably hope he did not understand. The election of another scion of her ruling house to the vacant throne of Greece, although not so complimentary as if it had been made earlier, is another noticeable occurrence. Greece, like Denmark, has great capabilities, though her history is of the past rather than of the future. She is now, it is true, plunged into anarchy and confusion ; but if young King GEORGE and his advisers are equal to the position, a rapid change for the better may be expected. When his position is fully assured and the area of his power extending, the youthful Monarch of Greece will hardly forget that he was once a Dane, and his sympathies and his influence will henceforth weigh in the scale of his countrymen and relatives. If rumour speaks truly another fair Princess of the Danish House is to extend the . _  influence of her country farther North, and under hese auspices the angry aggression of the German  Diet lcses much of its terrors. We must hope that  .hat venerable body will exercise their charac :eristic and proverbial caution, and pause before ,hey rashly commence hostilities, ruinous to the  nterests of both countries, and especially injurious ;o that scheme of German unity which is now more  ,han ever filling the dreams of German visionaries,  and occupying the thoughts of German patriots.  The Polish reply to the Russian appeal is worthy of notice. It is certainly replete with interest, and animated with a spirit of independence. The Poles commence by stating that for seven months " a murderous contest has raged in our country between two nations—the one eager to oppress and enslave, and the other fighting in self-defence." This is a very true definition of the state of affairs recently ; and with a justthat pride do the patriots go on to say their st °PPonents have drawn many forces from the remotest li wits of the empire, but they have not i succeeded n crushing them h what they that is their courage, d„otio proceed, with indignant! —t ey have not quenched or endurance. Then they quite comprehenio call a " cruel resible, to reject rejoinders they have quest" on the part of tyhetrsuly haughty self-conceit of theltatiubBB-jans. Even the forth from a trampled-on but unsubd e ).°lB of the CZAR might blush to hear the sharp called forth They are shown that the " highest objectld of a noble nation is not comprised in the oppression of a kindred race, or in destructive dreams of dominationolain fthse globe." This emphatic the lack of progress passage o q forciblyuare quarters that is made by th© mighty Baseitin empire. It is