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; but, 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  tittle 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 peop:e have all the capacities for developing Into a great nation. Her sympathies and traditions are 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 i❑ 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 it 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 country. men and relatives. If rumour speaks truly another  fair Princess of the Danish Houso is to extend the influence of her country further .North, and under  these auspices the angry aggression of the German  Diet loses much of its terrors. IVe must hope that  hat venerable body will exercite their charac eristic and proverbial caution, and pause before hey rashly commence hostilities, ruinous to the  interests of both countries, and especially injurious  to that scheme of German unity which is now more  than 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 ofindependence. 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, aanndatwhiethotahejrusfitghting in self-defence." This is a that their very true definition of the state of affairs recently ; in crushing pride do the patriots go on to say opponents have drawn many forces from the remotest limits of the empire, but they have not succeeded their courage, proceed, with sible, to reject quest" on the devotg: them—they have not quenched indigniont., or endurance. Then they What the that is quite comprehenpart of they trulyn 8 ca ll haughty self-conceit of the subjects a " cruel reEven the ojeets of the CZAR might blush to hear the sharp j r • eoinders they have called forth from a trampled-on but ut unsubdued nation. They are shown that the 44 highest object of a noble nation is not comprised in the oppression of a kindred race, or in destructive dreams of donli_ nation over two quarters of the globe." This emphatic passage forcibly explair! the lack of progress that is made by the :nighty ltroitia tmpire. It i,