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(From a correspondent.) Parliament appears to be tacitly sub milling to the & s. d. policy of our Govern
merit. The war in Denmark has formed the staple for several debates in both houses, but in all cases ending in a drawn battle. Mr. Stansfield was driven out of office for bis conuection with Mazzini, and his place (junior lord of the Admiralty) has been filled by Mr. Childers. Since then, Mr. Lowe has had to resign office too, for having (according to the opposition) garbled the reports of the inspectors of schools. But the budget has proved the mainstay of the Ministry. A surplus of a couple of millions reconciles a large portion of the public to our having lost our influence on the continent. We do not go “the length of “ peace at any price” yet, but we go one step towards it, in declining to use our influence to protect Denmark, for all our despatches count for nothing, seeing they were accompanied or preceded by an intimation or understanding that on no account should we enforce our advice. The Danes may well consider us unworthy allies, for we have given more actual encouragement to the Germans than to them. Sweden and Norway would probably ere this have been in the field assisting their Danish kinsmen, but to cold water despatches from England, and rumours of a “ Russian army” concentrating on the Swedish border, there could be no denial, ,'so hitherto the Scandinavians have not ventured to step in. King Leopold of Belgium is now virtually ruler of England, and will probably remain so until the German policy of which his nephew Ernest of Cobourg is one of the exponents has triumphed over the rights of Denmark and her five constitution. In America the opening campaigns have resulted in successes to the Southerners. April 23rd, 1864 Duppel was captured by the Prussians on the 18th inst. The loss on both sides has been heavy. The Prussians admit a loss of 1,000 killed and wounded, and estimate the Danish loss at 4,000. Danish accounts admit a loss of one general, several colonels, and over 1,100 men killed, wounded, and missing. Tile Danes are fighting under the disadvantage of being in the ratio of one to three of their foes.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IV, Issue 181, 1 July 1864, Page 3
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