DENMARK. (FROM THE SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE LONDON "TIMES.") Elsinore, July 21.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XX, Issue 2238, 22 September 1864, Page 6

DENMARK. (FROM THE SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE LONDON "TIMES." ) Elsinore, July 21.

When the ancient philosopher •wished to soothe the sorrows of a Monarch fallen from his high estate, he assured him that at the close of his mortal career "he would look Lack with the least regret on the daya in which ho liad not reigned." Perhaps the same consolation may be administered to dethroned nations as to discrowned Kings. la that case it may be hoped that Denmark will resign herself without repiuing to the loss of that power and greatness that are for ever departing from her. The future may hare days of peace and contentment in store for Denmark nevertheless. The happiness of a country does not necessarily depend on the extent of its naval sway, not on the prestige of its armament, nor yet on the influence of its diplomacy. Blessed is the nation whose annals are a blank ! "Withdrawal i from competition may screen a state irom all molestation. There is no reason why Denmark may not aspire to the humble yet respected position of a maritime Switzerland; why she may not attain her security by a compact of acknowledged neutrality. Travel wherever you list about these Danish provinces, and you will nowhere preceive the signs of national decline. You will sec nowhere those social disorders which usher in the elements of dissolution and prepare the ground for the enslavement of a people. No people m the world is less worn-out or effete than the Dane. This is, without contradiction, the wealthiest country on either hemisphere; I say it advisedly, because wealth here gives rise to the general wellbemg, it exercises the least corrupting influence, and suffers least from contrast with, that abject miseiy which, in other countries, is like the shade to its light. You find comfort and competency almost in the humblest dwelling ; hardly any intolerable luxury in the proudest mansion. Talk of the frugality of the inhabitants of barren districts, or of the sobriety characteristic of the dwellers in southern climates ! I tell you (here is no country in which God's gifts havo been more amply bestowed or more equitably distributed, where they are more wisely nsed or moro rarely abused than in Denmark. Stripped of her glory as a naval Power, Denmark will still be oue of the most thriving agricultural communities in the world. One can hardly wish to see moro luxuriant crops than are now ripening throughout these tcintories. These islands, even with the somewhat backward husbandry they have yet attained, with the not very dense population that live by it, may well dispense with any advantage accruing to them from extensive commercial or industrial enterprise. Were they to set earnestly about the task of draining their swamp 3 and reclaiming their heaths they might nearly double the amount of their agricultural produce. For the limited wants aud rational cn]oyment of the present generation their means are more than sufficient. Let them only dig for a treasure, and they will find that the wealth buried in the bosom of the earth m ill provide for twice as vast a mass of their children yet unborn. For a people that gives up all contest, that accepts such destinies as Providence allots to it, that turns its sword into a reaping-hook, and is willing to exist without army or navy, and, what is more to the purpose, without diplomacy, there is yet peace aud security, as well as uudisturbcd, unenvied freedom and independence. Let Denmark lay down her arms and heal the wounds that a hopeless war has inflicted. There | arc ample means of recovery within her territoiy : ten years' economy will restore her finances to aj sat.sfactory a condition as they had attained a twelvemonth ago. Let her fall back from the rank and give up the pretensions of a Power. Let her take in the jNTorth the position of a maritime Switzerland. The se^ that girds her shores is fully as safe a bulwark against foreign ambition as the rocks and glaciers that constitute the breastplate of Helvetia The temper of the Zealander or the Jute is surely as firm and true as that of the sturdiest Bernese Oberlander. One thing it is to snatch the sceptre from the hands of the Sovereign ; another thing to hold the people under control, to intrude' into tha sanctuary of their household, to beard tho lioa in his den. Already the Germans have discovered how much easier it was to overrun Jutland than^ to overcome the stubbornnoss and subdue the proud spirits of the defenceless Jutlanclers. llobbed of all land and sea armament, Denmark Proper is still and will be for ever untamed — untameable. What the power of an enemy can take from her let her keep. Let her resignedly, cheerfully, sink into that happy political obscurity, inro that unarmed neutrality where the wicked cease from troubling aud tho weary are at rest. This may seem a, mean, craven counsel . but did her armed altitude, her being "up and dome;," avail her any better? Surely Switzerland in 1857, without striking a blow, was much stronger against Prussia than Denmark has been in ISG t, with all her army and fleet, or than she would have been with twice as great an effort. Tho days that Denmark will, perhaps, centuries hence recal to her memory with the least dissatisfaction will be those that she may yet livo after abdicating her crown as Queou of tho Baltic.