LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 268, 21 September 1864, Page 5

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE SCJI LESWIG-HOLSTEIX QUESTION. July 201,1 i, lS(i-t. Denmark r.iul Germany arc busy in arranging the basis of a peace. and the wildest rumours are afloat, as to (lie conditions to be agreed on. The latest is to the ell'ect that the Duchy of Lauernburg is to be surrendered in perpetuity to Prussia, Denmark receiving in return North .Schleswig, from Apenrade to the frontier line of Jutland. In the meanwhile Prussian troops. (HJUn in number, under the command of Prince Frederick Charles, have taken possession of the frontier fortresses between Holstein and Schles-wig-1 Jendsburg, in utter contempt of the Federal contingent holding that, strong place, It is stated on good authority that the French emperor has made very strong representations lo fount Rechberg. through the Due de Grainmont, declaring the advisability of the participalion of a Federal commissioner in (he peace negotiations at present carried oil at Vienna, between Denmark and the two great German Powers. The Vienna ' General Correspondent' of yesterday says: —"The sittings of the Conference will commence regularly to-morrow. A preliminary meeting of the principal Austrian. Prussian, and Danish plenipotentiaries was held to-day, when an interchange of views took place, which although of a jjcneral character may yet have some influence upon the actual negotiations. j _ _ GERMANY. In the sitting of the Federal Diet, on .July 22, the A uslro-Prussian proposal, that; the Duke of Augusfenburg .should be summoned to substantiate his claim to the !Schleswig-l I olstein throne, was earricd by 11 to 5 votes. PRANCE. The J'nj/x publishes a. semi-official article oil the Danish question, which will certainly he accepted as a serious menace in German}', It opposes the German claims to annex the northern part of Schleswig—that inhabited by Danes* —and significantly warns Germany to think twice before violating the principles of equity. Germany should not, forget, it is urged, that the law of retaliation exists. If the Confederation be unjustly aggrandised, it exposes itself to reprisais—if it set the example of a policy of conquest, "why may not others follow the lead to its own detriment?

T.n Friiiicc, in ;m article headed " Tlu; State of .Europe," .says:— Everywhere violence supersedes right. Alliances fire formed in the dark in order to react against the 'principles of our nice. It is the division between the "Western Powers which has rendered the.se alliance.-: possible. France has no ambitious ideas, and will not concern herself with these impotent, eli'orts of the reaction. She only' sees with sorrow that the great Powers remain deaT to the generous advice that they should go forward to meet the formidable complications in which France alone on the Continent has nothing to fear, since she can hold aloof from them so long as her personal interests and her honour is menaced.