Lord Russell explainedon Monday that "a suspension of hostilities" for
a month had been agreed upon, in which the Germans give up nothing and the Danes give up their bliccka.de. The Germans had offered to evacuate Jutland on condition that the Danes should evacuate Alsen ; but as this would have looked like giving up the last shadow of their claim to Schleswig, and give the Germans a pretence for saying Schleswig was already conquered and in their hands, the Jutlanders agreed to suffer on, rather than yield any atom of right. Lord Carnarvon complained very justly of the condition which forced the Danes to raise the blockade, and expressed despondency as to the Conference, but Lord Russell seemed to be filled with elation at his success, and said, in his short way, "I am not surprised that the Conference which met on the 25th April has not in fourteen days come to a conclusion upon questions which have created so much difference of opinion for the last four- teen years." Lord Russell did not appear to see that in fourteen days they had only discussed one very small practical question—the con- ditions of armistice—and had decided that one, not by the rule of reason or justice, but by the rule of force majeure. He has nothing to be proud of, he has much to be bitterly ashamed of ; and we should prefer a little less of that self-satisfied Russell crow which usually precedes a shameful defeat.
