, The Danes appear to have given up their last
lingering hopes of recovering North Schleswig, and to be anxious to renew their old friendly relations with Germany. The Crown Prince has accordingly paid a visit to Potsdam, where be has been so well received that a crop of rumours have sprung up as to impending political arrangements. The occurrence is considered rather a triumph for German diplomacy, for Denmark of late has shown a disposition to depend on Russia, and, though powerless herself, might in time of war have afforded valuable shelter to a Franco-Russian fleet. We shill now, perhaps, see an effort to renew the old alliance between France and Sweden. So great have the great States grown that the "Baltic Powers," as they used to be called, can never regain the position they held in the eighteenth century ; but they have not quite become negligible quantities yet. The Russian Court, which regards Copenhagen as its pleasure city, would view an alliance between Denmark and Germany with strong disfavour.
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