The Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs has issued a very
able circular on the proceedings of the Germans in Schleswig. The allies treat the Duchy, he said, as though there could never again be a question of restoring it to its rightlsl sovereign. Only one of the former bailiffs of continental Schleswig still holds his office ; three only of the towns retain their burgomasters, 13 magistrates and 12 assessors in courts of justice have been removed, the bishop of the diocese, 40 clergy, 37 out of 42 professors, and all the head masters and rectors of colleges have been discharged. All the members of the Court of Appeal at Flensborg have been re- moved in a body. The German language has been forced upon all the districts of mixed populations ; in the school at Flensborg, where the Danish and German languages were employed alternately, German alone is to be used now, and it has been forbidden to employ Danes in cases brought before the highest Court of Appeal of the Duchy. All the symbols of the King's sovereignty have been destroyed, the use of postage-stamps and paper stamped with the Royal crown is forbidden, and the prayer for the Royal House has been abolished by express decree. The monetary system of the monarchy has been suppressed in public accounts, and the German system substituted. The currency of Denmark is forbidden, and officers known to be disloyal to the Crown have received the highest promotion, and all this in a State which Austria assures us she and Prussia have taken possession of " in the interests of Denmark."
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