The mysterious visit of the Danish War Minister to Paris
for a week, during which he saw the Emperor several times, is not to be overlooked. Of course there have been put forth several more -or less authorized stories why he made this flying journey, just as we were told how Cavour positively went to Plombieres by his -physician's instructions only to wash away some bodily ill. Those who like to swallow hoaxes, no matter how stale, may take in the Accounts given for the cause of a journey about which all that is known is, that its real purport is at present an intense mystery, and that it certainly was not at all prompted by any project for selling the Island of St. Croix to France. What is a fact, how- ever, is that the negotiations between Germany and Denmark, in reference to the fifth clause of the Treaty of Prague, have practically -come to a dead-lock, while it is equally certain that Bismarck is resolved not to leave on its present interimistic footing the condi- tion of the debateable strip of territory. Therefore if Denmark does not take his terms, we may expect to see him taking the matter into his own hand very shortly, and the probable con- tingency may just possibly have had something more to do with the Danish Minister's trip to Paris than the satellites of the Moniteur choose to admit.
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