Rumours of fresh negotiations have been in circulation all through
the week, but the only facts known appear to be these. Denmark intends to accept the Conference, but without the armis- tice, and France will accept if benmark and the Allied Powers do. The only adhesion, therefore, still to be waited for is that of the German Diet, which must be present, as its troops are in Holstein, and its absence would leave it open to Germany hereafter to claim eieMption from the terms of the new agreement. All the Powers, however, which have accepted have made the Treaty of 1852 their basis of discussion, but the Diet will find it difficult to accede to a proposal to modify a treaty of which it has steadily denied the existence. It is open, however, to German professors to discover that as adherence to a nullity is nothing, the Diet may as well do nothing in concert with other people as do it alone.
