Herr von Bismark has explained to the Deputies the Prussian
idea on the Schleswig-Holstein case. He wishes avowedly to upset the diplomatic arrangements of 1852 (not the treaty) which con- ceded the separation of Schleswig and Holstein, in order to return to the old German theory of their indissoluble union. But he would not object to have them united personally with the Danish Crown, if the United Duchies were subjected to the Federal Diet as a German State. Herr von Bismark thinks the Augustenburg dynasty could not be forced on Schleswig, though it might on Holstein, and if, therefore, the Augustenburg family is to be restored at all it will involve a separation between the Duchies, which he thinks most objectionable. He demands the withdrawal of the common Constitution of November last for Denmark and Schleswig, not at all as a final measure, but as clearing the way to the further solution above detailed.
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