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LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 11.

LORD JOHN RUSULL, in dealing with the fain-
ebise motion of Mr. LOCKE KING, considered rather
the position of the government than the claims of the
people. It is a course against which we hays often
protested, and against which we shall continue to
protest ; but if ever there was a moment to excuse
it, perhaps it is the present. It is impossible
not to perceive that recent events hive changed the
bettle line of party. For many years past the people
have maintained the privileges they ecquired in 1831
without molestation. Bat the Lords have now taken
advantage et an opportunity to attempt the curtail-
ment of those privileges. They have openly arrayed
themselves not only against electoral reform, bat
' against the very principles laid down by the Reform
Act. Lord JOHN RessaLt, the author of that Act, is its
legitimate defender and interpreter. Great allowance
is to be made for him in that position. If, at such a
moment, be says "The emergency is one which
I must consider ; I must take time here, and make
my arrangements according to my own judgment,"
the ;o eple, anxious as thoy msy be to advance, may
perhaps be disoosed to leave somewhat with the
noble lord, and to afford him his own opportunity of
taking the course which a foreseeing statesman must
know to be inevitable.
It might be wished, indeed, that at a moment so im-
portant the destinies of reform were committed to less
timid hands. But the country stands committed in
this matter to Lord JOHN Hessen first. Does it
lean upon a broken reed? Is Lord JOHN RUSSELL
favourable to fair measures of progressive reform, or
is he the statesman of that finality which he
has repudiated ? He might, on Tuesday night,
have tefforeed the people a better opportunity than
he did efford them of deciding this issue. We regret
he did not think it right to take that course. if he
bad been the bold statesman we spoke of, he would
have given the Lords plainly to understand the posi-
tion of antagonism in whit`. they have placed them-
selves towards the people, and he would have told Me,
people in stronger language than he used what was
their duty at this crisis towards the House of Lade.
The Prime Minister, however, disposed of the
motion with a recognition of importance, and
an allusion to the stat, of parties. " Merely to admit
this bill to be laid upon the table, without any inten-
tion of taking it up or going on with it, would be to
trifle with a very important subject, in a manner un-
worthy of the situation, ar.d not quite fair to the
people of the country." If there is little else in this,
it is, at least, not unsatiefac'ory to find that the im-
portance of the subject ai.d the situation both press
upon Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S mind.
W-hilst raying thus much upon Lord JOHN RUS-
SELL'S conduct on this question, we must add, that
the chief argument of his speech, suggested evidently
more by Mr. HENRY DRUMMOND's nonsense than his
own good sense, was strangely irrelevant. Lord
Jonx ItusseLt said that "in considering the question
of the extension of the suffrage he would be guided by
the s, preserve the monarchy and Ina

as hereditary branch of the legislative take of the
Veld* race. Oes of these is dNignated a Bill foe the
awe efrectui levying of Distress few Rent r the other
is amewhat significantly termed "Crime and Ont.
rage Continues.. Bill."
The object of the former is this. By the law of
Ireland down to the year 1816, no landlord add
distrain for rent corn while growing in the lull.
His right to seise and sell did not ammo until attar
the crop had been severed from the soil. The rack.
rented tenant had consequently immunity from
exaction and oppression until the fruits of his toil
were ready for the sickle. He had thus a chance of
Wag able to make a sale of the crop as it stood to
some on. who would enable him to pay the !Willi of
the absentee his annual demand, and to buy his
children wherewithal to cover them. Bat the
oligarchy in 1818 resolved to abrogate even this
miserable privilege of the poor. They passed an act
legalising the distraint of growing crops. For thirty
turbulent rears this barbarous law was enforced with
ruthless rigour by the knaves and ruffians who are
habitually employed in the extraction of exorbitant
rent from the defenceless peasantry of Ireland. The
Devon Commission, among the very few rueful or
humane recommendations which it made, suggested

the repeal of this detested and disteetablev lair; and
when the present ministry came into office in 1846,
one of their first legislative acts was to amply with
that suggestion, and to abrogate a power which had
proved to be the fertile sonic* of increasing violence
and crime. Font. years have hardly elapsed, and
already the Irish tory landlords have the impudence
to propose a restitution of ibis implement of tenant
torture ! What will the Commons do ?

Lastly, a bill has been carried, without objection or
observation, through the Hoare of Lords, to continue
in force during a certain time named, the provisions
of the act patnt' in November 11548, for the repine
lion of agrarian crime. The pleasure was introduced
amidst a hurricane of prodigal turbulence. Its pro-
visions were of the most coercive and extra-constitu-
tional nature. Nothing but the paramount necessity
of the case could have warranted any minister in
proposing, or any legislative assemb!y in passing such
a penal law. At the moment. men shrunk, however,
appalled by the daily occurrence of deadly acts of
outrage, and submitted with a shudder or a sigh to
what they deemed a terrible necessity. The perioi
during which the act should remain in force was,
however, jealously limited to less than two years.
That period has expir( d, and what dr our readers
suppose government ark parliament to do? To re-
tain certain of the less coercive clauses? Nothing of
the kind. To renew it in calms(' for another twelve.
month until a Pacifying lindlord inl tenant bill can
be passed ? No such thing. It is absolutely pri-
wird that the act of 1818 should, without any modi-
fication, be renewed for Aar years longer ! Again we
ask. what will the House of Commons do?

The last-named bill stands for second reading, we
are told, to-morrow. Will any cne even of the most
fanatical of the landlord faction pretend to say that
the state of things prevailing now in any part of Ire-
land resembles that which u?.happily existed when
this terrorist act was passed ? Will any one affect to
believe that such arbitrary powers as are they. by con-
ferred on the Irish executive are needed now for the
preservation of rural tranquillity? Is the per-
manent statute law of irelacd with respect to
life and liberty to be for ever diffei eat not
in detail merely, but in fundamental and
essential prit:elp!e, from that of Englai.d, S.:o•land.
and Wales? Or are the people of that kingdom to
be practically told, that while they are forced at the
bat onet's point to support an alien church and an
absentee aristocracy, their citiztns are to be denied
equality of franchi.es and their peasantry those
securities against vindictive prosecution fur alleged
infractions of the law which the meanest malefactor
in England is entitled to claim?
When—when is this revolting system of inequality
and injustice to end?

House of Lords." NoW this was as much uio say that
a very extended suffrage would destroy the monarchy
and the Hove of Lord*. A more unfounded or more
deagercus assertion could scarcely be wade. So far is
it from being true, that we are coo Silent that respect
for the Crown and the upper classes is even greater
in the lower than in the m'eld:e ranks. And for
our own part, we are seriously of opinion that univer-
sal suffrage in this country would rather increase
than diminish the influonce of the aristccraey. But,
at all events, the motives which ought to
sway, and which should b, adluced by a legisla-
ture in the regulation of the suffrage, ought
to be their justice. fo tell one class of men that
you will not allow them a vote lest they should over-
turn the throne, and another, that they shall not have
the influence proportionati to filar wealth, iotelli-
genee, and condition, because they are hostile to the
arittecracy, is to base the coneti,utir upon mere
favouritism and caprice, not upon the fundamental
principle of justice.
This is also Mr. D:sittett'a line of argument. The
franchise, according to him, is a ywerilege bestowed
upon an order : a'd the member for Buckingham-
shire of course star ds by his order. This order is not
to include the tenant of • 40!. house in the ccuatry,
and yet loud is the regret that it has ceased to include
the old pauper freemen of towns, who were bought,
like onions, by the tank. Mr. DISRAELI sticks up
against the rights of a nation for the privileges of as
order, salaried in its upper extremities and vendible
is its lower. Corruption, in fact, is the motto of his
party, and the keystone of his domestic policy.
Mr. H. DRUMMOND is • great dealer in bugbears.
Republic and communism are the bugbears in vogue,
and Mr. DRUMMOND holds them up continually, with
the avowed intention of frightening people, whilst he
Ishows himsolf not frightened in the least. On the
contrary, he plays with poison, and votes for what is
to entail a republic and the equalisation of property
upon old England. The hoe. member ought at least
to memo the appearance of believing what he nye.
Mr. GEORGE Tnomrsom's speech was a striking
refutation of what Lord JOHN RUSSELL asserted,—
viz., the inutility of discussing the question. The
motion or the debate was not useless which produced
that speech, so telling in facts and striking in argu-
ment, even upon an exhausted subject.
This discussion will be an indication to the Lords
of the feeling of the people on the franchise question :
it will also indicate to the people the direction in
which their next efforts must be pressed. From the
division list—including as it does the names of many
el their steadiest supporters, ministers may gather
some idea of the progress the franchise question is
making in the minds even of the more moderate. Sin-
' sorely do we believe with Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON,
that the government can do nothing better than to
occupy the recess in maturing a large and comprehen-
sive measure of parliamentary reform; and if they
will bat announce their intention to do so they will
unite around them, is an impenetrable phalanx, the
whole liberal party of the nation."

IF Sir GEORGE GREY wanted an excuse for not in-
terfering with the present condition of our medical
laws, he certainly could not have hit upon a mete
convenient plan than deferring the nutter till the
medical profess on were agreed. If the government
had waited berme bringing in the Metropolitan In-
terments Bill till all who were interested in the burial
of the dead were agreed, we think it is very a vident
that the day for the discussion of the details of such
a measure would have been vc ry far distant. And eo
it is with every measure which has for its object the
public good. Deier it till those interested in opposing
it are agreed, and the day never cunes tor its realtea-
tion. It is too often suppos d that the question of
medical reform is one fur doctor. alone to discuss,
statesmen do not condescend to caneider the qu, scion.
Here and there, one who takes an interest in this
question rises in the house only to show how utterly
and entirely indifferent our senators are to the matter.
Yet we think there are many subjects of far less im-
porzatce, about which a world of words are wasted,
than this one of medical reform. But if the House of
Commons regards it as a professional matter, medical
men do not themselves regard it less so. lights,
privileges, colleges, honour., diplomas, are the terms
which encumber the memorials and petitions which
are got up on this subject ; and the pretensions done'
body and the denunciations of another make up the
stock of medical reform agitation. It is refreshing,
amidet all these confueions and misappreheneiocs, to find
at least one body of medical men recognising a prin-
ciple which we would especially commend to Sir
GEORGE GREY as one on which he should act, and
that quite irrespective of any agreement amongst the
profession. In a memorial presented by a depu-
tation which waited on Sir GEORGE GREY on
the 2nd of May lest these words occur: "That in any
legislative measure which may be proposed for the
future regulation of the medical protemion, two prin-
ciples should be steadily kept in view : first, that the
public good, irrespective of all mere corporate privi-
lege'', should be rendered the paramount object."
Without proceeding to the kear.d, we have here a
principle on which we think a le4islator might de-
termine to act, and we are sure that he would meet
with the sympathies of all right-minded men in the
profession.
However complicated this question of public good
may be with the positioe, standing, and corporate
rights and privileges of certain bodies of the profes-
sion in the minds of some men, it is certain that it
may be regarded independent of any such things.
The pnbli 3 good demands that there be an intelligent
well educated body of men competent to minister to
the need of man in times of accident and disease.
The public good demands that those who are unskil-
ful and ignorant, pretending and designing, should
not be allowed to practise the healing art, to administer
medicines of whose powers they know little, to bodies
of whose structure and functions they know less. The
public good demands that the revenue be not increased
by a profit upon the sale of medicines
secretly prepared, and which are thus adver-
tised throughout the length and breadth of the
land as approved by the government, and destroy
era.e life by their injudicious employment then is
IN the present temper of the landed oligarchy saved by many of the costly arrangements of society
nothing is too violent or insulting either in mss- for the preservation of life. The public good de-
sores or menaces of reaction. Towards the people of mends that the government of this country respects
England they have hitherto limited themselves to the the honour and integrity of the medical professiess
latter : towards the people of Ireland they have not and that it regards the need of the dying and the
been so forbearing. Throughout the present mission wretched ei ho are dependent on public bounty for
a systematic course of retrogressive measures have aid, and that the system of farming parishes for medi-
been bronight forward in both houses of parliament eel attendance to the lowest bidder, and sacrificing
ander various titles and on various pleas, ;intending by wholesale the healths and lives of the poor, he at
le the one grand object—the increase of the irrespou- once and for ever abandoned.
ibis power of landlordism in Ireland, and the ',duo- These, we think, are some of the points to which a
den of the rural population of that country to the minister really tu earnest about medical reform might
hit:serfhood in which their fathers lay. with advantage direct his attention, without waiting
months ago a bill was introdoosd in the lower foe the day when Dr. Paws and Sir Bot-
hwell of parliament by Lord Batman and Mr. JAMS BRODIE, Mr. ANOELL, and Mr. BOTTOMLLY,
Faawax—the wands cordials between English and Sir CHARLES HASTINGS, and Mr. Bravo*, be pee-
Irish oligarchs being complete—to facilitate the die- seated before him as a united " happy family." If
possession of small landholders in Ireland by giving anything would prove the hopelessness of an
' summary jurisdiction to any two landlords satin in to agreement amongst the medial prof=
Potty Sessions, to est asjedges of title, and jurors of would be found in the memorials which have meetly
fact, and to drive out and eradiate whomsoever unto been presented to Sir Gamin GREY by varies, in-
' them seemed otmozious or sapernamenry. On the detente"' bodies of medical men, and copies at which
warm remonstrance of the Irish liberal members, go- have been ordered to be printed on the motioa ef Mr.
vernment in their veto, and the bill was WYLD. In theme memorials tie National Iwllibthe
withdrawn. tarkctwith, a modified edition of prays for a new college of
.general praetitkeses, as
this exterminating measure was launched in the only remedy for the evils under which the pet
the other House of Landlords. Discussion there fession labours; the Provincial Medical and Burgled
wee at course unnecessary. The project was Association deprecate, the establishment of a new
entitled like its forerunner already noticed, "A Bill for college, and proposes a union of the Colleges of Play-
i the Recovery of Small Tenements in Ireland." It sicians and Surgeon!. Its a means of lioeneing and
passed through every stage in the Peers sub Wadi° ; , controlling the whole body of the profession; the de-
, and now it stands for second reading in the house of potation, headed by Mr. Bravos, repudiates all
Commas,. What will be done with it there P knowledge of the " general practitioner, insists on
Simultaneously there have appeared in the same but two classes in the profession—the physician and
chamber two other pooh of the tender care which surgeon ; they, counsel the abolition of the powers

of the Apothecaries' Company, and placing the
surgeons in the position of the apothecaties and w-
eaned general practitioners. Widely, indeed, do
these plans of organisation differ, yet any one of them
might be adopted without in any manner conducing
to the public benefit of the profisiion, or the settle-
ment of the question of medical reform.
We are sorry to find that Mr. WAELLY is taking
the trouble to seoertain as far as possible, through the
circulation of the Lancet, the opinion of the profession
with regard to the establishment of a new college.
This is a matter so entirely subsidiary to the great
principles for which he has all along contended that
we wonder much at his spending his time over
it. What, if a new college is desired P It
will only bean Apothecaries Company under another
name. It will leave ell the same work to bo done
that there is to do now. The great thing to fear
about the new college is that the party obtaining it
would be satisfied with it as a victory, and the go-
vernment might think that medial legislation was
now at an end. Be the majority what it may against
or in favour of the new college, it will not be ea
large us the majority in favour of Mr. WAKLEY'II Me-
dical Registration Bill. Why has Mr. WAKLET
abaxdoind this bill and allowed its great principles
to be burked by a Cimmittee of the 11011E0 of Com-
mons, and buried in a blue book, when nearly the
whole r rofrasion, with the exception of the
cliques in Loudon, from one end of the country to
the other, were in favour of it? We tell Sir
GEOROE GREY and the LORD ADVOCATE, who have
taken this matter of medical reform in hand, that
say measure ()owing short of the principles laid down
to Mr. WARLEV'S Medical Registration Bill, will
not be regarded by the profession as a reform ; that
how ever cordially the colleges and corporations may
receive such measure, the great body of the profession
will tolerate no law that gives to one class of the pro-
fesaion privileges at the expense of the rest ; and that
equality of legal tight is the only basis on which any
enduring medical reform can stand.

Bark of IL ForaLoud, 55 orb. Bubolgo as London,
50.40.

BRAUN, JULY O.—Voluntary Loa*, 1081 ; National
Debt, 881; Cornmereal 8 lolstes Prientlus, 1041; Bonk
Shares, 981.
JVIT 8. Five per Cent. Ilietsliknes, 971;
Four per Cents. ditto, 841. Bank Shares, 1,132. Eschew
as London, 11.661.

ITALY.
SARDINIA.

.......
In its sitting of the Sib, the Chamber of Deputies
of Turin voted the bill foe the issue of 6 millions of
nate' by 119 votes to 28, a result doubly important
as it implied a vote of oonfidence. The National Bank
Bill was afterwards passed, as amended by the senate,
by 116 votes to 8. Tait Minister of Finance then
deposited the budget fur 18M. Signor Gavotti then
addressed a question to the Minister of the Interior.
concerning the re-organisation of the artillery of the
national guard of Genoa. The minister answered
that the national guard could not possess special corps
without authorisation to that effect. A discussion

arose oa the subject, and was adjourned to th e
lowing day.
ROMAN STATES.
_ _ •

FRANCE.

PARIS, WIDNISDAT EVIININO,

The epeecb of Victor Hugo is crowded with the
richest samples of varied power. The crushing s ir-
dim with which he punished the temerity of M.
itouber—the brief atd vigorous touches with which
he characterised the law—the dignified petienoe with
which he bore the Liliputian shafts darted at him by
the majority, which could not divert him an instant
from the large contemplation of his subject—the cl, ar
warnings drawn from history—the surprising feli-
citousness of expression—toe bold, apt imagery
which enriched his thoughts—the philoe phic
tone, solemn, ardent, and tree, and the benig-
nant philanthropy, all combine to make this
speech one of the moot remarkable orations delivered
in any assembly or in any age. It will be incredible
to posterity that any congregation of human beings
could, in the presence of so magnificent an improvisa-
tion, indulge the apish antics which are faithfully
traced in the Moniteur as the interruptions of the
majority.
You will already have seen in your report of yes-
terday's sitting the technical manceavre by which M.
Barthelemy S'. llilaire was excluded from the tri-
bum-, at the moment when he was about to express
the sense of an important fraction of the house, the
liberal section of the bet-, parti, with regard to the
attack made by M. ltouher on the republic. M. St.
Ililsire's motion was this: "The National Assembly,
justly astonished at the words pronounced by the
Minister of Justice in the sitting of yesterday, passes
te the order of the day."
. . . .

After the concluton of the sitting on Monday it
was settled between Duple, Ilsroche, and boater
that the latter should rise atter the reading of the
prod's verbal in the sitting of yesterday, and Lifer
some explanations in palliation of his speech on the
prevvling day. It appears, however, that at
a cabinet emincil held at the Elysi!e, it was
determined, in csneequence of the Preirdeat's ex-
pressed desire, that the offensive words elrould not be
retracted. M. Dupin having received his cue horn
the Elpe9 exerted himself successfully to stifle all
discussion upon the incident.
It is reported that M. Itouher, so far from bring
dismiwed from office, is on the point of being made
Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.

The Giornale di 11;;: of the Ist announces that
the lope has pardmed t.ount Carpegna and Signor
who had served in the revolutionary ormy.
Caimans, formerly in the service of the republican
police, hai been given up to the papal authorities by
the French.
MODENA.
The Messoggere of Modena of the 2nd states that
Signor Gaggiotti, the notary who had made the in-
ventory of the pontifical palace during the revolution,
has been released from prison.

To-day the debate; on the law of the press was re-
sumed. The first article was adopted; the second
article allows the proprietors of periodicals the delny
of a month in order to comply with the prescription
of the first article concerning camion-money. M. de
Tinguy moved an additional article, proposing th.t
every article of political, philosophic, or religious dis-
cussion inserted in a journal should be signed by its
author under pain of being subjected tore fine of silo:'r.
for the first offence, and I,ollilfr. in case of repetition.
Atter a debate b-itween MM. Tinguy, needier, Labou-
lie, Canet, Larochejacquelia, and de Chasseloup Litt-
bat, the motion of M. Tiegny was put to the vote, and
carried by 313 votes against 281. This result was
followed by great agitation, and the sitting was sut-
pended for some time. The adopt:on of M. de
Tinguy's amendment was considered likely to cause
the definitive rejection of the law. In a quarter of
an hour the sitting was resumed. M. Charcney, a
member of the committee, proposed, in its name, at
amendment to the effect that the signature required
should be appended to the original of the article, the re-
presentation of which could only be demanded by the
tribunals in the month following the date of publica-
tion. The Assembly agreed to take this amendment
into consideration, and referred it to the committee.
The object of M. Charency's amendment is to
avoid the inconvenience to which newspapers
are subject at present of preserving the
signed article an indefinite time in their archives.
Art. 3, which is of ID much importance, from the
power which it gives of ruining papers, by the accu-
mulation of deposits of caution-money, was referred
to the committee. Art. 4, which obliges the respon-
sible editor to pay up within three days after sentence
the fines which he has incurred, was adopted. Art.
5, obliging the ditor to exhibit the receipt handed to
him on payment of the fine within four days to the
procureur of the republic ; and article 6, suspending
the journal in case of contravention of this rale, were
adopted without debate. Art. 7 provides that all the
penalties incurred shall be suffered in their totality,
and not merge into each other. Some objections were
raised against this by MM. Favreau,Cariet, and Jules
Favre, but were overruled by the Minister of Justice.
The article was then adopted.
To-morrow the question of the stamp will be
debated.

PAM, Jinx W. re. -
Wool. ()Pada( BlgLut.l
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the duchies, the
principlesP qf
saKrilitlrofDesikmeprothempisempola(anticalthe
were, however, not in accordance with the riahlt 0f hr;
i duchies, and therefore did not originate wish the 9 athd..---
tenchaft. The conferences which suleittpiensly
with individual members of the Danish cabinet 14 talc plaea
result, u the Dane*, mixing up persons with things ogj.,
made counter-proposals, which by tar exceeded the as well as the interests and the welfare or the p
even left the proposals of the men of
cool !ones far
The embeny then left Copenhagen, after having sent
in the president of the council a document addressed %h.--
King-Dube, es a justification of their actions. Tcs Conii
Reventlow-Fsrve brought, however, a farther p.m.- .j
sacrifice to his love of pence. and remained behiztl at
began, to wait for an answer, but in vain, for on the IT hr:e7
Copse-
he valved peremptory orders:from the Danish ItlitoiJY-tP quit the capital. From the faugoing, the Ines of acme.
the wish for reconciliation ennead by the RatthsPerttltatt must be evident to the world, a$ well as the barrier that tit,
Denish ministry.so obstinately eontinnesto plea
hen t,
duchies and their 110111`114,11. SChiNitrig.lCAotin
a,tom
done all in its power Pr bring abut pews. iostrat, of a
ore
war. They are determined not to eacriWe thnr tightt sad
privileges, their indo
pendence. their joint enestittitioa leg; administration, but rathtr to employ the stung. Leg
mourns of the country to the uttnon, in order tu prtotn.
them intact.—Doted Kiel, Jane 26, 1862.
(Annexe A)
To the King our D4ke's Most Excellent Disj-try,
The wihes and hopes which we elan med to your Slsjea
in our loyal and humble addressee of the 16,h of Nirele*
last year, and on the 24th of the same monta, have aot at.*
realised, not withstanding the hopes hold out to la, by you
Majesty. The duchies continua to see thennelett
from their hart ditary sovereign; tha Oise-asions hetweta
the people united under one sceptre are Bull in
the strength and resources of b stb will be conruna.l;
termination of the contest it as Etr off at ever. But we CIG
not intist entertaining hopes that our reputed ri presenta-
tions will at length be heard—Mat our Prince m-.y r,t
stored to the country, and that rat onciliation and ht .g.., may
be established between the two people. We Tete e• ur
quest to you. Majesty with greater confidence. its we Ito., u.
stared that the cause of this unhappy war, if it erre 'rill es.
Lets, can be satisfactorily removed. We rt eddy at:snow:nip
your Ma.
cootnthtinenation of Le tit .11 cts the
sov, raid. , from de,
itaehEtztt the
tiforefather
hea vitiyounuforweehniatudriesbki
s:daj edt
if r
witch;te nd uth
joint
rights of princes over which the ducr.ies i ass 1., CltiVA ;
but they have also as little right to do Milt; las t",t,tratt to
inT hth.efupnerhseorn
their acknowledged connexion with We G..u.an torflera-
sidurachbilei..
tion. What, however, they may pray your Ilaj•rty to
accord them without the intervals ito oftt ird pat•ass
rt-acknowledgms at of a joint admiht. tr atIGL not
fur the two duchies. M':t gracious lino.: 4:.n.
prayer for the sake of the peace and happint•4 Gt
Mons. The necessity for the introduction of c,,tv
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principles has become in the last two y ears
than ever. In Denmark these principles hate hs
ledged by your Msjes'y in isonformi•y with the u:
people. For the duchies this neceuity hat greets,
urgent. since their sovereign has bun es:rni,gsd t...,
war. Your Majesty will not tortes to the dochies alas
hays granted to .his kingd• m. You will to r.ady t Con-
ft CS that the administration and legielatio, of the duchess,
which have been identical and jcint for !our centuries
your Majesty's royal ferefathen, can oily be mar.
future by a continua:ion of this intimate union. :
Majesty therefore pc remit a national house of repres
elected in accordance with our au n elector.. 1am...“
in the legislation and administration of the ..;u•zt ;
Majesty be disposed to animal and confer apettli'.y
:n order to fix on the fundamental principles of the ia•.. -E
relations of the duchies. Su: above all we • ray your M.-
jesty to withhold from us no longer that eve
punlic affairs, which recognised j.ir,tiy !•1 ins
prince and the people, will conduce most s eed.,7
to the pocification of your dominions, and r(•t.re co
the shichiee the blieinp of peace and order. v
M.jesta• recegnien in the source of these prtyers th.
i5:119t.d loyalty of your Majesty's moat Lutatil 5t1T44.3 &Li
Kiel, Apra 14, 1840.
subjects. (Sallied) Count aIITENTLOW
The instructions for the special embassy were
follows :
The enamor are tint of all to convey ft,. letter breer,h
to the liing-Duke, and to further l's object as much a:
sible verb.lly. Secondly, they will hear io t
direct and mutual good undentanding between the ,-..ctr..za
and the duchies is meet desirable, and to ?hi.; en., a ; r :-
clonal state of things should be ecknoerleignd by b
vet. in which a S.edtholder shall:he appo•aied by
for the duchies, who may continue to
duchies till the detimitive settlement, assisted in a c
Lionel manner by reeponsibli heads of d.perm.r .1* e
ease time it ought to be understood and agreed tr,.,r.
That a reduction of the army shall take place or. b .h
under a mutual guarantee spoon the recommence::. of
hostilities. '2. The recognition of a provisional s•
mercantile flag for the ships of the duchies. i AL t. r-.-
meat as to the provisional amount of pavement to to, y
the duchies towards the interest of the national de' ;
it stood in March, ISIS), and the King's act--;
And 4. The cone:cation of an assembly, whose dry
it should be to draw up a joint eor sti' .
f. r the duchies whilst in eoreideration of the re a i •s:
Schleswig and Holstein to the kingdom of Denmark, a j)ir.:
euessultation of the committee of the Danish erates and the
Schleswig-Holstein Assembly shall he screed t., but in con.
aideration of the relaiicas of the duchies towards O'r.nany
and the lineal succession, further negotiations with the
great powers of Elroy* and the agnates of the nignic;
house shall be !nerved ani stipulated.
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