The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-21 00:00:00

Sporting Intelligence.

TATTE RSALL'S.—THURSDAY.
No business worth notice was transacted.

MANCHESTER STEEPLECHASES.— J.N. 1.
Weights for the Manchester Steeplechase. About three

miles and a Halt.

Age st lb
Blarney (h b) a 9 10
Jemmy the Black 6 9 10
Dangerous a 9 9

Ago at lb
Forest Queen a 11 7
Odiham
Mack Swan
Garland
Minerva (h b)
Theodine
Escape
Little Jessie (h b) a 10 4
Star of the We6t
(h b)
1.401118 Napoleon
Cavendish (late
Agis by Safe.
l guard) 5 9 10
Weights for the Hurdle R
six hi
Age st lb Age at lb
Garland
Minerva (h b) 511 0 Peter Snipe (late
Theodine
Gossip
Victory (h b)
Harry Lorrequer 4 9 11 Sting (h l) ....... 4 9 6
Beechnut
Dangerous a 9 10 Noddy ............ 3 9 0
Cavendish
Weights for the Stretford Selling Steeplechase. About
three miles and a half.

Hari Lorrequer 4 9 0
Victor Emmanuel

(late King of
Spain) 5 9 9
Protectionist (h b) a 9 4
Marcus
Sting (late Charm-

a 10 4
a 9 12

ini Nancy) (h b) 4 9 4
Tam worth
The Rattler (late
Gaylad)
Lee. About two mile; over
ardles.

Age 14 lb Age st lb
I
Gossip
Lincoln
I
The Brewer
11 horses not specially ordered to be struck out by
the 25th inst. will remain in.

AN EXPRESS TRAIN OFF THE RAILS.—The morning
express train from Hull to Manchester on Wednesday,
on arriving at a place between Woodhead and Torside,
near the Manchester corporation reservoirs, was thrown
entirely off the rails by miming in contact with the end
of a rail which had apparently been broken and displaced
by a preceding train. The driver was running the train
at a speed
of about 30 miles per hour, and saw the rail
pointing up in front of him, but was unable to stop in
time to avoid the consequences. Fortunately none of
the passengers were seriously hurt ; and they were all
soon afterwards conveyed to Manchester by a train of
carriages forwarded from thence.

The following quotation from the Danish document,
submitting the proposition to this Government, will
show the intended connexion and commixture of the two
subjects :
".Besides this condition there is still another which
the Danish Government considers essential—namely,
that one affair in question (the Sound dues) be not con-
sidered as one of commerce or money, but as a political
one. This would be in accordance with the history of
the Sound dues and with the part which they performed
in the politics of the North of Europe. Otherwise the
negotiation would be deprived of that scope and charac-
ter which are requisite to prevent its being fettered by
questions of a secondary nature, which may be pertinent
to an arrangement merely commercial and fiscal, but not
to one destined to serve as a complement to treaties of
peace and compromises, by which the system of political
balance has been adjusted."
In passing upon the political question presented by
this extract this Government cannot be induced to
take any part ; nor will it submit to have its interna-
tional rights restricted or modified in subservience to the
political theory with which it is intermixedin the Danish
proposition.

In the paper submitted by Denmark to the conside-
ration of this Government there is an allusion to " the
sacrifice " she has made for facilitating the navigation of
foreign ♦essels through the Baltic straits. Any expen-
diture she has made for the safety and facility of this
navigation may constitute an equitable claim upon
foreign Powers for remuneration to the extent they have
participated in this advhiitage. The collections hitherto
made have much more than compensated for these out-
lays. While the United States would not consent to
ourehase a right which they consider indubitable—the
free use of the Baltic Sound—they would not hesitate to
share liberally in compensating Denmark for any fair
claim for expenses she may incur in improving and ren-
dering safe the navigation of the Sound.
There is undt.ubtedly a necessity to keep up at a con-
siderable expense lighthouses, buoys, &c., for the secu-
riv of this navigation. For such expenses 'in future,
disconnected from any claim for surrendering a pre.
tended right to control the navigation of the Sound and
Belts, the United States are willing to enter into an
arrangement with Denmark, and to pay a fair equivalent
fur any advantages to their commerce which may be de-
rived from these outlays.
You are therefore in tructed to invite Denmark on
this subject, and to assure her that it will receive due
consideration from your Government ; but she must not
expect that it will be favourably entertained if it should
include, either expressly or impliedly any compensation
for the surrender of the pretended right to control the
free use by our ships of the Sound and the Belts of the
Baltic.—l am, Sir, &c , W, L. MARCY.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, THURSDAY MORNING.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—Dec. 20.

ADMIRALTY COURT.
(Before Dr. Lushington.)
THE PEACE.— SALVAGE.

This was a suit promoted by the brigantine Brunette
to procure salvage remuneration for services rendered to
the bark Peace, on the 66th of May last.
The learned Judge decreed 4001. for the entire service,
of which the ship and freight were to pay their rateable
proportion.
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