The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-17 00:00:00

GERMANY AND DENMARK.

(From the Times Correeponlent.)
VIENNA, August 13.

Although M. 'On Quaade is still without special
instructions, he has received notice that ho and
Colonel Kauffmann are to continue to represent the
Danish Government during the negotiations for
peace. In general the prolonged delay in the despatch
of the expected instructions is attributed to the
intrigues of the Western Powers, however wrongly.
Before French
lln the
Denmark a preliminariesrk leniently, repeatedly advised Austria to
of peace were signed the
Government
and within the last week
the Duke de Gramont has returned to the charge.
M. Quaade was so over-burdened with work that he
treat e
applied to his Government for assistance, and it is to
be supposed that his request has been complied with,
as M. von Bille, who was Secretary to the Danish
of the war,
Legation at the outbreak returned to
this city on Tuesday last. In the Kreutz Zeitung
it is said that M. von Bisnaark managed to "con-
vert" the Austrian Minister of State, bat the intel-
ligencewho enjoy the confidence of von Sehmerling say
grano salt's. Persons
must be taken cum
that he greatly admires some points in M. von Bis-
mark's character, and I can readily conceive that
such is the eoe. The Austrian Minister has great
strength of will and tenacity of purpose, and it is,
therefore, not unlikely that he greatly appreciates
those qualities in the Prussian
statesman. During
the last fortnight M. von Schmerling, who is about
to leave for Ischl, has frequently conferred with
Count Rechberg, and I believe that he full; ap-
proves the policy of his colleagues in regard to
Prussia. It is, however, evident that Count Rech.
berg is beginning to feel that he
may get into serious
difficulties if he should continue to set the secondary
German States at naught. For some time past the
relations between this Government and the repre-
sentatives of Saxony, Hanover, Bavaria, and Wars
temberg have been very cool, and every now and
then I have occasion to remark that the French
Government is suspected of instigating
those States
to make opposition to *the so.called
"leading"
German Powers.

The Governmental organs of the Vienna press
express disapproval of the occupation of Lauenburg
by Hanoverian troops, yet it appears that the
latter have an indisputable right to remain
in that Duchy until peace is definitively concluded
with Denmark. On the let of October, 1863, the
German Diet ordered a corps of execution, which
was to be composed of Hanoverians and Saxons,
to occupy Holstein and Lauenburg, and the decree
of the Baud has new been fulfilled to the very letter.
In official circles it is maintained that Federal
troops have no right to remain in either of the
Elbe Duchies, "as they have been ceded by Den-
mark to Austria and Prussia," but the Austrian
Government will do well to recollect that prelimi-
naries of peace are not equivalent to a treaty. The
march of Federal troops into Lauenburg so greatly
roused the ire of the Prussians that they at onced
asked for an explanation of the conduct of the
Hanoverian Government. At first the Hanoverian
Minister for Foreign Affairs was somewhat irre-
solute, but ultimately took courage, and replied
that the Federal troops had entered Lauenburg in
obedience to an order issued by the Federal com-
missaries for Holstein and Lauenburg. It need
hardly be said that the inexcusable conduct of the
Prussians in respect to Rendsburg led to the °cone
pation of Lauenburg. Up to the 9th instant, there
was not a single Federal soldier in the above-
mentioned Duchy, but now a whole bottalion is
stationed in the towns of Itatzeburg and Molln.
The Berlin Government still tries to keep from
the knowledge of the world its intentions in regard
to the Duchies, but the aim of M. von Bismarck is
perfectly well known to the Germans.
.He wishes
to obtain Lauenburg as an indemnification for the
S
expenses incurred during the war, and to connect
with Prussia by means of what
is here called " a military and diplomatic alliance."
If Prince Frederic of Augustenburg is willing to
agree to the foregoing terms his claim to the throne
of Schleswig-Holstein wi:l be supported by Prussia
but if he should be refractor
M.
agitate in favour of Dake Peter .
of Oldenburg. The
nobles and clergy in Holstein and
expressed a wish that those Duchies may' enter into
liv. von
ch Bieissmwa ig rk
have will
was lo a closer connexion with Prussia; and it ms," rea-
sonably be supposed that this is not to the taste of
the Austrian Government, as Baron Charles von W
Scheel-Plessen, who President of
ooff
great the
Estates of Holstein, has been requested to come at
once to this city. Baron von pn g e
talent, belongs to the Feudal party, and he is said
le s s n,
to be opposed to the Duke of Augustenburg,
because his Highness has promised to uphold the
Holstein Constitution of 1849. On the 17th inst.
the King of Hrussia and M,
Von. Bismark will come
to this city, and it is understood that many matters
of importance will be discussed and settled while
they are here. King William and his Minister will
pass four or five days in Vienna, and during their
stay there will be a grand review on the Schmelz,
a large common near the Imperial Palace at
Schronbrunn.

As the inhabitants of this city have taken it into
their heads that the good understanding between
inse r
tin a
in
his paper the
Count Rechberg and M. von Bisteark bodes no
good to their newly-acquired rights and privileges
persons connected with the Ministry of State are at
great pains to have it made known to the public,
that the Reichsrath will be
month of
bring in
towards the
eiled a
but t of
le
haveethe
g the next session of the Reishsratb,
Government
rmi
tober. We are told that
h
in several bills of im•
-a the goodwill of the
present Cabinet. Dr Schuselka, the talented and
popular editor of a weekly paper, has just been
brought to trial for publishing. an article in which
litrdu nQn
little
it was said that there are Jesuits in all confes-
sions, and that their elln
is to stultify the
people. The charge brought by the prose-
entfoorrnfor w
at
sh,et
that he,
by against the editor of the
Be
arliele in question, hadinsulted confessions that
were recognised by the State. As Dr. Schuselka
was sentenced to imprisonment for one calendar
month, he has forfeited his political rights, and will
not be able to sit in the Lower Austrian Diet, of
which assembly he is a distinguished
member.
It rains day after day here, and the weather is
so very unseasonable that several persons of my
acquaintance have left their houses in the country
and returned to town.

ACCIDENTS BY DROWNING, CIILO/10E0R31, &c.— I
The remedy which promisee the best results, both
from theory and actual experiments on a large number of
the lower animals, on dozens on dozens: of such creatures,
is electricity through the respiratory muscles,
not to the
heart as formerly. "Faradisation" cures facial hemiplegia,
and renews the vital activity of muscles, paralysed for a
time byshteomok or fluid, clotit in the
beb rain; but the ordinary
electric feared, only aggravates
the mischief, as the violent current is directed sack along
the nerve to the brain, rather than to the muscles. So much
is this now recognised that we have' six current" induction
or faradisation instruments, the current six times refined
or removed from the common electric shook or fluid.
The ordinary induction magneto electric battery is
perhaps the beet for such accidents by drowning, chloro-
form,opbaj
passed
dr! eteasotgoh h b e
tb
Y an intermittent,
but gct
the
chief
current,
phrenie nerve
(where the omohyoid musoe in the neck lies at the outer
edge of the sterna-mastoid, the wetted sponge of one pole
applied here, and the other pole applied as a wetted sponge
also anywhere about the floating ribs), to excite respira-
tion. Whatever is done in a drowning or chloroform acci-
dent must be done quickly, and in an instant, the face and
neck and chest well exposed, fanned with a lady's fan with
cold air, which excites in a wonderful manner the external
respiratory nerves, when the usual hospital manipulations
altogether fail,—.Dr. Kidd' s Work on Chloroform.
The Journal de Villefranehe states that the
waters of the Saone are so low that at 200 yards from the
bridge of Frans the rivor may be walked across. Thei
steamboats which ply are obliged to make a great number o
curves to avoid do said banks.

Metropolitan Railway Company.

MEETING (THIS DAY).

The halfloarly general meeting of the shareholders in
this company Was held this afternoon at the London
Tavern. _ _ _ _ _.

_.... ___.
The report, which has appeared in the Sun, was taken
as read.

The CHAIRMAN, in moving its adoption, said it was so
full, and entered so completely into the policy of the com-
pany and its results, that he need not say anything more
about it. He had received letters urging that a larger divi-
dend should be declared, but he thought that which was
now declared, under all circumstances, was a fair one.
Mr. PARSON, ex-deputy chairman, in seconding the
motion, said that from the amount to be carried over
another half per cent, might be declared, but the sum to be
carried over would be exceedingly small. The directors
in determining the amount of dividend to be declared, had
been guided to a great extent by the fact that the Finsbury
extension would participate in the earnings of the line this
half year, while the Finsbury extension itself would not be
productive of any benefit. The object of the directors was
to give to the shareholders suchadividend which theywould
be able to maintain next half year when the Finsbury capital
would be brought in. He believed that in April next their
line would be in working order up to Aldersgate-street, and
that by this time next year would be open to Finsbury it-
self. (Hear, hoar.) He could assure the proprietors that
the dividend to be declared had been fairly earned during
the half-year, and no person who had a wish to invest his
money in the line need have any fear that the dividend
had been improperly made up. Considering the difficulties
they had had to encounter he thought a dividend at the
rate of 6f per cent. which it was proposed
to declare was a very fair one. The directors
had no intention of unduly burdening their shareholders
with extensions and unconsidered speculations.
The CHAIRMAN said he had forgotten to mention the
subject of working men's trains, During the last week they
had carried 3,768 working men to their business and homes,
and that at a profit to the company. This was a great ad-
vantage to the working men, who, at the time of the morn-
ing at which these trains ran, could not avail themselves of
omnibuses, and would obliged to walk,
After some conversation the report was unanimously
adopted, and a dividend was declared at the rate of 5 per
cent. per annum on the preference stock, and at the rate of
5f per cent. on the ordinary stock, carrying forward to the
credit of next half-year a balance of £2,463 6s 101.
The meetiag was then made special, and resolutions
were passed authorising the raising of capital by the crea-
tion of new shares.
The meeting then separated.

Dr. Manning on the Catastrophe at
Santiago.

Monday being the "Feast of the Assumption of the
Blessed Virgin Mary," an altar which has recently been
erected in the Catholio church of St. Charles Borromeo, in
Upper Ogle-street, Fitzroy-square, was, with great pomp
and solemnity, dedicated to "Our Lady Immaculate," as a
reparation for the many blasphemies offered to Jesus and
Mary in consequence of the terrible catastrophe which
occurred at Santiago towards the close of last year. The
ceremony was witnessed by a very numerous and attentive
congregation. At the high mass whichfollowed a sermon
was preached by the Right Rev. Monsignore Manning,
D.D., who, in referring to the special object for which they
had assembled, said the terrible accident at Santiago,
which had caused such wide-spread misery and affliction,
was one of those occurrences that had been per-
mitted by the Divine will for some inscrutable purpose.
The facts were fresh in the memory of all, and it would
therefore be unnecessary for him to repeat them. The hu-
man heart was harrowed by the mere thought of the suffer-
ings, both bodily and mental, which in a single moment
came like a flood upon a whole congregation who were as-
sembled in the sanMuary of God. But the world, ever ready
to seize an opportunity of inveighing against the Church,
took occasion, more especially in this country, to your out
a tide of blasphemy more vehement than the flood of
sorrow which had fallen upon Santiago. aad to utter sen-
timents of which a cultivated and above all a Christian
nation ought to be profoundly ashamed. The best way for
them, as Catholics, to reply to such charges was by main-
taining perfect silence, for the persons who could speak
in such a way were incapable of argument and reason.
It was vain to argue or remonstrate with theme who spoke
blasphemy—they could only pray for them. Nothing
could offend a man more deeply than an insult directed
against his mother, and it was reasonable to believe that
when our Divine Lord was spit upon during his lifetime
here upon earth he suffered the indignity with a greater
calm than ho had borne the insults lately poured out upon
the memory of his mother. It was their duty, then, to an-
swer those insults by acts of reparation, and of love, honour,
and gratitude to the blessed Virgin. They had chosen the
Festival of the Assumption for the inauguration of the altar,
because it was on another feast of th 9 Holy Virgin—that of
the Immaculate Conception—that the catastrophe took place
which had given rise to the outpouring of so much impiety,
He would take leave of this distasteful subject by urging
upon his hearers the duty of silence, reparation, and prayer
for those who had been guilty of that impiety. They would
pray that the Divine illumination might be given to those
who knew not what they did, and that their eyes might be
opened, so that they might perceive that in blaspheming
the immaculate mother of God they were crucifying again
her Divine Son.

HEALTH OF LONDON.

(From the Registrar-General's Report.)

The present return shows a manifest improvement
in the health of London in last week, as compared
with the two previous weeks. The deaths, which
were 1,607 and 1,595 respectively in the two weeks
ending the 6th of August, declined to 1,433 in that
which ended lest Saturday. The deaths of young
p„,gons (under 20 years of age) fell from about 980
to 862.

The ave.r2ge number of deaths in the 32d week of
ten previous ;ears, 1854-63, is, with a correction for
increase of pope'lation, 1,368, and the number ac-
tually returned fen. last week exhibits an excess of
65 over the number estimated for the second week
of August.
In respect of fatal diseases a comparison of results
in the last two weeks sksowe a decrease in the deaths
by measles from 102 to 72, in those by scarlatina
from 58 to 46, in those by Lliarrhcea from 286 to 228.
Besides the 228 from diarrhea, last week, there were
22 from cholera, 5 of which oecorred to adults.
Of the deaths from diarrhcea, a:1 except 24 were
among infants. Both this complelet and measles
were most prevalent in the east districts; 4 deaths
from measles and 18 from diarrhoea wee 0 recorded in
the Shoreditch district, 5 from measles tZod 9 from
diarrtcea in Bethnal-green, 7 from measfel. and 10
from diarrhoea in Whitechapel, 6 from meael._and
2 from diarrhcea in St. George-in-the-East, 4 1:orn
measles and 9 from diarrhea], in Stepney, 6 froo
measles and 6 from diaracea in Mile-end Old Town,
10 from measles and 13 from diarrhea in Poplar.
Diserhcea was returned in 11 cases in the Lambeth
district, in 13 in that of Greenwich, in 10 in Isling.
ton, and in 6 in the south sub-district of West
London.
65 years, died on the 9th inst ,
A woman, aged
after 11 days' illness, of apoplexy from exposure to'
the heat.
A child, aged eleven weeks, died at 2, Albion-
street, Bethnal-green, from "want of nourishment
and rough usage by the father."
Last week the births of 1,014 boys and 948 girls,
in all 1,962 children, were registered in London. In
the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1854 63
the average number (corrected) was 1,832.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.958 in.
The mean daily reading was above 30in. on the last
three days. The reading fell to 29.62 in. on Tues-
day, and rose to 30.23 in. on Saturday. The mean
temperature of the air in the week was 61.2 deg.
which is 0.6 deg, below the average of the same
week in 43 years (as determined by Mr Glaisher).
The mean daily temperature was below the average
on four days. The highest day temperature was
824 deg. on Monday; the lowest night tempera.
ture was 42.2 deg. on Friday. The range in the
week was therefore 40.2 deg. The mean daily
range was 25.1 deg. The least daily range was
13.3 deg. ; the greatest 34 deg. The difference be.
tureen the mean dew-point temperature and air
temperature was 12.7 deg. The mean degree of
the humidity of the air was 64, complete saturation
being represented by 100. On Tuesday the humi-
dity rose to 92 ; on Thursday it fell to 54. The
wind was in the south-west on the first three days;
afterwards in the north-west, south-east, and south-
west. Half an inch of rain fell on Tuesday.

A VALIANT YANKEE.—A man in Rochester
advertises that he will assassinate Jeff. Davis if the Go-
vernment will furnish him with six pairs of pistols and 500
dole. Probably he wants a transportation train also, to
convey his firearms.—New York World.
VIE PRINCE OF WALES'S VISIT TO
COrENEAGEN, Aug. 13.—The Faedreland of to-day says,
it It is generally reported that the Prince and Princess of
Wales will visit our Royal Family in September. The
semi, official Berlingske Tulmde states that Prince Alfred
will visit Iceland, and return to England at the commence-
went of next month.—.ReNter's .ExpresB.