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

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,—This Day,

MANCHESTER BETTING.—Tius DAY,

EBOR HANDICAP.
6to 1 agst Welcome (taken freely)
6to 1 agst Highflyer's dam colt (taken freely)

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day,

Market steady.

or more.

Sales probably 12,000 bales

GERMANY AND DENMARK.

(Flom, the Times Correspondent.)

VIENNA, August 13.
Although M. von Quaade is still without special
instructions, he has received notice that he and
Colonel Kauffmann are to continuo to represent the
Danish Government during the negotiations for
peace. In general the prolonged delay in thedespatch
of ti„,, expected instructions is attributed to the
intrigues of the Western Powers, however wrongly,
Before the preliminaries of peace were signed the

French Government repeatedly advised Austria to
and within the last week
rlacitlo€nnthYas returned to the charge.
.‘t treathie.
ap
tiljuoleDdmdoeawr Gaks so over-huretened with work that he
applied to his Government fo7 assistance, and it is to
of the war,
be supposed that his request hes li‘een complied with,
as M. von Bile, who was Secretary to the Danish
Legation at the ontbreakfqturned to
this city on Tuesday last. In the Kreutz Zeitung
it is said that M. von Bisruark managed to "con-
vert" the Austrian Minister of State, but the intel-
ligence must be taken cunt grano salis. Persons
who enjoy the confidence of M. 1•012 Schmerling say
that he greatly admires some points in M. von Bits-
mark's character, and I can readily conceive that
such is the ease. 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 atateaaan. Daring
the last fortnight M. von Schmerling,
wilp is about
to leave for Ischl, has frequently conferred with
Count Rechberg, and I believe that he fully op
proves the policy of his colleagues in regard to
Prussia. It is, however, evident that Count 'tech.
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 Wurs
Lemberg have been very cool, and every now and
then I have occasion to remark that the French
to make opposition to the so.called "leading"
Government is suspected of instigating those States
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 Ist 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 Bond has now been fulfilled to the very letter.
In official circles it is maintained that Federal
troops have no right to remain in either of the
Elba Duchies, "as they have been ceded by Den-
mark to Austria and Praszia," but the Austrian
Government will do well to recollect that prelini-
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 Rendsbarg led to the occu-
pation of Leuenburg. Up to the 9th instant, there
was not a single Federal soldier in the above-
mentioned Duchy, but now a whole bottalioa is
stationed in the towns of Ba!nburg and Molln.
The Berlin Government stilt 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 Gez:nacs. He wishes
to obtain Lauenburg as an indemnitc:etion for the
expenses incurred during the war, and to connect
Schleswig-Holstein 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 will be supported by Prussia
but if he should be refractory, M. von Bismark will
agitate in favour of Dake Peter of Oldenburg. The
nobles and clergy in Holstein and Schleswig have
expressed a wish that those Duchies may enter into
a closer connexion with Prussia; and it may rea-
sonably be supposed that this is not to the taste of
the Austrian Government, as Baron Charles von
Scheel-Piessen, who was long President of the
Estates of Holstein, has be©n requested to come at
once to this city. Baron von Plessen, a man of great
talent, belongs to the Feudal party, and be is said
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
Count Itechberg and n• von Bismark bodes no
persons counected with the
-acquired rights and privileges
Ministry of State are at
ggereeadttpoatinhseirtonehwlyave
it
made
known to the pubic,that the lteichsrath will be convoked towards the
end of the month of October. We are told that
the illbrin:a
n
im-
portance during the next eesisaioiseovfetrhael Rbielils of
shsrath,
butthe
present Government
I havee
Cr nbminett. little
w faith D
r Behna e 1 k a ,
the talented and
popular editor of a weekly
re G a
ne
Paper, has just been
trialbtrowagashtsatohian article in which
there are Jesuits in all confes-
s tate. insulted
sions, and that 1U" ,al.-. .., 4,,
_4_,„,.., „,,
people. The charge
t ha
that
for publishingby insfti n a
brought by the prose-
outor for the Crown against the editor of the
Reform was, that be,
article inCionnhfeissspioanprtiith3et
were recognised hadthe AA Dr. Schuselka
was sentenced to imprisonment for one calendar
question,by
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 EY DROWSING, CHLOBOYORM, &c.—
The remedy which promises the best rezuits, both
from theory and actual experiments on a large number of
sttcb creatures,
is the
electricitylow e r
through animals, on
tdozens
respireo n dozens;ery
of
sclem, not to the
heart as formerly. "Faradisation" cures facial hemiplegia,
andtime rebnyewtesmtpheerevriytaelloatctiivnittyheof
brain;musc les, paralysed for a
but the ordinary
electric shock or fluid, it was to bo feared, onlyaggravates
the mischief, as the violent current is directed back 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 shock or fluid.
The ordinary induction magneto-electrie bc.ttery is
perhaps the best for such accidents by drowning, chloro-
form, &0., the chief object seems to be by atl intermittent,
but gently
ecmuerrheyneti,dpreasusesdclettouttgh the
lits at the outer Ihrenic nerve
(where
edge of the sterno-mastoid, the wetted sponge of one pole
applied here, and the other pole applied as awetted sponge
also anywhere about the floating ribs), to excite respira-
tion. Whatever is done in a drowning or cllorofortu acci-
dent must be done quickly, and in an instant, the face and
neck and chest well exposed, fanned with a lady's fan wiih
cold air, which excites in a wonderful manner the external
respiratory nerves, when the usual hospital manipulations
altogether fail,—.DT. Kidd' s Work, on Chlmolortn.
The Journal de Villefranche sttites that the
waters of the Saone are so low that at 200 yards from the
bridge of Frans the river may be walked across. They
steamboats which ply aro obliged to make great number()
curve to avoid the said Wake..

Metropolitan Railway Company.

MEETING (THIS DAY).

The half• yearly general meeting of the shareholders in
this company was hold 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 be need not say anything more
about it. He had received letters urging that a larger divi-
dend should be declared, but ho thought that which was
now declared, under all circumstances, was a fair one.
Mr. FABSON, 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 euchadividerd which theywould
be able to maintain next half year when the Finebury 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, hear.) 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 lino 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 51 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 CuArnaller said he had forgotten to mention the
,sn;eie.ct of working men's trains, During the last week they
had carried 8,768 working men to their business and homes,
and that al: 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 theo trains ran, could not avail themselves of
omnibuses, and woute! obliged to walk,
After some convereatioz 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
51 per cent. on the ordinary stock, carrying forward to the
credit of next half-year a balance cf £2,453 6s 10d.
The meeting was then made special, and resolutions
were passed authorising the raising of capitai by the crea-
tion of new shares.
',l'he 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 Catholic 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 whiehfailowed a sermon
was preached by the Right Rev. Monsignors 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-
' eembled in the sanctuary 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 p;ofoundly ashamed. The best way for
them, as Catholics, to reply to such charges was by main-
taining perfect silence, for the persona who could speak
in such a way were incapable of argument and reason.
It was vain to argue or remonstrate with those 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 he 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 fur the inauguration of the altar,
because it was on another feast cf the 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 know 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 retucn 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 last Saturday. The deaths of young
persons (under 20 years of age) fell from about 980
to 862.

The average number• of deaths in the 32d week of
ten previous years, 1854-63, is, with a correction for
increase of population, 1,368, and the number ac-
tually returned for 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 shows a decrease in the deaths
by measles from 102 to 72, in those by scarlatina
from 58 to 46, in those by diarrhcea from 286 to 228.
Besides the 228 from diarrhoea last week, there were
22 from cholera, 5 of which occurred to adults.

Of the deaths from diarrhcee, all except 24 were
among infants. Both this complaint end measles
were most prevalent in the east districts; 4 deaths
from measles and 18 from diarrhoea were recorded in
the Shoreditch district, 5 from measles and 9 from
diarrl eel in Bethnal-green, 7 from measles and 10
from diarrhoea in Whitechapel, 6 from measles and
`2 from diarrhoea in St. George-in-the-East, 4 from
measles and 9 from diarrhce 1 in Stepney, 6 from
measles and 6 from diarrL eel in Mile end Old Town,
10 from measles and 13 from diarrhase in Poplar.
Diarrhme 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 eolith sub-district of West
London.
A woman, aged 65 years, died on the 9ZII inst.,
after 11 days' illness. of .11^111-Q"F 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 ell 1,962 children, were registered in London. In
the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1854 63
the average number (correcied) was 1,832.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.968 in.
'1 to 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
82.4 deg. on Monday; the lowest night tempera-
tUtP was 42.2 deg. on Friday. The range in the
week was therefore 40.2 deg. The mean daily
range was .2.5.1 deg. The least daily range was
13.3 deg. ; the geeatest 34 deg. The difference be.
tWeen the mean eicw-point temperature and air
temperature was 12.7 deg. The mean degree of
the humidity of the air W... 5 64, complete saturat ion
being represented by 100. On Tuesday the htemi.
dity rose to 92; on Thursday it fell to 54. The
wind was in the south-west on the first three d aye;
afterwards in the northewest„ eoutheeast, tee
outs;
OUth-
west, Half an inch of rain fell on Tuesday.

A VALIANT YANKEE,--A viln in Rochester
advertises that he will assassinate Jeff. Davis if the Go-
vernment will furnish him with six palm of pistols and 500
dols. Probably he wants a transportatit n train also, to
convey his firearms.—. New York World.
THE PRINCE OF WALES'S VISIT TO ,T)ENMARK
COPENTIAgEN, Aug. 13.—The Faedreland t 4 to-day says,
" It is generally reported that the Prince an 1 Princess of
Wales will visit our Royal Family in Septt amber. The
semi official Berlingske Tzdende states that Pi •inco Alfred
will visit Iceland, and return to England at the). commence-
ment of next mouth.—,neuter's .Express.