The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-12 00:00:00

HOLSTEIN.

A large majority of the members of the Holstein
Estates (40 out of 49) met on the sth at Kiel, in
extraordinary Session, and unanimously passed
the following declaration :
We, the undersigned Deputies to the Holstein
Assembly of Estates, at present consisting of 49
members, solemnly declare, with regard to the
Conference of European Powers about to assemble
in London, as follows:

" We protest against every decision that may be
come to at the above Conference, respecting the
future of the Dachies of Schleswig and Holstein,
and in especial with regard to the person of the
successor to the throne vacated by the death of the
King Duke Frederick VII., without the opinion of
the country being first taken as to the hereditary
right of his successor. We further declare every
recognition of any such successor by the European
Powers without the previous consent of the country
as not legally valid and binding upon the same.

" We declare, moreover, hereby as the rights of
this country before God and man—
" 1. Tnat the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein
are independent States, inseparably connected with
each other fur ever.

"2. That by lineal succession and primogeniture
the male line of the adenburg Royal House is
exclusively called to the throne.

" 3. That Christian IX., King of I-)nmark, is
therefore in no way rightfully entitled to the
throne of the Duch4e2, being excluded by agnate
of nearer claims, but that the LAElen Treaty of May
8, 1852, together with the Danish sueetsion law of

the 31st of July, 1853, are nct legally b'uding upon
the Duchies ; the former because foreign PoR ers
in
no way possess the right of disposition over a coun-
try not belonging to them, and the latter incase
not ratified by the assent of the Schleswig and
Holstein Assembly of Estates, the agnates, and the
Germanic Confederation.

"4. The nearest claimant among the new
living Princes of the House of Oldenburg, after
the renunciation of his father, is Duke Frederick
of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderborg-Augustenburg,
who has already declared that he has assumed
the Government as Duke Frederick VIII, of Schles.
wig and Holstein.
" We further declare that the voice of the Conn'
try, agreeing herewith, has unmistakly expressed
its desire, in numerc.us petitions to the General
Federal Diet, and in addresses of devotion end
deputations to Dike Frederick VIII. from the
Schleswig-Holstein nobility, the University, the
clergy, the teachers, and the towns and rural
districts of Holstein as well as Schleswig,
to recognise Duke Frederick of Schleswig-IDi'
stein Sonderborg- Augustenburg as the sole
and only rightful successor to the throne, and
has testified the readiness of the people to sacrifice
life and property in his service as their legitimate
Sovereign.
"Finally, we hereby protest most solemnly against
every arrangement of the European Powers by
which an illegal ruler shall he fcrced upon the
Duchies, contrary to their expressed wishes, and by
which the connexion with the kingdom of Denmark
definitively severed by the death of Frederick VII.
shall be restored by force. We cast upon the ori-
ginators of any such arrangement the responsibility
of the inevitable disadvantages and dangers to the
tranpillity and peace of our country, of GermanYr
and of Europe." (The signatures follow.)

It appears that in consequence of the war, maul
Lubeck naerchantmea now sail under the Russian
flag. The Russian consuls, however, now make great
difficulties about granting the permission to do so
It is asserted that it is the Hamburg merchants wh o
for purposes of speculation, have informed the
Danish Gcvernment that, since the commencement
of hostilities, the Russian flag is used to excess ; in
consequence of which the Danish Government has
complained to that of St. Petersburg, which has
accordingly forbidden the Hanseatic consuls to lend
the Russian flag any longer.

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SIKItf ) irtnikr,

HER. MAJESTY.

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WINDSOR CASTLE, April 11.
The Queen, attended by Lady Augusta Stanley,
walked in the grounds this morning,
His Majesty the Kin.: of the Belgians, attended
by General Cuunt do Moerkerke, went to Clare.
moot, and visited the Queen Marie Amelie,

In correction of the description of dress worn by
the Queen at the Court on Saturday last it is to
be stated that her Majesty wore diamonds only i 4
the cap, and an opal brooch set in diamonds.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.
SANDRINGHAM, April 11.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales walked i❑ the grounds on Saturday, and
afterwards rode out.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales, with Lient.-Gen. Knollys, Captain Grey,
Mr. Wood,lMr. Ho!sealan, and the Hon. Mrs. Bruce,
attended Divine service at Sandringham Church
yesterday. The Rev. G. B. Moxon, 8.A., officiated
and preached.

The vacant Garter will, it is believed, be bestowed
upon his Grace the Duke of Sutherland.
The Duke of Kispalda has left Claridge's Hotel
for Paris.

Lord Clarendon will, it is said, shortly proceed
to Paris upon a private mission to the Imperial Court. It
is no secret that a considerable alienation has sprung tip
between the two Governments within the last few months,
whhth Mr. S!ansfeld's alleged share in the Mazzinian
demonstration has not tended to remove. Lord Clarendon,
from his courtierlike instincts, has, we understand, been
selected as an instrument for restoring more amicable rela-
tions, and dispelling tho irritation produced by Lord
Russell's policy and Lord Palmerston's speeches. Napo-
leon 111 must be the most forgiving of men if he succeeds.
—Herald.

MR. AND MRS. HERMANN VEZIN will return to
the Princess's on Monday next, making their re-appear-
ance in "Donna Diana." They are to be succeeded, Nye
believe, by Madlle. Stella Colas.
A CHARMING INSTANCE OF TOLERATION..--Thero
is a story afl)at in the Inns of Court which seerns
to require a refutation. It is said that Mr Pope Hennessy
has joined the Home Circuit, but on applying for admission
to the mess he was biackballed. As the mess is not a club
at which any one can exercise a veto the committee inquired
the reason, when the dissentients gravely alleged that they
had acted on principle, that they did not object to Mr'
Hennessy as a barrister, or as a politician, or as a gentle-
man, but simply as an Ulrrarnontane I It that story is true
in any degree whatever, bigotry would seem to have found.
her last refuge in the Home Circuit. Isio such exclusion
can, of course, be maintained for a month, but one wonders
if the gentlemen who resisted would object to dine with
the Pope, or send an excuse to a duke whose lists of guests
included Cardinal Wiseman,—Spectator.

FEARFUL OCCURRENCE.—On Sunday morning,
at about 5 o'clock, a 3 oung man named Perry, living
in Hallett's•row, Brickkiln-street, hearing a noise as of
some one in distress in an adjoining house, occupied by an
old couple named Holland, knocked at the door. His
mother was with him, an.l some one inside the house told
them to break open the door. They did so, and found tha
place full of smoke. On entering the house they heard
groans in the pantry, a place about three feet wide by els
feet long. On going into this pantry they saw a horrible
sight. In one corner was the old man, shrivelled and
charred in a fearful manner, quite dead. In the opposite
corner was his wife, groaning and crying for water,
and her clothes burnt from her Lack. From the state
in which the man was found the woman must have
seen him burnt to death. His clothing was completely
burnt to a cinder. Several pieces of money were found in
the pantry, quire black, and as though they had been
exposed to great•heat. The woman stated that she caught
fire while in the kitchen, and she rushed into the pantry ,
to throw some water on Ler clothes when her hu,bancl
followed her, and in attempting to extinguish the flames
must himself have been burnt. The old man was a shoo-
maker and worked at home, his wife cad some employment
at a neighbouring factory, and both were much given t 0
drink, On Saturday, after drinking all day, the unhapP9
couple went 'tome intoxicated, and were heard quarreilh
until between three or four in the morning, and after that
time groans were so continuously heard that at last Aire.
Perry aroused her son.--Manchester Guardian.

CHARLES DICKENS'S title to his new story, "OLIV
Mutual Friend," now immediately forincomiogr
have called forth many protests "in the interest of the
Queen's English. " What is a mutual friend ?" asks one
hypocrite." If A has friendly feeling; towards B, aced
reciprocates them, their friendship is mutual ; and thei
may without impropriety be called mutual friends. But if
A and B are two persons, each of whom enjoys the
friendship of a third person, C, there is no " mu'uality"
the case. C is in this case their common friend; and the
use of the word " mutual" to express the relation in chic//'
any one of them stands to either of the others, is manifestly
incorrect. Two brothers cannot be said to have a mutual
parent. Their father is their common parent. There I
no doubt about it, and we remember remarking the fact
the first moment the title of Mr. Dickens's new story ca3l6
to our knowledge, that in one of his essays Lord Macaulai
has made a particular and emphatic protest against tilt
expression. Our contemporary, the Athcriceunt, very justly
remarks, however, that Mr. Dickens, it is admitted, has
the
power, and the right, to raise a mere colloquialism out et
the dust, and to confer upon it the dignity of a litereJ9
idiom I •

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The new novel, " Adela Cathcart," by Georg°
MacDonald, M.A , author of "David Elginbrod," Sr-c• 3
de,
vols.—" Adela Cathcart (rays the Sunday lbws) is
lightful book. We quit it with reluctance. It is not often
that we are called upon to review a work in which we dad
so much to admire. Written in purest English, clu3ini
sparkling, and graceful, anon delighting us with flashes °
humour or winning us with true and subtle 1:03h"'
AtiLla Cathcart' may at once take up its position among
the masterpieces of modern English &Um."
It has been announced that no further appliea-
tions for the bends of the Vemzuelan Government
Six per Cent. Loan will be received after Wed-
nesday nest. The subscription at Cologne and
Amsterdam closes on the same day.