The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-06 00:00:00

Denmark and the Duchy of Holstein,

I

The following is the Royal Proclamation con-
cerning the constitutional position of the Duchy of
Holstein, of which we published a Telegraphic
Summary a clay or two ago :
We Frederick VII,, King of Denmark, So., do hereby
make known :

" When, in our Proclamation of January 28, 1852, we
declared our intention of uniting the different parts of on
monarchy into a well ordered whole through a common
constitution, we were perfectly aware (as was also indicated
with sufficient clearness in the preceding negotiations) that
such a constitution was possible only under the condition,
that our Sovereign power over our two German Duchies
should not be further circumscribed or restrained than was
the case by the existing laws of the German Confederation,
whien had been accepted by us, and also that the inhabi-
tants of these Duchies would sincerely acceile to the new
arrangement of the State.
"These conditions have not been fulfilled. The German
Federal Diet has interfered with the internal affairs of our
monarchy,and advanced demands which are neither founded
in the Federal laws, nor compatible with the independence
of our Crown, and the rights of those of our lands which do
not belong to the Confederation. The Provincial Estates
of Holstein, also, have not only rejected all our propositions
for an agreement, but have pronounced themselves in point
of principle against any and every joint constitution based
on a common representation.

" This state of internal dissension, which already for a
space of 10 years has paralysed the development of our realm,
ought now to cease. We must, therefore, in view of the un-
satisfactory results of the last session of the Holstein
Estates, consider it our Sovereign duty to regulate the con-
stitutional position of the Duchy of Holstein in our monar-
chy in a manner corresponding, as far as possible, with the
demands of the Germanic Confederation, In so doing we
have confined ourselves to what is strictly necessary in
order to reserve the further development and final settlement
to the free co-operation of our people and their constitu-
tional representatives.
" We have, therefore, resolved, and hereby command as
follows :

" Art I.—Tho conscripts levied in the Duchies of Hol-
stein and Lauenburg, excepting those who are to serve in
the Life Guards, shall henceforth form a separate division of
our army, under the supreme administration of our Minister
of War. This corps crarmee shall ho suppled with all the
necessary material, and furnish our Federal contingent in
conformity with the military laws of the German Confede-
ration.

" expenses for the Holstein Lauenburg army division
shall be paid by the sp cial fi antes of the Duchy of Hol-
stein, which for this purpose shall receive a contribution out
of the revenues derived from Lauenburg.
" Art. II —The Duchy of Holstein shall continue to
participate in the expel sex common for the whole mo-
narchy, and specified, sub. 1-6 and 8 11, in the preliminary
normal budget of Feb. 28, 1856, for a period of two finan-
cial years, as follows :
(Her. follows the items for the civil list, the appanages,
Privy Council, national debt, pensions,Foreign .office, navy,
finance (and the common ministry for the interior), and
sundries, as they are specified in the normal budget).
"But the amount of 6,394,091 rixthrilars, appropriated
for the War Department by the normal budget, sub. No. 7,
for two years, shall be reduced to 770,000 rixdollars, to be
expended for the supreme administration of the army, our
Life Guards, and the central institutions for military edu-
cation, which remain in common.
"No sum which in the course of a financial period may
have been saved under one of those items should be applied
to the covering of a larger expenditure under another item.
Any supplementary contributions which might become ne-
cessary beyond the specifications of the normal budget above
quoted shall, in so far as Holstein is concerned, be sub-
mitted to the grant of the Holstein Estates. The common
expenses shall be defrayed out of the common revenues. If
there be a surplus the proportionate quota belonging to Hol-
stein, in accordance with the number of its inhabitants,
shall be credited the special finances of that Duchy with
2131 per cent. If, on the contrary, the common expenses
shall exceed the common revenues the Holstein finances
shall contribute to make up the deficit, according to the
same proportion.

"Art. 111. If the expenses for the local administration of
the Holstein domains and forests, as well as for the Hol-
stein custom-houses, and the telegraphs in Holstein, should
exceed the sum specified in the normal budget for each of
these items, bills for the necessary supplementary grants
shall be submitted to the Holstein Estates for their a'sent.
These expenses are to be paid in advance out of the corre-
sponding revenues, so that only the surplus be paid over to
the common exchequer.

" Art. IV. The administration of the special finances of
the Duchy of Holstein shall be transferred to our Ministry
for the Duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg.
" Art. V. the legislative power in all common affairs
shall, as far as Holstein is concerned, be exercised by us
awl the Holstein Estates jointly. If a law in common
affairs should be thus enacted by us for Holstein, with the
consent of the Holstein Estates, and it should be impossible
at the same time to enact an identical law in the other parts
of the country, we will take the measures which thereby
may become necessary, in case such a law has reference to
a branch of government in which a diversity of legislation
would be incompatible with the maintenance of the commu-
nity hitherto existing,
"Art. VI. The stipulations contained in Art. V. shall
take effect immediately; the others only at the end of the
present financial term—viz., from Apia 1, 1861.
"Further regulations for the position of the Duchy of
Holstein and its Representative Assembly,with regard to the
common affairs of the monarchy, shall be submitted to the
Holstein Estates for their assent.

" In the law project to be prepared on this subject, not
only the wishes which now have been manifested for greater
ivil and religious liberty shall be taken into consideration,
but it shall also contain the neces.ary stipulations for an
xtensim of the franchise and the qualifications of repre-
.entatives, as well as tor granting to the Holstein Repre-
• ntt,tive Assembly a deliberative vote with regard to the
common finances.

"Palace of Fiedensborg, March 30."

Wyld's Plan of the Volunteer Review at
Brighton.

As usual, true to time, the Royal g.ographer
publishes " in the very nick" a capital plan of the
review ground at Brighton for this day, Easter
Monday, showing with perfect distinctness the re-
lative position of the Volunteers. Cavalry and
ar,illery—the First and Bectond Division of the
little army—the " Enemy" and their line of skir-
mishers, can all be recognised at a glance in the
exact situations marked out for them on the
Downs. Ovingdean, Woodendean, Bevendean,
and the Road to Rottingdean—note the points from
which the lines of demarcation are drawn, defining
this familiar review ground of our Volunteers.

M. Phillip will have in the Royal Academy a
Spanish group of figures round the holy water fount
at the going in of a church, painted with all his wonted
power of colour and mastery of the Spanish character. The
painter, on his latest excursion to Spain last year, brought
back a new tr ensure of far advanced sketches and pictures
to add to the mass he has already, He has work in these
sketches (which are, indeed, pictures designed, and in great
measure roughly put in, on the spot), to last him many years
to come ; and by that time, if he lives, Phillip will have
done for Spain what her own painters of this day should
have done, recorded some of the picturesquest of her many
picturesque features of race and manners. Mr. Phillip's
principal work, however, this year, is not Spanish, but
right English—no less than the House of Commons. It
is painted for the Speaker, and represents that dignitary
in his chair, with the clerks of the house before him at
tho table ; on either side, the Treasury bench, and the
front bench of the Opposition, with the galleries behind
the Speaker's chair. Lord Palmerston is in the act of
speaking from the Treasury bench; Sir G. C. Lewis, on
his right, is the foremost figure ; on his left, sit Lord
John, lying back in his seat, with folded arms, his favourite
attitude; Sir George Grey; Sir Charles Wood, to whom
Mr. Charles Villiers is stooping to speak ; and behind
stand Mr. Cardwell and Sir Roundel' Palmer. In the
gallery behind are " Bear" Ellis, Sir H. Vane, and Sir F.
Baring ; and under it are grouped Cobden and Bright.
The front Opposition bench is occupied by Disraeli, Lord
Stanley, General Peel, Sir E. L. B. Lytton; Lord John
Manners leans against tne gallery, near Sir J. Pakington ;
Henley anct another, which I forget at this moment, are
conversing behind the trout bench. In the gallery are
Sotheron Es,court and Wilson Patten. The likenesses
are, as a rule, admirable ; that of Palmer, ton, in particular,
immeasurably the beat y.-t done of him. The picture is by
far the best yet painted of such a subject, and is a series of
triumphs over the difficulty of graceless and colourless cos-
tume. It will be the centre point of attraction at the
Academy, if it be finished in time for exhibition, which is
still Goubtful.
DREADFUL MURDER AND SUICIDE AT LEEDS.
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A dreadful murder, as is thought, and suicide, was
committed on Saturday morning in Hope-street, Leylands,
Leeds. John Gair, a pensioner, had been for some time
living with a Northumbrian woman, called Alice, whose
surname is not known. On Friday Alice had been dis-
covered by Gair sitting on a man's knee in a house which
she frequented, and a quarrel ensued. This quarrel was
continued in their lodgings at Thus. M•Manus's, in Hope-
street, and it was 4 o'clock in the morning before M•Mauus
could induce them to go to bed. A ,ittle after six o'clo.k
the .M‘Manuses, who slept in the same room, heard a noise,
' as they described it, as of a ginger-beer bottle exploding,
and on turning to the couch occupied by the Gairs, Mrs.
.%I‘Manus saw a spurt of blood which b-sprinkled t►he wall.
She aroused her husband, who jumped out of Led and
seized Gair, but not before the ?atter had dre dfully wounded
aitnself by cutting his own throat. Alice died without a
moan, for her head was nearly severed from her body, and
Gair is not expzeted to recover.

THIR I EDITION

SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK.

SPORT:NG INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH )
NE WMARKE 1' RACES-THIS DAY.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 25 SOVS.

Fantastic
Livings one
Four ran.
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES.

Libellous
Cellarius

Six ran.
CRAVEN PLATE.

Rost 1
Eleanor
Eight ran.
£5O HANDICAP PLATE.

Roraanoff
Hypermnestra
Eighteen tan.
LATEST BETTING.
NEWMARKET HANDICAP.
3to 1 agst Physalis colt (taken)
sto 1 agst Bedouin (taken freely)
6to 1 agst Colleen Rhue (taken)
10 to 1 agst Man at Arms (taken)
CITY AND SUBURBAN.
9to 1 agst Adventurer (taken)
30 to 1 agst Newchureh (taken)
TWO THOUSAND.
sto 2 agst Hospodar (taken)
9 to 2 agst Saccharometer (taken to £100)
THE DERBY.
1000 to 15 agst Fantastic (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Taje (taken)

DURHAM RACES—Tuts DAY.

TRIAL STAKES.

Prairie Flower
Fete•day
Royalty
•••• •
Four ran.
ELEMORE STAKES.

Theobalda
Meta's dam
Balderstone .. 3
Five ran.
DURIIAM HANDICAP.

Bohemian
Lord Dundreary .. 2
Picco
seven ran.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER—SATURDAY.
NEWMARKET HANDICAP.
, 3to 1 agst Physalis colt (taken and offered)
6to 1 agst Bedouin (taken)
Bto 1 agst Man at Arms (taken)
9to 1 agst Colleen Ithue (taken)
14 to 1 agst Lapidist (taken and offered)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS,
9 to 4 agst Hospodar (offered)
6to 1 agst Saccharometer (taken)
14 to 1 agst Melrose (taken)
20 to 1 agst Physalis colt (taken)
25 to 1 agst Brick (offered)
THE DERBY.
12 to 1 agst Hospodar (wanted)
20 to 1 agst National Guard (taken)
20 to 1 Melrose (offered)
22 to 1 Automaton (offered)
RACING FIX.TU

Abergavenny ........ AP:
.... 9
Liverpool Hunt C1ub....10
Thirsk
Epsom Spring 16

RES FOR 1863.
RIL.
Newmarket F. S ..20
Llanboidy
York Spring ...28
Salisbury
A.Y.
Radcliffe 25
Manchester 27
Marlborough .. 29

Chester - M
Bath
Harpenden 12
Epsom l5
19

Ascot Ju:
Newton 2lO
Hampton lO
Odiham ..... l6
Bibury Club .

Beverley. l7
Stockbridge lB
Chelmsford 23
Newcastle-on-Tyne 23
Carlisle 3O