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

of Holstein.

The following is the Royal Proclam,tion con-
cerning the constitutional position of the Duchy of
Holstein, of which we published a Telegraphic
Summary a day or two ago:—
"We Frederick VII„ King of Denmark, &c., hereby
make known :

" When, in our Proclamation of January 28, 1852, wo
declared our intention of uniting the different parts of our
monarchy into a well orderea whole through a common
constitution, we wore 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,
which had been accepted by us, and also that the inhabi-
tants of these Duchies would sincerely accede 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 r_
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 I
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
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irder 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 L—The 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 d'armee shall be supplied with all the
necessary material, and furnish our Federal contingent in
conformity with the military laws of the German Confede-

ration.
" Atl expenses for the Holstein Lauenburg army division
shall be paid by the special finances 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 expenses 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 :
(Here follows the items for the civil list, the appanages,
Privy Council, aational 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 6,304,091 rixdallars, 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
Lite 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 et 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 pr, portionate quota belonging to Hol-
stein, in accordance with the number of its inha.bitan s,
shall be credited the special finances of that Duchy with
21.31 per cent. If, on the contrary, the common expenses
shall exceed the common revenues the Holstein financea
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 assent,
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
and 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. April 1, 1864.
"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 else contain the necessary stipulations for an
extensi,rn of the franchise and the qaalifications of repre-
sentatives, as well as for granting to the Holstein Repro-
s-ntative Assembly a deliberative vote with regard to the
common finances.
" Palace of Ft edensborg, March 30."

Wyld's Plan of the Volunteer Review at
Brighton.

As usual, true to time, the Royal geographer
publishes " iu 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,iliery —the Firs' and Second 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 treasure 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 pictureequest 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
the 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 Rouadell 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. E. Lytton; Lord John
I t thist
Manners leans against the gallery, near Sir J. Pakington ;
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are, as a rule, admirable ; that of Palmerston, in particular,
immeasurably the best 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 attrbction at the
Academy, if it be finished in time for exhibition, which is
still uoubtful.

DREADFUL MURDER AND SUICIDE AT LEEDS.--
A dreadful murder, as is thought, and f.uicidt, waS
Collmiitte(i on Sit, urdily rooming in Hope suect, Ley►anus,
Leeds. John Gair, a pensioner, had btu n for borne 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 Thos. 11.1‘Manus's, in Hope-
street, and it was 4 o'clock in the morning before ArNanus
could induce them to go to bed. A little after six o'clock

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 ()airs, Mrs.
Nl‘Manus saw a spurt of blood which besprinkled the wall.
She aroused her husband, wh:, jumped out of bed and
seized (*air, but not before the latter had dro tautly wuuoded
himself by cutting his own throat. Alice died without a
moan, for her head was nearly severed from her body, and
Glair is not expected to recover,