The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-15 00:00:00

scions that to go to war with Prussia would be to
rush on her own destruction—convinced that she
would not have the slightest effectual aid from the
minor states whose battle she would be fighting—
Austria has given way, and perhaps made a hand-
some profit from her pliancy. There is no tinge of
that hatred of Austria which pervades the Prussian
people in the Prussian Court, and King William
and his Ministers, if they can only get what they
want, would have no objection to help Austria to
get something for herself. It is very possible that
no definite arrangement has been come to between
the two Governments as to the disposition of the
Duchies, but as a sufficiently good understanding
has been arrived at to enable the two monarchs, who
have been for the greater part of the last three
weeks within forty or fifty miles of each other to
meet as friends, it may safely be assumed that Aus-
tria has conceded the main points insisted upon by
Prussia. A definite agreement has, no doubt, been
come to as to the government of the Duchies by the two
Powers, and an arrangement made to prevent such
scandalous conflicts between the two commissioners
as this which has arisen from the recent high-
handed proceedings of Herr Von Zedlitz against
two Prussian subjects. Further, if Austria has not
consented to the ignominious expulsion of the
Prince of Augustenburg, she will have assented to
measures which will make it impossible for him to
remain in the Duchies, and she will have agreed to
the Prussian proposal for putting in force the exist-
ing laws of the Duchies with reference to the press
and public meetings. As a matter of course, all the
Duchies enacted during the Danish rule remain in
force until they are amended or repealed by some
competent authority. At present there is no autho-
rity competent for the work of legislation, unless we
assume that the condomini have a right to legislate
without reference to the wishes of the people of the
Duchies—an assumption which would answer the
purpose of Prussia very well, but against which the
Augustenburg partisans would protest very vehe-
mently. And all thelaws of the Duchies have been
kept in force except just those which Prussia wishes
to apply. The laws relative to the press, political
assemblies and societies, have been completely dis-
regarded during the last 18 months. In Holstein
these laws, at least so far as the press is concerned,
are mild enough. The Holstein newspapers used
to write treason enough every day under the Danish
rule to have insured their immediate suppression in
every state of that dear fatherland to which they
were constantly appealing to rescue them from
slavery. Public meetings and political societies were
more hardly dealt with. In Schleswig the laws were
in both respects much severer than in the neighbour-
ing duchy. If these laws are put in force—and
Prussia insists that she and her partner Austria
stand in precisely the same position as the King of
Denmark, of whose rights they are cessionaires, did
—that incitement to hostility against them, or one of
them, and advocacy of the cause of any pretender,
amount to just the same thing as the attacks upon
the sovereignty of the King of Denmark provided
for in these laws—a stop will very soon be put to
the Augustenburg agitation. If there is anything
real in the loyalty to the Prince it will of course
survive although denied expression ; if it is facti-
tious, the product of clever intrigues, it will soon
die out—not, however, that it really matters much
whether the Holsteiners wish to have their Frederic
VIII. or not. The determination does not depend
upon them ; it rests almost entirely with Prussia ;
and at present the odds are ten to one that she will
never be called upon to pay him obedience. The
assertion that Austria has abandoned the Prince
and expressed her readiness to support the candi-
dature of the Grand Duke of Oldenburg is probably
premature ; but in the end she will in all probability
bring herself to support him or to consent to the
annexation by Prussia. The Prince of Augusten-
burg has managed to give great offence to the
Prussian Government, and to earn, moreover, the
ill-will. of the Prussian people. He at least will not
be, we may be pretty confident, a gainer by the war
which his perfidy had so much to do in provoking,
and no attachment of the people of the Duchies to
him—no desire to be formed into a state absolutely
independent—will be able to resist a few months
more of the provisorium. The surrender of Austria
now will satisfy the people of the Duchies that they
can place no reliance upon her, that for weal or for
woe their fortunes are bound with those of Prussia,
and as, although a very obstinate and opinionated
race, they have a good bit of Shrewdness in their
composition, they will very soon cease to kick
against the pricks, and make the best terms they
can with the Prussian Government. But the real
importance of this surrender of Austria does not
consist in its influence upon the fortunes of the
Elbe Duchies—it means the triumph of Prussia in
Germany. The long fight is practically over, the
great prize is won by Prussia. Austria may still
be a great European power, but she has practically
abandoned her pretensions to lead Germany.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

COLCHESTER-AUG. 12.

A large quantity of wheat has been carried, the bulk of
which will be unfit to thrash before next spring. To day
a thin attendance and very little wheat offering, which sold
at an advance of 28 to 3s. per qr. Beans and peas without
change.

Wheat, white. 508 538 Beans, Mazagan......33s 388
red 43s 46 Middle and 81=11..358 40s
Barley 'l's 348 Peas, white 358 38s
Oats ...... ..... —.208 25s grey ...35s 38s

NORTHAMPTON-AuG. 12.

Not many oats ; beans not plentiful, and prices had an
upward tendency. In some places wheat has done well
and will prove a full yield, whilst on the light lands the
ears are thin and small and the yield deficient. Barley is
an excellent crop.
New white wheat, 43s to 45s ; new red, 40s to 43s ; old
white, 43s to 45s ; old red, 40s to 43s per 36 stone. Barley
for malting, —s to —s por qr. ; grinding, 25s to 28s per 30
stone. Oats, old, 25s to 26s ; new, 18s to 24s per 24 stone.
Beans, old, 36s to 40s ; flew, 35s to 38s per 38 stone. Peas,
33s to 38s per 36 stone.

CHELMSFORD—Ara. 11.
There were only a few samples of now wheat brought to
market to-day, and in various conditions, 44s for new rod,
and 52s for new white were given for the best samples ;
old wheat may be quoted from at is to 2s per qr. dearer.
All other things about the same.
Wheat, old white....46s 62s Peas, Partridge 378 393
new 468 62s White .3, 8 345
old red 40s 45s 13,11ing 38a 42a
new. 40s 410 Dun.... ..... 3lB 358
Barley.. ...258 828 dit o, new... —a —3
Chevalier 26a 338 Beans, Tick, 01d......31s 378
Grind.ng ',Os 88 new....—S 8
Malt.. 61s 67s
Harrow ficks.3so —8

Chevalier 64s 68i
Oats .. 2oa 26a

new....—s -s
Mazagan . ..... 34s 37s

GRANTHAM—AUG. 12.
With a limited supply of wheat, trade was firm at a rise
of 2s to 3s per qr. All kinds of grain except oats are fa-
vourably spoken of. Pastures look -thy fresh.
Old white wheat, 44s to 48s; old red, 398 to 448 ; new
white, 448 to 48s ; new red, 39s to 44s per 36 stone. Bar--
ley for malting, 29s to 33s per qr. ; grinding, 27s to 30s per
30 stone. Oats, old, 27s to 31s ; new, 228 to 24s per 24
stone. Beans, old, 39s to 41s ; new, 36s to 38s per 38 stone.
Peas, 34s to 368 per 36 stone.

ABERDEEN—Aft. 11.
Not much doing, and business generally stiff.
White wheat 36. ()d to 40s Od
Red wheat
.34s Od to 36s Od 621 b V bushel.
Potato oats 20s Od to 20s 6d
401 b V bushel.
Common oats 19s Od to 20s Od
Bere 21s Od to 22s Od
531 b 11 bushel.
Barley 21s Od to 22s 6d
Oatmeal 15s 6d to 16s 6d V boll of 1401 b.
Flour, fine 31s Gd to 33s Od 1.3 sack of 2801 b.

KIRKCALDY—AuG. 12.
Large supplies of wheat ; small of oats and barley.
Wheat is up. Oats and barley no change.
Wheat. Barley. Oats.
First 37s Od I 29s 6d 1 24s Od
Od I 29a 6d 258 Od
Third 46s Od s Od —s Od

COAL MARKET.
Price per ton at the close of the market.

s. d. P. d
Keno() .................. 19 0
Hastings Hartley ...... 16 9
Russell's Helton ......... 18 9
Peusher Primrose 18 6
BraddyelPs Helton.... 19 0
wyjam .................. 16 0

Byass's Bebside West
Hartley l7 0
East Hartlepool
Tees
Eden Main
South Hetton
Hetton . 20 0

Ships at market, 57; sold, 24.

Births.

AMountess BERLEY.—On the 12th inst., at Alderley Park, Vis-. c Amberley, of a son.
CORBET.—On the 11th inst., at Acton Reynald, Shropshire,
Lady Corbet, of a daughter.
HEREFORD.—On. the 11th inst., at Tredegar Park, the
Viscountess Hereford, of a son and heir.
Mossos.—On the 13th inst., at 49, Cadogan-place, the
Hon. Mrs. Debonnaire Monson, of a daughter.

CURT/9 Marriages.
—l3Anium.—On the 10th inst., at Hadley Church,
Barnet, Edwin Curtis, jun., Esq., of Bayswater, to
Ellen, only daughter of Mr. Isaac Barker, Eastwood,
Essex.
HEADLAND—KELLY.—On the 10th inst., at Chessington
Church, Frederick William Headland M.D. F.R.U.P.,
to Fanny, second daughter of Frederick Kelly, Esq., of
32, Bedford-square, and Chessington Lodge, Surrey.
Deaths.

AUSTEN.—on the 10th inst., at Portsdown Lodge, Hants,
Sir Francis Wm. Austen, G.C.8., Admiral of the Fleet,
aged 90.
HookEn.—On the 12th inst., at Kew, Sir William Jackson
Hooker, K.H., F.R.S., F.L.S., D.C.L., Oxon, Correspond-
ing Member of the Institute of France, Director of the
Royal Gardens, aged 80.
HuocEss.—On the 11th inst., at Sittingbourne, Kent, John
Huggens, Esq., the Founder of Huggens'College, North-
fleet, Kent, aged 90.

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