The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-09 00:00:00

GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA.

The traffic receipts for the week ending Oct. 21
amounted on this company's lines for local passen-
gers to £7,966, for foreign passengers to £4,011, for
emigrants to £537, for mails, &c., to £829, for local
freight and live stock to £13,481, and for foreign
freight and live stock to £3,4o3—total, £30,227,
against £25,329 for the corresponding week last
year, showing an increase of £4,898. The total re-
ceipts from July 1 to the above date amounted to
£444,955, and for the same period of last year to
£385,870, showing an increase of £59,085, or 15.3
per cent.

The Press in Schleswig.

FLENSBURG, Nov. 4.

The editors of the IVorddentsche Zeitung and the
Fleusburger Naeltrichten were summoned yesterday
to the police-office in this town, where the following
order of Baron Zedlitz, the Prussian civil commis-
sioner for the Duchy, was read to them, and they
were, at their own request, each furnished with a
copy:—

" Titles are given in public prints to Prince
Frederick of Sehleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Au-
gustenburg -which clearly do not belong to him. It
cannot be doubted that styles which can only be
regarded as the attributes of sovereignty are alto-
gether inadmissible, as at variance with the present
public legal position of the country. To these be-
long not only the designation of the aforesaid prince
as Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, and the affix of a
numeral to his name, expressing the succession of
similarly called sovereigns, but also the mere desig-
nation of duke,' or his highness the duke,' 'with-
out addition of the name, which is intended to have
and can have no other meaning than to represent
the prince as the indubitably recognised sovereign
of the country. Also, the mere association of the
prince's name with the title of a duke appears inad-
missible. For as in the Holstein princely houses,
both of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonberburg- Angus-
tenburg, as well as the Glucksburg line, this title
only belongs to the head of the family, and the
prince's father, Duke Christian, neither in the well-
known renunciation to the succession to the throne,
coupled with a pecuniary indemnity from the Danish
Crown, nor at any other time, has renounced the
position establishing the title in favour of his son, if
the title of ' duke' be also given to Prince Frederick
of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg,
this fact, under existing circumstances, is only sus-
ceptible of the interpretation that he is thereby in-
tended to be designated as duke of the country. I
have therefore to request the police department to
insist with all emphasis that these improper desig-
nations, only leading to errors of confusion, shall
no longer be made use of in the public prints. In
bringing this matter to the knowledge of the editors
of newspapers, it must be pointed out that if in
future, whether in their own writings or in corres-
pondence or articles extracted from other papers,
they should make use of the above-mentioned or
similar designations for Prince Frederick of Sehles-
wig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, they will
have themselves to thank for the consequences that
may ensue. Among these consequences I emphati-
cally add the withdrawal of the concession granted
for the publication of the paper would not be want-
ing. (Signed)
"VON ZEDLITZ7
"Prussian Civil Commissioner for the
Duchy of Schleswig."

FLIGHT OF SEA-GULLS OVER LONDON.—Yester-
day at sunrise an immense flock of sea-gulls (many of
which were of the larger species) passed over the metro-
polis, keeping, however, near tho windings of the river,
over which they hovered for short periods within gun-
shot, but at times wheeling about, fo the no small amuse-
ment of passengers on the different bridges. During the
morning other flocks followed, amounting in the whole to
many thousands.