The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-14 00:00:00

TEE SUN, LOADON, FEIDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1865.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE. I The Schleswig-Holstein Question and the
Diet.

FRANCE.

A Council of Ministers was held yesterday at the
Tuileries, the Emperor presiding.
General Yusuf has arrived at Marseilles, from
Algiers, by the last steamer, to take possession of
his new command.

The Journal de Nice announces the departure
of Baron de Budberg, Russian ambassador, for
Paris. He was expected to be absent a few days
only.
The Messager du Midi publishes intelligence from
Toulon, stating that the Emperor is certainly to
arrive in that town on the 25th, and leave the day
after for Algiers.
A rumour prevailed yesterday in the Salle des
Conferences at the Legislative Corps that the dis-
cussion on the Address would certainly terminate
to-day, even if an evening sitting was found neces-
sary for the purpose.
BOURSE, April 13.—The market is dull. Threes,
for the Account, are now at 67f. 90c. Italian Loan,
66f. 15c. Mobilier have been done at 820 f. In
Railway Shard there is little doing, and prices re-
main about the same. The market closed as fol-
lows :

41 per Cents 96
Do. end month ""•.-
3 per Cents. 67 65
Do. end month 67 90
Credit Mobilier 825
Do. end month
Bank Shares 3560
Credit Foncier 1285
Roman' 74 25

Italian Loan 65 95
Do. end month 66 10
Ditto Threes 4l
New Mexican
Russian —

Austrian
Spanish Threes 461.
Home Debt • —
Deferred -
MAYS.

Cash. Acct.
Orleans
Northern lO6l 25 ... 1066 25
Lyons and Mediterranean-- 978 75 ... 978 75
Southern 614 25 ... 618. 50
Western 527 50 ... 530
Eastern 525 ... 530
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 555 ... 556 25
North of Spain 3o2' 50 ... 303 75
Saragossa 390 ... 390
Ditto to Barcelona — ...

BANK OF FRANCE.

PARIS, APRIL 6.

The following is the return of the Bank of France
for the week ending to-day, together with the cor-
responding figures of the previous account :

DEBTOR.

April 13. April 6.
fr. c. fr. c.
Capital of the Bank.... 182,500,000 182,500,000
Profits in addition to

capital (Art. 8, Law,
June 9, 1857) 7,042,904 27 7,042,671 6:
Reserve of the Bank

______ • _
and its branches 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 14
Reserve in landed pro-
perty 4,000,000 4,000,000
Notes in circulation
Banknotes to order and

receipts payable at
sight 6,236,498 76 6,951,784 46
Treasury account cur-
rent creditor
Current accounts, Paris 106,107,185 29 138,726,379 38
Do. branch banks
Dividends payable 1,094,967 75 1,291,402 75
Discounts and sundry
interests
.Rediscounted the last

six months 2,789,444 05 2,789,444 05
Sundries

Total

FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, April 12.
At the recent sitting of the Diet, when the motion
brought in by Bavaria, Saxony, and Hesse for im-
mediate recognition of the Duke of Augustenburg
was brought to the vote, the following declaration
was made by the Bavarian representative
:
"With reference to the motion made in common
with the Saxon and Grand-Ducal Hessian Govern-
ments, the King's Government advocates its adoption
as a resolution by the Diet. In reply to the objections
raised on many sides immediately after its introduc-
tion at the former sitting, the King's Government
first refers to the resolution passed by the Diet
upon the Bth of June last year, when, with the ex-
ception of a single vote, the same declaration was
generally approved which the representative of the
German Diet, in union with the representatives of
Prussia and Austria, made at the sittinglof the Lon-
don Conference of May 28, last year. That declara-
tion demanded the complete separation of the
duchies of Schleswig and Holstein from the king-
dom of Denmark, together with their union' into
one State under the sovereignty of the hereditary
Prince of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augus-
tenburg, who can not only show the best right in
the opinion of Germany to the succession in the
above-named Duchies, and whose recognition by
the Diet is therefore secured, but who also has for
him the unquestionable assent of she great majority
of the population of those countries.' The present
motion is in thorough accord with the resolution of
the Federal Diet, and it can therefore not be main-
tained that it involves a precipitate decision upon
the position towards the succession question to be
assumed by the Diet. The motion on the contrary
only brings about the realization of the position
which the Federal Diet has already taken up on the
2nd of June last year. It cannot possibly be as-
sumed that the declaration then made was not based
upon the rightful conviction of the Government,
although the reasons of its utterance were not ex-
pressed in the Federal Assembly. It this respect the
King's Government still retains the same conviction
as formerly, referring for its grounds to the vote given
in committee by the King's representative at the
Diet in January last year, committing them now to
protocol for further support of its vote to-day. As re-
gards the claims of the other German Princes, those
with respect to Holstein, submitted to the Diet by the
Grand Duke of Oldenburg, are no other than those of
the collective House of Gottorp, and therefore—apart
from the fact that the cession of these claims upon the
part of the elder Gottorp line has hitherto been main-
tained but notproved, and not even maintained by the
younger Gottorp branch—cannot in any Case be more
opposed to the motion submitted to the Diet than
to the resolution of June 2d last year. All actual
and legal circumstances by which the claims of the
House of Gottorp are to be judged were exactly the
same and just as thoroughly known prior to the 2d
June last year as now, and if they could not at that
time deter the Governments of Austria and Prussia
or the Federal Diet from declaring the hereditary
Prince of Augustenburg the best entitled, and from
characterising his recognition as secured, they can
also present no obstacle now to a similar decision ;
less still can this take place through claims hitherto
not even raised at all before the Federal Diet.
Added to these considerations comes the very
weighty fact that neither by the acceptation of the
present motion, nor by the fulfilment of the confi-
dent expectation therein expressed, would the right-
ful proof of the claims of the other, Federal Princes

be excluded ; for upon the contrary, as has been
already expressed in the preamble to the motion,
the recognition of the hereditary Prince of Augus-
tenburg would first render possible the appointment
of an Austragal procedure, and thereby a judicial
settlement of the disputed question be established,
such as under present circumstances is wanting.
Far removed, therefore, from refusing room to the
understanding earnestly desired by the King's Go-
vernment, in its conviction the acceptance of the
present motion affords the safest if not the only
way to an agreement among all those elements,
without whose co-operation a satisfactory legal
solution is not possible."
The Prussian representative prefaced his vote