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The following is the tent of the memortall toahe S
Federal Diet, drawn up by the members of the
Holstein Estates who meet on the IGth inst. in this
city:—
"illustrious Federal Diet—ln common with the whole
country, the undersigned members of the Holstein Estates
have hailed the victories of Austria and Prussia with
thankful joy. The Danish tyranny was broken ; the Lon-
don protocol was set aside ; the Duchies surrendered them- -
selves in security to the hope that after years of heavy
oppression they would now at last be able to enjoy their
long desired independence, in full union with Germany,
under their legitimate prince. This hope has been bitterly
deceived.
"Nearly a year has passed since the Vienna peace, but
the Duchies are still 'without their legitimate sovereign,
and without a representation of the country summoned to
co-operate in shaping their present and future.
" While even under Danish rule the Estates regularly
assembled, and were at any rate able to complain of the in-
juries inflicted upon the country and to protest against the
wrongs by which it was threatened, the land has not yet
been heard since it passed into German hands. Its boun-
daries have been altered, different Governments have been
given it in rapid succession, violent attacks have been made
upon its administration an.l the hitherto existing order of
its institution; its financial means have been disposed of,
but it has not been considered necessary to take the sense
of its representatives.
"To all this the undersigned members of the Holstein
Estates have said nothing. They believed in full confi-
dence that this time of tribulation would only be a period
of transition, and that the Duchies would 'shortly be again
left to themselves under their legitimate prince. Illustri-
ous Federal Diet! the time has now come when we think
we ought to keep silence no longer. The convention con-
cluded at Gastein by the Governments of Austria and
Prussia upon the 14th August, makes it our inevitable duty
to uplift our voices. By this convention is not only the de-
finitive settlement of our affair; for which the country
anxiously awaits, postponed to an uncertain period, but
the connection of the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein
is dissolved anew. The Duchies look upon this connec-
tion as the basis of their State life and their national deve-
lopment.
"They have resented it as the bitterest injury that the
right of their belonging together was assailed upon the
part of Denmark. They have battled for that right with
the sword and in speech. They have felt confidence when
the German great Powers entered the lists in its support.
In all their grief over many disappointed hopes they have
at the same time gratefully acknowledged the fact of their
reunion by a common administration since the commence-
ment of this year. But for that very reason they also feel
it now as the most grievous attack upon their rights that
this bond is again dissolved, and the more bitterly that
this could have been done by German hands, and to an
even greater extent than formerly under Danish rule.
"Illustrious Federal Diet ! The separation of the
Duchies again brought about the Gastein Convention
has not only filled the hearts of the Schleswig-Holsteiners
with deep impression, but also with heavy care. This
measure is a proof that the Duchies are treated as if they
were devoid of rights. It has, therefore, more vividly than
ever aroused the apprehension that the two great German
Powers, now actually in possession of the Duchies, might
undertake a final settlement of their affairs without their
co-operation. So far as possible under existing circum-
stances, the inhabitants of the Duchies have repeatedly and
unequivocally declared that they are ready to make such
concessions to Prussia as should be demanded in the in-
terests of Germany.
" They would have proved that they are herein tho-
roughly in earnest had they been able to express them-
selves through representatives selected from their midst. But
the Schleswig-Holsteiners nevertheless hold firm in all
fidelity to their country's right, and, which is the same
thing, to the right of their legitimate sovereign, which has
also been recognised as clear and binding by the two great
German Powers at the London conference. They are not
of not opinion that, in political affairs, supposed advis-
ability, or even force, ought to take precedence of right.
They would therefore be unable to admit that rights only
appertaining to a conqueror should be deduced from a war
waged for their liberation. They would, upon the con-
trary, regard every definitive settlement of the affairs of
the country, attempted to be made without the assent of
the representatives, as not existing by right, but imposed
by compulsion.

" The undersigned members have considered it their
duty to give expression to what at present moves the
hearts of the Schleswig-Holstein population by a majority
bordering on unanimity. They entertain the firm con-
viction that this is done when they protest in the name of
the country against the separation of the Duchies of
Schleswig and Holstein as contrary to the right of the
land ; when they decisively demand that the country
by its representation be heard upon its affairs, and
thereby declare that they will regard every arrangement
concluded without the co-operation of the representatives
as non-existent in right ; and when they once more
solemnly and loudly proclaim that they only recognise
Duke Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein as their legally
entitled sovereign.
" Referring to what has been said, the undersigned most
respectfully propose that the Federal Diet should use its
efforts to cause our country's right to be recognised with-
out further delay.
"Done at Kiel, Sept. 6, 1865."
(Thirty-one signatures fallow.)
THE GASTEIN CONVENTION.

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)
FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, Sept. 9.
The following circular has been issued by the
committee of thirty-six delegates- from the Minor
German States, permanently in session in this city,
to all the members of popular representations
throughout the country :
"By the Gastein Convention the Governments of Aus-
tria and Prussie haye violated in the most flagrant manner
the clearest principles of right, and especially that of the
Duchies to settle their own future, only limited by the in.
terests of the German nation. The measures which it was
to be foreseen would follow this convention threaten, in
addition to shaking the sentiment of right of the German
the
people, to annihilate for years the material and moral pros-
perity of the Duchies freed from the Danish yoke by Ger-
man blood. The undersigned committee considers itself,
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members therefore,
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German duty bound
Diets,
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already thereaelnly
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mined by the special committee of the Schleswig-Holstein
clubs, in order to discuss and resolve upon the best means
of saving the condition of public right in those lands. The
committee expects that the German delegate; who solemnly
promised at the meeting of December 21, 1863, and by the
protest handed in at the London Conference of April, 1864,
to advocate the free right of self-disposal of the Duchies
and to support their rights generally, will now redeem this
promise by their appearance at the new assembly. The
undersigned accordingly invites all present members of
German Diets to a meeting at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, on
Sunday, October 1, at ten in the forenoon. A confidential
preliminary meeting is to be held on Saturday, September
30, in the evening.
(Signed on behalf of the committee),
" DR. SIEGMUND MULLER."

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THE IRON TRADE.—It will be remembered that
after the last lock-out the puddlers in the Wolver-
hampton district refused to resume work until some arrange-
ment had been come to between the masters and the men
by which disputes might be more easily adjusted than here-
tofore. A meeting was held between the two ; no plan was
then fixed upon, but both united in regretting the frequency
of the disputes, and in pledging themselves to adopt some
plan whereby those evils might be mitigated. The Wol-
verhampton masters consulted the whole trade at the last
preliminary meeting, and the men consulted their union.
Yesterday masters and men again met, and the idea of
adjusting disputes by arbitration seemed to have been
dropped by both parties, and the amount of wages to be
hereafter paid was the matter to which attention was di-
rected, for it seemed to both that the change necessitated
by the variations in the price of iron, and, consequently, in
the rate of wages, was the chief source of difficulty. The
masters, however, could not see that any arrangement could
be come to other than that which included the legitimate
principle of the men sharing in the advance in price by a
proportionate rise in wages, and
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interest of both would be more completely
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identified, and the trade bo more likely to be kept within
the district. The masters were, however, ready to allo
the men to be paid henceforth upon a scale which is Is. a
ton in advance of that which for 20 years has prevailed in
South Staffordshire. The'men, on their part, pressed for
the establishing of a fixed rate, and hinted at 10s. a ton,
but seemed as though they would be willing to let the fixed
rate be 9s. 6d. They, however, would not speak for the
trade as a whole. The masters' proposition was handed to
the men, who agreed to submit it to their union, and a reply
will be given to the Wolverhampton masters in time for it to
be submitted to tho whole body of the employers at the next
preliminary meeting, which will take place on the last
Thursday of this month. A proposition on the part of the
masters to disassociate themselves from the trade out of the
South Staffordshire district, upon the men consenting to
give up their connexion with the union in other parts of the
kingdom, was also to be submitted by 04 men to theirunion
officers. _

A Man named Mason was engaged on Saturday
in pulling down an old warehouse at Preston, when a wall
fell upon him and crushed him to death.