The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-23 00:00:00

EXTRACT OF THE PROTOCOL OF THE SITTING OF THE

GERDIA.N DIET, SEPT. 17, 1846.
RESOLUTION.
" His Majesty the King of Denmark, Duke of Hol-
stein and Laueubourg, having made known by the de-
claration of the 7th of September, in reply to the petition
addressed to the Diet by the states of Holstein, on the
3d of August, that there never was any intention of at-
tacking the independence of the Duchy of Holstein, nor
of mcdifying arbitrarily either the constitution or the
other institutions which the usage and laws of the
country have consecrated ; his Majesty having, besides,
given the assurance that the efforts to regulate the order
of the succession of that duchy were not intended to
affect the legitimate rights of the agnates, and, in short,
the intention to maintain entire the constitutional right
of petition by the states having been openly acknowledged
by his Majesty; the High Diet is confident that in coming
to a definite resolution on the subject, of which the
letter patent of the Bth of July makes mention, his Ma-
jesty will respect the rights of all, and particularly the
rights of the Confederation, the legitimate rights of the
agnates, and those of the legal representatives of the
country. While reserving to itself, as organ of the Con.
federation, the right of giving effect, should the case
arise, to its constitutional competence, the Diet deems
that it cannot receive in the states of Holstein the legal
representatives of that federal state; that their mission
should be limited to the defence of their constitutional
rights; and that the complaint of those states on the
surjict of changes to be made in an illegal manner in
their constitution is without foundation. On the other
hand, the Diet deems that the order transmitted by his
Majesty to the royal commissioner at these states, not
to receive petitions or reclamations relating to the
question of the succession, does not, strictly speaking,
accord with the literal sense of the law of the 28th of
May, 1831.
" Secondly, the Diet is gratified in rendering justice to
the patriotic sentiments that have been manifested on
this occasion in Germany, but it deplores the hostile
charges and expressions of animosity that have been
given vent to. It hopes and trusts that the confederated
Governments will endeavour to put a stop to this agita-
tion and excitement; and it has no doubt but that his
Majesty the King of Denmark will fully reciprocate
that feeling.
" Thirdly, the Danish Envoy is invited to convey this
resolution to the knowledge of his Court."

The following are the exceptions which the Envoy of
Denmark has taken to the resolution of the Diet.—
On referring to the declaration of his Court, and
without voting on the question of the Constitution, the
Envoy does not think it his duty to take any exception,
unless in the case that the passage in which the Diet
expresses its confidence that the King of Denmark, in
taking his decisive measures upon the questions men-
tioned in the letter patent, will respect certain rights,
should be interpreted so as to apply to the duchy of
Schleswig; or, in the case that to the rights of national
representation to be respected, any other meaning should
be attributed than that of their constitutional rights—
rights which the Diet bad in view in speaking on a pre-
vious occasion of his Majesty's intention to maintain
entire the states' right of petition."

TROTTING MATCH FOR TWENTY-FIFE POUNDS
ASlDE.—Yesterday, a match between Mr. Reynold's
grey mare, and Air. Bilton's black horse came off at
Wimbledon-common, the contesting distance being two
miles; when, after a good race, the grey came in the
winner by fifty yards, having covered the distance in
seven minutes and twenty seconds.
TRUCKS ON WEST➢IINSTER BRlDGE.—Yesterday,
about noon, several persons were knocked down on
Westminster•bridge, by fellows rushing through the
narrow thoroughfare left open for foot passengers
drawing trucks after them. A row of posts placed
at either end would effectually prevent such another
occurrence.
THE RESTORATION or ST. JOHN'S GATE.—It ap-
pears that the restoration of St. John's Gate is progress-
ing piecemeal. 1301. only having been subscribed, a
sum insufficient to complete the work, the masonic opera-
tioas are necessarily limited. The restorations effected
in the north front are, the two towers and the upper
portion of the gate have been recased with stone, rough
to accord with the present stonework, new solid Acme
embattlements, and new solid window heads, jambs, and
sills to the turret windows. The red chimney pots have
been taken off, and others in accordance substituted.
The Roman style door front has been removed. It is
said that about 90/. more will restore the stone embattle-
ments to the south front.
DISEASE IN THE CELERY PLANTS.—The leaves of
the celery plants are stated to be withering, and on
dividing the two coats of the diseased leaves, it will be
found that there are a number of small green insects be-
' tween them, which are rapidly destroying the inner parts
of the leaves. This disease is quite new to us, and seems
likely to be fatal to much of the celery.

LITERATURE.

THE PENSCELL WOOD PAPERS. 2 Vols.

Considerable research has been expended upon
these singular essays. Almost everybody has read
" Dr. Hookwell," and hence we are persuaded that
almost everybody will read the " Penscellwood
Papers," seeing that they are from the pen of the
same accomplished and ingenio,-.3 writer. For these
reasons, therefore, we are .n.ist solicitous that tin
first article in the two volumes under notice may be
perused simply as a literary curiosity, that the readei
may not be cajoled (or rather fascinated) into an
erroneous belief merely by a fevi, clever conceits, that
the composition may be regarded simply as a game at
logic, and not as the serious advocacy of an ethical
,L'ic,9rv. The purport of the disquisition in question
is fully egplained in its very title—" On the Future
Life and Souls of Animals." No debating society
has, perhaps, ever been established in which the
question has not been broached whether animals are
endowed with reason or instinct. A.nd every one
who has ever heard that question contended knows
that very adroit arguments may be advanced in sup-
port of the former as well as in favour of the latter
opinion. Until the debater, hoverer, nail by a spon-
taneous metempsychosis transfer his intelligence into
the carcase of a pig, or a dog, or some other animal,
he can never demonstrate to himself, beyond all cavil,
whether the sentience of an animal is the sentience of
reason or the sentience of instinct. We must con-
sequently, in default of this impossible demonstration,
revert to the fundamental part of religion—Faith.
Christianity is always right wherever and whenever
merely human intelligence is At fault. If we were
red Indians we might unquestionably coincide with
the author of these volumes in anticipating the future
existence of animals, and even expect to be accom-
panied by our favourite dog to the great hunting
ground beyond the grave.. But being as we are, we
can look upon man as the only creature endowed with
higher or reasoning faculties, and as alone destined
to enjoy life hereafter. That mysterious draughtsman
Blake once drew the portrait of the ghost of a flea,
as it appeared to him in one of his visions, and which
portrait we remember to have seen recently. Some-
what as authentic and conclusive is the testimony of
the future existence of animals given by the author of
the " Penscellwood Papers." Nevertheless we are
not inclined to argue this matter seriously, but rather
take his lucubration as it was doubtless intended to
be taken, namely, as a quaint and agreeable eccen-
tricity. It is quite a vaudeville of metaphysics. As
it may possibly tend, moreover, to enforce those sen-
timents of tenderness to the dumb creation which are
incorporated in Martin's Act, the effusion is accept-
able. The retention or abolition of "Capital Punish-
ments" is the theme of the second paper, and, while
it evinces considerable talent in endeavouring to
emphasise a principle it is animated by a very winning
earnestness. It will be examined with peculiar
interest at this moment. The remaining portions of
the second volume are of equal merit with the pre-
ceding ; and we would especially direct attention to
the observations upon " The Established Church,"
and " The Education of the People." What we
would particularise as the most striking and com-
mendable_ characteristics of this work are—a grea t
freshness of manner, a singular originality and
freedom of thought, and a most genuine and honour-
able benevolence of tone. For these features " The
Penscellwood Papers" will be admired, and the
author respected.

THE CONTINENTAL FORGERIES.—The two forgers,
Theodore Ilerweg, alias Romanzou or Raumanzow, and
Knapps, have undergone several interrogations before
the examining magistrates, and several witnesses have
also been examined. It appeared that Romanzou
scarcely ever remained in one apartment more than a
quarter of a year, and was to leave that in the Rue
d'Anjou, where he was taken, in October. He never
went out, and was not visited during the time he stayed
there by more than three persons. The preliminary
proceedings are likely to occupy several months, on
account of the evidence which will be required from
several foreign countries. Knapps is confined in the
prison of the Madelonnettes, and Romanzou in that of
St. Pelagrie. The thirty-two notes found upon Roman-
zou were for 1001. each, and not for 5/., as was at first
stated. Both the prisoners have made a full confession.
Romanzou states that, after having sonarrowly escaped
from arrest on the 6th January, 1832, when the
woman Dandle, and Pressel, the native of Wurtemberg,
were surprised at Passy, where he, Romanzou, had
set up a press, he got over the frontier into Switzer-
land, and made his way into Italy, where he lived for
four months upon a sum of money that he took with
him. Fearing an application for his extradition, he re
turned to France, thinking he would be able the more ,
easily to conceal himself there. His resources were
then reduced to two genuine Bank of England notes for
1001. each ; and be conceived for the first time the idea
of imitating them. But the difficulties he had to con-
tend with were so great that he was for two years
working assiduously before he could succeed ; living in
the most parsimonious manner upon one of the notes
being obliged to keep the other as a model. At the end
of the two years he found that he had produced a perfect
forgery, but not daring to trust the uttering of his
false notes to any third person, he issued them himself,
and in three days exchanged twenty-six of them for
1001. each at different money-changers' offices. He
then stopped, and travelled till he saw the effect pro-
duced upon the Bank of England. At the time of his last
capture, Romanzou was engaged, with the assistance of
his accomplice Knapps, in manufacturing a greater
number of notes of the Bank of England, with the
intent, as be says, of raising 100,000 f., with which he
hoped to get over to America, and there live an honest
life.— Galignani.
That destructive insect, the locust, continues to be
picked up in considerable numbers on various parts of
the coasts of Northumberland and Durham, many of
them being three or four inches long, and of propor-
tionate height. The unusual heat which has been ex-
perienced in our climate this year is supposed to have
directed these destructive visitors to our shores, where
the rigours of the approaching winter will probably ex-
tirpate such as escape capture in the interim by the
hordes of naturalists and others who are now daily in
pursuit of them.
GAME FASCINATED BY TERROR.—We have fre-
quently heard of birds being rendered powerless by the
serpent's glare, but we had no idea that game could be
fascinated by the pointer's eye. Yet such appears to be
the case. A correspondent assures us, that while enjoy-
ing a walk with a sporting gentleman, over his moors in
Ross-shire, the other day, the pointer came to a sudden
stand, and, on looking minutely, he observed a grouse
cock, lying about twenty inches from the dog's nose,
with his eye intently fixed on his. It seemed petrified
with horror, and although unwounded and quite healthy,
permitted the gentleman to take and put it alive in the
bag. We have heard of a white hare being taken in a
similar manner in Glenmoriston, some years ago.—
Inverness Courier. .

A RAILWAY HUNT AFTER A SUNDAY'S DINNER.—
A gentleman of Liverpool, who is residing temporarily
in the vicinity of Bromborough, sent a parcel on Satur-
day evening to the Birkenhead and Chester Railway
Office, in James• street, containing a joint for Sunday's
dinner, clean linen, shaving tackle, and other necessaries,
with directions to be kept until he booked for Brombo-
rough himself. The parcel was directed to that place.
On arriving at the office, he was told, to his dismay, that
the parcel was sent forward by the previous train,
and would, no doubt, be found either at Birken-
head or Bromborough. When he reached Birken-
head he made inquiries after his lost treasures in
vain, they must be at Bromborough, he was told;
but in case of so unfortunate a mishap as their
having gone on to Chester, the clerk said he would
write to the station, and his parcel should be
duly returned next morning. He met, accordingly,
the half-past eight train, but no mutton, clean shirt, or
razor, there awaited him. He stayed till ten ; but that
train he was told would not stop unless he booked to go
by it to Liverpool. He paid his ninepence accordingly.
Still no parcel. His next despairing resolve was to go
by the train he had paid for to Birkenhead, and went
accordingly, but was equally unlucky. " Try the
Liverpool station," urged the clerk. Our dinner-hunter
found, however, that there would then be no time to
return till two in the afternoon. "Go on to Chester,"
suggested the clerk. Our hero, however, preferred re-
turning to Bromborough again, where a man having been
dispatched forth to Chester, his lost dinner, &c., reached
him at two o'clock. A less persevering individual
would perhaps have been less successful in stirring up
the drowsy energies of the various railway officials con-
cerned.—Railway Standard.
Mr. Newman is on his way to Rome, where he
will remain some months. The Univers contains an
account of his reception at Paris, which was most cor-
dial on the part of the ecclesiastical authorities. The
Archbishop of Paris and the Nuncio of his Holiness the
Pope paid great attention to this distinguished theologian.
Mr. Hay don, the son of the late celebrated artist,
who was appointed by Sir Robert Peel to the situation
of Landing Waiter in the Customs Department, has
entered upon the term of probationary instruction usual
previously to any person, so appointed, performing any
actual service.
NEW MODELLING OF THE COAST GUARD.—An
important change is about to take place in the Coast
Guard Service, which, it is understood, will be placed
under the superintendence of the Board of Admiralty,
instead of (as at present) being under the Board of
Customs and the Lords of the Treasury. A vacancy
will occur by the naval promotion of the present Comp-
troller-General of the Coast Guard, Captain Phipps
Hornby, R.N., C. 8., Aide-de-camp to her Majesty the
Queen ; and it is stated in naval circles that Capt. A.
Ellice, R.N. (1831), will be appointed under the Admi-
ralty to superintend the service, with the style of the
Comptroller of the Coast Guard (the title of General
being omitted). Many of the old officers who have been
retained in this service were formerly in the old coast
blockade, and will be " superannuated" upon hard-
earned pensions (the civilians) and the officers of the
royal navy " retired " upon well-merited promotion.
WONDERS WILL NEVER CEASE !—Last week, a
Highlander, from above Inverary, called at the office
Of a highly respectable steamboat company, and told the
clerk that he owed them eighteenpence, having cheated
one of their captains in that amount in his fare, about
three years ago. Donald was told never to mind the
matter, and to keep the money. This he would not
listen to, exclaiming, " 0 gudesake, no. I hae na been
able to sleep in my bed far a whole year aboot it." He
then tabled the silkr, and hastily left the counting-house,
saying to himself, as he retired, " Gude be thankit, I
hae got it aff my conscience at last."--This is a good
example to Highlanders in general, and wo hope it will
be generally follewed.—Glasgow Argus.

DON ENRIQUE'S PROTEST.

The following is the protest of Don Enrique,
which was presented to the Cortes on the 10th

istant:

" The Cortes will soon be assembled, and to that
body must a persecuted Prince elevate his voice
from his place of exile. To address the Government

would certainly be useless—to appeal to the nation
might be- considered dangerous ; the Cortes alone
will know how to reconcile what is due to the

tranquillity of the country with what is due to its
Princes and to the future destiny of the Royal
Family.
" Remote from the Court and all ambitious views,

I lived exclusively devoted to the duties of my pro•
fession as a sailor, when, with the royal permission,
I repaired, towards the end of the year 1845, to
visit my revered father at Madrid. In his paternal
affection, and guided more or less by what he knew
or imagined of the Queen's wishes, be thought that I
was in a position to take some initiative in the im-
portant question of her marriage ; for myself, taking
into consideration the public opinion as unanimously
manifested by the press of all parties, I thought I
could not take such a step without declaring in
writing, and that in the most solemn manner, the
political principles which ought to be ohserved in a
matter so important for the ~eenrity of the constitu-
tional throne and the independence of the Spanish
nation. My father undertook to present in my name
to her Ma,jesty the expressions of my sentiments.
The circumstances which occurred at the Royal
Palace on this occasion obliged me to publish my
manifesto of the 31st of December, which could not
be understood, as the motive of its publication re-
mained unknown.

"From that moment commenced for me a period of
persecution which has hardly beheld a day pass with-
out some fresh injury being levelled at me.

" I will not descend to enumerate the various
vexations which I suffered. The mast public and no-
torious will suffice to show whether or not they
ought from the past to adopt some measure which for
the future may prevent a Prince, or any other
Spaniard, from being the victim of the arbitrary will
of their Ministers.

" Having obliged me to quit Madrid immediately,

I was received and treated by the authorities of
Galicia in a way which taught me to know the other
trials to which the Ministers had resolved to subject
me. The regard of my countrymen, which, how-
ever, they were not allowed to show me, compensated
nevertheless for the vexations I endured, and never
did I enjoy greater peace of mind, and more complete
tranquillity, than during the first period of my perse-
cution. Nor did Idream of obtaining a position which
would have forced my persecutors to respect me ;
on the contrary, I longed, from the bottom of my
heart, as the greatest happiness for the Queen and
for the nation, that the choice of her Majesty
should fall on my beloved brother, as more worthy
to occupy so distinguished and high a position—a
sentiment which I have ever manifested with
loyalty whenever the opportunity for so doing was
afforded me.

" After this sincere proof of self-denial given by
e at that time, and living as I was in tranquillity
and exile, I could not at that time understand the
motives of the fresh persecution which assailed me,
when, being in Ferrol, I received the order to present
myself without a moments loss of time at Corunna,
before the Captain-General of Galicia, who commu-
nicated to me the order which I inclose, to the effect
that I should quit the kingdom in forty-eight hours,
in spite of anyiimpediment I might oppose to the con-
trary, even that of illness—a circumstance mentioned
in the Government order, which was communicated
to me on my embarking, but which I have not in my
possession. Out of respect for the Queen and love of
peace, I consented to this indignity, and writing to
her Majesty in fitting terms I embarked for Bayonne,
without even receiving the honours due to my rank
on leaving the shores of my country, and the object
of the cruel prejudices excited against me in the
mind of the commandant of the vessel which con-
veyed me, and who was required to give a receipt for
my person. In as far as the action and power of the
Ministers could reach me in a foreign land, I ex-
perienced the effects of their rage. I could not
comprehend the true motive and object which they
had in view until I arrived in Paris, where I was so
kindly received by my august uncle, the King of the
French, when I perceived clearly that it was not the
act of having one day aspired to the hand of her
Majesty that was to be punished in me, but the
not continuing to do so, accompanying my desire
with submission to a certain influence, and com-
bining it with a certain condition. I never
intended to mention this, but to the National
Assembly I owe the whole truth, and I will
not fail in this duty any more than I did at Paris
in those which bind me towards my country and my
family.

" I quickly left that capital for this peaceful king-
dom, where I have lived retiredly and tranquil, al-
though caluminated, calmly awaiting the solution of
the question which was to bear so much influence
on my future destiny. Proposals from, in my eyes,
the most respectable quarter, have been made to me
to return to Spain. Had I consulted my own per-
sonal interest, I should have accepted them ; but
attentive only to my dignity, and to the severe
principles which I have laid down for my guid-
ance, I rejected them, declaring that I have a
right to require, and that I must sooner or later
obtain, reparation as complete and honourable as
the injustice of my ejection from the kingdom of
Spain was great.

" The silence which followed these communications
might naturally have been expected to be the fore-
runner of some catastrophe, and such, indeed, it has
proved—the marriage of her Majesty the Queen with
my beloved brother, and that of the Infanta with the
Duke of Montpensier, agreed upon at the same time,
although not published in the same form, solemnly
announced to Spain. The first accomplishes my
wishes so often manifested, and the second discovers

to Spain and the whole of Europe that which I was
given to understand during my short residence in
Paris. Of the use which Spain and Europe may
make of this discovery I have nothing to say, nor
does it belong to me to examine whether a clause in-
serted in the Constitution in the year 1845 opposes
this union. What belongs to me by right, and
that which I shall do, influenced less by family
views and interests than by the desire to avoid the
possibility of difficut questions, and perhaps even
wars of succession, which have been so, fatal to

Spain, is to protest against all eventual right to the
Crown which may be granted to the children of the
Duke of Montpensier, if he should ever be united to
the Infanta.

" The renunciation which the family of Orleans
made by the treaty of Utrecht would annul before-
hand any right of this kind which might be declared
or supposed, and my family being the one most in-
jured, I protest before the Cortes against any preju-
dice which may arise.
" Thus, the present document, which I respectfully
address to the Senate, will serve at the same time to
enable the Cortes to adopt the necessary measures
that for the future, and by their orders, the antecedent
rights of all and such of the individuals of the Royal
Family should be respected as the basis of the tran-
quillity and independence of the nation, which, where-
soever I may be, is, and will remain, the idol of my
heart, as it is of every good Spaniard, no matter what
may be his party.
" ENRIQUE DE BOURBON.
" Ghent, Sept. 9th, 1846."

SUDDEN ILLNESS OE THE VISCOUNTESS HA -
DINGE.—This lady, it will be recollected, only a few
months ago returned to England from Nice, where she
had been sojourning for the benefit of her health, since
the departure of Viscount Harding() for India. Her
Ladyship has been paying, since her return, many visits
amongst her numerous friend; and last week went to
see her niece at Bromham Hall, the seat of the Hon.
Colonel and Mrs. Rice Trevor, near Bedford, where she
was taken ill ; the attack at first was considered to
be influenza, which, however, becoming more alarming,
her son, Sir Walter James, and his lady, were sent for
from South Park, Kent, who on their arrival at Bromham
Park found Lady Hardinge so seriously indisposed, that
Dr. M'Cann, of Parliament-street, her Ladyship's medical
attendant, was sent for, who, with Dr. Witt, of Bedford,
is in constant attendance. The report received yesterday
morning at the town residence of Sir Walter James, was,
that her Ladyship had passed a tranquil night but con-
tinued languid.
The Vienna journals announce the death of the
Dowager Princess of Liechtenstein, mother of the reign-
ing Princess of Schwarzenberg and Lobkowitz.