The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-29 00:00:00

DEN %lARK.

The Flyveposten publishes the following as an
abstract ot the arrangements proposed by the Danish
Cabinet of the settlement of the Duchies :—" No con-
stitutional union shall exist between Schleswig and
Denmark, this point having been for the present
given up. The provincial States in Schleswig will
assemble as before, but a new and more liberal fran-
chise will be introduced to the exclusion of the
hitherto prevailing class election. The administra-
tive union between Schleswig and Holstein will cease
altogether, the nexus socialis remaining only in form,
with reference to a general fund for the knights ot
both duchies, and the University of Kiel continuing
common to the southern part of Schleswig. The an-
cient form of the Provincial States is to be re• estab-

lisped in Holstein, and any future alterations therein
to be subject to the absolute will of the King. There
will be two Ministers in the King's Council respon-
sible to him alone, one for Schleswig, and one for
Holstein and Lauenburg. The army, fleet, flag, cus-
toms, and excise, trade and navigation-laws, &c., as
well as the diplomatic representation and consular
agencies, shall be common between the several por-
tions of the Danish Kingdom.

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS
IN SCOTLAND.
During the last two weeks the temperature has un-
dergone sudden and rapid changes. An occasional
mild day has intervened, but the weather has gene-
rally been cold, wet, and ungenial for this season of
the year. A few days of frost in the beginning
of last week were followed by heavy rains, while
upon the high-lying districts there has been a
slight fall of snow. The severe frost experienced
last week was the means of checking vegetation, and
the shaws of the turnip crop are now so broken down
that the bulbs may be regarded as having reached
their maximum growth for the season. The breadth
of land cleared of turnip:, we may mention, exceeds
that of almost any previous season, which has arisen
principally from the desire to sow the land with
wheat, and there is certainly a greater breadth sown
with that grain this season than usual. Fattening
stock has been making rapid progress where pro-
perly sheltered ; moat farmers having been com-
pelled to add a portion of their potato crop along
with the turnip. This, in connexion with the
more general system of giving corn and oil-
cake along with turnip, will soon be felt in the
supply of the fat markets. The prices obtained
for lean stock have meanwhile checked the over-
abundant supply of fat in our markets, and the
present rates of sd. per lb. for beef and mutton
exceed the rates of the last nine months by about Id.
per lb. The accounts regarding the keeping of the
potato in pits are somewhat contradictory. It has
been found, we believe, that where the crop was late
in being dug the disease has not progressed much if
any in the pits; while in the case of those which
were pitted early, and to all appearance free of the
taint, the disease has made considerable havoc
among them. The crop, particularly in the
eastern districts of England as well as Scot-
land, was upon the whole extremely prolific,
and this will so far counteract the extent of
the failure, which will upon the whole reach nearly
to one-half of the entire crop. Upon the western
side of the island the crop did not reach an average,
while in most instances three-fourths of it have
become unfit for human food. This failure has
caused a brisk demand for such potatoes as are com-
paratively free of taint; and for several weeks back
a large trade has been going on in the Lothians
in purchasing potatoes for the western markets
and also for Ireland. Last week, along the Fife
coast, several vessels wet e loaded for Irish ports—the
prices obtained in Belfast and Dublin exceeding those
got in London; as much as from 16s. to 20s. per boll
of 4 cwt. being readily obtained for those of good
quality in Dublin. In the western districts of Ireland
we understand the prices are more moderate, the peo-
ple preferring purchasing Indian meal. The present
prices in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh range
from Bs. to 10s. per boll of 4 cwt.; but from the great
demand, and also from the fact that potatoes are
cheaper here than they are either in Belgium or Ger-
many, the present prices are expected to advance.
The last accounts from the shipping ports in Belgium
and Germany quote potatoes as high as 13s. to 15s.
per 4 cwt. There will therefore be few imported from
the Continent to check the present upward tendency
of the British markets.—Scotsman.

A SHARP AND THREE FLATS.
A clever case of victimising occurred here a few
days ago, of rather a novel character. An individual
with the physiognomy and mein of a foreign seaman,
in the respectable garb, it may be said, of a shipmas-
ter, was seen wending his way across the Docks,
now and then stopping in an attitude of profound co-
gitation. A respectable broker happening to be stand-
ing at his office door, just in view of the apparently
perplexed subject of our notice, and sympathising
with what he supposed to be the mental obfuscation
of the stranger, kindly walked over and tendered his
services to solve the problem his brain was working
out. A friendly conversation ensued. The stranger
announced himself as the master of a Norwe-
gian ship lying at Kingroad, and not only did
he need a broker to transact the ship's busi-
ness, but he bad the cargo on board to sell.
The broker, as he afterwards said to a friend,
considered the new path of business suddenly and un-
expectedly opened before him—that of selling a cargo
—as quite a godsend. The cargo being offered on
very low terms, and the assumed owner submitting
readily to some rather stringent provisions as to its
good quality, a purchaser was easily found. All
went on swimmingly, the pseudo-captain was all
smiles and good humour. He had so readily dis-
posed of the cargo that he could now afford to cast
all care from his mind and enter enthusiastically
into the pleasures that even dull Gloucester can afford.
But he had brought little money away from the ship,
could the broker lend him five pounds? No sooner
was the query put than the needful was offered
with a graceful bow and an offer of more; the captain
was modest, however, and the stipulated sum would
do for the present. The theatre was next visited, not,
however, before the captain had been supplied with a new
coat, of the finest texture and first make, from a tailor
who is reputed in general to be so 'cute as to escape the
trouble of being " taken in." Lastly, an innkeeper was
patronized, and he, smitten with the appearance of the
fereigner, offered him the use of his purse, and lent a
sum similar to that which the broker had. Now the
broker, the tailor, and the innkeeper, after the labours of
the
the,r dhanyt,ormetire to their pillows, and whether it was that
a tailor's dreams rane aawonthe worn-out legend of the
broke,
Ship," h very
and restlessth eknight
f the
the night. Daylight
goose and thimble rose from his uneasy couch, sad-
dled his horse, and went away
lretoadSharpness.
Need
ythaa nttitchieprated, that
it be added what has been already
our friend of the broad cloth learnt
ewasno
Norwegian ship in the Roads, nor has the
captain been since heard of.—Gloucester Journal. knowing

ZARAGOSSA VISITED.
7,lracrossa is a rum, old, dirty, Italian-like town on the
Ebro. In the immediate neighbourhood is some pretty
good vegetation, stretching away into the most arid
barrennesP. Dust hangs aoout like a fog. The 'treats
are narrow, mudy half ruined during the war of inde-
pendence, and roughly laid with large round stones,
edestrian. The houses are old,
most painful to the p
dirty, and sombre': negligence and dilapidation are
around you: palaces are workshops, and animals wander
through the streets where no masters aro seen. It
seems like a ruined Babylon in the desert, and on the
banks of the broad sluggish Ebro you half expect to see
crocodiles sunning themselves. The most striking fea-
tures of Zaragossa are the court-yards or patios of the
palaces, and the general street architecture: of the
former there are examples in almost every style: the
latter
thciosrn aice'
is of a Ferrarese character, with grand bracketted
wooden
range
sometimesofdou
bdloeu balree,h
veropeningsyprojecting; wi t h abe-
neath
dad'; the rest of the buil • ding, very plain, mere brick,
no stone dressings or rustics • h •
with a large single-arched
doorway leading into a court,
often of the most romantic
and grotesque character: one of the best i; a Moorish
Gothic building, now a carpenter's shop, and another,