The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-11 00:00:00

or 24TH MAY, 1852.

TEE PLENIPOTENTIARY OF PRUSSIA TO THE PRINSIPAL
SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF HER
BRITANNIC MAJESTY.
"Prussian Legation, London, May 15, 1852.
" The undersigned Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the King of Prussia, by
order of his Government, and having the honour to refer
to the interviews he has had with Lord Malmesbury,
Principal Secretary of State of her Britannic. Majesty
for Foreign affairs, as with the gentlemen his predeces-
sors, to consider the best means for replacing, by con-
ciliatory means, the Principality of Neuchatel under the
legitimate authority of the King, his august Master,
conformable to the Treaty of Vienna, begs his Lordship
to invite the representatives of the other great Powers
to a conference to take this question into serious delibe-
ration.

"To state precisely the intentions of'the King in this
matter, and not to leave any doubts on the motives
which have determined his Majesty to ask, for the ami-
cable settlement of this affair, the mediation of his allies,
the undersigned has the honour Lto send to Lord
Malmesbury the annexed note, which is the exact
expression of the Rcyal wishes.
(Signed) " BUNSEN."

PROTOCOL No. 2 OF A CONTERENNE HELD AT THE
FOREIGN•OFFICE ON THE 24TH OP MAY, 1852 :
" Present the, Plenipotentiaries of Austria, France,
Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia.
"The Minister of Prussia asked that his note ad-
dressed to the British Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, dated 15th May, and the note thereto annexed,
should be placed among the acts of the Conference.
" He added that the King his master expresses his
gratitude to his allies for the reception they gave to his
proposition ; and that full of confidence in the result of
their united efforts, his Majesty charged him to make
the voluntary declaration that, pending the negotiations,
ho would not have recourse to any other measure to
make good his rights.
(Signed)

" KUBECIC.
" WALEWSKI.
" MALMESBURY.
" BUNSEN.
" BRUNNOW."

HANOVER.

A telegraphic despatch, dated Hamburg, 9th
instant, announces that the Hanoverian Chambers
have been dissolved by Royal order. New elections
are to take place. The new chambers are to meet
on the 10th of February next.

THE LATE EARTHQUAKE IN THE
MEDITERRANEAN.
Letters received at Malta from Candia, a town
in the island of the same name, give a deplorable
account of the ravaaes of the recent earthquake, in
addition to those al°ready published, up to the 15th
of October (three days after the shock). As many
as 500 mangled corpses had bees dug out of the
ruins, besides many persons severely wounded and
bruised. Not more than 50 houses remained unin-
jured. The ovens and bakeries are destroyed, and
starvation menaces the houseless population, in
addition to the inclemency of the weather. The
Roman Catholic church, only a year ago erected, is
in ruins. In the interior the results are still more
appalling. Five villages are totally destroyed, and
the few surviving inhabitants are reduced to the
most abject misery. A steamer had been despatc,lied
to the Commanders-in-Chief of the Anglo-French
forces at the Piraeus of Athens craving assistance,
and the Ottoman Porte had sent a despatch to the
Sublime Porte to a like effect.
Canea has suffered more than was at first re-
ported. Most of the houses 4n this town will have
to be, if not wholly, in great part rebuilt, which,
unless an immigration of builders takes place, will
not be effected in five years ! Good workmen ob-
tain 2s. 6d. per diem, master masons much more,
and labourers ls. 6d. per diem • 500 carpenters
rfluld readily find work. The Church, hospital,
poor-house,-house, and school of the Roman Catholic
community, and the Greek school, are among the
fallen
buildings. 400 tents have been sent to
Candi°, from Canea by the Governor-General,
whose humane measures to succour the people are
beyond all praise. At Maori, in Asia, opposite to
Rhodes, where earthquakes are of frequent occur-
rence, the shocks, strange to say, *ere only felt
slightly.
At Mytelene, between the 4th arid 19th
of October, one or two slight shocks had been ex-
perienced daily, with no other bad effect than
creating much alarm amongst the inhabitants, ea-
specially
at Rh after hearing of the disasters on the 12th
odes and Candia.
..rrofesbor Regalia, the Director of the Royal