The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-26 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Jan. 25, Two o'clock.—Tho Bourse
opened dull, fluctuations are rare, and quotations
are either lower or without change. Three per
Cents. are at 69f. 77ic., the same as previous close.
Italian Fives have declined 25c.—at 54f. 50c.
Credit Mobilier and Comptoir d'Escompte shares
each lost 2f. 50c.—at 4971. 50c. and 771 f. 25c. re-
spectively. Credit Foncier shares have advanced
sf.—at 1,435 f. Mexican funds continue firm and
in good request, the 6 per cent. Loan at 22k, with
an advance of -I, and the Bonds at 147 f. 50c. Rail-
way shares are weak, and have generally slightly
declined. English Consols have again advanced k.
Three o'clock.—The market has not been good,
and, with the exception of Credit Foncier and
Comptoir d'Escompte shares, quotations have closed
as follows :—.

4 per Cents 9B 50
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 6B 75
Do. end month 6B 75
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Credit Foncier —
Do. end month 1438 75
RAIL

Bank Shares 3585
Italian Loan 54 40
Do. end month 54 50
Mexican Loan 22 50
Do. Bonds 147 50
Spanish Throes 34
Home Debt
Deferred
'aYs.

For Account.
Orleans
Northern ll7B 73
Lyons and Mediterranean 907 50
Southern SC3 75
Western —
Eastern
Sardinian . —
Austrian
Lombard 3BB 75

North of Spain l2O
Saragosr a
Ditto to Barcelona —
Roman .

Incorporation of Hesse-Homburg with
Prussia.

HOMBURG, Jan. 21.
The solemnity of the day began with the arrival
from Frankfort at one p.m. of the Civil Governor,
Baron von Patow, with General von Ranch and a
numerous staff. The same train brought a com-
pany of the 34th Prussian Infantry, with the flag
of the Ist battalion and the regimental band, who
took up their positions in the castle courtyard.
Meantime the officials and clergy of the town and
various notabilities from the surrounding districts
had assemblei in the great saloon. Upon the entry
of Baron von Patow and suite, the following Royal
patent taking formal possession of theLandgraviate
in the name of the Prussian Government was read
by the Civil Commissioner—

" We, William, by God's grace King of Prussia,
&c., hereby give all men to know as follows :--
" Now that his Royal Highness the Grand Duke
of Hesse and on the Rhine, &c., has ceded to us by
the peace treaty of Sept. 3, 1866, the undermen-
tioned territory (cited), we have determined to
unite the said territory with our kingdom, and have
for that purpose issued and proclaimed the law of
Dec. 24th last with the assent of both Houses of
the Diet.

" Consequently we now take possession by this
present patent .of the abovenamed Hessian terri-
tory, and incorporate the same with our monarchy,
with all rights of sovereignty and supremacy, and
with all privileges and claims.

" We order that the Prussian eagle shall be set
up upon the frontiers in token of our sovereignty,
that our Royal arms shall be affixed in place of the
arms hitherto employed, and that the public seals
shall be furnished with the Prussian eagle.
" We desire all inhabitants of the former Hessian
districts now united to our monarchy henceforth to
recognise us as their rightful King and Sovereign,
and to live in dutiful obedience to our laws, decrees,
and commands.

" We shall protect every person in the possession
and enjoyment of his well-earned and private rights,
and will leave such officials as may be willing to
enter into our services at their posts, and in the
enjoyment of their salaries. Until the introduction
of the Prussian Constitution we alone shall execute
legislative authority.

" Until we find it advisable to make different
arrange►ents, every public office will be adminis-
tered in the manner hitherto employed.

" Our commissioners for the execution of the
peace treaty with the Grand Duchy of Hesse are
instructed by us to take possession accordingly,
" Done at Berlin this 12th Jan., 1867.
" WILLIA3I.

" Countersigned by the Ministers."
The Civil Commissioner next read the following
proclamation from the King to his new subjects :
" By the Patent executed this day, I unite you,
the inhabitants of territory hitherto Hessian, with
my subjects, your neighbours, and German bro-
thers.

" By the decision of war, by the peace treaty
with your late Grand Duke, and by the remodel-
ling of the common German Fatherland, hence-
forth severed from a Sovereign house to which
you have been attached with faithful devotion, you
now enter into union with the neighbouring coun-
try, whose population is connected with you by
community of race, language, and manners, and
is allied with you by community of interests.
" I trust in your German and honest sentiments
that you will promise me your fidelity just as sin-
cerely as I invite you to my people.
" Rich sources are open to your manufactures,
your trade, and your agriculture by union with
my State. My care will efficiently meet your in-
dustry.

" Great apportionment of the burdens of the
State, opportune and energetic administration,
carefully weighed laws, fair and punctual justice—
in short, all the guarantees that have made Prussia
what she has just shown herself to be under a
severe trial, will henceforth be your common pro-
perty.

" I shall honour and protect your religious belief.
The clergy will in future continue to be the suppor-
ters of the ancient creed. I shall give my special
attention to your educational establishments.

" Your youth available for war will faithfully
join their brethren in my other States for the pro-
tection of the fatherland. The Prussian army will
joyfully receive the valiant Hessians, and, in union
with my army and my other peoples, you will be-
come partakers in the glory of having permanently
established the independence and freedom of the
German Fatherland. May God grant it.
" Berlin, Jan. 12." " WlLLimr.
As the last words were spoken the Prussian flag
was hoisted upon the flagstaff of the castle, and
saluted by the troops. Baron von Patcrw then
stepped forward and made the following speech :--
"In the name of his Majesty the King, I declare
that the incorporation of theLandgraviate of Hesse-
Homburg, the Lordship of Meisenheim, the district
of Rodelheim, and the portion of the district of
\'ieder-Ursel, hitherto belonging to Hesse in the
Prussia❑ ki❑gdom, is now actually and legally ac-
complished by the announcement just made of the
Royal Patent of the 12th inst.

4, Gentlemen, the year just past has been of one
twofold importance to the Landgraviate of Hesse-
Homburg.

" Divine Providence has willed that the sove-
reign house which has governed with paternal
mildness this small but beautiful and favoured
country for centuries should be extinguished, and
that the Landgraviate should cease to be an inde-
pendent State.

64 Great political events have necessitated that the
country should secede after a few months from the
connexion into which it entered with a friendly
neighbouring State in order to be united with the
Prussian kingdom.

4i The extinct sovereign house has left you a valu-
able inheritance, thereby honourably inscribing its
name, and therewith also the name of this town
and country, upon Prussian history.
44 The Landgraves and Princes of Homburg
have often and in arduous times earned the grati-
tude of Brandenburg and Hesse as valiant generals.
Sixty-three years ago, upon the 12th of January--
the very anniversary on which this patent is carried
out—a daughter of this house entered the Prus-
sian Royal family, and understood how to gain
all hearts by high and lofty sentiments and un-
broken courage in the time of most grievous trial,
by works of self-sacrificing Christian love in the
days of revival.

" Therefore the name of homburg has a pleasant
sound in our ears. You do not come to us as
strangers.

" As of old your Princes felt themselves drawn
towards Prussia, so will you with hope and confi-
dence become citizens of the State that offers you a
German Fatherland instead of • the narrow commu-
nity to which you have been hitherto confined.
Thus with the ancient Hessian fidelity you will be-
come subjects of the Royal lurd, who will protect
you with a strong hand like all his subjects, and
will render you participators in the blessings of a
good and just Government. You will have received
the assurances of the Royal proclamation with the
feeling of joyful thankfulness.

" Give these feelings expression now by joining
with me unanimously in the cry of ' Long live his
Majesty William 1., King of Prussia !' "

APOTHECARIES' HALL—The following gentlemen
passed their examination in the science and prac-
tice of medicine, and received certificates to practisa :
On Thursday, the 17th of January—Charles Quinton,
Brooke-square, Rugeley ; on the 24th of January--Shirley
Woolmer Arundel], 130, Gower-street, W.C. ; John Chis-
holm M'Donald, 75, Claverton-street, Pimlico ; Reginald
Bligh Wall, 4, Bishop's-road, Bayswater.; Nathaniel Heck-
ford, London Hospital. The following gentleman also on
the 17th January passed his first examination:-- Belanard
Renshaw, St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
CITY OF LONDON SCHOOL.—Out of the list of
Wranglers recently published at the University
of Cambridge, three were educated at the City of London
School. Mr. C. J. Lambert, Beaufoy Scholar of the City
of London School, was third wrangler ; Mr. H. Hum-
phreys, who was for six years a pupil in the same school,
was fifth wrangler; and Mr. W. H. Chaplin, Travers
scholar of the City of Loudon School, was twentieth
wrangler.

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OSBORNE, Jan. 25.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise,
Princ.ss Beatrice, and the Duchess D'Aumale,
drove out yesterday afternoon.

Colonel Ponsonby was in attendance upon horse-
back.

Her Majesty walked and drove this morning with
Princess Louise.

Prince Arthur and the Duke d'Aumale rode yes-
terday afternoon, attended by Major l;lphinstone•
Prince and Princess Christian and the Duke and
Duchess d'Atunale walked in the grounds this
morning.

Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess
Beatrice went out also.

Madlle. Clinchamp had the honour of dining with
the Queen and the Royal Family yesterday.
Lieutenant-General the Right Hon. Jonathan
Peel arrived at Osborne yesterday, and had also the
honour of being invited.

Historical Facts.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—As you kindly insert all my letters on the
respective historical facts of byegone days, permit
me to call your attention, and that of your readers,
to the fact that on Christmas Day, 1835—just 31
years ago—some 30 or 40 people were drowned in
the Serpentine during the severe frost of that time,
on the ice giving way. I mention this to you 111
order to convince the public that the recent sad acci-
dent in the Regent's-park is not an unprecedented
one.—l remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
A LOVER OF HISTORICAL DATES AND FACTS.
Jan. 25, 1867.

Commutation of the Sentence upon the

Fenian Prisoners.

OFFICIAL DESPATCH OF EARL CAPNARVON•
MONTREAL, C.W., Jan. 10.

The following despatch, received by the Governor-
General of Canada from the Colonial Office, with
reference to the fate of the Fenian prisoners, has
just been made public :
" Downing-street, Nov. 24, 186 G.
"My Lord,—l have received your telegram
stating that you have reserved the sentences of the
Fenian convicts, and referring me to Mr. Seward's
communication to Sir F. Bruce upon the subject. I
have also received your despatch of Nov. 3, and the
reports of Fenian trials. Mr. Seward, I observe,
applies for a record of the judicial proceedings, and
I infer from the papers before me that the request
has been granted. I approve of your having done
so. At the same time, having regard to all the cir-
cumstances, I am anxious to guard myself from as-
senting to the proposition that this request could

have assumed the form of a demand founded upon
strict international right. An application by the
prisoners' counsel, through the United States Consul
in Canada, who has had all facilities granted him,
might have secured for Mr. Seward all that he de'
sires, and would have been more in accordance with
ordinary usage ; but while thus ready and anxious
to afford the convicts in question every chance of
interposing any plea for delay or extenuation which
may fairly be open to them through the proper au'
thorities of their country, I am bound to protect the
administration of justice in Canada from any claim
of supervision which might, on first perusal of Mr.
Seward's words, be thought to attach to them. Such
language might possibly be construed into a claim on
the part of the United States Government to inves:

tigate into and sit as a court of appeal upon the judi-
cial proceedings as carried on in Canada, and with
all the safeguards and sanctions of English juris-
prudence I am satisfied that no such claim could be

intended. It would be, indeed, a pretension that
the United States Government would probAblY be
the first to regret, not only because a nation so je'"
lous of its own honour would scrupulously abstain
from any request, a compliance with which we'll'
he inconsistent with the right.] and dignity of an in-
dependent State, but because the practice and
juris-
prudence of the two countries on such a question is,
I believe, almost if not quite identical. After a
careful perusal of the trial in Toronto, I am con-
vinced that not the faintest shadow of an imputa-
tion can, in the opinion of any reasonable person,
rest upon the perfect fairness of the proceedings 0r
the justice of the verdict. Not only was there De
curtailment of that full measure of liberty and means
of defence which is so essential an element in the
criminal jurisprudence both of the United States,
and of Great Britain, but every privilege that conic'
be conceded to the prisoners appears to have been
allowed. The case of the Crown was temperately
stated, the whole Court concurred in' the delays
which were asked and granted, and I observe that
even the prisoner Lynch bore witness to the fairness
and impartiality with which his case was tried. Ilex
Majesty's Government are requested to grant an
amnesty to these prisoners. They have man"
considered the question. They cannot shut their
eyes to the very heinous character of the offences'
It was neither more nor less than a wanton and law-
less attack with the avowed object of carrying fire
and sword into an inoffensive province. It has, in-
deed, providently proved to be as fruitless
ill its re-
sult as it was wicked in its design, which not 0011
contemplated murder and rapine in Canada, but the
possibility of embroiling two friendly nations in an
unnatural war. Her Majesty's Government are not
insensible to the resentment which the people of
Canada must feel. They have submitted, and sub-
mitted cheerfully, to great sacrifice of their time and
their professional avocations. Property has been
destroyed, trade interrupted, and I grieve to think:
valuable lives have been lost. Nor, again, has the
course which the associates and sympathisers with
these unhappy criminals adopted, the language
which they are reported to have held, and the idle
threats of rataliation that have been used by the/11
rendered it easier for the Canadian people or her
Majesty's Government to overlook the gravo cha-
racter of the offence ; but taking into account the
fact that nearly six months have now elapsed, and
that nnthing has occurred in the interval to de
tract from the complete success which crowned the
efforts of her Majesty's troops and the Canadian
volunteers in suppressing the Fenian invasion, and
readily accepting the opinion of yourself and Your
advisers in favour of clemency, her Majesty's Go-
vernment are disposed to hope that the ends of Jus-
tice and wise policy may be secured without re-
course to the extreme penalty of the law. I "'two
tier
therefore thought it my duty to recommend to
-the
Majesty to extend her prerogative of mercy to
der
prisoners Lynch and M‘Mahon, now lying nil
sentence of death, and to commute the sentence to
he
20 years' penal servitude or imprisonment, as t
ft
law of Canada may warrant you in assigning- the
is only to be hoped that this act of clemency oii
part of her Majesty may not be misunderstood, anco
that this punishment to which the capital sentcne.ty
have been commuted may be of sufficient severity
to warn others of the still graver consequences
•
la
which they will inevitably render themselves i 'la' j..
hy a repetition.of such insane and criminal preeee.
ings ; but if, unhappily, this hope should be 61151;
appointed, all such persons must be prepared
visited with the extreme penalty of the law',,

ave, &c.,

"CARNARVOS-

I trim STEAMSHIP FAlt EAST.--L3tters date—,1 th t
27th of December have been received from St. Aril'eeS!
Cape Verd. The Far East steamship was taking in ec:l t
She had encountered very heavy weather since th° (;l
left, on tbo 11th of December. When in the 13".
Biscay it increased to a terrific gale, at W.S.W, 61)1iVral
the vessel to lay to from the 13th to the 16th of Deetoe eve
the ship behaving remarkably well. She was t° 11$
for Calcutta the following day (December 28). Passento-
all well. the
RADLEY COLLEGE,—The examination for die
Scholarships commenced on the 23d. The following i 5

result :-1, Penrose ; 2, Bryans.
cr the
KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON.—There are anion,' a
list of wranglers the following students of the college 7th
school:—elifford, second wrangler; HuniphreYs, ,1e
wrangler of the college; Gathers, 12th wrangler; 1\78"-
ston, 21st wrangler 01 the