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

HAY.

SMITIIFIELD.—Moadow hay, £3 Os to £4 15s ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 15s Od ; and straw, £1 IGs to £2 4s per load.
Supply moderate.
CUMBERLAND.—Mcadow hay, £3 5s to £4 15s; clover,
£4 Os to £5 12s 6d ; and straw, £1 185 to £2 5s per load.
A moderato demand.
WHITECHAPEL.—Moaciow hay, £3 Os to £4'lss ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 15s oa ; and straw, .£1 IGs to £2 4s per load.
Trade quiot.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
(This Day.)

Market opens quiet.
bales.

Sales probably 8,000

Incorporation of Hesse-Homburg with
Prussia.

Homßurm, 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 assembled 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 :--
" Nov 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 differen
arrangements, every public office will be adminis.
tered in the manlier 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.
" WILLIAM.
_

" 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. Nlay God grant it.
" Berlin, Jan. 12." " WrLLIAII.
As the last words were spoken the Prussian flag
was hoisted upon the flagstaff of the castle, and
saluted by the troops. Baron von Patow 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 liodelheitn, and the portion of the district of
Nieder-Irrsel, hitherto belonging to Hesse in the
Prussian kingdom, 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 L IndBraviate should cease to I.;^ an in-le-
pendent State.

" 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.

" 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.
" 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 p atent 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-hcrificing Christian love in the
days of rev:val.

"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-
deuce 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' I-TALL—The following gentlemen
passed their examination in the science and prac-

tico of Medicine, and received certificates to practise :
On Thursday, the 17th of Janualy— 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-ztreet, Pimlico ; Reginald
_Ugh Wall, 4, Bishop's-road, Bayswater; Nathaniel Heck-
ford, London Hospital. The following gentleman also on
the 17th January passed his first examination:— Behnard
Renshaw, St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
CITY OF LONDON SCHOOL.—Out of the list of
Wranglers recently published at the University

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. 11. Hum-

phreys, who was for six years a pupil in the same school,
was fifth wrangler; and Mr. W. 11. Chaplin, Travers
scholar of the City of Loutlou Schuul, was twentieth
wrangler.

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HER MAJESTY, &e.

OSBORNE, Jan. 25.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise,
Princess Beatrice, and the Duchess D'Aurnale,
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 Elphinstone.
Prince and Princess Christian and the Duke and
Duchess d'Aumale 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 TIIE 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,
ou the ice giving way. I mention this to you in
order to convince the public that the recent sad acci-
dent in the Regent's-park is not an unprecedented
one.—l remain, Sir, you► obedient servant,

A LOVER OF HISTORICAL DATES AND FACTS.
Jan. 25, 1867.

Commutation of the Sentence upon the

Fenian Primers.

OFFICIAL DESPATCII OF EARL CARNARVON•
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, 1866.
"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 otservel
applies fur 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 courtof appeal upon thejudi-
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 jea-
lous of it-, own honour would scrupulously abstain
from any request, a compliance with which worJd
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 rersonable person,
rest upon the perfect fairness of the proceedings or
the justice of the verdict. Not only was there ne
curtailment of that full measure of liberty and means
of defence which is so c-sential an element in the
criminal jurisprudence both of the United States
and of Great Britain, but every privilege that could
be conceded to the prisoners appears to have been
allowed. The case of the Crown wrs 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
andimpartiality with which his case was tried. Tier
Majesty's Government are requested to grant an
amnesty to these prisoners. They have carefully
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-

le-s attack with the avowed object of carrying fire
and sword into an inoffensive province. It has, in-
deed, providently proved to be as fruitless its re-
sult as it was wicked in its design, which not only
contemplated murder and rapine in Canada, but the
of (I:al.:roiling two fi.ki:cliy nations iu all
unnatural war. Her Majesty's Government are net
insensible to the resentment which the people 'ef
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 them
rendered it easier for the Canadian people or her
Majesty's Government to overlook the grave cha-
racter of the offence ; but taking iuto 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 hor 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 Ge"
verument are disposed to hope that the ends of j 00"
tice and wise policy may be secured without re-
course to the extreme penalty of the law. I have
therefore thought it my duty to recommend to her
Majesty to extend her prerogative of mercy to the
prisoaers Lynch and M'Mahon, now lying under
sentence of death, and to commute the sentence to
20 years' penal servitude or imprisonment, as tilte
law of Canada may warrant you in assigning. "0
is only to be hoped that this act of clemency on
part of her Majesty may not be misunderstood, ant'
that this punishment to which the capital sentenees
have been commuted may be of sufficient severity
to warn others of the still graver cou.sequences 0
ble
which they will inevitably render themselves liad_
by a repetition of such insane and criminal vrocecfis_
ings ; but unhappily, this hope should be be
appointed, all such persons must be prepared to
visited with the extreme penalty of the laWc-,
have, &e., CARNAPSOS•

1 FILE STEAMSIIIP FAR. EAst—Letters dated the
27th of December have been received from St. Viricerit'
Cape Verd. The Far East steamship was taking in ccs;1105;
She had encountered very heavy weather since the P'7-f
left, on the 11th of Dec:mbar. When in the 1335c°g
Biscay it increased to a terrific gale, at W.S.W., r
the vessel to lay to from the 13th to the 16th of Decon!'ef
the ship behaving remarkably well. She was to lefty:
for Calcutta the following day (December 98). Passerer

all well. the
RADLEY COLLEGE,—The examination for
Scholarships commenced on the 23d. The following 16 °
,b
result :-1, Penrose ; 2, Dryans. the
KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON.—Therc arc among
list of wranglers the following students of the college fl„
school:—Clifford, second wrangler; Humphreys, r,
wrangler of the college; Garners, 12th Wrangler;
6tonj 21st wrauglyr