The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-04 00:00:00

THE STATES OF HOLSTEIN.

The following is an analysis of a declaration
made by the Danish Envoy to the Germanic Diet,

on the 27th ult. :

" The Danish Government desires to prove tha
the Provisional Constitution offered to the States
of Holstein, assures to them a completely inde-
pendent position, equal to that of the Supreme
Council. The Danish Government, in conse-
quence, considers that it has responded in fact,
and in so far as is compatible with the mainte-
nance of the unity of the monarchy recognised in
1852, by the Confederation, to the requirements
of the Federal resolution of the 7th Febraary.
Such is the state of things as regards Art.
13 of the Provisional Constitution. By that
Article, the budget of the current year has been
submitted to the assent of the State. The Diet
had not reqUired that this budget should be for-
mally set aside, but only that the States should
give their assent to it. That assent was refused,
not on account of the budget itself, but because,
like some other measures presented by the Govern-
ment, which was also rejected, the States laid down
as an express condition the establishment of a
political order of things contrary to the settle-
ment of 1852, that is to say, an exclusive politi-
cal union with the Duchy of S3hleswig—a mat-
ter which is neither within their jurisdiction nor
in that of the Diet. But the Government can-
not think itself bound to accord impossible and
inadmissible conditions of that kind, and it
sincerely regrets not to have been able to do more
towards the accomplishment of the Federal.resolu-
tion. The position of the Government and the
States with respect to Article 13, was very diffe-
rent, so long as the Government was able to
hope for the adoption of the provisional Con-
stitution. When once the rejection of that
Constitution had become certain, the States
were immediately called on to adopt or re-
ject the decision relative to the Budget inde-
pendently of the rest of the Constitution.
The King, it is true, has reserved his sanc-
tion; but this is in conformity with the Federal
laws, and there would be no reason to complain of
that course unless the Government had rejected
propositions and resolutions of the States ; but
that eventuality did not arise. The declaration
then enters into explanatory details respecting
the propositions submitted to the States of Hol-
stein, insists on the practical difficulties which the
question presents, and endeavours to prove that
the States of Holstein had no right to intervene
in the other parts of the monarchy. It concludes
as follows :—" The Government is charged with
the duty of protecting the interests of all parts of
the country, and cannot permit the representatives
of one of those parts to place themselves above the
Sovereign. On the whole, if the States of Holstein
only demand independence as regards their special
affairs, and even their contribution to the common
expenses of the monarchy, the Government is ready
to satisfy their wishes, and believed that it had
done so by the last propositions; but it cannot
admit that the States of Holstein shall place
Schleswig under their jurisdiction, and shall be
allowed to discuss the budget of Sehleswig and of
Denmark.'"

ALLEGED EXTENSIVE FORGERlES.—Yesterday
John Soloman, charged with conducting an immense busi-
ness upon the basis of forged bills, both at Liverpool and
London, was brought before the Liverpool magistrates and
remanded.
ROBBERY OF £6OO IN MANCHESTER.—yesterday,
at noon, a robbery of a serious nature was committed at
the warehouse of Messrs. Milne and Saville, 22A Mosley-
street. From such information as we have received, it
appears it was the habit of the firm to lock the warehouse
up during dinner hour, between one and two o'clock, and
to lock the cash up in a cupboard in the counting-house.
Yesterday this was done as usual, but at two o'clock the
back door, which opens into Back Mosley-street, was found
open. This had no doubt been unlocked by a skeleton key,
or by some one who had obtained possession of the proper
key of the door. On entering the counting-house it was
found that the cupboard in which the cash was kept had
been unlocked, and a bag containing £6OO in gold and silver
stolen. Although this cupboard had been locked, and the
key taken away before dinner, unfortunately the key had
been left in the lock of another cupboard which would also
unlock the cupboard from which the cash was stolen. This
had no doubt been used, and the money thus easily got at.
—Manchester Examiner.

THE STRIKE IN THE BUILDING TRADE.—Last
evening a crowded public meeting of operatives connected
with the building trades was held at the Temperance Hall,
Beresford-Street, Woolwich, to protest against the system of
payment by the hour, and for the adoption of measures to
assist the metropolitan workmen now unemployed in con-
sequence of their refusal to accede to such conditions. The
chair was occupied by Mr. Neble, who briefly alluded to
the recent dispute between several large firms and their
workmen, and expressed an opinion that the men would
never succumb to the debasing hour system, and the masters
must give way on that pointy or the result would be another
general movement for the nine hours. A number of
speakers addressed the meeting, and resolutions in accor-
dance with the objects for which it was convened were
passed.
THE STRIKES AT BOLTON.—Wednesday being the
day appointed by the associated masters for closing their
mills, in the event of the self •acting winders refusing to
resume work, a meeting of the members was held in the
everting, at the Swan Hotel, to determine what course they
ought to pursue, those hands being still determined not to
accept the reduction of five per cent. A deputation from
the operative spinners, accompanied by Mr. David Ilolt,
again obtained an interview with the masters, in order to
urge upon them the serious consequences of a general stop-
page of the mills, now that the lyt.nds had submitted to the
terms of their employers, and left themselves without sup •
port from other towns. The resu!t of the meeting was,
that the mills should stop until all the hands returned to
their work. This determination being unexpected, has
created a great senstvion in the town.
DRAINING A BATTLE FIELD.—A few days since,
as a gang of drainers were at work in a field near Little
Clanfield, they exhumed some human skeletms, and upon
further search from 300 to 400 were discovered. Amongst
them were many bones of horses. The whole were, no
doubt, the slain who fell in one of the fights known to have
taken place in this locality between Cromwell's forces and
tUe Royalists,—ShreicsMq Jo(rna(.