The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-21 00:00:00

THE DANISH QUESTION.

The following are the proposals made to the
Frankfort Diet in the sitting of the 17th instant,
relative to the Holstein question. The United
Committee proposed that the Diet should decree :
"1. That the financial patent of the 25th Sep-
tember, 1859, and all the laws consequent there-
upon, especially the financial law of the 3d July,
1860, are illegal as long as they have not received
the sanction of the Estates of Holstein-Lauenburg.
•' 2. To call for explanations from the Royal
Ducal Government respecting the fulfilment of the
proasorium to be established according to the
Federal Decree of the Bth March, 1860.

" 3. To allow a delay of six weeks to the Royal
Ducal Government, after the expiration of which
the decree of the 12th August, 1858 (preparation for
execution) shall be resorted to."
The Assembly decreed that the deliberation and
vote should take place within three weeks from the
present date.

AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN, SUNDAY.

The Royal Mail steamship Canada, from Boston
on the 9th, and Halifax on the 10th inst., arrived
here at 8 p.m., landed all mails except those for
Liverpool, and proceeded at 8.30 p.m. She brings
88 passengers.
The steamships America and Palestine, from
Liverpool, had arrived out.
Advices from Washington to the Bth inst., state
that the Government was sending small detach-
ments of troops to the South. Mr. Thompson,
Secretary of the Interior, had resigned, on account,
it was said, of the despatch of reinforcements for
Fort Sumpter. Much distress was reported at
Charleston. The majority at New Orleans for im-
mediate secession was 318. No plan of adjustment
had yet been adopted by Congress.

Later advices from Mexico state that Miramon
had been entirely defeated, and had fled. The
Liberals took possession of the capital on Christmas-
ART' All was sun/Inc:pa fn ,led.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, JAN. 8 (EVENING).
But little change has taken place in either money
or stock.
New York Centrals are quoted 781 ; Illinois,
77 ; Erie, 35 to 36 ; 46 to 47.
Exchange inactive at 1011 to 103 ; and bills at
three days' sight are quoted 1061 to 107.
Breadstuffs are heavy. Flour closed at a decline
of sc. to 10c. per barrel ; sales, 14,000 barrels.
Cotton firmer; sales, 4,000 bales ; middling Upland,
12/c. Provisions stiff. Freight engagements
moderate.

NEW ORLEANS, JAN. 8.
The cotton market is dull; middling is quoted
111 a. Freights for cotton to Liverpool, 11-16 d.
(LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO HALIFAX.)
NEW YORK, JAN. 10.

Advices from Washington state that the Presi-
dent, in his special Message, throws the responsi-
bility on Congress, and suggests the restoration of
the Missouri Compromise.
The Star of the West, with reinforcements for
Major Anderson, having been fired into at Charles-
ton, has put to sea without landing the troops.
The sloop of war Brooklyn has sailed for Charles-
ton.

The Mississippi convention has passed an ordi-
nance for immediate secession.

Mr. Seward has accepted the office of Premier
under Lincoln.

CABINET COUNCIL.—The members of the Cabinet
received summonses on Saturday to attend a Cabinet
Council on Friday next, the 25th inst. Most, if not all,
the Ministers are expected to attend the meeting.

THE COMMAND AT MADRAS.—Lieutenant-General
Sir James Hope Grant, G.C.8., will succeed to the post of
Commander-in-Chief at Madras, in the room of Lieutenant-
General Sir Patrick Grant, K.C.8., whose period of service
will shortly expire.—Army and Navy Gazette.
THE ALPINE TUNNEL.—The works of the tunnel
through Mount Cenis have been suspended—some say,
owing to want of funds, while others assert that difficulties
of execution have appeared. This latter seems to be the
more probable supposition, for the Sardinian Government
regard the opening of this tunnel as an event of great im-
portance, and are not likely to allow the works to languish
from want of funds.

SERIOUS LOSSES AT SEA.—During the week, up
to last night, no less than 360 ve3sels were reported at
Lloyd's to have met with damage in the late severe gales
and fogs, of which upwards of 50 became total wrecks.
Amongst the casualties the Prince Alfred steamer is re-
ported to be wrecked at Flambro' Head, a loss of £30,000 ;
as also the Westley, iron screw steamer, of 800 tons, belong-
ing to the Mayor of Hull, homeward bound from the
Baltic ; and also the Bothema, from the north of Europe,
for London.

THE MIGNONETTE.—PLYMOUTH, Saturday.—ln
consequence of the undaunted courage of Captain Selerby
and the crew of the Mignonette, in leaving Surinam when
dange?ously sick, and in bringing the brig, with her cargo
of sugar, safe to England, the underwriters at Lloyd's have,
through Mr. Collier, their agent here, paid them the sum
of £loo—viz., one-half to the master, the other half to the
men. Joseph Hale, mate, James Freake, steward, Frederick
Bay and Adolphe Norvesky, seamen, and John Mew, boy,
all of whom were severely affected with fever and ague, left
the Sailors' Home yesterday and to-day for their various
residences. They received their wages up to the last day,
and the entire cost of their board, the charges of the medical
attendance, and the fares by steamer and rail have been
defrayed by the ship. _ _

SCOTLAND.—The Registrar-General for Scotland
in his monthly report for the eight principal towns (with a
population estimated at 908,646) states that the marriages
in December, 843 in number, were more than he had ever
before registered for that month—a circumstance which he
considers speaks well for the commercial prosperity of the
country, and on which, for another reason, Scotland is to
be congratulated. In Aberdeen, in the same month, one
child in every five born was illegitimate. The deaths-
-2,32 B—were also above the average. Zymotic diseases
caused 27 per cent. of the mortality ; in Dundee, where
smallpox and scarlet fever prevailed, no less than 46 per
cent. Inflammatory affections of the respiratory organs
were unusually fatal, constituting 18'3 per cent. of the
total mortality, in consequence of the cold, but Scotland
does not appear to have suffered so severely in that respect
as might have been expected from its high latitudp. In
Edinburgh the thermometer in December did not go below
IF3 degs., and even in Aberdeen not below 7 degs. ; but
some parts more southerly did not fare so well, for in Glas-
gow the thermometer fell to —3 degs., and in Paisley to
—5 degs. In this last town it was also as high as 51 dogs.,
so that the range of temperature in the course of the month !
was no less than 56 degs.