The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-05 00:00:00

PRUSSIA AND DENMARK

These changes of expression having been adopted by
the Plenipotentiaries of Denmark, France, Great Britain,
Russia, and Sweden and Norway, the Charge d'Affaires
~t Austria expressed his desire to submit them preala-
bly to the approval of his Court.
It was consequently resolved to proceed to the execu-
tion cf the protocol, leaving it open for the Court of
Austria.

The same decision was taken with reference to the
Court of Prussia, whose representative did not attend
this meetirg.
KOLLER. PALMERSTON.
REVENTLOW. BRUNNOW.
E. DROITYN DE LHITTS. J. E. REHAUSEN.

PROTOCOL (B) OF THE CONFERENCE HELD AT
THE FOREIGN-OFFICE ON THE 2d OF AUGUST,
1850.

PRESENT:
The Plenipotentiaries of
Austria,
Denmark,
France,
Great Brita;n,
Russia,
Sweden and Norway.
His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, the President of
the French Republic, her Majesty the Queen of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, his
Majesty the King of Prussia, his Majesty the Em-
peror of All the Hussies, and his Majesty the
King of Sweden and Norway, considering that
the maintenance of the integrity of the Danish
Monarchy, connected with the general interests of the
balance of Europe, is of high importance to the preser-
vation of peace, have resolved, on the request of his
Majesty the King of Denmark, to establish (constater)
the perfect harmony which subsists between their Ca-
binets as to the maintenance of this principle, and
have authorised their Plenipotentiaries in conference
assembled to put forth in their name the following de-
claration:—

Section 1.
The unanimous desire of the aforesaid Powers ia, that
the state of the possessions at present united under the
dominion of his Danish Majesty be maintained in its
integrity.

Section 2.
In consequence they acknowledge the wisdom of the
views which determine his Majesty the King of Den.
mark to regulate eventually the order of the succession
in his Royal House so as to facilitate the arrangements by
which the aforesaid object may be attained without
impairing the relations of the Duchy of Holstein with
the Germanic Confederation.

Section 3.
They rejoice that the negotiations opened at Berlin
under the mediation of Great Britain have already led
to the signature of a treaty between Denmark and
Prussia in her own name and in the name of the Ger-
manic Confederation—a treaty which it is their firm
hope will have for its results the restoratio❑ of peace.
Section 4.
Wishing on their side to manifest from this time their
desire to facilitate, as far as in them lies, the conclusion
of the arrangements mentioned in Art. 11. of the present
protocol, the above-mentioned Powers reserve to them-
selves to enter upon a future agreement in order to give
an additional pledge of stability to these arrangements
by an act of European recognition. It is agreed that
this deliberation will take place in London, and that
the said Powers shall furnish their representatives with
the fall powers necessary for this purpose.
RETENTLOW. BRUNNOW.
E. DROUSN DE LHUYS. J. E. REHAUSEN.
PALMERSTON.

O THE SECRETARY OF THE
BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION.
Sir,—On Wednesday the 31st of July, the Sun-
day Trading Prevention Bill, immediately after a
division in favour of going forward of 71 to 36, was
abandoned ; leaving reason to regret, that the oppor-
tunity had not been taken for corning to a composition
favourable to the interests of the public. The Bill
as sent from the Lords was almost entirely a Bill of
relaxation and virtual repeal, and not of increased
restriction. But this the opposition could not see ;
though there can be little doubt that the Sabbatarians
must have had a painful perception, that the title of
the Bill was nearly all on which they could fairly
plume themselves.
The sitting was in the new House ; which has been
underdrawn with deal, as an experiment to improve
the hearing. It appears too that the underdrawing is
"ascending and descending ;" for• the purpose of try-
ing the effect at various heights. The herring, in the
present state, may be said to be improved by about
two-thirds of the original difference between the two
Houses. The case where inferiority was not kensible,
was where a Member spoke with his back close to the
wall ; when he was remarkably badly heard on the
opposite side. Which is the manifest result of the
bottom of the gallery overhead, presenting a surface
parallel to the horizon, instead of an inclined one.
On Thursday August Ist, the Attorney. General
gave notice of his intention on Monday the 3th to
move two Resolutions, to the effect that the Member
for London was not entitled to take his seat " until he
shall take the Oath of Abjuration in the form ap-
pointed by Law," and that the House would take the
form of the Oath into its serious consideration at the
earliest opportunity in the next session. Which is a
decision on the part of the Government, uttered be-
fore the pleadings had been heard.
Here then is a man acknowledged to have a right
to swear according to the formulas of his own re-
ligion, that religion being thereby recognised as not
being the Christian. And when this man has been
brought into the presence of the Deity, and allowed
to take two oaths in his own forms, which is as re-
mote from anything within the view of the framers
of the oaths as anything it is possible to superadd,—
at that moment, he so standing in the presence of the
Deity whom it is pretended to reverence, the quibble
is put i❑ by words, which had just been given up in
substance, and the man who was permitted and autho-
rized to appeal to the Deity as a non-Christian, is
pulled up with the words "on the true faith of a
Christian," as if it was not as palpable that these
were as much parts of the alterable form, as the New
Testament which has been exchanged for the Old.
Surely there will be a judgment for these things ; not
in the shape of a potato-rot or a cholera, as would
have suggested itself to our ancestors, but in the
shape of a falling away anti diminution of reve-
rence for the Government under which such things
are done.
On Friday Mr. Hume gave notice of his two
Amendments on the Attorney-General's Resolutions.
The first is to the effect that the Member for London
by taking his seat and voting, will be exposed to no
penalties but what may be recovered from him in a
court of law; and the other presents but slight dif-
ference from the corresponding one of the Attorney-
General.
The object in these, it may be surmised, is to
secure the Member fur London from the seat being
declared vacant. Whether it may be his intention to
sport 500/. upon the question of what the courts of
law may or may not say to him for a single vote,
time must show. There might perhaps be policy in
it ; and after the House has chosen to leave the point
open, there can be no apparent objection to its being
put into the hands of the courts of law. The courts
would interfere or they would not. If they inter
fered, there is a good opportunity for fighting up the
case before the public. If they did not, it is scarcely
possible the case should not be found stronger in
consequence.

At the same time it is impossible to give up the
conviction, that the House will lose an opportunity
of maintaining its estimation in the public eye, if it
declares that it dares decree the substitution of the
Old Testament for the New where it is as clear as the
day that nothing of the kind was within the contem-
plation of the framers of the oath, and dares not decree
the substitution of " true faith of a believer in the Old
Testament" for "true faith of a Christian," which is
only a continuation of the same license.
As to the words " true faith," nothing is plainer
than that according to the allowed interpretation of
the House, they mean " true belief of religious obli-
gation," and have no reference, except in the fancy of
a score or two of antiquated theologians, to anything
like what the Inquisition means when it talks about
the "true faith." The "true faith" of the Member
for the University of Oxford, is in this sense not the
" true faith" of the Unitarian on the opposite benches.
So far from this, that one would perhaps willingly
make over the other to " the civil arm" of the Statute
of 'William again if he could. But both of these are
the House of Commons' " true faith ;" the House of
Commons' " true faith," therefore, is the " true
faith" of the utterer, and not of the Inquisitor. The
Citizens are slower than they used to be, if know-
ledge on these points does not gain ground within the
hearing of Bow bell.
In the course of the evening sitting, the Prime Mi-
nister declared, that if on Monday the Member for
London should claim to be heard by counsel, he should
not oppose it. This looks like a willingness to assist.
An opportunity is plainly given for the whole case
being re-opened, with any improvements which the
power of playing the game twice over may suggest.
On Saturday the House sat for a couple of hours,
to receive Reports, and forward other business of
routine.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
AN OLD REFORMER.

Loudon, Aug. 5, 1850.

Dispatches for the Governor of New Zealand
were sent off from the Colonial-office on Saturday
eveuiDg.

PROTOCOL(A) OF THE CONFERENCE H ELD AT THE
FOREIGN-OFFICE ON THE 2d OF AUGUST, 1850.
PRESENT:
The Chargé d'Affaires of Austria.
The Minister of Denmark.
The Ambassador of France.
The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of her
Britannic Majesty.
The Minister of Russia.
The Minister of Sweden and Norway.
The representatives of these Powers in conference
assembled at the Foreign-office have taken into consi-
deration the changes to be made in the protocol of the
4th of July, in consequence of the conclusion of the
treaty of peace signed at Berlin on the 2d of that
month.