The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-13 00:00:00

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES

The Northern Free Press of Hamburgh has the
following from Rendaburg of the Bth :—" Since
eight o'clock this morning fighting has been going
on in our centre. The Danes attacked us with large
forces near Sorgbruk. We heard the cannon for
hours, but it gradually became more distant, and
for the last two hours we have heard nothing. It
is said that the Danes have been driven back to-
wards Kropp, and that we have made some pri-
soners; but it is probable that it is only a reconnais-
sance, and that the battle will take place to-morrow."
The following from Hamburgh of the 9th, appears
in the Brussels journals :—" We have this moment
learned that part of the Danish army yesterday at-
tacked that of Holstein on all the line; the at-
tack was principally made on the left and right
wings, the centre was only feebly assailed.
It is possible that the Danish general desired
to take advantage of the tumult occasioned in
Rendsburg by the explosion of the shell manufactory,
to make an attack. The result has been the aban-
donment by the first corps of light infantry of Hol-
stein of the town of Frederichstadt, situated in
Schleswig, and its retreat on this side of the Eider.
At about five o'clock a sharp cannonade was heard
between the centres of the two armies, both in the
Schleswig territory. If a second battle should take
place, the result will probably be known to-morrow."

COURSE OF EXCW
Amstercuun .... 12 1 %
Ditto, three months 12 2X,
Rotterdam .... .....• 12 2%
Antwerp .............. 25 57%
Brussels ...... 25 57%
Ilamburgh • . M.B. 13 10%
Paris, 3 days'sight 25 37%

kNGE.-(THIS DAY.)
ribraltar•• •••• •••• •• ••
Leghorn •• •••• •• •••••• 30 70
Genoa.....••••••••••• 26 0
Allan ..••••••••••••••

Misfiles •••••• •• •• •• 40%
ealerrno, peroz •••• • • •• 122
Messina ••••.•• • • • • • •• 122
Lisbon.. •••• .......... 53%
Oporto 53%
810 Janeiro .• .• •• • • • • --
Buenos Ayres
_ _

Ditto. 3 months .... 25 60-1
tiarsolues ............ 25 0
Bourdeaux.... ..... .
Frankfort o rklit sine 120%
8er1in..... •• •• •• •• •• --
Vienna, effec. Bo • .• 11 50
Trieste, ditto.... 11 50
letersbargl2, Sit. Eble .• 37%
Madrid ••• • • • •••• • • • 49%
Cadiz ••,•••••• •• •• •• 497,8
Barcelona • • • • • • • • • • ••
Seville• • •• •• • . • • • • • •

New York, 60 days'elght

Philadelphia .. :....-..:

PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold In bars.. £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
New Dollars .... • . 0 4 10
Silver in bars ........ 0 4 11%

THE CIVIL LIST.

The following protest has been entered upon the
journals of the House of Lords : ,
1. Because the Civil List arrangement is framed upon
statements laid before Parliament, with the full know-
ledge of the Ministers of the Crown, those statements
being in the nature of estimates upon which the grant of
income is to be made.
2. Because those statements contain a minute detail of
the expenses for which provision is made, including the
salaries of officers, and even the wages of servants, and
the grant is made on the supposition by all parties to the
arrangement that such salaries are to be always paid.
3. Because, even as to the other heads of expenditure
provided for, there is an understanding of all parties that
nearly the same sums will be required during the conti-
nuance of the arrangement.
4. Because no supposition ever entered the mind of
Parliament in making the grant, that large savings were
to be effected out of the income granted, and on the
contrary the accumulation of wealth in the hands of the
Sovereign is wholly alien to the spirit of our constitu-
tion, which requires the Monarch to be dependent apon
Parliament for the revenue by which his state and dig-
nity shall be supported.
5. Because any such accumulation by means of savings
upon the Civil List has a direct tendency to diminish the
splendour and impair the dignity of the Crown, and so to
defeat the very purposes of the grant.
6. Because, for these reasons, it is the undoubted right
of Parliament to obtain information from time to time
touching the amount of the savings under the several
heads of the Civil List expenditure, and the rather be-
cause if there were a deficit, instead of a saving, Parlia-
ment would be of course applied to for aid, whereas the
public never can directly benefit by any surplus, how
considerable soever.

7. Because the amount of such savings must form an
important matter in considering the applications from
time to time made for Parliamentary aid in the esta-
blishment of the younger branches of the Royal Family
during the reign of the Sovereign to whom the grant of
the Civil List income was made, as well as in future ar-
rangements which the wisdom of Parliament may make
with respect to the rights and claims of the Crown.
8. Because no possible risk to the subsistence of the
Civil List arrangement made with the Sovereign at the
commencement of the present reigrecan arise from giving
the information sought; and there can be no indelicacy in
disclosing the amount of the savings supposed, on good
grounds, to have been effected, inasmuch as those savings
must by law be made known to departments of the Go-
vernment which are under no obligation to conceal them,
and it must- be made known under which head of the
Civil List expenditure the saving, if any, has been made,
or the deficiency, if any, has arisen.
9. Because the accounts before Parliament appear ti'
state the amount of the savings—for example, 38,7501.
for the year ending the sth of April, 1850; and if this is
an incorrect statement—or if in reality the statement
bears reference to some other matter than that which it
seems to regard, justice to all par ties requires that this
should be explained and set right. Bat if, as appears,
such savings have been effected, there can be no reason
why Parliament should not be informed of the branches
of expenditure on which they have been so effected.
10. Because it appears that, independent of the Civil
List revenue. and of 12.0001. paid last year into the
privy purse from the revenue of the Duchy of Lancaster,
29,0001. have been paid from the revenue of the Duchy
of Cornwall for the service of the Duke of Cornwall—a
service which, at that Illustrious Prince's tender age,
can hardly require so large a provision; and no one has
ever contended that into such an expenditure Parlia-
ment has not both the right fully to inquire, and the
practice of so inquiring.
(Signed)

BROUGHAM.

ROYAL CORK YACHT CLUB.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—Having seen in The Sun of Friday an article
headed "A Cup and not a Cup," copied from the Cork
Examiner, and which you justly call a strange para-
graph, may I beg the favour of your inserting the
contradiction, which appeared in the following paper,
a copy of which I enclose..
I have the honour to be, yours, &c.,
HORACE. T. N. MEADE,
Hon. Sec. R.C.Y.C.
Club-house, Queenstown, Aug. 10.

We, the undersigned, members of the Royal Cork
Yacht Club and Managers of the Regatta, 1850, having
read in the Cork Examiner of August 7, 1850, an article
headed " A Cup or not a Cup," feel ourselves called
upon to state that no such correspondence took place as
alluded to; and that the entire article is false and with-
out the slightest foundation.
Thomas George Frencb,Vice-Admiral,R.C.Y.C.
George B. Jeffreys, Flag-Lieut., one of the
managing committee.
Robert Hare,
P. S. French,
Samuel Hodder,
W. F. Wentworth, R.Y.C., Hon. Secretary
Regatta,
James Roche,
Edmond Morony,
O'Neill Ferguson,
Godfrey T. Baker, steward,
Edward H. Newenham.
Bartholomew Verling, one of the managing
committee, •
Eyre Massey Shaw, steward,
James Ronayne,
A. L. Newman, Hon. Treasurer,
Horace T. N. Meade, Hon. Sec. to the Regatta
and Club.

FRIGHTFUL DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY.—.-011
Friday evening Kr. W. Carter, the coroner, held an inquest
at the Royal George Tavern, Doddington-grove, Kennington,
respecting the death of Miss Sophia Beard, aged 30, who was
found dead in a garden at the rear of the residence of Mr.
Gunthorpe, a retired medical gentleman, living at No. 51,
Newington-place, near Kennington-common. On Thursday
evening Mr. Gunthorpe had a party of young ladies, and at
twelve o'clock the deceased retired to rest very cheerful. At
five o'clock the next morning the family were alarmed by
hearing the barking of a dog, and on going down stairs the
deceased was found lying in the garden in her night-dress
quite dead, having fallen from her bed-room window, where
it is supposed she had been attending to some flowers, as was
her custom. Ihe jury, af,er a long inquiry, returned a ver-
dict of " Accidental death."
ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY.—On Saturday last the
yearly meeting of the members of this society took place at
their gardens in the Regent's Park, when the chair was
taken by Masterton Ure, Esq-, in the absence of the Duke
of Norfolk, E.M., the President. The different reports of
the council, the auditors, and the curator, afforded material
evidences of the advance made during the season, and of
the increasing prosperity of the institution. The fellows
passed a resolution recommending to the council the imme-
diate erection of a building for museum, lecture-room, &c.
and a considerable amount of subscriptions was reported
during the meeting to have been received for this express
object. The following eight fellows were elected members of
the council for the ensuing year, in the place of those going
out by rotation :—The Duke of Beaufort, Sir E. Kerrison,
J. Olive, Esq., J. Hardwick, Esq., J. Heywood, Esq., M.P.,
the Bishop (.t Durham, Lord SJndes. and Viscount Har-
ding° ; and the Duke of Norfolk and Edward I,larjoribanks,
Esq., were re-elected respectively president and treasurer.
The financial statements contained detailed accounts of the
increased receipts from the subscriptions of members and
the exhibitions of plants and flowers. The total income of
the society from its various sources during the year ending
the 15th ultimo, had amounted to the large sum of 14,180/.
165., and the expenditure to 10,460/. 6s. 10d., leaving a
balance of 3,7004 9s. 2d. cash in hand. After the votes of
thanks usual on such occasions bad been passed, the meet-
ing adjourned.
On the 19th ult. the ship Charles Crooker, Duncan
master, cleared from Charleston for Liverpool with 523 bales
of Sea Island and 3,667 bales of Upland cotton, weighing
1,681,0581b5., valued at 230,385 dollars 83 cents. ; being the
largest and most valuable cargo ever exported from that port.
A female died in one of the second-class ciead by therriages
on the South Wales Railway on Friday last, near Cardiff. A
jury was summoned, who returned a verdict of ~ p
Visitation of God."—Cantirian.