The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-22 00:00:00

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.

A letter from Copenhagen of the 12th inst. gives
some further account of the modification of the Danish
Ministry. The Count de Moltke, lately Minister of
Foreign Affairs, remains President of the Council, a
post which he has occupied since 1848. The port-
folio of Foreign Affairs passes into the hands of M.
Reedlz de Palsgasid, well known in diplomatic mat-
ters, who, conjointly with M. de Pechlin, Danish Mi-
nister at the Diet of Frankfort, c:included last month
the treaty of peace with Prussia. M. D'laminger is
appointed Minister of Marine ad interim, and Count
de Reventlow-Criminil has the ad interim portfolio of
the Interior and of Justice.
Letters from Hambnrgh state that the inaction of
the armies is generally attributed to the efforts of the
envoys of the foreign powers, who, it is said, have
been sent into the two camps to prevent the renewal
of hostilities.

The Cologne Gazette state?, on the authority of a
letter from Lubeck, that orders had been sent by the
Russian Government to Cronstadt to have all the
vessels of war in that port immediately fitted out, and
sent on the 15th to join the fleet off the coast of Den-
mark.

YORK AUGUST MEETING.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
(Continued from our Third Edition).
The County Plate.

Six o'CLocs.

No business doing.

RATING
(13 and 14 Victoria. cap- 99)'
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SMALL TENEMENTS,--By an Act now in
passed on the 14 in
rates in respect of small tenements, i' is provided that ves-
or the better assessing and collecting the poor and hith ghway
tries are to determine whether 6/. tenements shall be
rated the
rated to
the owners instead of the occupiers, and when thus
owners are to be rated on a reduced scale. The goo !s of the
occupiers are to be liable for the rates as well as the goods of
the owners. Municipal privileges are not to be taken away
from occupiers by rating the owners, but owners of tene-
ments held for longer periods than from year to y.
The
ear are
entitled to add the rent to the amount paid for rates
Act extends only to England and Wales.

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ITALY.
Some of the Piedmontew journals say that the
french Government is disposed to act as inedi itor in
the differences which have arisen between the Sar-
dinian Government and Rome.
The Piedmontese Gazette of the 17th states that
friendly ralatioi s have been completely re-established
between the Sardinian Government and the Argen-
tine Republic.
The Piedmontese Government has just ordered the
expulsion from its territory of two Lombard refugee?,
M. Mauro Macchi, a writer in the Italia, and M.
Bianchi Giovini, a writer in the Opinione.

THE INUNDATIONS IN BELGIUM.
the Brussels journals of Tuesday announce that
the waters had entirely ceased that morning in the
city and the greater part of the faubourgs, and that
the inhabitants were engaged in emptying their cel-
lars. It was on Saturday ;,,night at nine o'clock
that the inundation ceased to rise. It remained
stationary some time, and then began slowly to de-
cline. At midnight on Saturday the fall was 4
centimetres ; at ten o'clock on Sunday night
10 centimetres, and at seven o'clock on Monday
morning it was 1 metre 13 centimetres. During the
inundation the Bourgmetr, s e tuned cart loads of bread
and fresh water to be conveyed to the populations of
the submerged quarters. In the evenings the gas
lamps could not be lighted, and torches were at-
tached to the pillars. On Sunday the waters rushed
from the Canal de Charleroi down the Rue de Flandre
with the rapidity of a torrent. The damage done is
very considerably, but, on the whole, it appears that
fewer lives have been lost than might have been ex-
pected. Subscriptions have been opened for the re-
lief of the sufferers, and in several streets boxes have
been placed to receive contributions. Large crowds
had begun to visit the places in which the ravages had
been greatest.
Letters from Louvain, Hal, Vilvorde, Beverne,
Melsele, Calloo, Doel, Kieldricht, Namur, Mons,
Marbes-le• Chateau, and innumerable other towns
and give
painful accounts of the damage
done floods. In some places houses have been
villages,
thrown down, in others bridges carried away, in
others trees uprooted, in all crops and property to
an immense amount destroyed. All the letters, how-
ever, represent that the floods were retiring.

Harriott ••• ••• ... ..• 1
Tightwaist ••• •••
••• 2
THE EBOR HANDICAP.

Mark Tapley ... . ••• ••• ••• 1
Clothworker ... ... ... 2
Champion ••• ...
••• ... ...
Eleven ran.

TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING•

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NORTIJF,RIV CIRCUI I.—Liverpool, Aug 21.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice Wioirr-
MAN)
William Threlfall, a respectable .looking man, and
formerly a large manufacturer in Yorkshire, was
placed at the bar, charged, on three indictment., with
forgery—on the first, with forging a bill of exchange
for 1,000/., with intent to defraud Charles Tyson ;
on the second, with having forged and uttered the
acceptance of Joseph Ryland, the manager of the Hull
Flax Mills, to a bill of exchange fur 2,0001., with in-
tent to defraud Thomas Whittaker and others; and
on the third, with forging the acceptance of another
hill of exchange for 1,000/., with intent to defraud
Whittaker and others.

Mr. Bliss, Q C
The prisoner pleaded not guilty.
and Mr. Blair appeared for the
prosecution ; and Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, Mr. Hall,
and Mr. Aspinall for the defence.
The Counsel for the prosecution proposed to pro-
ceed with the first indictment ; on which the Learned
Counsel for the prisoner moved, on affidavit of the pri-
soner and his attorney, to postpone the trial on the
first indictment, on the ground that the charge had
only been preferred on the first day of the assizes, apd
that from the shortness of time prisoner was not pre-
pared with his defence, nor acquainted with the parti-
culars of the case.
His LORDSHIP thought that on FO serious a charge
the application of the prisoner was reasonable. He
was, however, ready to try the other charges against
the prisoner on which he had been committed, if the
Learned Counsel for the prosecution thought it desir-
able to proceed.
Mr. BLISS thought it would be more desirable
that all the charges should be tried
etogeth p‘r,ost and th
other charges also had therefore
be
This was assented ti,, and the prisoner was ordered
tter be poned.
to be detained in custody to take his trial at the next
assizes.
His LORDSHIP, having got through the criminal
civil cause, and no
business, then tried a short
other case being ready, his Lordship left übout twelve
o'clock.