The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-26 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Italian journal, state that neither the amnesty,
nor an extensive commutation of sentences on poli-
tical pri,oeers, which had been expected in the
Lorebardo-Vene•ian provinces on the occasion of the
lirthday of the Emperor of Austria, had taken place.
The Risorgimento of Turin, of the 20th, states that
the parish priest of Bonneville, when about to cele-
brate a funeral service for M. de Santa Rosa, 'm-
u() Inced that he did so only because the Minister
when on his death-bed solemnly retracted what be
had door against the Church. The announcement
caused such dissatisfaction that the National Guard
acid the Municipal Council declined to attend the
service.
Letters from Leghorn and Sienna of the 16th state
that, in order to prevent any disturbance, extraordi-
nary precautions bad been taken by the authorities,
who had ordered about 100 individuals of the former
place to present themselves three times a day to the
police.
The Osservotore Romano of the 14th, a semi-official
organ of the Papal Government, records the arrest of
the Archbishop of Turin and the removal of the Ser-
ivites, without any comment.

THE DANISH QUESTION.
At the conference held on Friday at the Foreign-
.ifice the Court of Austria signified its adhesion to
the principles laid down in the protocol of the 2LI cf
August, relating to the Danish question, without
prtjudice to the rights of the Germanic Confederation.
This adhesion has been accepted by the Danish
Plenipotentiary, who, on the part of his Government,
has declared that it is well understood that those
federal rights extend only to the duchy of Holstein
and of Lauenberg, forming part of the German Con-
federation. _ _ _

The above declaration has been received by the re-
presentatives of France, Gre,it Britain, Russia, and
Sweden, who have unanimously rendered full justice
to the intentions which have induced the Court of
Austria to give its adhesion to the principles stated in
the protocol of the 2d of August as being in con-
formity with the general interests of peace and of the
European equilibrium.
Tne protocol was signed by the Plenipotentiaries of
the respective Powers present. This document is im-
portant, as it sets at rest the question of the preserva-
tion of the integrity cf the Danish monarchy, which
consideration, in fact, forms the main feature of the
former protocols of the 4th of July and the 2d of
August.
Austria, it appears, hesitated in the first instance
to express her assent, on the ground that, as one of
the great German Powers, she necessary
to reserve the rights of the Germanic Confederation.
These rights were not in any way jeopardiz-d, it
teeing clearly understood that no alteration could take
place in the existing relations between the duchies of
Holstein and Lauenburg and the Confederation. The
ill-founded pretension of the Ultra German party in
the duchy of Schleswig might alone have given rise
to some difficulty and misconstruction. This diffi
culty has now. fortunately, disappeared. The decla-
ration of the Danish Plvnipotentiarv, forming part of
the protocol signed yesterday by all parties, distinctly
place,: on record the linitation of the rights of the
Confederation to Holstein and Lauenburg.
This solution, acknowledged by all the parties
(with the sole exception, we regret to say), of Prus
sia), may be considered as one step more towards the
establishment of peace in the Duchies—a result of
such great European interest.

THE NEW ZEALAND COMPANY.
The London Gazette of Friday contains the addi-
tional inal ructions directed by the Queen in Council
to he for warded to the Governor-in Chief of New
Zealart,l, for the purpose of inodifying the royal in-
I•tructions to that officer, so far as they relate to the
dispo'al of lands in that colony. These further in-
struction* have become necessary in consequence of the
notice given, under the seal of the company, that they
are ready to surrender the charters which they hold
to her Mijesty. After reciting the provisions of the
rario.is Acts of Parliament under which the waste
lands held by the company were distributed, and
he proceedings which mast be taken to effect the
dissolution of thy said company, the paper proceeds as
follows _ _

" Whereas the dire&nrs of the New Zealand Company
did, on the sth day of July last pact, give to the Right
1-I.'nourbble Earl Grey, our Principal Secretary of State
for the Co►onies, such notice ai aforesaid, in pursuance
of the ab.'ve-recited provision; and whereas, on the
giving of such notice as Woresaid, all the lands, tene•
'neut.*, and heteditaments of the said company, in New
Z. ala►:d, revel ted to and became vested in us, as part of
the dem _sne lands of the Crown in Now Z*siand,
subject, ueverthelei.s, as aforesaid, to any coniracts
v hick were (hen subsisting in regard to any of the said
lands: _

" And whereas certain contracts have been entered
into betw, en the New Zealand Company and certain
bodies of settlers and others, in regard to feeds in New
Munster aforesaid, namely, with the settlers at Welling-
ton, Nelson, and New Plymouth, and the Associations
ot Otago and Canterbury:
" And whereas it is apprehended that the provisions
contaiued in the 13th chapter of the said Instructions
are, in certain respects, inconsistent with the said con-
trac,.s between the New Z-41and Ciattipany and"the said
res.peetive settlers and associations; and it is expedient
tqat he said instructions should be repealed, so far as
regards the lauds comprised in or affected by, the said
contract:, as far as the •ame may be inconsistent with
the said contracts respscivdy or any part thereof:
" Now, therefore, know you, that we have rev Iced
and determined, and do by these our instructions under
our sign manuel awl signet, revoke and determine so
much and such part only of the thirteenth chapter of
the said Instructions as relates to the lands comprised
in or 0- eted by the stor,s3id contracts between the
New Z aland Company and the tellers at W,llington,
Nelson, at.d New Plymouth, and the associattons ot Ot-
tag° and Canterbury, and so far as the same may be in-
consistent with the said contracts respectively, or any
part thereof.
" And we do hereby declare that the said contracts
respectively, or any amendments in such contracts which
may hereafter be made by and between us;, cur heir and
successors, or parties on our or their behalf lawfully au-
thorised, and the said bodies respectively. are and shalt
be in farce as regards the lands c.,inptised in or affected
by the said contracts; provid,d always that on the ex-
piration or sooner determination of any such contract,
the regulations comprised in the raid thirteenth chapter
ot the said recited Instructions shall again become and
remain in force as leg -ads the lands comprised in or af-
feeted by such contract."