The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, T'UESDA'Y' EVENING,

THE DANISH QUESTION.

At the conference held on Friday at the Foreign-
oflce the Court of Austria signified its adhesion to
the principles laid down in the protocol of the 21 of
August, relating to the D Inish question, without
prejudice 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-
presentadves of France, Great 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.
The 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 of the Danish monarchy, which
consideration, in fact, forms the main feature of the
former protocols of the 4th of July and the 21 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 considered it necessary
to reserve the rights of the Germanic Confederation.
These rights were not in any way jeopardized, it
being 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 Plenipotentiary, forming part of
the protocol signed yesterday by all parties, distinctly
places on record the limitation 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 instructions directed by the Queen in Couoeil
to be forwarded to the Governor-in Chief of New
Zealand, for the purpose of modifying the royal in-
structions to that officer, so far as they relate to the
disposal of lands in that colony. These further in-
structions 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 Abjesty. After reciting the provisions of the
various Acts of Parliament under which the waste
lands held by the company were distributed, and
the proceedings which must be taken to effect the
dissolution of the said company, the paper proceeds as
follows :

" Whereas the directors of the New Zealand Company
did, on the sth day of July last past, give to the Right
Honourable Earl Grey, our Principal Secretary of State
for the Colonies, such notice as aforesaid, in pursuance
of the above-recited provision; and whereas, on the
giving of such notice as aforesaid, all the landQ, tene-
ments, arid hereditaments of the said company, in New
Zealand, reverted to and became vested in us, as part of
the demesne lands of the Crows in New Z ?island,
subject, nevertheless, as aforesaid, to any contracts
which were then subsisting in regard to any of the said
lands:

" And whereas certain contracts have been entered
into between the New Zealand Company and certain
bodies of settlers and others, in regard to lands in New
Munster aforesaid, namely, with the settlers at Welling-
ton, Nelson, and New Plymouth, and the Associations
of Otago and Canterbury:
" And whereas it is apprehended that the provisions
contained in the ISth chapter of the said Instructions
are, in certain respects, inconsistent with the said con-
tracts between the New Zealand Company and the said
respective settlers and associations; and it is expedient
that the said instructions should be repealed, so far as
regards the lands comprised in or affected by, the said
contracts, as far as the same may be inconsistent with
the said contracts respectively or any part thereof:
" Now, therefore, know you, that we have revoked
and determined, and do by these our instructions under
our sign manuel and 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 affected by the aforesaid contracts between the
New Zealand Company sad the settlers at Wellington,
Nelson, and New Plymouth, and the associations of Ot-
tago 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 shall
be in force as regards the lands comprised in or affected
by the said contracts; provided always that on the ex-
piration or sooner determination of any such contract,
the regulations comprised in the said thirteenth chapter
of the said recited Instructions shall again become and
remain in force as regards the lands comprised in or af-
fected by such contract."

conveyed, so that the only carriage road of the many
which intersect Hyde- park which will be in the
slightest degree interfered with, is the c:)mparatively
little frequented drive parallel and close to the Ken-
sington•road, and this will merely be interrupted by
the carts and waggons crossing from one side of it to
the other. The saunterer by the south bank of the
Serpentine, and the horseman in Rotten-row, will
not find their comforts in the slightest degree inter-
fered with.

'Within the space marked out the workmen are now
busy in rearing the needful workshops, and in staking
out, under competent direction, the proportions of the
intended edifice. Instead of reproducing, as we
might, in our own language, Mr. Paxton's account of
what that edifice will be, we prefer, as the simplest
and surest mode of impressing upon the public the
idea of its dimensions and its proportions, to print the
description cf his plans given by the architect him-
self, at the recent interesting meeting at Bakewell :
" The building would. be 2,100 feet long by 400
broad. The centre aisle would be 120 feet broad, or
ten feet wider than the conservatory at ChAtsworth.
The building is divided into broad and narrow
compartments, and by tying these together there
is little for the cross-ties of the centre to
carry. The building is entirely divided in twenty-
four places—in short, everything runs to twenty-four
—so that the work is made to square and fit without
any small detail being left to carry out. The
number of columns, 15 feet long, is 6,024 ; there are
3,000 gallery bearers ; 1,245 wrought-iron girders ;
4.5 miles of sash bars; and 1,073,760 feet of glass to
cover the whole. The site will stand upon upwards
of 20 acres of ground ; but by an arrangement cf his
(Mr. Paxton's) the available space which may be
afforded by galleries can be extended to about 30
acres, if necessary."

" Mainme,—You have handed to the Iley. Pier
D3lly, on behal of the Sister; of Nl,sr,y, 5001.
the Eu n a.),•reA to bo ree•:•ivtd tor yoar (i.ugi-aer, Har-
riet Nl'DLmell on her b' professed a nun in this
community, which sum we engage to return you, free of
interest, should either the nuns ox your daughter chanw
their minds before the period of her said profession ur-
rives or in the event of her decease before then.

" AMELIA WHITE.

_
" Mrs. Eliza „'Donnell." __ _
In the month of August, 1847, Miss ANDonnell took
a malignant fever. After all hopes of recovery were
over the nuns had her a professed nun. They gave
no notice to her family of her illness until she was
past recovery. They now contended that as she was
professed on her dying bed they had complied with
the terms of the agreement. The jury found a ver
diet for the plaintiff for the sum claimed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGII-sTREET.

Charles Sharp, a young man very respectably con
nected, was charged with indecently exposing his per
son in Kensington-gardens.

The evidence, which is unfit for publication, rested on
the testimony of three park constables, who distinctly
proved the charge, and of a woman, who deposed to
similar indecent acts on Wednesday last.
Mr. I.3itiortem committed the offender to hard labour
for three mouths.

An old gentleman, a relative of the prisoner, applied
to Mr. Bingham to reconsider the sentence, on the
ground that the charge could be disproved.
Mr. BINGHAM said he could not on the conclusive evi-
dence brought before him do otherwise than he hal done.
If the applicant thought he could shake the credibility
of the witnesses, he might colhect evidence for that pur-
pose, and then make his application to Sir George Grey,
at the Homo office.
In the course of the day Mr. Fisher, from the office
of Mr. Dod, applied to the Court to admit Charles Sharp
to ball, having, as he said, some. evidence to establish an
alibi on one of the days when he was charged with
having indecently exposed himself.
Mr. Biscriem, from the youth of the prisoner, was
very glad that his judgment was to bs eppettled moinst.
However, he would remind the applicant, that the evi-
dence of indecent exposure on the la“ occasion was so
fearfully strong that it was impossible he could do other-
wise than convict. Before admitting to bail, he must
have some clue to the station of life of the prisoner.
Mr. Fisher replied, he might say that the prisontT was
the protege of a Noble Lord, who was about to interest
himself to got him an appointment in Lloyd's banking-
house.
Mr. BINGEIAM said he would take two sureties in 100/.
each.