The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-11 00:00:00

PROTCCOL.

" The undersigned, M. de Bielke, Chart 4 d'Affaires of
his Danish Majesty to the Court f Prussia, and M. de
Sydow, Envoy Extraordinary 4nd.lidinister.Pleoipoten-
tiary of the King of Prussia to the Helvetic Confedera-
tion, charged by their respective Governments with the
Exchange of the acts confirming the ratification of the
treaty of peace, concluded under the mediation of Great
Britain, on the 2d July last, between his Majesty the
King of Denmat k and his Majesty the King. of Prussia,
in his name and in that of the Germanic Confederation,
met for this purpose, at the invitation of Mr. HoWard,
Chargk d'Affaires of her Britannia Majesty, at the resi-
dence of-the representative of the mediating Power.
" The undersigned having produced and -read the in-
struments of ratification, to wit, M. de Bielke seventeen
copies of the Act (signed by his Majesty the King of
Denmark), and M. de Sycleve the Acts signed by his
Majesty the King of Prussia, their Royal Highness( a
the Grand.,Dukes of Baden, of Saxe Weimar, -and of
Mecklenburg• Schwerin, their Dues! Highnesses the
Dukes of Sixe-Meiningen, of Saxe Altenburg, of An-
halt-Dessau -'and of Bemburgh, their Selene High-
nesses the Princes of Schwarsburg-Rudolstadt and Son-
derhausen, her Serene Highness the Princess of Waldeck,
their Serene Highnesses the Princes of Lippe-Detmold,
of Reuse 'Oder), and of Resta (younger), the Se-
nates of die. Free Towns of Lubeck, Bremen, and
Hamburgh °
" The • undersigned baring found the instruments in
good and One form, proceeded to the exchange.
" M, ee;43iil ke declared on this occasion, in the name
of his Government, that in lending itself to the partial
exchange, at the recommendation of the meditating
Power, it,retained the hope that, as the present Act does
not yet coMp.all the States belonging to the Germanic
Confederktion no delay will occur in his reception of
the comOreiieit necessary to verify the ratifications of
Ai mallet the totality of the States forming this
ConfederatiOn% In faith of which the undersigned have
signed the present protocol. made in duplicate, and have
affixed thereto the seal of their arms.

" Done et Berlin, the 6th September, 1850.
4„;;,,,(Signed) ttIELILE.

" HENRY HOWARD.
" VoN SYDOW."
* Ccethyi adjoiped polOtically with Dessilu; so that,
in fact, ciiNein Slates assent.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
On the 4th Colonel Vol.; TANNE endeavoured to
draw tbetDanes at Frederichstadt into 'an ambush,
but not sacieding he returned to Rendaburgh. No
lives werelost on either bide.

ITALY.
The Giornale di Boma states that the Papal army
will consist of 19,0'24 men.
Lettcrs.ftom Rome state that the French are be-
coming ortry.,4lay more unpopular there. Great
jealousies exist between the b rench troops and the
Austrians ; and it is with difficulty the latter can be
restrained when they behold a white uniform.
The Roman diligence to Ferrara was attacked on
the 25th ult.

The Piedmontese Minister PINELLI had not been
admitted to an interview with the POPE.

The Statuto of Florence has the following, with-
out, however, guaranteeing its truth :—"lt is said
that Lord PALMERSTON has transmitted to the court
of the Vatican a note, drawn up in energetic terms,
recommending it to refrain from any violent measure
against Sardinia, and pointing out the danger of the
system adopted by the Roman Cabinet with respect to
that Government.

The Duke of PARMA, by decree of the 26th ult., has
closed the Alberonian College of St. Lazarus, on ac-
count, it is said, of the political conduct of the
priests of the mission. The college had some clays
before been strictly searched by the police. The
priests and pupils, who are not subjects of Parma,
were commanded to leave the territory immediately,
and not to return without special leave. (It has
already been stated that several of the priests have
arrived in Piedmont.) The inmates of the college
who are Parmese subjects were immediately to return
to their respective homes. As the seminary of the
Bedonia is a dependency of the Alberonian College,
the Bishop of Piacenza was directed to take the ne-
cessary measures fur the continuance of instruction
to the pupils of that seminary. The property of the
college was entrusted to the management of an ad-
ministration, and the Holy See was to be informed
without delay of the circumstances of the case.

CRAITHIE, SEPT. 7.—lt is somewhat to be re-
gretted that a stranger on Friday caused some annoyance to
her Majesty by persisting in fallowing her in one of her
walks, and latterly threw a letter at her. The contents of
the letter have not transpired, nor the name of the delin-
quent, and it is not likely there will be any investigation re-
garding the matter, the fellow having been quietly bundled
off between two policemen, and afterwards set at liberty.
THE COURT AT BALMORAL.—During the past week
much of the time of the members of the Court has been
passed in excursions around Balmoral, and to the principal
points of interest and beauty in its vicinity. His Royal
Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by the illustrious visi-
tors at the Castle, and the chief members of his suite, has
also engaged in sport with his accustomed zeal and success.
On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday he went out deer-
stalking, and on each occasion brought home trophies of his
skill. Several fine stags and roebucks have been brought
down in the forest of Ballochbuie. On Friday her Majesty
and a party ascended-to the top of Bennaboard, from whence
a commanding and diversified prospect is obtained. Fortu-
nately the day was ne, and the view was held an ample
recompense for the toil bf 'the ascent. The Earl of Carlisle
arrived at the Castle on. Wednesday. The Very Rev. Prin-
cipal Lee, of Edinburgh, as senior Dean of the Chapel Royal,
preached before her Majesty on Sunday.—Daily Mail.

We are sorry to learn that an accident of a serious
nature happened to the y9ungest son of Earl and Countess
Poulett. On Saturday, the 7th inst., the Hon. Amos Poulett,
when returning from a shooting excursion, had a dangerous
fall from his horse, and sustained a severe fracture of the
right leg, and it is feared a concussion of the brain. It is
hoped that the young gentleman is progressibg favourably.
Professor Airy having stated to the Lords of the
Treasury that M. Otto von Struve, of the Imperial Obser-
vatory of Pulkowa, St. Petersburni, is expected to arrive
in England with the standard bar employed in the great
Indian survey, which had been entrusted to the Russian as-
tronomer for comparison with the standards used in the
great Russian survey, and that it was important that the
bar should be 'landed in its case with as little disturbance as
possible, their Lordships have given directions that the b
be examined with the utmost possible care, and at once de-
livered.

TEE HALIFAX TRANSATLANTIC MAILS.—The
Lords of the Admiralty have directed that henceforth the
British and North American Royal Mail Steam-ships, sail-
ing between Liverpool and New York, shall cease calling at
Halifax on their outward and homeward passage. The com-
pany's ships sailing between Liverpool and Boston will con-
tinue to call at Halifax, both out and home, as usual.
ENCOUNTER WITH POACIIERS.—A few days since
Thomas Burnet, gamekeeper to the Duke of Roxburghe, at
Greenhill, fell in with three poachers upon the Duke's lands
at Blackdean. They refuses to leave the ground when or-
dered to do so, and one of them shot a black cock in his pre-
sence, which another of them picked up. Burnet, who was
riding upon
a PGII3-, continued to follow them, and on his
calling to some shepherds-at a •short distance, the poachers
made off from the Duke's lands, and went over the hill on to
Auchope. The gamekeeper still f flowed, and on coming up
saw them squatting on the ground. On coining nearer to
them they sprang to their feet, and one of them presented
his gun and fired, when the shot took effect on the pony.
Burnet then turned to leave, there being no one to assist
bim, when two other shots were fired, both of which took
effect on the pony, and partly on one of the gamekeeper's
arms. He is but slightly injured, but the pony has received
a considerable number of the shot in the neck and shoulder.
—Kelso Mail.

TREATMENT OF PRISONERS IN WESTMINSTER
BRIPENVELL.—Yesterday an inquest was held by Mr. Bed-
ford, in the Westminster House of Correction, on the body
of John Smith, aged 26. The deceased was in a frightful
state of emaciation. He was admitted on the 17th of March,
having been sentenced at the Middlesex sessions to six
months' imprisonment for larceny. He had been but twelve
months in London, four of which he had spent in prison a
span of the time in the House of Correction at Brixton, where
he had the cholera last summer, and the other period in the
Middlesex Prison. In August he was unable to eat food,
and he was taken to the infirmary in a very low state. After
several witnesses had been examined, the jury returned a
verdict of " Natural Death from decline."

DEATH UT FlRE.—Yesterday Mr. Payne, jun.,
held an inquest on view of the body of Sarah Ing, aged 30,
a married woalan, living in Middle-row, Old-street, St.
Luke's. On Saturday afternoon deceased eft her home to
see her daughter. • She returned about. nine o'clock, and went
to her husband, who was on the first floor. In a few minutes
she returned with a lighted candle in her hand, when in de-
scending the stairs she fell, and her gown was set on fire.
She was soon in a sheet of flame, and her clothes were com-
pletely burnt before the fire could be extinguished. She was
instantly conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where she
tied in a few hours. Verdict, Accidental Death."

THE PROPOSED IMPROYEAIENTS IN ST. JAMES'S
Para.—The following alterations are to be made in St.
Jan.es's and the Green Park, in order to form the public
gardens in front of Buckingham Palace .—The gardens will
be nearly square, and will be situated parallel to each other
on each side of the ; the present approach to the
Palace, and the dimensions• of each, according to the plan
submitted to Parliament, will be rather more than 200 yards
in length, by 100 yards in breadth. That portion of each
farthest from the Mall will have a semi-circular projection,
adding considerably to its area. In order to make room for
the one on the St. James's-park side, about 200 yards of the
ornamental lake will have to be filled ap, and a new head
to the lake will be formed in front of tl e guard-house, at a
cost of 450/. The garden on the Green-park side will be
similar in shape to the one which encroaches on St. James's-
park, and each will have three gates, one at each end front-
ing the palace, one in, the centre leading from the Mall, and
one at each end extending into the parks. The lower gate
of the Green-park-garden will front Stafford House, and
bears, upon the plan, the appearance of a private entrance;
while the lower gate in St. James's-park will be of large
dimensions, and is the one designed for the use of the public.
The Mall will be lined on each side with trees, forming a
sort of wide avenue, as the grand approach Ito Buckingham
Palace, and the entrance to this avenue will be formed by
the marble arch, which will be erected at or beyond the
termination of the gardens, at a distance of 800 yards from
the front gate of the palace. The thoroughfare down Con-
stitution-hill will dead passengers past the front gate of
the palace, down the avenue between the gardens, and out
through the marble arch, and a similar route will be open
from the St. James's-streetgate. Beyond the marble-
arch will be four rows of trees extending down the Mall, and
these, though an ornament in themselves, will certainly have'
the effect of screening the view of the arch to be placed be-
yond them. Some entirely new path-ways will be formed
in St. James's-park, and the new head of the lake will be
much nearer to Birdcage-walk, with which promenade it is
not proposed to interfere. The gardens will, be surrounded
by a dwarf stone wall surmounted by iron railings. Opera-
tions have already been commenced by marking out the line
of the intended gardens and the removal of the park-railings
in front of the barracks.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.--A report is in cir-
culation, chiefly in consequence of a statement made by one
of the provincial Journals, that the Great Western and Bristol
and Exeter authorities contemplate making some alterations
in the trains and fares, involving, in a considerable degree,
the comfort and convenience of passengers...in short, that
they intend to take off the second-class carriages from the
express trains; to increase' the ordinary fares, and to arrange
the third-class trains; so that two days will be necessary to
go from Exeter to London,. There is not the slightest foun-
dation for the rumour, so far as the intentions of the autho-
rities of the Great Western Company are concerned, though
e believe there is some reason to fear that the Bristol and
Exeter authorities may introduce some such inconvenient and
ridiculdits alterations as those referred to.—Herald.
ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH ACROSS THE MERSEY.—
We are informed that experiments are about to be tried on
the Mersey.-with the yiesr,ofivarvying an electric telegraph
line, across the river from Liverpool to Birkenhead. We hope
that the dock authorities will now no longer delay to fulfil
their long-entertained idea' of establishing wires northward
along the shore to Formby, &c., and westward to Bidston.
No question can exist of the importance of such a measure,
so largely calculated as it is -to render the existing marine
telegraph effective in foggy
weather. On the occurrence of
a mist, or an east wind, Liverpool, under the existing system,
is entirely prevented from obtaining intelligence of ships off
the harbour, waiting steam, &c. ; and we trust the opportu-
nity will not now be permitted to lie unimproved. We be-
lieve the wire to be used will resemble that in use for the
telegraph, across the British Channel..--Liverpool Albion.
SUPPOSED CHILD Muging:Yesterday , Mr. W.
Baker, coroner, held an inquest at the Shakspere's Head,
Shadwell, on the body of a male child, which was found with
a cord tightly tied round the neck in the Thames. A lighter-
man named Millege early on Sunday morning found the
body coating in the water; it was quite naked, and a strong
cord was tightly fastened arouud the neck and under the
knees, which were drawn up. Mr. Henry, a surgeon,
said the child had been born alive, and ld lived some time;
but whether it had died from strangulation or any other
means he could not positively state. Verdict. Found dead in
the river."

SUSPECTED INCENDIABISM.—Yesterday afternoor,
between two and three o'clock, a fire of rather a serious
character broke' ont in the premises in the joint occupation
of Mr. Child, a private gentleman, and Mr. Solomon Stern,
an importer r f foreign cigars, in author-terrace, Hackney-
road. On the neighbours entering the building they found
one of the rooms on the second floor, which was used as a
warehouse and filled with cigars, in one mass of flame. The
heat at that time was so intense that it was impossible to
approach near the place to render the least assistance in
checking the fury of the fire. The fl4mes speedily reached
the roof, and were not extinguished until Mr. Stern's pro-
perty was nearly all destroyed, and the building partially
gutted From an inspection since made it is the opinion of
Mr. Stern that the premises were wilfully fired. Fortu-
nately his loss will be covered by an insurance in the Scottish
Union Fire Office.

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Yesterday Lord Fitzroy Somorset, as military
secretary to his Grace the Commander-in-Chief of her Ma-
jesty's Forces, held a levee at the Horse Guards, which was
attended by the following officers: - Lieut.-General Sleigh,
Admiral Sir G. Mundy, Lieut.-General G. Wright, Colonel
Campbell, Mr. Mark Sprott, Lieut.-Colonel Hamilton, Sir
Edward Disbrowe, Captain Campbell, Major Cairnes, Lieut..
Macqueer, Rev. Mr. 'Winniett, Lieut.-Colonel Macbean,
Captain Elliott, Major Farr Ant, and about fittrother officers.
Ail the accounts received of the progress of harvest
operations in Ireland are highly satisfactory, and in many
places the potato crop is said to show symptoms of reviving.