The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-12 00:00:00

DANISH AFFAIRS.

The following is a cow of a D.inLh memoir to
Prussia, dated the 17th of March :
Ist. Denmark can never maintain her place as an
European power, or its union with Schleswig, if it re-
nourn ed the unity of a:Fraed force of both land and tea.
This is for Denmark a condition of existence, and it
cannot theref)re consent, in the matter of the Sehleswic.,-
forces, to conditions that might weaken or annihilate that
unity. For instance, it could not allow the Schleswiger
to be exempt from serving in time of war out of the
duchy, or that Danish troops should be debarred from
being employed in Schleswig, or to establish a separate
fund for the military service of the duchy.
2cl. Denmark, in requiring that the system and admi•
ills:ration of the customs should remain common to the
kingdom and the duchy, consents to extend that com-
munion to the revenues of the Sound dues, on condition
'that a. similar communion should be allowed with re-
gar4.to Schleswig's share in the return of the canal
dues.

34. The Duchy of Schleswig will participate with the
lungdam in the ' advantages and revenues proceeding
from the Danish colonies.
The vitality of political union can only be en-
sured by the maintenance of organic ties between the
kingdom and the duchy; and this abject, under a con-
stitutional system, can only be attained by a common
representation. Schleswig will be .alloWed a representa-
tion. la; gar by half than that of tire kingdom, population
being taken as a basis. Denmark consents to
take proposals ad refei endura, for the purpose of fixing
on :).ny other Danish town than Copenhagen for the
pL:f., of meeting of the common representation, and also
as I the period of convocation.
The maintenance of the right of nativity, As
t..s at present. in conformity with a fundamental
a consequence of the communion of objects which
:.; c.=,-:.,prised in the political. union.
t; It is not necessary that the treaty of peace should
confirm the indissolubility of color., but it
tontain nothing likely to prejudge the question in

a ..:teary sense.
To this memoir the following answer has been re-
tut by the Prussian Government :
ItAuctt 23.—1 t is the intimate conviction
of Pros itin Cabinet that a peace based upon the
interpietation given to-the preliminaries by the Danish
pletipotentiarius would fail in its application,
and produce results totally opposed to pacia ca-
tion, and that it could only be maintained by force
of ' a'cos. It would naither ensure peace in the
Ducnies, in Denmark, or in Germany; since, by depriv-
ing the Duchies cf the cherished privileges of union '
(6%4 with another), it deprives them of the corn pensao
-"tion ',Mei might result in independence.' Indrel, it is a
• matter of question whether the concessions made by
Prlts:na in this present communication do not risk the
- renewal of hostilities in the Duchies.,
L There is no objection to the unity of the army
in so, far as regards the command and general disposition
bein-7 laid down as a principle. At the same time,
without derogating from this principle, a separation is
required as to some points. It seems more easy to
mato.) concessions in favour of a separation betvveen
the DaniSh ' and Schleswig troops, as half the
- population does not entertain hostile feelings 'to
Derari-ark; and therefore the fidelity of the Schleswigers
might be relied on(!) were they separately organized.
Althiirtah Prussia may consider a separation of the
troops to be necessary, she is ready nevertheless to ad-
.
r rait—
•l/4': 1. That during a year after the conelusioti of peace,
o
within which period the re-orntzation of the Schleswig
troops would be completed, a cohrpsof
duchy.l,Boo Swedish or
-Danish troops may do duty i
24- That the promotion of in the
shall be general in
• the hiEeher and separate in t.e subaltern ranks,sotha_t
all offieers to the rank of commanders of battalions
in
'lady°, should be selected from the Schleswig ranks.
Art.• 2, 3,4, and 5, of-Prussian mem. and D inh reply.
As regards the community of Customs. Public Debt,
tut (diptimeatic) representation, Prussia cau not renounce
'• her convictions ttat these objects must be regarded as
separate. Everything. except the colonies, evidently
appertain to the legislature ; its separate administration
• accorded by the preliminaries.
• ' lints as the main point at issue relates to the internal
interests ot the Country in regard to Denmark, these in-
. t-era.atB-may probably be better judged by the country
it-,,r than by the Prussian Government. Therefore
these obj,cts might be abandocei to a free and mutual
arrangement between the Sovereign and the repre-
sentatives of Schleswig, composed in virtue of the
electoral law now in vigour in the Duchies, pr ac-
, cord. ing to the law of May 18, 1834, called the 9th
ari:ele of the Prussian counter-project. The northern
port on of Schleswig appears to be in favour of Den-
mock and, according to the opinion of 'the plenipoten-
Aial-ioa, were the southern portion to pronounce its elec-
toral opinions at present, it would he found to be more
.tacord with the views of Denmark. lf that be the
easo, the expedient is the less objectionable.
similar considerations are applicable to the question
cr iAigkrilley and qualification of b Schleswigers rt-
eio aovernment of the
:(;iaaad for all functionaries. the
• - ?;as in its favour half the country, it would seem
tite public fti,bn,citstorraries might be selected in the
concession will contribute more
•of the country.
pecineati
thari'any other to tae

, •
.-YEAL77-1 of ONDON during the WEEK.
(From the Registrar General's Report.)
ra the week ending last Saturday, the deaths of,
1,121 persons were registereu in the metropolis;
,number showing only a small decrease on the
rep urn of the previou
WL4 - unduly swelledextraordinary influx
bys week, though the latter
of coroners' cases. In corresponding weeks of ten
• previous years (1840-2) the average number of deaths
018, which if corrected for increase of popula-
tioa becomes 1,001 ; the excess in last week amounts
tb.T.,fore to 123. The following series exhibits the
&ells registered weekly since the beginning of March :
thy were 875, 967, 1,026, 1,167, and in the last week,
1:124. The present return, as compared with that or
t.'l)‘ preceding, week, shows a decrease in the epidornie
Chi'. s f.f 41 i3eas, an increase in the tubercular; and
in cii..4eases cf• the brain and nervous system ; but in
con,v,laints affecting. the respiratory organs the two
re!arns are almost the same. As compared with the
co; tected average of aen correspoding weeks, the pre-
sont return shows a decrease iU epideinic diseases, but
. a cousideralale increase in diseases of the respiratOry or-
gans. Bronchitis was fetal last Week to 119 persons;
pneumonia to SG; asthma to 23 ; laryngitis, pleurisy,
and other complaints ofthe same class, 25 ; the deaths in
the aggregate from these causes being 253, whereas
the corrected average is only 166. Consump-
tion. destroyed 134 persona, nearly the average
number. Two boys and three girls died of laryngis-
mu.s stridulus. . In the epidemic class, small-pox was
fatal to. 4 persons, measles to 16, scarlatina to 17,
hooping-cough to 27, croup to 5, . influenza to 8,
diarrhoea to 15, erysipelas to 15, typhus to 34,
the mortality being less than usual from all

these causes, except typhus, which is about
the average, influenza, diarrhcea, and erysi-
pelas which are above it. A death from
cholera occurred on the 31st of March, at 4, Pheenix-
street North, St. Giles-in-the-Fields. The deceased
was the daughter of a beer-shop keeper, of the age
of 7 yeari, and died from " English cholera," after
16 hours' illness. Mr. Simpson, the registrar, men-
tions that " the medical attendant, before certifying
the cause of death, called cn him to explain
that if the late epidemic had prevailed at the
present time, be would have considered it right to
return the case as Asiatic cholera.' The disease
commenced with excessive sickness and diarrhce3,
and the latter speedily assumed the appearance of
rice-water purging, attended with cramps. The
father of the child died of Asiatic cholera' during the
late visitation. No other person is now ill in the
house." Two persons are reported this week as
having died of intemperance, or of disease engendered
by it. On the 9th of March, at Bethnal-green work-
house, a female servant died, at 28 years of age.
of " bilious cholera (after an illness of two days)."
The daughter of a weaver, aged 14 years, died at 9,
Rose-street, B?thual-green, of "chorea." A child of
22 days, on whom an inquest was held, died in Far •
ringdou-street of " inflammation of the peritoneum
from expoiure to cold." Four children were acci-
dentally suffocated in bed.
At the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.363 in.
The mean temperature was 49.6 deg., higher by 4.5
deg. than the average of the same wee in seven years,
and no less than 131 deg. higher than in the week
immediately preceding. On Monday and Tuesday it
was respectively 6 deg. and 7 deg. higher than the
average.