The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-04 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE POPE.

A Paris letter in the NouveUiste de Rosen of April
2 says that General Berlin de Vaux, who had just
arrived from Rome, had brought very unsatisfac-
tory news of the Pope's health.

(asurn'a nizoitics.)
DENMARK AND THE PROPOSED
CONFERENCE.
HADIBITRG, APRIL 4.

Private letters received here from Copenhagen
assert that the resolution of Denmark remains
unshaken not to enter into negotiations on the
Sleswig-Holstein question unless they are con-
ducted on the basis of the treaties of 1851 and
1852.

The F/yreposten, a Copenhagen paper, asserts
that Denmark will be represented in the Conference
by M. de Quads, the Minister for Foreign Affairs,
and the Councillor Krieger.

THE BOMBARDMENT OF DUFFEL.
COPENHAGEN, APRIL 3, 12.55 rm.
The bombardment of Duppel was continued to-
day.
Sonderburg is burning in several places. The
cannonade of the enemy is kept up by the same
batteries as yesterday.
Our outposts on the right of the Duppel posi-
tion were attacked several times during the night.
(CIERXEC ACCOVICP.)
GILANENSTEIN, Aram 3.
The cannonade against the Dllppel works com-
menced yesterday, at 2 p.m., and lasted without
intermission until 7 p.m.
During the night the firing was continued at
intervals.
A conflagration has broken out in the enemy's
lines. It is thought probable that their barracks
are on fire.
Our loss is inconsiderable.

NEW PONTIFICAL LOAN.
MARSEILLES, Aran. 3.

Advicee from Rome to March 30 announce that
a Pontifical rescript had been published, autho-
rising a loan of 40,000,000 lire to defray the ex-
penses of the public administration.
On Monday, the 4th April, the Pope was to be
present at a religious ceremony in the church of
Maria Minerva.

NEW ♦LAND.
(By telegraph from Baez.)

MELBOURNE, Fn. 24.

The war in New Zealand is still proceeding.

The natives have concentrated at Pihopiko,
where they are surrounded by General Cameron's
forces. The general is said to intend compelling
their surrender by starvation.

THE BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, Aria 4.

The Royal Mail Company's steamship Parana
has arrived here with the above mails, 138 pas-
sengers, 7,8631. in specie, 6 packages of diamonds,
value not stated, and 1,643 packages of cargo.
The Parana spoke the English barques Cheviot
Chase and Nile, off Cape St. Vincent on the 25th
March. The American corvette St. Louis was at
Lisbon.
At Rio Janeiro the discussion in the Senate on
the subject of the dismissal of the judges of the
Supreme Tribunal continued. The Senator and
ex-Minister of Justice Senhor Contancao de
Seirimba, in his speech in the Senate, accused
Mr. Reeves, the English poet-office agent, of having
opened and copied a letter written by him to Bahia.
To this assertion Mr. Reeves has given a denial
through the columns of the Journal do Coannercio.
The Marquis of Abrantes, late Minister of
Finance, had been attacked both in the Senate and
Chamber of Deputies for having sacrificed the
interests of the country in the manner in which he
contr►cted the late internal and external loans.

Senhor Stir Silveira da Motta proposed in the
Senate that foreigners should not be allowed to
hold slaves in Brazil. The Senate rejected the
proposal.

A moderate business had been done in stock at
99 to par, and a small business in exchange, at
27} to 27g.
The civil wsr was continued in Buenos Ayres.
The government were in hopes of making a com-
promise with its opposers, being scarcely strong
enough to put down the rebellion by force. Busi-
ness was moderate, although affected by the war.
The farmers had suffered severely from drought,
but torrents of rain having fallen, they were now
returning from the neighbouring provinces with
their cattle. The elections were over. General
Mitre was supported by the people.
At Monte Video the new President pro tem.
was elected on the 2nd.

Flores reported to be within two miles of the
town, but he was said to be retreating about ten
leagues in search of fodder for horses, &c.
The Uruguay steamer from Liverpool arrived
out on the 26th ult.

In the Island of St. Jago, Cape de Verdes, a
frightful famine existed, the unfortunate inhabitants
dying daily in numbers in the streets of starvation.
Great exertions were being made in Rio and Lisbon
on behalf of the sufferers, but the aid was insufficient
to preserve the lives of the population, and without
further assistance it is said that thousands of the
islanders must perish. The cause of the famine is
the failure of rains in the sowing season.
At Bahia the sugar market was more animated.
The coffee sales were unimportant. Tobacco holders
demanded 4 dollars per arroba. Exchange was firm.
The quotations for sugar at Pernambuoo had ad-
vanced 100 reis per arroba. The sales of drysalted
hides were small. Exchange firm. The amount
passed per Parana Is 115,0001. sterling.

The Peruvian government are about to assimi-
late their weights and measures to those of Frame.

Cotton-growing has been introduced with suc-
cor into the Wands in the Bay of Panama.

The Falmouth papers state that a Cape of Good
Hope line of ships is about to be established to ma from
Falmouth. Both Plymouth and Bristol us putting in
clairoa against F►lmouth for the packet station that is
stated to be about to be removed from Southampton.

A new paper, called the Mercantile Chronicle,
published in English and Spanish, has been started in
Panama
During last year the amount of gold deposited
at the mints of Philadelphia, San Francisco, and New York
was 21.149,495 dollars, and the amount of silver to
1,674,605 dollars. 47,845.000 pennies were coined last year.
The coinage of all the United States mints since the esta-
blishment of the iedeptiodesce of the United States
amounts to 869,635,497 dollars.
THE STRENOTH OF THE RVO.IIAN ARMY.—" Tbe
animal report addressed to the Emperor of Russia," says
the Pram, furoiabes significant details respecting the
actual state of the Russian army. It appears that In 1863
the Russian army in active service comprised 364.422 men
of infantry, and. 93,453 men for the 'pedal arms. In
1864 the infantry has been increased to 694,511 men, and
the special arms to 114,159. To these numbers mast be
added 127,000 men charged with preserving order in the
provinces, sod 200,000 more appertaining to the reserve.
The Resides army, therefore, tonne a graad total of
1,135,670 men. What an enormous burden for the budget
of a country. Sorely there can be so more eloquent con-
demnation of war than such figures."