The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-19 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

LRETJTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

THE WAR IN SCHLESWIG.
COPENHAGEN, FEB. 18, 4 15 P.M.
It is officially announced that the enemy has
thrown a bridge across the Egern Sound and occu-
pied Broacker in considerable force.
A Danish ironclad battery has left Sonderburg

for that place.
The weather is frost.

BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS,

The Vectis, with the above mails, arrived at
Marseilles at 1 a.m. this day. The mails were to
leave for London at 11.30 a.m.

FRANCE.

PARIS, FEB. 19.

An Imperial decree has been issued appointing a
committee to draw up the regulations in connexion
with the Sugar Bill which has been submitted to
the Corps Legislatif.
M, Corta, member of the Corps Legislatif,
embarked yesterday for Mexico. He has been
entrusted with a mission, and will be invested with
authority over all financial functionaries and agents.

On the occasion of the death of the Duchess of
Parma, an application was made to the Cardinal
Archbishop of Paris to obtain the cecebratio❑ of a
solemn funeral service at Notre-Dame. The reply
of Mgr. Darhoy was as follows :
"Monsieur,—You have done me the honour of
expressing the desire that a funeral service should
be celebrated at Notre-D•;me on the occasion of the
death of the Duchess of Parma, as was done, you
believe, on the deaths of Charles X. and the
Dauphin. It is hardly necessary for me to re-
mark that the question is not to obtain the per-
formance of a low mass, or, an ordinary service.
All Catholics may demand such prayers from
their cures, and all cures may celebrate such
masses without my special permission, as is done
every day. If, therefore, I am consulted in
the present instance, the reason is that the
service contemplated would be one of a parti-
cular character, and it is that peculiar character,
rendering my intervention necessary, which deprives
me of the power of acceding to the request made,
The precedents which you allege do not exist, or
rather are of quite an opposite nature. No service
was celebrated at Notre-Dame on the death of
Charles X.; the noble and devoted Mgr. de Quelen,
who was then Archbishop of Paris, even wrote to
all his cures that no such service was to be cele-
brated in any parish of his diocese. ' A request has
been made to me,' says the circular of the 17th of
November, 1836, and will no doubt be addressed
to the cures of the different parishes, to allow
solemn services to be performed for the repose
of the soul of , the deceased King. lam thus
under the necessity of tracing out for those
cures a line of conduct which will shield them
from all reproach. Ido not fear to take upon
myself the entire responsibility of such a course, in
order to exonerate them completely!—After stating
the reasons for his (recision Mgr. Quelen continues :
—' These considerations may serve you to persuade
those persons demanding solemn services for Charles
X. not to persevere in their request. I trust that
not one of those persons will fail to be satisfied with
your reply when you declare that you ace only the
organ of the chief pastor.' Allow me, sir, to use at
present the same language, and to hope that you
will not refuse to look upon it as simply what I
intend it to be, and what the friends of Mgr. de
Quelen saw in his words—the prudence and senti-
ments of a bishop who feels his responsibility but
does not shrink from it, who knows his duty and
fulfils it.—Accept, &c.,
" t G., Archbishop of Paris,"

BOURSE, Feb. 18.—Sales from realisation have
acted on the market during the morning, and
Threes, for the Account, have receded to 661. 60c.
Mobilier have improved to I,oBolr. A fair amount
of business has been done in Railway Shares, but
prices up to the present show but trifling variatton
from those of yesterday. The market ctosed as
follows :-
41 per Cents . . 95 45

Ti. end mouth •• • •

1. per Cents

D. end month.... 66 65

Credit Mobilier..., 1076 25
Do. end month.... 1083 75

Bank Shares 3'285

Credit 1 oncier l3OO
Roman

RAIL'

Orleane
Northern ....

Italian Loan 6B 25
Do. end month 6B 15
New ditto
Do. end mouth —
Russian
Austrian .. 7B
Spanieh Threes.„ „. 51 50
lorro, Debt ~
Deferred

Cash. Account.
1010 .. 1006 25
960 960

New ditto — • •
Lyons and Mediterranean 942 50 .. 91'2 50
New ditto 895
Smthern
Western
_ _ _ _

Eastern

Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard

North of Spain

Saragossa 505 .. 592 25
Ditto to Barcelona

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.
BRESLAU, FEB. 18.

Advices received hare from Poland state that, on
being informed that the Russian Colonel Bent-
kowski was marching against him, the insurgent
leader Bosak sent a detachment to the forest of
for the purpose of making a diversion. Atter a short
engagement the Russians retreated to Baranow. In
the meantime Bosak proceeded by forced marches
towards the town of Konskie, attacked the Russian
garrison on the Bth inst., and drove them out of
the town. The Russians were then attacked by the
detachments under Kurowski and Rudowski, and
lost their military chest, 11 baggage waggons, 200
muskets, and 32 prisoners, while 87 were left dead
on the field.

The station-master of the railway terminus in
this town has been arrested by the Prussian autho-
rities, and sent to Berlin to appear before the
Supreme. Court.
Almost all the guards of the Warsaw and Vienna
Railway have been arrested.

Destruction by Fire of Boymans' Museum,

Rotterdam:

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
ROTTERDAM, Feb. 17.

The Boymans' Museum, containing one of the
mast valuable collections of paintings, sculpture, and
Japanese treasures in the kingdom, was last night
consumed by fire. A few of the smallzr paintings
have been saved, but the most valuable portion of
the collection has been destroyed. The fire it seems
was occasioned through the carelessness of the
workmen engaged in repairing a portion of the
bailding. By this fire Rotterdam loses one of its
leading attractions. Tile collection was left to the
city by the late William boymans, but has since
baen considerably increased by purchases made by
the municipality. Most of the paintings were of
great value, and as they were all by deceased mas-
ters the loss is irreparable.

On Wednesday, while Mr. Charles Dick, brewer,
Edinburgh, was engaged in superintending the ale
vats in his brewery, be ini.sed his footing and fell into a
vat containing boiling liquor. Two men who were close at
hand succeeded in getting Mr. Dick speedily out of the
vat, but the skin was scalded off' the whole of his body,
and he was otherwise very severely injured. The unfor-
tunate gentleman, after suffering intense agony for about
four hours, died.
TIIE PRINCE REGENT AND THE DANDIES.—The
Prince Regent at the dandy epoch was already an
old man, though he did not wish to have it generally
known. He had flung away his manhood after his youth.
He had neither nerves nor stomach now to play his old part
of Buck and Blcod. The swaggering muscular graceless.
ness of his younger days could not be acted over again. lie
was left with a shattered constitution, a ruined figure, an
unlovely fame, to hide beneath an auburn wig the grey
hairs which no one respected. He owed some favour to
the set of men surrounding him, wh3 for his sake made
debility the vogue, and unmanliness de rigueur. The
dand.es were for some time successful in their worthless
endeavours. They established quite an apothbosis; of
effeminacy. The world of fashion bowed low in adoration
of the clothes horse,—Once a Week.

THE WAR IN NEW ZEALAND.

-AP-- • -
(From the _London Gazette of this Evening.)
WAR OFFICE, FEB. 18.

The Secretary of Stare for War has this day re-
ceived despatches from L•eut.-General Cameron.
C. 8., comrnanqing her Al+sty's forces in /sT.ve
Z,,aland, from which we extract, the following :
Head Quarters, Camp Rangariri, Nov. 26, 1863.

My Lord,—After the evacuation of their position of
Mere-Mere, reported in my last despatch, the rebel natives
collected twelve miles higher up the Waikato River at
Rangiriri, where previous to the outbreak of hostilities, they
had constructed a very strong line of entrenchment across
the narrow is, hmus which divides the Waikato from Lake
Waikare, thus completely barring the road up the right
bank of the river,

Having reconnoitred this position in the Pioneer, on
the 18th instant, I dete,mined on landing a force in rear of
the line of entrenchment for the purpose of cutting off
the retreat of the enemy simultaneously with attacking
him in front.

With this view the head quarters 40th Regiment, 300
strong, under Colonel Leslie, C. 8., were embarked on the
20th instant, on boardthe Colonial steamers, Pioneer and
Avon, which, with;fourfgunboats, proceeded up the Wai-
kato, under command of Commodore Sir W. Wiseman,
whilst with another force named in the margin I moved
towards Rangiriri, by the right bank of the river.
Both arrived near Rangiriri at the same time, 3 p.m.

The troops were hardly in position when the enemy
opened a heavy fire of musketry on every part of his line,
but without effect, the troops being under cover of the blow
of the hill.

I had arranged with Commodore Sir William*Wiseman
that the guns attached to the force under my command and
those of the gunboats should, on a preconcerted signal,
open fire nt the same moment when the Pioneer and Avon
should also land the 40th Regiment. But the strength of
the wind and current rendered the steamers and gunboats
almost unmanageable, and at half-past three o'clock, when
I gave the signal, only one of the gunboats was ready to
open fire, and the steamers were still far from the landing
place.

After shelling the enemy's works for an hour and a half
—the day being now fat advanced, and there being little
prospect of the remainder of the gunboats getting into nosi•
tion, or of the steamers reaching the landing place, I gave
the orders for the assault.

The whole line of skirmishers and supports rushed
eagerly do w the slope of the hill, and advanced towards
the entrenchment at as rapid a pace as the rugged and un-
even nature of the intervening ground would aimit, ekposed
the whole time to a destructive fire from the enemy. The
skirmishers of the 65th Regiaient having approached to
within fifty yards of the entrenchment, and the scaling
ladders having been quickly planted under cover of their
fire, the skirmishers and the ladder party followed by
the support, mounted the parapet, and forced their way
over the enemy's first line, then wheeling to the left and
charging up the hill, they carried the second tine of rifle
pits and continued to drive the enemy before them until
their prdgress was checked by a deadly fire opened upon
them from the centre redoubt, which the enemy appeared
determined to defend to the last.

The remainder of the troops on the left, finding it im-
possible to penetrate the enemy's position on that side,
joined the attack on the right, and with the 65th Regiment
occupied positions round the central redoubt, almost com-
pletely enveloping the enemy.
Soon after the 65th had passed the main line of en-
trencbment, I had the satisfaction of seeing the 40th
Regiment landing from the Pioneer and Avon, not far
from the spot I had selected. Colonel Leslie, without wait-
ing for the companies to form, directed Captain Clarke to
take the first 50 men who were landed and attack the ridge
in rear of the enemy's position, whilst he moved with 100
men round its base, for the purpose of intercepting the
enemy, The ridge was carried at once, and a great number
of the enemy were killed or drowned in endeavouring to
escape across the swamp at Lake Waikare. A portion of the
65th Regiment, after passing the main line of entrenchment,
joined the 40th in this attack.
Leaving a detachment to occupy the ridge, Colonel Leslie,
with the remainder of his regiment, joined the lorce en-
gage' at the central redoubt.
This work the enemy continued to defend with great
tenacity and resolution. I ordered two successive assaults
to be made on it, the first by the Rsyal Artillery, armed
with revolvers, and led by Captain Mercer; the second by
90 men of the Royal Navy, armed in a similar manner,
and led by Commander Mayne, under the personal direc-
tion of Commodore Sir William Wiseman. Both assaults
were matte with great gallantry, but the formidable nature
of the work, and the deadly fire directed on the assailants.
rendered it impos-ible for them to effect an entrance. An
attempt was afterwards made by a party of seamen, under
Commander Phillimore, H M.S. Curacoa, to dislodge the
nem y from the work by hand grenades, but without success.
It being now dark, 1 resolved to postpone further ope, Et.
tions until daylight, ordering the troops to remain during
the night in the several positions they had gained.
At daybreak Uolonel Mould, C. 8., Commanding Royal
Engineer, suggested that a breach should be made in the
redoubt by labour with the pick and shovel, and this opera-
tion was in progress when at about 6 o'clock the enemy
hoisted a white flag, and 183 men surrendered uncondi-
tionally, and laid down their arms.
I beg to mention the names of Commander Mayne, her
Majesty's ship Eclipse, and Lieutenant Alexander, her
Majesty's ship Curacoa, who particularly distinguished
themselves.

Captain Lacy, commanding her Majesty's ship Himalaya,
accompanied me in the march to Rangiriri, and was present
during the whole of the engagement.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) D. A. CAMERON, Lieut.-General.

CASUALTIES —Midshipman Watkins, of H. M. S. Curagoa,
kilted—Commander Mayne (Eclipse), Lieutenants Hofham
and Alexander (Curagoa), and Lieutenant Downes (Mir-
anda), wounded—Captain Mercer, commanding Royal Ar-
tillery, severely wounded (since dead)—Captain Brooke,
Royal Engineers, slightly wounded—Lieutenant Murphy,
Ist Regiment, killed—Lieutenant Colonel Austen, 14th
Regiment, severely wounded, and Captain Phelps, ditto,
ditto (since dead)—Ensign Ducrow, 40th Regiment, dan-
gerously wounded—and Captain Aresson, Lieutenant Che-
valier, and Lieutenant Talbot (three places), 65th Regi-
ment, wounded.

The Late Miss Alicia Campbell (Lord Clyde's

Sister).

Letters of administrate-ou have been granted by
the Court of Probate to Mr. P. S. Maeliver, editor
and proprietor of the Western Daily Press (Bristol),
as one of the next of kin of the late Miss Alicia
Campbell, of 4, Stanhope-t-rrace, Hide-park. The
circumstances of Miss Campbell's death were very
touching, and the event coming so soon after the
decease of her noble brother, they possess a mourn-
ful interest. Except a tendency to short breathing,
she was a lady of robast health, with a fine flow of
spirits and great energy and decisio❑ of character.
On the morning of the 30th December no danger
was apprehended, although she was confined to her
room; in the evening she was dead. Two faithful
friends of 30 years' standing watched her last mo-
ments and performed the last offices with greet
kindness and consideration. The attack of illness
wai so sudden that the first intimation which
General Eyre (Lord Clyde's executor) received was
a telegram announcing Miss Campbelt's death.
The funeral took place on the 6th January, at Ken-
sal-green Cemetery, and in the same ground which
General Eyre had purchased, in August last, for
Lord Clyde's tomb, his lordship's sister was buried
by a few friends who had long known and re-
spected brother and sister. Lord Clyde, by his will,
made a handsome provision for his sister of £l,OOO
a year, derivable from an investment of X 33,000
Consols, besides constituting her joint residuary
legatee with General Eyre. The first half-yearly
payment of this annuity became due on the Bth Jan.
—two days after Miss Campbell was in her grave,
In the letters of administration the deceased is st) led
" Alicia Macliver, otherwise Campbell," the first
being the name of her fattier and the name in which
she is officially registered in Glatgow ; the second
being her mother's name, which she adopted after
tier brother was enrolled at th • Horse Guards as
Colin Campbell. The father, Mr. John Macliver,
was related as uncle to the gentleman who is ap-
pointed to act as administrator to his deceased
cousin. That venerable sire of a noble son :Maine('
to a patriarchal age, exceeding 90, and lived to see
his son a peer of the realm. His daughter Alicia
was a most dutiful comforter of the old man's de-
clining years. Her death, while sudden and unex-
pected, was peeceful and happy. Those who knew
her best will miss her most. Miss Campbell's
age was 69, or -two years less than her brother's.

AUSTRALIAN PORTRAITS OF THE PRINCESS ALEX-
ANDRA.—The following is an extract from a pri-
vate letter which arrived yesterday :—"H. and I wont a
few days ago to see the White Swan Hotel, in Chandos.
Street, kept by a Mrs. Haller, who has a pretty daughter.
As soon as H. saw the latter, she said, 'Bless me, how like
you are to the Princess Alexandra.' `Yes,' said the young
lady, laughing, I believe so.' Indeed you are, continued
H.; ' has nobody ever told you so ?" Oh, Yes,' replied the
other, laughing again : and then added in au under tone,
to tell you the truth I have stood for a portrait of the
Princess, and na,ny hundreds of my likenesses have been
sold for hers ;' Then she explained that a photographic
artist, who frequented the house, had asked her to oblige
him by standing for the purpose, and for the fun of the
thing she had consented, and that is the way in which some
of the exact likenesses of 'the princess have been produced."
—Bathurst Zimes, soy. 19, 1863.