The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-29 00:00:00

THE M5ll, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, 1864.

ATTEMPT TO STORM DYBBOL,

We (Times) have received the following telegram
from our special correspondent at the Danish
head quarters :
S ONDERB 0 RG, MoNatY, 10.8 A.M.
This morning, at 3 o'clock, an attack was made
on Bastion 6, and on the whole Dybbol lines.
The Prussians were thrice repulsed ; at last the
Prussian soldiers refused to obey their officers'
command to advance.

The Rosf Krake fired on the Prussians'
right from Wemmingbond. The engagement
lasted seven hours. The cannonade continues. One
hundred Danes are killed and wounded; 22 Prussian
prisoners have been taken. Only four Danish regi-
ments were engaged."

The Commander-in-Chief of the Danish army
reports as follows :
"At three o'clock this morning the enemy at.
temptcd to surprise our position at Duppel. He
penetrated between two of our trenches, but was
repulsed to his former position. The engagement
lasted four hours.

" The conflict extended along the whole line.

" Our ironclad took an effcctiv© part in the

contest.

"It is announced from the North of Schleswig
that the Prussians in Jutland are moving south-
wards.

MEXICO AND SAN DOIIIIZGO,
SOU THAMPTON, MARCH 29.
Advices from Mexico by the Atrato state that,
four French war steamers were blockading the
port of Acapulco. There is no other news of
importance.
The Spanish are reported to be making no
progress in San Domingo.

WURTEMBURG.
U IGARDT, MARCH 29.

The King has determined that daring his illness
the prerogatives of the crown
shall be more abso-
lutely transferred to the Ceti
acil of Ministers, and
that the Crown Prince shall preside at the Council,
and sign documents in his MijestY's name.

THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS.
SOUTECAMPTON, March 29.

pga 148 passengers,
maTilhs
ehlatsoyaarrl
iNvleadilhsetreer A
She
btr
ra with the above
and 4,000,000 dole,, of which are diamonds to the
value of 3,000 dole,, and pearls valued at 7,052
dole.; also 827 packages of cargo.
The Atrato left St. Thomas on the 15th inst., and
experienced strong north and north-easterly wind,
with a head sea since the 24th.
H.M.S. Columbine from Portsmouth arrived at
Valparaiso on the 6th ult.
The news from Chili is unimportant. The
Republics upon the South Coast were concentrating
their efforts in the development of peaceful
pursuits. . __ •

_
An invitation of the Government of Peru to an
American Congress had been welcomed throughout
Chili.

H. INr, S. Sutlrj arrived at Cllluo on the 26th
ult.

At Valparaiso the freight market was firm. Ez.
change on London GO to 90 days, 44 pence to 44
pence halfpenny.
Bellion—Bar silver, fine, 10.75 per mart. Hard
dollars 8 per cent. premium.
The Government of Peru had addressed a concili-
atory note to Bolivia and Chili, offering their ser-
vices for the settlement of the differences between
them.

The invitations to a congress of delegates from
the South American Republics were expected to
!)? extendtd to CentralAmerics, Mexico, and Santa
I),)uoingo.

had gEnerally cora-
At Danemra sugar reaping
menced. The clop is satisfactory. The tonnage

7vas excessive, and sugar was being taken at from
lOs to 15s per ton to London and Liverpool. Rum
in good demand. Exchange on London at 90 days'
sight, 476 dols.
The cultivation of cotton was largely increasing,
especially in the northern provinces of Peru.
Ecuador was tranquil. The growing of cocoa
and coffee had been planted on a large scale.
The army had been considerably reduced.
Panama had hem visited with a shock of earth-
quake, but no damage was done.
Cotton growing was increasing.
At GreLada the weather was fine for sugars
making and cotton-gathering, and at Barbadoes it
was beneficial to the crops. Reaping was not yet
become general. Planters look to further improve-
ment in canes.

The health of the island was good.
At Jamaica cotton growing was being pushed on
vigorously. Pimento and coffee scarce; the latter
has further advanced in price. Sugar supply small.
Fair, 21s to 225. Exchange on London at 90 days,
A- per cent.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MARCH 29.

The Constitutionne/ of to-day publishes an article
signed M. Limeyrac, on the Bluish circular refer_
ring to the conduct of the Austrian and Prussian
troops towards the inhabitants of Schleswig. The
article points out the anomalous nature of their acts
and concludes thus :

" Modern diplomacy should seek for a new code
of international law, conciliating the liberty and
dignity of nations, and guaranteeing the preserva-
tion of the European balance of power."
Another article by M. Linr-Ayrac appears in the
same paper, maintaining that the enthusiastic
reception which Garibaldi will meet with in London
will be equally eml•
Arrassing to two of England's
allies, Italy and Austria. The writer observes that
while EugliF.'n is preparing to welcome Garibaldi, a
soldier wkto has fought bravely for the independence
of his country, she manifests scorn and indignation
at ivlazzini, the instigator of infamous conspirators
and the associate of assassins. -

BOURSE, March 28.—The market is almost null
as regards the amount of business, but the prices of
Saturday are generally well maintained. Threes,
for the Account, are unvaried at 66f. 15c. Mobilier
has slightly improved, being now at 1,060 f. Rail-
way Market with little or no variations. Stock
and other securities became offered to wards the
ck)se, and prices recedeJ,
41 per Cents. 92 90

er•.d month

3 per Cents
Do. end month €6 05

Credit M0bi1ier....1052 50
Do. end m0nth....1052 50

Bank Shares 3300

Credit Fancier 1290
Roman .. 76 50

JAIL

leaving off as follows :
Italian Loan 67 95
Do. end month 67 75
Nev ditto
Do. end month....
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes —
Rome Debt —
Deferred

ITAYB.

Cash. Account.
1002 50 .. 1(:)03 75
975 975

Orleans
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean
New ditto .
Smther,
Western ••• • • •
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian OOO
Lon.b*rd
North of Spain
Saragossq,
Ditto to BP.tcolona - . a

952 50 .. .9;01 25
905 -

657 50 622' 50
525 - .. 627 50
47( 60 .. 480 -
'GB 75 .. 370 -
412 50 . 411 25
547 50 .. 547 50
487 60 .. 488 75
587 50 ..
.590 -

Ngc,al and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY•

MALTA, March 24.—The following naval movements
have taken place :—On Friday her Majesty's ship Magi-
ciennne, 16, Capt. , Annytage, and the Royal Oak, 35,
iron-cased ship, Capt. F. A. Campbell, arrived from the
lonian Islands with large quantities of ordnance stores;
and en Sunday the Gibraltar, 81, Capt., Prevost, came from
Corfu in two days, similarly loaded. The Magicienne left
Corfu on the 9th inst., calling at St. Mauro. and Ithaca for
stores, and bringing Lady llotham as passenger. The
Royal Oak left Corfu on the 16 h, and came here direct—
passenger, Lieut. C. D. Inglis, R.N. On the 18th the Cos-
sack, 20, Capt. W. R. Rolland, left on return to Corfu, and
on the following day the Surprise, 4, Commander W. H.
Whyte, arrived fram Benghazi and.Marsa-Souz
ger, Lieut. Drew, R.N. This vessel has been attending on
the chartered steamer Fanny Lambert, while the repairs
were being made to the Malta and Alexandria telegraph.
The iron screw troopship Dromedary, 2, Master-Cora, A.
Brown, arrived on Tuesday from England and Gibraltar on
her way to Corfu. The Magicienne left yesterday, it is be-
lieved, for Corfu. A letter from Corfu of the 9th inst.,
which has been from some cause cir other delayed on its way,
contains the following passa4e :
" There has been a case of hanging here. It took place
on the 7th inst. The imlprit wes a sergeant of the 6th Regi-
ment, who about taix weeks ago shot his wife deliberately
with his rifle. He was tried by a general court-martial and
sentenced to death. He attempted two or three times to
commit suicide, and once, having succeeded in secreting a
piece of glass in his bed, cut a vein in his arm, and was
quietly bleeding to death, when it was discovered and the
bleeding was stopped with some trouble. The onlypersons
allowed to witness the execution were the troops in garrison,
the sentence having been previously read to the prisoner,
who in a brief speech exhorted his comrades to keep from
drink, which he said had brought him to such a 'miserable
end. He wore many medals. There was great difficulty in
obtaining a hangri:,an, as the Greeks would have murdered
any one of their own people if they had known him to per-
form the par', of executioner. In the way it was managed
it was qi;tte impassible for them to get hold of him, as he
was brought over secretly Aro:it Albania, and wore a mask
all "che time he was in Corfu,"

IL-T Majesty's 'War Department screw steam transport
Lord Panmure, Mr: H. T. Moore commander, has been de-
spatched to Messrs. Simpson's, in the Isle of Dogs, to un-
dergo repairs of screw-shaft, steam-tube, &c., and to be
caulked and painted throughout. A powerful shipway
purchase has been erected at the works, by which the skip
was hoisted up, and was adjusted on the cradle in readiness
to be overhauled and repaired. The process occupied only
157 minutes.

Mr. Reed's experimental ironcased sloop Enterprise left
Woolwich yesterday on an official trial trip. Staff Com-
mander Luke, R.N., and Mr. Tricketts, Inspector of Ma
chinery in the dockyard, accompanied the ship on the part
of the Admiralty, and Mr. R:tvenbill, who supplied the
engines, attended on his own behalf to watch the result of
the trial.

Capt. Delomere, Liout. Frampton, and 91 non-commis-
sioned officers and privates of the Woolwich division Royal
Marine Light Infantry took their departure yesterday from
headquarters at Sheerness to join the new steam flagship
Bombay, commissioned for the south-east coast station of
America, to succeed the Forte, flag of Rear-Admiral R. L.
Warren. The men were accompanied from the barracks at
Woolwich by a crowd of weliwishers. Their arrival at the
railway station was the signal for a hearty round of cheers,
which were repeated on the departure of the train.
The following appointments have been made at the Ad-
miralty :—Lieut. L. C. Keppel, to the Indus—B. S. Jack-
son, to the St. Vincent, for the Sealark—C. Strickland,
assist Burg, to the Supply—C. J. Farnell, assist surg, to
the Wellesley J. Hay, chief engineer, to the Bombay
—J. Coade, chief engineer, to the Cumberland, for the
Bristol—W. B. Stephens, of the Dart, promo►ed to acting
chief engineer, and appointed to the Archer—E. M'Avory,
engineer, to the Bombay—G. Lucas, engineer, to the Ma-
jestic—W. Rowley (a), engineer, to the Cumberland, for
the lEtna—J. Daly, assist engineer, to the Dee—J.
M'Garahan and Charles Thomson, assist engineers, to the
Bombay—R. Hetherington, R. Roberts, and C.Wakeman,
assist engineers, additional, to the Bombay.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.--Their Royal High-
nossee the Prince and Princess of Wales are expected to
honour the performances of the above theatre by their pie •
sence to-morrow evening, when, by command, " The Dead
Heart" will be performed, c.immencing at eight o'clock.
Mr. Benjamin Webster will take his original part of Robert
Landry. _ _

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and Princess Mary left Cambridge Cottage, Kew,
yesterday, to honour the Dukeand Duchess of Manchester
by a visit at Kivabalton Castle, Huntingdon. Their royal
highnesses will remain at the castle several days.
The Earl and Countess of Wilton and Viscount
and Viscountess Grey do Wilton left Egerton Lode,
Melton Mowbray, yesterday, on a visit to Colonel Cust, at
Arthingworth,•fcr the Northampton races. The noble earl
and countess return to Egerton Lodge on Thursday to en-
tertain a large and distinguished company during the races
at Croxton Park, which commence on the following day.
COMMENCEMENT OF THE METROPOLITAN RAIL-
WAY (LOOP LINE) TO SMITUFIELD.—Mefsrs. Belk and
Lucas intend to commence the loop line from the Furring.
don-road station of the 'Metropolitan line of railway to
Smithfield on Monday next, whenca they will proceed to
the junction with the Finsbury extension line. The ground
from the station to Smithfield-bars, is already cleared from
Charles-street, by the heck of the "West London. Union, t%
Ciireenhill's-rents.

TIIE DANISH :QUESTION.—The Conferences for
the settlement of the Mulish queetieu will begin inlondon
on April 12,

Circular Dispatch of the Danish Cabinet

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)
COPENHAGEN, Mara 24,

The following circular dispatch has been for-
warded by M. de Quaade, the Danish Minister for
Foreign Affairs, to the diplomatic agents or the
Danish Government abroad :
" Copenhagen, March 15.
"Monsieur le Comte (le Baron),—The events now taking
place in the duchy of Schleswig, under the auspices of the
Austro-Prussian army, assume daily a more alarming cha-
racter for the interests of the king and the future of the
monarchy. It is ur
7:ant that the attention of friendly Go-
vernments be called to the deplorable result of the
policy '-eursued by Germany with regard to Denmark.
E-arope may, perhaps, recognise more clearly what are the
veritable moiives of the Germanic invasion, and what fate
the German Governments destine for ono of the oldest mon-
archies of Europe. The rapid sketch of the acts and deeds
of the Austro-Prussian authorities in Schleswig which I am
about to give in the following lines will suffice to enable
you to form a correct idea of the manner in which those two
Powers are proceeding to preserve the pledge which they
have come to tear from the hands of the legitimate
Sovereign.
"It is known that, when the great German Powers re-
solved to invade the duchy cf Schleswig they declared to
Europe that they intended to respect the sovereignty of
the King ; that they would only occupy the country tem-
porarily, and that the occupation had no further object
than to furnish them with material guarantees that the
Danish Government should fulfil certain engagements
contracted in the years 1851-52 regarding the equality of
rights secured to the two nationalities as well as the non-
incorporation of the duchy in the kingdom. Subsequently
Herr Vol Zedlitz, the Prussian commissioner, declared, in
an ordnance of the Bth of February, that the existing
laws of the Duchy of Schleswig were to remain in force in
so far as the operations of war and the suspension of the
royal authority did not entail exceptions to this rule; that
all the functionaries who should sign a promise to obey the
authority with which they were invested might, de facto,
continue their functions so long as they conformed to that
promise and committed no offence in or out of their official
capacity; and, lastly, that all political demonstrations, of
any kind whatever, should remain prohibited. Neverthe-
less, the real facts which have occurred in Schleswig are in
the most absolute contradiction with these declarations.

" The signs of the King's sovereignty have been every
where effaced; the royal arms have been removed from the
public buildings, and there is not even a block of stone in-
serted in the wall of the Town Hall bearing the cipher of
Frederick VII. which has not been violently dragged out by
the Prussian commander, Laws are abolished which in no
way affect the operations of the war, and are not in contra
diction with the temporary suspension of royal authority ;
and these laws are abolished not temporarily, but in such a
manner that the new organisation bears a permanent cha-
racter. Thus the arrangements made beforethe negotiations
of 1851.2, with the view of regulating the use of languages
in the churches and schools of the mixed district, have been
partly abolished by the ordinance of the commissioners
of Feb. 19, and the German language has become the only
one authorised in the churches and schools of the greater
part of that district. The former arrangements, however,
took into account that the language of the people is partly
Danish and partly German. By ao acting the commissioners
have rendered it impossible for a great number of inhabi-
tants speaking Danish to hear the sermon in the mother
tongue, while formerly the language used in Divine service
was alternately Danish and German. By an ordinance of
the 22d of Fektuary fresh measures were taken to carry out
the new system, and there is reason to believe that no
ECM: le
0 will be made of dismissing nearly all the curates
and teachers of the elementary schools in the parishes in
question. In two of the collages of the duchy nearly all the
professors have been driven frem their posts. One of these
colleges has been reopened with professors hostile to the
King's Government and inaugurated by revolutionary
hymns—the other remains closed. Functionaries of the
Royal Government are dismissed en masse, even when they
have signed and observed the undertaking relative to obedi-
ence to the authority of the commissioners. In the south-
eastern portion of the duchy the superior authority has been
confided to a man who in 1819 was the War Minister of the
Insurrectional Government, and in the south-western por-
tion it is placed in the hands of a man who signed an ad-
dress to the Insurrectional Government requesting that the
duchy of Schleswig should be withdrawn from any connec-
tion whatever with the Danish monarchy.
" These two men appoint persons at their pleasure to all
the offices of the southern part of the country. The indi-
viduals whom the commissioners invest with the public
functions in other parts of the country are also, with few ex-
ceptions, persons who have already given proofs of revolu-
tionary tendencies. On mendacious informations a number
of respectable magistrates and functionaries have been fin-
p ironed and treated with the utmost indignity, on suspicion
of being spies. Since the beginnin7, of Feb. M. Blaunfeldt,
a magistrate, has been, notwithstanding his being 55 years
old, tied and dragged on foot between two horsemen to
Rendsburg, where the sentinels on guard showed him for
money to the p-pulace of the place. Four clergymen of the
middle and eastern portion of Schleswig have been arrested
in their houses and put in prison, where they were thrown
on straw in damp cellars, in the midst of Prussian eoldiers
accused of theft. Revolutionary demonstrations, such as
the proclamation of the Pretender, and the departure of the
deputations charged to compliment him, aro organised
openly without meeting with the least hindrance on the
part of the military or civil invading authorities, while they
take care to p. event and repress by vexatious proceedings
every loyal protest or manifestation on the part of the great
majority of the population remaining ftlithful to the King.
Nowhere is the ancient flag of the country tolerated, while
the commissioners have given express permission to hoist
the flags and cockades which, during the insurrection of
1848, served as symbols of the rebellion against the legiti-
mate Government. Even the monument in the cemetery
of Flensburg sacred to the memory of the warriors who
have perished in fighting for the cause of the King has
not been respected. Even under the eyes of the commis-
sioners of Austria and Prussia a band of workmen from
Holstein was allowed to mutilate and demolish this work
of art, the position of which in the midst of a place sacred
to the dead ought to have, protected it from all insult.

"Those facts form the most violent contrast with the
intentions which the great German Powers had announced
to Europe, and of which their representatives in the duchy
should secure the fulfilment; and, seeing the zeal with which
the commissioners support, often by the most unjust and
arbitrary means, all the efforts made by the seditious faction
of the population for the incorporation of Schleswig with
Germany, it will not be difficult to discover the solution of
this enigma, or to recognise the ambitious projects con-
cealed under UPI declarations by which the German Powers
endeavour to re-assure the consciences of the other states
of Europe.

" I may, perhaps, soon fiad myself in a position to make a
similar communicAtion to you in reference to the proceed•
jags of the enemy's troops in Jutland--proceedings which,
it appears to me, correspond in many respects with the
manner in which they have conducted themselves in &Lacs.
wig.—I have the honour tote, &c.,