The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-08 00:00:00

AMERICA.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
:Per the City of Baltimore via Liverpool.)

NEW Yonic, March 23 (Evening).

Advices from Charleston to the 19th inst. state
that the Confederates have mounted six rifled guns
in casecaates on Fort Sumter bearing on the channel,
and that they have completed another ironclad in
the harbour.

The _Raleigh Progress asserts that Gen. Beaure-
gard has been appointed to the command of the
army of the South West. Gen. D. H. Hill succeeds
Gen. Beauregiri at Charleston.
The City of Washington, the China, the Olympus,
and the Germania have arrived out.
March 24, 11 a.m.

It is reported that the Confederates are preparing
For a combined invasion of Kentucky from various

points.

COMMERCIAL.
NEW YORK, March 23 (Evening).

Money eat v. G )Ici, 66 per cent. prem. Exchange
on London, 180, Stock, advancing. New York Cen-
tral, 14017 Illinois, 1381; Erie, 126; Six per Cent.
United States Bones, 112. Cotton slightly firmer ;
middling Upland, 73c. to 74c. Flour advancing.
Wheat slightly firmer. Corn quiet. Provisions
good inquiry. Coffee steady. Sugar advancing.
Molasses quiet. Crude petroleum, 301 c. ; refined,
481 c. to Mc.

March 24, 11 a.m.

Money easy. Gold, 66.1 per cent. prem. Stocks
steady. New York Centrals, 1401; Illinois, 1381
Erie, 125-'.

SPAIN.

MADRID, APRIL 7.

The Epoca of to-day says nnmber of Maz-
zinians have left the principal towns of Italy to ex-
cite revolutions in Spain and Portugal. Their
rendezvous is Gibraltar.

NEUMUNSTER, APRIL 7.

An assembly of Holstein clergymen took place
here today, consisting of 60 members. The assert bly
assented without reserve to the resolutions recently
adopted by the Holstein estates.
The Hclstein Government, in a circular to the
police authorities, has enjoined a strict surveillance
of the traffic with Denmark.

COPENHAGEN, APRIL 6, 6.35 PAT.

The portfolio for Foreign Affairs during the
absence of M. de Quande, who has left for London,
accompanied by M. Krieger, will be assumed by
Bishop Monrad, the President of the Council.

APRIL 7, 8.35 A.M.

Sonderburg was bombarded yesterday afternoon.
The results were inconsiderable. The firing from
the enemy's batteries, and also from the Dappel

entrenchments, was very severe.

FRANCE.

BOURSE, April 7. Ile market continues heavy,
but without any material change in prices, and with
only a limited amount of business doing. Threes,
for the Account, are now at 66f. sc. Mobilier has
slightly receded, being now at 1,042 tr. 50c. Rail•
way Market heavy, and some of the lines are a
shade lower. The dividend on the New Orleans
ItAilway Shares is Btr. 121 c. and not 81fr. 25c. as
given yesterday by mistake. The market closed as
follows

41 per Cents. 93 30
)o end month
per Cents
00. end month EG 10
.;redit
1)o. end mouth 1047 50
Bank Shares 3295
Credit l'oncier l2BO
Roman
tLL

Italian Loan 67 50
Do. end month 67 70
New ditto
Do. end month....
Russian .. —
A.ustrian .. —
Spanish Threes....
florae Pobt
Deferred
vtot,s,
Cash. Aecoont.
885 .. 890
865 970

Orleans
orthurn

New ditto —
Lyons and Mediterranean 933 75 .. 936 25
New ditto . 88)

Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian

Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa 5BO 578 75
Ditto to Barcelona 270 275

The French Note on the Conference,

FARIS, Wednesday.

The following is an exact translation of the note
respecting the Conference forwarded by 31. Drouyn
de Lhuys to Prince Latour d'Auvergne, the French
Ambassador in London :

"Paris, March 20,

"Prince,--The Britannic Government is taking
new steps at this moment to bring about the meeting
of a Conference, and the belligerents do not appeal
as much opposed as previously to the opening of
negociations. You are aware that we have no ob-
jection to take phrt therein, if they aro accepted 133
all the other Courts, and I conveyed the intentions
of the Emperor's Government upon this subject
to you in my despatch of the 14th of this month.
But before taking our seat at the Conference
I wish you to acquaint the Cabinet of London
with the ideas and sentiments we should bring with
us. This perfectly friendly communication will
perhaps explain better than we have hitherto had
occasion to do the line of conduct followed by the
Imperial Government in the D sno••German differ
edce. It will also contribute, I hope, to put an end
to the suppositions of ulterior objects (arriere
pensee) which have bee❑ so gratuitously attributed
to us.

" In associating ourselves with this effort at paci-
fication we shall find that we are in presence of two
chief interests. Upon the one hand we have to take
into account stipulations concluded with a view to
the European balance of power and furnished with
the signature of France. Upon the other, it is
impossible to misconceive the sentiments of re-
pulsion which have arisen against the work of
the plenipotentiaries of 1852. We are far from
disputing the wisdom of the combination which the
treaty of London was intended to place under the
safeguard of the public law of Europe, and if,
apart from the opposition of Germany and the
manifestation of Vie Duchies, we were free to obey

the inspiration of our traditional sympathies for
Denmark alone, all our efforts would be devoted to
upholding this agreement. But it is impossible
for us not to recognise the obstacles which are
opposed to the exact and precise execution of
the Treaty of 1852. If in the eyes of some
Powers, the Treaty of London possesses a sepa-
rate existence and a peculiar authority, indepen-
dently of the engagements concluded at the
sums period between Germany and Denmark,
in the opinion of others, upon the contrary, it

Is subordinated to tho&e engagements and cannot
be separated from them. Among the 'German States
some have refused their adhesion, or have only given
it in a restricted form; others, after having
formerly adhered to it, now declare themselves free.
Finally, thn Germanic Confederation appears to dis-
pute the value of an act in which it has not con-
curred.

" In presence of this diversity of opinions, which
will give rise to insurmountable difficulties, it ap-
pears to me indispensable to examine the interests
concerned in the existing war, without preoccupy,.
ing ourselves with the letter of the treaty.
" The cause as well as the distinctive character of
this struggle is evidently the rivalry of populations
which compose the Danish monarchy, A national
sentiment exists among each, the force of which
cannot be placed in doubt. What then would be
more natural, in default of a course unanimously
accepted, then to take as a basis the wish of the
populations ? 'I his method, conformable to the verit-
able interest of the two parties, appears to us the
best fitted to bring about an equitable arrangement,
and as offering gnaranteei of stability. In asking tht
application of a fundamental principle of our public
law, and in claiming the advantages of this prin.