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

ATTEMPT TO STORM DYBBOL,

We (Times) hate received the following telegram
from our special correspondent at the Danish
headquarters :
SONDERBORG, UONDA.Y, 10.8 A.M.
This morning, at 3 o'clock, an attack was made
on Bastion 6, and on the whole Dybbol

The Prussians were thrice repulsed ; at last the
Prussian soldiers refused to obey their officers'
command to advance.

The Roef 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 Commandor-in-Chief of the Danish army
reports as follows :
"At three o'clock this morning the enemy at-
tempted to surprise our position at Duppel. R,
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 as effective part in the

contest.

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

MEXICO AND SAN DOMINGO,
SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 29.
Advices from Mexico by the A trato 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.

STUTTGARDT, MARCH 29.

The King has determined that during his illness
the prerogatives of the crown shall be more abso.
lately transferred to the Council of Ministers, and
that the Crown Prince shall preside at the Council,
and sign documents in his M ljesty's name.

THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS,

SOUTICAMPTON, March 29.

passengers,
erAtrato with the above
are diamonds to the
The Royal Mail steamer
pearls valued at 7,052
on the 15th inst., and
vamnaaldiul4es , has arrived
,a3or,ooroiovodeoddl
soh.
I,esr.:ef.
awnSdhhi ec
which
brings
dole.; also 827 packages of call(/'
The Atrato left St. Thomas
experienced strong north and north-easterly winds
with a head sea since the 24th.

P
H.M.S. Columbine fromortsmouth arrived at
Valparaiso on the 6th ult. . .

is unimportant. The
The news from Chili
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 bad been welcomed throughout
Chili.

H. M. S. Satlej arrived
at Callao on the 26th
ult.

market was firm, Ex.
At Valparaiso the freight
change on London GO to DO days, 44 pence to 44
pence halfpenny.
Bullion--Bar silver, fine, 10.75 per marc. 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 congrees of delegates from
the South American Republics Were expected to
be extendEd to Central America, Mexico, and Santa
Domingo.

At Demerara sugar reaping had generally com-
menced. The crop is satisfactory, The tonnage

was 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 dole.
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 been visited with a shock of earth-
quake, but no damage was done.
Cotton growing was increasing.

At Grenada the weather was fine for sugar.
making and cotton-gathering, and at Barbidoes 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;
per cent.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MAuca 29.

The Constitutionnel of to-day publishes an article
signed M. Limayrac, on the Danish circular refer.
ring to the conduct of the Austrian and Prussian
troops towards the inha'oitants of Schleswig. The
article points out the anomalous nature of their acts
and concludes Thus

" Modern, diplomacy should seek for a new code
of intereational law, conciliating the liberty and
diritty of nations, and guaranteeing the preserva-
'ion of the European balance of power."
Another article by M. Limayrac appears in the
same paper, maintaining that the enthusiastic
reception which Garibaldi will meet with in London
Will be equally embarrassing to two of England's
allies, Italy and Austria. The wafer observes that
while English is preparing to welcome Garibaldi, a
soldier who has fought bravely for the independence
of his country, she manifests scorn and indignation
at Mazzini, 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. ";:nrees,
for the Account, are unvaried at 661. 14-4, Mobilier
has slightly improved, being now at 1,060 f. Rail-
way Market with little or no variations. Stock
and other securities tecanie offered towards the
close, and prices rexede3,

41 per Cents.., 92 90
Do. end
3 per Cer_cs
Do. elld month 66 05
C7eclit Mobilier 1052 50

00, end m0nth....1052 50

Bank Shares
3300
Credit F oneier 1290
Roman

R.A. IL

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

rAYB.
Cash. Account.
1002 50 .. IGO3 75
975 .. 975

Orleans ...
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean
New ditto
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
LOlrbard
North of Spain . • . •
Saragossa..
Ditto to Barcelona ...,

952 50 .. 961 25
905 - -
657 50 .. 622 50
525 - .. 627 50
477 50 .. 480 -
368 75 .. 370
412 50 411 25
647 50 .. 547 50
487 50 .. 488 75
567 59 .. 590 -

Naval 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. IN , Armytage, 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 lett
Corfu on the 9t,a inst., calling at St. Maura and Ithaca for
stores, and bringing Lady Hotham as passenger. The
Royal Qak left Corfu on the 160 a, and came here direct—
passanger. 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 IV, H.
Whyte, arrived fram Benghazi and Marsa-Souzah—passen-
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-Cens, 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 or other delayed on its way,
contains the following passage
" There has been a case of hanging here. It took place
on the 7th inst. The culprit was a sergeant of the 6th Regi-
ment, who about six 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
craletly bleeding to deatb, when it was discovered and the
bleeding was stopped with some trouble. The only persons
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 ho said had brought him to such a miserable
end, He wore many medals. There was great difficulty in
obtaining a hangman, as the Greeks would have murdered
any one of their own people if they had known him to per-
form the part of executioner. Iu the way it was managed
it was quite impossible for them to get hold of him, as he
was brought over secretly from Albania, and wore a mask
all the time he was in Corfu,"

Her 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 ship
was hoisted up, and was adjusted on the cradle in readiness
to be overhauled and repaired. The process occupied only
57 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. Itever.hill, who supplied the
engines, attended on his own behalf to watch the result of
the trial.

Capt. Delamere, Lieut. Frampton, and 91 non-commis-
sioned offers 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. Ths men were accompanied from the barracks at
Woolwich by a crowd of wellwishers. 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 surg, to the Supply—C. J. Farnell, assist surg, to
the Wellesley--R, J. Hay, chief engineer, to the Bombay
—I. Coade, chief engineer, to the Cumberland, for the
Bristol—W. B. Stephens, of the Dart, promoted to Meting
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 2Etna—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, ADELPHL—Their Royal High-
nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales are expected to
honour the performances of the above theatre by their pre
sauce to-morrow evening, when, by command, " The Dead
Heart" will be performed, commencing at eight o'clock.
Mr. Benjamin Webster will take his original part of Robert
Landry.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duoheas of Cam-
bridge and Princess Mary left Cambridge Cottage, Kew,
yesterday, to honour the Dukeand Duchess of Manchester
by a visit at Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdon. Their royal
highnesses will remain at the castle several days.

The Earl and. Countess of Wilton and Viscount
and Viscountess Grey de Wilton loft Egerton Lodge,
Melton Mowbray, yesterday, on a visit to Colonel Cust, at
Artbingworth, for 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 (Loor LINE) TO SMITHFIELD.—Meesrs. Kelk and
Lucas intend to commence the loop line from the Farring -
don-road station cf the Metropolitan line of railway to
Smithfield on Monday next, whence 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 back of the West London Union, to
Greenhill's-rents.

THE DANISH ,QUESTION.—The Conferences for
the settlement of the Danish question will begin in London
en April 12,

Circular Dispatch of the Danish Cabinet,
(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)
COPENHAGEN, March 24,

The following circular dispatch has been for-
warded by M. de Quaade, the Danish Minister for
Foreign Affairs, to the diplomatic agents of the
Danish Government abroad :

" Copenhagen, March 15.
"Monsieur le Comte (le Baron),—The even; now taking
place in the duchy of Schleswig, under. 't-ne auspices of the
Austro-Prussian army, assume.
daily a more alarming cha-
racter for the interests c!.
the King and the future of the
monarchy.
It is -argent that the attention of friendly Go-
vernments -cinould be called to the deplorable result of the
pursued by Germany with regard to Denmark.
mey, perhaps, recognise more clearly what are the
veritable motives of the Germanic invasion, and what fate
the German Governments destine for one 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 4.e-
-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
thetze 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. Subseqqently
Herr Von 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, skould remain prohibited. Neverthe-
less, the real facts which have occurred in 6chleswig 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 th-s war, and are not in contra •
diction with the temporary suspension of royal authority;
and ',nese laws are abolished not temporarily, but in such a
manner that the new organisation bears a permanent cha-
racter. Thus the arrangements made boforethe 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 tae language of the people is partly
Danish and partly German. Bysoacting 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 February fresh measures were taken to carry out
the new system, and there is reason to believe that no
scruple will be made of dismissing nearly all the curates
and teachers of the elementary schools in the parishes in
question. In two of the colleges of the duchy nearly all the
professors have been driven from 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 im-
p leaned and treated with the utmost indignity, on suspicion
of being spies. Since the beginnin4 of Feb. N. 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, iu the midst of Prussian soldiers
accused of theft. Revolutionary demonstrations, such as
the proclamation of the t'retender, and the departure of the
deputations charged to compliment him, are organised
openly without meeting with the least hindrance on the
part of the military or civil invading authorities, while they
take care to prevent and repress by vexatious proceedings
every loyal protest or manifestation on the part of the great
majority of the population remaining faithful 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 rept esentatives 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 the declarations by which the German Powers
endeavour to re-assure the consciences of the other states
of Europe.

" I may, perhaps, soon find myself in a position to make a
similar communication to you in reference to the proceed-
ings 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 Schles
wig.—l have the honour to be, &c,,
(Signed)

" QUAADE,"

DEATII OF PROFESSOR PILLANS.—This eminent
educationist died at his house, Inverleith-row,
Edinburgh, on Sunday morning, at th' advanced age of H.
The late Mr. James Pillans, M.D., LLD , &c., was born
at Edinburgh in 1773, being the son of a printer there, and
was educated at the High School and University of that
city. Among his early associates and fellow-students were
Henry Brougham, Francis Homer, Francis Jeffrey, and
other names 'which afterwards became celebrated in the
literature and Whig polities of the Scottish metropolis. He
also made the acquaintance of Thomas Campbell, in Lon-
don, about 1797. Mr. Pillans began active life as a tutor,
first in a private family, and afterwards at Eton; and in
January, -1810, he became, at the suggestion of Francis
Horner, a candidate for the rectorship of the High
School of Edinburgh, then vacant by the death of Dr.
Adam. To this office, which he filed for ten years and a
half, or nearly eleven sessions, he was elected by the Town
Council. In 1820 he was unanimously chosen Professor of
Humanity (Latin) in the University of Edinburgh, and
filled that important chair for the long period of 43 years,
having retired only last 3 ear in consequence of failing
strength. He last appeared in public at the meetings of
the Education Section of the Social Science Congress held
in Edinburgh last autumn, though then unable to take any
part in the business. Throughout his long and temperate
life he had scarcely ever known a day's sickness, and he
only succumbed at length to the advance of years. For
about 50 years his name has been widely known as an
earnest, devoted, and enlightened instructor of youth, and
he was, in his earlier years particularly, a strenuous advo-
cate of the cause of popular education. His career was
marked both in the High School and University by great
success in the cultivation of ancient literature, and particu-
larly Latin verse. He was the author of several works, both
on elementary and classical education, on ancient geography
and Rorean literature. As a teacher it was his boast that
he had lessened the frequency of corporal punishment in
the High School, and substituted the supremacy of honour,
principle, and affection for the reign of terror and the pros-
tration of fear. He enjoyed in no common degree the regard
and gratitude of his pupils, the list of whom included hun-
dreds of the best educated and most successful of his coun-
trymen. About ten years ago he was entertained to dinner
by a large company of gentlemen who had`attended his
classes in the High School, and who, through their chair-
man, Lord Neaves, bore the most cordial testimony to his
admirable methods and distinguished services in the culti-
vation of the youthful mind. Mr. Piltans married a sister
of the late Rev, John Thomson, the celebrated painter, but
his wife predeceased him many years and loft no family.
Lord Liffurd, in a letter to the limes, says he
knows of an able-bodied man in Ireland, the father of a
family, who receives but £3 10s. and his oatmeal food as
wages for six months.
Persons in debt may obtain instant protection against
imprisonment or seizure of their goods, and an ewire release
from all debts and liabilities without publieily, by application
to Messrs. Marshall, solic tors of tue Court of Bankruptcy,
Charges under £5 payable by easy instalments. Offices—
(established 1830), ?, Hat ton-garden. City branch-6, Moor-
, gate:street,l3ank.7ADvT.

r'ziP
tiourt Ortnlar,
i'4Al

lIER MAJESTY,

WINDSOR CASTLE, March 28.

The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness
Princess Thiena, walked and drove in the grounds
this morning. _

Ihe PortUguese Minister and the Right Hon. E.
and Mrs. Cardwell left the C.istle this morning, and
returned to London.

Count L-Ivradio had the honour of dining with
her Majesty the Queen, the King of the Beigian6
and the royal family yesterday.

Mr. Henry O'Neill has hed the honour of a sitting
from his Rev al Highness the Prince of Wales for
his picture of the Landing at Gravesend, and Mr.
Weigall has been honoured by a sitting trona
the Princess for her full length portrait.
The Right Hon. Sir George Grey M.P., left town
yesterday for Stratton Park.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colo-
nial-office from the Governors of Malta and Gibral-
tar, and from the Lord High Commissioner of the
lonian Islands.

VISIT CF THE QUEEN TO THE ROYAL HORTI.
CULTURAL GARDENS.—Her Majesty has signified
her intention of visiting the flower show, to be held in the
gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society to-morrow.
The Queen is expected to arnve about 11 o'clock, and will
be received by the council and officers of the society at the
entrance in the Exhibition-road. As her Majesty does not
object to the presence of fellows on this occasion, the
privilege of an admission, at the north entrance of the
gardens only, as early as ten o'clock, will be accorded them
and their friends in the possession of tickets.

The .h.art Grp), has gone to Ainwick Castle,
Northumberland, for the Parliamentary recess. The Coun-
tess Grey ten CorlLuu buuse-terrace 4 Saturday on a tour
of visits oaring the holidays.
The Countess Heiotse de Hamel de Martin has
arrived at Devonshire House, Brighton (from Cumberlsrid
House, Bayswater), on a visit to Mrs. Foster,
Lord and Lady Bateman will receive a distin*
guished party at their seat, Kelmarsh Hall, during the
Northampton race meeting, The circle invited assembled
yesterday,
Colonel Lord Seaton has arrived at Fenton's
Hotel, St. James's-street, from Ireland.

Lady Louisa Greville atm Lady Charlotte Greville
have arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood.

The Right Hon, Sir George Grey, Bart., M.P.,
left town yesterday for Stratton Park.
Rear-Admiral the Hon. James R. Drummond
and sirs. Drummond left the gallant officer's official resi-
dence at the Admiralty on Saturday, for a short visit to
Paris.