The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-07 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

ENGAGEMENT BEFORE DUFFEL.
COPENHAGEN, APRIL 6, 2.45 P.m
Last night the enemy drove back our vedettes
upon the left wing, when an infantry engagement
ensued.

At daybreak our troops re-occupied their former

position.

During the night the enemy extended the parallel
already commenced.
Oar loss is trifling.

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 7.

The Hamburg and American Company's steamer
Saxonia sailed this morning for Now York with a
large cargo and upwards of 500 passengers.
The Hamburg and American Company's steamer
Hammonia sailed at the same time for Liverpool.
The gun fired on board to announce her departure
exploded, killing the gunner.

THE CAPE MAIL.

PLYMOUTH, APRIL 7.

The royal mail steamer Saxon left here last night
with the Cape mails, comprising 19 bags of letters,
100 bags of papers, and 12 bags of books, 32 pas-
sengers, and £60,000, shipped at Plymouth for the
Cape Government.

FRANCE.
PARIS, APRIL 7 (Morning).

The Meniteur of this morning says :—" Accord-
ing to advices from Miramar the Archduke Maxi-
milian will receive the Mexican deputation on
Saturday. He will leave for Mexico on Sunday
next."

BOURSE, April 6.—Stock has been rather offered,
and the business done has been at a slight decline.
Threes, for the A3count, are now at 65f. 95c., end
Mobilier at 1,045 tr. Railway Market also heavy,
and many of the lilies show a slight decline. The
following are quoted ex div.:--Orleans (Old) 70fr.
New 81fr. 25c. Western 20fr. Roman 12fr. 50c.
The market closed as follows :

41 per Cents. 93 20
110, end month
per Cents
Do. end m0nth.,,.,, 66
Credit Mobilier, 1042 50
Do, end month., 1043 75
Bank Shares 3295
Credit F oncier 1272 60
Roman

Italian Loan 67 40
• Do. end month 67 65
I Sew ditto
• Do. end month —
Russian
Austrian ..... 80
Spanish Threes —
Home Debt ••• • • • --
Deferred
WAYS.

Cfl.Bti.

Amount.

...
qorthern • • • •

885 - .. 890 -

963 75 .. 967 50

New ditto
and Mcditcri-anean
New ditto
Southern

932 50 .. 935 -
875 53 -
650 - 648 75

Western
Eastern •p•• 00000 4.1"

49.5 597 50
480 - .. 480 -

Sardinian .. 366 25 365
Austrian
Lowbard
North of Spain
Saragossa 585 580
Ditto to Barcelona

LITERATURE,

A Wonderful Index,

Index Goographicus. Compiled Specially with
reference to Keith Johnston's Royal Atlas. One

Vol., pp. 676. Wm. Blackwood and Sons.

As a mere matter of curiosity we should like un-
commonly to know how long it could possibly have
taken to build up, as it were, pebble by pebble, this
mighty cairn of geographical information. We
should be disposed to conjecture, at a rough calcu-
lation, that within the compass of these 676 double.
columned pages there must be ranged together here
in alphabetical order—from "Aa Moss; Zealand,
Denmark, 55 deg. 35 min. N. latitude, 11 deg. 30
min. E. longitude," to " Zywiec or Seypusch ; Gal-
licia, Austria, 49 deg. 41 min. N. latitude, to 19
deg. 12 min. longitude"—upwards of one hun-
dred and twenty thou Sand pieces of just such
precise and valuable (almost, we might say, in.
valuable, because direct and practical) information.
The Index Geographicus, it should be especially
noticed, is, as we have just said, arranged is one
long streak (as the Yankees would term it) of names,
of localities, of Mountains, Rivers, Valleys, Straits,
Archipelagoes, Gulfs, Peninsulas, Sattlements,
Provinces, Capes, Forts, Harbours, Islands, Parishes,
Volcanoes, Glaciers, Counties, Promontories, In
lets, Canals, Bridges, Lakes, Villages, and what not
—alphabetically ! That is, in one consecutive chain
of names—alphabetically printed—from the top of
the first column in page 1 to the bottom of the
second column in page 674—comprising the body of
the work : otherwise from the beforementioned
inaugural Aa-moss to the final name (exclusive of
those in the single leaf of the addenda) i. e., Zwiec
It is worthy of particular note, again, in regard to
this marvellous repertory of knowledge of a
purely geographical kind, that while each name
out of so vast a multitude of names as to have
been already computed by us as extending to a
total in round numbers of some 120,000 or there-
abouts—that while to each of these names there
is attached not only mention of the latitude and
longitude of the especial locality referred to, but,
in numerals and abbreviations, reference also to a
given map in the magnificent Royal Atlas (that
no plus ultra among atlases) compiled by Mr.
Keith Johnston, and published by the Messrs.
Blackwood and Sons, of London and Edinburgh—
the Index Geographicus is, notwithstanding this,
applicable, directly and instantaneously applicable,
to all modern atlases and maps whatsoever. In
point of fact, the work is announced by advertise-
ment to have aimed, in the first place, at rendering
itself as completely as possible an Index of easy re-.
ferenca to the Royal Atlas of Mr. Keith Johnston
aforesaid; and, in the next place, at becoming, as far
as might prove to be in every way compatible with
this primary object, available as an Index of easy
reference to all other geographical works—howso-
ever, or by whomsoever published, whether as
single maps or as atlases (other than the Royal),
whether published by the Messrs. Blackwood, or
issued from other establishments than theirs, say,
for example, from the establishments of either
Mr. James Wyld, or Mr. Edward Stanford, both
of Charing-cross. The work before us, as it has
now been completed, we may assert at once quite
confidently, realises both of these objects—
that is, the primary one and the subsidiary
one—and it does so in a manner in the
highest degree satisfactory. Nay it does more
than this—it has been so carried out as to
constitute itself what it indeed has acknowledged
its aspiring to do—it has constitned itself that
is to say, a direct and acceptable substitute for the
Gazeteer. As a matter of course, in realising thus
the primary object with which this mammoth
Index Geographicus was undertaken, every in-
dividual name anywhere to be found in the Royal
Atlas has in this vast and eomprohensive Index
been duly catalogued. In recording thus every-
one of those names, here, in alphabetical order,
the greatest care appears to have been taken, nut
in a merely general sense, but in a very especial
sense indeed, to secure exactitude in the nomen-
clature. Meaning, when we say this, that
all the nearly countless aliases of localities have
been duly recorded and catalogued in like man-
ner. As, for example, in respect to names
occurring in the map of Hindostan—iin the map of
that country to be found in the Royal Atlas and
equally also in every map of Hindostan whatever—
Pondicherry is recorded here in the Index Geogra-
phicus, and so also is Catch, but with Catch occurs
here likewise as more consonant with Eastern pro-
nunciation Kachh, and with Pondicherry for a like
reason, Puducheri. Ex uno dine omnes. And hence
the whole " Index," as an " Index," is really and
truly about the completest possible. Another ex-
traordinary facilitation of reference is secured by
the careful insertion of all names having the prefix
Saint—under any and every of its modificeions, as
Sainte, San, Santa, Sao, Szent. The clue of clues
for reference—to the Royal Atlus first of all, but
quite as well also to all other maps and
atlases—is to be found, the most naturally