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

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

NEW PONTIFICAL LOAN.
MARSEILLES, APRIL 3.

Advices from Rome to March 30, announce that
a Pontifical rescript had been published authorising
a loan of 40,000,000 lire to defray the expenses of
the Public administration.
On Monday, April 4, the Pope was to be present
at a religious ceremony in the church of Maria
Minerva.

DENMARK AND THE PROPOSED
CONFERENCE,
HAMBURG, APRIL 4.
Private letters received here from Copenhagen
assert that the resolution of Denmark remains un-
shaken not to enter into negotiations on the Schles-
wig Holstein question unless they are conducted on
the basis of the treaties of 1851 and 1852.
The Flyveposten, a Copenhagen paper, asserts
that Denmark will be represented in the Confe-
rence by M. de Quaade, the Minister for Foreign
Affairs, and the Councillor Krieger.

THE BOMBARDMENT OF DUFFEL,
COPENHAGEN, APRIL 3, 12.55 p.m.
The bombardment of Duppel was continued
to•day.
Sonderburg is burning in several places. The
cannonade of the enemy is kept up by the same
batteries as yesterday.
Our outposts on the right of the Duppel position
were attacked several times during the night.

GARIBALDI AT SOUTHAMPTON.

SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 4.

The Corporation waited upon Garibaldi at 11 a.m.
to-day at the Mayor's residence, and accompanied
him to the Town-hall, where addresses were pre-
sented to him. The procession was headed by the
band of the Ist Hants Engineers.
After a vote of thanks to the Mayor, the proces-
sion formed and, headed by the band, proceeded
to the pier.

Garibaldi's carriage was accompanied by a body
of police.
After a salute, which was fired from the platform,
Garibaldi embarked in a special steamer for Mr.
Seeley's residence.

NEW ZEALAND,
(By Telegraph from Suez.)

The war in New Z'Aland is still proceeding.
The natives have concentrated at Pikopiko,
where they are surrounded by General Cameron's
ferns. The general is said to intend compelling
their surrender by starvation.

THE BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE MAILS,

SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 4.

The Royal Mail Company's steamship Parana has
arrived here with the above mails, 138 passengers,
£7,863 in specie, 6 packages of diamonds, value not
stated, and 1,643 packages of cargo.
The Parana spoke the English barques Cheviot
Chase and Nile off Cape St. Vincent on the 25th
March. The American corvette St. Louis was at
Lisbon,
At Rio Janeiro the discussion in the Senate on
the subject of the dismissal of the judges
of the Supreme Tribunal continued. The
Senator and ex-Minister of Justice, Senhor Con-
tancas de Seirinbu, in his speech i❑ the Senate ac-
cused Mr. Reeves, the English Post-office agent, of
having opened and copied a letter written by him
to Bahia. To this assertion Mr. Reeves has given
a denial through the columns of the Jornal do
Commercio.

The Marquis of Abranto, late Minister of
Finance, had been attacked both in the Senate
and Chamber of Deputies for having sacrificed
the interests of the country in the manner in
which he contracted the late internal and external
loans.

Senhor Sur Silveira da Motta proposed in the
Senate that foreigners should not be allowed to
hold slaves in Brazil, The Senate rejected the pro-

posal.

A moderate business has been done in stock at
99 to par, and a small business in excharge at 278
to 278.

At Monte Video, the new President, pro, tem,,
was elected on the 2d.

Flores was reported to be within tw) miles of
the town, but he was said to intend retreating
about 10 leagues, in search of fodder for horses,
&c.

T Urn2g6utahguisttieamer, from Liverpopl, arrived
out on the

In the island of St. Jago, Cape de Verdes, a
frightful famine existed. The unfortunate inhabi-
tants were dying daily in numbers in the streets,
of starvation. Great exertions were being made in
Rio and Lisbon on behalf of the sufferers, but the
aid was insufficient to preserve the live of the po.
pulation, and without further assistance, it is said,
that thousands of the islanders must perish. The
cause of the famine:is the failure
of rains in sowing
season.

At Bahia the sugar market was more animated.
•
The coffee sales were unimportant. Tobacco holders
demanded four dollars per arroba.
Exchange Was
firm.

The quotations for sugar at Pernambuco had
advan3ed 100 reis per arroba. The sales of dry
salted hides were small. Exchange firm. The
amount passed per Parana is £115,000 sterling,