The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-09 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

11.1)

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to XI 108 Od ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 106 Od ; and straw, £1 3s to £l. 108 per load.
Slow trade.

CUMBERLAND..—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 15s Od ; clover.
£4 08 to £5 108 Od ; and straw, £1 3s to £1 10s per load
Demand inactive.

WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4lOB ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 1030 d ; and straw, £1 3s to £1 lOs per load.
A slow sale.

COAL MARKET.
Prioes of Coal per Ton at the close of the market.
s. d. s. d.
Wylam 18 9 Walls End.
Eden Main lB 91 East Hartlepool ...... 20 0
Holywell 17 OlSouth Hetton ...20 0
I'anfield Moor Butes ..14 9 Kelloe
South Hart1ep001......19 0
Braddyll's Hetton 19 0
Caradoc l9 9
South Kelloe 19 3
Gosforth lB 3
Trimdon Hartlepool 19 6
KeiperGrange 19 0

Walls End.
Harton 18 3
Hetton 20 6
Heugh Hall 10 3
',Tamen .20 6
Whitworth 16 6
Mattall

Ships at mar]

;t, 20; sold, 19.

94 96

BRITISH POSSESSIONS.
Closing I
3h arc Railways Paid. Price. Business don;
100 ,Ltlantio &St Lawrenct all 59 61 604
Sk Bom.,Barodact.Cent Ind WO 1024 1034 103
Gu. 5 per cent...
20 Do. New
20 Do. E. Shares... 74 p 1 p
204 Buffalo and Lake Huron all 54 6
10 Do. Preferance
00 Butralo,Brant,aGodrich 10,
6 p. ot. bds. Aug. 1, 1872
100 Do. do. July 1, 1870 I.ou
100 Do. do. June 1, 14;4 100
et elcuttaac S. Eastn. (1,11). 100 101 103
st Cape Town & Dock Scril 100 99 101
stock Eastn. Bengal gu. p. 100 1044 1054
stock East Indian. gu. sp. c. 100 1041 1041 105 45
20 Do. do. G Ext l5 4 p
20 Do. do. H do.
stook Grand Trunk of Canada 10u 194 204
100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds , all 75 77
100 Do. do. deferred.-- all 60 43
100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds all 66 ES
100 Do. do. deferred.-- all 51 63
100 Do. 3d I', ef. stock
100 Do. do. deferred all 40 42
100 Do. 4th I'ref. stock all 26 28
100 Do. do. deferred all 22 45
stook Gt.lndiaPentn.gua.sp.o 100 103 104 1031 4
20 Do. New gua. sp. ch l2
Do. January, 1862
stock Gt. South.of Indla(Lim
guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 103 104
204 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 10 104 105 10
204 Do. New
100 Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt. all 92 94
100 Do. 54 p. c. do. '77-8.... all 81 83
10 Indian Branch Limited 2 3 tp
stook Madras guar., sp.c. .. 100 iut )03
stock Do. 41 p. o. Extension 100 96 08
stook Dc. 4s d 0........ 100 52 94
20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 --
stock Nlelb.Corp. ap. o. 100
50 Melb. & Hobson's Bay. all 57 59
100 Do. 7p. c. Mortg. Bds. all
10 Newßrurswick a Canda
Class A and B all 3 5
N.lll.C'daB po lst pt bds 100 82 14
stock &judo (100 104 105
..)
stock Do. Delhi lOO 1014 1024
20 Do. do , ;, 1 2 5 ip
st Do. Punjaub t. 1 all 1024 1034
Do. Do. , !,1,?; , 100
stook Do.lndus.St.Flo.) lllOO 97 9J
---
COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
uly
I 1877-84 . —...... 100 1102 104
I Do. 6p. a. -Feb. & Aug. 100 100 102
' Do. 6p. c. Mar. & Sept. 100 100 102
Do. sp. a. Jan.&July. 10i 89 01
Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 88 90
Cape G.Hope, e p 0,1873 100 106 108
Do.Ap &Oct. 1880 100 110 112
Do. 1890 100 111 113
Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 110 112
;Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 .112 114
(Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 106 108
Natal Gov. 6 per cant.. 100 109 111
1N.8.G0v.15p.0.J a.&Jul) 100 102 104
1)0. 6p. o.Ap. & Oot. 100
N. S.W. 0, ov. 5 p Her 100 994 1004
Du. sp. c.,lBrt to Iti( 100 99 100
Do. d0.,1888 & upwds 100 99 100 995
New Zealand 6 p cent 100 110 112
Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c.
sterling, 1875 lOO 104 106
Queensland Gcv. 6p. c lOO
S. Aus G6p.c.1878.& up_ 100 109 111 111
Vic. Gov. 6 p.o. Ja.&July 100 -
Do. io 6 p.a. An.&004.. 100 105
,109 I

BRITISH MINES.
2 'Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 d
0111-ord Amalgamated 3 87
Devon G. Con,(Tavist ) 1 550 660
East Bassett (Illogan) 30 675 725 68 9
East Clogau Gold Ltd
East Caradon ...... '1.14.6 31 31 315
East Cam Brea... 3.4.0 7 75
E. Vrlltussel (Tavistk.) 8.9.0 4* 41
- Gam.d4St.Aubyn(Gwen ) 584 10 11
Great south Tolgus 17s 3 35
G. Wheal Vor (Ilelston, 40 34 36
Grenville ..
ifer;:d's-Foot 8.12 35 37
blingston Downs 4.: 8.0 4 45
Lady Bertha
Margaret (Guy Lelaut 9k 19 21
11 arke Valley..
01
4 \lyndy Iron Ore (Lim.,ll 25 15 16
New Setun f 191 85 95
—• North Downs .25 15 2
N.Wh'l Bassetallo4s.n 3.1.0 2 25
North Wheal Crotty
E'ar Consols (St. Blaze),
- , Providenee(Uny Lelnt.) 10.6.7 41 43
iSoutliCaradon(St.Cleer, 15 440 4010
18. Cana Brea (Illogan) —
- IS.W heal Fran. (Mogan; 18.18.9 50 55
!Stray Park 30.17.6 32 34
I fainar Silv.it Lead Min.
- in Cron d )3 19
• West Basset (Illogan) l5 10 11
%V C, radon (Liskeard) 5 20 22
West Seton
Wheel Basset (Illogan) 5* 875 925
Wheal Buller(Redruth) 10 35 40
'Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6
- 1 Wheal LudLott
I Wheal MaryAnni,:den ) 8 135 145
•
I Wheal t3eton 585 190 200
Wheal Trelawney (Lis.)l 7 21 24
--I‘Vheal Union I 3.17 2* 21

PREFERENCE SHARES.
Great Western Orig. 4} per cent. pf., 97}
London and Brighton, 5 per cent. kua. stock, No. 1, 1121
West Mid., Newp. 5 per cent. pt. rd. at 5 per cent. pm., 100
Lancashire and Yorkshire 6 per cent. stock. 134
London, Chatham, and Dover 5 per cent. pref., 97
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 6 per cent.. 127
Stockton and Darlington, B 6 per cent., 33±
PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS
London and Blackwall, 4} per cent. stk., 102} 3/1
London, Chatham, &c,, Metrop. 6xt., B 6 per cent., 100
Vale of Neath, 21

LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS.
Buckinghamshire, 95
London and Chatham, 4a per Cent.,
Ditto, Corn. Fund stock, 5 per cent., 9
Shrewbbury and liereford, 135
South Staffordshire, t 9
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Antwerp and Rotterdam, OZ.
Recite and San Francisco (lim.), gua. 7.per °entail
San Paulo (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., 81
Ditto (alt), 20i f

THE WAR IN DENMARK.

(From the Times Special Correspondent at the Danish
Head-quarters.)
ULKEBOL, April 3.

The final day has come for poor Sonderborg, and
I have been fairly routed out of it. I closed my
last letter at about 7 o'clock in the morning, and
being anxious, according to my wont, to post it with
my own hands, I sailed forth from the Hotel Rey-
muth. To walk from this place to the lower town
was an enterprise of no trifling danger. What is
cal:ed the " Royal," or town, post-office had been
struck with two shells and was a mass of ruins.
The Feld, or military post, was picking in breath-
less haste, with no great chance of avoiding the same
fate. The furious cannonade of yesterday afternoon
had wrought far greater mischief than we were
aware of. I stated that the dead and wounded
among the townspeople were last evening at 9 o'clock
about 22. Their number before the night was over
had risen to 57, Sinee daybreak the shower of shells,
had recommenced with the utmost violence, and the
shells, which had hitherto spent their fury among
the buileings of the lower town, now took a bolder
flight above the whole extent of its habitation up to
the height of the towering windmir.s. There was no
safety in any part of Sonderborg. The heed quarters
were packing hurriedly, and General Gerlach, with
all his Staff, was making ready for a flitting to
Ulkebol, where the hospitality of my good friend
Parson Meyer awaited them. The terror and
desolation of the town had reached its climax.
A great many of last evening's fugitives, turn-
ing from imminent danger without a thought of
the future, had only quitted their houses in the
maritime quarters of the town to repair to the
friendly dwellings of the people in the upper

town. But the higher regions had become in the
morning as unsafe as the rest, and the train of the
fugitives was swelling at every minute. Only one
or two tenements were in flames in the course of
yesterday afternoon, and the gallant Copenhagen
fire brigade had been able to stem the violence
of the flames and prevent its spread. This morning
no less than 20 houses were burning, and as the wind
freshened there was every prospect of a general
conflagration. The number of houses all but levelled
with the ground began tobo appalling. The
Radhuns or Council house, the Holsteinishe Haus
and the Alssund, two mean hostelries of the lower
town, were mere wrecks. The Burgomaster and the
head officer at the Board of Health had been driven
from roofless dwellings. The apothecary's house, a
large building where the head-quarters had been
established, was clean gone, and the same fate had
befallen the adjoining watchmaker's. As we heard
these particulars of yesterday's havoc, the destruc-

tion of to-day gained ground upon us. The advance
oof the shells was overwhelming us like the progress
of an irresistible tide. There was nothing left for
the most obstinate to do, but go, and the signal for
my own departure was of course given by the re-
moval of the headquarters.
_ .

Sonderborg is gone or going, and it seems as if the
Prussians had determined not to leave one stone of

it upon another. Yesterday's cannonade was mainly
directed against the Dybbol bastions, and the shells
that assailed the town from the batteries of Broager-
Land seemed to be fired almost incidentally by way
of wanton amusement, and were apparently in-
tended rather to frighten than to do much real harm.
But this morning the whole rage of the Prussian
cannon spent itself on the devoted town. Disap-
pointment at their ill success in Sundewed seems to
have made the assailants perfectly savage against
the helpless capital of Alsen. Unable to show their
bravery in a storming attack upon Danish bayonets,
the Prussians did not shrink from the unprofitable
sacrifice of an open town. The Danes are furious at
what they call a " dastardly outrage, a breach of all
the laws of war, and a departure from all the prin-
ciples of modern civilisation. It was to retrieve their
character as a fighting nation," they say, " that the
Prussians, after being worsted in so many encoun-
tLre, solicited the post of honour before Dybbol,
and reared against that position such a force
of artillery as ought to have blown it and its defen-
ders to atoms. Yet they were not content with
achieving by a cannonade what they durst not effect
by assault; buy. their very cannon are not pointed
at the breasts of men standing up in their defence,
but against a miserable crowd of women and chil-
dren almost as much at a loss how to fly as they
are unable to fight."
I have been willing to make myself the interpre.
ter of this universal outcry of the Danes, because,
neutral as I endeavour to make myself on all their
subjects of dispute, I really believe it would be dif-
ficult to find a good excuse for the behaviour of the
Prussians in this bombardment of Sonderborg, even
if they acted on the necessities sometimes imposed
party by the natural laws of self-
preservation, and weakervation
,and even if the war were on their part
a defensive, instead of an aggressive one. The gen o-
ral in command against Fredericia dil not open the
bombardment of the city without a timely intima-
tion to its inhabitants, allowing theta 24 hours to
withdraw from its walls ; yet Fredericia was a for-
tified place, and the people
that of their garrison, while Sonderborg is hardly
castw h who h
eriermlanitniend
wi
tiht
might be thought to have
an integral part of the Dybbol line of bastions, all
which might be taken before any-
necessity arose to
and destruction,
You must imagine the whole of the 2,000 inhabi-
offer Sonderborg the alternative between surrender

tants of Sonderborg, and the thousand of men and
officers billeted upon them as a garrison, suddenly
spread along every road and lane in the island, ap-
plying for quarters at every farmhouse, vil-
lage, hamlet, and but, already for the last nine
weeks as full of military ...,
8- ests of every de-
gree as houses, stables, barns, and straw-lofts can
afford, and then consider what
probabilities there
may be of a stranger applying for lodgings with
success from door to door, especially if this luck-
less
sleep st ra
withnger happen to have six other
fellows,house-
less
who must needs be taken in with him
or him in
thethe
way of illustratingby
I and
on of this little island
ge, ruse de guerre,
each of my companions, with a view to insert the
thih edge of the wed Presented re e t straits,under
perfectlyin the i
justifiablesn
that
the t
circumstances, a
ourselves singly
before as many of the Plasters of the little fishing
boats moored at the piers of Hong)
Ray, and asked
if they happened to have room fur one in their narrow
hold, and the answer was that they had all been
bespoken—some for two, some for three families of
Sonderborg citizens, and that they were not at
liberty to dispose of one inch of ground either on
deck or below.

.......... MM.*

THE BOMBARDMENT OF DUppEL.
(RBI. TER'S EPRESI3.)
COPENHAGEN , April 4.

headquarters to 5 p.m.
The following are the latest reports from head
quarters
2,re7cepi.vme.d_aAtdtvbi:e
es Ministry of War :
report that the bombardment of the position Duppel con-
tinued. The fires which had broken out in Sonderborg were
of some extent. Our loss in wounded was less to-day.
April 3, Noon.—Advices from head-quarters to 10 45
fronah
ead.
a.m. announce that single shuts only were occasionally
directed against the town and the position during the night.
Several alarms were given at various times along the line of
outposts. Attacks were made upon patrols, upon the sen-
tries, and upon the parties guarding the trenches, but after
slight skirmishing the enemy withdrew. Two men of the
10th Regiment were killed. The fire in Sonderborg has now
been extinguished.
April 4, 10 45 a.m.—The bombardment of Sonderborg
has ceased since 6 o'clock this morning. A third of the town
has been burnt, in addition to which numbers of houses in
a wide circumference have been damaged by shell. Several
places are still in 'awes. The Town hall is burnt down.
A few shots have only been directed at Duppel.
April 5, 9 15 a,m.—The artillery engagement at Duppel
was continued yesterday with energy, but the bombardment
or Sonderborg has been discontinued. The enemy has
thrown up several batteries 14011 the northern shore of the
Alsen found, from one of which, at Petersdal, he kept up
a violent fire yesterday against the war vessels lying in
Slesvig. A pontoon train has been seen in the vicinity of
Ballesgaard,"
The screw corvette Heimdal, from the Sound, ar-
rived here yesterday evening, with a screw frigate,
built for war service, but without guns, and under
jury-masts. The Heimdal sighted this vessel car-.
rying the English flag in the neighbourhood of
Elsinore. As she presented a most suspicious ap-
pearance, she was ordered to lay to, but disregarded
the order, whereupon the Heimdal fired a shot
across her bows and brought her up. The Captain