The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-01 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

THE WAR IN JUTLAND,

COPENHAGEN, MARCH 31 (Nine p.m.)

The Dagbladet of to-day says At Assen-
derup, where the Danes took 23 Hussars prisoners,
the Prussian troops burned several farms out of
revenge.
Ten Hussars were taken prisoners to-day,"

THE PRINCIPALITIES.

BUCHAREST, MARCH 13,

A motion expressing censure and want of eon-
fidnice in the Ministry has been rejected by a large
majority in the Chambers.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.
SP. PETERSBURG, Arita 1.

The Invalide .Busse of to-day accuses the Wal-
lschian Minister, M. Kogelnitsehana, of openly
sympathising with and tolerating the revolutionary
Poles. The latter, however, are reminded by the
Invalicle that now that they are prevented passing
by way of Galicia, the only course open to them
is through Bessarabia, Podolia, and Volhynia,
where both the troops and populations aro ex-
tremely hostile to their cause.

THE BRAZIL MAIL.

LISBON, MARCH 31.

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship
Parana, from the Brazils, arrived here to-day, and
will leave for Southampton at four p.m., with 114
passengers, £7,743 in specie, 703 bales of cotton,
100 barrels of tapioca, 350 rolls of tobacco, and 221
packages of sundries.

FRANCE.

PARIS, APRIL 1.

The Constitutionnel of to-day publishes an
article, signed by M. Limayrac, pointing out the
difficulties to be resolved in the question of the
Duchies. The writer says :-
1 " Considering the diversity of pretensions, France
would not consent that a Conference should take
upon itself to decide the destiny of the Duchies,
either by choosing for them a Sovereign or dividing
them between such and such Powers. The only
possible solution would be to ask the people what
form of government and what Sovereign they wish
to have. This solution would be in conformity
with the principles of the Imperial Government,
and would be the most equitable one. This alone
could afford European order, general peace, and
serious and durable guarantees."
Lady Cowley gave a splendid ball at the British
Embassy on Tuesday night, the company—for
whom 900 invitations had been given—consisting
of the members of the diplomatic carpet the
ministers and other high dignitaries, and the elite
of the fashionable society of Paris. The new ball-
room was definitively inaugurated on this occasion,
and presented a most charming appearance, from
the admirable manner in which the lighting was
managed. The chandeliers descended only is part
through the ceiling, so that the glare
of the gas was greatly diminished; in
addition, by means of flues, the heated atmos-
phere was allowed to escape, whilst a supply
of cool air, introduced by other pipes very ingeni-
ously contrived, ensured to the room a most agree-
able temperature, even when crowded with dancers.
The flooring below also attracted much admiration,
being composed of most artistically arranged
marquetry work, The whole of the lower salons
were thrown open on the occasion. An excellent
supper was provided at about one, and dancing was
afterwards resumed until an early hour in the
morning. The attention of Earl Cowley and of the
ambaesadress to their numerous guests was the sub-
ject of general remark.
BOURSE, March 31.—The market still remains in
the same dull state, but without any material varia-
tion in prices. Threes, for the Account, are er-
changed at 65f. 83c, Mobilier has improved to
1,0471. 50c. Railway Shares quiet, but firm. The
market closed as follows :

43 per Cents. 93 40
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 65 85
Credit Mobilier 1050
Do. end month 1052 60
Bank Shares 3297 50
Credit k oncier 1270
Roman

Italian Loan 67 95
Do. end month —
"Sew ditto
Do, end month...,
ft usflian
Austrian
Spanish Threes,. ,
Home Pobt . .... .
Deferred .. 45

RA IL

"AYS.
Cash. Account.
997 50 .. 997 50
970 976 25

Orleans ...
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and MeditTrrancan
New ditto ..
Southern
Western ......
Eastern •............•
Sardinian ......
Austrian
Lombard ........
North of Spain ....
5arag055a..........
Ditto to Barcelona

950 _- „ 950 -

900 - ••
658 75 .. 657 50
520 - .. 525 -
480 .. 480 -
370 ~, 362 50
406 25 .. 410 -
548 75 .. 648 75
49;) 488 75
587 50 .. 590 ---
280 - -

AMERICAN AFFAIRS.

A writer in the Times gives the following in.
teresting account of the state of affairs of the war
now raging in America :—Now that the American
war becomes again of stirring interest, it may be
well to survey the field of operations embraced in
the coming campaign. The Northern people have
deluded themselves for months past with tales of
refugees and deserters about the demoralisation and
starvation of the South. Nothing, from the first, has
been more remarkable than the credulity of the
Federals, except it be that persons in this country,
of some intelligence, should also permit their judg-
ment to be swayed by the anecdotes of President
Davis's coachman, or the statistical and military
knowledge of Miss Auna Dickenson. It is now
known that the cotton crop of the South last season
reached 800,000 bales—a pure addition to the
growth of all the foed required by its people. It is
in the midst of this surplus capacity of a country
able to feed twenty times its present population
that tales of starvation have been believed in by
every loyal Unionist ; and while they were amusing
themselves with another theory, that of despon-
dency, the people of the South were urging their
Congress to pass heavy taxation bills and a more
rigid conscription law, thus eagerly proffering
money and life in the service of their country.
It has been known here for months past that the
Southern armies would take the field in greater
force than at any previous period of the war. Any
Federal would have smiled at this assertion a month
ago ; perhaps he will not do so now. Even before
the real campaign has begun all these delusions are
shattered. At every paint, even in Florida, strong
forces are encountered where none were supposed
to exist, and already Meade is on the defensive,
Thomas repulsed, Sherman defeated, and the great
cavalry movements at an end in utter failure.
Sherman's operations show clearly the nature of such
a war as this, and what is to be its issue. He under-
took in the State of Mississippi what the North
undertakes over the whole Confederacy. He suc-
ceeded in marching right across the State, but to
what advantage ? Without attaching any weight
to the rumour of a disastrous defeat at Meridian,
his loss would be sufficiently great in incessant
skirmishes and the stragglers left behind on such a
march. At the departure of the steamer, New York
would have willingly compounded the loss at half of
his army. The cavalry column that issued from
Memphis, and like an avalanche was to sweep all be-
fore it, had but a short and very ignominious career.
Only the other day it was believed throughout the
North that the victorious Sherman was at Selma, no
one apparently knowing of the existence in his way
of a great river, the Tombigbee, held by the Confe-
derates, and long ago appointed as the line of defence
against a movement from the Mississippi. It was
forgotten, too, that at Selma his position would
have been that of Burgoyne at Saratoga, with
exactly the same prospects. There was another
theory of his marching to Mobile, no one knowing
that he would have to cross a pine barren of 80
miles, short of water and bare of forage for so much
as a grasshopper. The Federals appear to be as
ignorant even of the geography of the South as
they have proved themselves to be of its resources
or the spirit of the people.
In the neighbouring State of Louisiana General
Banks employs himself in the noble pursuit of re-
enslaving the negroes—the terms of Federal slavery
being infinitely worse for the negro than those of
his former condition. He is busy, too, in getting
up a sham Government of speculators, sutlers, and
foreigners, to aid by their electoral vote the re-elec-
tion of Mr. Lincoln. If the statement be correct
that Magruder is marchirg into the State from
Texas, these schemes may have to be abandoned for
more serious work. Magruder may well be tired of
inaction in Texas, where the Federal occupation of
a few points on the coast is obviously intended for
effect only.

In Florida the most discreditable affair of the war
has occurred, another result of moving away from
the gunboats. Not that it was discreditable for
brave men, exhausted by long marches, to bs de-
feated with heavy loss, but that the ruler of a
country, whose only alleged qualification is common
honesty, should be found employing his troops and
engaging his private secretary in the work of
manceuvring for his own re-election. It is, of course,
assumed that the people of the North will tamely
submit to be ruled by one re-elected by what every
one knows to be sham votes. Such a compliment
was surely never paid to a people before ; and the
question arises whether in the history of human
affairs a country was ever conquered by attorneys
transformed into Generals, with forces directed by
the tactics, not of war, but of electioneering.
In Georgia nothing more hopeless than the Fe-
deral prospects can well be imagined. Three years
have proved what it is to advance upon Richmond,
across the narrow intervening portion of Virginia,
but that is mere amusement when compared with
the conquest of Georgia from such a base as Chatta-
nooga. Apart from the repugnance of all people to
see great districts of their country laid waste, it
would be good strategy for the Confederate General
to lure on Ganeral Thomas to Atalanta, standing
entirely out of his way, and simply barring out his
return. Georgia is as large as England, and every
man in it is enrolled for service. What can be done
by any army of 40,000 men, with an equal oppo-
❑ent to overthrow, and with such a country to con-
quer? It is idle to talk of the invasion of regions
such as these, except so far as rivers can be ascended,
and the strip of land they command, The march
of an army through such a country is like one
furrow run through a field. We tried the experi-
ment in South Carolina—to our cost.

In that State the war is limited to throwing shells
at the houses of private individuals. The siege is
virtually over, a very costly failure, and the fire is
kept up plainly for appearance sake. It does not
seem to be intended to get up a " bogus" represen-
tation for this State. South Carolina has forced
from the Northerners what they rarely yield to
aught human or Divine—that is, respect. Stone
fleets, monitors, even that wonderful creation the
heroic negro conscript, all have gone for nothing,
and Charleston seems unlikely to be sowed with salt
in our day. In North Carolina the negro Federals
made an inroad to the ruin of innumerable fowls,
and the death of one poor Confederate soldier
whom they met and hung. The Union sentiment
of that State is well known to all except its own
inhabitants; but this is not the way to promote it.
A General Wild, who commanded this valorous
raid, has since, in the department of Batler, charged
a clergyman of the Episcopal Church with being
disloyal in his sermons, and sentenced him to sweep
the streets of Norfolk for three months. It is a new
way to bring back a people into fraternal union to
begin by offering insults to the women of the coun-
try, and then to its clergy. By the latest accounts
the invaders of North Carolina were congratulating
themselves on being under very strong shelter,
without having permanently advanced one mile
inland in the course of more than two years.
A war of this nature may be divided into two
portions. The first consists of those operations in
which naval forces can co-operate. This combina-
tion of power, coupled with superior numbers, must
he on many points overwhelming. The wonder is,
not that the Mississippi should be forced, but that
it was held so long. Any one informed beforehand
of the elements of the contest might fairly have
taken it has granted that most of the ports would
be captured, if not all of them, and that every navi-
gable river would be ascended. Instead of this
only one great port is in the hands of the Federals
at the end of four years, and no one of the rest
seems likely to be taken throughout the war. Im-
portant as the progress of the Federals has been in
this stage of the war, it is much less than oar own
was in the revolutionary war at the end of an equal
term. They have taken but one leading port ; then
there was but one left untaken. What the ultimate
result of onr greater successes was appears to be
altogether forgotten.
And now comes the second stage of the war, be-
yond the reach of gunboats, when Sherman has to
advance into Mississippi, or Seymour into Florida.
Here comes the really decisive struggle, man to
man, and he must have a strange spirit who does
not instinctively feel that the ma❑ who defends his
home and his property will fight differently from
the mercenary bribed by enormous bounty. Eyen