The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-13 00:00:00

AMERICA.

The Arabia arrived at Queenstown at nine p.m.
to-day, with 80 passengers, and 18,300 dollars in
specie. She landed 106 sacks of mails and 11 pas-
sengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 9.15 p.m.
All well.

The Arabia had experienced very severe easterly
les.

(Per the Arabia.)
NEW YORK, March 29. Evening.
Forroot's cavalry, estimated at 5,000 strong, has
captured, burned, and sacked Paducah and Union
City, Kentuct-y. Forrest afterwards attacked Fort
Blow, Paducah, occupied by 800 Federals, but was
repulsed.
The Federal gunboats subsequently shelled Padu-
cah, causing Forrest to retreat towards Columbus.
The Confederates are in strong force at Dalton,
Tenneasse, in the Federal front. They have 3,000
cavalry beyond Dalton.
It is reported that Bishop Polk is reinforcing
Johnston.
Longstreet's cavalry has arrived at Marietta,
Georgia.
General Grant has visited Washington, but has
returned to the army of the Potomac. It is re-
ported that Grant will appoint M'Clellan and
Fremont to active service.
The Federal army on the frontier of Arkansas
has left Fort Smith for northern Texas.
President Lincoln has issued a proclamation
announcing an amnesty.
The proclamation does not apply to persons in
military, naval, or civil custody, or on parole.
Commissioned civil, naval, and military officers can
administer oaths.
The steamers Alice and Hansa left Wilmington
on the 12th. The America and the City of Man.
chaster have arrived out.
(By Telegraph to Halifax.)
NEW YORK, March 31, Morning.
General Banks's advance has reached Alexandra.
Money easy. Gold On per cent. premium.
NEW YORK, Marc!: 31, Evening.
Forreat's cavalry, after burning Paducah, Ken
tacky, has advanced within eight miles of Co,
lambus.

Another large Confederate force is concentrated
at Pound Gap, supposed to be intended for the
invasion of Kentucky.

Serious riots have taken place at Charleston,

Illinois, caused by disputes between the Copper-
head and Republican politicians. The Copperhead
rioters, 1,500 strong, are entrenched. near Charles.-
ton. A large number of troops has been sent to
quell the riot.
The Africa and North American have arrived
out.

The Assistant-Secretary of the Treasury at New
York has been issuing gold certificates for duties,
fixing them every morning at i per cent. below the
opening market price of gold.
Gold has fluctuated since Monday between 68 and
63 per cent. premium.

NEW YORK, April 1, Morning.
Generals Grant and Meade have left Washington
for Fortress Monroe.
Money easy. Gold, 671 per cent. premium. Ihe
Governmeut rate for gold was fixed this morning at
65. The market has since advanced to the above
quotations.

(Per the Arabia via Crookhaven.)
(By Telegraph to Halifax,)
NEW YORK, April 1, Evening.
The Confederates have made a reconnaissance
from Alexandria up the Red River to Natchitooches,
capturing 200 prisoners and four cannon.
CO II NIER CIA.L INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, March 29, Evening.
Money easy. -,Quid CU percent. premium. The
gold market has been unfavourably affected by the
announcement that Mr. Chase will shortly arrive in
New York to take measures to depress the price.
The Assistant Secretary of the Treasury has an-
nounced that he will issue gold certificates for duties
at 71,- per cent. below the market value of gold. Ex-
change on London, 179; on Paris, 3 12k. Stocks
steady—New York Centrals, 1444 ; Illinois, 149 a;
Erie, 125; United States Six per Cent. Bonds,
112,t. Cotton, good inquiry—Middling Upland,
75c. to 76c. Petroleum, crude, 32 to 33; ditto,
refined, 48 to 60k.

NEW YORK, April 1, Afternoon,
Money easy. Gold, 661 per cent. premium. Ex-
change on London, 1804. Stocks very firm: New
York Centrals, 144; Illinois, 149; Erie, 1244;
United States Six per Cant. Bonds, 114.

Evening.
Money easy. Exchange on London, 1801 to 181.
Exchange on Paris, 3 10. Stocks firm and advanc-
ing. New York Centrals, 14373; Illinois, 1481;
Erie, 1244 ; Six per Cent. United States Bonds,
114. Cotton quiet. Flour, slightly firmer, ad-
vanced 6c. Wheat slightly firmer. Corn, provi-
sions, and coffee, quiet. Sugar in extensive de-
mands. Molasses very firm. Crude petroleum,
321 to 321 ; refined ditto, 49 to 50. Gold, 66k per
cent. prem.

HALIFAX (via Crookhaven), April 2, 10 p.m.
The Arabia, since leaving Boston, has had eon•
tinuous easterly gales. A heavy and long spell of
easterly winds has driven the ice from North Bay
and scattered it profusely along the south coast.

The harbour of Halifax has been blocked up for
two days by a heavy field of ice, extending east and
west as far as the eye could reach.

The Arabia arrived at 1.30 p.m. to-day. Her
paddle.boxes have since been damaged by ice.
She repairs and leaves at five a.m. to-morrow
(Sunday).
There is no news of importance here.

THE THRONE OF MEXICO.

TRIESTE, April 10.

The following is an exact translation of the full
speech of the Archduke Maximilian of Austria in
reply to the deputation tendering him the Mexican
crown. His imperial highness spoke in Spanish:—
" Mature examination of the acts of adhesion you
have come to lay before me affords me the assurance
that the resolution of the Mexican Notables which
brought you the first time to Miramar is confirmed
by the immense majority of your compatriots, and
that I may with good right consider myself the
legitimate elect of the Mexican people. The first
condition expressed in my reply of October 3 is,
therefore, fulfilled. The guarantees which the
future empire requires to be able to consecrate itself
in peace to the first of its mission—the establish-
ment upon firm bases of the independence and wel-
fare of the country—are now secured, thanks to the
magnanimity of the Emperor of the French, who,
throughout the progress of the negotiations, has
shown himself constantly animated by a spirit of
loyalty and goodwill, of which I shall ever preserve
the remembrance.

`' The august head of my family, upon his part,
has given his consent to my taking possession of the
•
throne offered to me.

" I am thus enabled to fulfil the eventual promise

I gave you six months ago, and I now solemnly
declare that, with the aid of the Almighty, I accept
the crown at the hands of the Megan nation which
tenders it to me.

"Following the traditions of that new continent,
so full of strength and future, I\lexico has used her
right of selecting a government in liarmorq with
her wishes and her requirements. she has placed
her confidence in a descendant of that house of
Hapsburg which three centuries ago planted a
Christian monarchy upon her soil.
" This confidence touches me, and I will not be-
tray it. I accept the power of organisation which
the nation of which you are the organs confers upon
me, and I shall in any case retain it only so long as
may be necessary to introduce settled order into
Mexico, and to establish wise and liberal institu-
tions, ,& I stated to you, gentlemen, in my address

Circular Despatch of IL De Qu.aade,

The following circular despatch haa been sent by
the Danish Minister of Foreign affairs to the Danish
representatives at foreign Courts :

Copenhagen, April 5.
Sir,—Since my despatch of the 15th of March, the in-
explicable proceedings of the Prussians and Austrians in
the continental portion of the Monarchy, and notably in the
Duchy of Schleswig, have increased upon a constantly
increasing scale. The invasion pursues its subversive task
with redoubled violence. The Allies treat this.Dachy as if
there could never be a question of restoring it to its legiti-
meet Sovereign, and as if, far from being, as it has always
been a country essentially Danish, it were only a former
portion of Germany which had been torn from some Ger-
man Sovereign by the usurpationfof Denmark.
The functionaries who administered the Duchy in the
name of the Royal Government have been successively dis-
missed. One only of all the bailiffs (baillis) of the continen-
tal portion of the country still holds his office; three only
of all the towns have retained their burgomasters; 13 other
magistrates and 12 assessors in courts of justice have been
removed from their posts. The bishop of the diocese of
Schleswig and 40 clergy have been ejected. All the head
masters and rectors of colleges have been discharged, and 37
out of 42 professors have been compelled to relinquish their
position. The seminary for primary teachers in the northern
portion of the duchy has been closed, and all the professors
have been sent away. Similar facts are renewed daily in
other branches of the administration, The Austro-Prussian
Commissioners have not even scrupled to remove in a body
all the members of ;the Com t ofAppoal, the highest tribu-
nal of the duchy, having its seat at Flensburg.
What is the object of all this violence and all this usurpa-
tion P Is it not evident that they tend to Germanising the
duchy any price--a country in which only one-third of
the people speak German, and which has been an essenti-
ally Danish country from the remotest antiquity ? And, in
fact, as early as Feb. 19 the Commissioners had ordered
that German should be the sole language for churches and
schools throughout almost the whole of the districts in
which the dialect of the people is mixed; and this oppres-
sive measure has now been completed by the dismissal or
suspension from their functions of nearly all the curates and
teachers in those parts. At the public school of Flensburg,
where the language of tuition was alternately Danish and
German, instruction hqs been ordered to be carried on in the
latter only. Finally, it has been forbidden to employ Danes
in causes brought before the Court of Appeal of the duchy,
thus preventing the entrety of the Danish iuhabitante—that
is to say, about two-thirds of the population of the Duchy—
fro m availing themselves of their mother.tangue before the tri-
bunal called on to decide.their most important interests. The
absurdity and iniquity of this measure are eminently appa-
rent, and the Commissioners have been careful to impart to
them greater prominence by ordering that judgments de-
livered in the causes of inhabitants of the northernmost
districts shall be accompanied bya translation in:the Danish
language.

The destruction of all the symbols of the Ring's sove-
reignty is equally continued. It was commenced by remov.
lug the Royal escutcheon and cipher from all public build-
ings. The use of postage stamps and paper s'amped with
the Royal Crown has now been forbidden. It was even
thought urgently requisite to abolish, by express decree the
customary prayer for the Royal house, offered up in all the
churches after Divine Service.

All persons keeping books of account have been prohi-
bited from making use of the monetary system of the Mo-
' narchy, end have been ordered to employ the system called
courant, which is only used in certain portions of the north
of Germany. At the same time, not content with authoris-
ing, the circulation of Prussian and other German dollars
with Hamburg small money, it has been thought conve-
nient and fair to interdict the circulation of the small coin
of the Monarchy. The recent Customs law, common to the
Kingdom and to Schleswig, as well as a law concerning
navigation,both of which were to come in force after the let
of April of this year, have been suspended.
The Commissioners also continue to lavish offices upon
persons who played a prominent part in. the insurrection of
1848, or who have subsequently displayed revolutionary
tendencies. After having begun by appointing the former
Minister of War of the insurrection bailiff in the south-
eastern portion of the Dachy, and after having conferred a
similar office in the southwestern portion upon a man who
formerly became notorious by demanding that the leaders
of the insurrection should declare that Xing Frederick
VU. had forfeited the throne, the Commissioners believed
they could not place the supreme direction of the public
schools of the Duchy in safer hands than in those of an in-
dividual who, owing to his practices in favour of the insur-
rectionary cause, had been expelled from the town of Flens-
burg in 1849 by authority of the International Committee
charged to govern the Duchy during the armistice, and ono
of whose members was Count Eulenburg, the Prussian
Plenipotentiary. Of the divisional chiefs whom the Com-
missioners have appointed to the central government, one
held office in 1850 as the head of a department under the
insurgent administration, the second fought in the ranks of
the insurrectionary army, and the third, although at that
time a Royal official, made common cause with the revolters.
At the period of the accession of King Christian lx. two
only among the Schleswig clergy refused to take the oath
of allegiance to his Majesty, and were displaced. The Com-
missioners have been sedulous to profit by the opportunity
to show how they understand the respect for the King's
Sovereignly they had promised before Europe. They have
hastened, therefore, to reinstate these two clergymen in.
their cures, and have, at the same time, conferred another
cure of souls upon a candidate who had offered homage to
the Pretender, Frederick of Augustenburg, as his legiti-
mate Sovereign, These secessionist demonstrations are
everywhere looked upon with favour by the authorities of
the invasion, who do not even scruple to permit factious
assemblages to prolaim solemnly the accession of the Pre-
tender to the "ducal Crown."

n other respects annoyances of every kind run their
course against the inhabitants who have remained faithful
to the legitimate authority. Those who are not thrown
into prison are frequently given over to the arbitrary treat.
nient of the soldiers.

In short, upon all portions of the territory placed under
the authority of the Commissioners extreme activity is dis-
played to overthrow the ancient legal order, to establish
new institutions suited to effact a complete separation be-
tween Schleswig and the Kingdom, and to denationalize
rapidly and efficaciously the peaceable population laid under
a foreign yoke. This is the explanation why every step at
present taken in the peninsula at the instance of the autho-
rities of the invasion is carefully and skilfully calculated to
support and encourage the efforts of the revolutionary party,
whose openly avowed object is to succeed in detaching
Schleswig from the Danish Crown, and, while uniting it
closely with Holstein, to cause its incorporation with Ger.
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I have the honour, &c., QUAA.DE.

THE CARTOON IN "FUN" to-day is something
admirable—being a scene between " Hero and Bard.—
Bard— Come, I say, old fellow, don't go and snuff me out;u
get it over before the 231. Hero—Al 1 I wonder whether
toy countrymen will remember me three hundred years
hence ?

PROBATE Coln:use—The annual accounts ren-
dered by these courts show that the fees received
in 1863, in England and Ireland, amounted to £125,006.
The salaries and expense.; including £16,993, expended by
the Board of Works upon probate courts and district regis-
tries, absorbed £119,455; but, in addition to that, £107,293
has to be paid as compensation to proctors and officers of
the late courts, making the whole charge £226,748, or
£lOO,OOO more than the receipts. The amount of compen-
sation payable diminished in the coarse of the year to the
extent of rather more than £3,000 by deaths.

THE MACKEREL FISHERY.—The Cornish fisher-
men and seinowners have every encouragement to antici-
pate that the present season will prove even more profitable
than the productive season of 1863. During the past
week many good catches have been made, and prices have
gone down in consequence. On Thursday the Mount's
Bay boats Bent per rail 60 ton, or 2,400 baskets, containing
about 144,000 fish. Prices averaged from 14s. to 15s. per
hundred. A large quantity has been retailed throughout
the country at five, six, and seven for 1.8. ; the quality is
generally very fine.

of the 31.1 ober, I shall halt \,
monarchy under the safeguard keoniatiti...-
laws as soon as the country shall belaiimpfejelys:
pacified. The strength of the executive power is,
in nay n,2ecured by the precision equally with
the .ed establishment of its limits; it is
therefore my intention, in carrying on my Govern-
ment, to fiv such boundaries as may guarantee its
stability. I firmly hope we shall prove that well-
regulated liberty is perfectly compatible with the
reign of order.
"I shall know how to respect the one and to
cause respect to be shown to the other. I shall
hold high the flag of independence, the symbol of
future greatneu3, with the same vigour.
" I ask the assistance of all Mexicans who love
their country to aid mein accomplishing my splendid
but difficult task. Union will make us Ltrong, 'AM procure for us peace and prosperity.
" My Government will never forget the gratitude
it owes to the illustrious prince whose generous
support has brought about the rPg'nerlitic,n of our
beautiful country.
"Upon the way to my no,r country it is my in-
tention to visit Rome, to receive from the hands of
the Holy Father those benedictions so precious' to
all sovereigns, and which are doubly important to
me, as called upon to found a new empire."