The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-29 00:00:00

THE CAPTURE OF ALSEN.

The following telegrtmt has been received At Mr.
Reuter's offico this morning from the Prussitz
Embassy in London ;

SONBERBORG, JUNE 29, 8.30 A.M.
The Prussian troops captured the Island of Alsen
this morning after some fighting.
The Dines lobt several gnus and embarked in
haste.

THE OCCUPATION OF JUTLAND.
BERLIN, JUNE 29.
Austria and Prussia intend to occupy the whole
of Jutland, and to keep it as a pledge.
They will collect the taxes in Jutland, and em-
ploy the proceeds to meet the military expenses,

PRUSSIA AND TEE ZOLLVEREIN.

BERLIN, JUNE 29.

The treaties for the renewal of the Zillverein, as
proposed by Prussia, were signed yesterday by the
representatives of Prussia, Saxony, Baden, Elec.
toral Hesse, 'Thuringen, Brunswick, and Frankfort.
The negotiations with Oldenburg are still
going on.

CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.
MARSEILLE, JUNE 29.
The Delta, with the above mails, arrived here a
9 a.m. to.day.
The mails leave for London at 11 30 a.m.

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MARKETS—This Days

MAItK-LANE.

Fresh up to our market to day the arrivals of English
wheat were very moderate. The demand, both for red and
white qualities, ruled far from active, yet Monday's ad-
vance in prices was supported.

With foreign wheat the market was but moderately sup.
plied. The trade was decidedly firm for alt de,criptions,
and previous quotations were maintained A..illers, how-
ever, almost generally restricted their purchases—conse-
quently a very moderate business was transacted.

Floating cargoes of grain ruled firm, nt full prices.
Barley, the rupply of which was but tn3detate, chani:ed
hakds at very full prices.
Malt was unaltered in value from Monday ; but the de-
mand ruled inactive.

Oats were in moderate supply, and steady request, at
Monday's advance iu the quotations.
Beans and peas ruled firm, at quite previous rates. The
supply on the stands was small.

The flour trade was firm at quite previous rates.

AIiaIVALS THIS WEEK.

Wheat. Barley.
English...—. 990

Malt. Oats. Fiout
310 I 1,520 I 580
1,62,0
23,.6e

Nsoreivn 7,750 7,131
Do

5 ) ske,
14,48) brls.

BOROUGH HOP.

lhe business doing in our market is very moderate, and
is chiefly for immediate consumption. Prices lute firm,
The accounts front the plantationw are favourable.

WHITECHAPEL.

Moderate supplies of meat are on sale, and the trade is
firm, at the annexed quotations:—
Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 4d; mutton, 3s 6d to 43 8d;
lamb, 5s Od to 53 8d ; veal. 33 10d to 43 8d; and pork, 3s 6d
to 4s 6d per 81bs by the carcase.

ALARMING FIRES (MIS DAY).—A fire of a very
alarming and destructive character broke out at a
late hour on the premises bionging to Mr. David Gray, a
cheesemonger, carrying on business at No. 4, Cross-street,
Blackfriars-road. The inmates having been aroused, they
fortunately effected a safe retreat. Conductor Garner
quickly attended with the Royal Society's fire-escape, and
the engines of the parish and London Brigade, under Mr.

Henderson, the chief officer of the D uistrict, and Engineers
Medcalf and Boutcher, followed in rapid succession. Oa
immediate and an abundant supply of the Lambeth Com-
pany's water having been procured, the firemen went to

work in admirable manner, but, in spite of their exertions,
the flames continued to spread, and the entire building be-
came enveloped in a broad sheet of flame. Eventually the
firemen succeeded in getting the mastery over the flames,
but not until the premises and contents were for the most
part destrlyed. The origin of the fire is unknown. The
loss will fall upon the Leeds and Yorkshire Fire Office.—
Another tire happened in the residence i,f the Marquis of
Hastings, No. 23, Park-lane. The discovery was made
one of the domestics by noticing smok3 issuing flora the
flooring. of the third floor, The Royal Society's escape and
the engines of the Landon brigade promptly attended,
under the direction of Mt Swanton, the chief officer of the
C di,trict and bye good supply of the Grand Junction Com-
pany's water, the fire was extinguished, but not before con-
siderable Cmage was done. The origin of the file was
owing to a defective flue.

he Riyai Dramatic CoHuge Fete will be held at

the Crystal Palace on the 16 h and 18th or July.
Among the leading features will bo the usual stalls, pre-
sided over by the most popular of the metropolitan actresses,
including Madlle. Stella Colas, who will wake har first ap-
pearance at thew fetes, Mr and Mrs Howard Paul are to
inhabit a grotesque edifice, resemb.ing a huge tan opening
and closing, the design of Mr K. t-hillips, of the Adelphi
Theatre. Thy will sell an elegant little Dramatic College
fan, devised by Mr Howard Paul, who is at present in Paris
superintending their production. Messrs Toole and Phu'
Bedford arc to give an exhibition of wax work. Clarke, of
the St,James 't heatre, is to have a cat and dog show. The
Wombwell menagerie will be repeated, with wonderful addi-

ttons of curious monsters, So that what with the usual
Aunt Sallies, minstrels, serenaders, gipsy tents, Richard-
son's Booth,and other pastimes, the Fair this year promises
a great deal of fun and amusement.

NEW GUNBOATS.—A Toulon letter of the 24th
says : Experiments have been made here
during the last few days with new ironclad gunboats
va,th improvements which enable them to move at a rapid
rate on land as well as on water. These small vessels sit
very low in the water, and have on the deck an ironclad
shelter pierced with six portholes and eighteen etabraStireS.
As they can be taken to pieces in a few hours and divided
engage in a naval combat off the coasts
into eighteen blocks, including the engine, these gunboats
could, if required,
of Provence with a speed of eight knots ; then be taken to
pieces, and, having been carried away by railway, be ready
to fight again off the coasts of the Atlantic in 36 hours,
after crossing the whole of Fiance. If this new engine of
war had existed during the Italian campaign, Mantua and
Peschiera might have been captured almosty. ithout a blow,
and Venice might have teen a miniature ironclad fleet
navigating her lagoons.

PRIZE DESIGNS...,." Undoubtedly, bowevAr, the finest
show in this respect is made by Benson, who offered prizes
for designs for watch case a the South Kensington Museum,
and who by this means has secured wane of the most exquisite
ornamental details for watcl cases that a. e shown in the
building." Times,
,y 7,1862. Chronometer, duplex, lever,
horizontal, repeaters, centre seconds, keyless, eplit seconds,
and every description of watch, adapted to all climates.
Benson's illustrated psmphiet, free by post for two scamps,
contains a short history of horology, with prices, and enables
those who live in any part of the wor d to selz,t a watch or
cio k. Prize mcd2, and honourable mention, c asses 33 and
i 5. J. W. Benson, Lucl4ate -hill, watch and clock maker by
special warrant of appointzlent to MILLI. the Irluce of
Waits. 174 J.

C 3117, 13715‘
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HER MAJESTY,

WINDSOR CASTLE, June 28.
The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High•
nesses the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, drove
out yesterday in a carriage and four, attended by
the Hon. Horatio Stopford and Lieutenant-Colonel
the Hon. D. de Ros.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Nemours,
Count a'Eu, Princess Margaret, and Princess
Blanche of Orleans, arrivid at the Castle yesterday.
Tne Bake of Nemours, Count d'Eu, and Princess
Margaret, dined with her Mjeety and the royal

The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses Princess Helena and Princess Louise, went
to London to-day, and drove to the palace at
Westminster and inspected the works of Mr. Her•
bert and Mr. Maelise, who were in attendance by
her Majesty's command.

Her Majesty afterwards honoured the Dean of
Westminster and Lady Augusta Sian ray with a visit
at the deanery, and returued to Windsor Castle at
five o'clock.

Iu attendance were the Marchioness of E:y, the
How. Mrs. Bruce, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Lieu•
tenant-Colonel the Hon. D. de Roe.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.
The Prince of Wases, accompanied by the Prince
of Leiningen, rude on horseback yesterday forenoon,
kAttentled by Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel.
The Princess of Wales, accompanied by the
Princess of Leiningen, took ti cat ridge drive.
The Prince rind Princess of W ales, accompanied
by
:the Prlt.Ce and Princess of .Leintugen, and at.
tended by the Mirchioness of Cartnar hen, Lieu+
ten stn. General Knonys, and Lieutenant-Colonel
Kepi oi, visited the Museum of the Geotogical Sur:
vey and the Royal School of Mines, in Jermyn-
street, yesterday, and were shown through the
building by the director-general, Sir Roderick
Murchison, accompanied by Professors Ramsay,
Hualey, Holman, Percy, Tyndall, and Willis; Mr.
Trenhom Reeks, curator; and Mr. Hunt, keeper Qf
the mining records, Mr. Warrington Smith being
absent on euty in Cornwall.

The Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied
by the Prince and Princess of Leiningen, and
attended by the nirchioness of Carmarthen and
Lieutenant-Colonel Keppei, went to the 4idelphi
Theatre in the evening.

The Great Conservative Meeting at Lord

Salisbury's,

(From the Owl.)
As soon as it became known on Wednesday afternoon
last week that it was all up with the Conference, and that
Lord Clarendon's particular role, whica we have pointed
out, alone remained to be played out by the actors in con-
cert, it because evident that the Danish question had en-
tered a new phase, and that a domestic crisis would be added
to the in...ern:sauna! imbroglio. The Owl took a flight dean
Pall-mall, looking in at the Carlton, where he soon dis-
covered that something was brewing. His friends were evi-
dently under the influence of strung excitement. Old birds
turned up whose antique plumage is a standing protest
against retorm, and whom a happy instinct lures
from distant places whenever great events are passing.
Official expectants, too, were numerous, and very
decided in their opinion that action should be
taken. The Owl was not eurpi iced to receive the follow-
ing morning, at his breakfast, au invitation, on very thin
paper, to attend a meeting of the Conservative party at
...surd Salisbury's house on the following Monday. This,
however, was premature, for L)rd Palmerston is too old a
bird to throw away a chance, and as the Plenipotentiaries
ha not shaken hands and exchanged protocols, the Con-
ference could nut be said to be concluded any more than a
dinner can bo said to bi ever before the grace is said. eee
our old friend on the very thin paper was obliged to put off
his party tell Tuesday at two er cluck, when we repaired to
Lord Salisbury's honey, and mei, over 200 of our Conserva•
Live friends. At ten minutes past two Lord Derby, who
was evidently suffering from an attack of gout, entered
the larEe room, which we remember as a supper room, and
which was fitted unt, for the occasion with a round table
at the further end, and a pretty liberal, supply of chairs,
scattered about in the body of the room. He was closely
followed by Mr. Disraeli, who took up a lueition in the renr
of his Chief, ready to bring up support- if re quired.
Lord DEABY, as is his nature, opened the proceedings
with a joke. As the sitting members were pressing in with
their chairs to make room for the standing Conservatives,
be observed that it looked like bueinees to beg .n operations
by coming at once to close quarters. The function of the
Great Conservative Party, he continued, was to come out
strong, like the Owl, on gloat occasions. For this reason he
had abstained from calling the party together on former
or less important occasions lately. He congratulated them
on the success of their domestic policy in preserving Church
and State, and claimed for them the praise, acknow-
ledged by their opponents, of haying assisted in'perfecting
and carrying all measures which they considered for the
general good of the country. Whereas, however, in domestic •
affairs an Opposition could interfere with facility and ad-
vantage in every stage of a measure during its progress
through Parliament, in foreign affairs matters stood on an
entirely different footing. In the latter case Parliament
could not interfere in the successive stages of a negotiation.
without hampering the judgment and paralysing the action
of Government, and thereby jeopardising the success of the
negotiation. In proportion, however, as a Government
were weak and impotent would they try to catch at the
opinion entertained by a majority in Parliament, instead of
relying on their own judgment of what was best for the
good of the country. He found a very remarkable proof that
such was the course put sued by the Government in the
papers laid before Parliament. In a correspondence with
Count Bernst_rff, Earl Russell points out that if Germany
pursued such and such a course, her Majesty's Government
would—not take such and such a resolution and adopt such
and such measures, but—might. be compelled by the feeling
in Parliament and pubic opinion in the country to do
something which otherwise they might not do. This was
not a position which a Government jealous of the honour
of the country and of its own influence should occupy in the
eyes of foreign nations, nor could the Conservative party,
without abdicating its office. acquiesce in this position. Ile
would not review our foreign policy in every part of the
world, but he would point out that in the recent Polish
negotiations the Government had pursued exactly the stereo
policy as in the Danish negotiations, and with precisely
the same results, a policy of blustering denunciations fol-

lowed by impotence of action. They had succeeded, too,
in effecting the complete isolation of this country in the
councils of Europe. I'he French Emperor, who was most
desirous of co oprating cordially with this country, had been
slapped in the lace, and then we expected his cordial sup-
port in effecting objec:s to which we attached importance.
Turning to the Danish negotiations, he reviewed the differ-
ent positions which the Government had successively taken
up, and how in each nolte they had menaced, retired, and
menaced again; how they had threatened Germany, flack
burden of their song on taeh succeseiv, .occasion leinge
" Kick me as much as you like, but it you only pull ouY
esnutpphoar.
He hazarded an opinion that if . the at
nose you will see what I will do ;" how they had threat-
ened Denmark that it she did not make such and such
thatrnm
concessions she could not reckon on the material support
of England, which was an implicit declaration
that, if she did make then, she would recGu:e
etv
adopted energetic measures when
That w
i as proposed to con-
vert Federal execution in Holstein into the it:IN/talon of
S
army despatched to Schleswig, Ger-
ould have hesitated before attacking England—
there have b
waseen n o
there would a
to thele Schleswig—era ]Vanish
dardsh province—and our fleet had bten sent
many w
question of England attacking'
Germany.his conscientious opinion, although
be was far from saying that such a policy should have been
adopted. That question would involve the whole policy
of the Government; but, given that policy, this was evi-
dently the time at which they ought to have acted, and it.
was an opportunity fatally allowed to slip by her Majesty's
Government. The Ccnservative party had wisely avoided
the trap set for them by the Government, and had
not recommended a policy to them. He agreed with the
rule set down by the late Sir R. Peel, not to prescribe until
ho was formally sent for. They had abstained, from patrio-
tic motives, from hampering her Majesty's Government as
long as they continued at the head of affairs, hut as soon as
their further continuance in office endangered the best in-
terests of the country it was their duty to throw away re"
serve and submit their opinion to the judgment of Parlia-
ment and the country. His lordship concluded by submit:
ting to the meeting the resolution which Mr Disraeli
announced to the House last night, and eat down amidst
enthusiastic cheers.

Mr Knit. (from the body of the hall, amidst great inter-
ruption) said that he would prefer a more Irish, or in other
wordst_a more warlike programme.
Mr HEY ATE, on the contrary, said it was quite warlike
enough for his own taste, end that of his constituents. 119
would support his leader, end vote with his party.
Lord HENRY LETTNOX asked when the battle would
begin ?
Mr DISRAELI said he was always ready for the fray, buy
he thought it would be decorous to give the Government
till the beginning of next week before kicking
them into
tho middle of the week after

Sit.JOHN Wii.su then paid a tribute of affection to
Lord Robert Cecil, as one of his band of 35, and, in a most
nelodirus voice, s,tng a hymn, beginniutz " What 3 (),°4:l
boy am I, andwhat a great party we aro to be sure l" 1/.10
proQeedings terminated amidst complete unanimity bY, a
vote of thanks to Lord Derby, proposed by old Adtutral
Walwtt and sacondal by some youth; member.