The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-17 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.
(Per Bohemia.)

NEW YORK, APRIL 4, EVENING.

Gen. Grant has placed a battery of 84-pounders
beyond the levee in a position to reach Vicksburg
easily, and is about to open the bombardment.
Fitzburgh Lee's cavalry, 2,500 strong, are reported
to be at Culpepper, Virginia.
Governor Todd, of Ohio, has been arrested by
order of the grand jury of Fairfield, County Ohio,
on a charge of kidnapping Dr. Olds, who was arbi-
trarily arrested, and imprisoned in Fort Lafayette,
The Governor was admitted to bail.
The draft is expected to be enforced at the end of
April.

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COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Money easy. Gold 551, per cent. premium. Ex-
change on London bankers' bills 168 to 170.
Stocks steady. New York Centrals,ll3l. Illinois,
90. Erie, 771-.

The Calcutta, China, and Australian Mails,
SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 17.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Ellora, Capt. Rogers, with the above mails,
has arrived. She brings 133 passengers, 3 pack-
ages of specie, value not stated, gold watches and
jeweliry value 3,800 rupees, 2 boxes of bar gold,
223 packages of sundries, and 830 bales of raw silk
value £BO,OOO sterling.
Amongst the passengers are Lieut. Hill, Lieut.
Yonge, Paymaster Pamphlett, and Messrs. Hunt,
Fielding, and Barkley, midshipmen (officers of
of H.M. ship Orpheus) ; also their Serene High-
nesses the Prince and Princess of Leiniugen from

Malta.
The Eilora sailed from Alexandria on the 3d;
Malta, 7th; and Gibraltar, 13th inst., at 2.30; and
on the 16th she lost her screw off the Start Light.
She made the remainder of her passage under can-
vass, arriving in the Solent at 10 p.m. on the same
day.
The French frigate Peidrix, and the Egyptian
fleet were in the harbour of Alexandria ; H.M.
ships Queen,
INlogicienne, and St. George, were at
Malta; and at Gibraltar the gunboat Procris.
H.M.S. Trident left Gibraltar on the Bth for
Casablanca, for the purpose of protecting the town
from the lawless violence of the Kabyles ; and the
French and Spanish Consuls had applied to their
respective Governments, asking for the protection
of vessels of war.
The Italian steam frigate Falminante left Casa-
blanca on the Bth for the Canary Islands and
Montevideo.
The following British ships had arrived out at
Gibraltar since last advises :—Steamer Calpe,
days from Livirpool ; schooner Clara, 47 days from
Newcastle; schooner William and Martha, 20 days
from Savannah ; brig Faith, 21 days from New-
castle ; schooner Catherine aad Ann, 14 days from
Cardiff; steamer Demetrius, 7 days from Liverpool;
brig Eurus, 32 days from Newcastle ; barque
Queen of the Netherlands, 15 days from Cardiff;
steamer Hecla, 51- days from Liverpool, and steamer
Ripon, 5 days from Southampton.
Gibraltar exchanges and freights were without
alteration.

THE BRAZILS.
BUENOS AYRES, MARCEL 15.
(Per Navarre.)
Exchange, 68.. to 68s. 6d.; ounces, 419; wet
salted ox hides, 38, firmer ; dry American, 33 to 36,
quiet ; wool, tending downward; tallow, 131,
firmer ; lumber, 35 ; four unchanged; refined
sugar, 17 to 171.
THE POLISH INSURRECTION.
OSTROWO, Aram 16, AFTERNOON.
The Prussian troops who were ordered to seize
the waggons with arms and provisions intended for
Poland, encountered a body of insurgents in the
district of Pleschen, who had crossed the frontier to
receive the waggons.
An
engagement ensued, 30
insurgents were taken prisoners and brought into
Pleschen, where they are nov confined.

DENMARK.
THE GREEK CROWN.
COPENHAGEN, APRIL 16 (Evening).
The Fadrelandet of to-day states that the diffi-
culties which have hitherto opposed the acceptation
of the Greek Crown by Prince William were re-
moved in the last sitting of the Privy Council.

GREECE.
ATHENS, APRIL 14.
The National Assembly have appointed a new
Ministry composed as follows :
President ............ • • M. Eloriaku.
Foreign Affairs ..... • • • M. Delyani.
War
Marine ................ M. Buduris.

Justice ................ M. Paleologos.
Finance .............. M. Kumundurus•
Interior ........ M, Petmetzas.
Public Instruction ...... M. Kalophronos.
The National Assembly has voted an address of
hanks to England for the proposed annexation of
he lonian Islands to Greece.

DRESDEN, APRIL 16.

The Vienna correspondent of the Dresden Jour-
nal of to-day states that Bavaria has lodged a spe-
cial protest against the occupation of the throne of
Greece by any King not belonging to the Bavarian
dynasty.

FRANCE.
THE POLISH QUESTION.

PARIS, APRIL 17.

The Consttlutionnel of to-day, publishes an article
Jigned by its editor, NI. Paulin Limayrac, explain-
ing that the steps taken by the Powers at St.
Petersburg were in confc:rGitY
with diplomatic

tradition.
The Constitutionnel adds, that the despatches
have been drawn up in the same spirit, aim at the
same object, and are based upon the samo ideas, the
intention of which is to prevent the repetition of
political convulsions, liable to endanger the peace
of Europe. The English note refers in addition to
the treaties of 1815. The despatches will be com-
municated to-day or to-morrow.
The writer concludes : ,‘ Europe has dune her
duty. Let us hope that Russia will not fail to ac-
complish hers In that case those nations whose
sympathy has been so ardently displayed in the
noble cause of Poland will applaud the powerful
Sovereign who will have accomplished a liberal task
by fu filling the desires of conservative Europe.
Le Siecle describes the vegetation as advancing
with wonderful rapidity now throughout Paris and
its environs.

Le Pays speaks of the ball at the Ministry of
Foreign Aff.irs as a very Gay
assembly.
Le Constitutionnel laments over a rumour which
has just reached it from Copenhagen, to the effect
that, though the English Governmnt do not recall
their proposal to deliver np the lonian Islands to
Greece, they are said to intimate their determina-