The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-07 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

NEW ZEALAND.

We have received the following official commu
nication from the War-office :--

" From G. F. Stanley, Esq., H.B.M. Consul at
Alexandria, to the Secretary of State for War
and Quartermaster-General.
" The following telegram has been received from
General Cameron :

" ' Hostilities commenced in the Whangaura dis-
trict on the 24th January. Lieut.-General Cameron
advanced with a force of 800 men towards the
Whaitolara River. On the same day a skirmish
took place with the rebels, in posting a picket at
Nukumtrar, near which village the troops had en-
camped. On the 25th the rebels attacked the camp
in force, and were repulsed with a loss of 70 killed ;
number of their wounded unknown. Our loss in
the two days was Lieutenant Johnson, 40th Regi-
ment, DeputyAssistant-Adjutant-General, mortally
wounded (since dead) ; Lieutenant Wilson, 50th
Regiment, severely ; and Ensign Grant, 50th Re-
giment, dangerously wounded ; 15 men killed, and
30 wounded. On the sth of January we crossed
the river, and encamped on the left bank.

D. A. CAMERON, Lieut.-General.'"

PLYMOUTH, APRIL 7.

The barque Wigtownshire, of Newcastle, from
the Tyne, to Genoa, with a general cargo, was towed
in here this morning by the steamship Corea, from
Greenock, for China.
The Corea found the Wigtownshire in lat. 47
North, long.. 9 West, abandoned, and with four feet
of water in her hold.

THE RUSSIAN PESTILENCE.
BERLIN, April 6.
The plague continues at St. Petersburg.
The total of cases is 10,000, of deaths 2,000,
There are a hundred cases a day.
Forty physicians are dead.
The Ismailoff barrack is converted into an hospital,

Precautionary measures are taken at Moscow,
where the food and lodgings of the labouring classes
are inspected by the police.
It is not cholera, but plague, with dilated pupils,
carbuncles, and pestilential bubo.

SPAIN.

MADRID, April 2.

A Royal decree has been issued, according to
which the only duty payable upon flours imported
into the Islands of Cuba and Porto Rico, after the
Ist July, 1865, will be, for each barrel of 92 kilo-
grammes (nearly equivalent to 2001bs. Castille) as
follows :—National flours from Spanish ports under
Spanish flag, two crowns ; national flours from
Spanish ports under foreign flag, four crowns ;
foreign flours under Spanish flag, seven crowns ;
foreign flours under foreign flag, 10 crowns. All
the regulations now in force relating to the import
of flours from the Island of Cuba and Porto Rico
are cancelled from this date.

THE FEDERAL DIET,

FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, April 6.

The Federal Diet adopted to-day the resolution
proposed by Saxony and Bavaria that Austria and
Prussia should be requested to cede Holstein to the
Duke of Augustenburg, and to communicate to the
Diet their mutual arrangements in reference to
Lauenburg. Nine votes were given in favour of the
resolution. Luxemburg not voting.
The representatives of Austria and Trussia there-
upon presented separate declarations.
The principal points of the declaration of Austria
were that she is prepared to surrender to the Prince
of Augustenburg her title to the possession of Hol-
stein should Prussia agree to adopt a similar course.
Otherwise, Austria would maintain her title to the
Duchies until a solution was arrived at in conso-
nance with the interests of Germany.
Prussia announced her willingness to come to an
understanding on the subject, but such an under-
standing must indispensably depend upon a pre-
vious investigation of claims to the Duchies, and
especially of her own. She would maintain her
right of possession until a solution had been arriN ed
at in accordance with her own convictions and satis-
factory to the other parties interested in the Duchies.
In conclusion, the Prussian representative said that
Prussia could at once declare herself unable to hold
out any prospect of realising the expectations ex-:
pressed in the resolution which had just been
adopted by the Diet.