The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-03 00:00:00

LA TEST INTELLIGENCE

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

BELGIUM,

BRUSSELS, FEB. 3.

The Moniteur Edge of to-day publishes the text
of an address to King Leopold U. from the English
Volunteers, who were present at the National Rifle
Meetings held in Belgium in 1864 and 1865.

The address condoles with his Majesty on the
loss lie has sustained, and congratulates him on his
accession to the throne,

HUNGARY.

FESTH, FEB. 3.

A congratulatory address was presented yesterday
to the Emperor by a deputation from the Hun-

garian Diet.

His Majesty replied in very gracious terms, and
declared that, notwithstanding the many difficulties
in the way of an arrangement, a resolute will and
mutual confidence would bring about a satisfactory
solution.

BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE MAILS.
SOUTIIAMPTOIq, rtn. 3.

The Royal mail company's steamship Oneida,
with the above mails, has arrived here. She brings
50 passengers, £1,642 in specie, £2,497 in silver,
7 packages of diamonds, value not stated, and 4,000
packages of cargo, consisting chiefly of cotton.
From Lisbon to the Channel she experienced a
south-westerly gale and a heavy sea.
On the 14th ult. she spoke the English ship Sarah
Dixon on the 16th, the Hamburg bark Lizzie Annie,
and on the 16th the English ship Calliope.
The allied army, under President Mitre, was ex-
pected shortly to enter Paraguay.
The Brazilians were daily sending recruits to the
River Plate, and the army in Corrientes numbers
40,000 men.

In Paraguay an army was conczntrated at the
Paso de la Patrea, awaiting the approach of the
Allies, and a battle was considered imminent.
The state of the Argentine Provinces was satis-
factory. The works of the Argentine Central Rail-
way were proceeding rapidly. The markets were
crowded with wool and prices had considerably de-
clined in consequence of the stringency of the money
market. The paper money in circulation was insuf-
ficient for the demands of trade, and was worth 24
per cent. per annum, while gold only commands 12
per cent.

Business was quiet, and the banks had ceased

discounting in paper money.
In the Coventry districts water and grass were
very abundant, and there was a large increase in
the flocks. Sheep were very cheap.
At Itio Janeiro small-pox, measles, and fever had
been very destructive amongst the Paraguayan
troops and the allied army.
The Brazilian fleet was at Corrientes, and a com-
bined attack upon Paraguay was expected at the
end of January.
From Paraguay little is known, but several thou-
sand citizens and troops, stationed at Asuncion, are
said to have died from disease arising amongst
various encampments, and spreading to the inhabi-
tants,

It is understood that the allied Governments will
listen to no proposals of peace whose fundamental
basis is not the fundamental expulsion of Lopez

from Paraguay.
The chief news from Montevideo was a rupture
between that Government and the Chilian Envoy,
whose exequatur was cancelled.

The English vessel Anne has been lost off Santa
Catherine, from cspontaueous COMDUSIIOII. ane

crew were saved.

The English steamer Powerful has been lost on
the coast of Rio Grande do Sul. She had 400
troops on board, but only five were drowned.

PLYMOUTH, FEB. 2.

The captain, the sole survivor of the crew of the
bark Jane Lowden, of Padstow, which was reported
by the troopship Gresham to have been at sea
waterlogged, has arrived at Texel in the Ida Eliza-
beth.

He states that nine of the crew were washed
overboard, and six died on board of injuries, cold,
and hunger. The captain was 33 days in the main-
top, and during the last 28 days (? hours) never
tasted food. He was taken off the wreck on the
23d January. One man lived in the maintop to
within 10 days of that date.

FRANCE.
PARIS, FEB. 2.
BOURSE, Feb. 2.—Three o'clock—The market
has improved to-day, and closed as follows:-
41 per Cents 9B 35
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 6B 70
Do. end month sB 95
Credit Mobilier 833 75
Do. end month
Bank Shares 3725
Credit Foncier 1305
Italian Loan 62 05
Do. end month 62 15

Roman
Ottoman Fives —
Mexican Loan 46 50
Do. Bonds 302 50
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred

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