The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-30 00:00:00

THE SIEGE OF GAETA.

NAPLES, JAN. 28.
A flag of truce was yesterday sent from Gaeta
to the fleet.

An Italian steamer immediately proceeded to the
fortress, and the firing was afterwards suspended
on both sides.

Deserters from the Bourbon army speak of a
project to surrender Gaeta.

Th© fire of the Cavalli cannons has been mar.

vellous.

VIENNA, JAN. 29.

Prince Petrulla, Ambassador of King Francis
11. at Vienna, has received an autograph letter
from Gaeta, in which the King declares that he
intends fighting to the last.

It is stated that on Prince Petrulla's demanding
at St. Petersburg for what reason M. de Wol-
konsky, the Russian Minister, had left Gaeta,
Prince Gortschakoff replied that the representa-
tive of Russia was more useful to Francis 11. at
Rome than at Gaeta.

BERLIN, JAN. 29.

The report that France had demanded explana-
tions on account of the speeches delivered by the
King since his accession to the throne is denied
in Ministerial and diplomatic quarters.

ST. PETERSBURG, lAN. 29.

It is asserted that the Grand Russian Railway
Company is about to contract a loan abroad of
25,000,000 roubles, in bonds of 4 per cent.
The price at which these bonds are to be issued
is not yet known. No doubt is entertained here
as to the success of the loan.

THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Pera, Captain Jamieson, with the heavy portion of
the above mails, has arrived. She brings 63 pas-
sengers and a general cargo, including raw silk,
value upwards of £160,000.

On the 2d instant she passed her Majesty's ship
Firefly, steering east.
The Ceylon had left Gibraltar for Alexandria.
The Mavrocordatos, with Garibaldians on board,
had left Gibraltar for London on the 23d instant.
Previous to her departure, the Garibaldians ad-
dressed letters of thanks to his Excellency the Go-
vernor for the kind treatment they had received.
The British steamer Victor, from Plymouth,
had arrived at Cadiz.

On the 17th inst., the Marquis de la Victoria,
bound to Tetuan with a squadron of Albucra
cavalry, was run into by a schooner.
The Emily Wylde, with a cargo of Indian corn,
had left Magazan for Coik.—Latest accounts from
Melilla state, with respect to the question of limits,
that the Chief of the Kabyles continued to hold
meetings, The Moors of Frajama and Cobicrizas
were opposed to giving up their homes unless the
Emperor indemnified them for loss, and preferred
paying tribute to the Queen of Spain, if protection
and security of property were guaranteed to them.
Gibraltar exchanges and freights unaltered.

DENMARK.

A letter from Copenhagen, dated 23d inst., says—

" The Government continues to receive patriotic
addresses from every part of the monarchy, en-
couraging it to persist in its resistance to the
pretentious of Germany. Public opinion approves
in every point the energetic measures of defence
which the Ministry has ordered by land and sea.
" A fact worthy of observation is that captains
of the merchant marine of Holstein and Schleswig
have notified to the Minister of Marine that they
were at his disposal in consequence of the appeal
addressed to the captains of the merchant service
to serve as auxiliary officers on board the men of
war. This 'willingness shows that the national
animosity which has been reported to prorail
rally in the Duchies against Denmark is not so
great as the organs of the German press endeavour
to make Europe believe.
"To be quite prepared for every eventuality the
Government has now invited all medical men and
sanitary officers to place themselves at its disposal
should hostilities be commenced by the German
Confederation. The greatest activity is visible in
the naval department. Guts oats drawing very,
little water are under construction for the purpose
of running up the rivers of Germany, so as to cut
off all communication by sea.
" The last despatch which Baron de Schleinitz has
thought fit to address to Count Bernstorff, the
Prussian Minister at London, has not exercised the
slightest influence on the policy of our Government
towards Germany ; it is, moreover, difficult to make
out exactly what could have induced the Berlin
Cabinet to give so great a publicity to that despatch
at the German Courts.
" The Prussian Government must know that
Denmark has arrived at the last limits of conces-
sions, and that, by its condescension it only perhaps
too much encouraged the pressure which,from time
immemorial, Germany has always endeavoured to
exercise on the Danish nation."