The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-28 00:00:00

DENMARK.

COPENHAGEN, April 28.

It is reported that the RigSdag Committee upon
the Free Municipalities Bill, brought in by the Go'
vernment, are about to modify their opposition to
the measure, in which case the Ministerial crisis
would be at an end.

WEST INDIA MAILS.

PLYx ounr, April 28.

The Royal Mail Steam-packet Co.'s ship Atrato,
from the West Indies, &c., arrived here at 3 a•iti'
this day, bringing 78 adult passengers, $013,043'
and 1,607 packages of cargo. The ship's papers
were forwarded to London by the 5.30 a.m. special
train. The Atrato left Plymouth at 4.45 a.m. Of

Southampton.
Thirty-five of the Atrato's passengers landed
here, including the Hon. S. G. Lyttleton and grfl•
Selfe.

The Atrato's dates arc, Sydney, March 11
Wellington, Bth, Jamaica, April 9, and St. Thomas'
April 14.
The Australian news brought by the Atrato 110
been forestalled. Advices from New Zealand bring.
bring further news confirming the loss of life and
property resulting from the late floods and gales'
Governor Sir George Bowen was to leave Welling'
ton, March 9, for Auckland on a visit to Sir George
Grey, to meet the Duke of Edinburgh, at that
time expected to reach there April 21st. Fel3lllll
tendencies were being shown in thecolony.
ing was going on between the natives in Auckland
and Ilawkes Bay districts. The Auckland Dell
gold fields continued yielding satisfactorily.
Rigid quarantine was being kept at Valparan
A large number of vessels were loading wheat S
that port for England and France, and the demand
for grain was increasing.
The Chilian colony in the Straits of Magellsll
was prospering, and good coal had been found at
the settlement.

Yellow fever confirmed at Lima and Callao.
The mortality from the disease at the latter Pine
averaged 25 daily. A.

Ecuador was also suffering from yellow fever.
severe monetary crisis and partial insurrection
prevailed.
Endeavours were being made to settle the relic;
lution in Tobima by negotiation. The Bishop °f
Pasto had denounced the proceedings of the Exred-
tive with regard to Church property as a heinous silic;
Bolivar and Dlagdalena were still in an unsettled
state.
The taxes on sugar had been reduced in Gtlate'
male. The production of Muscovado sugar
increasing at Salvador.
It was still asserted at Panama that President
Olarte had been poisoned.
Smallpox raged with great virulence at Wl-
tego Bay, Jamaica. The weather was favourable;
and the public health otherwise good through°

the West India Islands.
The brig Gold Fish, from Jamaica for London'
sprung a leak upon the voyage, and reached the
Caymanns with five feet of water in her hold,
the ground tier of her cargo of sugar washed o 0;
She expected to repair and proceed 11 tij
28th of March. The Swedish brigantine Matilda'
from Barbadoes with rice for New IC(7rl4r
was wrecked at Antigua, March 7. The stearueo
Esperanza, with a cargo valued at $lOO,OOO, /10
lost on the Magdalena. The brig Muscovado, fro
Demerara for Hamburg, with sugar, sprung a lea
and put into Kingstown. The Prussian trap
ship Niobe was at Port Royal, and the PrilEala
corvette Augusta arrived at AspinWall, April ist"
NANTES, April 28'he
The English ship wrecked on the mouth
5° of
6tb,
Loire, turns out to be the Queen of the
nn"
Captain Reeves, which left Sima on the 11th Ja13.0
nary. Out of a crew of 40 men, three oulY 1)5
been saved.

INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.
ALEXANDRIA, April 21. r,
The Poonah and Syria left yesterday. The f°and
mer may he expected at Marecilles on the 2d,
the latter at Southampton on the 9th proximo.