The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-07 00:00:00

AMERICA.

WASHINGTON, April 6.

The Secretary of the Treasury has issued the
usual monthly statement of the public debt of the
United States. The total amount of the debt on
the Ist of April Was $2,642,000,000 against
$2,648,000,000 on the Ist of March last, being a
decrease of $6,000,000.

The cash in the Treasury on the Ist inst. was
$122,500,000 against $128,000,000 on the Ist ult.,
being a decrease of $5,500,000.

INDIA, CHINA, AND JAPAN (HEAVY)
MAILS.

GIBRALTAR, April 7.

The Afassilia left at 7 p.m. yesterday ; all well.
She may be expected at Southampton about the
11th inst.

SWITZERLAND.

BERNE, April 7.

The strike of the workmen at Geneva is not yet
at an end. To-day a general meeting of employers
will be held, when measures for arriving at a satis-
factory understanding with the men on strike will
be considered.

Movements on the part of the working men are
also taking place at Zurich, Berne, and Lausanne.

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

PLYMOUTH) April 6.

The Union Company's steamer Norseman, from
the Cape of Good Hope, has arrived here with 39
passengers, 25 sacks of mails, two packages of
specie, and a full general cargo. The mails are
forwarded by to-night's mail trains, and the Norse-
man has proceeded for Southampton. Her dates
are—Natal, 22d ; Table Bay, 4th ; Helena, 13th ;
and Ascension, 17th.
At the Cape business'was still dull. In defiance
of Governor Wodehouse's notice that the Basutos
were taken under British protection, President
Brand had continued the war, and met with marked
success. The Basuto strongholds, Tandjesberg and
Treine, were captured. At the former Bushuli,
Moshesh's own brother, was killed. A rumour had
also just arrived as the Norseman left that Thaba
Bossigo was taken.
A conference was to come off in April at Aliwal
North between Governor Wodehouse, President
Brand, Moshesh, and Governor Keates. It was
considered not improbable that meanwhile the
whole of the Basuto land would be captured by
the Boers and the negotiations seriously embar-
rassed.

The meeting of the Cape Parliament would be
adjourned until the Governor returned.

It was stated that at the approaching session of
the Free State Volksraad, either debts away out of
the free State would be entirely repudiated, or civil
courts would be closed for a further ten years, and
more blueblacks issued.

At Natal the coffee crops were looking well and
the sugar prospects were good. Two defalcations
for large amounts had occurred there among the
Government officials.
The Briton arrived out on the 3d of March. The
Celt was at St. Helena on the 4th of March, and
was passed by the Norseman on the 9th. The
Kaffraria was to leave Table Bay on the 7th March
for England. The Dutch steamer Gr&venhage,
from Rotterdam for Battavia, called at Table Bay
on the Ist of March.

FRANCE.
BOURSE, April 6—Three o'clock.--The market
closed as follows :

Bank Shares 3160
Its Pan Loan
End of month —
Mexican. Loan
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred
.Ys.

41 per Cent.
End of month —
3 per Cent
End of month 69 4U
Credit Mobilier 272 50
End of month 267
Credit Foncier _1470
End of month —
RAILWA

Account.
Orleans
Northern ......... 1186-1
Lyons and Mediterranean 915
Southern..... ................................. 587 k
Western ......................................
Eastern • •
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman