The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-07 00:00:00

DENMARK.

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HAMBURG, MAY 6.—The general elections will
take place on the 14th and 20th June for the First
and Second Chanahvzs respectively.

A MERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY NIGHT.
The United States' mail steamship Washington,
Captain Cavendy, has arrived with news from New
York to the 21st ult., 180 passengers, and 25,0001.
in specie for London.
The steamship Nashville, from Liverpool, had
not arrived out when the 'Washington left.
The steamer Illinois left New York on the 20th
ult. for Asi;;nwall and Panama, with 700 passen-
gers and $200,000 in gold coin for the United
States' Government.

News from Mexico states that the President had
left for Tacubaya. The country continued in a
state of disturbance. A difficulty had arisen in re-
ference to the reception of the new Plenipotentiary
from Spain, in consequence of his not having been
received on his arrival with the honours due to his
position. The Indians had, from some unknown
cause, refrained from their customary attacks upon
the inhabitants.

At Washington, says the Washington correspon-
dent of the New York _Herald, the Cabinet was
entirely harmonious upon the Cuban question.
Commodore Macaulay's instructions were not such
as to create a cases belli. He would sort to
force only if a case should arise in which inter-
national law would fully justify it. The Adminis-
tration was strongly in favour of pacific relations
with Spain.
Property to the extent of $2,600,000 was de-
atroyed by fire in Jersy city during the past year.
In the New. York money-market little business
was done in exchange for this steamer. Conti-
nental bills were more plentiful. Paper on London
was quoted at 9i to 10 premium ; Paris, sf. 12. e.
to sf. 114 c.

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Wheat continued scarce, and the demand re-
stricted ; other grain in moderate demand. The
provision rcarkAlt was firmer. Freights continue
depressed. Viour from 121 c. to 25c. per barrel
dearer.

RETIREMENT OEM. D.ROUYN DE L'HUYS.

The following important information is from a
letter, dated Paris, yesterday :
The retirement of M. Drouyn de l'Huys from the
Ministry
is spoken of very confidently in political, and
even some official, circles to-day. It was vaguely ru-
moured, yesterday, but it is now affirmed in a very posi-
tive -manner, It is not strange that a more than ordinary
firAsation should follow such an announcement, when we
remember the prominent part taken by M. Drouyn de
l'Huys in the important questions which have kept Eu-
ropein agitation and anxiety for the last two years. It is
all the more to be regretted, as even by the admission of
those who were and still are opposed to the foreign policy of
the Government, the Minister has certainly displayed
talents of a high order. The cause of his expected with-
drawal from the Cabinet is said to be a serious difference
of opinion between him and the Emperor on the pro-
positions of peace lately submitted to England and
France by Austria with the view of their being even-
tually proposed to Russia. These conditions, we are
informed, M. Dreuyn de l'Huys considered acceptable,
and, moreover, declared, before leaving Vienna, that he
should succeed in bringing over the Emperor to his opi-
nion. In this hope he has been disappointed, as the Em-
peror not only looks upon them as inadmissible, but
appears determined not to listen again to any simi-
lar propositions for peace emanating from Austria.
Suoh a determination, it is said, is shared by the English
Government, and is, no doubt, founded on the convic-
tions of the insincerity of that Power, and the difficulty,
if not the impossibility, of inducing her to assume, even
at this late hour, a policy more becoming her rank, and
more consonant to her engagements. The manner in
which a confidential organ of the French Minister of
Foreign Affairs invariably defended Austria whenever
the slightest doubt was hinted of her determination to
take her part in the war, shows how completely he
must have been deceived. The resignation of M.Drouyn
de l'Huys was it appears tendered yesterday, but
not accepted. The Emperor was naturally unwilling to
lose the services of such a Minister, and perhaps hoped
he might yet change his mind. Such does not appear
to be the case, and it is affirmed that this day the resig-
nation was again offered, and very probably accepted.
On the whole the Emperor is said to be far from satis-
fied with the conduct of the late negotiations at
Vienna. He thinks that the Plenipotentiaries have
been too condescending, and have allowed themselves
to be, as it were, cajoled by M. Buol, and the reception
,--of the French Minister, on his return to Paris, is now
'said to have been cold. As it is well known that no
very warm feeling existed for a long time between
M. Drouyn de l'Huys and M. Thouvenel, the nomi-
nation of the latter to so important a post as that of Am-
bassador to Constantinople is regarded as in some degree
• censure on his chief. The person spoken of as likely to
sueceed M. Drouyn de l'Huys is M. Walewski, ambas-
sador in London ; and M. de Raynevol is considered to
have some chance of taking the vacant post. The Einpe•
ror, itais said, is determined to prosecute the war with the
utmost vigour. There are a few persons who think that
M. Drouyn de l'Huys may still remain in the Cabi-
net, but in officials quarters this is doubted. It is
considered here as probable that, should M. Drouyn
de l'Huye quit the Cabinet, a change will take place in
the English Ministry also, It is not in England only
that disappointment is felt with Lord Palmerston.
Those who were always opposed to him now exult at the
general disgrace into which he and his colleagues appear
to have fallen, and his warmest partisans unwillingly
admit that he has proved himself utterly incompetent to
the task which he had taken on himself. Nothing can
exceed the astonishment of the French at men being re-
tained in their posts, at home and abroad, who have all
but ruined the noblest cause that ever mankind was en-
gaged in. At all events, the fall of the English Ministry
is confidently anticipated here.

ARRIVAL OF THE .ARCTIC DISCOVERY
SHIP ENTERPRISE.

PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY, 9 P.M.
Her Majesty's ship Enterprise, Captain Collinson,
arrived at Spithead this evening, after sunset, from the
Arctic Regions, China, and the Cape of Good Hope.
She sailed from the latter station (Table-bay) on the
18th of February, and St. Helena on the 2d of March.
The only news the Enterprise has brought con-
firms the reports which have preceded her arrival
as to the hostile relations between her captain and
his officers. It is quite true that all the executive offi-
cers of the ship (Commanders Phayro, Lieutenants Jago
and Parks, and Mr. Skead, the master) are under ar-
rest, and have been so for terms varying from three
years to lesser periods. Mr. Skead has been under arrest
over three years, and Mr. Parks more than two years
and a half. All the chief executive officers being thus
debarred from doing duty, an acting mate (Mr. Wise, of
the Comus sloop) was sent to _assist in navigating the
ship home by Rear-Admiral Sir James Stirling, the
Commander-in-Chief of the China squadron, who refused
to hold a series of courts-martial. on that station. It
now rests with the Lords of the Admiralty to try these
officers by court-martial at the instance of Captain Col-
linson, and also to try that officer at the instance and
demand of those who have been so long under confine-
ment by his orders.
The Enterprise was commissioned by Captain Col-
linson to go in search of Sir John Franklin on the
20th of December, 1849, in concert with the Investiga-
tor, Captain
M'Clure, but has achieved nothing in the
way of discovery of the lost expedition.