The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-05 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, April 2.—Lieutenant-General von We-
dell returned here yesterday afternoon from Paris,
and proceeded at once to wait on the King at
Charlottenburg. It is, of course, too early as yet
to learn anything of what has resulted from his
mission in the French capital, or of what fresh
steps may be taken here.
The first four vessels of the flying squadron,
under the command of Commodore Watson, ar-
rived at Elsinore on Sunday afternoon.
The harbour at Kiel is still covered with ice ; the
only point at which the water is open is at the in-
flux of the Schentine.

Prince Charles of Prussia is expected back from
Russia by Easter. The last Petersburg papers
mention the arrival there of Prince Christian of
Denmark, heir presaniptive to the Danish throne,
as well as Prince Friedrich of Hessen, and Prince
`Wilhelm of Baden. It is understood that the Em-
peror Alexander 11. has sent King Friedrich 'Wil-
helm a cast taken from the face of the deceased Em-
peror. The story of the physician, Dr. Mandt, hav-
ing been obliged to quit Russia to evade popular
aversion, is stated to be without foundation.
BERLIN, April I.—Profound stillness reigns
here in political circles, as though the great
European events going on elsewhere must here
succumb to the practice of the Evangelical
Church in Prussia, which observes the coming Pas-
sion week as die stille Woche, the quiet week. The
statements current here of an approximation of the
two chief Powers of Germany I have shown you
in a former letter to be based upon very insufficient
grounds. The official announcement to this Court
of the birth of an Archduchess has, however, been
followed by a letter of congratulation from the King
to be presented to the Emperor, his nephew, by
Count Arnim, in Vienna ; but the observance of
these usual formalities has nothing to do with the
reconciliation of either king, minister, or army with
the tactics of Austria.
The Royal Family,
.which has been staying at
Potsdam in perfect retirement,. ever since the death
of the Emperor Nicholas, has just been afflicted by
the news of the death of the young Hereditary
Prince of Saxe Meiningen, a .daughter of Prince
Albrecht of Prussia, and niece of the King and
Queen. The news arrived here late on Friday
evening from Meiningen, where the Princess had
died that same afternoon in childbed, apparently
in consequence of an attack of influenza. She was
in her 23d year.

A letter from Hamburg, of the 31st ult., says—

" According to accounts from Copenhagen of the 28th,
the nine war steamers, forming the advanced guard of
the English fleet, were daily expected there. It was
apprehended that, immediately on re-entering the Bal-
tic, the English would chase and capture the merchant-
men laden with merchandise for Russian ports. This
apprehension is the more justified, as a certain number
of those vessels are detained by the ice in different har-
bours, but particularly at Travemunde, where several
bound for PRussia are now lying, after vain endeavours
to extricate themselves from the ice, The parties in-
terested in the trade with the north are in hopes that
the English war vessels, experiencing similar obstacles
to their progress through the Belt, which is still ob-
structed by the ice, will be sufficiently delayed to
enable the merchantmen to put to sea and reach their
destination without running the risk of being captured
Since the opening of the navigation, our great victualling
establishments have already shipped 5,000 tons of salt beet
and pork for the consumption of tha English fleet.
You are aware that last autumn the Admiralty con-
tracted here for the supply, in spring, of a considerable
quantity of The contractors have received from
England the most pressing orders to place at the dis-
posal of the fleet, as speedily as possible, all the provi-
sions they undertook to furnish. Fresh cargoes of
wooden huts, and other materials for the establishment of
a camp have arrived from England at Heligoland, which
would seem to indicate that the English have not given
up the intention of opening in that island offices for re-
cruiting their army. The Hanoverian Government, near
which that English possession is situate, will not oppose
those enlistments. nis last Government continues,
notwithstanding the remonstrances of the other states
of the Germanic Confederation, to allow the free
export of horses from its territory. England, in
return for those favours, raises no objection to the
collection of the Stade duty, which Hanover levies,
to the great detriment of the maritime commerce of all
nations, on vessels passing in the Elbe, near its shores.
Horses, for the remount of the cavalry and artillery, are
still in great demand in the different States of Germany.
At our last fair there were buyers from nearly every
country in Europe, who paid for cavalry •horses as highas 800 f. The breeders obtained from 1,100 f: to 1,206 f.
for carriage horses."

A letter from Berlin says :—" The death of the
Princess Charlotte of Meiningen, eldest daughter
of Prince Albert of Prussia " (which we men-
tioned yesterday), took place immediately after
her accouchement. She was born on the 21st
June, 1831, and married Prince George of Saxe-
Meiningen, in May, 1850. Prince Albert, who
was at Dresden at the time, immediately left for
Meiningen with the Prince and Princess, the
brother and sister of the deceased. She has had
three children, the second of which, a prince, died
a few days ago."

The followingis stated to be the text of the letter
written by Lord John Russell, while at Berlin, to
Dr. Philippson, in Magdeburg, in acknowledgment
of an address presented to his Lordship, thanking
him for his exertions in the cause of Jewish email-

,
el,)atiOtt, ut thvai
Vienna :

" BERLIN, March 1.
"Sir,—lt is with feelings of gratification that I have
received the address you have presented to me. He!'
Britannic Majesty's Government will be assiduously
solicitous to procure that the Jewish as well as the Cline'
tian subjects of his Highness the Sultan shall obtain
the benefit of equal rights and impartial adtninistrati?e•
I beg to express to you my thanks for the flattering
terms in which you have alluded to my endeavours to
abolish the civil disabilities of the Israelites of the -United
Kingdom.

" I have the honour to be, eze."

An order has just been published at Dresden,
forbidding the exportation of arms and amnall-
nition of every description.

Letters from Genoa announce that the staff of
the Piedmontese army has embarked for Constair
tinople by the Vatican steamer.

WEST INDIA MAILS.

The Royal West India mail packet Tyne, Car"
thin Valler, and Admiralty Agent Lieutenant Jolol
Brown, R.N., arrived at Southampton yesterdY,
with the West India, Mexican, and Pacific mails•
Dates of sailing :—Vera Cruz, March 6 ; Tamplof
4 ; Havannah, 12 ; Greytown, 5 ; Chagres, 10 ;
Panama, 8 ; Carthagena, 12 ; Jamaica, 14 ; De-
merara, 12 ; Trinidad, 13 ; St. Kitts, 17 • Barba-
does, 14 ; St. Lucia, 15 ; Antigua, 16 ; St. Vin'
cent, 14 ; Martinique, 15 ; Guadaloupe, 16 ; Ore'
nada, 13 ; Jacmcl, 15 ; Porto Rico, 19 ; Dominica,
16 ; St. Thomas, 20 ; La Guayra, 15 ; Tortelas
18.

The Tyne brings 88 passengers ; among whom
are General Tories the Peruvian Minister ; Lieu"
tenant Colonel Hill, Ist West India Regiment;
Captain Hancock, R.N. ; Lieutenant Howard,
R.N. ; Mr. Lynch, staff assistant surgeon ; Mr.
Adams, Ordnance clerk ; Mr. Austin, clerk of
works. Captain Stokes, a passenger, died March
26.

The freight on board includes specie to the
amount of 52,786,758, the largest quantity 0f
specie hitherto brought to Southampton in one ship,
of which' $90,000 are on account of Mexican divi-
dends.

The West India Islands are generally healthly
but the, planterq want rain.
Exchange at Jamaica-90 days, 1 percent. prem.;
63 days, 1i per cent. prem. Merchants' Bills, in
oer cent. discount. On New York, GO days, at
to 212 per cent.
The political news is unimportant.
The attempts to raise contributions in Jamaica
in aid of the Patriotic Fund appear to have gene-
rally resulted in failure.

governor Woclehouse had met the Combined
Court of Demerara, and stated that he would dis-
courage all further immigration at the expense of
the colony until he found a debt of nearly 400,0 t"
dols. liquidated, and the colony in a position t°
pay for future liabilities. The public support the
Governor, but the planters are organising an er
position, and talk of refusing the supplies unless
immigration is included in the estimates.
Trade in Demerara is dull ; freights continue at
fair rates. The cane fields look well, and everr
where there is the cheering indication of a"large
crop.

The barque Assam, Captain Fleming, from the
Clyde for Port of Spain, was swept on the rocks ill
the second Bocas, on the Island of Monos, on the
28th Feb., and lost.

From Mexico we learn the President, Santa
Anna, left the city of Mexico on the 24th 0,
February, but his projects were not well
known. It was thought that he had gone to
the southern part of the republic, as commander
of his troops, to fight General Alvarez, the chief of
the revolution in the state of Acapulco.
The last news received in Vera Cruz, by a tele;
graphic despatch, says that Santa Anna had rile"
the general Moreno (of the party of Alvarez).
Santa Anna, it is affirmed, made 1,500 prisoners,
amongst whom was Moreno himself, whom be ill-
standy shot. But all this requires confirmation.
Business was very dull.

At Valparaiso, the political world is quiet, ever,'
thing going on as it has for the last few months*
The railroad from Valparaiso to Santiago Pr. 43".
gresses but slowly. Trade is rather slack. British
coal sold at 11 dols. per ton on hoard. The novr
English admiral, Bruce, arrived from England 'VO
the United States of America on the Gth inst. 131
the steamer Lima. He was to leave Valparaiso
again in the President on the 24th inst., for Callao
and the Sandwich Islands, where he will meet the
remaining ships of his squadron and the French
ships, which are to accompany him to reduce tile
Russian ports of the North Pacific.

General Castilla is now in full possession of
power throughout the whole republic of Peru, and
is already actively employed in making great
changes. The country throughout is quiet. Gene-
ral Echenique had left for the United States.
In Costa Rica everything is quiet. The gather-
ing of the coffee crop has been retarded by heavY
rains, which have caused much injury to the crop.
In Nicaragua, the President (Chamorro) has
gained decisive advantages over the insurgents,
headed by Castillion ; the attack took place about
the 17th February outside Granada, and the revo-
lutionists were driven back to Massaya,
they attempted to make good their pohition, but
were entirely ruuted, and pursued as far as their
head-quarters at the city of Leon. What took
place there is not known. The Government party.
captured a considerable number of small arnlsl
three or four guns, and a quantity of ammunition.
The loss of the men on the part of Castillon 10,!
about 700—on the Government side comparatively
none. Of the 700, 150 had their throats cut iu
one of the churches in Massaya. The revolutionary
leaders are at loggerheads.
It is said that the English consul at Realejo de-
manded poSsession of Dr. Davis (an American-
Filibuster), and that he was given up to him. -`
will be remembered. he is the murderer of Mr. Edvis
Higman, an Englishman, formerly an offinef
of R.M.S.P.C., and a member of the masoni°
fraternity. Davis shot him in the forehead in the
presence of his wife, and while pretending to or
brace him, making the remark at the time, "e
would as soon shoot his own father as Ned." Inc:,
Higman was keeping a hotel at Virgin Bay, 0-
Lake Nicaragua.
In Greytown the people are anxiously waiting
the action of the British Government regarding
their claims. There is no business doing, and Of
little money they had has bees absorbed is
ing temporary houses of the poorest description.
A fire broke out at St. Thomas's on the
ult., and consumed property in the stores of Will
more and Co., Main-street, to the amount °
80,000 dollars.

Her Majesty's ship Boscawen (flag) and Medea,
at Antigua • Vestal, Espiegle, Arab, Argus, Blif
zard, north-coast of Cuba ; Devastation, Greg"
town ; Eurydice, Calypso, at Bermuda ; Scorpia'
Bahama Channel ; Imaum, Port Royal • Wolveci
rine, -Windward Channel ; Mariner, Windwar
Islands ; Daring, San Domingo.

On the 29th ult., the liner Tage arrived at Algiers,
,
from Constantinople, to take on board the 14th battalt
of foot Chasseurs, and convey it to the Crimea. The
7th battalion of the same arm was also to embark I°t
the East, in the steam corvette Phlegeton and Laplace;
and the commercial steamer Byzantin was loading mule
for the army. .
A letter from Cherbouro. of thA I.t in.t., wnnounee°
that the screw liner Austerlitz would put to sea on 01°
2d or 3d.

Two battalions of the 2d Regiment of Grenadiers eaf
the Imperial Guard arrived at Marseilles on the 2d, an
left the next morning for Toulon.
The latest advices from the Crimea are of the 24th'
The operations against the new Russian works near the
Malakhoff Tower were continued.. Nothing is said of the
destruction of the French works on the 23d, although'
the affair is mentioned. The Freinden Platt learns tbe,i
" the commander of the French cavalry division, Geyer*
d'Allonville, is lying in a state of delirium."
The Pltare de la Loire announces that the constree"
tion of the six gun-boats, in the dockyard of M. Guibertl
at Nantes, was proceeding with all possible activitP
The swell in the river had somewhat retarded the works;
but it was expected that one of the boats would 12,
launched in the course of a fortnight, and the five other'
shortly afterwards.
An immense number of merchant vessels chartered
the French Government are now loading at Marseille
materiel of war, horses, mules, and troops for the aria
in the Crimea. The sailing frigate Constitution and the
transp-,rt corvette Caravane have also arrived there
to
from Toulon for the same object. The steam-packe,
of the Levant line, the France, Norinandie, Assyve,!,
&c., have been put into requisition, and are aboutwi t-l-0
sail with ammunition and horses for the East.
large English steamer Colombo, which reached last vi-ea
from Malta, is now loading fur the same destination, for
the packet Eunbrate left Marseilles, on the 2d, 0
Constantinople, with a detachment f 250 Engineer
a company of the 32d of the line, and ammunition.
THE MILITARY HOSPITAL AT SAIYRNA.—The
tial, of Smyrna, of the 22,1 ult., says : --" We are hal;
to be able to announce that the sanitary state of try.
English military hospital established in this city is t
satisfactory. The fever which had prevailed there 1,
some time past has much diminished. The number of sfoe.
diers in it is 900, of whom 586 are still unwell, and the.. 0,1
mainder convalescent. The deaths since the first arrolv,
have been 104. The medical staff is composed ;be
physician-in-chief, 3 physicians of the Ist and 6 of
Cl 2,1 class, 5 surgeons of the Ist and 11 of the 2d
the
and 4 apothecaries. We have before announce.," boo
arrival from England of several Dame de Charit4.
ladies, to the number of 20, as well as 26 nurse',loo
under the direction of a Mrs. Coote. There are also
men to wait on the sick and wounded,"