The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-12 00:00:00

THE AMERICAN QUESTION.

The following is the full text of the paragraph in
La Patric concerning the proposed mediation of
France and England in America :
" It is asserted (on assure) that negotiations will
shortly be opened (vont etre ouvertes) at London, to
come to an understanding which will allow pro-
positions of mediation in the affairs of America to
be promulgated.
"If the negotiations in question succeed the
mediation of Franca and England
,will ba offered
simultaneously, it is said, and in identical terms, to
the belligerent parties."

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR CASTLE, JUNE 11.

Her Mejesty, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses
Princess Alice and Princess Beatrice, drove out in a car-
riage and four yesterday afternoon, attended by Lady
Churchill and Major-General Seymour.
The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness the
Princess Alice, walked and drove in the grounds this
morning.

Their Royal Highnesses Princess Clotilde and Princess
Amelie of Saxe Coburg arrived at the Castle yesterday, and
left to-day.

Prince Philip of Saxe Coburg visited her Majesty.
Earl Russell arrived at the Castle, and had an audience
of her Majesty.

On Monday, the 9th, Earl Russell, her Majesty's Prin-
cipal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, paid a visit to
his Highness the Viceroy of Egypt, at his Villa, Melros
House, Wandsworth. On the same dal the Marquis of
Ailesbury, Master of the Horse, also paid a visit to his
Highness.
The Viceroy paid private visits to the Great Exhibition
on Tuesday and yesterday, and upon all these occasions his
Highness was accompanied by the Hon. Charles A.
Murray, who has been appointed by her Majesty's Govern-
ment to attend upon the Viceroy during his visit to this
country.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Gladstone
hay. returnod to their residence on Carlton House terrace,
from Bowden-park, Chippenden.

Despatches were sent to the Governors of Gibraltar and
Malta.

SHIPPING---THIS DAY.

LONDON, June 12.—Wind this day at noon—South-
West ; moderate breeze, with hetsy rain:
PORTSMOUTH, Juno 11.—Wind S.W., blowing hard—
Arrived—Her Majesty's ship Actaeon, from Hong Hong.
PLYMOUTH, June 11.—Wind S.W., blowing hard—
Arrived—Result, from London for Melbourne, having
parted both anchors in the Sand, and was moored in the
Cutwater ; Xantippe from London for Rangoon; Her
Majesty's ships Trafalgar, Revenge, Chanticleer, and
Emerald, from Portsmouth.
DARTMOUTH, June 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Maria,
from Huelva for Newcastle, with mainsail split and other
damage.
PENZANCE, June 11.—Wind S.W., fresh gale—Arrived
Arethusa, from Buenos Ayres.

(BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGBAI,II.)
PLYMOUTH, Thursday Morning.
The barque Agricola, with 1,200 bales of cotton from
India, has passed up Charnel.

SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning.
Arrived—Start, from Jersey ; Alarm, from Dunkirk;
Atrato, steamer, from St. Thomas ; Alhambra, steamer,
from Lisbon; Alliance, steamer, from Havre.
Sailed—Tonning, steamer, for Corunna.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
_ _ GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning .

Arrived, June 11—Kund, and Eiche, from Nykiobing ;
Mars, from Calcutta; Ann, from Gottenburg ; Amelia,
from Rochester ; Camilla, from Alicante.
Arrived, Juno 12—Water Nymph, from Melbourne.
DEAL, Thursday Morning.

Passed—Raby Castle and Emily Famutn, ft:Om Calcuita ;
Astronomer, from Akyab ; J. P. Keeler • and Liverpool,
from New York; Ellen Rose, from Bathurst; Latonia,
from West (in tow) all for London.
Anchored—Regulus, for Cardiff; Triumph, for Trinidad ;
Lavinia, for Bussorah; Jehu, for Mossel Bay—all from
London; Pietrino, from Shields, for Messina.

THE LATE NEWS FROM Am ERICA.--A writer in a
contemporary says :—" There are two items in the late
news from America which may not be understood without
a word of explanation. The first is the vote of Congress
to enlarge the locks of the Erie and Oswego canals. These
canals are State works, with which the general Govern-
ment. has nothing to do; hut they are now seized, like the
railways, for military purposes. When these locks are en-
larged every gunboat in the Federal navy can pass into
the great lakes, including lake Ontario and the River St.
Lawrence. The enlargement of these locks means the in.
vasion of Canada and war with Great Britain. The second
item is the Union mobs at Baltimore. The Union party In
that city consists of a tew respectable "Republicans" and a
large body of "rowdies" of the "native" or "Know-
nothing" party, who have been the terror of the city for
years. The Maryland Union Regiment was composed of
these rowdies, and when they were cut in pieces by the
Confederates their friends in Baltimore wished to revenge
them. The Federal army was largely recruited from the
"roughs" of the Atlantic cities, and there are no worse
ones than compose the Nativist Clubs of Baltimore. When
it is certain that General Butler has committed the atro-
cious outrage reported of him at New Orleans, be will, I
doubt not, receive the sentence he deserves. If his Govern-
ment do not punish him it will share his infamy."
GIFT OF A PUBLIC PARK.—About 12 months
since Mrs. Joseph Locke, widow of the eminent engineer,
in order to mark the connection of her husband with the
town of Barnsley, in addition to giving £2,000 for the
foundation of scholarships in the grammer school, and
£l,OOO in aid of the Catholic schools, offered to present the
town with a park, if a suitable site could be found. In
accordance with that desire she caused a piece of ground,
about 17 acres in extent, close to the town, to be purchased
and laid out. The whole has been inclosed, and now forms
a magnificent recreation ground. Provision has been made
for cricket playing, bowling, and a variety of other games.
Whit-Monday was appointed for the ground being handed
over to the Board of Health as the representatives of the
town, and the inhabitants vied with each other in showing
their appreciation of the munificent gift.
THE THAMES EMBANKMENT.—III addition to the
opposition of the Crown lessees and the Duke of Buccleuch,
petitions have been presented to the committee on the bill
praying for special protection to their properties along the
northern side of the river, and, as connected with their
jurisdiction, from the Metropoliton Board of Works, City of
London Corporation, City Commissioners of Sewers, Con-
servators of the Thames, Westminster Steamboat and Pier
Company, Charing Cross Railway, London, Chatham, and
Dover Railway, Vestry of St. Martin's, Marquis of Salis-
bury, Duke of Norfolk, Earl Radnor, City Gas Company
Watermen and Lightermen's Company, Heralds' College,
Mr. Drummond, proprietor of Adelphi-terrace, residents of
streets in Strand, abutting on the proposed embankment,
National Mercantile Assurance Company, Grand Junction
Wharf Company, Messrs. Barraud, Reid and Co., Mair and
Co., and other wharfingers. The total number of petitions
before the committee amounts to 22.