The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-22 00:00:00

FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST.

:n the following table E signifies that letters are dospatehel
by evening mails from London, and M by morning mails.

Next
DESTINATIONS. Despatch Port of Malt
of Mails. ' Despatch. due.
Australia and Mauritius, vial,
Southampton W 1 ar. 12, E Southarnp. Mar. 11
.
Ditto, via Marseilles
Bahamas and Havana via New
York Nfar. 5, E Liverpool.. Mar. 15
Canada, &e. (by Canadn. pckt ) Feb. 22. E Liverpool.. i Feb. 22
Cape of Good Hope, Ascen-
sion, and St. Helena Mar. 5, E'Devonport IMarch 3
China, Penang, and Singa-1
pore, via Southampton j Feb. 20, 31,,Southamp. overdue
Ditto, via Marseilles
Gibraltar, via Southampton - Feb. 20, Sl' Southamp. overdue
Honduras and Blewtields .... Feb. , D Southamp. Feb.
India (Calcutta) and Ceylon,
via Southampton Feb. 20, IL Southamp. overdue
Ditto, via Marseilles
filar.
27,3 71.1ISouthamp. Feb.l:el 2205
India (Bombay), via South-
ampton
Ditto, via Marseilles
Lisbon, Brazils,Buenos Ayres, i
and F. Islands
Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto Feb. 27, Al Sauthamp. Feb. 21
fdalta, Egypt, and Aden, via
Southampton Feb. 20, M Southamp. overdue
Ditto. via Marseilles
tlexieo and Havana
Newfoundland ,Mar. 2,:E'Liverpool..
United states and British N 1
America (by British packet)Felt. 25, E Liverpool.. Feb. 22
Ditto (by U. S. packet) ,Feb. 22, E Southamp.
West Coast of Africa, Ma-
deira, and Tenerilfe Feb. 23 E Liverpool.. Mar. 10
Rest India, Califoi ilia, / ene-
zuola, Chili, Peru, Grey.
town, New Granada, &c. ,Mar. 2, Southamp. Mar. 1

LETTER OF 31. MICHEL CHEVALIER
OJV THE EXPOI?T-4TION OF ENGLISH COAL.

The following letter, addressed by M. Michel
Chevalier to a friend in this country, possesses
great interest from the facts which it contains and
the arguments which it employs with reference to
the facilities for procuring coal granted to France
by the commercial treaty. M. Chevalier's facts
effectually dispose of the fictions by which the Con-
servative leaders in both Houses of Parliament have
attempted to convert into a ground of national
apprehension not the least important part of the
proposed measure :

" Paris, 73, Rue de l'Universite, Feb. 18, 1860.
" My dear friend,—Nothing is spoken of here but
the objections raised against that article of the
treaty which regards the exportation of coals ; and
I take the liberty of writing you a few words on
the subject. It is a subject with which lam per-
fectly familiar—and by this I mean that lam not
only familiar with the subject itself, but that I am
also acquainted with everything that has occurred
in reference to this portion of the treaty between
the two Governments.

" The assertion put forward is to the effect, that
we should be prevented from carrying on a mari-
time war if deprived of English coal ; or, in other
terms, that we obtain the means of carrying on a
maritime war by being allowed to lay in a stock of
English coal.

is a ()Toss mistake respecting fact. France
has fewer coalt mines than England, but is not
wholly destitute of them; tho greater part of her
mines are at a distance from the coast; but by
means of our canals and our railways, now almost
completed, the distance may be got over without
too great expense. I have made calculations, from
which it results 'hat the French coal sold in our
maritime arsen -,its (Brest, Cherbourg, Lorient, Roche-
fort) would ',lot cost more than 10s. the ton (1,000
kilogramir.es) above the English coal, and that some-
tim-- 4" not hp more than
5s

Inr time of peace
manse forges of Brest, &c., Aze.,
millions for coal.

"In the Mediterranean the case is still.stronger.
There the English coal is as dear as the coal of
Main (Gard), of Bessegeir (Gard), and of Grais-
sessac (Reranit). Lastly, England has an interest
in the two contracting parties being allowed freely
to export their coal ; for our coals in the south
(Alain, Bessegeir, Graissessac, and even sometimes
Rive de Gie) might be found extremely convenient
for its Mediterranean fleets.
" And, also, we can obtain the Belgian coal ex-
tremely abundant and extremely good.
" Thus the pretext invented :by the English
Protectionists is absurd ; it is directly contradicted
by the facts ; they are, in reality, pursuing, but one
end—that of sowing distrust and irritation between
two great nations

" This course of the Tories is in fact provoking
on the part of England an unfriendly act towards
us. The rejection of the article of the treaty would
be an unfriendly act, and it would be taken for
such in France. The cry would be raised of Per-
fidious Albion !' Our great manufacturers would
exclaim that they have been duped about the re-
duction in the export duties on English eoal.
" The moral and political effect expected from
the treaty : the drawing closer together of two
great nations, would not be attained.
" And this would be the case even were the ar-
ticle to be struck out from the treaty, with the con-
sent of the French Government.—Ever yours,
" MICHEL CHEVALIER."