The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-05 00:00:00

AUSTRALIA.

The '
advices from Sydney are to the 12th of Feb-
ruary; and front Melbourne to the 15th February.
The Parliameint of Victoria was to be prorogued
on the 17th of February.
The production of gold was increasing, the
amount being 71,000 ounces more than last year.
Departures of cold ships for England—Feb. 7, '
the Morning Star, for Liverpool, with 8,658 ounces ;
9th, the Mermaid, for Liverpool, 13,479 ounces ;
10th, the Sydenh,am, for London, 15,216 ounces ;
11th, the Sussex, for London, 24,689 ounces.
The money marl:et was easy, but the import
trade was rather dull, imports keeping in excess of
eiports.
Wool was firm.

Exchange was ait par for 60 days' sight.
At Sydney Governinent debentures were firm.
The increase in the receipts of gold this'year was
5,200 ounces.
Bank draughts were at s premium.
Wool was firm, but low descriptions were dull.
Tallow lower. Hides in moderate demand.

THE MAURITIUS.
The advices from the Mauritius are to the 11th
of March.
Abundant rains had fallen and greatly benefited
the plantations.
Money was plentiful, and trade heavy.
Sugar had advanced.
No gold came per Salsette, which brought the
Australian mails.

The Panther, with the mails from Bombay, Mau-
:ritius, and Australia, arrived at Marseilles at 10.30
:a.m. yesterday, Monday, the 4th inst. The mails
heft at noon for London by special train. The ves-
col is to undergo 45 hours' quarantine. The Sal-
sette arrived at Suez from Sydney on the 27th of
March. The Pera left Malta for Southampton on
the Ist inst., at 4 p.m.

The following telegrams have been received at
31r. Reuter's office :

MARSEILLES, APRIL 4.
Advices have been received from Naples to the
2d instant.

The strength of the King is continually declin-
ing, and the news of his Majesty's condition has
caused.a fall of 4 francs in the public funds during
the last two days. Since the commencement of
this year the fall has been 10 francs.
The Queen has despatched Prince Carini on a
diplomatic mission to Berlin.
The armaments are still going on, and three
vessels have left Naples laden with shot for Sicily.
The troops garrisoning the citadel of Syracuse have
recently been reinforced.

• Advices have also been received from Rome to
the 2d inst.

The French Ambassador, Duke de Grammont,
has given a dinner to the Marquis d'Azeglio and
other Piedmontese notabilities resident in Rome.
The Marquis d'Azeglio has been recalled by
telegragh to Turin. The Prince of Wales and
Lord Stratford de Redcliffe are still in Rome.

FRANCE.
_ " Under the first Empire," says a Paris letter in
the Independance of Brussels, " there were as many
as sixty chamberlains, and in Austria the number
of such dignitaries is even more considerable. The
second French Empire i
s resolved that the Court
shall not be inferior in splendour and pomp either
to the Court of Vienna or the historical traditions
of Napoleon I. I can state on information obtained
from a good source that the Emperor is about to
nominate a considerable number of new chamber..
lains, but without salary. Among
the persons
mentioned as likely to obtain this honour are
Count de Nieuwerkerke, M. Duhamel, deputy,
Couut de Contades, and M. de Las Casas.”
A letter in the Nord says The Emperor of
the French, though accepting as a fact the exist-
ence of the treaties of 1815, will never consent to
give them by his signature a new consecration. In
• invoking the protocol of the 15th Nov., 1818, of Aix
la Chapelle, Austria contrived a plan for obtaining
a new sanction of those treaties ; but the Emperor
has formally declared that he will not sign in the
Congress any protocol mentioning the treaties of
1815. In that declaration, at the present moment
lies the principal difficulty in the negotiations. It
is desired to discover a form of expression which
shall guarantee to Austria the maintenance of her
possessions in Italy without mentioning the treaties
of 1815, and that is not easy."
The Nord gives the following as the probable
points which the Congress will aim to get adopted
at its sittings :—" 1. The sovereign independence
of the Italian States, situated beyond the provinces
reserved to Austria by treaties, will be anew pro-
claimed, and placed out of reach of all attack, by
the collective guarantee of the Powers which
sign the future treaty. These States will be
declared for ever neutral and inviolable ; and
any encroachment on their security and their
territorial integrity will be considered as a
question of general interest. As a measure of
just reciprocity, they will be bound to respect
that neutrality, both between themselves
and as regards all other States ; and not to
undertake anything against the internal or external
tranquillity of others. No exclusive protection is to
be exercised over them by any of the guaranteeing
Powers ; and none of those Powers is to have any
special right of meddling in their internal affairs,
without a previous understanding between the five
Powers. 2. The special treaties now existing between
them and the signing Powers shall be revised and

Credit Fonder 640
Belgian 4} —
Piedmonteso (5)
Roman B7
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
New ditto
Orleans
Northern 920 .. 920
795 .. 795
Lyons and Mediterranean 835 —'.. 836
25
New ditto
• • -- --
Geneva
.. 525 520
Midi
Southern
Western
Eastern .....'..
Grand Central
Sardinian 302 50 .. 390
Austrian
Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. Tic. ; money
251.21 c. ; three mouths, paper, 24f. 971 c.; money, 24f. 921 c.

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, April 2.—Thore is reason to fear that
things are not progressing favourably, for persons
who in general are well informed of what is passing
behind the scenes appear uneasy and anxious, and
there is a rumour in circulation that France displays
a much less conciliatory spirit than she did two or
three days ago. It would appear that this Govern-
ment has recently made some proposition to the
French Cabinet which has either been altogether re-
jected or has only been conditionally accepted, for
the diplomatists look blank, and hint that one or two
of the Powers do not appear to wish that the
Italian question should be amicably settled. As
the French Government blows hot and cold in the
same breath, it is impossible to say what it wishes,
but it is almost certain that the Sardinian Cabi-
net would prefer war to a pacific settlement of
its differences with Austria. Political agitation
has been carried to such a pitch in Sardinia,
and the country is so crowded with revolu-
tionary adventurers, that Count Cavour, could
not beat a retreat if he felt inclined to
do so, and you must therefore be prepared to
hear that he positively refuses to disarm. It is by
no means probable that Austria will consent to take
part in the Congress if Sardinia maintains her pre-
sent attitude, Count Buol having some days ago
declared that her disarmament was a conditlo sine
qua non. Mannheim is out of favour with the
Governments, and:Frankfort-on-the-Maine is now
spoken of as the place of meeting for the Congress.
Persons who have seen the Austrian Minister for
Foreign Affairs during the last few hours say that his
appears to be somewhat out of spirits and much less
sanguine than is his wont. The Journal de Geneve
states that Lombardy and the Italian Duchies are
full of French agents, who do their utmost to bring
about an insurrection. It appears that it is not
alone in Italy that the agents of the French Go-
vernment are endeavouring to work mischief, for
letters from the Lower Rhine speak of " commercial
travellers" who arc eloquent in their praises of
the present Emperor of the French, and tell stories
which date from the good old times when the first
Napoleon endeavoured to relieve the Germans from
the heavy yoke imposed on them by their thirsty and
odd rulers. A correspondent of the Augsburg Ga-
zette writes from the Moselle, that many of these
" disguised spies" (nzaskirte spione) are in the Grand
Duchy of Luxembourg, and particularly in that
part of it which is inhabited by Walloons,

THE WEST INDIA AND
PACIFIC MAILS.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]
SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY MORNING.
The Parana steamer, Captain Bevis, has arrived
with the West India, Mexico, and Pacific, mails,
97 passengers, 1,308,318 dols. in specie, 167 cases
of cigars, 516 serons indigo, 718 serous cochineal,
85 bales of tobacco, and sundries.

Her dates are :—Tamnico, March 4th; Vera
Cruz, 6th ; Havannah, 11th ; Greytown, 3d ; Colon,
11th ; Jamaica, 12th; Demerara and Trinidad,
11th; Grenada, 12th; Barbados, 13th; Antigua,
15th ; St. Thomas, 19th.

Her Majesty's ships Indus, Imaum, and Styx at
Jamaica, the latter embarking troops and artillery
for Savannah.

Le Mar to leave Kingston on the 13th of March.
The Diadem and Basilisk sailed for Greytown on
the 12th, the former to join the Caesar, and both
come to England, touching at Havannah and Vera
Cruz.

The Caesar, Valorous, and Jaseur were at Grey-
town ; the Atalanta at Antigua ; the Tartar, Jasper,
Arachne, and Devastation at Vera Cruz.

The French ships Cleopatra, Mercure, Olivier,
and Lucifer were at Vera Cruz, also the American
ships Savannah and Saratoga.
One ship of 80 guns, three sailing frigates, two
screw and four paddle steamers, three brigs, and
several small steamers, were at Havannah.
The Prussian frigate Gefion was at Port Royal,
and the French sloop Fulton at St. Thomas's.
Business at Jamaica dull; stocks limited, and de-
cline in prices expected.
Market for produce active. Sugars readily taken
for exportation at an advance on last quotations.
Coffee and pimento also advanced, but supply of
latter limited.

Freights higher.
Exchange on London.
90
days, per cent. pre-
mium ; 60 days, 1 ditto ;
30 days, ditto.
The health of the islands
continues unsatisfac-
tory.
The sugar crop at Demerara expected to be rather
short from the wet weather at the commencement
of the year.
The Barbadoes House of Assembly had reduced
duty on cod fish 50 per cent.
The eanes were ripening rapidly, and crop opera-
tions would soon be general.
Three ships had left for Dublin, London, and
Cork, with the first shipments of sugar.
Health good, weather favourable at Grenada,
and mills and boiling-houses in full activity.
The brigantine Annie had sailed for London,
with first shipment of this year's sugar.
Business was generally brisk at Now Grenada.
The appearance of the crops was good. Exchange
high.

President Miramon had left Mexico for Vera
Cruz, with 5,000 men ; and on the day of the
packet leaving Vera Cruz it was reported that he
was about 25 miles distant, and an attack was
expected. They were defended by about 200 guns,
but only 500 regular troops and 1,200 National

set aside, if necessary, in conformity with the prin-
ciples of the preceding proposition. 3. An investi-
gation shall be made to ascertain if the rights of gar-
rison ascribed to Austria by the act of 9th June, 1815,
and the treaty of 10th June, 1817, in the towns of
Ferrara, Comachio, and Piacenza are compatible
with the full independence of the Italian States,
and if those rights are not sufficiently compensated
for to Austria by the adoption of the principles of
neutrality and of a collective guarantee applied to
those States. In any case, the regulations relative
to the exercise of the said rights, settled between
them and Austria, shall be revised and brought
back to the strict terms of treaties. 4. As the
security of the Governments and the welfare
of the populations depend on the confor-
mity of the institutions with the tendencies,
wishes, and wants of the latter, the sovereign
princes of the States of Italy shall be recom-
mended to revise the political and administrative
laws of their States. That revision shall be made
by them freely in the full independence of their
sovereignty, and after consulting the wishes of
their people. It is well understood that in no case
Gan the Powers meddle, either collectively or sepa-
rately, in the relations between the Italian Go-
vernments and their subjects, nor in the adminis-
tration of the Italian States. 5. The Powers
reserve to themselves the right of presenting in the
course of their negotiations special propositions in
addition to the four which precede."
PARIS, MONDAY.
PARIS BOURSE, April 4.—The Rente market has
been flat, having been influenced by the numerous
sales in railway shares. Threes varied from 68f.
25c., to 68f. 10c. ; Mobilier, 765 f. to 750 f.; Austrian,
545 f. to 540 c. ; Orleans, 1,345 f. to 1,332 f. 50c. ;
Lyons, 842 f. 50c. to 837 f. 50c. ; Eastern, 630 f. to
620 ; Western, 540 f. to 530 f. The following were
the closing quotations :-
4 per Cents. 95 50
Do. end month
3 per Cents 6B 15
Do. end month 6B 15
Bank Shares. 2875
Credit Mobilier
Do. Account . 737 50