The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-07 00:00:00

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(REUTEI:-% ' TELEGP.AMS.)
The Royal Mail stc znlship Asia, from Halifax
and Boston, arrived r tit Queenstown yesterday at
8.45 p.m., with 137 pa Sgengers and 22,702 doll. in
specie. She landed all her inaiN, consisting of 123
sacks and 13 passenger. 11, and proceeded for Liver-
pool at 9 p.m. All wel L
(Per e Asia.)

NEW I Po RE, April 24, Evening.

The President has set it to the House of Repre-
sentatives important dipEci antic correspondence re-
lating to Mexico.

On the 12th Feb. last . Mr. Seward addressed a
communication to M. Me( ltholon, citing and an-
swering in detail the aro tments advanced by M.
Drouyn de Lhuys in th Lx uary in defence of the
course pursued by France ixi Mexico. M. Drouyn de
Lhuys had declared that I 13e objects of the French
Mexican expedition were not hostile to the insti-
tutions of the New World, nor was it desired to
realise ambitious schemes c r to impose monarchical
government upon Mexico Against the will of the
people, but only to obtain Just reparation for the
wrongs of French residents, a sid to secure guarantees
for their future rights. A nu tither of influential men
in Mexico, including one of the late Presidents, de-
spaired of obtaining order under Republican Go-
vernment, and favoured t' re-establishment of
royalty. France sustained a a Imperial Government
in Mexico, founded on the consent of the people,
because that government Pt, rnished the requisite
reparation and guarantees. AL Drouyn de Lhuys
further alluded to the aid fit mished to the United
States by France during the _revolutionary war, to
the proposal that the United States should join the
Mexican expedition, and to th-e neutrality observed
by France during the late re hellion.
Mr. Seward replied, acl mowledging the tradi-
tional friendship between t lie two countries, and
the respect and consideratio a due to the representa-
tions of France, but the Ft fleral Government had
seen no satisfactory evide ace that the people of
Mexico originally accepted t he so-called empire, nor
could any such acceptance Tx lawfully procured in
presence of the French army of invasion.
On March 19 Mr. Seward wrote to Mr. Motley,
the American Minister at Vienna, acknowledging
the receipt of his communication wherein the latter
announced the probability flat Austria would con-
sent to and permit the levy of 4,000 volunteers for
Mexico. Mr. Motley was instructed emphatically
to protest against such a proceeding, and to state
that in the event of hotilities being prosecuted in
Mexico by Austrian su'ujects in the manner de-
scribed, the United States will regard it as war be-
tween the republic of 7alexico and Austria, and can-
not engage to remain neutral spectators.
On April 16 Mr. Seward again wrote to Mr.
Motley acknowledging the receipt of a despatch
from him informing Mr. Seward that 1,000 Aus-
trians were about to embark for Mexico at Trieste.
Mr. Motley was instructed to inform the Austrian
Government that the United States regarded the
despatch of Austrian troops to Mexico while nego-
tiations were pending with serious concern.
It is reported that the British and American
admirals in Chili= waters have protested against
the bombardment of Valparaiso, and insisted that
permission should be given to remove the women
and children, otherwise they would resist the bom-
bardment by force.
The City of Manchester and America have arrived
out.

Dr. Slayter, the Halifax physician who attended
the passengers on board the England, has died of
cholera at Halifax, where three other cases are re-
ported.
The Fenian excitement is rapidly abating. Fe-
deral troops guard the bridge between Calais and
and St. Stephens. General Doyle has established
his headquatters at the latter place. The reason
assigned for the release of the Fenian schooner
seized by the Federal authorities is that the vessel
had a regular customs clearance from Portland, and
was properly consigned 'to Doran Killian, at East-
port. Killian's movements are not stated. It
is reported that he is endeavouring to orga-
nise a fishing company for the purpose of
bringing about, without a breach of the neu-
trality laws, a collision between the English
and Americans on the fishing grounds, in hopes of
thereby causing a rupture between the two Govern-
ments. Three cases of muskets consigned to pro-
minent Fenians have been seized at Oswego by the
Federal authorities ; also, on Tuesday, the cus-
toms authorities at Eastport seized 100 cases of
arms consigned to Fenian leaders. The Fenians
are, all leaving Eastport for Portland, and but one
British war vessel remains off Campo Bello. Two
companies of Federal artillery arrived at Eastport
on Wednesday. Two Fenians, arrested for firing
at the guard on the bridge of St. Stephen's,
were fined 50 cents. for drunkenness by the Calais
authorities. They were subsequently arrested by
order of the Governor of Maine, at the request of.
General Doyle, and were kept to await the instruc-
tions of Mr. Seward. A proposal of O'Mahony
that the Fenian faction should unite in harmonious
action, and leave all pending disputes to await
the arbitration of Stephens, has been rejected by
the Roberts faction. The New York press generally
pronounce the Fenian movement on the Brunswick
frontier to be a collapsed bubble.
The City of Boston has arrived out. The Nova
Scotia, Portland, and the Africa have arrived at
Halifax.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, April 26.

Money abundant. Gold, 1274. Exchange- on
London, 138 ; on Paris, 4.11. Stocks steady ;
New York Centrals, 93 ; Illinois, 119 ; Erie, 73 ;
5.20 United States Bonds, 106. Cotton depressed:
Middling Upland, 34. Flour and wheat firm and
active. Corn dull. Provisions slightly firmer.
Coffee quiet. Sugar steady. Molasses dull. Pe-
troleum depressed : crude, 25 ; refined, 40k. Re-
ceipts of cotton at New York the last three days,
8,000 bales; three days' sales, 3,500 bales. No
exports. Stock, 185,000 bales.

NEw ORLEANS, April 25.
Cotton depressed : Low middling, 34 to 35. Re-
ceipts during four days, 7,000. Exports three days,
12,000 bales.