The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-03 00:00:00

THE MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 2.
The Royal Mail Company's steamship Orinoco,
Captain Sawyer, left this day, with the usual
West India mail, 99 passengers, a full cargo, specie
to the amount of 90,0001., and jewellery value
10, 6001.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Colombo will leave on the 4th, with the usual
East India and China mails.

The Tagus will leave on the 7th, with the Pen-
insular mails.

The Royal Mail Company's steamship Tamar will,
leave on the 9th, with the Brazils and River Plate

mails.

The next Australian mails will leave on the 12th,
by the Etna.
The homeward Peninsular mails will be brought
by the Sultan, and be looked for to-morrow.
The heavy portion of the East India and China
mails may be looked for on the 6th, by the Indus.
The homeward Brazilian mails will be brought
by the Medway, and may be expected on the
16th.

The next American mail may be looked for oa
Saturday next, by the Hermann.

PRESIDENT BUCHANAN'S LEVEES.

A New York paper thus describes the fashionable
news of Washington :—" The levees at the White
House are not the most pleasant affairs, if Washing-
ton correspondents are to be credited. Of Mr.
Buchanan's first levee a letter writer says :—' This
day has been concluded, of course, at the levee.
Thoroughly disgusted, I know not how to describe
it. I could not have believed that such an ill-look-
ing and immense crowd could have been squeezed
into the White House. If distinguished people
were there, one could not see them, and the fami-
liar faces of stray acquaintances, who in other
places would have been shirked as bores, were so
welcome as to cause our faces to beam with pleasure
at the meeting of them, now and then, in the mass
of democracy around us. It was a greater scene of
confusion and disorder than the levee-"of last
Friday presented. Mr. Buchanan retired • punctu-
ally at ten o'clock, doubtless much fatigued, but
Miss Lane and Miss Cass (who assisted her
in receiving) remained until the guests departed
at eleven o'clock, and later even. No pen can
describe the hunt after cloaks, coats, and hats,
in the Presidential mansion, and ladies who avoided
losing their coverings did so by either leaving them
in their carriages, taking them into the drawing
rooms around their shoulders, or having their own
maids standing in the vestibule,i in cbarge of them
and gentlemen returned home to their hotels in
droves, without hats or overcoats, some with
pocket-handkerchiefs tied over their ears, hut shi-
vering and lamenting over their losses. I saw Mr.
Buchanan's stiffly set head bowing sideways inces-
santly, and pitied him too much to get close
enough to him to cause it to bow tome. Mr. Breck-
inridge seemed to enjoy the full more, and Secre-
tary Cobb looked excited and bright. Miss Lane's
demeanour was dignified yet courteous. She is very
handsome, a blonde and English-looking beauty.
Her dress was in good taste, for it was becoming
her style of loveliness and position. A green silk
with three flounces of black lace, and coiffure of
roses, harmonised with her light hair and bloom-
ing cheeks. It must be disagreeable to a young lady
to be stared at as she was by all sorts of people ;
but as only the ill-bred and ignorant are rude,
perhaps their conduct should not annoy, but merely
excite pity."