The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-22 00:00:00

THE AMERICAN MAILS.

LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.
The Cunard screw steamship Alps, Captain In-
glis, has been appointed by the Post-office authori-
ties at New York to carry the .mails of the 11th
inst. to Liverpool, the Collins Company not being
prepared with a steamer to sail on that day. The
Alps, therefore, may be expected to-morrow or
Th ursd .iy.

The screw steamship Kangarol, Captain Jeffrey,
belonging to the Liverpool and Philadelphia Steam
Company, will sail to-morrow forenoon for New
York, with a full complement of passengers and a
large cargo. She will carry a sealed mail, for
which letters. must be marked " per Kangaroo,"
and posted before 9 a.m., and with late fees before
9.30 a.m. to morrow.

The royal mail screw steamship Indian, Captain
Jones, will also sail to-morrow forenoon for Mon-
treal and Quebec, with the Canadian mails, pas-
sengers, and cargo. Letters must be posted before
8 a.m., with late fees till 9 a.m., and at the landing
stage until 10 a.m. to-morrow.

o royal mail steamship Europa, Captain Leitch,
will be the bearer of the United States mails on Sa-
turday next, and will sail that forenoon at 10 a.m.
Letters must be posted before 8 a. w., with late fees
until 9 a.m., and finally at the landing stage at 10
a.m.

RUSSIAN OPINION OF THE ENGLISH ELECTIONS.—A
Russian newspaper, the Northern Bee, a few days ago
said, with reference to the result of the recent elections
—"This passing over of Cobden, Bright, and others in
the elections, shows us how powerful the hostility
against Russia still is in England ; they still make Cob-
den feel the consequences of his opposition to the war
now ended, and that too after the lapse of so long a time.
That must be a nice sort of a peace that we have with
England, when public opinion, which influences every-
thing there, cannot even yet pacify itself," -&c.
FREE EMIGRATION.-1018t night a numerous meeting
of the workmen of Westminster was held, in the Great
Hall, Broadway, Westminster. It was announced that
a number of members of Parliament were expected to be
present, and that Mr. Cox, M.P., for Finsbury, would
take the chair. The secretary, however, read letters of
apology from Lord Godericb, Mr. Locke, Sir 1. y,
Shelley, Mr. Roupell, and Mr. Cox. The following re-
solution was adopted, " That this meeting, consisting of
working men, urgently calls the attention of hit. Me
jesty's Government and all classes of society to the severe,
wide-spread, and alarming distress existing in the metro-
polis and its suburbs, the result of a long and continued
stagnation in the building and other trades.",

LATEST NEWS.

COPENHAGEN, TUESDAY.

M. Andrae has not succeeded in forming a Minis-
try. M. -Hall, late Minister of Public Workship,
has been now charged with the task of composing
a new Government.

The Monitcur of yesterday contains a despatch
from Malta of tne 15th, stating that Major-
General Ashburnham, with the staff of the
expeditionary force for China, arrived on the 12th
at Malta, in the Colombo, from England. Most of
the staff were present at a grand ball given on the
13th at the New Exchange, and the next morning
a review of the troops was held at Floriana, in
compliment to the gallant general and his officers.
A telegraphic despatch from London states that
General Ashburnham was lying ill at Malta, but
the papers from the island of the evening of the
14th not only do not make any mention of such an
event, but add that the general was to pursue his
voyage the next day.

A letter from Lisbon of the 13th says the Go-
vernment had granted an English company, repre-
sented by Sir S. Peto, the concession of a line of
railway from Lisbon to the Spanish frontier and
another to Oporto. The conditions are : 99 years'
lease ; to be worked by the company ; and a sub-
vention of 137,000 f. per kilometre. The company
takes up the Eastern Railway at the price of
11,0001. per kilometre.

A letter from Scutari, without date, in the New
Gazette of Prussia, says :—" I have a piece of
news, which perhaps is not yet known to the pub-
lic, to communicate to you—that diplomatic rela-
tions between England and Austria have been
broken off, not, it is true, at London and Vienna,
but at this place. A few weeks ago the consul of
England, M. Bonati, being about to make a jour-
ney, confided the provisional management of the
consulate to his son, and informed the consular
body of it. But the Austrian consul refused to
enter into relations with the substitute. On his
return M. Bonati asked for an explanation, and re-
ceived this laconic reply :—' I acknowledge the re-
ceipt of your letter, and have no answer to give.'
Relations between the two consulates were accord-
ingly suspended. The Austrian consul is not on
better terms with the French consul, and he has
forbidden Austrian subjects to have communica-
tions with the two consulates."

The Times' Paris correspondent, under date,

Tuesday, 6 p.m., says :

" It is affirmed that the Conference which took
place yesterday at the Foreign-office on the Neu-
chatel question made some progress towards its
conclusion—l doubt whether I can add a satisfac-
tary one. The King of Prussia has, it is said,
lowered his terms that is, his demand for
a pecuniary indemnity, and it is possible that
the final sitting of the Conference may take
place before the Ist of May. I have just
heard that Dr. Kern has gone to Berne,
or is on the point of going, to submit the result
to the Federal Council. I fear I cannot say that
either party will be content—Switzerland because
she has to pay something ; and the King that he
has not been able to screw out of Republican
Helvetia the very last centime of his first demand.
Formerly it was said " point d'argent point de
Suisse." Switzerland would like to say now
" point de Suisse, ni point d'argent." Those
who will be most delighted to get rid of the busi-
ness are the gentlemen of the Conference who have
had the patience to listen to the dreary quarrel-
ling of Dr. Kern and M. de Hatzfeldt so long."

FRANCE.
PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.

The Moniteur publishes the official return of
the customs revenue for the month of March,
amounting to 15,964,902 fr., being an increase of
1,582,678 fr. on the corresponding month of last
year. The return for the first quarter of 1857
amounts in 43,756,453 fr., showing an improvement
of 5,208, 353 fr. on the corresponding period of 1856.
Among th e items of revenue which show the greatest
increase during the first three months of the pre-
sent year are :

Coffee, 4,048,2931 r. ; potable liquors, 1,636,813 fr. ;
foreign augar, 1,578,2031 r. ; French colonial ditto,
329,728,728 fr. ; hemp and flax, 366,151 fr. ; oleaginous
seeds, 109,753 fr. ; nitrates of potash and soda, 62,727 fr.;
gold in bullion and in specie, 60,003 fr. ; cocoa, 80,614 fr.;
corn, 58,259 fr. ; nialp,gany, 38,378 fr. ; olive oil,
28,9391 r. ; pig lead, 52,5841 r. ; pepper, 40,077 fr. ; raw
and spun silk, 10,402 fr.