The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-08 00:00:00

AMERICA.

LIVER VOOL, THURSDAY.
The steamer North Briton, which left Portland
on the 26th ult., has arrived. She brings 63 pas-
sengers and the Canadian mails.
News unimportant.
It is stated M. Levasseur, ex-Minister of France
to Mexico, who went to Nicaragua nominally in
the suite of Belly, really represents the Emperor,
his mission being to secure to French citizens the
right to employ Asiatic and African apprentices in
mining and agriculture.
The Mexican legation at Washington had re-
ceived information contradicting the reports unfa- •
vourable to Miramon's government. An application
by the American agent at Vera Cruz to land a naval
force for the protection of American interests, in
the event of the city being stormed by Miramon,
has been refused, on the ground that the same per-
mission would have to be granted to other nations
also.
The New York Times has discovered an " in-
trigue for .converting Mexico into a monarchy, with
a Bourbon king." The disclosure is made in a
letter from a secret agent at Rome to Miramon's
confessor.

The screw steam-ship City of Washington, Capt.
Petrie, from New York on the 26th ultimo, also
arrived here shortly .after one eclock this afternoon,
bringing the United States mails, 152 passengers
and 189,486 -dots in specie.
On the 29th the City of Washington picked up
the crew (from two boats) of the American ship Grey
Oak, from London, which vessel was abandoned the
preceding day.
The advices of the Washington are the same as
those brought by the North Briton via Portland.
The New York, .Herald of the 26th says that ex-
change closed rather lower in consequence of the
prospect of large cotton shipments. Bankers were
asking 1091 to 1092 for sterling, and 5.121 to 131
for francs. The business done for the City of Wash-
ington was light.
The ship Centurion arrived at New York on the
23d from Glasgow; she hid on board part of the
crew of the barque .Dromahair, from Quebec for
Sligo, abandoned it sea. Previous to being
rescued, five of the crew died of starvation. When
the Dromahair was fallen in with, she had been
twenty-one days a Wreck. The crew subsisted on
half a biscuit a day, and what rainwater they could
catch. Five died of starvation; the remainder,
seven in number, were taken on board the Cen-
turion, five of whom were subsequently transferred
to the ship Magellan, which was boarded February
24, lat. 45, long. 48. -
A Washington telegram says :—" Venezuela has
agreed to the payment of American claims arising
out of the guano controversy, amounting to
300,000 dols., and thus removing all cause of dispute
between the two countries. It is now discovered
that the cause of the delay in the ratification of the
Cass-Yrissari treaty is that Sir Gore Ouseley, in the
course of the negotiation, inserted an article in his
treaty requiring England to aid in the expulsion of
any British filibusters; whereupon Nicaragua
amended ours by, inserting a clause to the same
effect; as regards American filibusters, which
amenditent Government here refuses to accept, on
the ground that the existing laws are sufficient."
The last advices from New Orleans were that
there was no immediate prospect of relief to the
commerce of that port. It would require four
months' labour and the expenditure of a hundred
thousand dollars, to open the South-west Pass.
The New York News says:—" Within one week
we have had but five murders, three rapes, eight
suicides, 42 burglaries,.l22 ordinary robberies, and
not more than 500 assaults and batteries."

The bill for,re-opening the African slave trade,
under the name Of apprenticeship, was lost in the
Louisiana House of Representatives by a vote of
37 to 17. . _

The barque Laurens. seized by the collector of
New London, had been decided not to be a slaver.
A New Orleans telegram says : " Three criminals,
Henrick Hads, Peter Smith, and Joseph Lindsay,
were hung on the 18th, all on one scaffold. They
all confessed their, crimes just previous to the exe-
cution."

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, MARCH 25, EVENING.
Sterling exchange is in moderate demand at previous quo-
tations. Money continues abundant at easy rates.
The stock market this morning opened dull and rather
lower, but at the close it Was firm at the following quota-
tions :—lllinois Central Railroad 67 ; ditto Bonds, 90a ;
New York Central Railroad, 79 ; Erie Railroad, 1(4; ditto
Third Mortgage Bonds, 74; ditto Fourth Mortgage, 551;
Virginia Sixes, 97 to 4 ; pacific Mail Company, 78 ; Read-
ing Railroad, 492.
Cotton market continues active and firm at former rates.
3liddling,.Orkans, 121 c. Flour, sc. to 10c. per barrel lower
for State and Western. Wheat quiet and drooping. Indian
corn steady. Mixed Western, 89c. to 90e. Beef steady.
Pak lower. New Mess, 18 dols. 12c. ; old, 17 dols. 37c. to
17 dols. 62c. Freights quiet. Cotton taken for Liverpool
at 5-32 d. to 3-16 d.

NEW ORLEANS, MAR H 25.
Cotton firm and dearer. Sales to-day 16,000 bales, at
_ to 11i for middling. Sales of the week 63,000 bales.
Receipts same time, 33,000 again.st 56,000 last year. Exports

of the week, 52,000. Increased receipts at all the southern
ports, 815,500 bales.
• Messrs. Neill Brothers and Co.'s telegrams from New
Orleans report that the receipts of the week ending on the
evening of the 25th were only 31,000 bales. Middling
quoted at 12e., and freights, id. At Mobile middling has
advanced to 12e. All the cotton markets closed with an
upward tendency. The weather at the south had improved.