The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-14 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

AMERICA.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY MORNING.

The Belgian Royal mail steamer Belgique, Cap-
tain Frantzen, arrived off Cowes this morning, at
8 o'clock.

She left New York on the 31st March, at 11 a.m.,
and her dates have consequently been anticipated
via Liverpool. She brings 10 passengers for
Southampton.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.
STATE OF THE POLL.
LONGFORD, COUNTY.—(Firtsr DAL)
White ..• 1,136
Greville
..• 836

Forbes... ... ••• ••• 505

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.
PARIS, MONDAY.
The Grand Duke Constantine will be here on the
23d, M. de Kisseleff, Gen: Todtleben, and other
Russians of the army and navy now in. Paris, will, as
a matter of course, go to Toulon to meet him. Ad-
miral Hamelin, Minister of-Marine, and other high
functionaries will, as a matter of courtesy, proceed
thither alio forthe same purpose, The Emperor
was anxious to: pay him a hi4her honour still by
sending his cousin, Prince Napoleon, to meet the
Grand Duke. The Prineviiras. spoken to on the
subject, but it appeais gave a formal refusal. The
conversation appears to have been rather animated
at one mcitOnt, the Emperor !waking use of every
argument and putting forth all his powers of persua-
sion to convince his cousbiiiin'd'iriduce him' to con-
sent ; but as yet in vain.' Ififilniperial Highness,
whose repugnance to a Russian alliance, or any-
thing approachinglit, is very strong, remained and
remains unmoved ; he declared his readiness to ab-
sent himself from Paris, if necessary, while the
Grand Duke was here. Whether he will yet change
his mind it is hard to sly, but to this moment he
has not done so.

General Todtleben is of course rather feted among
official people. He remained with the Emperor
nearly an hour at his first audience. The Emperor
asked him whether, if the French and English had
marched on Sebastopol at once after the battle of
Alma, they could have taken it ? General Todtleben
declared that there was no doubt about it, as there
were but two or three battalions in the place. This
opinion was subsequently expressed by him to
others.
The Ministerial paper, the Pays, says that ad-
vices from the Persian Gulf state that the armistice
concluded between Persia and England was an-
nounced on the 9th of March to the General com-
manding the English expedition to Bushire, and
that the convention relative to the suspension of
arms had been signed anterior to the treaty of peace
between the two nations, and when the bases of that
treaty were agreed to.
It is expected that the difference which exists be-
tween the Turkish and Persian Government rela-
tive to their boundaries will be amicably arranged,
the Persian Ambassador having proposed to refer it
for arbitration to the Emperor of the French.
Despatches were received to-day at the Foreign
office from M. de Turgot, the French Minister at
Madrid, which announce, it is said, the probable
arrangement of the difficulties existing between
Spain and Mexico.
BOURSE, April 13.—The folUring were the last
quotations :

Cub. fr. C.
44 per Cents ...... 92
3 per Cent 5..,......... 69 90
New Loan ............
Bank Shares ...
..... 4 ,200 Roman
Credit Mobili-4. 1,400 —.Austrian
Belgian 44
Pieduuratese (5). 9l Biome Debt
RAlLv"..:rs—Foit Cass.
ft' C.
Orleans ".l f-
,502 i— Western 790
Northern
Lyons ....... New Ditto -
Mediterranean. ..... .2,155 Grand Central 1 6lO -
MLyons Geneva ...... 830 Sardinian -
idi ...... .... ...... 858/ Austrian Coin.

End of Month.
92fr. —c.
69 75
70 15

AUSTRIA AND SARDINIA.
A Berlin letter says :—" The antagonism of
Russia and. Austria not only aggravates the dif-
ference between Sardinia and Austria, but it
creates difficulties of a complex nature with
respect to Denmark. Persons who are ac-
quainted with what took place at Copenhagen,
from the beginning to the end of the war in
the Baltic, know perfectly well the change which
has taken place in the relations between Denmark
and Russia, which were formerly so cordial and
intimate... This change dates principally from the
day on which the Oerstedt Ministry, which con-
cluded the treaty of neutrality with Sweden in
1854, wat:s obliged by events to resign in order to
make room for new men, chosen exclusively from
the national Danish party, who were brought on
the political stage by the revolution of 1848. It
cannot be densed that since 1855, and especially
since the peace, the great influence which Russia
was accustomed to exercise in Denmark has greatly
declined, whilst that of the Western Powers has
increased, and tends to increase still more every
day. It is, therefore, clear that the Czar's Govern..
ment is constrained to act with a certain reserve.
Another circumstance causes it to display reserve,
and that is its intimate alliance with Prubsia, whose
influence, already considerable in all the States of
Northern Germany, cannot fail to increase in con-
sequence of the steps which she is about to take in
the Germanic Confederation in favour of the two
German duchies. Russia feels, besides, that in
intervening in favour of Denmark, in a thoroughly
German question, she would alienate the sympa-
thies of all the courts who are represented in the
Germanic Diet. In spite, however, of the reserve
of RuSsia, the conflict ahout the duchies causes dis-
quietude in the diplomatic world. England and
France continue to watch the progress of it with
solicitude, and when the time fur a solution shall
arrive their just influence will weigh in the ba-
lance. The verbal note of Denmark of the 9th ult.
has produced a bad impression at Berlin ; it proves
that there is nothing to expect from the new delay
which the German powers have accorded to the
Danish Government.