The Sun. — 1859-04-08 (London, England)

AMERICA.  LIVER VOOL, THURSDAY. The steamer North Briton, which left Portland on the 26th ult., has arrived. She brings 63 passengers 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 received 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 permission would have to be granted to other nations also. The New York Times has discovered an " intrigue 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 exchange 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 Washington 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 Centurion, 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 execution."