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

AMERICA.  LIVERPOOL, 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 unfavourable 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 Borne to Miramon's confessor.  The screw steam-ship City of Washington, Capt. ?etrie, from Nero York on the 26th ultimo, also arrived here shortly. after one o'clock this afternoon, bringing the United States mails, 152 passengers and 189,486, dols 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 1092 to 1097,- for sterling, and 5.14 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 had on board part of the crew of the barque Dromahair,,from Quebec for Sligo, abandoned at 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. 46, A Washington telegram says :--" Venezuela has agreed to the payment of American claims arisinc, out of the guano controversy, amounting tot' 300,000 dols, and thus removing all cause of dispute between the two countries. It is now discovered  that the ealirse of tl;edelayln the ratification of the Cass-Yrissari treilty.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 amend-Cdr.-Ors- by inserting a clause to the same effect, as regards American filibusters, which amendment Government here refuses to accept, on the ground that the existing laws are sufficient." The last advices from Neim Orleans were that there was no immediate;Prospeet of relief to the commerce of that port. It would require four months' labour and the expenditure of a hundred thousand dollarsi to-open the SouthLwest Pass. The New Yerk News says :—" Within one week we 'have had but five murders, three rapes, eight suicides, 42 burglaries, 122 ordinary robberies, and not' more than 500 assaults and batteries." The bill for re-opening the African slave trade, u,;!ler the name Otapprentieeship, was lost in the Louisianll.- Bowe ,of Representatives by a vote of  37 to 17. The barque Laurens, wized by the collector of New Loudon, had been decided not to be a slaver. A New Orleans telegrani says • "'Three criminals, Henriek Hads,' Peter Smith, and Joseph Lindsay, were link* on the 18th, all on one scaffold. They. all confessed their Brim©s just previous to the execution."