The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-04 00:00:00

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY MORNING.
By the Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steam-ship Sultan, Captain Christian, with the
Peninsular Mails, we have dates from Gibraltar,
November 24th ; Cadiz, 25th ; Lisbon, 29th ; and
Vigo, 30th.
The Sultan brings 19 passengers and freight,
eight packages of specie (value not stated), and a
cargo of fruit, seeds, and unicorns' teeth.
The Sultan has brought Lisbon letters and
papers of the 29th ult.
The Imperador, steam-transport, No. 178,
coaled at Lisbon, en route from Balaklava, and
left for Spithead on the 28th.
Foreign vessels of war in the Tagus—Her Ma-
jesty's ships St. George off Lisbon, and Neptune
below Belem, practising her artillery, and the
French steamers Newton and Phoenix.
The Cintra steamer arrived at Lisbon on the
28th from Liverpool.
Lisbon Exchanges—On London, 54i ; Paris,
5.20 to 5.18 ; Amsterdam. 431 ; Hamburg, 49 ;
and Genoa, 5.18. On the continent the rates were
nominal, little money offering on any place.
Portuguese Three per Cents., 401 to 41.
Stock market rather dull.
Bank of Portugal shares, 11 to 10 milreis dis-
count per share.
Bank of Oporto shares, 18 to 20 per cent. pre-
mium.

Bank of Lisbon, g per cent. discount.
Remonstrances bad been made by the English.
and American Governments against Portugal's re-
cent resumption of the possession of Ambriz as the
frontier limit of its territories on the Western
Coast of Africa.

Considerable progress was reported to have beeu
made in negotiations for the contractors, continu-
ing the works on the Santarem Railway, which,
Mr. Shaw was anxious to carry out at any reason-
able sacrifice, in consequence of the large amount of
shares he holds, and a lock-up of 100,0001. in plants,
unpaid.certificates, and mate rials furnished subse-
quently to his suspending the works which were said
to be going on satisfactorily in the hands of the Go-
vernmentengineers.
The following steam transports had arrived at
Gibraltar, en route to the Crimea :—Great Bri-
tain, Queen Victoria, Ripon, Caradoc, Propontis,
Falcon, Wye, &c.
The sailing transport Herefordshire passed from
west to east on the 23d ult.
Exchanges at Gibraltar were quoted, for bills on
London at 50 days, 51,1 ; Paris ditto, 51. 40c.

An extraordinary piece of news is propounded by a
Hamburg journal, viz. that the Russian fleet has been
found to have remained tou long inactive, and that a
portion of it, at least, will be sent on service.
THE QUEEN'S HOSPITAL BALL, BIRIIINGEIAL--It has
been proposed from an influential quarter that, as no
public demonstration has been made by the town of Bir-
mingham and Midland districts, the anniversary ball on
the present occasion should commemorate the glorious
victories of the Alma, Inkerman, and Sebastopol.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—A collier named Job Vaughan,
working at Messrs. Whitaker's colliery, Hurst Knobb,
met with an accident in the pit, on Wednesday night,
about 12 o'clock, which ended fatally on Friday morn-
ing. It appears that the deceased was struck on the
side of the head by a large piece of coal of about 200
cwt., falling from the height of about half a yard, and
causing a severe fracture of the skull.—Mancltester
Guardian.
TniPoLL—A letter from Tripoli, on the 15th ult.,:
in the Corriere Mercantile, says :—" Three or four days
after the arrival of the new Governor of this regency,
Osman Meshar Pacha, many of the insurgents made
their submission to him, and obtained their pardon, so
that at present the force of the insurgents is reduced
to half, and more of them are coming in daily to mak•
their submission. Gashim Pasha, the Governor of the
mountain district, who has been made prisoner by
Gumah, the chief of the insurrection, has just been set;
at liberty by him, and has arrived here. Omar Pacha,
who arrived in very weak health, is now recovering, and
intends, after the rainy season, to take the command of
the Turkish troops and force Gumah to surrender. The
rains are very abundant, a circumstance which prognos- _
Vcates a good harvest, and will, therefore, render the in.!
rgot Arabs more willing to come to terms."