The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-16 00:00:00

AUSTRALIA.

ARRIVAL OF THE ARGO.
PLYMOUTH, Friday Morning.—The Argo, Captain
Hyde, beonging to the General &mew Company, ar-
rive d at six o'clock last evening, not being able to pro•
ceed up the channel in consequence of stress of weather.
She lett Sydney January 2d, and Port-Philip 7th. As
far as Cape Horn she had moderate weather, and then
had a baffling and light wind to the line. Sae reached
St. Vincent February 27. The voyage from Port-Phi-
lip to St. Vincent occupied two days less than former
voyage. She remained at St. Vincent four days, and
left March 3d. Had bad weather to longitude 40. She
had been under weigh 59 days, 8 hours, and 30 minutes,
the time of the voyage being 63 days 13 hours.
The Argo brings a mail which was landed here from
Sydney. She has gold dust, 5,553 ounces, valued at
22,2121. From Port Philip, 70,665 ouuces, valued at
282,6601. ; specie and jewellery, 6,0411. Se. Bd., making
a total of 310,9131. ss. Bd. She has also 138 cases of
goods for the Paris Exhibition.
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The Argo brings 85 passengers, including the Lord
Bishop of Melbourne and Mrs. Perry.
The British ship of war, Calliope, the steamers Acheron
and Torch, were at Sydney. The Electra, Fansome,
and Lily, were at Port Philip. The Lily was to leave in
a few days for England.
At St. Vincent, the brig Industrious. Barque Pre-
mier, sailed March 1, for Barbadoes. The barque Clare-
mont sailed for Savannah. The American steamer,
River Bird, from New York for China, was coaling.
Tno barque Robert Bright, from S xansea, arrived
March Ist, and the brig John Hillman, from the same
port, on the 2d. The royal steam-ship Great Western,
from Brazils, arrived on 3d.

The Argo, spoke, February 3d, American ship Atlas,
off Cape Horn, 99 days from RAltiruore ; on the 4th,
Hamburg brig Mina, lat. 55.9 S., lon. 58.5, from Chines,
Islands, for Pernambuco ; on the 13th, the American
sailer Monmouth, in lat. 26.43, lon. 31.55 west ; and
the British ship Merse, in same latitude, frim London
to Australia. Oa the 21st the British barque Elizabeth
Archer, from Liverpool to Callao, 59 days out.
Thirteen invalided soldiers were sent off by express
train to-day, and 113 more will be sent up to-morrow.

A late edition of the Melbourne Morning Herald, of
Deceinbc-r 11, supplies intelligence from Ballarat to De-
cember 10. The examination of the prisoners made dur-
ing the recent disorders had been continued for several
days, and numbers had been released. Others had bee.;
committed ; a few for high treason, some for sedition.
Among the latter, Mr. Seehamp of the Bendigo Times.
On the 9th, martial law gave place to the ordinary civil
government. Before retiring from the c,nutnand, Sir
Robert Nickle offered a reward of 580/, for the capture
of Venn, one of the insurgent leaders, dead or alive,
provided it were made before the cessation of martial
law. Sir Robert had made himself popular at the dig- 1
gings, and many who saw the proclamation law with
pain were sorry when it was discontinued. " There
appears to be no doubt," says the correspondent of the
journal quoted, " that the insurgents we-re the first
to fire on the 3d, and if so, heavy as their punish-
went has been, they brought it on themselves ; but
the feeling relative to the conduct of at least some
of the mounted police remains unchanged." Ou the
3th a meeting was held at Bath's Hotel, to petition for
a general amnesty. It was said that the Right Rev.
Dr. Goold, who had arrived at Ballarat, was the bearer
of an amended set of rules fir the administration of the
gold-fields. These rules, which had the sanction of the
Government, the bishop was about to submit to the
diggers. There was a report, but it was thought an un-
grounded one, that Venn, the insurgent digger, at the
head of a considerable force, had erected a stockade in
Warancheps Forest. The-following is a correct state
meat of the casualties on the part of the troops in the
late encounter :-40th Regiment; Captain Wyse, se-
verely wounded (but progressing favourably) ; two rank
and file killed, four severely wounded. 12th Regiment;
Lieut. Paul, severely wounded in the hip ; one rank and
file killed, five ditto wounded. Mounted police ; one
trooper wounded.

The General Screw Company's steamer Natal has been
chartered fora war trauspoit by the French Government.
She left Southampton yesterday for Toulon.
Belgium is still without a ministry. 31. de Theux,
leader of the conservatives in the Chamber, was to have
an audience of the King on Wednesday.
Letters from Stuttgard state that the First Chamber
had voted unanimously the amount of three millions de-
manded by the Government as the extraordinary war
credit required, but rejected by 19 votes to 10 the decla-
ration passed by the Lower Chamber that Wurtemberg'‘
policy required the most intimate adhesion to Austria.
The Minister von Linden said that the 6-frman Diet had
long since thrown aside its neutrality and openly joined
Austria.

The BERNAL COLLECTION.—The sale of yesterday was
carried on at the mansion, No. 93, Eaton-square ; the
objects disposed of were miniatures, chiefly French.
Very good prices were realised. The most important
" lots" were those of Charles IX. and Henry 11. of
France, painted by Janet, bought by Messrs. Colnaghi
for the sums of 155 and 205 guineas respectively. The
competition for this day's ohjecti in no way-resembled
that which manifested itself on certain other occaiions
in connexion with this memorable sale : to judge, how.
ever, from the marked peculiarity of many of the sub-
jects which remain to be disposed of, further displays of
eager competition may be anticipated. The sale of
mediaeval works in metal takes place to-day at the ace-
lion rooms in King-street, where the sale will be con-
tinued throughout the month—with the ex. eAion of
next Saturday; when some pictures from the collection
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