The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-19 00:00:00

the fitness of things), to be introduced en regle in a
Committee of the whole House. Seeing, however,
that the Bill did not undertake to impose any
charge on the public in regard to rates or
duties, and hearing the SPEAKER enforce this
fact by reminding the House that no
new burden was proposed to be put upon
the inhabitants of the metropolis by the pro-
position as it then stood—the Commons refused to
regard the motion as in any way informal, and
granted leave to bring in the Bill accordingly.
Before the Bill shall have advanced very far on its
way towards its ultimate growth into an enactment,
we are yet sanguine that it may apply not simply
to the question of a northern, but to the question
also of a southern embankment. Sooner or later that
southern embankment will prove to be a necessity. It
is clearly most desirable now. It will be absolutely
requisite when the Northern embankment shall
have been constructed. It will be a subject then
imperatively demanding the interference of our
administrators (of course, through our legislators to
begin with)—and this not merely because of its
involving a question of unsightliness, but literally,
and beyond any doubt of it, because of its involving
a question of actual safety. The purlieus of Lam-
beth, and Southwark, and contiguous districts on the
Surrey side often subjected even now to the
nuisance and misery of intermittent floods from the
river Thames, will thus run the danger, in parts
obviously, of being all but permanently under water,
in the basements of many of the dwelling houses,
those, that is to say, upon the lower level. It is
only a matter of time when the south embankment
shall set off or balance the north embankment of
the Thames, and by so doing complete and perfect,
as it ought to be completed and perfected, this first
and greatest of all our metropolitan improvements.

LATEST NEWS.

THE INSURRECTION AT NAUPLIA.

ATHENS, MARCH 15.

The insurgents are said to have asked for an am-
nesty. An armistice of 24 hours has been granted
them.

Athens is quiet.

ATHENS, MARCH 14.
Aria and all the entrenchments and outworks of
Nauplia have been taken.
Magor, Coroneos, and several other insurgents
were made prisoners. •
Numerous deserters from Nauplia have joined the
Royal troops.

VIENNA, MARCH 18.

The Vienna evening journals state that the in-
surgents at Syra have proclaimed the third son of
Victor Emmanuel as King of Greece, under the
title of Otho 11.

RAGUSA, MARCH 18.

Yesterday the Turks occupied Grahovo.

A division of the Turkish army has advanced
against Joi, which was occupied by Vucalovich.
An engagement took place, the result of which is
not yet known. The Turks, however, are still ad-
vaneirig.

Yesterday a prolonged cannonade was heard here.

MEXICO.

(PER NIAGARA, BY TELEGRAPH FROM NEW YORK
TO HALIFAX,)

NEW YORK, MARCH 6, Evening.
Advices have been received here from Mexico
via Havannah to the 21st ult.
General Prim had had an interview with General
Doblado at Solodad. The result of the meeting
was generally considered to be favourable to a peace-
ful settlement.

The Diario Marina asserts that it has good autho-
rity for stating that the following terms were agreed

to :

" Negotiations will be commenced at Orizaba be-
tween two Mexican Ministers and the Allies."

The Allied forces will occupy Orizaba, Cordova,
and Tehuacan as a sanitary measure.
" If the negotiations are at any time broken off
by disagreement, the Allied forces will retire to
their former positions.

" As soon as the forces move towards Orizaba,
Cordova, and Tehuacan, the Mexican flag shall be
displayed at Vera Cruz and on San Juan d'Ulloa
by the side of the English, French, and Spanish
flags.
" If the negotiations terminate unfavourably the
Mexicans promise to respect and protect the hos-
pitals of the Allies.
" The march inland will commence immediately."