The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-02 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

A leiter froni Athens, 15th, says :—" Brigand-
age is increasing in an alarming degree in Beotia
half way between this city and Thebes. A band
of 25 robbers lately attacked the inhabitants of a
village, and three of the latter and one of the for-
mer were killed in the contest. Kyriakos, the rob-
ber chief, and some of his followers, on the 2d inst.,
carried off in the open day, the son of an inhabi-
tant of Lamie, named Selivaniotis, and also :the
son of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Zoras, and took
them to their haunts, where they keep them de-
manding a very large ransom for their deliverance.
On the 6th, a band entered a monastery at a short
distance from Athens, and tortured one of the
monks who refused to give up the money of the
establishment ; and on the following day another
party of them attacked and robbed a number of
travellers."

A letter from Berlin, 27th, states that, by order
of the military authorities, an experiment was re-
cently made for employing the electric telegraph
in the open country, by connecting it to existing
telegraphic lines. The result showed the extra-
ordinary rapidity with which the junction may be
effected. Ten men, in the space of two hours,
established the telegraphic wire in the open country
for the distance of a Prussian mile (nearly 4 miles
and three-quarters English), and in five minutes
after a despatch was transmitted to Brussels and
Vienna.

We read the following in the Official Milan
Gazette of the 22d ult. :

" There are people who have got so accustomed
to the political forms of 1815, that they cannot
admit the possibility of any change in the relations
between state and state. But it must be kept in
mind that the policy which was then adopted was
one of conservatism; Ihe policy now followed by
Austria is but the continuation of it, and if she
happens to be in opposition with one of the states
which took a conspicuous part in the alliance at
that period, it is because that state has not been
faithful to its principles. Austria has not changed ;
she does not change the fundamental principles of
her policy. Russia alone has changed hers ; hence
the difference between the views of these powers.'
A letter from Rome in the Parlamento of Turin
of the 29th ult., contradicts the rumour of a depar-
ture of some of the French troops of the garrison
of Rome for the East.

The Giornale di _Roma of the 27th ult., contradicts
the statement• made by the Ami de la religion, to
the effect that there was shortly to be a meeting of
bishops in the Eternal City.
Monsignor Paolo Paolini, President of the Tri-
bunal of the Sacra Consulta at Rome, expired on
the 21st ult. •

The Frankfort Post Zeitung thus satisfactorily
accounts for the apparent slowness of the opera-
tions against Sebastopol. The Allies were obliged
to fortify themselves against the besieged and
against the army at Bakshiserai. In order that a
sortie in force shall have no chance of success, re-
doubts and entrenchments have been constructed
behind the batteries, in short regular lines of cir-
cumvallation have been formed as well towards
the city as towards the west.

THE WEST INDIA MAILS.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Candia, with the heavy portion of the India
and China mails brought up inside Calshot Castle
at an early hour this morning, the fog being too
dense to permit her coming up the river. Her
mails reached this port per Isle of Wight steam-
boat, and were forwarded to London by the seven
o'clock train.

The dates of the Candia are Alexandria Oct. 20,
Malta 24, and Gibralta 28. She has on board 111
passengers, including 39 privates of the Royal
Artillery from Malta. Her freight consists of 48
packages of specie, and the usual cargo.
At Malta there were two French steamers and.
two French vessels with troops and horses bound
for the East.

In lat. 41 50, long. 9 30, the Candia spoke the
Cunard steam-transport Jura, with loss of bow-