The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-12 00:00:00

AUSTRALIAN MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 11.- -The next contract mails
from the Australian ports to arrive by the East India
route will be due at Southampton on the 4th of Decem-
ber, by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Ripon. The lighter or advanced portion of these
mails may be expected to reach London about the 30th
inst., via Marseilles. According to the contracts the
dates to be brought on this occasion should extend to
the 20th of September from Sydney, the 24th from Port
Philip, the 27th from Adelaide, and to the 2d of October
from King George's Sound. The new arrangement of
the service, whereby the steamers conveying these mails
will proceed direct from King George's Sound to Point
de Galle, Ceylon, instead of as before by way of Ba-
tavia to Singapore, will now, for the first time, come into
operation, and a considerable time, it is anticipated, will
be economised by the alteration, as, independently of the
Basin.. of distance and mileage in making the direct
run from the Australian continent to catch the home-
ward packet at Ceylon, the detention at Batavia is
avoided, and more favourable winds and navigation
secured. The steamer with the homeward India mail
should leave Point de Galle, Ceylon, on the 28th of
October, and the Australian steamer is due there on the
26th, thus allowing 26 days for the voyage from King
George's Sound to Ceylon. Presuming that no deten-
tions have occurred on the outward voyage, or at the
Australian ports, it is supposed that ample time is thus
allowed for permitting the requisite junction at Ceylon
to be effected, and the mails may in consequence be
expected to arrive to their time with something like
certainty. It will be recollected that the last Australian
mail by the overland route was delayed 12 days at
Singapore. The next outward mails will be despatched
from Southampton on the
,4th of January, by way of
Southampton and Singapore. The General Screw
Steam Shipping Company have also just announced that
their magnificent new iron steam clipper-ship the Crcesus,
of 2,500 tons, and 400-horse power (the first of the new
line of ships built specially for the Australian service),
will be despatched from Southampton on the 10th of
January for Port Philip and Sydney, and it is deemed
probable that these vessels will make the run in under
60 days. If the Crcesus gets away on the day advertised,
she will run a race with the overland mail to Australia,
and great interest will attach to her performances.

RESIGNATION OF THE GOVERNOR or NEW ZEALAND.—

It is now known that the intention of his Excellency
the Governor to proceed to England, on leave of absence,
for a period of 12 months. Sir George Grey has now
been eight years the Governor of this colony, during a
period of unexampled difficulty, in which questions of
all sorts affecting the well-being and even the very exist-
tence of the colony were continually arising; in which
he has had not merely to frame a policy and lay the
foundation of the future stability and prosperity of the
country, but by his prudence and sagacity to repair the
disasters occasioned by the grievous errors and misgo-
vernment of his predecessors, as well as those mischiefs
arising out of the folly and misconduct of the New Zea-
land Company.—Australian and New Zealand Gazette.
ASIATIC CHOLERA IN MARTLEBONE.—Yesterday, at
the weekly meeting of the directors and guardians of the
poor, held in the Marylebone Workhouse, Dr. Russell
in the chair, Mr. Filleter, the senior house-surgeon,
called upon the board to grant additional medical assist-
ance, as it was wholly, impossible for him and the two
district surgeons to discharge the duties that devolved
upon them in consequence of the wide spread of fever
and cholera in the district, and especially in the north
division. During the week, six deaths from cholera
occurred in the infirmary of the workhouse ; and Mr.
Sedgwick, surgeon, of the north district, reported that
cholera of a severe Asiatic type had broken out in Be.
where, in one house, four of one family
hvalsrebheien-Prrned off by that disease. Mr. Sedgwick
considered that cholera was engendered in hie dSi
hwoistwrictlbl
its bad drainage, its open water-closets, apa,its
neglected condition. Mr. Sedgwick callg upon the
board to close Nos. 4, 17, and 27, Devonshire-place, as
to' live
in his
being wholly unfit for human beingshtio..
Sedgwick further reported that fever
own.
ain'd±
district. Mr. Filleter, after laying
of them to
Sedgwick's report before the board,g begg94l
adopt the most energetic measures to arrest the fur-
ther advance of cholera and feVer in theparish. Seve-
ral guardians having expressed deep re
of the medical staff, the district vaccinatorsgret
were
h de
irreecptoerdt
to attend the out-door medical cases, dispense medicines,
and fully eo-operate with the: parochial medical officers.
They also, under the advice of Mr. Filleter, ordered the
removal of several children from the workhouse to the
Margate Infirmary.
MAIL COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MILFORD AND
WATERFORD.,—The question respecting there-establish-
ment of the mail communication between Hobbs Point
and Waterford is now in full agitation, as,-the time for
opening the South 'Wales line.approacbes. The Water-
ford Chamber of Commerce have mooted the advisability
of the re-establishing of mail intercourse, 'and before
long it is likely that a company will be fbrmed to carry
out the undertaking, when it is probable that the mails
will be carried under contract. By the meanp of the South
Wales line the sea passage to Ireland would be so much
shortened that passengers to the south af the sister
country would infinitely prefer the shorter sea route
from Milford to Waterford than the longer one from
Bristol to Cork, or the lengthened journey via Holy-
head.
NOTTINGHAM TRADE.—The lace tilde continues with-
out alteration—being exactly the same as last week,
with the exception of one or two considerable houses
who happen to have picked up orders and appear to be
tolerably busy, working till nine o'clock, whilst the
great majority are doing scarcely any businesswhatever
and closing at six. Things, therefore, continue to be
bei n
very dull ; a great many hands are out, and must
re-
main out of employment unless a speedy amendment
takes place. There is no branch which
markets. is dyoin
and the business transacted has for the most part been
executionan and
for
theof
A ordersuetrallieafnt n hand German
well,
a
Hosiery, n
Lo tu
buyers,
the better classes of goods, is brisk, a good deal of
busi-
ness doing, and extensive orders have- been received
from the American markets N
ottinghani Guardian.