The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-04 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

It was reported in Prussia that the garrison of
Odessa had received reinforcements. It is said to
consist of infantry from the 6th corps—that is, one
division (16 battalions) at the utmost ; the re-
serves of the 24th line (Dnieper), and the 23d light
(Ukraine) regiments, belong: ng to the 4th corps (4
battalions); the 28th line (Z.itomer) sth corps ;
and 11th (Archduke Ferdinand) ; and 12th Lancer
regiments, 6th corps; in all about 20,000 effectives.
The Kreutz Zettung, whose Russian connections
ought to enable it to be well informed on all Rus-
sian subjects, announces that the Emperor Nicholas
is generally expected to arrive at Wart..-taw imme-
diately. _

Colonel Gerhardt, of the Russian engineers,
has returned to Warsaw. This officer has been
long detached for the purpose of engaging persons
to work the telegraph lines now constructirig in
different parts of Russia, and also fur establishing
a contract for the supply of wires* to a huge
amount, to be furnished by the house of Siemes,- of
Westphalia.
Reports are again rife that the King of Prussia
has resolved to assemble the First Chamber in con-
formity with the new law, and that the lists of
members to be appointed by the Crown are already
made out. It is further added that a new and
more restricted law for the election of members for
the Second Chamber will be introduced, and, if
not acceded to, that the Chamber will be dissolved,
and the law octroye. This is the wish and purport
of the feudal and anti-constitutional party.
Baron von Manteuffel proceeded this day to join
and transact business with the King in Silesia.
The Prime Minister will probably accompany his
Majesty back to Berlin on Tuesday or Wednesday.
The King of Prussia's visit to the scene of disaster
on the Oder has produced excellent and cheering
effects upon the suffering populations, and will be
as grateful to his Majesty's benevolent heart as to
those whose sufferings he has witnessed, and will
endeavour to alleviate.

A Rhenan journal states that the gambling-
tables at Aix-la-Chapelle•are to be closed. A sta.
tistical return, recently published in a Berlin
journal, shows the average net dividends of share-
holders in the Homburg tables to be 40 per cent. •
The house of Lebel, Roux, and Co., of Ham-
burg, which contracted to supply the French Bal-
tic fleet with stores, has (says the Kreutz Zeitung)
suspended payment.
Accounts from Memel, of the 27th, state that
the Archer and Conflict, which had been compelled
to put out to sea in consequence of the violence of
the S.W. gales, had returned all well to the roads.
Aftonbladet asserts that the fortifications of
Boinarsund are now in the possession of a Swedish
sailor, named Clas Berggren, who acted as an ins
terpreter to the French Commander-in-chief Mar-
shal Barguay d'Hilliers, who made him a present
of the ruins in acknowledgment of his services.
He is now in treaty with some builders at Stock-
holm, for the purchase of the blocks.of huge granite
not destroyed by the British and French artillery.
A Bucharest correspondent of the Fremden Blatt
says that certain Greek cloisters in Moldavia and
Wallachia being suspected of having supplied the
rebels in Greece with considerable sums of money,
the Sublime Porte has sent its firman to Dervish
Pacha, empowering him to sequestrate the com-
promised, cloisters, and apply their revenues to
State purposes.

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Madrid, under the command of Captain J.
Weeks, arrived this day at eleven o'clock, with the
usual Peninsular mails, in charge of Lieutenant
Bolton, Admiralty agent.
The dates of sailing of the Madrid are :—Gibral-
tar, Sept. 26 ; Cadiz, 27 ; Lisbon, 29 ; Oporto, 30;
and Vigo, 30.
The passengers by the Madrid numbered in all
32.

On freight, the Madrid brought 67 packages of
specie, 18 casks of wine, 51 cases of eggs, 82 boxes
of lemons, 41 boxes of oranges, 20 boxes of apples,
41 boxes of tomatoes, 16 boxes of preserves, 71
boxes of raisins, 136 boxes of almonds, 638 boxes
of grapes, and about 20 packages of sundries.
At Gibraltar, 11.M.5. Antelope.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Indus arrived at Gibraltar on the 25th of
September at 10.40 p.m.,
at 10 a.m. on the 26th. 'and. left for Alexandria
The usual Portuguese squadron was at Lisbon.
ThEe
Peninsularuiinec aptaain Russell,
dOusrsieelinr arrived at Vigo onl Company's steam-
ship
the 30th September from Southampton.
On her homeward voyage, the Madrid passed
and exchanged colours with a large screw steamer,
steering for Lisbon, on the 29th September, show-
ing second distinguishing pendant, No. 9,356,
mhsup-
posed to be the Braero. or Bahana.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT CHELMSFORD.-011 Tuesday a
fatal accident occurred at the Ciielnisford Board of Health
works. It seems that the men are engaged in boring an
artesian well, which has already keen sunk 'more than
200 feet, and on Tuesday the foreman, named Daniel
Sale, a man of 25 years experience in such matters, was
at work upon the second staging in the well, about 140
feet from the surface. A monkey weighing 15 cwt. was
employed to drive the pipes, and this was placed between
four bearers on a staging above the deceased. For some
particular purpose, not exactly known, the deceased cut
a portion of 'one of these bearers, which unfortunately
released the monkey from its place, and when be was in
a stooping position it fell upon him, carrying him down
on to the next stage and crushing him beneath its weight,
both his thighs,being broken, and his chest forced in.—
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