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, wl ereby the steamers conveying these mails
will procc e f direct from King George's Sound to Point
de Galle, Ceylon, instead of as before by way of Ba-
tavia to Sirg.tpore, wdl now, for the first time, come into
operation, and a considerable time, it is anticipated, mill
be economised by the alteration, as, independently of the
saving of distance and mileage in making the di; ect
run from the Australian continent to catch the home
ward packet at Ceylon, the detention at ratavia :s
avoide I, and snore 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 permittina 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
GO 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 OF 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. A ustralian and New Zealand Gazette.
ASIATIC CHOLERA IN MARYLEBONE.—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 bad broken out in De-
vonshire-place, where, in one house, four of one family
had been carried off by that disease. Mr. Sedgwick
considered that cholera was engendered in his district by
its bad drainage, its open water-closets, and its wholly
neglected condition. Mr. Sedgwick called upon thes
board to close Nos. 4, 17, and 27, Devonshire-place,
lan
being wholly unfit for human beings to live in.
his
Sedgwick further reported that fever prevailed.a andi
n district. Mr. Filleter, after laying his o
Sedgwick's report before the board, eggedwnof
tthheemfutro.
adopt the most energetic measures to arrest
ther advance of cholera and fever in the
ral guardians having expressed. deep regret were directed
of the medical staff, the district vaccinators
it edicines,
parish a the reportl'ee-
to attend the out-door medical cases,
diaper
and fully co-operate with the parocli_eter
ordered the
ial -kat officers.
the wor
They also, under the advice of Mr. Fill
khouse to the
removal of several children from
Margate Infirmary.
,„.•,,r,r MILFORD AND
MAIL
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN
WATERFORD.—The question respecting the re-establish-
mentetweenHobbs Point
of the mail cominunic
fullline agitation, as the time for
and Waterford is now in
approaches. The Water-
opening the South Wales
ford Chamber of Commerce have mooted the advisability
of the re-establishing a
ng of mail intercourse, and before
long it is likely t
company will be formed to carry
out the undertaking, when trails
it is probable that the ails'
will be carried under contract. By the means of the South
Wales line the sea passage to Ireland would be so much
shortened that passengers to the south of 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 trade 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 he
tolerably busy, working till nine o'clock, whilst the
great majority are doing scarcely any business whatever
and closing at six. Things, therefore, continue to be
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 is doing well,
and the business trausacted has for the most part been
in the execution of orders left on hand by German
buyers, and for the Australian markets. Hosiery, in
the better classes of goods, is brisk, a good deal of busi-
fleas doing, and extensive orders have been received
from the American markets.-11rottineam auOrai"'