The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-04 00:00:00

chester to mess with the officers at the barracks.

The

troops received orders to be under arms at an early hour
on Tuesday morning, and at half-past eight they were
called out on the parade ground, and minutely inspected
by his Royal Highness. The troops went through several
evolutions, with all of which, and the general appearance
and discipline of the soldiers, together with the internal
economy of the barracks, his Royal Highness expressed
himself in the highest terms of satisfaction. His Royal
Highness departed by the 11.40 train to make a similar
inspection of the cavalry troops stationed at Christ-
church, Hampshire.
THE EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH.—The Scotsman, Com-
menting► on the imperial visit to Boulogne, says :—" The
Empress seems to have come in for a large share of the
admiration and acclamations, praises of her beauty and
amiability being in the mouths of all, both French and
English, who have had the honour of a smile from her
Imperial Highness. What a curious example it is of the
whimsical turns of the "whirligig of time," that a Spanish
lady, who has aunts and cousins in Kirkcudbrightshire,
should have stood on Monday last, as the wife of a
French Emperor, surveying the cliffs of England from
the foot of the column erected by the great Napoleon to
commemorate his happily only 'intended' conquest of
Britain !

MAILS TO AUSTRALIA.—The Neleus, the sailing ves-
sel selected to take the next mail to Australia, will be
dispatched on the sth inst.' and letters must, therefore,
be posted on the 4th. The Harbinger steamer, for Port
Philip and Sydney, will not sail from Southampton until
the 6th inst. ; and communications by that conveyance
will, it is understood be in time on the sth.
DEPARTURES FOR AUSTRALIA.—The departures from

the port of London for the Australian colonies
during the past week show a considerable decrease.
They have comprised altogether 11 vessels—eight to
Port Philip, with an aggregate burden of 5,242 tons ;
two to Hobart Town, with an aggregate burden of 769

tons ; and one to Adelaide, of 668 tons. Their total
capacity was, consequently, 6,679 tons. The shipments
of manufactured goods and ordinary merchandise have
greatly diminished since the late unfavourable accounts
by the Marlborough and Essex, and freight generally
have experienced a decline.
PRODUCE MARKETS.—The weekly reviews from the
Amsterdam and Rotterdam produce markets describe
operations as having lately been more numerous. In
some descriptions of sugar there was a tendency to im-
provement, and the quotations of coffee continued to be
well supported. Rice had been freely purchased owing
to the advance in grain. The transactions in indigo had
been at rather higher rates. Tallow was also firmer.

RELEASE or MARTIN KOSSTA.—The steamer Asia on
Sunday brought news from New York that the Russian,
Prussian, and Austrian ministers had given in a protest
at Washington against the conduct of Captain Ingraham,
the captain of the St. Louis, United States frigate,
who so energetically took the part of M. Kossta at
Smyrna a few months ago when that gentleman had
been violently seized by the Austrians. Yesterday
letters from Constantinople brought intelligence that
M. Kossta had been released from the interim custody
of the French consul. This event has taken place with
the concurrence of the Austrian Internuncio, M. de
Bruck, and of his government. On the 19th ult. Mr.
Brown, the United States charge d'affaires at Constan-
tinople, left for Smyrna, where he would see M. Kossta
put on board an American merchantman, which was to
sail for New York from Smyrna in a few days. The
Austrian government has displayed a singular prudence
in this step, and, having betimes conceded all the sub-
stance, may safely assume a higher tone than ever in her
paper contest with the United States.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE BLYTH AND TYNE RAIL-
WAY.—On Tuesday a fatal accident happened on this
railway, near Seaton Delaval. A man named James
Conning, and his wife, imprudently got upon the line,
when an engine and train came up, and notwithstanding
that the driver sounded his whistle and shut off his
stelm, neither of the parties attempted to get out of the
way, and the result was that the engine struck the de-
ceased, and knocked him over the embankment, but the
wife contrived to make her escape uninjured. ' As it was
found that the deceased had no business on the line, and
also that the driver did all he could to stop the train,
the jury returned a verdict of accidental death.—New-
cm* Quardion.