The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-05 00:00:00

Mr. Burcham asked where Mrs. Scattering was ?

Witness replied that she was se ill from the violence
inflicted on her that she was unable to leave her bed.
The prisoner and his companions must have followed
her from a public-house elose by where she had exhibited
her money, and that she was seized by the throat sud-
denly, and nearly throttled. Witness was also served
in a similar manner, but he bad no money about him.

Police-constable 157 M said that he heard the cries
of marder in Kent-street on the previous night, but on
proceeding to the spot he saw the prisoner struggling
with last witness, who gave him in charge for assault
and robbery. There were two other females and two
men running away, who, the witness said, had assisted in
the robbery.

Mr. Burcham asked whether any of the money was
found on the prisoner ? The constable replied in the
negative. The female was so severely injured that at
present she was hardly able to state what sum she had
about her. He asked for a remand to enable him to
apprehend the other parties.

The prisoner, who stoutly denied the charge, was ac-
cordingly remanded until Thursday next.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON, Dec. s.—Wind thin day at noon, S. to S.E.
and S.W. ; moderate breeze and dull, hazy, mild wea-
ther.

PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 4.—Wind E.N.E. to S.W.—Ar-
rived—H.M.S. Roebuck, from Woolwich. Sailed—H.M.S.
Bulldog, for the eastward.
FALMOUTH, Dec. 4.—Wind S.S.E,—Sailed—Minorva,
for Demerara ; George, New York • Ellen, Jamaica. The
Arethusa, of and from Picton, for Liverpool, with
part of cargo thrown overboard, was spoken on the 27th
ult. in 50 N. 20 W.
RAMSGATE, Doc. 4.—Wind S. W.—Arrived—Champion,
from Wisbeach, for Penzance, with stem and starboard
quarter damaged from collision.
NEWPORT, Dec. 4.—Wind E,—Arrived—Neva, from
Lisbon, and Clara Ann, Bremen, both for St. Thomas.
SWANSEA, Dec. 4.—Wind N.E.—Arrived.—William
Leckie, front Cuba.
MILFORD, Dec. 4.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Henry
Wynch, from Liverpool, for Singapore, leaky.
BELFAST, Deo. 3.—Arrived—Favourite, from Mira-
michi.

YARMOUTH ROADS, Nov. 4. -Arrived-,Luame, from
Quebec, for Dunbar.
LIVERPOOL, Dec. 4.—The Joseph Rowan, arrived here,
saw, on the 16th ult., on the eastern edge of St. Peter's
Bank, a ship, of about 1,000 tons, with loss of fore and
main topmasts, with a barque hove to to windward of her.
CHRISTIANSAND, Nov. 30.—The had, from Stettin to
Newcastle, has put into ➢landahn leaky, and will dis-
charge.

(PER ELEOTRIO TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning.

Wind. S.E.
Arrived —Glen, from Elsinore ; Washington, New York;
Emelie, St, Übe's.
Off. Shamrock, from Ontario ; Joseph Jones, New
York ; Emu, Terra Nova ; Aracan, Calcutta ; Daniel,
Antwerp ; Morning Star, Windsor, N.S.
Sailed—ldiona, for Wismar ;—Sirius, Bilboa ; Mignon,
Santander ; Esk, Sierra Leone ; Fleur de Marie, Saguaga ;
Pelican, screw steamer, Rotterdam.
QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 4.

Wind N.E.
Arrived—Cynthia, Henry, Ismay, Elizabeth, and Fra.
teritas, from Calatz ; Lizzie, JucAnasta, and Henry Jones,
from Callao ; Ann Powell, Augusta, and Louisa, from
Ibrail ; shamrock, from St. John's N.B. ; Countesa of
Durham and Aurora, from Quebec ; Sharpe, Odessa.
K,,..NGEiTOWN, Dec. 4.

Wind W.
Arrived- Neptune, from Seville ; Mar -in Louisa, Quebec.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELE GRAPH.)
GBAVESEND, Eriday, 9.55 a.m.
Wind, N.E. ; tide four hours' ebb ; cloudy, with rain.
Arrived, 4th—Sylph, from Madras.
Arrived, sth —Star, from Rouen ; Acorn, Guernsey.
Sailed—Denmark, steamer, for Havre.
DEAL, Friday, 9.45 a.m.
Wind S.S.W. ; fresh, with rain.
Passed—Paris and London, screw steamer, from Paris,
for London.

THE BULLION ROBBERY.—A rumour was prevalent in
the City yesterday afternoon that Tester, for whose
apprehension a warrant was granted a week ago,
charging him with being implicated with Pierce and
Burgess in the bullion robbery, had communicated to
the prosecutors his intention of surrendering himself at
the Mansion-house on Wednesday next, when the pri-
soners Pierce and Burgess will be brought up for further
examination,

The contract between the Government and the Euro-
pean and Australian Royal Mail Company, together
with the programme of the mail service to be performed
by the company for the ensuing year, was published
yesterday. According to the programme the first
steamer will leave Southampton, with a mail to be con-
veyed via Egypt, on the 24th of February next ; and
the supplementary mail, via Marseilles, is to leave Lon-
don on the 2d of March next.
The steamer is to reach Alexandria March 8, leave
Suez on the 11th, reach Melbourne April 19, and Sydney
the 221. Subsequently the Australian mail will leave
Southampton on the 12th of the month, reach Alexan-
dria on Cie 24th, ',aye Suez on the 27th, reach Melbourne
on the sth of the 2d month subsequently, and Sydney on
the 9th.
The usual time allowed for replies at Sydney will be
48 hours.
The first steamer will leave Sydney with a mail for
England via Egypt on the 11th of April next. It will
be due in London via Marseilles on the 30th of May
next, and at Southampton at midnight on the sth June.
The Australian mailacket will in all cases leave Sydney
on the 11th of the month, arrive at Melbourne on the
13th, leave Melbourne on the 15th, arrive at Suez on
the 20th or 21st of the following month, leave Alexan
dria on the 23d or 24th, arrive in London on the 29th or
30:h, and at Southampton on the 4th or sth of the suc-
ceeding month.
The Australian mail packets will stop a day and a
half at Melbourne on their outward voyage, and two
days on their voyage homeward. They will occupy
twelve days between Southampton and Alexandria, three
days between Alexandria and Suez, thirty-nine days
between Suez and Melbourne, and four days (including
a stoppage) between Melbourne and Sydney.
The whole distance between London and Melbourne
via Marseilles will be performed in 49 days, and the dis-
tance between London and Sydney will be performed in
52 days.
The mail contract between the European and Aus-
tralian Royal Mail Company and the Government has
been ratified on the part of the conspany by John Orr
Ewing, of Rath° ; Walter Buchanan, of Shandon ; Allan
Gilmour, of Eaglesham; John Sterling, of Kippingdarie;
John Dunbar, of Holine ; James Galbraith, of Glasgow;
Niel Black, of Dunoon ; John Houldsworth, of Glasgow;
William Connal, of Glasgow ; Thomas Augustus Gibb,
of London ; and Robert Smith and John Pender, of
Manchester. They agree to provide not less than six
steamers to perform their contract. Those employed
between Southampton and Alexandria are to be 1,600 tons
burden and 400-horse power, and those between Suez and
Australia are to be 2,200 tans and 530-horse power. They
are to provide also steamers to convey the Australian
mails between Malta and Marseilles of 500 tons burden
and 200-horse power. The mail-packets are to touch at
Point de Galle on their outward voyages, and at King
George's Sound and Point de Galle on the homeward
one. The Alexandria packets are to touch at Malta.
The company are eompelled to deliver the mails from
Sydney at Southampton in 51 days, exclusive of time
occupied in stopping at Melbourne, crossing the isthmus
of Suez, and calling at King George's Sound, and from
Southampton to Sydney in 54 days, exclusive of similar
stoppages. If they fail to do so, they are to forfeit 501.
for the first day time, 100/. forthe second day, 1501. for
the third day, and so on. For every day under the 51
and 54 days respectively in which they convey the mail
between the two ports, they are to receive a premium of
301. a day. If the company fail to have a steamer ready
to put to sea with the mails at the appointed tune at any
one of the mail ports, they are to forfeit 1001. a day.
The company are bound to provide accommodation on
board their packets for any naval officer or Post-office
official who shall be appointed to take charge of the
mails on beard. The company are bound also to convey
a certain number of naval and military officers, civilians,
non-commissioned and warrant officers, seamen, ma•
rines, and soldiers, if required to do so. The sum to be
paid to the company by the Government for the convey
aoce of the Australian mails is to be 185,0001. a year,
which is to include the mail service between Southamp-
ton and Sydney, and between Malta and Marseilles. A

proportionate part is to be paid at the completion of
every entire voyage. The 43vernment are allowed to
purchase or charter the company's packets if they please.
The contract is to last five years. Should the company
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fail to perform their contract, they must pay a penalty
of 25,0001.

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CHINESE POLITICS.

FOO-CLIOW-FOO, OCT. 7.

Two nearly simultaneous announcements of a grave
character have occurred to flutter our deadly-lively com-
munities in this part of the world.
The one is the appearance of a kind of politico-geogra-
phical treatise at Pekin, in which the relations of China
to her nearest neighbours and also to the maritime Powers
are reviewed. The author betrays a considerable and
accurate knowledge of the conflict of interests subsisting
between the great Powers of Europe and Russia, and of the
designs of the latter upon the empire of the world. He
inclines to the conclusion that, for the present at least,
the maritime Powers are more to be apprehended than
Russia by the patriots of the " Flowery Land," whose
true policy he declares to consist in keeping well with
all, and playing them off against Russia and each against
the other.

The other announcement is of a more official nature,
but it is like unto the first. I have it from the French
Jesuit missionaries at Shanghai, the French consulate
at the same place, and the French bishop at Ningpo,
between which last port and Chusan there is nearly daily
access, and a run of but a very few hours. The French
missionaries in Chusan are vouched by each of my in-
formants for the truth of the story, and it is hard to
' conceive that one so circumstantial can be entirely
groundless.
It is briefly this :—Russia has concluded at Pekin a
treaty with China. Three thousand acres of land and
a safe harbour upon the west coast of Chusan are ceded
in perpetuity by the "Son of Heaven" to the Czar. A
Russian Consul-General, with ample diplomatic powers,
has,been nominated and accepted, and will reside at the
fort, which is to be immediately commenced on that
site. He is authorised to appoint, without needing
confirmation, three other consuls and diplomatic agents
for other provinces of the Chinese empire.
Chusan is quite unsuitable for commerce, unless con-
ducted by means of steam-ships ; and even for these
there is no perfectly secure anchorage and shelter against
typhoons. The tremendous and ever-varying currents
render this archipelago peculiarly dangerous for sailing
ships : but those who are familiar with the traditional
policy of St. Petersburg know that the interests of com-
merce are not those with which it concerns itself.

The crisis, however, is favourable. England, America,
and France are under the necessity of renewing for an-
other term their several treaties with China, all of which
have expired, or are now expiring. A revision of each of
those treaties has long been felt to be required upon
other grounds. Will the " favoured nation clause,"
which occurs in the subsisting treaties, be overlooked
when the revision takes place ; or is Russia to continue,
in the face of that clause, to enjoy the sole privilege of a
diplomatic representative at Pekin, and this, too, at the
moment that she has obtained a participation with the
three Powers in the advantages first wrested from the
Chinese Emperor by our Treaty of Nankin
But I do not think that any revision will be effectual
unless negotiated at Pekin. It the three Powers, laying
aside their jealousies (which here, at least, will be quite
out of place), would only agree to negotiate in concert,
that would be a❑ additional pledge of the good success
of what each has at heart. Their is fair water-carriage
for their men-of-war almost to the gates of Pekin ; and of
course the vessels which convey the sacred persons of
their representatives thither will be men-of-war, and
bone other.

The rebellio❑ is consolidated and settled in the pro-
vinces hitherto subdued, and is now spreading abroad.
Were it not that the mountain passes of this province
are guarded by some 30,000 of the best drilled Tartars
of the Imperial army, under a rare and energetic man-
darin, Fokien would long ere now have adhered to the
movement. Disaffection is rife in every part of this
never entirely conquered province. It is now whispered
that the Tai-pings will make an effort to force the passes,
notwithstanding the Tartar garrisons, and give the mal-
contents a chance.
Soo-chow-foo, a large and wealthy city to the norti:-
ward of us, having more than 1,000,000 of inhabitants,
is said to have fallen into the hands of the Tai-ping
Wang, and he is also reported to be threatening Hang-
chow, on the direct road to Ningpo, from the rebel head•
quarters. But these late tidings of rebel successes need
confirmation. What is quito certain is, that the Tai
ping Wang continues to tolerate every form of Chris-
tianity within his own dominions, and is issuing edicts
for the protection of commerce and transit, and other
wise purposes, as an established Emperor ought.

REPRESENTATION OF SOUTHAMPTON.

Mr. Carden, a barrister, and a brother of Sir R.
Carden, of London, has issued an address announcing
himself as a candidate for the representation of the bo-
rough. lie professes himself a Liberal Conservative.
Mr. Weguelin and Sir Edward Butler are actively
canvassing daily.
About 500 electors have signed a requisition calling
on Mr. Richard Andrews to become a candidate. As
soon as he gets 1,000 signatures he will announce him-
self a candidate.
The chief advisers of Mr. Edwin James declare that
be has not resigned, and that he will not resign his
pretensions to represent the borough. He was expected
at Southampton last night. lie has won golden opinions
for the defence of the liberty of the press in the case
of " Lord Lucan v. the Daily News."
The utmost political excitement prevails at present
in the town.