The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-10 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY.
The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company's steam-ship Euxine, Capt. Joy, reached
Southampton this day, at 5 o'clock pan., with
mails and dates from the above places.
On her passage home, the Euxine experience('
mostly strong winds and heavy seas.
Her dates of sailing were :—Alexandria, March
24 ; Malta, 28 ; Marseilles, April 1; and Gibral'
tar, 4.

lie brought 23 first class and 21 other passen•
gers—total, 44.
The freight of the Euxine consists of 153 bale
of silk, eight bales of wool, 41 bags of gum, 63
caseß and cwu bales of shawls, a box. of ostrich few'
there, a box of tea, 26 bales of flax, eight casks and
two cases of wine, 50 boxes of oranges, and 151
packages of general cargo.

The 'Vienna Gazette states that the Emperor hal
couferred on Count de Buol Schauenstein tho
Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Stephen as an
acknowledgment of his long and faithful services.

At an adjourned meeting of the Australian Royal
Mail Steam Company yesterday the result of the ballot
was declared to he in favour of the proposal of the
directors to apply for a supplemental charter, the re-
spective numbers being 65 votes, representing 8,437
shares, and 35 votes, representing 6,600 shares.
" MY LORDS" IN AUSTRALIAN TRANSIT.—But the
Lords are going to do something now that there is peace.
They have issued a minute, in which they are good
enough to tell us commercial men that there are
three ways of getting to Australia—via the Cape,. via
Suez; via Panama; and with great modesty declining
to pronounce any opinion of their own az to which is
best. They ask the six Austrlaian colonies to consider
and agree which route shall be adepteil. They invite
steam-ship companies to tender for all the routes. This
is no doubt believed to be very energetic; but, all the
while that the six colonies are wrangling—as they are
sure to do—l sball still have to go by the clippers ; for
it will be at least a year before anything can be settled.
Our firm says, '• Put on the Point de Galle boats again."
But the Lords of the Treast,ry are not going to prejudge
the question in that way. Other firms say that if the
official hydrographer (a person who would railer puzz!l
you in an argument, I should think) be set to calculate,
he would very soon find out which is the shortest route
—commercial men generally regarding the shortest route
as the best route. They say that if you draw a line
from London to Melbourne it will go by Dover, Paris,
Marseilles, Suez, the Chagos Islands, acrossthe Indian
Ocean, right into Broad-street, Melbourne; that there
are railways, steamers, and caravans into Suez; and
that all that has to be done is to, put ten•knot steamers/
on between Suez and Melbourne. This would lanel
letters between London and :Melbourne in 44 days. But
my Lords say that, although this is very tree, the torus
must be gone through of waiting a year or so until the
col,,nies have fought out the battle of routes. I says
make the tube ; or, if you will not go to that expenses
cut as straight across the globe as you oan ; and, for
mercy's sake, get the circumnavigation discussion ou t
of the Circumlocution-office as fast as pousible.—Souse'
hoed Words.