The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-15 00:00:00

THE MILITIA.

Commanding officers of militia regiments have received
a notification from Government that a quota of 25 per
cent. of their establishment will he required as volun-
teers to the regular army for the present year ; commis-
sions in the line to be granted the Parse as last year, in
the proportion of one to every 75 volunteers. As an en.
couraZement to the volunteer,, the half of militia ser-
vice is to reckon as line service in claims for extra pay
and peasion.

THE CITY BANK.—The directors of the City Dank
have galled a meeting fur the 29th inst. to propose an

increase of capital. -
THE PIED-NEZ.—A statement of the ease of the Pied.
nez, furnished by the receiver of droite at Liverpool,
differs entirely from that stated on Friday from the
nd
Liverpool advicee. It is averred that the receiver bad no
option but to adopt the ceurse he did, and that, so far
from exercising
any undue interference, he acted as
permittedofthe
rrethhoer
not
aostt efro r
af
momentt he
possessionmediator,
a
suppos-
ing but that the master could subsequently identify it
from the maker's
name and number, the Pied-nez being
a new ship in 1855, classed A 1. The receiver has since,
it is asserted, seem reason to believe that a deception has
been practised either on him or on the surveyors and
committee of Lloyd's Registry of Shiooirg, and It is
this question which is new to be cleared up to the satis-
faction, not only of the Board of Trade, but of the com-
mittee of Lloyd's Registry and the underwriters of
Lloyd's and Liverpool.
WINE EXPORTS.—A return of the sherry wines ex'
ported during the past year shows the quantity to have
been 26,620 butts front Xeres and 17,015 from Port S.
Mary's. The largest shipeere from leers
we9r 811
D mecq, 3.374 huts ; Goezales DeisoeC arid , ;
P. Garvey, 2,535 ; Poniartin end Co.. 2.437 ; Nitsa and
Berteniati, 2,015 ; S. de le Sierra, 1,917 ; P. 111'gi eder
and Co.. 1,613 ; F. G. Cosecs 1,563 ; mind Paul and
Da.stie, 1,148. From Port St. Mary's the largest were
Duff, Gordon, and Co., 2.618 butts ; J. G. Burdon,
2,233 ;
de Mora, 1,575 ; Widow Harmony and
Co., 1,331 ; Mousley and Co., 1,295 ; and M. and F.
Tour, 1,274. All other shippers were under 1,000
butts each.
THE OVERLAND MAIL.—The commercial advices by
the o v rlam I ',tail yesterday are notiunfavourable. The in-
telligence of the Bank of England having advanced their
rates to 6 or 7 per cent. had, of course, produced a con-
siderable effi !et ; but at Calcutta the market for manu-
factured get ,ds was fairly maintained, the profits of the
netive pope Wien, from the activity of the export trade,
being stew I ily on the increase. Instead. of the pressure
in the mo 'ley market showing any signs of relaxation
a furtherai 3„mnentation in the existing rates was expected,
the denten, f .for produce causing an abs sorption of specie
in the inti er!,or similar to that now observable in the
western et.',:se of America. Amone other calls of this
nature a I eii»ietance of 100,0001. in silvi was just about
to be teal e to
.Burmah for purchases of :rice. There is no
mail from . Chime by this arrival, but dates four days
later—nan rely to the 19th of Novemlier—from Hong
Kong bad be en received. The general T:Lte of exchange
remained sv it bout alteration at 48 10d., but on Calcutta
it had de.cli, wed from 222 te 219 P fiscally there was
nothing fret h. 16 chops of congou had. been settled-
-3 old and 13 new. There were no '(at, or dates from
Shanghai r )1. Foochow.