The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-30 00:00:00

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T :113 fIrT.TILAND MAIL.

INDIA AND CHINA. . • .
have - received the fAlowitti:telegiaphio

) deaßatch from Trieste :

TRTESTE, MAY 29.

The steamer 13)mbay arrived here this day' a

1.30 p.m., in 141 hours from Alexandria, whic
port she left on the 23d.

The ludia and China. mails were to leave Alex

andria the same day, with advices from Calcutta
of the 23d April ; B3inbay, 28th April ; Hong
Kong, 35th April ; and Shanghai; 6th April.
The Bombay news we have already an tic7pated.
Exchange at Cticutta, 2s. 21d.

At Calcutta there was
.!)iit litt!e Activity in

produce market. Tao indigo season hid cloy:

There was no improvement in the money rnarke

and loan. The bviki charge 16 per cent. interes

At °Anton• trade was reviving.

Piracy was on the increase in the neighbour•
hood of Kulan.

The total exports of tea from. China have nit

fallen off.

Exchange at Ctn ton, 44. 111. ; at Shanghai,

63. 52d.

BERLIN, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 29.

The Emperor of Russia b4s just arrived,
attended by Prince Gortscliakoff and a numerous

suite.

He was accompanied by the King and all the

Royal Princes of Prussia.

A despatch from St. Petersburg states that the
Emperor has issued an ukase authorising Generais

to grant furloughs to officers of the army. Only
the number of troops necessary for the ordinary

requirements of the empire is to be maintained,
A. number of reforms are to be introduced in.•

rnediately into the army system.

From Stockholm we learn that a crisis has
supervened in the Swedish Ministry. The Minis
ter of Finance and two others have riisigned.

FRANCE.
The Fcench mail had not arrived when we went
to press.

PRUSSIA.

' The Queen left Potsdam 'yesterday morning
early for' a place called Riesa, on the Saxon fron-
tier, whence she is to fetch her sister, the present
Queen of Saxony, and bring her back with her to
Potsdam, to join in the already numerous circle of
high-born ladies assembled _there to welcome the
Empress of Russia. The latter has apparently so
far recovered from her fatigues as to have been
able to drive out yesterday with the Queen and
revisit all the grounds and gardens about Potsdam
aqd Sans Solid.. The Empress Lersell inhabits the
Palace in the town, where there. is a chapel fitted
tip for the ritual of the RussoGreel( church.

Baron Meyendorff, the former Minister of Rus-
sia here, and subsequently 'at Vienna, who was to
have accompanied the Empress on her journey
'dither, but was prevented by Hitless from so doing,
iseipected to arrive to-day at Stettin on board the
t'arne vessel that bring; Count Nesseirode abd
Prince Woronriff. The Prussian Minister at Si.
?etersbuzg, Baron Werther, will . also be of the
Party.

NEW ZEALAND.

PLYHJUTII, THURSDAY, MAY 29.

The surveying vessel Pandora, 4, Commander
Drury, arrived to-day. She left New Zealand
Pebruary 18, rounded Cape Horn March 27, called
at the Falkland Islands, Match 31, left April 4,
and crossed the line on the 30th.

Colonel Gore Brown, Governor of New Zealand,
4. having completed an official tour through the
louthern provinces, returned to Falkland just be-
fore the Pandora's departure.
The General* 'Assembly was to meet early in
The:copny is in a flourishing -condition.
0_ ships of war on the station.
The Governor of the FAlkland Islands, Captain
' Moore, is highly-popular ; he is encouraging agri-
eUlture and the breeding of cattle, and making the
,!iettlemeut useful to shipping.
Y.-- The Patagonian missionary- yacht was at Stanley.
The Pandora has not lost one man during an
absence of five years and a-half. She has gone
over a course of 70,000 miles, and her officers have
completed the survey for which they were sent out.
'Poke south of the Line the Vallisnera, from Ply;
kouth, for the Cape of Gotid Hope, all well.

The Strasburgh Railway has just brought, to
Paris' for the Exhibition in the. Champs-Elysee-,
about 3,000 fish from the Artificial Pisciculturid
•t;stablishment formed at Huningen by the French
government. They consist .-tf salmon from the
nube, trout from the lakes of Switzerland,' and
Rrayling from to lake of Constance. These las-
Ilan:led have only been. hatched this spring ; the•
1!"linon and trout are 14 months old, and are 4;
61 inches long. There are two salmon three
years old, one of which is nearly 19 inches long by
13 inches in circumference, These fish are con-
'toyed in cylindrical reservoirs made. of tin, the
Water•being renewed frequently.
THE EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE ON LONDO-
-4 IDLE.—The body of the relief. woman who was as-
.,..testid;to throw herself off L'nd'en-bride by Wriliain.
14,tayes who stands remanded on the charge f• fen Guild.
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police-cotirt, was found on the south-western side of
the Thames.
PIRE AT THE ROYAL EYCHANGS.--Short'Y before eleve
ti'elock on Wedneeday night a fire br dee out on the
tat,enliees of Messrs. Bailey BrOthers, I-es, Roy,
• ititeharige, which, bed it net been early di-covered by
•i °he of the pnlice, must have been attended with very,
/eriOes consequences. It edeinated by a quaetity of
straw Catching' fire' in- the-ciellkes, whiele are occupied,
lte believe, by Meserse Shrewsbury. 'Wine merchants:.
r'g;nes quickly arrived from the Watling-street S'atien,
nt the area railings being forced no
.by the firemen, a
in, a
buoketsed water were found eufficite.t,to extingureti
'l6 flames before any serious Mischief', bad beet] occa-
ploned.
rbe election of the ne v board of direct'irs of the
"xfoli, Worcester, and Wolverharoptrin Railway, a,
onimencled in the report of the hits committee of in!
fttigatitin, 'took place t'-day (Frida3), and excited a
4140, d deal of 'interest, as on this election will no doub,
'Vend the futur4 policv of the comp eiy. A meeting
Z :shareholders has PO been held at Worcester—J. W
E-q. in the chair—when it was resolved to sup•
il?rt the candidates mentiom e I in the lilt of the northern
ezeholders, and proxies were 'recommended to be'
&I,4Ced in the hands of Messrs. Fenton and Parson, and
Peto.
,a%vbse PARQUETERIE.-,-The fhOrineg of the ball-room
fia'ouns at the heuse of the. Turkish aelbassador
rt, • on, the .ocoa•ion of- %hr visit, of her Majesty on
L'egclav ener-n.no. laid down it,
,Swiss Parer eerie—whiee
solid zeo,a c 4-various coloured woeds in a great
variety of de vie es—under the direction of Messrs. Arnow-
tl7itiis of New Boud,:strett. Te.ie invention, by which
necessity- ef Chalkieg the floors of ball-rooms
is
teided, and the eons; gum' t du-t and dirt got rid of,
111.14 been adopted :it St. Cloud and at • the Louvre, and
41)41 its strength, dura,edity, and elegance is wed warthy
e. notice of those-to whom domestic comfort and deco-
tattoo are imp ortant.
titll'RE CARDER XIY PEERAGE,—We understand that the
kb eof the pres ent posseeeor of the Carberry peerage is
t °St to be disputed. The late Lord Carberry '(John
thva'tis) having died witheut issue,. the title passed from
e direct line to th e collateral, and the Hon. George
ivans Preke took, it np, no other claimant having ap-
eNted at the time in the field. However, the attention
ieer. George Evan, Crows,. of Ro•e-reirk, c•moty
(4,4"°45', having been I; erected to the fact that he derived
tioent from an elder' branch, through his grandfather,
ea
etee urowee of Clontett, he has taken the preliminary
f„ Pera i towards makiez his claim, told proving it in due
-
to —Limerick. Obiser • _•
• A EcniAL CU NAG EL
AND WEIGHTS AND
reunionMEASURES.-
41, of the leading friends and supporters of this
*Ve,!etoent took pLace at the residence of Mr. James
e‘ee -.-
h(ter 14auderaaleehouse, Highgate, on Wednesday
.M? "°o- Mee iywood, M.P , Mr. Brotherton,
Mr. J. B !smith, M.P , the Dean of apref,,ril,
111-
_ tian anr. I r, Francis _ 0.5.. y were
of
kr g the more distinguished visitors. Toe principle
a'eoirna and ii iternatienai coinage, aird weights tod
togca er sith the complicalione of thepresert
", were ad mil-ally :usq.cerl, the French seet-eri
oe,n
"arilitz to gi 'eat a Ivan' nge a e en' reefed with e r
count --(4reei of they eerre. t c ;ire, of elle, ',et vrri
Y S
_DAwtre oddited for n;speeti er, and, after several
lieti,
vonvereat ion, the company separated.