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

NEW ZEALAND•

PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY, MAY 29.
The surveying vessel Pandora, 4, Commander
Drury, arrived to-day. She left New Zealand
February 18, rounded Cape Horn March 27, called
itt the Falkland Islands, March 31, left April 4,
1444 crossed the line on the 30th.
Colonel Gore Brown, Governor of New Zealand,
boring completed an official tour through the
puthern provinces, returned to Falkland just be-
°re the Pandora's departure. _

The General Assembly was to meet early in
tPril. The colony is in a flourishing condition.
0 ships of war on the station.
ItThe Governor of the Falkland Islands, Captain
oore, is highly popular ; he is encouraging agri-
tolture And the breeding of cattle, and making the
tettlemeut useful to shipping.
The Patagonian missionary-yacht was at Stanley.
The Pandora has not lost one man during an
It'sence of five years and a-half. She has gone
'Oder a course of 70,000 mites, and her officers have
i.,,, ropleted the survey for which they were sent nut.
"Poke south of the Line the V dlasnera, from Ply-
illotitla, for the Cape of Good Hope, all well.

t. The Strasburgh Railway has just brought to
"(iris for the Exhibition in the Champs-Elysees
-Zeta 3,000 fish from the Artificial Piscicultural
tablishment formed at Huningen by the French
t:'eratnent. They consist of salmon from the
anttbe, trout from the lakes of Switzerland, and
E:aYling from the lake of Constance. These last
4ned have only been hatched this spring ; the
t,llilllon and trout are 14 months old, and are 4i
64 inches long. There are two salmon three
rs old, one of which is nearly 19 inches long by
ve inches in circumference. These fish are con-
„_eYed in cylindrical reservoirs made of tin, the
water being renewed frequently.
TEE' EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE ON LONDON-
IIIDOE.—Tne body of the youtw oman who was as-
,eted to throw herself off L mdon-bridge by William
.e."l
74Ves, who stands remanded on the charge from Guild.
the
police-court, was found on the south-western side of
'Thames.
FIRE' AT THE ROYAL EXCHANGE. —Shortly before eleven
13'elock on Wednesday night a fire brake out on the
premises of Messrs. Bailey Brothers, pi intsellers, Royal
t) *change, which, had it not been e4rly dicoovered by
114 of the police, must have been attended with very
Irons consequences. It originated by a quantity of
epraw catching fire in the cellars, which ore occupied,
believe, by Messrs. Shrewsbury. wine merchants.
Nlines quickly arrived from the Watling-street Station,
tit the area railings being forced up by the firemen, a
It"' buckets of water were found sufficient to extinguish
flames before any serious mischief had been occa-
tled.
n [he election of the nand
v hoard of irctors of he
,-;xford, Worcester, and Wolverhamptodne Railway,t as
~—°°lnmended in the report of the late committee of in-
'etitigation, took place to-day (Friday), and excited a
14°4 deal of interest, as on this e'ection will no doubt
tl:l,end the future policy of the company. A meeting
has j
shareholders .11 t been held at Worcester—J. W.
_
in the char—when it was resolved to sup-
' /rt the candidates mentio. ad in the list of the northern
Okiereholders, and proxies were recommended to be
Coed in the hands of Messrs. Fenton and Parson, and
M. Peto.
'avrisa PARQUETERIE.—The floorings of the ball-room
•;11(1 the saloons at the house of the Turkish ambassador
Ter!, on the occasion of the visit of her Majesty on
lea
evening, laid down in Swis Parqueterie—which
solid mosaic of various coloured wo-'ds in a great
variety of devices—under the direction of Messrs. Arrow•
ileith, of New Bond-street. This invention, by which
thell necessity of chalking the floors of Kali-rooms is
'avoided, and the conQequ .nt du-t and dirt got. rid of,
-8 been adapted at St. Coed end at the Louvre, and
•ita strength, dura.iility, and elegance is and•)rth
.litb4. notice of those to whom domestic comfort deco-
atton are important.
title CIABERRY PEERAGE,—We understand that the
e of the present possessor of the Carherry peerage is
about
to be disputed. The late Lord Carberry (John
th 41") having died without issue, the title passed from
direct line to the collatera', and the Hon. George
Freke took it up, no ()Orr claimant having ap.
reared at the time in the field.
of AsHowever, the attention
rr. George Evans Crows, of Ro-e.nark, county
d 5,4 Way, haring been directed to the fact that he derived
Dean
from an elder branch, through his grandfather,
et an Crowe, of Clonfert, he as tike- the prelinilratv
4: towards making his claim, and proving it its due
*—Limerick Observer.