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 be required as volun-
teers to the regular army for the present year ; commis-
sions in the line to be granted the same as last year, in
the proportion of one to every 75 volunteers. As an en•
couragement to the volunteers, the half of militia ser-
♦iee is to reckon as line service in claims for extra pay
and pelsion.

Tau CITY BANK.—The directors of the City Bank
have called a meeting for 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 droits at Liverpool,
differs entirely from that stated on Friday from the
Liverpool adviceg. It is averred that the receiver had no
option but to adopt the course he did, and that, PO far
from exercising any undue interference, he acted as
mediator, and permitted the master of the Pied-nez to
tike possession of the anchor, not for a moment 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, seen reason to believe that a deception has
been practised either on him or on the surveyors and
committee of Lloyd's Registry of Shipping, and it is
this question which is now 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 EXPOBTS.—A return of the sherry wines ex-
ported durivg the past year shows the qnantity to have
been 26,620 butts from Xeres and 17,015 from Port St.
Mary's. The largest shippers from Xeres were P-
D
mecq, 3,374 butts ; Gonzales Dubose and Co., 2,811 ;
P. Garvey, 2,535 ; Pemartin and Co.. 2.437 ; Mbiaa,nd
Berteinati. 2,015 ; S de Ia Sierra, 1,917 ; P. rw,gbeaer
,)nd Co., 1,613 ; F. G. Cosens, 1,563 ; and Paul and
Dastis, 1,148. From Port St. Mary's the largest were
Duff, Gordon, and Co., 2,618 butts ; J. G. Burdon,
2,233 ; MM. de Mom, 1,575 ; Widow Harmony and
C 1,381 ; Mousley and Co., 1,295 ; and M. and F.
Tosar, 1,274. All other shippers were under 1,000
butts each.
TRE OVERLAND MAIL.—The commercial advice, by
the overland mail yesterday are notiunfavourable. The in-
telligence of the lank of England having advanced their
rates to 6 or 7 per cent. bad, of course, produced a con-
siderable effect ; but at Calcutta the market for rearm-
factured goods was fairly maintained, the profits of the
native population, from the activity of the export trade,
being steadily on the increase. Instead of the pressure
in any signs of relaxation
a
sinhotwheing existing rates was expected,
futr htobe mrae:geyme market showing
the demand for produce causing an absorption of specie
in the interior similar to that now observable in the
western States of America. Among other calls of this
nature a remittance of 100,0001. in silver was just about
to be made to Burmah for purchases of rice. There is no
mail from China by this arrival, but dates four days
later—namely, to the 19th of November—from Hong
Kong had been received. The general rate of exchange
remained without alteration at 4s. 10d., but on Calcutta
it had declined from 222 to 219. Politically there was
nothing fresh. 16 chops of congou had been settled--
3 old and 13 new. There were ao later dates froze
Shaaatii or Foochow.