The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-18 00:00:00

THE INDIA MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDA.Y, ,
By the Peninsular and Oriental Com Pail.:
screw-steamer Pera, Captain Soy, with the 1131'1
and Mediterranean mails, we have dates froin
Alexandria, Sept. 5, Malta 9, and Gibraltar 13.
The Pera brings 63 passengers, 36 of whom ars
first-class, and a cargo consisting principally. .
°-
silk, raisins, &c., in all 4,379 packages. D urin
the voyage this packet spoke, on the 9th inst., the
bark Cecilia, steering east ; on the 11th passe the
screw steamer Grecian, in lat. 35 30 north, g*
430 east, steering west, 14 south-east ; off Cal°
St. Vincent passed a large steamer towing another,
apparently with loss of funnel, standing south-east ;
also exchanged signals with the Peninsular and
Oriental Company's screw-steamer Alhambra, 20
minutes N. of Cape St. Vincent, and when abreast
of Lisbon observed a large paddlewheel steamer
coming out of the Tagus, supposed to be the Asa,
with the outward Brazilian mails. On the 15th,
35 minutes south-east of Cape Finisterre, she
passed a large screw-steamer with red funnel, Sur
posed to be one of the Liverpool and Mediter;
ranean steam-ships ;on the 17th, in the chops °.l
the Channel, saw a British line-of battle sill?
steering north-west.
The passengers from Calcutta by the Pera have
arrived in England in less time than ever yet ,ac-
complished, the average speed for the entire di°.
taboo being 104 knots per hour. The Nubia COu
veyed them on the other side the Isthmus. , t
Intelligence from Gibraltar is to the 1301111%
Her Majesty's steam-sloop Centaur, six days from
Plymouth, had arrived ; also the ritish trallaP°`r
ship Rhea ; the Sylvia, with stores for Gibralta,
and Spithead, from Constantinople. The ste3/
transport Prince Arthur, with troops for Spithead;
arrived from _Malta and Cephalonia, on the 13th;
the British steamer Frankfort, six, and a-citlaf,yeb'
days from Liverpool, reached Gibraltar on the Nils,
the Indus, with the outward India and Chinnl3
left Gibraltar on the 10th ; the British steams;
Dom Affonso, eight days from Glasg,ow, wati s
Gibraltar on the 9th.

THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES

COMMISSION.

Balvrer
CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 5. —Sir Henry if.
arrived here the day he was expected, user,',ll
Tuesday last. A few days before him P;110,
Koller, the Austrian Commissioner, arrived Lao
wise, so that now only the Russian and Sardinio
Commissioners are wanting to make the comratto,
for the regulation of the Principalities cot°,P„uld
It is, however, not to be expected that it 0""
begin its work immediately, as there are still seve.
ral points to be settled before this can be d°l3e. ore
The nearer the time for this aroaches the In litf
it becomes app the
that the question is frilligo
with many difficulties, which the Conferene,%s
Paris when it decided on sending this ccmmis'ong
never seemed to have considered. The first sr°
the
the difficulties in the way of the commission is the
complete evacuation of the Principalities hit 00
Austrian troops. Although the treaty is Silerld
this point, yet the general opinion express ° •rit
that it would be not only acting against the sew
of the treaty, but against common sense, to &B. of
a free and unfettered expression of the Wish till
the Danubian Principalities while they are v•
under the pressure of a foreign occupation. 00
cording to the convention concluded between tor
Western Powers and Turkey, this latter pun 0
must be evacuated in six months after the exchange
of the ratifications of the treaty, which would
about the end of October. France and Engls°
with all their large armies, siege trains, and oth9
materiel, took scarcely more than half the tifite
allowed to them by this convention, and-even ft,tl:,;
sia has quitted the Turkish territory. The Austr'"a"
troops in the Principalities alone have as yet gilt%)
no signs of any intention to quit their comfortah't
quarters. There were, indeed, promises held °,13110
that the evacuation would be completed by . 0
month of September, bat hitherto nothing liar babe
done which would prove that this promise is "c)
realised.

NEW AUSTRIAN Pon IN THE ADRIAML--The beg
of Pola is about to be raised to the rank of a navel ,lisbs
of the first order, and the Austrian Governme°•.-0,1
charged an American engineer with the works recliainroo
there. He is to receive an annual salary of 2,' ate
florins, and at the termination of the works,
of 000
to be completed in three years, a further sum bui.e
florins. The Archduke Maximilian, who is at the uite
of the Imperial navy, uses every effort to increase A,
strength, and put it on a par with that of Sardiniehost
naval school is to be established at Fiume,the t•
stone of the building having been laid in Mare' —1,.34
Austria is endeavouring to become the first naval PO7-
of Italy. s
FATAL ACCIDENT.—OVERTURNING Or A tiv,''"" 00
CART IN THE LEA RIVER.—An accident took Pla—ortbr
Friday near Old Ford, Bow, by which Mr. Arms/I'n set
sen., proprietor of the Fox and Hounds public-bo
Pos.
Bow-bridge, lost his life. Mr. Armsworth bad take° o 0
session of several plots of ground in the Marshes beto,e eoo
the Temple Mills and Bow. He had visited the Pirx„
accompanied by his son and one or two of 11°10og
people, and was returning in a light chaise cart along
the banks of the Lea, near King's lock, when, come
accident, the vehicle and horse were capsized into
ed
water, immersing the whole of the party. All viertp•
in,
to get out in safety except Mr. Armswortb, who Ile tiny
pily had been thrown underneath a raft of floatoo
her, and he was not got out for some time ; ,0 ;,
t 1
then gone. Mr. Arinsworth was 60 years of ager;his
his melancholy fate has caused much regret wi11.4
friends. An inquest has been held, and a Ter"--
g, Accidental death returned.