The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-10 00:00:00

RAILWA 111---7011 CASH.

fr. c. fr. 'e.
Orleans ..... (xd) 1,360 We5tern......... (xd) 890
Northern
Lyons
Mediterranean 1,670 Grand Central
Lyons Geneva Bl7 50. Teste

Cette

INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.
40 UTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY.
The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company's steam-ship Euxine, Capt. Joy, reached
Southampton this day, at 5 o'clock p.m., with
mails and dates from the above places.
On her pasdage home, the Euxine experienced
mostly strong winds and heavy seas.
Her dates of sailing were :---Alexandria, March
24 ; Malta, 28 ; Marseilles, April .1; and Gibral-
tar, 4.

6he brought 23 first class and 21 other passen-
gers--total, 44.

The freiiht of the Euxine consists of 153 bales
of silk, eight bales of wool, 41 bags of gum, 84
cases and two bales of shawls, a box of ostrich fea-
ther is, a box of tea, 26 bales f flax, eight casks and
two cases of wine, 50 boxes of oranges, and 151
packages of general Cargo.

The Vienna Gazette states thit the Emperor has
conferred. on Count de Buol Scliauensteia the
Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Stephen as an
acknowledgment of his long and faithful services.

At an adjourned meeting of the Australian Royal
Mail Steam Company yesterday the result of the ballot::
was declared to be in favour of the proposal of the
directors to apply for a supplemental charter, the re- '
spective numbers being 65 votes, representing 8,437
sharee, and 35 votes, representing 6.000 shares.
" MY LORDs" IN AUSTRALIAN TRANSIT.—.But the
Lords are going to do something now that there is peace.
They have issued a minute, in which they are good
enough to tell us commercial men that there are
three ways of getting to Australia--via the Cape, via
Suez ; via Panama ; and with great mod,-sty
to pronounce any opinion of their own as to which is
best. They ask the six Austrlaian colonies to consider,
and agree which route shall be adopted. They invite
steam-ship companies to tender-for all the routes. This
is no doubt believed to be very energetic ; but, all the
while that the six colonies are wrangling—as they are
pure to do—l shall still have to go by the clippers; for
it will be at least a year before anything can be settled.
Our firm says, "Put on the Point de Galle boats again."
But the Loris of the Treasury are not going to prejudge
the question in that way. Other firms say that if the
official.hydrographer (a person who would rasher puzzle -
you in an argument, I should think) be set to calculate, -
he would very soon find out which is the shortest. route .
--commercial men generally regarding the shortest route
as the best route. They say that if you draw a line
from London to Melbourne it will go by Dover, Paris,
Marseilles, Suez, the Chagos Islands, across the Indian
Ocean, right into Broad-street, Melbourne; that there
are railways, steamers, and caravans into Suez; and
that all that has to be done is to put ten-knot steamers
on between Suez and Melbourne. This would land
letters between London and Melbourne in 44 days. But
my Lords say that, although this is very true, the form •
must be gone through of waiting a year or so until the
colonies have fought out the battle of routes. I say,
make the tube ; or, if you will not go to that expense, •
cut as straight across the globe as you can ; and, for r
mercy's sake, get the circumnavigation discussion out
of the Circumlocution-office as fast as possible.—sliesse•
bid Werde.