The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-29 00:00:00

NO, JULY 20, 1886-,

LATEST NEWS.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

TRIESTE, MONDAY, JULY 28.

The steamer Bombay arrived here to-day, in
140 hours from Alexandria, at half-past 5 o'clock
p.m. She left Alexandria on the 22d.

The India and China mails left Alexandria on
the 22d of July, with intelligence from Calcutta
to the 17th of June, Bombay to the 26th of
June, Hongkong to the 10th of Juno, and:Shang.
hai to the 2d of June.
The disturbances in Kimedy are over.
The Bank of Bengal has again reduced its rate
of discount by 1 per cent.

Exchange at Calcutta, 2s. 11d.
The produce-market was inactive. Exchange
at Bombay, 28. lad. The money-market was
easier. Trade was depressed. Tho banks have
reduced their rates 1 per cent.

The revolution in China is progressing. 65
Chinese rebels had been beheaded in Canton in

one day.

Exchange at Canton, IP. 10d. ; Shanghai,
is. ld.

Freights at Canton, 41. ; at Shanghai, 3/. 10s.
or tea. The crops of silk and tea are abundant,
The mother of the ex-King of Oude has ar.

rived in Egypt.

Redschid Pasha has returned to Constantinople.

AUSTRIA AND ITALY.

VIENNA, July 24.—The following statement ap-
pears in the Cologne Gazette :—A. telegraphic de-
spatch was sent on the 22d to Gratz, ordering
3,000,000 of ball-cartridges to be sent from the
magazines of that place to Italy. The Minister of
War, at the same time, countermanded the orders
for reducing the cavalry and artillery to a peace
footing. All the troops stationed at Istria, Krain,
Steyermark, and Koarnthen, have received the
route. Prince Paul Esterhazy left this day with a
numerous suite for Moscow.

SPAIN.
We have received several despatches from Bay
onne up to the 27th which, without adding any
thing of a positive nature to the facts already
known, continue to represent the situation of Spain
in a favourable light, and leave room to hope that
tranquility will soon be completely re-established
throughout the Peninsula.
The Messager de Bayonne, of the 25th says :
" It is at Saragossa and in Arragon that the resist-
ance of the rebels is concentrated. Communication
with this province continues to be cut off, and all
the details that reach us come from the few tra-
vellers who arrive at Bayonne. The insurgents
have adopted for their cry Viva Espartero, Vive
Liberte.' They never mention the name of the
Queen. It is pretended that the rebel forces
consist of 15,000 more or less, well armed. Con-
fident in their numbers the insurgents propose
to occupy positions in front of the town, and
to attack the troops sent against them in de-
tail. It is greatly to be hoped that they will act
upon this project, for the regular troops will beat
these undisciplined bands easily in the open field,
and the struggle will terminate with much less
effusion of blood than it would du in the streets
of Saragossa."
The Sicc/e ventures to reply to the article in Sun-
day's Moniteur. While taking note with pleasure
of the homage paid by the Meniteur to constitu-
tional government and the principles of 'B9, the
Siecle thinks it very difficult to maintain that O'Don-
nell's attempt was not a coup d'etat, and it differs
tote caqo with the Moniteur in regard to Espartero.
" The official journal," it says, " does not make
sufficient allowances for the difficulties of the posi.
tion in which Espartero's ministry was placed—
difficulties which now appear in all their reality by
the sad events that are passing in the Peninsula.
We approved of the liberAl aud democratic ten-
dencies of Espartero, and we think that the Moni-
teur, which was alarmist the day before yesterday,
is now over-confident in the re-establishment of
tranquillity in the country of local franchises and
pronunciainentos."
The Epoect of the 22nd announces in a semi-offi-
cial form that the Queen has written to Marshal
Narvaez, requesting him to remain in Paris.
The Madrid Gazette of the 23d publishes the fol-
lowing decree concerning the rewards bestowed on
the troops of the Madrid garrison on account of
their conduct in the course of recent events :
ROYAL DECREE.—In conformity with what has been
explai ,ed to me by the Minister of War, in accord with
the advice of the ministers, I decree as follows :
Art. 1. I grant a bounty of one month's service to the
troops composing the garrison of Madrid during the
days of the 14th, 15th, and 16th of the present month,
a bounty that will serve for all effects of the regulation,
including that of being discharged when the proper time

arrives.
Art. 2. I reserve to myself the recompensing in an
analogous manner of the merit that may be displayed by
the troops operating in other districts.
Given at the Palace, the 224 July, 1856.
Signed by the hand of the Queen.
The Minister of War, LEOPOLDO O'DONNELL.
From a Madrid letter of the 22d in the Jude-
pendance Beige we extract the following :
If the insurrection is crushed at Saragossa, it is to be
feared that Generals Falcon and Gurrea will retire into
the mountains, when a war will arise of which it is not
easy to foresee the end.
General Prim, Count of Rens, arrived at Valencia
yesterday morning, by a steamer from Marseilles. He
is expected to-morrow at Madrid.

AUSTRALIA.
MELBOURNE 11,1A.Y 1.
_

To export one hundred tons of gold 'per annum
is come to be looked upon as the duty of this
y
colony, and well has sheet performed that duty,
for, with the exception of 1854, when the quantity
was only 91 tons, we have regularly exported more
than the first named amount. Last year it was
106 tons ; this year it is certain to be considerably
more, for we have already, during the first four
months, or till the end of April, shipped the enor-
mous quantity of 45 tons. In other words, in one
third of the time we have performed one-half of
our allotted task, and this, too, with our popula-
tion almost stationary—in fact, it is not too much
to assert that concurrently with a decrease in the
number of miners our gold produce is increasing.
The following is a weekly account of the amounts
sent down by escort during the last five weeks,
with the total of the corresponding weeks of last
year :
Weeks ending Total oz., 1855. Total oz., 1856.
March 29 . 39,257
April 5
„ 12
„ 19 ...... 41,732
„ 26

217,002 287,069
The quantity sent down by escort varies accord-
ing to the price at which gold is selling. During
the first three weeks included in the above table
the selling price was 3/. 18s. 6d. to 3/. 18s. 9d.
During the past fortnight it has not been more
than from 31. 16s. to 31. 16s. 6d. This fact indi-
cates the comfortable assurance that the miners,
as a whole, are so well off that they can afford to
hold, and do hold, most pertinaciously, when they
do not got what they believe the full value of the
product of their laborious industry.
During the first three months of the following
years the amount received by escort, and shipped,
WON-

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Received by
Escort. Shipped.
Ozs. Ozs.
1853
1854
1855
1856
The following shipments have been made since
my last :
galling. Ship. Destination. Ozs.
March 29... Marion Point de Ga 110... 6,014
April 8.... Nimrod Madras 2,498
April 10.... Lawrence Madras 2,531
April 15.... New Great Britain... London 46,769
April 16.... Francis Henty London ........ ...106,'/73
April 25.... Earl of Sefton
April 25.... Ballarat Hong Kong ..••••
2,5856
A.pril 25.... Thomas Ann Cole London ............ 2,017
April 25.... City of Manchester Bombay .... . ..... 4,708
April 30.... Oliver Laing
Au attempt has been made t© induce the miners
at the gold fields, who now work separately, or in
very small parties, and sink twenty shafts where
one would be sufficient, to combine and enjoy all
the advantages without any of the drawbacks of a
joint proprietary. A vote was taken on the sub-
ject, and a riot ensued.
The quarterly return of the revenue for the
quarter shows that the income was 741,52/., and
the expenditure 541,1531., leaving a surplus of in-
come over expenditure of 200,3741.
_ The total value din:porta for 111. year 1864 was