The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-17 00:00:00

AUST RALIA.

SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 16.

By the Royal Mail steam-ship La Plata, which
arrived this morning with the West India mail, we
receive, bia Callao and Panama intelligence from
Sydney to the Ist of October.
The Royal Mail ship Champion of the Sea, from
England, July 5, arrived on the 26th ; the Asia,
for London, with the mails, was to sail on the Ist
of October. The Legislative Council had passed
the New Marriage Bill, which gave general satis-
faction.

The Public Works Loans Bill had been read a
third time and passed. Its object is to authorise
the negotiation of loans in Great Britain, or else-
where out of the colony, and which, together with
the interest, shall be a primary charge upon the
public revenue of the colony.
TLie New South Wales Patriotic Fund had
reached the large sum of 60,0001., of which
40,0001. had been forwarded to London. The
mercantile article of the Herald, of the 25th,
says :
" The officially declared insolvencies and ru-
' moured failures of many mercantile firms have
caused a serious depression in almost all commer-
cial departments ; while the vexatious delay on tie
part of the Government in bringing forward the
new tariff bill has added to the general embarrass-
ments of trade. Notwithstanding these drawbacks,
we may confidently offer an opinion that, with the
caution observed by our leading firms during the
last 10 or 12 months, and with all our increasing.
population, the large demand for all articles of do-
mestic; consumption, our trade, not withstanding
the present temporary depression, may be declared
to be in a sound state. During the last ten days
the result of public sales evinced considerable
improvement in many of the chief articles of
commerce, while heavy consignments from Euro-
pean, American, and colonial ports prove that
confidence in the stability aid increasing import-
ance of the trade of Sydney is unshaken, in spite
of what, it is to be hoped, is only a brief prostra-
tion of trade.

" The weekly receipts from the western, southern,
and northern gold fields, by public escort and by
private hands, were estimated at 3,000 ounces.
" In Chilian flour late prices aro not sustained,
in consequence of advices of large intended con-
signments. Fine is quoted at 361. ; seconds, 341. ;
Chilian wheat at 14s. to 16s. Gallego and liaxall
brands of barrel flour, 80s. per barrel.
" Timber was chiefly in demand for building pur-
poses. American tongued and grooved boards
were extremely scarce, while they in u
are now r-
gent request. The Magnolia, from New York,
brought a quantity, but it has not yet been brought
into the market, nor was the consi
,influence present prices, which
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those previously received.

The police of Berlin have forbidden the newspapers of
the capital to admit advertisements of persons pretend.
ing to want wives and husbands, such announcements
being contrary to propriety.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—The result of the scrutiny made
by Mr. Tyrrell and Mr. J. Ball of the voting papers
sent in by the shareholders up to the 14th inst., inclu-
sive, in pursuance of the resolution of the meeting held
on the 4th inst., for the election of four directors, was as
follows :—ln favour of Mr. S. Beale, 136,628 votes ;
Mr. W. J. Etches, 64,320 votes ; Mr. A. C. lonides,
98,409 votes; Mr. D. Ogilvy, 113,898 votes ; Mr. D.
Price. 51,605 votes ; Mr. H. D. Seymour, M.P.,
1C2,014 votes ; and Mr. S. L. Sotheby, 21,315 votes—
total, 588,188 votes, from 2,226 voters. The following
gentlemen were therefore elected directors of the Com-
pany :—Mr. S. Beale, Mr. A. C. lonides, Mr. D.
Ogilvy, and Mr. H. D. Seymour, M.P.
SlllClDES.—Yesterday morning the police gave infor-
mation of three suicides. The first of a man named
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pired shortly after his admission at Charing-cross
Hospital. The second case of Eliza Morley, who drowned
herself in a pond at Alderman-hill, Southgate ; and,
lastly, a man, whose narae is unknown, who drowned
himself in the Regent's Canal.
CHARGE OF MllRDER.—Yesterday, an inquest was
held before Mr. Carter, the coroner for East Surrey, at
Ham, on the body of a woman named Mary Ann Pea-
cock, a widow, formerly resident at Kingston, which
was found in the Thames, near Teddington, en Sunday
last. Evidence was
.given that the cause of death was
g ; that she had left her home on
the evening, in company with a
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ing the night with him on board a barge, of which he
was captain. She took with her a baby, which has not
been heard of Since. Jackson, and another man, named
Ford, the mate of the barge, are in custody on suspi-
cion of having caused the death of the woman. The co-
roner, after the examination of several witnesses, who
proved the above-mentioned facts, adjourned the inquest
for further evidence to be produced 43 to who was in the
complacy of the deceased from the time she left home.

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