The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-20 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

AUSTRALIA.

SAFETY OF THE JAMES BAINES.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.

The James Baines passed Cork last evening.

ARRIVAL OF THE LIGHTNING.

The Lightning, Captain Enright, belonging to
the Black Ball line of Australian packets, has
just arrived. She left Melbourne on the 28th
August, and on the 30th Oct. spoke the ship James
Baines, in lat. 29 13 N, long. 33 14 W, and
parted company on the 3d of November, in lat.
36 50, long. 48 30.
The Lightning has brought 150 passengers, and
140,000 ounces of gold on freight.
The following vessels were in the port at Mel-
bourne when the Lightning left :—The Harlequin,
the Charlotte Ann, the Colin Campbell, the
Kennington, and the State of Maine, from London ;
the Belcarrig, from Liverpool ; the Fleetwood
and the Crimea, from Glasgow ; and the Sports-
man and Boston Light, from New York.
The dates by the Lightning are—Melbourne,
Aug. 28 ; Sydney, 20 ; Adelaide, 16 ; Hobart
Town, 21 ; Launceston, 20 ; and New Zealand,
July 26.
The James Baines was very heavily laden with

copper ore and tin, and owing to the advices from
England an advanced price had been obtained in
Melbourne for wool, and the demand was active.
The quantity coming forward did not meet the de-
mand. In tallow, mixed was unaltered. Mutton
had declined, and beef had recovered and was in
active demand for shipment. In hides the demand
for shipment was good, but few were offering. The
Melbourne markets were generally firm and steady.

The elections for the two Houses of Parliament

had commenced.

The roads to the diggings were improving, and
as the stocks were very light an immense trade

was expected.

Notwithstanding the heavy imports prices had
not suffered any material diminution. Imports
continued slightly in excess of exports.
The accounts from the various gold fields are on
the whole favourable, the escort returns for the
fortnight being considerably above the average of
the last three months, while the prospects for the

ensuing summer are quite encouraging.

The discovery of new gold fields in New South

Wales had attracted a few persons from the Victoria
diggings, but the greater bulk of them had re-
turned. Reports from various parts of the inte-
rior state that the rush towards the Sydney fields

had all but, if not entirely, ceased. The depar-
tures from 'Victoria by sea had exceeded the

arrivals by 90 persons.
Throughout the province extensive farming
operations being undertaken a great demand for
labourers was anticipated. The labour market

was dull.
Gold was in demand for shipment by the Light
ning, and the price advanced to 755. 6d.
The non-arrival of the escort with the produce

of four of the gold fields, owing to the swoollen
state of the river Loddon, make the weekly re-

turns appear rather small.
Exchange on London, drafts against gold pur.

chased at par.
Freights, 41d. per oz.
Insurance, 11 per cent.

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE ATLANTIC.

(BY MIONETIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.

The United States mail steam-ship Atlantic,

which was to leave New York on the Bth instant,

with the mails from the United States and British
North America, arrived off the Great Ormes Head

at eight o'clock this morning.

DEATH OF PRINCE WORONZOW.
We have received a telegraphic despatch from
Odessa, stating that Prince Woronzow died at
that city on the 18th instant, at four o'clock in
the afternoon.

Th• Nouvelle Gazette de Prusse affirms dot
Russia is willing to renounce her claim to the Isle
of Serpents, but persists in retaining Bolgrad.

BERLIN, Nov. 18.

Authentic communications announce as certain
the approaching abdication of the King of Den-
mark in favour of Prince Ferdinand.

A letter from Berlin, in the Cologne Gatette,
says :—" A second proposition has been made by
the Russian Government, and is favourably re-
ceived here, with reference to the re-opening of
the conferences. It is hoped that the concessions
which Russia appears willing to make will influ-
ence the Governments which have hitherto opposed
the re-opening of the congress."

M. Antonini, the Neapolitan Minister, leaves
Paris on Friday or Saturday next.

The Federal Council of Switzerland, it appears,
have no objection to release the prisoners of Neu-
chatel, on condition that the Kicg of Prussia re-
nounces all claim to the sovereignty of that Can-
ton. It is not probable that his Majesty shows
any disposition to make that concession.

A great sensation was created in Madrid by
the news of the Conference held at St. Cloud on
the affairs
of Spain by the Emperor, Lord How-
den, and M. Turgot. Persons in Paris affirm that
its result was the firm determination that France
as well as England should not even make a single
remonstrance, much less move a soldier or a ship
to save Queen Isabella or her dynasty, if by her
folly, obstinacy, or obedience to bad counsel, she
should bring on herself and her throne that mea-
sure of retribution which most people in Spain

expect.

The Vienna Correspondent of the Times (Second
Edition), in his letter dated Nov. 17, says :

"It has more than once been hinted to me
that Sir Hamilton Seymour bas made E unplea-
sant communications' to Count Buol on the sub-
ject of Naples, and a Hamburg paper has now
received perfectly reliable' information from this
city, that the British Minister at the Court of
Vienna even spoke to Count Buol of the possi•
bility of an eventual landing of troops in