The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-07 00:00:00

EAST INDIA. AND CHINA MAILS.

SOUTI:I4MPTON, THURSDAY.
The 'Peninsular- and Oriental Coinpany's screw
steam-ship Ava, Capl.. Field, aiTived this morning,
at eleven o'clock, with the above. inails, and 70 pas-
sengers. The Alta left Alexandria On Feb. 211.;
Malta, 26th.; and Gibraltar,-March Ist. • •
Her freight consists et' 23 chests of indigo;- 1,025
sacks of beaus, 168 bags gum, 11 packages of ele-
phants' teetb,' 32 bales of flax, 3 bags'of Coffee,
06 packages silk, 9 boxes of tortoiseshell, 67 boxes
of • oranges, .1 bag of specimens, and 261 packages
of general merchandise. • • • • •

H.M.S. Royal Albert, Hannibal, four two-
deckers, and a number's:A steamers,, of the Black
Sea fleet; were at :Malta. ECM.S. Ariel was at
Gibraltar.

The Peniusula-(s. tran.) arrived at Gibraltar on
the 29th ult. from London; she 'experienced tre-
mendous weather on the passage. She is laden
w,ith medical stores for the hospitals at Scutari and
Balaklava, and left immediately after coaling.
The steamer Pantaloon (in the French transport
service) had also arrived in six days from London,
with stores for the use of the French troops in the
Crimea.

THE PENINSULAR MAIL.
SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY.
By the Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steam-ship Sultan arrived this evening, at six
4'clock, with the Peninsular mail, and ad vices from
the following places :---Gibraltar, Feb, 27 ; Cadiz,
29th ; Lisbon, Marchl ; Oporto; 2d ; Vigo, 2d.
The Sultan brings 14 passengers, 10 packages of
specie, value 3,1591., and on freight, 78 cases of
eggs, 1.8 casks of wine ; 783 chests of oranges, 84
baskets of chesnuts, 179 bales of orchilla weed, and'
57 packages of sundries.
On the 2d inst. the Sultan exchanged night sig-
nals with the Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steam-ship Madrid, with the outward Peninsular
mail.

On the 27th Feb. her Majesty's ship St. George
sailed from Lisbon, fOr England.

NEW SOUTH WALES.
We have received, vice Valparaiso, files of Sydney
papers to the 10th of Dec.:inclusive.
We extract the following front the Sycin-ey Morn-
ing Herald of that date :

", A review of the chief business transaction of the
past week is gratifying, as aft-riling proofs that in almost
every department of enterprise and industry, confidence,
lately shaken by various large insolVencies, is being re-
stored. From our agricultural, pastoral, gold, copper,
iron, and coal mining districts, the latest advicses are of
the most favourable character, whilst the late consider-
able demand from Victoria for many of our leading
items .of import has given a, great impetus to our
rnost,profitable markets.
,The reports as .to the large
coming crops in every one of our wheatelrowing
districts are
,highly satisfactory, and give every promise
to relieve the rates of treadstuffs from those fluctuations
which will always arise when the coloiq is'entirely de-
pendent •on importations of f,rei,fu grain and flour.
Already, from the Hunter, some large parcels 'of very.
fine wheat have been received in. Sylney, and obtained
108. per bushel, and there appears every prospect of the
wheat crop of this sea.soa exceeding, in extent and qua—
ay; that O.A any -forip,er. '
"14 the spirit nierket there hes. net been lunch ag,