The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-19 00:00:00

CHINA AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Per,ti Capt. Jamieson, with the heavy portion of
the above mails, has arrived.
The brings 118 passengers, £2,322 in specie, and
large cargo, including raw silk, value £200,000.
The British barque Washington, of Shields,
homeward bound, from Odessa, with wheat, foun-
4red on the 10th inst. The ships papers only
ere saved. The master and crew were taken on
board the Pera, and landed at Gibraltar.
bOn the 11th inst. the Pera passed the steamer
fl°Yal Bride, of Bristol, hove to in a gale of wind;
ed, on the 13th, a man-of-war, supposed to be the
• Jean d'Acre, 34 days from Malta.
The Pera also observed several vessels with top-
'4lllk.sts gone, and on the 15th passed her Majesty's
41P Mersey, coming out of Lisbon.
Gibraltar freights and exchanges were unaltered.

It is stated that there are to be two extraordinary
),i)velties in London next spring. Blondin, the Niagara
l'o-walker, who has, it is said, been secured by the
13:41,11-ager, • and there is to be a rather revolting exhibition
it; the remains of Julia l'astriana, who died in Russia, and
L \rig been embalmed, and her body been made tko sub-
et of a law process with the St. Petersburg doctors
b:tilting in damages to the extent of 16,000 francs, is to be
°llgilt to England for exhibition, with her child, also
embalmed. This is the woman with the beard.
A letter from St. Petersburg states that a topaz,
teighing almost 201 b., was lately found in the region of
by l'alga, province of Nevansk, in Russia, and was presented
the finder, a tradesman, to the Emperor Alexander.
t A decree of Garibaldi of the 23d October ordered
he distribution of 7,000,000 f. among the people of Naples.
,he distribution not having been made, a petition to Victor
.qjohaanuel is now being signed in that city, praying that
money may be immediately divided.
A Paris letter in the .Nord of Brussels says :
;,,A_rr angements are being made in Paris for reorganising
service of the omnibuses. Those carriages now convey
;I,l,llnally nearly 70,000,000 passengers, or nearly double
itlat they did five or six yea a ago. The Government is
eliaed to lengthen the term of the monopoly, increase the
materieltk and add to the measures necessary for protecting
tille interests of the shareholders by rendering the action of
e Prefect of Police greater over the whole service."
t committee has been formed at Turin to raise
111114 de for the purchase of a golden crown to be presented to
411 R Victor Emmanuel on his return to that capital.
tXEDs FAT CATTLE Silow.—The first yearly
t44ll!bition of this undertaking opened yesterday in the
ttltithteld Cattle Market, Leeds. In shorthorns, for oxen
4,11,1 Y age, the first prize (X 10) was awarded to Mr. Robert
14-1") of Grimston, near York, aud the second price (£5) to
thtd Rarewood ; for oxen not exceeding three years old,
orl Brat prize (S 10) was taken by Mr. Thomas Robinson,
The Patrie
Hill, near Tadcaster.
Patrie says :—" A telegraphic despatch an-
Nillices the approaching evacuation of the town and pro-
eilje of Viterbo by the French troops. This news is
4 ttkitelY incorrect. Not only will no evacuation of the kind
toi44l3lace, but we have reason to know that the French
An„.11los sent from Rome have passed Viterbo to occupy
4qtr1A...1

4Pendente, Bagnarea, and several other points."
A • •

plaC Universal exhibition of painting is to take
tribe next year at Florence. The municipality has con-
ao:ted 100,000 fr. to the expense ; the provincial council,
°Ofr • Milan 000 fr. ; Pisa, 7,000 fr. ; and Leghorn
,voorr. • , , ,
114,
4},_ `CE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris
toli-oci at 4 per mule premium, and the short. exchange on
Ivith the
le 25.20 per £ sterling. On comparing these rates
ktqba'4B English mint price of £3 17s. 10icl. per ounce for
4a4,-,:ald gold, it appears that gold is about the
4tebNice in London as it is in Paris. By advices from
e~Cbatirg the price of gold is 424 per mark, and the short
atth lige on London is 13.41 per £ sterling. Standard gold
etilte,nglish mint price is, therefore, about 1-10th per
Ekal eearer in Hamburg than in London. The course of
Wttita_bge at New York on London for bills at sixty days'
IN% on 104 to 15 per cent., at which rate there is a
lezuling gold 0
to the truited tates.