The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-11 00:00:00

THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS.

Mr. BLACKBURN asked the Secretary to the Trea-
sury whether additional time for lodging tenders would
be given to parties desirous to contract for the Austra-
lian mails, considering that the public were net in pos.
session of the information given by his reply on this
subject yesterday

kr. WILSON said he did not think he had given
any information in his reply yesterday which was
not already known. He did not think it would be de•
sirable to extend the time originally fixed for sending
in the tenders.

Viscount NAAS asked if the time would not be ex-
tended if any advantage was to be secured ?
Mr. WILSON said certainly. If the Treasury was
informed by a body of gentlemen that a certain advan-
tage would arise, there wculd b 3 no objection to extend
the time for 15 days. The only object of the Govern•
ment was to secure the best means of communication
SPIRIT TRADE (IRELAND) BILL.
Mr. BRADY moved the second reading of this bill,
which was to assimilate the law which regulated the
sale of spirits in Ireland with that of England.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL for IRELAND could
not support the present bill. The object of the bill could
be met, if the house thought fit, by the insertion of a
clause i❑ the Dublin Police Bill, which was at present
before the house.

After a short discussion the bill was withdrawn.
THE ALDERSHOTT CAMP BILL.
This bill pnßsQd through committee.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY BILL.
This bill passed through committee.
INSURANCE ON LIVES BILL.

This bill was read a third time and passed.
The LORD ADVOCATE brought in a bill to
abolish certain unnecessary forms in the framing of Deeds
in Scotland. _ _ _

Mr. HO RSMAN brought in a bill for the better re-
gulation of the Houses of Industry Hospitals and other
hospitals in Dublin, supported wholly or in part by Par-
liamentary grants.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of,
and the house adjourned.

LORD CLARENDON ON THE OCCUPA-
TION OF THE PAPAL STATES.

The following despatch is contained in a Parlia-
mentary paper issued yesterday :

THE EARL OF CLARENDON TO SIR JAMES HUDSON.
Foreign office, May 26, 1856.
Sir,—l herewith enclose the copy of a note which was
addressed to me when at Paris by the Plenipotentiaries
of Sardinia.

The verbal communications which I frequently had
the pleasure of holding with Count Cavour, both before
and subsequently to the receipt of this note, can have
left no doubt on the mind of his Excellency that her Ma-
jesty's Government take a deep and sincere interest in
the affairs of Italy, and are desirous of doing everything
which can properly be done by them with a view to
ameliorate the condition of the Italian people.
No fresh assurances could add weight to those already
given to Count Cavour, and I did not, therefore, think it
necessary to send an answer in writing to the note of the
Sardinian Plenipotentiaries ; but as it has come to the
knowledge of her Majesty's Government that it would
be agreeable to the Sardinian Government to receive
one, they cannot hesitate to declare their opinion that
the occupation of the Papal territory by foreign troops
constitutes an irregular state of things, which disturbs
the equilibrium, and may endanger the peace, of Europe;
and that, by indirectly affording sanction to misgovern.
inept, it promotes discontent and a tendency to revolu-
tion among the people.
Her Majesty's Government are aware that as this
state of things has now, unfortunately, for some years
been established, it may be possible that it could not
suddenly be brought to a close without some danger to
public order, and the risk of producing events that all
would deplore ; but her Majesty's Government are con-
vinced that the evacuation of the Papal territory may be
rendered safe at an early period by a policy of wisdom
and justice, and they entertain a hope that the measures
agreed upon by the Governments of France and Austria
will lead to a gradual withdrawal of their respective
forces, and to bettering the condition of the subjects of
the Pope.

You will read and give a copy of this despatch to
Count Cavour.—l am, &0.,

CLARENDON.

DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF SHREWSBURY.—The
Countess of Shrewsbury died at Paris, a few days since,
rather suddenly, after a short illness. Her ladyship has
suffered for some years from an internal disease, but to
the last no apprehensions were felt that her indisposition
would terminate fatally. The Countess was a daughter
of the late Mr. William Talbot, of Castle Talbot, county
Wexford, by his first wife, Mary, daughter of Mr.
Lawrence O'Toole, of Buxtown, in the same county,
and married, in 1814, Mr. John Talbot. who became
17th Earl on the death of his uncle in 1827, and died at
Naples, suddenly, in November, 1852. By him her lady.
ship had issue—a son, who died in infancy, and two
daughters, the Princess Doria Pamphili, of Rome, raised
to the rank of a princess by the King of Bavaria, and
the late Princess Borghese, who died in Italy some 15
or 16 years ago.
DETECTION OF STRYCHNINE IN THE PRESENCE! OF
ANTIMONY.—Mr. Rodgers, of the St. George's School
of Medicine, and Assistant-Surgeon Girdwood deny
that antimony destroys the detection of strychnia.
BUENOS AYRES.—Letters from Buenos Ayres to the
29th of April state that the principal feature of the
treaty just concluded between Brazil and Paraguay is
the free navigation of the rivers as far as Mattagrosso.
It was therefore expected that constant cornmurication
with that province would soon be established by Bra-
zilian steamers. From Monte Video' under date the 2d
of May, it is mentioned that political matters appear to
be settled for the present.

PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is
about 2 per mule premium (according to the last tariff),
which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 101 d. per
oz. for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.22 ; and,
the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25.35,
it follows that gold is about 0.50 per cent, dearer in Lon-
don than in Paris. By advices from Hamburg the price
of gold is 425 per mark, which, at the English Mint
price of 3/. 17e. 101 d. per oz. for standard gold, gives an
exchange of 13.5 ; and, the exchange at Hamburg on
London at short being 13.61, it follows that gold is about
0.70 per cent, dearer in London than in Hamburg. The
course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' Right is 1094 per cent., and, the par of exchange
between England and America being 109 23-40 per cent.,
it follows that the exchange is nominally 0.30 per cent.
in favour of England ; and, after making allowance for
charges of transport and difference of interest, the pre-
sent rate leaves a small profit on' the importation of
gold from the United States.
SO TN-EASTERN RAlLWAT.—Yesterday a special ge•
neral meeting of the shareholders in this company was
held at the Bridge-house Hotel, London-bridge. The
Hon. James Bing, chairman of the board of directors,
who presided, submitted to the meeting the draft of a
bill now before Parliament for making a railway from
the authorised line of the West End of London and
Crystal Palace Railway (Extension to Bromley and
Farnborough) at Shortlands to St. Mary Cray, by
which it is proposed to sanction an agreement entered
into between the company proposed to be incorporated
by the bill and the South-Eastern Railway, for the
working by the latter company of the railway to be
authorised by the bill. The bill was agreed to. The
directors were authorised to raise, under the provisions
of the South-Eastern Railway (Capital) Act, 185 E,
sums of money not exceeding in the whole 253,0001.,
being the remainder of the sum of 500,0001., autho-
rised to be raised by that act, by creating and issuing
new share%