The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-27 00:00:00

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY NIGHT.
The Alhambra steamer, Capt. Steward, arrived
as 11.30 p.m., with the mails in charge of Lieut.
Lloyd,
R.N., Admiralty agent. She left Gibraltar
on the 20th ; Cadiz, 21st ; Lisbon, 22d ; and Vigo,
24th. On the outward voyage the Alhambra ex-
perienced a heavy easterly gale in the Bay of Bis-
cay, in which she was hove to for 30 hours. She
was also detained at Lisbon for four days, a south-
westerly gale not allowing her to cross the bar. At
Gibraltar the weather was rainy ; homeward she
had fine weather to, Lisbon, where heavy rain was
falling, and theme strong south-westerly and
southerly winds. ,
The Alhambra brings 12 passengers, £664 in
specie, and a cargo of oranges, eggs, and sundries.
The French brig Stephanie, from London for
Marseilles, ran ashore near Congio Lighthouse, at
the mouth of the. Tagus, and went to pieces the
following day. The Alhambra sent a lifeboat to
her assistance, but found her deserted by her crew.
Exchanges at Gibraltar on the 20th were quoted :
—On London, 50 to ; Paris, 529 ; Marseilles,
530 ; Genoa, 531.

Her Majesty's ships Vulture, Racer, Lapwing,
and Quail were at Gibraltar.

The Austrian brig Tisoro, with coal, from
Cardiff for Venice, went on shore off the Orange
Bastion, in a gale on the 10th, and was
obliged to be abandoned by her crew, after
sundry ineffectual attempts to get her off by
the boats of Her Majesty's ships Vulture, Lapwing,
and Racer. The Austrian bark Antonietta Amalia,
laden with grain, toound Sor England, game in col-
lision with a Prussian bark near, Tarifavdaring the
• gale of the llth, and both *aids foundered. The
captain and five of the crew of the Austrian were
missing, in all probability drowned, the remaining
four and the whole of the Prussian crew reached
the shore. On the same day the Austrian polacca
Luigi, Captain lluglich, from Alexandria for Eng-
land, with a cargo of beans, was totally lost at
Sandy Bay; crew saved with difficulty, and some
of them a good deal hurt in reaching the shore.
The Hanoverian schooner Margaret, Poll master,
laden with iron, from Newcastle, was leaky, and
grounded on the morning of the 11th at the Puerta
de Savilla, at Cadiz.

The Tuscan brigantine Tesian, laden with coals,
struck on the point of the New Mole, at Barcelona,
on the morning of the 4th, and remained in a very
bad position, the surf breaking over her hull with
great violence; crew saved by a Spanish war steamer.
The brig Ida, of Gibraltar, was fouled in Gibraltar
Bay during the gale of the 11th by the Gabrielle of
Paleinto, and would have to repair damages before
proceeding to Genoa with a cargo of coals. The Sar-
dinian brig Gieuseppina dragged her anchor On the
14th and fouled a schooner at anchor in the bay,
both ve=sels suffering damage. The Sardinian barque
Sptlrtaco er;c3untered a severe gale off Cape St.
Vincent, in which her foremast was broken, and
was obliged to throw overboard part of her cargo
of salt.

The British brig Newbottle, arrived at Gibraltar
on the 16th, picked up, 80 miles off the Lizard,
the crew of the British sloop Langport, and trans-
ferred them to the British brig Augustus, bound
for Falmouth. The steamer Demetrius, from
Liverpool, arrived at Gibraltar on the 18th. She
encountered very boisterous weather along the
coast of Portugal, and was struck by a sea which
stove in the front of the poop boat and did other
damage. The Austrian barque Giuseppe Second,'
and the American barque Lenox had put into
Gibraltar to repair damages. The British barque
Elf, which arrived at Gibraltar on the 17th, was
blown out' of Safi in a storm when she had only
part of her cargo on board. She would have to
discharge for repairs of damages sustained in the
gale. The Prussian barque Ahto, laden with
deals, from Wag+, stranded off Torre Carbonera.
Several other casualties on different parts of the
coast are reported.
The merchant steamers African, Araxes, Da-
nube, Earsdon, and Calpe, from England, had ar-
rived at Gibraltar.

The Alhambra left Lisbon on the 22d, imme-
diately after the arrival of the Tagus, with the out-
ward mails. The British ships of war and the
French steamer Coligny had left the Tagus.— The
stormy weather which preceded and succeeded the
earthquake had subsided upon the coast of Por-
tugal. Lisbon exchanges by this packet are
quoted, for three months, as follows :—London,
531 for money, over; Paris, 532; Genoa, 528;
Amsterdam, 421 ; Hamburg, 48. Bills upon all
places in demand. Three per Cents. registered,
461 T to ; Coupons, 441 to 45; Deferred, 301 to 31;
Bank of Portugal shares, 72 to 8 per cent. prem. ;
Oporto Bank, 24 to 25 per cent. prem.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.—
The following members of the college, having been elected
fellows at previous nieetings of the ,council, were admitted
on the 18th inst. : —Messrs. Wlllistm Freeman Daniell, army
staff ; Chambers Collink,Maryport; Robert William Sanne-
man, Cheyne-walk, Chelsea ; Nathaniel Montefiore, Hyde-
park Gardens ; Henry Samuel Hammond, Edmonton ;
Richard Tippets, Dartford ; Richard Sutton Harvey, Lin-
coln; James Smith Walters, Balmwell, Derbyshire; Wm.
Miller Cotiltate; Burnley; ' John Malcolm, Houghton,
Durham ; Thomas Lees, Southport ; • Henry Pawle net,
Fulham ; Duckworth John Nelson, Acacia-road, St.
John's Wood ; John Galt, Ashton-under-Lyne; Nathaniel
Moore, Sheffield ; Francis Bryant Pearce, Haverstock-hill;
Joseph Wickham, Penrith, Cumberland; Joseph Lancaster,
Clifton ; Martindale Ward, Chelsea ; Walter John Bryant,
Bathurst-street, Sussex-square ; Richard Holland Bradley,
Trafalgar-road, Greenwich ; Alfred Eccles, Tunbridge
Wells ; Stephen Shute Alford, Haverstock-hill ; and
Alexander Thom Thomson, Oldham.
APOTHECARIES' HALL—Names of gentlemen
who passed their examination in the science and practice of
medicine, and received certificates to practise on Thursday,
Nov. 25, 1858:--Joseph Lockwood, Armitage Bridge,
Huddersfield ; Wiliam Barney Tate, Dover, Kent ; Thomas
Bigland, Brigland Hall, Lancashire ; James Collyer,
Fulham ; William Alexander Summers, Ilminster, Somer-
set; Robert Batho, Amesbury, Wilts • John amilton,
Manchester; John Holmes, Chestesfica; William Taunton
Plowman, Brunswick House, Torquay. In addition, 11
gentlemen passed their first examination.
METROPOLITAN Tous.--Neiterday a committee
of the Lambeth vestry was appointei to co-operate with the
other suburban vestries, to form a deputation to the govern-
ment to represent that the parishes were willing that the
toll-gates should be removed ; but as the parochial rates are
at the maximum of what the householders can at present
bear, to submit that the Government should remit to the
metropolis some portion of the quarter of a million of money
now collected in London from, the taxes on carriages and
horses which use the roads in the metropolis, none of which
up to this time has been applied te, the purposes of road-
making or road-repairiug.

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THE ELECTIONS IN PI?USSLI.

BERL Nov. 24. The . definitive election of the
Deputies to the Chamber came off yesterday in the
same noiseless and undemonstrative way as the
first election, twelve days ago. Nothing that met
the eye could tell you there was anything going on.
The trials of strength in the preceding week had
pretty well predetermined the result, and so fore-
closed the interest which would have been other-
wise felt, as it was generally agreed among the
electors that they :should consider it a point of
honour to abide by the votes they gave in caucus.
The third seat, however, in district No. 1 was still
undetermined.. Accordingly, the interest of the
day was concentred on this point. The proceedings
commenced' at 9 o'clock in Armin's Saloon (flnter
den Linden), when the electors were called over,
and the law of elections read out. As an absolute
majority of the whole of the electors present is re-
quired to make a valid election, and as the method
of splitting votes is not practised, there must be
a separate ballot for each seat. The first dis-
trict returns three members,
_the rest only two,
and, Accordingly-, the proceedings occupied many
hours. 502 electors answered to their names
in district No. 1, and on the first ballot Kuhne
(Superintendent of the Tax-office) obtained 493
votes. On this second tour de ecrutin Reimer, the
publisher, obtained 392 votes, and Heinrich von
Armin 81, the remaining votes being dispersed in
small amounts. Before the final struggle for the
third seat it became known that Heinrich von
Arnim was already elected in district No. 3, and,
accordingly, his supporters united their strength
upon Dr. Jonas, Minister at the Nikolai Kirciae.
In the third scrutiny the numbers were—General
von Bonin (Minister of War), 236; Prediger Jonas,
169 ; the rest in scattered votes. As 252 votes
were necessary to constitute an absolute majority,
it was necessary to proceed to a fourth scrutiny, in
Which Prediger Jonas obtained a majority of 28—
the numbers being

General von I3onin 234
Prediger Jonas
Majority —2B
It is observable that the contest lay, not between
conservative and Liberal, but turned upon a num-
ber of secondary considerations. No Conservative
(Manteuffelite) candidate was so much as thought
of for Berlin. Prediger Jonas has no oratorical
talent, and is far from being a good preacher, but
he is the most liberal of the Berlin clergy. ie is
indvanced in years, and has been throughout his
life the steady and consistent champion of freedom
of thought in religious matters, and an upholder of
the union against
.the sectarian confessionalism
which has been the fashion or late years. His
election is a declaration of the sentiments of the.
solid Berlin citizens against, the Lutheran revival,
which the Kreuz Partei have been driving on very
fast lately, under the auspices of Stahl.
The following is the result of the elections for
Berlin, :1— _

District No. 1.

1. Kuhne; Superintendent of Taxes .... 493
2. -Reimer, publisher
3. Jonas, Minister ofthe Nikolai Kirche 262

District No. 2.

4. Reidel, Archie-Rath
5. Veit, bookseller .. .

District. No. 3.

6. Von Arnim, Wirkl.-Geheime-Rath 258
7. Grabow, Oberburgermeister 256

District-No. 4.

8. Wentzel, President of Court of Appeal 311-
9. Mathis, Geh.-Ober-Regierungsrath . 203

POTSDAM.

Flottwoll, Minister of the Interior .... 339
Ritter, Prediger (M.)
It could have little interest for your readers to
send a long list of names unknown, and therefore
unmeaning, in. England, as I- must do if I gave a
complete list of the Chamber. Till all the returns
have come in we shall not be able to compute the
strength of the various parties. As far as is yet
known, the majority of Ministerialist Deputies -is
considerable, though the Manteiffelite and Kreuz
Partei have carried a good many elections. Some
of the principal returns may be given (M., Minis-
terialist ; L., Liberal .Mimsterialist ; f, Kreuz
Partei):—