The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-04 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

AUSTRALIA.
ALEXANDRIA, DEO. 29.

The Australian mails arrived at Suez on the
27th inst, by the City of Sidney, and leave to-day
with specie value 195,5671. The dates of intelli-
gence are Sydney, Nov. 11 ; Melbourne; 17 ;
Ceylon, Dec. 11.

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Trade at Melbourne continues depressed.

The Bills for the construction of railways from
Melbourne to Mount Alexander, Bendigo, and
the Murray, and from Geelong to Ballarat, have
passed both Houses. Estimated expense,
8,000,0001. sterling. The Upper House has re-
jected the Land Bill.
The Marco Polo sailed for Liverpool on the
24th Oct.:with 73,704 oz. of gold, and the North-
umberland on the 28th for London, with
46,881 oz.
Wool, average fleece, 18. 9d. to ls. Hid.; su-
perior, la. 11d. to 2s. 2d. This year's clip is
considered a fair one. Tallow is in good demand.
Gold is a shade cheaper.
The Oliver Lang cleared out on the 15th with
47,442 oz., and the Austral with 8,309.
The total shipments for the year amount to 100

tons.
Flour has declined 5/. to 6/. per ton.
Exchange on London at 60 days' sight, 1i per
cent. prem.
The Catherine Adamson was totally wrecked on
the 24th Oct. inside the North Head ; 21 lives
lost.
Exchange at Sydney, at 60 days, 14 prem.
Freight of wool to London, id. to ld.
The Columbian reached Melbourne on the 14th
Nov.

MALTA, JAN. 2, 10.30 P.M.
The foregoing just to hand per Teviot.
The Vanguard leaves for Marseilles at mid-
night.
Nothing new here.

T RIESTE, JAN. 1.

The packet from Constantinople brings intelli-
gence of the 25th December.

M. de Thouvenol paid a visit, on the 23d, to
the Grand Viaier, who returned it on the 25th.
M. Bystrzanowski is about to make observa-
tions on the military systems of France, Belgium,
and England.
The telegraphic convention between Austria
and Greece is definitively concluded.
The Muchir is actively engaged in raising a
corps of 5,000 men on the banks of the Danube,
and another force, to be called the Corps of Re-
serve, at Sophia.

ATHENS, DEC. 25.

There is at this moment between the Ottoman
and Greek Governments a subject of difference
which makes some noise.

A Greek fishing-boat, when getting under way
from Constantinople, refused to permit the Custom-
house officers to come on board, and the crew even
levelled their muskets at the Capitan Pasha, who
was walking on the quay.

FRANCE.
PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.
Prince Napoleon, gave yesterday, on the
occasion of the new year, a grand dinner at
the Palais Royal to the general officers now in
Paris who took part in the war in the Crimea. The
dinner had all the character of a private party, the
most perfect cordiality prevailing among those
illustrious companions in glory. No speeches were
delivered.

The Moniteur contains decrees making one pro-
motion to the rank of officer of the Legion of
Honour ; four nominations to that of knight ; arid
conferring the military medal on 664 non-com-
missioned officers and privates in the army and
gendarmerie, and warrant officers and seamen in
the navy.
BOURSE, Jan. 2. —The market has been animated,
owing to the liquidation. Prices had rather a down-
ward tendency at the opening, but they rallied, and
obtained an advance. The Railway Market has
been dull, as its liquidation will only take place
to-morrow. Threes, after having been done at 68f.
35c., rallied to 68f. 70c., with a rate of 50c. to carry
over for the end of January. Mobilier ►at ied from
850 to 860 f. ; Austrian, 735 to 740 f. ; Orleans,
1,365 to 1,370 f. ; Northern, 962 f. 50c. to 965 f. ;
Lyons, 860 f. to 865 f. ; and Southern, 560 f. to 565 f.
The market continued improving to the close.

THE EAST.
We have received the Constantinople journals
and letters to the 23d, brought by tae Cydnus,
but they contain little beyond what has already
been announced by telegraph. The escape of the
,Naib Emir Bey from Damascus and his arrival in
Circassia having been published in the Turkish
journals, the Russian ambassador applied to the
Porte to know whether the account were true, and
at the same time complained of the support which
the Circassians, enemies of Russia, met with from
Turkey. The Turkish government, in its vindica-
tion, published an official note in which it
severely blames the conduct of the Naib, and
disavows any participation in his intrigues.
The Presse d' Orient mentions that a telegraphic
despatch had bceu received at Constantinople, an-
nouncing the dissolution of the divan of Wallachia,
and that of Moldavia would forow in a fort-
night. The despatch states that the measure had
become indispensable. The discontent of the in-
ternational commission had been of late consider-
ably increased by the attitude adopted by the
divans, and particularly by their refusal to con-
tinue the labours of internal organisation imposed
on them by the treaty of Paris. To all the
counsels, warnings, and intimations of the com-
mission, the divan of Wallachia replied by ex-
P cr
res-in a desire to prorogue, and, in answer
to a last message from the commission, they
gave a categorical refusal, and drew up an
address formally demanding an adjournment. To
this the commission replied by dissolving it. This
account would seear to c tll for confirmation, as,
although the two divans ad hoc have for some time
Past cea:ed to act, still it was generally understood
that the Porte itself would be the party ordering
their dissolution. Letters from Bagdad announce
the
i hat a
appearance of the cholera in that city, and
number of deaths had already taken plac?.
Accounts state that the smallpox had broken out
with great violence at Adana, in Asia Minor, acd
the neighbourhood.
About 4,000 children
nearly
hal
been attacked by
2,000 had died. - e disease, of whom
The Impartica of Smyrna of the 24th says :
" This city is most especially favoured by the tem-