The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-12 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS

THE INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.

We have been favoured by the Peninsular and
Oriental Company with the following despatch,
received by them from Marseilles this (Tuesday)

morning :

" The steam-ship Valetta, with the India and
China mails, arrived at Marseilles yesterday

morning.
" The mails left for London at 10 a.m. yester-

day."

panied by Baron de Manteuffel, the President of
the Council. He is to leave Berlin on the 17th.

FRANCE.
PARIS, MONDAY.
BounsE, Jan. 11.—The market was buoyant at
the opening ; 1,000 shares of Mobilier being post .d
up to be discounted, this security advanced rapidly.
At half-past one large reali-ations began to be
effected, and all securities were offered and &-
pressed. Sales continued' until the close. All
securities were offered, save Mobilier. Last quo-
tations :-
4.!;- per Cents
Do. end month
3 per Cent. ..... 70
Do. end month 7O 30
13:,nk Shares
Credit Mobilier ,010
--
Do. Account 1,050
RAIL
Orleans
Northern
New Ditto BOO
Lyon and Mediteran. 8921
New Ditto
Geneva

94 25

Credit Foncier .........

Belgian 4A
PiedmonCese (3)
Roman
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt 376
VATS.

582:1
Midi
Western 725
Strasburg
Grand Central
Sardinian
Austrian

THE EAST.

" The Porte," says a letter of Dec. 30, from
Shunala in the _Austrian Gazette, " has addressed
a despatch to all the cabinets on the state of the
Sclavonic an i Danubian provinces ; the late events
in the Herzegowine are particularly referred to in
it, and an assurance is given that administrative
and military measures have been taken to restore
tranquillity. The Porte represents the acts of the
insurgents as having been those of brigands.
According to the tenour of the despatch, the in-
habitants who do not take part wt,h them are
robbed, tortured, and murdered, but the truth is
that since the peace the country has always been
in a state of fermentation, and that the arbitrary
conduct of the pachas has nullified the good inten-
tions of the Sultan. The agitation in the Roumain
principalities has contributed to increase the evil.
It is doulorle,s true that the events in Servia, Bos-
nia, and the He; zegowine have no direct connection
with the movement in Wallachia and Moldavia„
but it will be readily understood that this move-
ment has not been without an influence upon the
Sclavonic provinces. It is positively stated that
Russia, as well as Austria, has made representa-
tions upon the subject boil to the Porte itself and
to the pachas of these provinces."

PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, Jan. 10.—In a town of Prussia the
melancholy news of the death of Gen. Havelock
in the midst of so glorious a career, and imme-
d,ately after having outstood and biavei all
the dangers and difficulties of his poAtion in
Lucknow, has created as warm and as painful
an interest as in any town in Great Britain
—that town is Bonn : and in that town there
is a house where the news has produced more
poignant grief, more inconsolable son ow, than it h. 48
caused in any house, even in Great Britain itself ;
and that is the house where General Havelock's
widow and his family reside still, as they have also
resided now for some years. General Havelock
himself brought them over thither from England,
settled them there, and lived with them some time,
so that a very lively remembrance and warm in-
terest always accompanied the General in all his
' movements from many hearts in tho little univer-
sity town of Bohn. It sympathy could alleviate
son ow, that of the family of General Havelock
would be light.

MADAGASCAR.
The friends of humanity and religion throughout
England will be shocked, as well as grieved, to feat n
that the last mail brings tidings of another fearful
persecution of the Christians in Madagascar. This
last persecution, which followed the expulsion of a
number of Frenchmen from the capital in July last,
seems to be more severe than any by which it had
been preceled. Thirteen persons had been put t o
death : between 50 and 60 had been subjected to the
of deal of the tangena, or poison water, under which
eight had died ; nearly 60 were bound in chains, of
whom two had died ; while a number more bad been
reduced to slavery. The severity of the persecution
rendering communication from the sufferers exceed-
ingly perilous, few particulars have as yet been
received. The French and other foreign traders
have not been molested iu their commercial pur-
suits on the cowit.

SWEDEN.
" The nomination of Commander Ehnenaarck,
as Minister of Marine and member of the Privy
Council," says a Stockholm letter, " has in gene] al
given satisfaction. He is considered a warm
partisan of the Western alliance. It is known that
in the course of the Eastern war M. Ehnemarck
was deeply offended at the Russian Government
having thought fit to send Admiral Glisenapp to
visit the fortresses and naval arsenals of Swe.ien."
The same letter says :—" At Stockholm bankrupt-
cies having, during the last few days, been less fre-
quent ; but the commercial news from the provin-
cial towns still continues to be disastrous, and the
severe weather, by preventing exports, keeps up
the financial crisis."

It is now certain, the Brussels journals state, that
the Duke do Brabant will go to England to att-nd
the marriage of the Prince of Prutsia and the
Prineeks Royal. He will be absent three da) s.
the Belgian Court will be present at the care.-
mony with the exception of the Duchess de Bra-
bant, who cannot, from her peculiar position, un-
dertake) the journey.

AZORES.

" DEPOSITION.

BEMABKABLE PBENOMENA NEAR THE

The subjoined deposition and letter, having reference
to a presumed submarine convulsion observed near the
Azores in November last, have been received at t►he
Admiralty :
- •

" British Vice-Consulate, Terceira, Dec. 21, 1857.
" Sir,—I hare the honour to enclose copy of a document
obtained at my request from Mr. Wm. Cook, master of
the British schooner Estretnadura, of GhOgow. It ap-
pears that he did not think of trying the temperature of
the water, which is to be regretted, as it might have
tended to prove that the efft±cts observed were those of
submarine action. No shock of earthquake was felt at
this island at the time. It serves, however, to show
that mariners never can be too cautious when approach-
ing these islands, as from one day to another there is no
kno ming what formation may take place either above
water or awash ; for instance the island Salerina in 1811,
and the danger seen by three vessels proceeding to St.
Michael's in 1849, about 40 miles to the W.N.W. of
that island, which gave rise to Mr. Consul Hunt induc-
ing the masters of the vessels 2E -dos and Prospero to go
in search of it, but without success —I have, &c.,
(Signed) "JOHN READ, H B.M. Consul.
"To the Secretary of thu Admiralty.

" I, the undersigned, i;aster of the British schooner
Estremadura, of Glasgow, whilst on a passage from
Trr An to the island of Fayal, with a cargo of coals, do
hereby declare that in lat. 39 deg. 57 min. N., long. 25
deg. 50 min. W., at 7 p.m. of the 25th Nov. last, I Apb-
served abaft the b am what I considered to be a squall,
but a bich eventually turned out to be a kind of mist, or
warm steam. It being my watch on deck, I asked the
helmsman if he found any difference in the air, to which
he replied, it was quite warm. I called the mate up,
and he as well as those on deck felt the same. This
lasted for half an hour ; there had been no fog or mist
before. The wind at the time was N.H. by compass,
and c ntinued so throughout without any all v:atiOn
in force. We had a following sea to
falling in with this mist, but the sea then chang. a
kind of boil, or topping sea, as if surged up from bee
but afterwards returned to the former state whela
were clear of the mist. When this phenomenon tn.._
red the Amplimont rock, as laid down in the chart,
would bear N. by E by compass, distant 140 miles. I
calculate the vessel to have been going at the time from
knots, with a following sea. Sighted Terceira
on the 2Gtb, and anchored in Fayal reads on the 27th
November.
" WILLIAM COOK.
(Signed)
(Countersigned) " JOHN READ, Consul."

THE NEXT NEWS FROM INDIA.-oa, Thursday a telt-.
gram will be due in Loudon from Malta with a week's
later news from Bombay. This will be the first telegram
under the new Indian mail arrangements. The first mail
under the new arrangements will be due in London this
day week.
LIVERPOOL, "TAN. 11.—The auxiliary screw steamship
Royal Charter, whioh sailed frodt the Mersey on
Thursday, cast anchor when off ihe Rock, where she
remained until to day, in consequence of the stormy
weather in the Channel. To day she has proceeded on
her voyage to Melbourne.
COURT OF ALDERMEN.—At a Court of Aldermen held
yesterday, the Deputy Town-clerk read a report from
the Gaol Committee, recommending Oa', in considera
tion of the length of service of Mr. Bardon' the
Governor of Whitecroes-street Prisoe, and the
responsible nature of the duties of his office, he should
be allowed a retiring pension of 4001. per annum, during
the pleasure of the Court. Upon the motion of Alder
man Wilson the report was agreed to unanimously
The Deputy Town-clerk read another rep rt from the
Gaol Committee, recommending that the person to he
nPPointed governor of Whitecros,strect Prison should
be subject to such rule's and such regulations ae the
Court from titre to time should order and direct ; that
his salary should be 4201. per annum. exclusive of fees,
residence, fire, and gaslight ; that the amount of his
security should be 10,000/., and that the age of candi-
dates frr the office should not exceed 45 years. Alder-
man Gabriel made some oljections to the proposition,
and moved as an amendment that the report be sent back
to the committee, in order that the Court might know,
when they saw the person, what salary ought to be given
to him. After some discussion, however, the amend-
ment was withdrawn and the original motion agreed to.