The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-12 00:00:00

THE SU N,l t LONDON, SAT URDA EVENIN G, FEBRUARY 12, 1859.

tion of every earnest Christian in the land, the
Regisitrar-General quotes the imperative injunction
con•reyed to man by his MAKER through the 12th,
13th, and 14th verses of the 23d chapter of
De-aeronomy.

INCENDIARY SHELLS.

LATEST NEWS.

'TIE BOMBAY MAILS.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Orissa, Captain Joy, has arrived, with the heavy
portion of the mails.
She left Alexandria on the 28th ult. ; Malta,
31st ; Gibraltar, sth inst.

She has 32 passengers, including Capt. Sellers,
of the ship Ireland Queen, of Sunderland, lost off
Rasher Island, in the Red Sea.
The Orissa brings four packages of specie (value
not stated), 997 boxes oranges, 631
.bales flax,
949 bales silk, 10 cases shawls, and sundries.
Gibraltar exchanges on London, 50} to a ; Paris,
526 ; Marseilles, 527 ; Genoa, 529.
The French steamfrigate Magellan, and transport
Seine left Cadiz on the 3d for the Mediterranean.
The British merchant steamers Gibraltar, Milan,
Araxes, Brenda, and Euphrates had severally
arrived out at Gibraltar.

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

• MARSEILLES, FEB. 11.
Advices have been received from Rome to the
Bth instant.

The Pope having sent his Major Domo to pay
his compliments to the Prince of Wales, the Prince
made yesterday an official visit to his Holiness.
His Royal Highness was accompanied by Mr. Rus-
sell, the secretary to the English embassy at the
Court of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

tain site. The Correspondancia Autoyrafa inti-
mates that the Queen " will probably spare his life."
The Chamber of Deputies had nominated a com-
mittee on the bill on the press, which was entirely
favourable to the measure, though in the committee
were several e$ journalists. Some of the journals
state that the projected Hispano-American Exhibi-
tion at Madrid in 1861 has been defimitively re-
solved on. A royal decree in the Gazette sanctions
the establishment in Cuba if a Credit Mobilier and
Public Works Company.

A letter from Vienna of the Bth, in the Bonen-
halle of Hamburg, says It is positive that a
species of war council has been formed under the
presidency of the Emperor, to which are attached
Prince Windischgratz, Baron de Hess, Count
Wimpfen, Count Schlick, and the Chevalier de
Hauslab, director-general of artillery. The 2d
corps d'armee, 30,000 strong, which has its head-
quarters here, has received orders to hold itself in
readiness to march." Another letter from the
same capital says :—" A great number of troops
have left recently for Italy and Gallicia. It would
appear that an army of reserve will be formed in
Istria. The garrison of Innspruck has been weak-
ened by departures for Italy."

The Messaggere of Modena, an official journal, in
adverting to a letter which appeared some time ago
in the Universal Augsburg Gazette, and in which
the Duchy of Modena is described as being a prey
to the most violent political agitation, challenges
the writer of that letter to state the facts on which
he founds those views of his, and asserts that,
on the contrary, Modena is the most tranquil
country in Italy. As to the late increase of garri-
sons on theModenese frontier, this, the Messaggere
says, must be attributed to the necessity of guard-
ing against the cowardly attempts sometimes made
by a few demagogues to penetrate into the country
from without in order to create disturbance. Were
Austrian troops, the Messaggere adds, to be called
in by the Government, that circumstance could not
lead to any complications, seeing that such emer-
gencies have been provided for by public treaties of
long standing.

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY.

The Liverpool and NeW York screw steamer City
of Washington, Captain P. C. Petrie, arrived in the
Mersey this morning from New York, with ad vices
from thence to the 29th ult., being two days later
than previously to hand, the United States mails,
200 passengers, and 177,000 in specie.
The Cunard mail steamship Arabia, Capt, Stone,
arrived at Halifax on the 28th ult.
The United States steamer Illinois arrived atNew
York, from Aspinwall, with dates to the 19th ult.,
and 1,210,713 dols.

In the Senate, on the 26th ult., two bills were re-
ported from the Post-office Committee, providing
for the transportation of the mail from the Atlantic
to the Pacific Coast. On the 27th Congress rejected
the Pacific Railroad Bill, and on the same day, on
the question of curtailing the number of foreign
missions, a motion was made to strike out the
mission of Persia, which was carried. On the fol-
lowing day Congress agreed to call upon the Pre-
sident for the production of the instructions of the
United States and British Governments to their
respective squadrons on the coast of Africa.
Despatches have been received from Sonora,
Mexico, in which that city is represented as being
deplorable in the extreme from the.prevailing do-
mestic dissensions, and the people are described as
being most anxious that the country should be occu-
pied by the United States. Peschiera had failed to
raise troops though he was absent in Sinoloa, pre-
paring to make his attack on Mazatlan. The people
were much incensed against Pescheira, and at Her-
mosilla they had liberated two citizens who had
been imprisoned by his orders, carrying them in
triumph, with shouts of " Viva los Americanos," &c.
Despatches received at Washington from Min-
nesota state that the Sioux and Yancton Indians
are again threatening hostilities.
Advices from Fraser River to the 27th Decem-
ber had been received, in which the weather was
described as having moderated, and the mining
prospects favourable. •
Advices from Hayti state that General Geffards
held the department of Artebonite, with his head.
quarters at Gonaives, where he had 2,000 men,
while Soulouque was at the seaport of Arcahaye,
with 6,000, intending to attack Geffard, whose
family had been imprisoned.

The Utah mail of December 28 had arrived at
St. JosQph's. A new and practicable pass through
the Sierra Nevada had been discovered, which
materially shortens the distance to the Pacific.
The Illinois had arrived at New York with the
San Francisco mails, and 1,201,713 doll. in trea-
sure.

Letters from, Nicaragua state that Sir Gore
Ouseley remained at Leon, and that expectation
was generally fixed upon the arrival of a plenipo-
tentiary from France, whose presence, it was
thought, would stay the progress of American
aggression in that quarter.- The blockade of
Guayaquil by Peruvian men-of-war was still main-
tained at the last advices from that port.
By the arrival of the steam-ship Tenessee at New
Orleans from Vera Cruz; we have news from the
city. of Mexico to the 19th ult. The intelligence
is important, if anything from that continually.
distracted country may be considered as entitled to
that character. The Spanish fleet have left Vera
Cruz for Havana, but the French and English fleets
were still there, and the press of Mexico asserted
that the French and English Ministers had threat-
ened that the fleets should take possession of Vera
Cruz and Tampico unless a million of dollars were
paid within a specified period, to satisfy claims of
citizens of those countries. Miramon was marching
on the capital. The Liberals had taken Mazatlan,
and it was expected that Zacatecas would soon fall
into their hands.