The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-11 00:00:00

BY 11. C. GOER.

A beautiful coloured lithograph of the Great Eastern
under Steam, and with her majestic sails spread open to
the breeze, has but just now very opportunely come to hand
—upon the very morrow of the Leviathan's successful
completion of her first trial trip round to Holyhead. The
picture is issued from Mr. Geyer' s establishment in Princes-
street, Bedford-row, and is one of the happiest of all the
" counterfeit presentments" of the late John Brunel's
masterpiece. The lithograph has all the brilliancy and
some of the delicacy of a water-colour painting. It is of
an oval form—the oval, of course, horizontally placed—and
is well worthy of frame. and-glass for its better preser-
vation.

His Highness the Prince Victor Wassiltchikoff
has arrived at Maurigy's Hotel from visiting the Duke of
Hamilton at Brodick Castle, N.B. His highness will
leave town in a few days for Paris.

Her Highness the Princess Anatole Bariatinsky
and family havo returned to Grillon's Clarendon Hotel
from the Isle of Wight.

His Excellency the Commander Targione has
left Maurigy's Hotel for his residence in Albemarle-street.
The Duke and Duchesr of Buccleuch are sur-
rounded by a distinguished circle of friends at Drumlanrig
Castle.

The Earl Cawdor has arrived at Worsley Hall,
on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Ellesmere, from
Cawdor Castle.

Lady Milford leaves town this day on a visit to
the Marchioness of Abercorn, at Brocket Hall, Hertford-
shire.

Lady Alvanley has left town for Brighton.
Colonel and Lady Laura Aleyrick have passed
through town for Brighton.

Lola .pontes embarked at Southampton on Tues-
day, on board the Hammonia steamer, for New York.
SIR JOHN RATCLIFF.—A public dinner will be
given to Sir John Ratcliff, the Mayor of Birmingham, by
his fellow-citizens, on the 9th proximo, on the occasion of
his retirement from the mayoralty of that town, which he
has held for three years in succession.
THE BRAZILIAN MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, Oat. 10.
—The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Oneida, Captain
Leeds, left this afternoon with the outward Brazil mails and
153 passengers, amongst whom were General Belgu, Cap-
tain H. D. White, R7N„ Captain Lenard, &c. She also
took out £16,007 in specie, £lB,OOO in jewellery, and a full
cargo.

EXTRA MAIL FOR INDlA.—Yesterday notice was
issued at the chief office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, that extra
mails for Calcutta, Madras, Point de Galle, and Aden would
be made up and forwarded via Southampton on the morning
of the 12th instant (to-morrow), and via Marseilles on the
evening of the 18th instant. ails to Australia will also
be despatched on the same days.
THE RETURN OF LORD CLYDE.—We hear that
the Commander-in-Chief had decided on leaving Simla on
the 20th of September, whenco he would march down to
Lucknow, in order to meet the Governor-General, who was
expected in the capital of Oude about the 15th or 20th of
October. It is probable that Lord Clyde would then take
leave of Lord Canning, as the latter is on his way to visit
Agra, Delhi, Lahore—perhaps Peshawur—before he takes
up his quarters at Simla, which will be the seat of Go-ern-
ment next summer. Lord Clyde will leave India at the
close of this year, or early in January, as at present advised.
Except in escaping the heat, he has not derived much
benefit from his stay in Simla, and he is said to have
suffered during all the rains from a severe cold. The staff
have all suffered more or less from illness, with the excep-
tion, perhaps, of Colonel Sterling, Military Secretary, who
has enjoyed excellent health.

GOLD IN TASMANIA.—The further notices re-
garding the discovery of gold in Tasmania (Van Diemen's
Land) in the journals received by the present mail, consist
of the following from the Launceston Examiner of the 13th
of August :—" The inhabitants of the district of the river
Forth have decided to cut a bridle track through the bush
from the Forth, by way of Clark's plains, to the neighbour-
hood of the Middlesex plains, where gold has been disco-
vered. The residents of Circular Head have held a meet-
ing to take steps to develope the auriferous resources of the
district. A prospecting party is to set out under the direc-
tion of Mr Emmett, who has already established the exist •
ence of gold-bearing quartz in that part of the island."
Professor Kiss, from Berlin, has shown his grati-
tude to the mineral sources of Karlsbad by presenting the
town with a magnificent colossal tiger's head in bronze,
killing a serpent, which has been erected on the road to
Marienbad, near the promenade, in such a way that the
tiger's head emergies from a cavern, and creates in every
spectator the illusion as if the rest of the body was in the
cavern. On a slab under this fine pieco of art are the words,
"In grateful Remembrance, by Kiss in Berlin, 1859."

Loss OF A SHIELDS SHIP AND ALL HANDS.—
There appears now no doubt that the South Shields collier
brig Edgar, which left the Tyne exactly a month ago for
Hamburg with a fleet of other vessels going oversee, has
perished with all hands. Shortly after leaving the Tyne
the fleet encountered a heavy gale, and three or four of them
were lost on the Dutch coast ; the William,of South Shields,
with all her crew. Some hope was entertained that the
crew of the Edgar might have been picked up by another
vessel, but that has been abandoned. Her stern has washed
up within about 60 miles of the Elbe. When the vessel
sailed from the Tyne she had 10 hands on board. Her mas-
ter was Mr. Edward Mackay, and his brother, William
Mackay, was the mate of the vessel. The usual comple-
ment of hands (officers, crew, and apprentices) was nine ;
but it seems that as the vessel was proceeiing to sea a little
lad, brother of the cabin boy, stowed himself below to get
a runaway voyage to sea, and the poor little fellow has
perished with the vessel and her crew.
THE NEW MALT ACT.—The new Malt Act took
effect on Saturday, the let inst. 'ln respect of all malt be-
gan to be made on and after that day, the duty of excise is
to be' paid in 12 weeks in lieu of 18 as heretofore ; and
on paymeat a discount of four per cent. per annum for the
six weeks now reduced in the credit is to be allowed in re-
spect of all malt made on or after the Ist October and before
the Ist April next on amounts paid. within the time ap-
pointed.