The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-12 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

The following letter has been received from St.
Petersburg, dated March 2 :—" The Russian Go-
vernment is displaying great military, administra-
tive, manufacturing, and agricultural activity in the
districts ceded to it last year by the Chinese. It
is intended to establish cotton manufactories in
that country. The raw cotton which arrives there
from Bokhara, Khiva, and Kachegar cost only one-
third the price paid at Moscow. Manufactured
cloths would find a ready sale at advantageous
prices in all the districts of Central Asia, and would
expose English produce to a competition it could not
easily resist. The central position of the town of
Wiernie is excellent. All the roads which lead from
Russia to Kachegar, and thence to India, on the
one hand, and from China to Tachekend and to
Persia, meet at Wiernie. Chinese emigrants arrive
in great numbers in Russia. A considerable
number of Chinese families settle in the Steppes
of Kirghiz, where they employ themselveS
in searching for gold. Others proceed to
Nicolaiwsk, where they find employment 'as
labourers ; and others in fine, traverse the
country as pedlers. It is very probable that the
railway intended to unite an arm of the river Amour
with the Bay of Castries will be speedily laid out.
This road is to commence at the town of Sofisk and
finish at Aleksandroosk. The feverish activity
which Russia displays on the frontiers of China
and of Central Asia assures me that before long the
Russians will monopolise all the trade and political
influence in that part of the world, and the decline
of the British power in those distant regions will
date from the appearance of the Russians of
Bokhara, Khiva, and the Pacific Ocean."

AMERICA.

AARIVAL OF THE LEBANON.

LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY.

The Cunard screw steamship Lebanon, which
sailed from New York on the 26th ultimo, has
arrived at this port, bringing 330,000 dols. in specie
on freight.
By this arrival we have New York journals of
the 26th—one day later than those received yes-
terday per Indian, but their contents -have been
generally anticipated by telegraph via Portland.
Mr. William Smith O'Brien had met with a
warm and enthusiastic reception on landing in New
York from the steamer Prince Albert.

An arrival from Aspinwall at New York had
brought the important announcement that the
Cass-Yrissarri treaty had not been ratified, but that
a treaty negotiated by Sir William Gore Ouseley,
the British Plenipotentiary, had been signed,
sealed, and delivered.

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

SCUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING.
The steamer Behar, Captain Field has arrived.
She left Alexandria on the 26th ult.; Malta, 2d
inst. ; and Gibraltar, ith.

The Behar brings 31 passengers, including
Colonel Philpotts, Colonel Maxwell, Major Borth-
wick, Lieutenant Surplice, Lieutenant and Mrs.
Suckling, Captain Baker, &c.
She has £2,215 in specie, 175 bales of silk, 345
bales of flax, 14 bales of wool, 16 cases of shawls,
besides oranges, tusks, gum, and sundries.
The Grand Duke and Duchess Constantine of
Russia were at Malta when the Behar left.

Her Majesty's ships Princess Royal, Marlborough,
Boxer, Centurion Conqueror, Recruit, Medina,
Hearty, Vulture, Hibernia, Ariel, and Tartarus, and
also some Russian ships of war, were at Malta.
At Alexandria—Her Majesty's steamer Euryalus,
American frigate Macedonian, French steamer
Chaptal and the usual Egyptian fleet.
Gibraltar exchange on London, 5011 Paris, 52f.
Bc.; Marseilles, Of. 29c. ; Genoa, sf. 29c. ; Cadiz,
Malaga, and Valencia, par ; Madrid, dis. ; Seville,
dis ; Alicante, 2 dis. ; Barcelona, 1 par.
The electric telegraph office at San Roque was
opened to the public, by which telegraphic
communication between Gibraltar and other parts
of Europe can now be carried on.
Her Majesty's ship Urgent, from Malta, arrived
at Gibraltar on the sth inst. The Perseverance left
for Portsmouth the same morning. The steamer
Orissa, with the outward Bombay mails, arrived at
Gibraltar on the 4th, and proceeded. She had rough
weather out. The British steamer Melita arrived
at Gibraltar on the 2d; and the Tiber on the 3d,
from Liverpool ; March t, passed the bark Mis-
sionary, standing to the southward; 2d, spoke the
steamer Teviot, with the outward Australian mails,
with the steamship Euphrates, and following steamers
of the Peninsular and Oriental Company :-26th
ult., the Euiine ; Ist inst., the Ceylon ; 7th; the
Ellora ; Bth, the Ripon; 10th, the Tagus.

APOTHECARIES' HALL.—The. following gentle-
men,
_having passed the necessary examinations, were ad-
mitted licentiates of the Society of Apothecaries, at a meet-
ing of the court of examiners, March 10 :--Messrs. J. H.
Stedman, Norwich ; R. W. arnh, of the Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company's service ; J. H.
Walker, Yorkshire ; Q. Medcalfe, of the Royal West India
Mail Steam Packet Company's service ; M. B. Evans,
Glasgoed A.
Oswestry ; W. Brend, Bideford; A. J. Harrison,
Belper ; Dyson, Honley; and 4. Wyatt, Bedford.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following
gentlemen, having undergone the necessary examinations
for the diploma, were admitted members of the College, at
a meeting of the court of examiners on the 11th inst., viz. :
—Messrs. Joseph Lyon Fletcher, Manchester • Wm. Harri-
son Cuthbertson, Lower Dorset-street, Dublin ; Robert
Savile,. Nafferton, near Duffield,. Yorkshire ; Charles John
Stowart, Montague-place, Kentish-town ; John Butler
Hamilton, Lower Mount-street, Dublin ; James Patton
Hemphill, Myroe, county of Derry, Ireland ; John Bridger,
Cottenham, Cambridgeshire; Clarence Hooper, Wootton
Bassett, Wiltshire ; Stephen Duke, Chichester ; Anthony
Tucker Roberts, Old Cavendish-street ; Frederick Ilderton,
St. John's-street, Manchester ; George Clark, Newcastle ;
and Henry Cox, Gray's-inn-lane.
WRECK OF A MAIL STEAMER.—The Black
Warrior from Havana to New York, with the Havana
mails of 15th February, ran ashore on Rockaway Bar,
Long Island, on the 20th February, and it was feared would
become a wreck. Mails, passengers, and freight (208,000
dole.) saved.