The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-07 00:00:00

The committee of Australian merchants met yester-
day, and decided to bring on the first series of public
sales of wool on Thursday, the 26th inst. The quan-
tity arrived up to this date consists of 25,478 bales,
viz. :-4,000 bales Victoria, 4,600 Sydney, 200 Tas-
mania, 800 Adelaide, 15,500 Cape, .378 New Zealand
and Swan River.

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REPORTING IN TUB HOUSE Or LORDS.—Thc grievance
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referred to und.er. this bear] in
promptly
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lord
ship was entirely ignorant
of what had taken place until our paragraph met his eye,
when he lost not ti moment in exerting his authority to
sst the matter right by restoring to the reporters the
room which he originally assigned to them, It would
be unjust to leave this subject without tendering to
Lord W. D'Eresby, on behalf' of the reporters generally,
their thanks for the marked courtesy and kind feeling
which he has shown on the occasion.-7iraes.
WRECK oFF HOLYHEAD AND Legs or LIFE.—LIVER-
F.JoL, Friday.—The ship Sulli, of Havre, Capt. Gtron)
bound from Bordeaux_ for this port) was lost about two
miles to the back of Holyhead, Island of Anglesea, yes-
terday, and out of sixteen of a crew (all foreigners) only
two were saved from a watery grave. The captain and
mate were amongst the drowned.
LORD CARDIGAN AND MAJOR CALTHORPE. —The last
mentioned officer, in a letter to the Times this morning,
writesof as follows :—ln reading over the speech of the
Earl Cardigan in the House of Lords last evering, as
reported in the public journals of this day, I feel myself
called upon to take notice of a remark made by him on
that occasion. His lordship states that in a reply re,
ceived from the author of "Letters from Head-guar-
ter,," he "admitted that two out of three of those allega-
tions were entirely devoid of truth." This I beg posi-
tively and entirely to deny, and it is strange that the
Earl of Cardigan in his place in the House of Lords
should give vent to such a "preposterous fabrication."
I have before me
.copies of all the letters I have ever
written on the ettilect) and after earefully looking over
them I cannot discover a single sentence that could pos-
sibly be tortured into an admission that any statement
of Mine is " totally and entirely devoid of truth."
PROPERTY OF THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK AT THE
AUCTION MART.—Yesterday (Friday), at the Auction
Mart,
a second portion of the leasehold property of the
Royal British Bank was offered to publio auction by
Messrs. Haslaut and Buckland, auctioneers, by direction
of the assignees, in four lots. The lot first offered was
the building No. 10, Tokenhouse.yard, Lothhury, for-
merly occupied as the chief Office of the hank, of the
estimated annual value of 6501., lt, l,i for an unexpired
term of 124 years, at the rent of 3507. per annum ; the
auctioneer put it up a.t 2107., but could obtain no bid for it.
The three lots compiusing the buildings No. 15, Token-
house-yard ; No. GO, Llackman-street Borough, lately
used as the Southwark branch offices • and No. 77,
Westminster-bridge-road, lately used as the Lambeth
branch offices, were then severally put up, but not so
much as one hid could be obtained for any of the lots.
The auctioneer expressed his great surprise at this re-
sult, and stated that under the circumstances the seve-
ral properties would be sold by private contract. About
fifty persons were present during the proceedings, and
from the remarks made Y
at the time it would appear that
the want of success in selling any
portion of the pro-
perty has arisen from the short terms combined with the
high rents at which it is held.