The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-04 00:00:00

AUSTRALIA.

MELBOURNE, JUNE 18.

The Northam arrived at Kangaroo Island on
Sunday the sth, and at Melbourne on the 7th of
June.

The Columbian, having broken down, did not
leave Adelaide till the Ist of June.

The Benares sails this morning. The gold ships
which have sailed since the last mail are—on the
19th, the Avon, with 45,888 ounces ; on the 26th,
the Southampton, with 29,554 ounces; on the 27th,
the Prince of the Seas, with 26,321 ounces; on
June 8, the Eagle, with 31,635 ounces ; on the
10th, the Beechworth, with 19,998 ounces.

Exchange at 11-2 premium. Insurance, 11-2
premium ; Bank discount, 7 per cent. ; money on
mortage, 10 per cent.; Securities were tending to
advance. Bank of Victoria, £3B ; Colonial Bank)
£6 ss.

The Chinese are organising a passive resistance
to the £4 residence-tax.
The Bank of Victoria is about to establish a
branch in London, and sends the manager home
for the purpose. The railway traffic on Govern-
ment lines, on an average of six weeks, gives pas-
sengers £12,243 per week, or £1,325 per week.

ALEXANDRIA, JULY 26.
Admiral Mundy's squadron has anchored out.
side the harbour.

THE BRAZILIAN MAILS.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING.

The Avon steamer, Captain Revett, has arrived
with mails from Buenos Ayres of June 27 ; Monte
Video, 30th ; Rio de Janeiro, July 10 ; Bahia, 14th
Pernambuco, 16th ; St. Vincent, 24th ; ' and Lis-
bon, 31st.

She has 144 passengers, £32,564 in specie, dia-
monds and jewellery value £1,050, and a genera

cargo.

The mail steamer Mersey left Rio for the River
Plate on the 9th of July, and the Tasmanian left
St. Vincent for Rio on the 20th.

The Avon exchanged signals with the Ocean
Spray, from London, for New Zealand, June
23d, in lat. 13.45 N., long. 26.15 W. ; American
ship Benares, July 22d, lat. 11.47 N., long. 26.43
W. ; State of Maine, July 22d, lat. 12.40, long.
26.29 ; and mail steamer Tagus, July 31st, to the
north of Cape Rocca.
Her Majesty's ship Buzzard and Oberon were at
Buenos Ayres; Leopold and Madagascar at Rio.
The Spy left Rio, for River Plate, July 6th ; Har-
rier, for England, on the 7th ; and Alarm, for
England, on the Bth. _ .

The Avon communicated with her Majesty's ship
Siren on the 22d, bound for Rio.

Active preparations were in progress for the pro-
sgcution of the war declared against Buenos Ayres
by Urquiza, and the Buenos Ayrean army would
rrobably be the first to assume the offensive.
Rosario was said to be the point to be attacked.
Exchange at Buenos Ayres, 64 to 65.6, and 66,
the medium sum being the rrevailing rate.
General Flores, ex-President of the Oriental Re-
public, had fled from Urquiza, and arrived at
Buenos Ayres, with several Montevidean officers
and soldiers.

The coffee market at Rio was active during June,
but had become fiat, the sales from the Ist to the
Bth of July not exceeding 18,000 bags ; stock,
60,000 bags. Prices of sugar :—Superior washed
and pulped, 6,700 to 7,200 ; superior, 5,900 to
6,900 ; first good, 5,600 to 5,700 ; first ordinary,
5,300 to 5,400; second, 4,200 to 5,100.
Nothing doing in hides.
Sugars realised—white, 3,800 to 5,400 ; brown,
3,200 to 3,500.

Exchange closed flat, at 241 dols. to 25 dols.
Freights-255. to 30s. for England, and 255. to
355. for the Channel.

On the Bth July a Ministerial measure to compel
all the banks to pay their notes in gold, at the
option of the holder, at the expiration of three
years, passed a first reading in the Lower Chamber.
At Pernambuco business was dull, supplies of
produce small, intercourse with the interior being
impeded by heavy rains. Brown sugars, worth
from 2,150 to 2,650. Whites were scarce. Freights
flat.

CIRCULAR-VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY

AND RIFLE CORPS.

We have been favoured with the following cir-
cular. issued by Mr. Sidney Herbert, addressed to
the Lord-Lieutenants of counties in England,
Wales, and Scotland, on the 2d inst., relative to
Volunteer Artillery and Rifle Corps :
WAR OFFICE, AUGUST 2, 1859.
In order to prevent any misapprehension which might
possibly arise with regard to the construction of Article
X IV. in the Memorandum on Volunteer Corps enclosed in
my letter of the 13th of July, addressed to the Lords
Lieutenants of Counties in Great Britain, I have the honour
to lay before you the following explanatory statement :-
1. The Artillery and Rifle forces are distinct from one
another ; and the Artillery force, as a whole, ranks before
the Rifle force.
9. The relative precedence of a county, therefore, in one
of the two forces, does not affect its precedence in the
other.
3. In each force, the relative precedence of a county is
determined by the date on which the Secretary of State
receives a letter from the lord lieutenant of that county,
formally offering the service of a corps (whether battalion,
company, subdivision, or section) for her Majesty accept-
ance.
4. In accordance with this rule, the following order of
precedence is assigned to the counties in which corps have
been actually formed.

ARTILLERY.
1. Middlesex.
RIFLES.
5. Pembrokeshire.
6. Derbyshire.
7. Oxfordshire.
8. Cheshire.

1. Devonshire.
2. Middlesex.
3. Lancashire.
4. Surrey.

5. Besides these, I have received formal offers of the ser-
vice of corps for ber Majesty's acceptance, from the Lords-
Lieutenant of the under-mentioned counties. The offers
have been made in tie order given below; and the coun-
ties, therefore, will rank according to the numbers prefixed
to their names :

ARTILLERY.
2. Northumberland. 4. Devonshire.
3. Hampshire.

RIFLES.
9. Wiltshire. 17. Norfolk.
10. Sussex. 18. Staffordshire.
11. Edinburgh (City). 19. Berkshire.
12. Essex. 20. Gloucestershire.
13. Northumberland. 21. Brecknockshire.
14. Renfrewshire. 22. Suffolk.
15. Northamptonshire. 23. Stirlingshire.
16. Dorsetshire.
I have the honour to be, your obedient servant,
SIDNEY HERBERT.
Her Majesty's Lord Lieutenant of the County
of -, &c. &c.

MARVELLOUS _RESCUE OF A BATHER.

On Friday morning a young lady, who had gone
over to pay a visit of a few days to the family of
Mrs. Hugh Miller, at Victoria Cottage, Burnt-
island, was enjoying a bathe,
.in a calm and beau-
tiful sea, the tide being lull and coming up to
the distance of a few yards behind the house; a
little girl the youngest daughter of the family, was
likewise in the water; and Mrs. Miller stood by
the open bow window, taking pleasure in the ap-
parent enjoyment of the young people in the water.
It struck her that Miss T—, apparently in the
highest delight, was going rather too far ; she heard
her call to the little girl to come out and join her,
but the latter prudently declined, saying that she
felt the tide too strong. Suddenly the cries of glee
and frolic changed to one of distress. Mrs. Miller
thOught she saw her visitor begin to struggle,
and running in terror to her eldest boy,
who was providentially sitting writing at a table,
called out, " William, she's drowning—fly !" at
the same time pointing to the door. The lad,
looking round, and instantly discerning the state of
the case, sprang from the window, a distance of
about 12 or 14 feet, threw off his coat and plunged
into the water. Mrs. Miller had the terror of
seeing her little girl, who had just refused to go
any further out, making desperate plunges forward
in order to try and save her companion, and only
arrested her by calling out her name, entreating
her to hold back, when fortunately a maid-servant,
who had been standing on the beach, go so far in
as to throw her arms round the child, and hold her
tight. Tn the meantime, the young lady's cries
became fainter and fainter, as she was borne farther
out ; the frightful sound of the water gurgling in
her throat had almost ceased, and only a small
part of her head remainedabovo water. Mr. Wm.
Miller, however, by the mercy of God, succeeded
in reaching her, and, grasping her by the hand,
swam with her to the shore, where she was soon
recovered, although she had been insensible in the
water for some minutes. The youth, a lad of 16,
and not nearly so tall nor fully grown as the girl
he rescued, was none the worse for his exertions.—
..Edinburgh Witness.