The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-25 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

MASSACRE OF ENGLISH STEAM-BOAT

PASSENGERS.
CHINESE INSURRECTION IN BORNEO.
INCENDIARISM AT HONG KONG.

TRIESTE, APRIL 24.

The steamer America arrived here to-day

at a quarter to twelve at noon, having made

the passage in 118 hours from Alexandria—

which she left on the 19th inst.
The India and China mails were about to
leave Alexandria, with dates from Hong Kong
to the 15th of March ; from Calcutta to the
21st of March ; from Bombay to the 2d of
April.

The Europeans on board the steamer Queen,
which is British property, but was sailing under
the Portuguese flag, had been murdered by the

Chinese passengers and crew. The steamer, with
a valuable cargo, was carried off.
The Government contractors' storehouses at
Hong Kong had been burned down by incen-
diaries, and 'No barrels of flour destroyed.

The Chinese in Sarawak, Borneo, rose in in-
surrection on the 17th of February, and mas-

sacred several Europeans.

Governor Sir James Brooke only saved his life

by swimming across a creek.

One of the Borneo Company's steamers subs&-
quontly arrived at Sarawak, and with the aid of
Sir Jameg, at the head of a body of Malays and
Dyaks, avenged the destruction of the settlement
by killing 2,000 Chinese.

A war steamer was sent over by the Dutch
authorities, but her services were not required.
The latest dates from Bushire are to the 6th of
March. No intelligence had arrived of any fresh
operations in the Persian Gulf. Sir James Out-
ram had been gazetted to the charge of Rajpoota.

Colonel George Lawrence was acting as comman-
der during the absence of Sir James Outram on
duty. The 19th Native Infantry was disbanded.
Exchange at Bombay was 2s. lid. Moaey
was plentiful. The bank had lowered its rate of
interest. In the import market at Bombay there
was little change.
The Calcutta import market was rather dull.
The money market was improved. Exchange,
2s. 20.

The Madras exchange was 2s. 2fd.

The total export of tea from China to Great
Britain for the year ending the 30th June last
year was estimated at seventy million pounds.
Exchange at Hong Kong was 4s. 9id.

At Shanghai the price of silk had advanced.
The settlements amounted to 74,000 bales. Ex
change at Shanghai was 6s. 7id. to 6s. Bd.

The French Government, it is said, have re-
ceived despatches of an unpleasant description
from Jassy. It appears that the Commissioners
have arrived there, but they are not quite agreed
in opinion. Two of them, it is said, disapprove the
conduct of the Moldavian Government, two sup-
port it, and one neither approves nor condemns.
In the meantime the Unionist Committee of Mol-
davia has sent two of its members to France to
make complaints on the part of the Union. The
French Government,.whose article in the Moniteur
was, in strictness, the first violation of the neutra-
lity that ought to have been observed on the ques-
tion, cannot blame very severely its violation by
the Kaimakan, who merely improves on the exam-
ple set him.

According to a Paris letter in the Nord of Brus-
sels, the four plenipotentiaries of Great Britain,
Austria, France, and Russia have resolved to re-
commend that the Neuchatel question shall be set-
tled on these bases :—The King of Prussia to take,
if he pleases, the title of Prince of Neuchatel, but
the treaty to contain no stipulation to that effect ;
Switzerland to pay an indemity of 1,000,000 fr. ;
and the revision of the Constitution of Neuchatel,
though opposed by the King, to be effected without
delay. These conditions have only been received,
as already stated, ad referendum.

FRANCE.
PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.

The appeal in the affair of the Docks Napoleon
came on yesterday before the Cour Imperiale. M.
Cusin, who was condemned to threeyears' imprison-
ment and 5,000 f. fine ; M. Legendre, to 12 months'
imprisonment and 2,000 f. fine; M. Berryer, 2 years'
imprisonment, and 5,000 f. fine; and M. Duchesne
de Vere, to six months' imprisonment and 2,000 f.
fin., appealed against their sentences. The public
prosecutor on his part appealed against the acquit-
tal of M. Orsi, and against the sentence on M. Cusin
as too lenient. All the accused persons appeared
before the court, which was presided over by M.
Zangiacomi. M. Perrot de Chazelles made the re-
port en the affair, after which the president com-
menced interrogating the accused. No fresh inci-
dent arose, the repliesof M. Cusin and M. Legendre
being to the same effect as on the previous trial.
The proceedings were adjourned to the next day.
The following telegraphic despatches have been
received in Paris.

" TRIESTE, 23d.—Accounts from Constantinople to
the 17th state that the Porte has sent Forbad Pacha
and Ismail Pacha to reside, the former at Broussa, and
the latter at Ismid for being concerned in the affair of
the Kangaroo. The commission of the Government
having, it is said, opposed a French project of establish-
ing a credit institution, the Government has ordered the
question to be carefully examined."
"BERLIN, 231—The Cbamber of the Nobles, to-day,
after a discussion of seven hours, rejected by 95 votes to
21 the first paragraph of the bill relative to the aug-
mentation of the duty on salt. In consequence the
measure has been withdrawn."

BERN; 23d.—Dr. Kern has been detained at Bale by
a slight indisposition. He will arrive here, it is ex-
pected, this evening. A great number of royalist de-
serters have returned to Neuchatel witnout being in-
terfered with."

STOCKHOLM, 22d.—Sweden has protested warmly in a
circular despatch against the Danish note of February
20. She declares the said note to be Without any
serious motive relative to the Scandinavian projects at-
tributed to King Oscar."

BOURSE, April 24.—The following were the last
quotations :

Cash. fr. c
44 per Cents
3 per Cents 69 45
Bank Shares 4,390

End of lifonth.
92fr.
0 45

Credit Mobilier 1,360 Roman
Do. Account 1,365 ---Austrian

Belgian 44
Piedmontese (5) soi Home Debt

RAILWAYS--FOR CISH.

_______ ........ --
fr. C. rr c.
Orleans 1,600 Western 790
Northern lol2i Strasburg 1—
Lyons 1,5721 New Ditto
Mediterranean Grand Central ...... 610
Lyons Geneva
Midi

ITALY.
Several of the Piedmontese journals have an-
nounced that Austria, as a reply to the affair of
Alessandria, was about to construct forts on the
frontier of Piedmont; but it turns out that all that
she means to do is to build, in advance of Verona,
the two forts of St. Lucia, the construction of which
was decided on long ago.
The Archduke Maximilian, the new governor-
general of Lombardy, arrived at Milan on the afrer-
noon of thel9th, and intends remaining there 4 or 5
weeks. His Imperial Highness was received at the
railway station by the principal authorities and the
municipality, and he proceeded at once to the palace
by the great Corso, which was lined on both sides
by the troops of the garrison. All the windows