The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-03 00:00:00

AUSTRALIA.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.
The Black Ball clipper Lightning, Captain En
right, belonging to Messrs. James Baines and Co.,
arrived in the Mersey this afternoon.

She brought 20 cabin and 53 steerage passengers,
a considerable cargo, and 33,866 ounces of gold.
Sho I.2ft Melbourne on the 11th of May, and made
the run in 81 days.

From Port Phillip Heads to the Equator she
encountered strong headwinds, and had to beat the
whole way under close-reefed topsails ; but from
the line to the Mersey she experienced more
favourable weather, and made the run in 26 days.
She has made the voyage out and home in the
brief space of five months and 27 days.
On the homeward passage the Lightning has so
far beaten the Indomitable screw steamer and the
Swiftsure, Mr. Green's new crack ship, 11 days,
both these vessels hiving left Melbourne on the
30th of April for London.

The screw steamship Scamander, Capt. Follett,
arrived this morning from Alexandria and Malta,
with
wn
t sse heavy portion of the Australian mails and
s

The mail was an exceedingly heavy one, and
considerably taxed the energies of the pos:-office
officials at this port, having also had to despatch a
mail to the United States.

The letters will be delivered to-morrow morning.

FRANCE.
PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.
The lioniteur of to day has the programme of
the national festival of the 15th August. The day
is to be inaugurated, at six in the morning, by
salvos of artillery from the cannon of the Invalides.
These will be repeated in the evening, at six o'clock.
The day fete will consist of a grand military panto-
mime in the Champ de Mars, the subject of which
will bo taken from the last campaign in Kabylia,
represented on an immense stage erected for the
purpose. It will be played twice—at three o'clock
and at five. There is to be a grand balloon, re-
gattas, gratuitous spectacles, the theatres open
gratis, a concert in the evening, free of charge, of
250 instruments, and 300 voices, in the gardens of
the Tuileries, in the Meleager avenue. Illumin?.-
Eons and fireworks are promised to the holiday-
makers.

Prince Napoleon arrived at the Pa'ais•Royal
last night.

Barto!otti, and Grilli, alias Saro, have
been removed from Maz is to the Couciergerie, to
await their trial. M. Desmarais visited Tibaldi.
Barto!otti and Grilli accept the counsel assigned to
them by M. le President Vanin. M. Lacan, whose
name has been already mentioned, will defend
Grilli, but in consequence of M. Templier having
other engagements, M. Desbondet has b. en ap-
pointed forßartolotti. The two last named pri-
soners, who cannot speak a word of French, con-
ferred with their counsel to-day through the
medium of an interpreter. It is understood that
they reiterated the explanations they gave to the
Judge of Instruction. They assert that they
were sent from Loudon to kill, the Emperor,
and were supplied with money to enable them
to live in Paris, and take measures for
the execution of the project, bat that they never in
tended to do the bloody deed required from them.
They were, they say, in distress and took the
money with the sole purpose, in their own minds,
of coining to France to enjoy themselves with it.
The heat of the weather is intense, and to add to
our desagrcniens in this respect, comets 60:111 rather
plentiful, M, Dien, of the Paris Observatory,
having jit=t discovered another, in additi'-n to one
wh ch he discovered a week or two ago. Neither of
these fiery bodies, however, is entitled to the desig-
nation of the comet, about which there has recently
been so much talk. It is gratifying to find that
the Lett which is so oppressive to us, is highly
beneficial to the wine and corn growing districts.
We have very favourable reports a regards both,
as also with regard to the hops. Nearly all the
harvest is now got in, and the yeld is more than
we have had for some years.
The Pays contains the following paragraph :--
"The English Government has decided that the forti-
fication of Corfu shall be immediately strengthened. A
sum of 10,0001. has been allocated for that purpose,
and a colonel of Engineers has been appointed by the
Minister of War to proceed forthwith to the loanian
Islands. The measure which the British Goverment has
adopted is significant in presence of the warm contest
which exists between the loanian Parliament and the
British authorities.

The price of meat is fimed_;in Paris fur the first