The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-14 00:00:00

THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS.

Tim AUSTRALIAN MAILS.--SOITTRAMPTON, Thursday.
—The European and Australian C.nnpany's steamship
Jura,Caand ptaAiniezandr
Moodie,ia with the mails for Ceylon, Aus-
tralia, here to day, at 2.15 p.m., for
Malta
tralia, and New Zealand, about 15 passengers, and a fair
cargo for Alexandria.

MAILS FOR 7'llll lONIAN ISLANDS.

In consequence of the withdrawal of the vessels of
war which were formerly employed in conveying ma'l4
once a month between Malta and Corfu, arrangements
have been made for despatching ship letter mails to the
lonian Islands by the private steamers which leave
Liverpool three times a month (usually about the 6th,
16th, and 26th,) for Corfu.
These ship letter mails will l'e made up principally for
the transmission of soldiers' and seamen's letters and of ,
books and newspapers, the general correspondence for
the lonian Islands being forwarded as a rule via Trieste ;
but any letters which the public may desire to send by
ship from Liverpool, will be so forwarded, if specially ad-
dressed, "By Private Ship from Liverpool."
Letters thus forwarded will be liable to a postage of ,
Bd. per half ounce ; books to a postage of 6d. the half
pound ; and newspapers to a postage of id. each, which
must in all cases be paid in advance.
Letters to and from soldiers and seamen in Her
Majesty's service, posted under the special regulations
applicable to such letters, will be chargeable with the
rate of ld. only.
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By Canmand of the Postmaster-General.
ROWLAND HILL, Secretary,
General Poet Office, 9th March, 1857.

EXTRA MAIL POR -CHlNA.—Yesterday notice was
issued at the chief office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, that an
additional mail for China, Canton River Penang, Sin-
gapore, and Hong Kong, would be made up on the
morning of the 20th inst. to be conveyed by the mail
steam-packet Pdra, to sail from Southampton on that
day with the mails for India ; Government having made
arrangements with the Oriental Steam Navigation Com-
pany for its
conveyance on to Chiba. An additional
despatch will also take place to China on the evening of
the 26th inst., to be forwarded via Marseilles.

ALARMING ILLNESS OIP THE SOLICITOR•GENZRAL.--
It was stated this morning upon good authority that
Mr. Stuart Wortley, the Solicitor-General, was suffering
from a severe attack of brain fe'er. Sanguine hopes,
however, were entertained by his medical attendants
that the disease could soon take a favourable turn.
The Russian Prince de Lieven has arrived in Paris.
The Countess of Clarendon will "receive" this even-
ing, at the noble earl's private residence in Grosvenor-
crescent.

The Earl and Countess of Dunraven have taken a re.
sidence in Be!grave-square.

i Lord and Lady Digby have arrived at their residence
in Burlington-street, from Dorsetshire, for a few days.
1 The Baron and Baroness James Rothschild will leave
town in a few days for Paris.

Sir Edward and Lady Caroline Kerrison have arrived
in town from Broome Hall, Norfolk.
Lieut.-Col. and the Hon. Mrs. Dudley Carleton have
arrived at 42, Berkeley-square, from Lowesby Hall, Lei-
cestershire.
Pontiloff (Councillor to the Emperor of Russia),
accompanied by his family and suite, has arrived at the
Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street.
A deputation from Bristol, consisting of Mr. Conrad,
Mr. leinzel, and Mr. Arthur Hare Palmer, accompanied
by Mr. H. Gore Langton, M
.t had an interview with
Vlsoount Palmerston, on Thursday, to present an ad-
dress, thanking his lordship that, instead of yielding
the reins of Government into other hands, he has re-
sorted
to the constitutional alternative of appealing to
the people.

An Australian merchant, in a letter to a contempo-
rary this morning, says :—" In the, elegraphic summary
of the intelligence by the present Overland Mail, I regret
to find there is no mention made of the arrival at any
of the eastern ports of the Australian mails, which are
due in London, via Marseilles, on the 16th inst., un-
der the new postal contract with the Europein and Aus-
tralian Royal Mail Company. As it is scarcely possible
they can now arrive within the contract time and along
with the Indian letters, I am delirious of learning if this
company have made such arrangements that, on the
arrival at Ceylon of the steamer from Australia, her
mails and passt:ngers shall be at once forwarded to their
respective destinations ? In other words, are they de-
pendent or not on the steamers belonging to the Penin-
sular and Oriental Company which carry the usual fort-
nightly India mails between Ceylon and Suez ? If they
are, there is little doubt that it will be about the end of
the month before the Australian despatches come to
hand.