The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-25 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

THE OVERLAND MAIL,

INDIA AND CHINA.

(BY BRITISH" AND SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.)
TRIESTE, FEB. 25.
The steamer America arrived at 6.30 a.m. to-
day in 113 hours from Alexandria.

ALEXANDRIA, FEB. 20.
The India mails have arrived with advices from
Hong Kong, 15th Jan. ; Calcutta, 24th Jan. ;
Madras, 27th Jan. ; Ceylon, Ist Feb. ; Bombay,
2d Feb.

The Valetta, just arrived, sails for Marseilles
to-day.

The Ripon is not yet in sight.

Tof
wHeroengtaking precautionary
Kong had increased
the police
Government
olicefore
ande,
measures against incendiarisra.

Shanghai exchange, 6s. Bd. Prices of tea had
advanced. The stock of black tea was small.
Total silk settlements, 68,000 bales. Freights
depressed.

Exchange at Hong Kong, 48. Bid. to 4s. 9d.
Total exports of tea to Great Britain, about
41,000,0001b5., against 54,000,0001b5. last year.
The intelligence from Bushire is to the 17th
January. The troops were still unmolested by
the enemy. An attack had been made by a de-
tachment of cavalry and horse artillery on a depot
of Persian stores and ammunition, 22 miles from
the camp. The object was attained without loss.
The 'despatch of re-inforcements had been com-
menced, and the Government had opened a new
Five per Cent. Loan for three cro res.
The Bank of Bengal had raised its discount to
11 per cent. on private bills.

Exchange on Bombay, 2s. lid. Money map-
ket easier. The demand for imports continued
active. Exports generally firm.
Freights advanced at Madras ; imports in mo•
derate request. Indigo again risen. Freights
slight decline. Exchange 2s lid.

The Paris correspondent of the Times (second

edition) says :

" The definitive settlement of the Persian quar-
rel has been so often announced and so often con-
tradicted that it is right to speak of it with caution.
It is, however, once more affirmed that there is
every probability of an arrangement satisfactory to
both parties. If I may credit the information that
has reached me matters have gone on so well within
the last day or two that a draft of a convention
relating to the points in dispute has been this day
sent off to London. Of this draft Colonel Ouseley
is said to be the bearer. According to this ac-
count, the islands of Karrak and Ormuz will be
ceded to the English, who will evacuate flushire,
while the Persians will, in turn, give up Herat.
The dismissal of the Shah's Prime Minister will
not be insisted upon, nor also the other demand
relative to the manner in. which Mr. Murray is to
be received at Teheran, and which was considered
derogatory to the Shah's dignity. It is added that
Persia has agreed to receive Consuls in those places
where Russian Consuls are established. The infor-
mation as to these various points is not of such a
character as would justify Ine in positively affirm-
ing the exactness of each. What I have little hesi-
tation, however, in stating is, the great probability
of an arrangement. The draft of
,the convention
has, of course, to be first submitted to the approba-
tion of the English Government."

NOTTINGHAM RACES.---(This Day).

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

FOREST PLATE HANDICAP.

Elfrida ..
Walhalla

Seven ran.

CHESTER CUP.
" 20 to 1 agst Mincepie
1000 to 20 agst Zig Zag
1000 to 15 aunt Bay Hilton
LIVERPOOL CUP.
25 to 1 agst Teddesley (offered)

LMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(This Day.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at two o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The follswing private bills were read a second time,
and ordered to be committed :—Clyde Navigation ; East
Suffolk Railway ; Mid Kent Railway (Croydon Exten-
sion); British and Irish Grand Junction Railway.
THE DESTITUTE IRISH POOR.
Mr. BAGWELL asked the Chief Secretary for Ire•
land whether he could afford any information upon the
subject of a pauper woman of the name of
Nugent, who, after residing fifteen years in London,
was removed to Ireland by the parish authorities ;
also, to know if it was the intention of the Government
to introduce any measure for Reformatory Schools in
Ireland.
Mr. HO RSMAN said that he was not in a condition
to express an opinion as to the legality of the removal.
If the woman had resided for fire years in one parish
she was irremovable, but if she had not done so, Clon-
mel being her birth-place, she was removable
in law. He would call the attention of the poor-law
board to the subject. It was not the intention of the
Government to introduce any measure this session for
the establishment of reformatory schools for Ireland, but
to wait and see the working of such establishments in
England.

SEA COAST FISHERIES BILL.
Mr. ki'MAHON moved the second reading of this
bill.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAI, for Ireland objected
' to its second reading because this bill, if passed, would
leave the Irish fisheries unpraected, and said h,
would, therefore, move its rejection. The learned
gentleman referred to the bills introduced by the
hon. member in reference to this subject in 1852, 1853,
and 1855, and to his motion for a committee in
the last session, all of which bills were rejected
by the house, and on the motion for the committee he
was counted out. (Hear.) This bill proposed to
theone inraerewe of the trade 'in a manner
,
interfere with the authority of the Board
whose regulationi had worked bene-
fiocfiaClloymmfoirssi
that he could not yield his assent. He con-
demned the manner in which the learned gentleman had
dealt with this subject, each of his bills differing from
one another, and he added that he should have no objec-
tion to a consolidation of the Irish ,fishery laws, that
had, as a whole, worked well.
Col. DUNNE objected to the bill.
(LEFT SPEARING.)

A report that a new Austrian loan is .in contempla-
tion was formally contradicted front Vienna this morn-
ing.
At the meeting of the Namur and Liege Railway
proprietors yesterday the convention for leasing the line
and appurtenances to the Belgian Government for the
whole term of 84 years, was ratified unanimously.
STATE OF TRADE.—MANCHESTER, Tuesday.—There is
little or no chaoge in this market to-day. Spinners
are firm in their quotations of last week, which has the
effect cf somewhat checking business, but no conces-
sion is made In cloth the same feeling prevails, and
few transactions have taken place. Altogether the
market is firm and quiet.
At a meeting yestn-day of the committee appointed
by the tea trade to concert measures for obtaining a E
tlement of the duties it was unanimously agreed that a
deputation should wait upon Lord John Russell, re-
questing him to place an amendment on the books of
the House of Commoas, proposing a fixed duty of le. 4d.
fur three years, then to be reduced to la., instead of the
sliding scale of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
THE GOOD SERVICE PENSION.—General G. Beatty
(1855), of the Royal Marines, 'Jai been selected by the
First Lord of the Admiralty to receive the good service
pension vacant by the demise of General Sir John
Owen, K.H., 8.C.8.
STAR GAZERS IN PARIS.—It is calculated that more
than 300 telescopes are every night directed towards the
firmament to discover the famous comet of Charles V.

No change had taken place in the position of
affAirs in China. The Chinese had made an un-
successful attempt tl retake Tea Totum Fort.
The Europeans on board the steamer Thistle,
in all 11 persons, had been treacherously mur-
dered by bravos in disguise among the native pas-
sengers. The steamer was carried off, and
abandoned, after being dismantled.