The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-07 00:00:00

cargo.

She proceeds to the Victoria Dock to discharge
her cargo, and then goes on to Bremen.
She left New York on the 22d, and her dates
have consecinently been anticipated.

Information bas been received in official quarters
from Constantinople, to the effect that the new Minis-
try have decided that the elections held in Moldavia on
the 19th ult. should bs annulled, with a view to their
being held again on the 15th inst.
It is believed that General Cartelbajac is the person
Who will succeed M. de Morny as Ambassador to the
Court of St. Petersburg, and, in the event of the re-
sumption of diplomatic relations between France and
Naples, that Prince Carini will represent King Ferdinand
at this Court.

It is said that a C inferenco is to be held in Paris
relative to a supplementary treaty between the French
and Rees-dan Governments regulating literary property-
BIRMINGHAM ELECTION.—The Mayor has appointed
Monday and Tuesday next for the nomination and elec-
tion of a member to represent this borough in Parlia-
ment. The ereateet interest is felt in the result.
The Villa Marengo, on the plain of that name, con-
taining a Museum of relics of the celebrated battle, and
having a con-iderable tract of land attached to it, has
been sold to M. Israel Salomon Debenedetti for the small
sum of 110,0001 r.
THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE OATHS BILL' —The
select committee moved for by L J Ruesell to consi-
dertwhoe tdakaipnpg of oaths, and to ascer-
to the oaths taken by
apply the operation of the Act sth and 6th Wm. IV., cats.
t6a2i,n with
whetherreference
thata
toct
would
members before sitting and voting in the !inure Of
Commons, met yesterday, at one o'cl ,ek. On the
meeting of the committee the room was filled by
a large body of s.rangere, consp,cuous among whom was
Baron Rothschild, but the room was immediately ordered
to b, cleared, and the first thing which the committee
did was to came to a resolution to exclude the public.
6.—The Royal Mail s
LIVEBPOoL, Aux.team-hip
Arabia will sail for New York on Saturday when the
Post-office letter-b x Closes at 9 a m., with late fees at
10 a m., and on the landing-stage at 11 a.m.
SOUTHAMPTON, Thureday.—The Earl of Clarendon,
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, embarked from
the docks this afternoon on board the Royal steam yacht
Fairy, Master-Commander D. W. Welch, en route for
Osborne on a visit to Her Maje-ty, and fur the purpose
of meeting the Emperor of the French. His Lord,-hip
returns on Monday. Viscount Palmerston, Prime
z.
Minister, will embark from the docks on Saturday to
ti%
join the Royal and Imperial party at Osborne.
Tadhe)stEXinwsiun bringlarand
the
eriennextat Calcutta mail to S
Oriental Company's steamer,
Hi
The Hindostan is a slew ship. It is expected that if the
Bombay mail arrives at Suez before the Hindostan, a
summary of the newt; brought from Bombay will be
despatched from Alexandria immediately to be tele-
graphed to England trern some port in the Mediter-
r mean.
ASSISTANT ARMY SURGEONS,—Dr. Andrew Smith,
the head of the army medical department, has given
notice that a number of assistant surgeons are at present
required for service in the army. Candidates for the
service must be British-born subjects, under 25 years of
age. _
Aldernaan Lawrence, the sheriff elect of London and
Middlesex, has appointed Mr. James Josiah Millard, of
Cord wainer's Hall, to be his under-sheriff during the
year of his shrievalty.
The house of Mr. Croker, in Stokes Bay, near
Gosport, will be taken for his Royal Highness Prince
Alfred in October next for the purpose of prosecuting
his studies. The Prince will be conveyed daily in the
Royal steam tender E'fie, Master Commander Alfred
Balliston, to attend naval instruction on board the
Illustrious, training ship, Captain Robert Harris, who
will have the honour of bringing his Royal Highness
forward as a naval officer.
Commander Francis Peel
(1855) who has been ap.
sloop, was lieutenant of the Edinburgh, 58, flag-:hip of
pointed to the command of the Buzzard, 6, paddle steam
Rear-Admiral Henry Chads, Cie B.,"in the Baltic fleet.
Tee forthcoming half-yearly meeting of the Blldlincl
Railway Company is officially announced at the rate of
41 per cent, per annum. For the cerrespon:ing six
months of lest year the din lend was at the rate of 4
per cent. per annum, and for the Fame period of 1855
3 per cent. per annum.
The actual value of t Australian gold known to be
actual y on the way from Me bcurns to this counfrj is
582,0001, The steamer Great Britain has been to sea
78 days with 406,6001. ; the steamer Indomitable 99
days with 123,8001. ; the Summer Cloud 87 days with
31,8401. ; and the Sardinian 84 days with 19,8401.
The apooiettnert of Assistant Adjutant-G neral Royal
Artillery to the force under or lore for India has been
satisfactorily fi led up byow:ding in-Chief, in the selecion of Lieut.-Colonel
John Adye, C. 8., efflo,r of the Legion of Honour, who
occupied a sitnifar post during the entire Crimean
campaign, H.R.H.Ff.R.II. the General Cora-
-1
Two CHILDREN FOUND MURDERED, Yesterday
morelng, Ru-sell, the lock-keeper of the Regent's Canal,
Victoria-park, Bethnal-green, discovered a brown parcel
floating in he water, near the Hereford Arms public-
house, Old Ford-road. He dragged the package on to
the towing path, and on opening the covering he fount:
the dead body of a female child in a state of advanced
decomposition. On the head there were two severe
lacerated wounds. The body of a male infant was like-
labia picked up by a labouring man in a field at Bow.
common, tied up in a piece of an old cotton gown, and
was quite fresh. The head bore marks of violence, and
one el the arms was broken above the elbow joint.