The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-21 00:00:00

INDIAN NAVY.

WE learn that a circular was addressed yesterday
from the East India Company to all the officers of
this efficient body, at present on furlough, order-
ing them to India immediately. It has been a
matter of general surprise that this order has been
so long delayed.

The following members of the Givernmeut were pre.
sent at the Ministerial fish dinner at the Trafalgar, on

Wednesday :—Viscount Palmerston, Earl Granville,
the Earl of narrowly, the Chanlellor of the Exche-
quer, Sir George Grey, Lord Paranure, Right Hon.
H. Labouchere, the Duke of Argyll,- Right Him M.
T. Baines, Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Right Hon:
W. G. Hayter, Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, the Earl
of Mulgrave, Right Hon. H. Fitzroy, Right Hon. E.
P. Bouverie, Right Hon. H. Herbert, flight Hon. R.
Lowe, Right Hon. Sir B. Hall, Right Hon. W. F.
Cowper, Viscount Castlerossv, Lord Ernest Bruce, the
Solici,or-Gener4l, the Lord Advocate, the Right Hon.
J. D. Fitzgerald, Mr. Chichester Fort.escuP, Mr. Danby
S-ymour, Mr. T. G. Baring, Sir John Ramsdeu, and
Mr. Brand.

The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland leave their
seat in CJrn wall on Monday next for Northu:aberland
House.

Tile Duke and Duchess of Ri3hruond have a select
circle assembled at Gordon Castle, N.B.
Toe Marquis and Marchioness of Lothian are pa,sirg
their honeymoon at Broughton House, the Duke of Buc-
cleueh's seat, near Kettering.
The Marquis of C myoghain has left Cowes on s. cruise
in his yacht, intending to visit the western ports and
South Wale before going to Ireland.
The Marquis of Anglesey and family have arrived at
NlT,Ttbing, from Bright,n.
Too Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementine
Vidiers leave Cowes on Tuesday neat, for town. Toe
countess c.internplates a tour of visit in Scotland pre-
viously to taking up her residence at Middleton Park for
the autumn.
The Earl of Giff,rd has left the Marquis of Tweeddele's
sea., Yester House, on a tour of visits in the north of
Sc ttand.
The Earl and Countess of Fingall are among the latest

arrivals at Scarboroue.
Vi,count and Vi-countess Duncin have arrived on a
to the Earl an Countess of Catnperdown at their
seat in Scotland from town.
Lord an Lady Bloomfield have telt _town for St.
Leonards-on-Sea.
AlPin. Ord, of the Rlyal Engineers, has been
appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Dominica.
Colonel David Wood, C 13., of the Royal Horse Ar-
tillery, eW)ailied on the 20th ins', a. Southampton. on
hoard toe Peninsular and Onental Company's ship Co-
._

tomb°, f.r Alexandria, en route to Calcutta, to assume
the command of the Royal ELirse Artillery destined to
serve i, India.
Yesterday the mortal remains of Colonel Brinckman
(late of the Coldstream Guards), were removed from
Mounte,treet, B rkeley-square, to be interred in the
family vault at Hendon. The lamented decetaed was
for many years private secretary to the late L';rd
Wallace.
IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE LATE MR. DOUGLAS JER-
BOLD.—To-night, and on Friday and Saturday, Ma
Diceens and the gentlemen of the Tavistoek-house troupe
perform the the "Froz-ul Deep," at tho Free-trade hail,
Manchester. for the benefit of the' .• JerroLl Fund."
The fetnale charnetera- will be sustained by professional
actreases. The perforrnatces have been undertaken at
the special request of some of the principal inhabitants,
and the demand for places is extraordinary.
THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS —Vie must nom unfortu-
nately give up any hopes of receiving an Australian
mail until next month, for we learn by the telegraphic
summary of the Indian overland mail that the Jura,
which had waited at Abxandfia until the 6-.. h inst. for
its arrival at Suez, had lest on that day with -a portion
of toe B enhey mull for Southampt et, in order to be
ready to take out the nex; wadi for the Australian
colonies on the 12th proxeno. S nine doubts, we per-
ceive, have been cast upon the conjecture which we
ventured to throw out last week with respect
to the prJbabilitv, or rather possibility, of a
mail beine despatchel front Sydney and Melheurne
on the 15th of June. We could have no interest
in the question beyond a desire to caution our readers
from indulging in expectations which might be
d meal., thatpae
p in
re
disap-
pointed. We stated the grounds which lad us to f, Tilt
our opinion, and we regret as much aa any one to find
that it has been provet to be corr eqy founded. `Vi h,
respect
itorhethde,sarnatneohnTezenlin%ii: tree c
,we find
the Sydney journals—at which city the head-quarters
of the European and Australian Steam Ceemany are
located—the dery rture of the Europe.n is ievariatly
fixed for the 15th of July. In the Melbourne papers.
up to the 27th of May, it is fixed for the 15th of
June ; but after that day, in the Herald and Age,
it will be found. that it has been ;altered co the 15th of
July—no deu,,t in consequence of comninnic,ione
re-
ceived by the Simla from Sydney. In the Argus alone
the correction of the iate does not appear to have been
made. It is very unlikely that the two pap-es in ques-
tion .would have altered the announcement unless they
let
had received instructions so to do, and we take it that
this feet is sufficient proof that Vie agents had aban-
doned their intentioe, if they ever had ant, of dispatch-
ing a mreavd.i.iuns Junem onatfhte.r_tith
Ito
BStii.rantli,ati had
ctnldeft A a
rw the
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id
Zealand of
Gazette.
THE ORDNANCE SURVEY.,--& blue-book, the greater
part of which is filled with maps and plan, contains a
report on the Ordnance Survey of the United Kingdom
for 1855-56. Ap :r tion of the information here supplied
has been anticipated by former returns. It ape: art
that the number of persons employed on the suieey i..
about 1,232 (reduced from 2.069), and that the amount
expen led between Oct. 1, 1855, and the 30th of Set t.
1856, was for England, 42,006/. ; for Scotland, 51,5601.;
I and for Ireland, 23,278/. Tee total a.r.,ount that will b
required to be provided iii the estimates for 185753
(exc u-i, e of the rs,gioteatal expenses of the four c ,m-
-panics of Royal Engineers employed on the, surveys)
for the ordnance surveys of the United Kingdom is
120,0501. Tne tetal amount expended upon the sur
vey of the United Kineeloin t')%larch 31, 1857. has
been 2,311,963/.—viz., 1,027,2401 expended on Eng-
land, 985,4.55/. on Ireland, and 339,273/ an Scotland.
For the sale of ordnance maps there Was received be-
tween October, 1355, amid September, 1856, 2,7371. in
England, 5621. in Scotland 1,2991. in Ireland,
THE PRESeNT STATE Ot' THE METROPOLITAN IM•
PROVEMENTS.—Yesterday wOrnittg was i,ued a report,
dated the 22.1 of June last, made to the Treaeury by the
First Commissioner of Works, in relation to the present
state of the metropolitan improve mmts under the
dire tion of his department. Copies are also pr.nted cf
correspon fence between the commissioner and gentlemen
entrusted to report the progress of the various
works. From the abstract of the co,respondence, .r it
will be o'lserired," writes Sir Benjamin Hall, " fire.,
as rest). 1V.3 B ,tt rsea Park, that the sum -of €9,9091.
15s. is required to couipkte the works compii:Attin the
revised estimate of 1347 ; and when that amount is ex•
vaidel, the exec s upon that estimate will amount to
111,065/. de lid. S cand, as regards Chelsea-bridge,
that the sum of 34,5031. 4s. 10-1, is reqaired to complete
the works comprised in the revised estimate of 1352-53,
and when that amount is expended the exeese upon
taat estimate will am -.nut to 23,7561. 2.. 91. Third,
as regards Chelsea embankment and the street from the
new bridge to S oan,street, that the sum of 26,2891
8e 61. is required te complete the works to the west
end of Clale.a Hospital comprised in the revised esti-
mate cf 1852-53 ; and when that aineunt is expended,
tae ~xees upen that e-titnate wid amount to 12.337/.
0.,.. 9d. Fourth, a, regards the Pimlico improeemeuts,
t ,at the sum of 27,3101. Os. 51. is required to com-
plete the works accerdirig to the act of 1853 ; but until
the c iniFle,tien of the improvemeets the value of th,
' land and buddirqS to be traesferred to the C )mitii stoners
of L ,nd R ±ve,:ue, under the 7th section of the act and
the Treasury minute of the Bth of July, 1853, cannot
be epee; twined. If, however, the value iihoeld fell short
of 51,3,01,
the dAleiency will have to be oC:erwiee
erovelel. fur, Fi'tli, as regards the new stre-t from
' Spitelields to Saurediteh, that the sum of 12.000/. is re-
quir-d to c,- mekte the werks coireerhed iii time revised
he re eAtiivatee of 1850
expe, del the excess upen t
esdaiat,s of 1350 aad 1352 ; and ween that amount is
,e
arid 1852 a ill amount to 20,467/ 0.. 11." Tim right
hon. baronet urns that the bee . course will be to ob•
twin a grant of money for the pu• pose of closing these
mattere, and that he sboald b, instruee I to reali.e,
cr11:11 oart
t tli!al e
w d i:r
a, ,'P,,e'lliy at poesibba the vale, . f the property which
willuu
ar 117Ai:1
sum so to be received will eeceed the total of the
requiri d to complete the above-mentioned
i undertakings (170,512/. Bs. 9 e). and " have a very
Iconsiderable surplus towards repayieg the stun cf
Pkuss.al cif le h ais de
ceefi.ient that the
pertinent after the
200,000/. advanced by the Ex ;11equer Loan Commis-
aione.rs for the foma.tien of Bat-derrea Park."