The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-14 00:00:00

THE lONIAN ISLANDS.

JULY 27.—The official gazette of Corfu
publishes a note from the British Colonial Minister,
Earl Grey, to the Lord High Commissioner Ward,
relative to the controversy between the lonian Senate
and lonian Legislative Chamber relative to the validity
of the election of a deputy. Earl Grey recognises the
right of the Chamber to annul that election, but is
at the same time of opinicn that the Senate acted
judiciously in carrying out the electoral law in
logical sequence. He is, nevertheless, of opinion that
no authority, except the lonian Government, is com-
petent to pass a decided judgment on the misunder-
standing between the Chamber and the lonian Senate,
and that the Chamber, in exclusive and primary in-
stance, has the right of deciding on the election of a
deputy. The adjustment of the existing conflict
would, in his (Earl Grey's) opinion, be most satisfac-
torily concluded by mutual concessions, and a change
might possibly be effected in the electoral law.
Earl GREY passed a high encomium on the lonian
Senate.

Vessels from Sicily entering the lonian harbours
are subject to the same quarantine laws as those com-
ing from Malta.

INDIA.

A telegraphic message has been received by Trieste
that the Overland Mail has sailed from Alexandria.
It affords no further news.

THE DELIVERY OF LETTERS
AND NEWPAPERS ON SUNDAYS.

RESTORATION OF A SUNDAY DELIVERY.

The Report of the Commissioners appointed to
consider whether Sunday labour in the Post-
office may not be materially reduced, with-
out putting an end to the delivery of newspapers
on Sunday, this day presented their report to the
House of Commons. We are authorised to state
that the Commissioners advise a single delivery and
receipt of letters and newspapers on Sunday, that
arrangements may be made to enable postmasters and
their assistants to attend divine worship on alternate
Sundays, and report that in very small rural dis-
tricts no extension of the time for the receipt and
delivery of letters and newspapers beyond that for-
merly permitted is required.

ARRIVAL OF HER MAJESTY AT BUCKINGHAM
PALACE.—The Queen and his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, accompanied by Count Mensdorff
and Count A. Mensdorff Pouilly, and attende-d by
Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady in Waiting, Major-
General Wemyss, Equerry, and Colonel Wylie,
Equerry to the Prince, the Hon. Colonel Chas. B.
Phipps, Keeper of the Privy Purse, and the Master
of the Household, left Osborne at ten o'clock this
morning and crossed to Gosport in the
Fairy Royal yacht, Captain Lord' Adolphus
Fitzclarence, the ships of war and batteries
firing salutes as the yacht entered the harbour. The
illustrious party proceeded to town by special train to
the Nine Elms station, whence a detachment of the
16th Lancers escorted the Royal cortege to the Palace.
At three o'clock her Majesty held a Privy Council,
attended by Prince Albert, the Ministers and Great
Officers of State, at which the Royal Speech on closing
the session of Parliament was arranged.

FATAL SAILING BOAT ACCIDENT. Yesterday,
evening, between six and seven o'clock, the Gabul, a sail-
ing boat of six tons, belonging to Robert Owen, Esq., of
Maids House, New-cross, Greenwich, was beating up the
reach from Woolwich, having a party of six gentlemen on
board, when, in tacking from the north to the south shores,
a sudden gust laid the vessel on her beam ends, and the
water poured into the main hatch, almost instantly turning
the yacht keel upwards, and immersing the entire party.
The accident was witnessed on board the Catherine Jane
sailing barge, of Rotherhithe, and the captain bore down
and succeeded in rescuing those who were clinging to the
boltsprit, and had got on -the keel. Unhappily, two of the
party, fine young men, aged respectively 19 and 17, sons of
Mr. Robert Greenaway, of Kennington-road, were found to
be drowned. The bodies were not recovered.
At the inquest held on the body of Miss Rees, who
committed suicide, at Shipton- on-Stour, as reported by us
last week, it appeared that her friends at West Bromwich
had, in the course of Friday or Saturday, posted a letter ad-
dad-
dressed to the deceased, having reference to the peculiar po-
sition of her affairs, and calculated to ease her mind regard-
ing her future prospects. This letter, however, owing to the
stoppage of postal communication on Sunday, did not arrive
at Shipton until late on Monday. Bat for this, we might
not have had the painful oY ut of recording this distressing
affair.— Gloucester Journal.
THE WEATHER—The barometer at the Royal
Observatory, Greenwich
low during the week; the cor-
rected average reading w, was
as 29.651 inches. The mean tem-
perature of the air in the shade was 64.2 deg. ; or 2.7 deg.
above the average temperature of the week. The tempera-
ture of the Thames ranged from 63 deg. to 68 deg. The air
was dry, showed little electricity, and passed over the Obser-
vatory
at the average rate of 120 miles a day.