The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-23 00:00:00

AUSTRALIA.

MELBOURNE, Nov. 10.
The Melbourne Cup was won by the Sydney
horse Glencoe.

The following gold ships have sailed for Englan d
sinceLthe last mail :—The Kosciusko, 11,500 oz.
the True Briton, with 26,250 oz. ; the Macduff,
with 11,875 oz. ; the Lancashire, with 4,375 oz. ;
and the Swiftsure, with 32,250 oz.
SYDNEY, Nov. 7.
Mr. Robertson is the new Premier, and Sir Win.
Manning the Attorney-General.

ADELAIDE, Nov. 10.
Mr. Bagot is the chief of the new Ministry, and
Mr. Strangways the Attorney-General.

NEW ZEALAND.

Advices from New Zealand state that a con-
siderable portion of territory has been abandoned
by the sellers. The local forces are still disorga-
nised. Colonel Whitmore, who is commanding
a large force of friendly natives, is advancing to
attack the rebels.

Foreign Mail racket List.

MAILS DUE."

Australia and New Zealand, via eouthampton Jan. 2.
Ditto, via Y rseillos ~WO. •• • .... . Deo 21

Ditto, via Flal= D 0 29.
Brazil. Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Jan. 4.
Ditto, by French packet ........Dec. 22.
(Jape Verde, by Brazil paotet . ..... Jan. 4.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension. and St. Helena.... Dec. 28.
Uhina, Penang. and Singzpore. via Southampton.. Jan. 2.
Gibraltar. via Southampton,
India, via Southampton

unto, via Marseilles
• • • •• „. J an. 5.
Malta, 6gypt, ......... ....... . Deo. 26.
Ditto, Marseilles... Dec.
Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via
uthams ton
Ditto, 31arseilles Dec. 13
Newfoundland Dco 30

Portugal .... .. ...Jan. 4.
United States , t anada, California, &a, by British
....

packet /..•• •• • •Dec 19.
Ditto, by Canadian packet Deo 25
Ditto, by L. Lited States packet
Ditto ditt( (Baltimore)
West Indies and Pa.rific (except Mexico and Baha-
mas)
West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe J an. 4
Fyikland Islands

A telegram has been received announcing the
arrival at Bombay on the 19th inst. of her Majesty's
Indian troop-ship Malabar, with the 3d Hussars
and draughts, which left Portsmouth in the Serapis
on the 15th ult.

By direction of the Admiralty the shipwright
department of Sheerness Dockyard have received
instructions to report to their lordships whether her
Majesty's ship Mars,6B, 2573 tons, 400-horse power
now in the Sheerness Steam Reserve, would answer
the purpose of a quarantine ship at the Motherbank
if her engines were removed.
The subjoined Admiralty memorandum has been
received at Portsmouth, and promulgated by order
for the information of the Royal Marine forces :
“Major-General Travers, C. 8., having tendered
the resignation of his appointment as inspector-
General of the Royal Marines, the Lords Commis-
sioners of the Admiralty have been pleased to
accept the same, and have intimated that it
is not their intention to nominate a succes-
sor." The unprecedented act of an officer
voluntarily :resigning the highest prize in the
profession to which he belongs has naturally
given rise to much speculation, and there is some
reason to suppose that Major-General Travers has
been induced to take the step from a determination
not to identify himself in any way with the reduco
tion of the Royal Marine forces, and the consequent
destruction of their present efficiency. The first of
the measures for carrying this reduction into effect
has just been accomplished at Portsmouth in the
receipt of an.order from the Admiralty at Eastney
Barracks, the headquarters of the Royal Marine
Artillery, for the immediate discharge of 18 ser-
geants and 350 gunners of the Artillery. It would
be satisfactory to know how those who have brought
this about expect to replace so large a number of
invaluable sea artillerymen in the event of any sud-
den emergency in our foreign affairs.

The Espoir, 5, screw gunvessel, 428 tons, 80
horse power, when completed as a dredging vessel,
is to be attached to Bermuda dockyard as a yard
craft.