The Sun. — 1857-04-25 (London, England)

LATEST NEWS.  THE OVERLAND MAIL.  MASSACRE OF ENGLISH STEAM-BOAT  PASSENGERS. CHINESE INSURRECTION IN BORNEO. INCENDIARISM AT HONG KONG.  TRIESTE, APRIL 24.  The steamer America arrived here to-day  at a quarter to twelve at noon, having made  the passage in 118 hours from Alexandria—  which she left on the 19th inst. The India and China mails were about to leave Alexandria, with dates from Hong Kong to the 15th of March ; from Calcutta to the 21st of March ; from Bombay to the 2d of April.  The Europeans on board the steamer Queen, which is British property, but was sailing under the Portuguese flag, had been murdered by the  Chinese passengers and crew. The steamer, with a valuable cargo, was carried off. The Government contractors' storehouses at Hong Kong had been burned down by incendiaries, and 'No barrels of flour destroyed.  The Chinese in Sarawak, Borneo, rose in insurrection on the 17th of February, and mas sacred several Europeans.  Governor Sir James Brooke only saved his life  by swimming across a creek.  One of the Borneo Company's steamers subs&quontly arrived at Sarawak, and with the aid of Sir Jameg, at the head of a body of Malays and Dyaks, avenged the destruction of the settlement by killing 2,000 Chinese.  A war steamer was sent over by the Dutch authorities, but her services were not required. The latest dates from Bushire are to the 6th of March. No intelligence had arrived of any fresh operations in the Persian Gulf. Sir James Outram had been gazetted to the charge of Rajpoota.  Colonel George Lawrence was acting as commander during the absence of Sir James Outram on duty. The 19th Native Infantry was disbanded. Exchange at Bombay was 2s. lid. Moaey was plentiful. The bank had lowered its rate of interest. In the import market at Bombay there was little change. The Calcutta import market was rather dull. The money market was improved. Exchange, 2s. 20.  The Madras exchange was 2s. 2fd.  The total export of tea from China to Great Britain for the year ending the 30th June last year was estimated at seventy million pounds. Exchange at Hong Kong was 4s. 9id.  At Shanghai the price of silk had advanced. The settlements amounted to 74,000 bales. Ex change at Shanghai was 6s. 7id. to 6s. Bd.  The French Government, it is said, have received despatches of an unpleasant description from Jassy. It appears that the Commissioners have arrived there, but they are not quite agreed in opinion. Two of them, it is said, disapprove the conduct of the Moldavian Government, two support it, and one neither approves nor condemns. In the meantime the Unionist Committee of Moldavia has sent two of its members to France to make complaints on the part of the Union. The French Government,.whose article in the Moniteur was, in strictness, the first violation of the neutrality that ought to have been observed on the question, cannot blame very severely its violation by the Kaimakan, who merely improves on the example set him.  According to a Paris letter in the Nord of Brussels, the four plenipotentiaries of Great Britain, Austria, France, and Russia have resolved to recommend that the Neuchatel question shall be settled on these bases :—The King of Prussia to take, if he pleases, the title of Prince of Neuchatel, but the treaty to contain no stipulation to that effect ; Switzerland to pay an indemity of 1,000,000 fr. ; and the revision of the Constitution of Neuchatel, though opposed by the King, to be effected without delay. These conditions have only been received, as already stated, ad referendum.