The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-13 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.
TATTERSALL'S.—THIS EVENING.

METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
1,000 to 25 agst Lncio (taken).
1,000 to 25 Sally Warfoot colt(taken).
1,000 to 25 agst Lord Fauconberg (taken).
1,000 to 80 Alkali colt (takn).
CHESTER CUP.
50 to 1 Nancy (taken).
1,000 to 15 Goldfinder (taken).
1,000 to 15 Trifle (taken).
1,000 to 15 Confessor (taken).
1,000 to 15 -- St. Michael (taken).
2,000 to 25 Vermuth (taken).

DERBY.
12 to 1 agst West Australian.
1,000 to 60 Pharos (taken).
18 to 1 I7mbriel (taken).
33 to 1 Brocket (taken).
Offers to take 20 to 1 about Cineas.

THE CALCUTTA AND

CAPE MAIL.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

ARRIVAL OF THE QUEEN OF THE SOUTH,

PLYMOUTH, DEC. 13,

This splendid screw steamer, Commander Geo.
Hyde, arrived here this morning at 10 o'clock.
Her dates of sailing are as follow :—Calcutta, Sept.
15th ; Sands-heads, 21st ; Madras, 26th ; Point
Galee, Oct. 241 ; Mauritius, 14th ; Cape of Good
Hope, Nov. 6th; St. Helena, 15th ; Ascension,
19th ; St. Vincent, 29th.
She brings 70 passengers, including the Rev. Mr.
and Mrs. Buckner and family, Mr. Bruce and
family, Hon. Mrs. Erskine and child, and a com-
mercial gentleman of the name of Palmer, Hon. R.
B. Pellew, 43d L. 1., Mr. Horsefall, Mrs. J. Bruce
and child, and Mr. M. J. Bruce—all from the Cape.
She also brings a full cargo of sundries.
She was detained in Calcutta river four days on
account of the disorderly state of her machinery.
In coming down the Bay of Bengal she encountered
strong currents, in consequence of the south-west
monsoon. Not being able to obtain enough coal at
Point de Gallee, she had to work on short allow-
ance of fuel to the Mauritius.

Four days after leaving the Mauritius one blade
of the screw broke off, and she was obliged to work
easy in consequence. She put into Simon's Bay on
the 29th October, as being, from its sheltered situ-
ation, well suited for repairing ; but on examina-
tion it was found that another blade of the screw
had broken off. She shipped a spare blade, coaled,
and sailed for Table Bay, where she arrived on the
6th of November.

On the passage home she was obliged to work
very easy under steam ; in fact, nearly all the pas-
sage to Corfu was accomplished under sail, the
screw having been in such a precarious condition,
that it was only used in cases of emergency, where
it was impossible otherwise to obtain speed of six
knots.

The Sarah Sands, with emigrants for Australia,
was in Table Bay Nov. 6.

The Indianna sailed for Mauritius, October 30 ;
the Great Britain left the Cape October 17 for
Australia ; the Cleopatra left October 29 for Syd-
ney ; the Earl of Hardwick, one of Green's ships,
waa in Table Bay.

The Coromandel and the Earl of Chalmont were
at St. Helens.
In Ascension her Majesty's ship Firefly; the
Tortoise, receiving ship ; Westwind, Yankee screw
steamer, sixty days from New York, with emi-
grants for Australia. Saint Vincent, Melbourne,
outward for Australia, and Teviot, homeward. The
United States corvette Dahl sailed for the
coast of Africa. The Queen of the South was
seventy-two days from Plymouth to Calcutta.
On her arrival at Plymouth, the mails were sent
on to London by the 12 o'clock train, which will
arrive there at 10.30p.m. The following summary
of proceedings at the Cape during the month of
October, as far as the war is concerned, is taken
from the South African Advertiser, November 6.
By the sth October, General Cathcart had
cleared the Waterkloof of its troublesome
tenants and taken sufficient measuses to prevent
their returning. He has established posts, and is
now cutting out roads in that mountainous dis-
trict. Before the activity of Colonel Eyre, with a
sufficient force, the enemy has also retired in a
measure from the Amatolu.