The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-12 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS,

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw steamship
Ellora, Captain J. Kellock, arrived about midnight, bring-
ing the heavy portibn of these mails, in charge of Mr.
Douglas, of the General Post-office. She has 37 passengers,
£549 12s. 7d. in specie, 280 bales and 21 cases of silk, 36
cases of shawls, 50 chests of oranges, 583 bags of corn,
1,077 bags of wheat, and 131 packages of general merchan-
dise.

The Ellora left Alexandria on the 28th ult., Malta the
2d inst., and Gibraltar the 7th, and has had fine weather
throughout the voyage. She passed her Majesty's ship
St. George in lat. 37.29 N., long. 6" 30 E.'; off Finisterre,
passed the hull of a vessel timber laden, waterlogged and
abandoned.

Her Majesty's ships Trident and Firefly were at Alex-
andria; the Marlborough, Trafalgar, Liffey, Phccbe, Alac-
rity, Firebrand, and Scylla at Malta; and the Doris, Procris,
and Redpole at Gibraltar.
Exchanges at Gibraltar on the 6th inst. were as follows :
London, 90 days' date, 50 to 501 ; Pal is, ditto, sf. 28c. ;
Marseilles, ditto, 51. 29c. ; Genoa, ditto, sf. 30c: ; Madrid,
8 days' sight, a pm. ; Cadiz, ditto, I, dis. ; Seville, ditto,
dis. ; Malaga, ditto, par ; Barcelona, ditto, k pm.; Almeria,
ditto, par; Valencia, ditto, par; Alicante, ditto, dis.
The boat of the late Dutch galliot Finna Gerarda, A.
Struich, master, 23 days from Leghorn, with marble, &c.,
for London, arrived at Gibraltar on the 28th ult. The
vessel sprung a leak on the 26th in a gale, wind W.N.W.,
and sunk three hours after, 32 miles E. of Cape St. Vincent,
The crew were picked up by the brig Lebanon, W. Hutchin-
son, master, of and from Sunderland, bound to Mahon,
which took them to the entrance of the bay, and proceeded.
The Dutch schooner Stad Appingadam went on shore off
Punta Mala early on the morning of the 30th ult., but was
got afloat a tide or two afterwards.

The Italian brig Carolina, landed at Gibraltar J. Espino,
master, crew (16 in number), and five passengers of the late
Spanish ship Ana Teresa, from Cadiz, with olive oil, for Ha •
vana, which vessel sprung a leak and sank in lat. 35.16 N.,
lon. 8.36 W. The crew and passengers took to their boats,
and were picked up on the 26th ult. by the Carolina. The
Carolina and the French brig Charles et Victorine put in on
the 30th, from the coast of Barbary, which the bad weather
compelled them to abandon. The latter lost anchors, &c.

The British bark Mary Catherine, which drove on shore
under the Line Wall during the gale of the morning of the
24th ult , would, it was feared, become a total wreck if the
weather continued stormy. All efforts to get her afloat had
been unavailing.
The following British merchant steamers had arrived at
Gibraltar : --Nov. 28th, the Grecian, Capt. A. Flinn, from
Liverpool for Malta and Constantinople; Dec. Ist, the
lonia, Capt. J. Beggs, from Liverpool for Alexandria; 3d,
the Massilia, Capt. J. M. Rogers, from Southampton, for
Malta and Alexandria; 4th, the Edith, Capt. W. Cassop,
from Cardiff, for Trieste ; sth, the Laconia, Capt. W. Betts,
from Liverpool, for Malta and Alexandria.

The revenue of California will exceed 50,000,000
dollars this year.
HER MAJESTY AND DR. NORMAN MACLEOD.—
W e (Mail) have been informed of another instance of the
affectionate solitude felt by the Queen for those honoured
by her acquaintance. Her Majesty, on reading in the
newspapers of the death of the late lamented Dr. Norman
Macleod of St. Columba's, expressed her deep sympathy
and grief that he had been cut off in the full career of a
life of wide-spread usefulness—a sympathy intensified by
his connection with memories of her visits to Balmoral,
both as wife and widow. One of the ladies in attendance
expressing her Majesty's feeling on the event, the words
fell on the ears of a " Scotch lassie," a servant to Lady
Augusta Bruce, who ventured to remark that it must be
the father of Dr. Norman Macleod of the Barony, and not
the Dr. Macleod who preached before her Majesty at Bal-
moral. The Queen, being informed of this, desired the girl
to be sent into her presence, and the lassie, who comes
from Glasgow or its neighbourhood, having been ushered
in, was asked by her Majesty regarding the whole matter.
She explained the points that she thought inconsistent in
the short and inaccurate paragraph her Majesty had been
reading. In consequence, a telegraph was despatched to
Sheriff Sir Archibald Alison of Glasgow, wbo confirmed the
girl's story ; and soon after a feeling letter of sympathy
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were possible.
The Semkvhore of Marseilles states that the effects
of the torrents of rain which fell last week have not
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to life or limb,