The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-02 00:00:00

THE EAST INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.

The heavy portion of these mails, in charge of
Mr. Roberts, of the General Post-office, arrived
at Southampton on Saturday, in the Peninsular
and Oriental Company's screw steamer Mooltan,
Captain J. S. Field, at 1 p.m. This vessel brought
116 passengers (viz., 68 first-class, 30 second, and
18 deck), a list of which was published in The Sun
of Wednesday, excepting those from Malta and
Gibraltar. The Earl of Harrowby and the Hon.
Mr. and Mrs. Ryder were among the passengers
from Gibraltar. On freight the Mooltan brought
£1,135 in specie, 32 cases of valuables, 1,640 bales
of silk, 1,412 sacks of corn, 12 eacks of potatoes,
19 packages of elephants' tusks, a case of pigeons,
one dog, 8 live turtle, and 147 packages of general
merchandise.

The Mooltan left Alexandria on the 18th ult.,
Malta on the 22d, and Gibraltar on the 26th. She
experienced fine weather in the Mediterranean;
moderate weather along the coasts of Spain and
Portugal ; a fresh N.N.W. gale in the Bay of
Biscay; and light winds, with fine weather, in the
Channel.

On the 27th ult., at noon, off Cape St. Vincent,
the Mooltan spoke the screw steamer Mmander,and
the barque Drums; and at
.4 30 p.m., on the 29th,
in the Bay of Biscay, the Peninsular and Oriental
Company's steamer Ellora, with the outward Bom-
bay mails.
At Alexandria, on the 18th ult., were the French
transport Mayenne, the screw steamer Clanado,
and the usual Egyptian fleet.
Her Majesty's ships London, Trident, Malacca,
and Gannet were at Malta on the 22d, and the In-
trepid, Scylla, and Cuckoo at Gibraltar on the 26th.
The James Watt, Captain Codd, 13 days from
Malta, arrived at Gibraltar on the 21st, and sailed
on the night of the 22d for the westward.

General. Turon, the Commander.in-Chief of the
late Spanish army of occupation in Africa, arrived
at Algesiras, from Tetuan, on the afternoon of the
18th ult., with his staff. On the following day
the General, accompanied by Lieutenaut-General
Don Carlos Yauch, his staff, and Several Spanish
naval officers, paid a visit to his Excellency the
Governor of Gibraltar. The Spanish General landed
at Raged Staff under a salute from the Saluting
Battery, and was received by a guard of honour of
the Royal Artillery. Gen. Turon, accompanied by
the Governor and his staff, proceeded to the North
Front, where four batteries of the Royal Artillery,
a company of the Royal Engineers, the 7th Fusi-
leers, 25th and 100th Regiments, were assembled in
review order. After witnessing the review, in
which the troops performed a variety of field evolu-
tions, General Turon and staff went to the Covent,
and after luncheon they visited the military store
department and some of the batteries, and rode to
Europa and Windmill-hill. His Excellency em•
barked at sunset, and returned to Algesiras in the
Spanish steamer Vulcano.
The It'ght Rev. Dr. Scandella, Vicar-Apostolic
of Gibraltar and Bishop of Antinoe, had left Gibral-
tar for Italy in the British steamer Hecla, on his
way to attend the assemblage of Roman Catholic
Bishops at Rome. _ _

The Italian Royal corvette Iride, Capt. Roberto,
arrived at Gibraltar on the 19th ult. from Leghorn,
and saluted the garrison, which compliment was
returned from the forts. On the 23d the Iride ex-
changed salutes of 11 guns with her Majesty's cor-
vette Scylla at 8 a.m., and also saluted the Governor
with 17 guns at noon, before her departure for the
River Plate station.

All the Spanish men-of-war which were in Alge-
ciras roadstead had proceeded to the waters of Ali-
cante, where a large number of vessels were assem-
bling to perform a series of evolutions.
The Spanish war steamer Vasco Nunez de Balboa,
6 guns, Captain J. Soler, from Ceuta and Vigo,
arrived at Cadiz on the 21st ult. ; and on the same
day the screw sloop Consuelo, 2 guns, Captain C.
de las Hems, left Cadiz for the eastward.
The British merchant steamer Orontes, Capt. A.
Pinnie, 5!, days from Liverpool, with a general
cargo for Malta, Smyrna, &c., arrived at Gibraltar
on the 20th; and the brig Borland, Captain R.
Pomeroy, 18 days from Newport, with railway iron
for Alicante, on the 21st.
The brig Royal Charlie put into the bay on the

20th ult., with loss of fore and maintopmast topsail
yards and foreyard sails split, &c.
The screw steamer Christina, arrived at Gibraltar
from Alexandria, reported having exchanged sig-
nals on the 18th ult. with the steamer Letitia,
bound south-east, 20 miles north-west of Cane Rocks;
and on the 21st, off Cape de Gatte, with the brig
Georgiana, of Liverpool.
Exchanges at Gibraltar were quoted as follows:—
London, 90 days' date, 501 to 50Z ; Par:s, do., 5f
27c; Marseilles, do., 5f 29c; Genoa, do., 5f 30e;
Brussels, do., 5f 32c; Madrid, 8 days' sight, 1 pm.;
Cadiz, do., t dis. ; Seville, do., r 1 dis. ; Malaga, do.,
par; Barcelona, do., pm.; Almeria, do., pm.;
Valencia, do., s pm.; Alicante, dos, par. Premium
on Mexican dollars, 2 per cent.—no demand; do.,
Carolus pillared dollars, 6 per cent.--no demand;
do., 5f pieces, per cent.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE.

A special meeting of this company was held on
Friday in Newcastle, for the purpose of considering
a bill for the amalgamation of the Newcastle and
Carlisle Railway Company with the North-Eastern
Railway Company—Mr. Woods in the chair.
A formal resolution approving the bill was car-
ried unanimously.