The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-19 00:00:00

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company's steamer Iberia, Captain G. Bradshaw,
arriving at Southampton, on Saturday, with dates
from Gibraltar to the Bth ; Cadiz, the 9th ; Lisbon,
11th, and Vigo, 12th inst. No communication
could be affected with 0
the weather. porto in consequence of

so
uTthiei.
_l,ll_ria has
- -- .
and in the Channel. A
encountered heavy gales from the
won and north-west while crossing the Bay
Lord Amon the passengers were
de Tabley and Colonel Wylde, on their return
front delivering letters of condolence at Lisbon on
the occasion of the death of the Queen of Portugal.
Both these gentlemen were landed by the Iberia
off Cowes, and they proceeded at once to her
Majesty at Osborne.
On freight, the Iberia brings 15 packages specie,
value 2,690/. ; 327 chests oranges, 28 boxes Tan-
gerine oranges, 482 boxes raisins, 143 boxes figs,
159 barrels, 192 half-barrels, 50 jars, and 11 boxes
grapes, 117 boxes eggs, and sundry merchandise:
.The news from Lisbon brought by the Iberia•
has been anticipated by the Great Western.
From Gibraltar we have accounts to Bth inst.
inclusive. The Sardinian frigate Eurydice, 19 days
from Genoa, and 8 from Villafranca, bound to Ply-
mouth, arrived at Gibraltar on the Ist inst., anti
left on the following day. Her Majesty's screw-
line-of-battle ship Agamemnon and another ship of
the line, name unknown, passed the Straits of Gib-
raltar to the eastward on the 2d inst. A Prussian
frigate and a sloop passed through the Straits in
the same direction on the following day. Tbe:
steamer British Queen, nine days from Naples and
six from Malta, called at Gibraltar on the 4th inst.
en route to Liverpool. On the sth the screw-
steamer Taurus, 16 days from Constantinople and
5A- from Malta, arrived and cleared for Liverpool.
The screw-steamer Arabian, nine days from Liver-
pool, bound for Malta and Beyrout, and the City
of London, seven days from Southampton, boun-d.
for Malta and Constantinople, arrived on the 6th
inst. The British schooner Invincible, from
Pa-
lermo, bound for Liverpool, was driven
close to Green Island on the sth inst.
anddays
GibraltarThefromthe vorno
Livorno,
from Marseilles, for Liverpool, arrived '3t
days
inst. at Gibraltar, andtheir on the 7th.
tinations. cleared for
Liverpool,
from Liverpool, for
several des-
.
Exchange on London at
Spanish pillared dollars 90 days was quoted 52,
14 prem.

EENWICII ll
Or
thel T
modeaL.
latelyGß been made
i
—A nof
furnishing
change
gt
thed dinner-
meal
ear.
meal to the inmates
It has hitherto of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich.
boiled • been the practice to give the pensioneie
meat, either beef
it is n or mutton, daily for dinner, but
now varied alternately with baked meat instead of
boiled every day. Extensive baking apparatus has been
erected in the kitchens of the building to effect this new
i arrangement on the necessarily extensive scale required,
1 and the veterans are much pleased with the variety
which is now by this means for the first time afforded to
them. They are indebted for this improvement to the
late Governor, Sir Charles Adam, who is spoken of
by them with the most affectionate regard as one of the
best and most considerate officers that ever filled the .
office of Governor of this great national establishment.
IDEATH OF MRS. LATHAN BLACKER.--WC regret to
announce the death of Mrs. Latham Blacker, of Glouces. '
ter-terrace, Hyde-park, London, the wife, We believe, of
the solicitor to the Excise. The poor lady expired on
Wednesday, after more than two months' severe suffer-
ing, from the injuries she received by the dreadful acci-
dent which occurred on the sth October last on thill
Great Southern and Western Railway,