The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-04 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE HIMALAYA.

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship
Himalaya, Captain A. Kellock, arrived here at noon to-
day from Malta and Constantinople, having left the
former island at 1 p.m. on the 23d ult. The whole
voyage has been performed with the propelling power
of only one engine.
The Himalaya brings 163 passengers, among whom
are Captain Broughton, R.E., from China; Drs. Inglis
and Eatwell and families, from Calcutta ; Lady and
Miss Reid, from Malta ; and about 50 young naval offi-
cers, proceeding from Admiral Dundas's squadron to
join Sir C. Napier's fleet in the Baltic. She also brings
23 non-commissioned officers, selected from different re-
giments, who are sent home to drill and prepare recruits
for foreign service. Her cargo is what she discharged
at Malta when she took the 33d and 41st Regiments to
Scutari ; and reshipped on her return. It consists of
423 bales of silk, 20 cases of torahs, 1 ditto of shawls,
1,017 bales of flax, 357 tembrils of gum, 9 bales of to-
bacco, 3 barrels of elephants' teeth, 18 casks of mother-
o'-pearl, 83 do. dates, 2 bales drugs, 24 palm trees for
the Sydenham Palace, and 148 packages sundries.
She exchanged colours and signals with the following
ships :—April 23, screw-steamer Army and Navy, ap-
proaching Malta ; 24th, off Cape Bon, a brig showing
second distinguishing pendant No. 5,923 ; and, 230
miles north-west of Malta, transports Nos. 10 and 11,
a

_1 steering for the island ; 2Sth, off Cape St. Vincent,
brig Mary and Anne, from Portsmouth, all well ; at 2
p.m. on the 30th, 15 miles south of Cape Finisterre,
steamer (supposed) Iberia, steering for Vigo.
The Himalaya did not touch at Gibraltar, but passed
that garrison at 10 p m. on the 27th ult.
Since leaving Malta, the Himalaya has experienced
generallyfine weather, and with oneengine has performed
the distance (2,150 miles) in 9 days 20 hours under steam,
giving an average speed of 9f knots, which result
bas more than realised the expectations which were
formed of her probable rate by the surveying engineer
and others at Malta. Much credit is due to her chief
engineer, Mr. Gray, and his assistants, as also to Mr.
Carman, from Messrs. Penn's establishment, for the care
they have taken, and for the successful result of the
voyage. Between noon of the 26th and noon of the
27th ult. she ran, with a strong Levanter in her favour,
315 nautical square miles by observation, equal to 13
knots average and three miles over, clearly showing
what speed may be obtained, with very small power, by
a long and well-proportioned vessel. Across the Bay of
Biscay she met some strong N.B. winds for a few hours,
and then lresh S.W. breezes and rain, with a heavy
N.W. swell, during which she made 10 and 11i knots.
In the channel heavy rain, with light westerly wind
and clear weather. We believe it had previously been
considered very doubtful whether the machinery of the
Himalaya's peculiar construction was capable of being
worked with only one engine available ; the result, how-
ever of this trip has clearly proved that such is the case,
and we understand that it will take only a few days to
put her again in her previously efficient and serviceable
state. She is to be employed in all probability in con-
veying a cavalry regiment to the East.

A HINT TO THE CHANCELLOR OF THE
EXCIIEQUER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—The Chancellor of the Exchequer, acting lately
on his own judgment, has been right in theory but wrong
in practice. He has acted correctly with reference to
the general laws which regulate the value of money, but
has not calculated the disturbing causes, which might
have been foreseen by a practical man. These disturb-
ing causes have been a bad harvest and war, each causing
an efflux of gold to pay for corn and for our naval and
military forces in foreign countries. Let him now take
a leaf out of the book of a man who in all thing:, even
in finance, has exceeded the expectations for►ned of him
—who, if not harmless as a dove, has at least been wise
as a serpent —the Emperor of the French. A Three-
and•a-Half per Cent. Loan on Exchequer Bonds at par,
with a subscription list in every county in England, open
to sums as low as the late French loan, would be filled
up directly by the class who subscribed ten millions in
France, and who are now in England satisfied with less
than three per cent. in our savings banks.—Your obe-
dient servant, J. E. W.
Oxford and Cambridge Club, Pall-mall, May 4.