The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, .40.1NDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 1860

good' Living and often a fortune. The rich gullies
of :Bet idigo wore first explored by pick and
shovel. diggers, and then the puddling ma-
chines 'were brought into play, and the dirt
which 1 vould not pay for the tedious operation
of the tub and cradle returned a handsome profit
when NN-4,shed on a wholesale principle. Horse
power surrseded manual labour, which in its turn
is now giving place to steam machinery. New gold.
fields aro being discovered of greater or lesser
value, but the digging population is now so exten-
sive that the ground is at once " taken up." Quartz
reefing will eventually become the only remunera-
tive employment for the miner, and in this branch
the resources of Australia are infinite; but to work
quartz reefs to advantage both capital and perse-
verance are required, and to develop the capabilities
of a reef thoroughly, and adequately to remunerate
the proprietors a company must be formed. Aus-
tralia is no longer dependent on her gold, not merely
for prosperity, but for very existence, as was the
case in 1851. The province of Victoria owes her
existence to the precious metal which she held in
her bosom ; but her elder sisters, New South Wales
and South Australia, were slowly, but steadily,
rising, dependent on other resources long before
HARGRAVES electrified the world with his die-

LATEST NEWS.

THE GREAT EASTERN.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT, AND DEATH
OF CAPTAIN HARRISON.

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING,
11 A.M.
A fearful gale from the south-west has been
blowing for some hours, with torrents of rain.
A boat with 10 men, coming ashore from the
Great Eastern, Was upset in a squall, and several
of the men drowned—the number not known ;
three or four of the men are missing.
Captain Harrison, the commander of the Great
Eastern, who was in the boat, has been brought
ashore, and every exertion to restore consciousness
is now making. The body lies in the dock engine-
house.

11.15 A.M.

I regret to hear that Captain Harrison is just
dead, all efforts to save his life having failed. The
Great Eastern is riding out the gale in perfect
safety. Nothing positive can yet be ascertained as
to the men or the number who are drowned.

THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA
MAILS.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING.

The Peninsular and Oriental steamship Indus
has arrived with the heavy portion of these mails.
She left Alexandria January 6th ; Malta, 10th;
and Gibraltar, 15th.

The Indus brings 90 passengers, six packages
valuables, 1,293 bales and 129 cases silks, 1,359
chests oranges and sundries.
She spoke the Ceylon, steamer, on the 12th, in
lat. 37, long. 6 30 ; a steamer, showing third dis-
tinguishing pendant (No. 3,604), on the 16th, off
Cape St. Vincent, steering south ; and at noon
same day, in lat. 37 24, long. 9, the Delta, steamer,
steering south.

Her Majesty's ships Exmouth, Racoon, Renown,
Liffey, Lapwing, Scourge, and Osprey were at
Malta.

The Marlborough, Agamemnon, James Watt,
Victor Emanuel, Ccesar, Doric!, Cadmus, Quail,
Osborne, Coquette, and Mohawk were at Gibraltar.
Exchange at Gibraltar on London, 518; Paris,
534 ; Marseilles, 533 ; Genoa, 537.
Her Majesty's ship Orion left Gibraltar for Malta
on the morning of the 14th.
The British barque Pomona was in collision, at
eight o'clock on the night of the 13th, with a
Spanish ship, supposed to be a man-of-war, off
Gibraltar, which carried away her bowsprit, jib-
boom, and foreyard.

The latest intelligence from Mazagan states that
everything was tranquil in that town. Trade was
going on as usual, and seems to be very brisk with
the interior. The weather on that coast was very
boisterous.

Letters from the Spanish camp state that the
Cape Negro hills had not been crossed. The next
march of the army was to be the summit of the
Pass. The gales of the 7th and Bth scattered the
squadron, and the army deprived of its supplies,
was on short commons ; but a change of weather
enabled communication to be restored before much
damage was done.
The division under General Rios embarked on
the 13th, and left Algesiras on the morning of the
14th to join the army in Africa, which is at the
present moment at the most interesting and critical
point of its operations.
Admiral Bustillos has arrived at Algesiras to
assume the command of the Spanish squadron ope-
rating in the waters of Africa, Rear• Admiral Her-
rera remaining second in command.
Ships of war from the Havannah were daily ex-
pected at Cadiz to reinforce the squadron.
The Spanish war steamer Rosalio was wrecked,
off Castillegos during the fearful gale of the 7th
all on board saved. She ran foul of the steame r
Tharsis before going on shore, the latter suffering
serious damage.
The gale on the 7th and Bth, at Gibraltar, was
one of the most furious experienced for years, and
caused immense destruction to shipping on all parts
of the coast. Captain Carreras, of the Spanish brig
Cecilia, was crushed to death by a boat belonging to
his vessel being lifted by a heavy sea and falling on
him. The vessel was 12 miles off Ceuta.

In addition to the vessels previously reported as
wreaked or damaged, the Concordia had her decks
completely swept and a man washed overboard;
about 40 miles to the eastward of the rock. The
Peter, which lost stanchions, rails, and bulwarks,
had three men seriously injured. The French ship
Anna was totally wrecked to the eastward of the
rock, and Captain Bandret perished by one of the
spars falling on him. The British schooner Eliza-
beth, from Malaga to the river Guadiana, in ballast,
the Spanish ship Diana, and upwards of 30 small
craft, boat', &c., were either stranded or totally
lost at Algesiras and along that coast.
The gale was felt in full force along the Spanish
coast, occasioning several disasters among the ship-
ping. The Swedish schooner Agres and a British
schooner parted cables and went ashore. The British
barque Clarissa, bound to Cardiff, dragged anchors
and ran aground on San Andres beach at Malaga ;
crew saved, The Spanish schooner Jaime, laden
with wine, from Santa Pola and Almeira, went
ashore; crew and passengers saved. The Spanish
ship Ntra. Srd. de los Andeles, from Valencia and
Almeira, with a cargo of rice, brandy, &c., struck
against the wreck of the Genova steamer, and
upset; five persons, including the master and a
passenger, drowned. She afterwards broke to
pieces. Several other Spanish and French ships
went ashore, and a large number of others suffered
more or less damage. The British barque Margaret
put into Gibraltar, with loss of sails and bulwarks.
The strong S.E. gale, which had been blowing for
48 hours, did not moderate at Gibraltar till noon of
the 9th, when the wind veered to S.W., after a
heavy thunderstorm.

Communication between the Spanish head-quar-
ters at the Camp de las Lagunas and Ceuta was
entirely closed during the storm. The Spanish
squadron was compelled to put out to sea, the
storm breaking the mooring chains of nearly all
the vessels. Some of them subsequently returned
with damage, and others succeeded in weathering
the storm unharmed.

In the action between the Spanish and the Moors
on the 10th the Moors came down in considerable
force, covering a line about a league in extent.
They were opposed by seven Spanish battalions,
four of whom were actually engaged, and three
battalions of artillery, chiefly mountain guns. The
Moors were totally routed, and ran off as fast as
they could. No prisoners were taken. Many dead
were left on the ground.

The Spanish loss in killed and wounded was 180,
including 17 officers.

The Indus experienced a very heavy rotatory
gale from the westward on the 24th and 25th of
December, which delayed her outward passage two
days, she being hove to during that time.