The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-22 00:00:00

EAST INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY.
The steam-ship Twins, Capt. Evans, arrived this
day at noon, with the heavy portion of the East
India and China mails, 50 passengers, 2,5001• in
specie, and on freight 98 bales of silk, 76 elephants'
tusks, 77 cases of oranges, and 184 packages of sun-
dries. •

The latest dates are=-Alexandria, Feb. 6 ; Malta,
10 ; Gibraltar, 15. She spoke the steam-shil3o
Milan, Gibraltar, -and Ripon.
Her Majesty's ship Nugent, with the 92d Regi-
ment, for Bombay, was at Alexandria ; the Moth'
terranean fleet at Malta ; the Curlew at Gibraltar•
Capt. Anderson, one of the engineer officers vill°
planned the. defence of Lucknow, landed at Malta
from the Indus. The Lucknow refugees are ex-
pected in England by the Pera. Col. Thorold, al"
fought at Cawnpore. is among the passengers.
A fall of snow occurred as the passengers were
crossing the 'desert—a ihing unprecedented. Sow
was also seen on the Assyrian mountains.

THE ENGLISH ENGINEERS IN Tl-11
_KINGDOM OF NAPLES.

NAPLES, -FRB. 16.
Our countryman Watt, the engi is now in
the British Hospital in Naples. Mr. Barbar, the
acting consul, received an intimation from the go;
vertanent that he would be consigned to him, 811°I,
that on his responsibility, he would be permitted
to eamr awi ne forwent
down the
toSalerno
yesterday hospital.
B
turned in the evening with Watt, who PaPnd rer Pea;
more tranquil ancl.happy in his new quarters.
was unwilling to come up, this fact is another indi-
cation of The suvicion which he entertains of every
one. Since his ar, ival he has been visited by ano-
ther intAlioal man, thus making seven in all who
have seen him, and his opinion corresponds entirelif
with that of the others, 'hat he is in a high state of
nervous excitability, and on one subject is quit°

insane.
The appeal made by the murderers of poor Bland"
ford cAme hefore the court on Feb. 12, when the
.sentence was confirmed ; all the previous time ,
their imprisonment counts for nothing.
Some little talk ensued last week in consequene.e
of a Swiss citizen called Pittet having received baj;
passport, with an order to leave Naples. Pittet itvhe
the confidential servant during many years of
late Sir \Valiant Temple.

A. WRitiNG MASTER WANTED.—The asce3sity Of „all
royal conitnis.,ion to inquire into the state of educatitt
in tte United Kingdom has been painfully broug"
home to us by a lett,r which we have received from
unknown member of the House of Commons, wh° kg
quests quests tat his name, which by some error of the e'elbo
was omitted in the ,iivision list on Friday night, rellY,;0•
inserted in our columns as forming one of the ra''
rity. say "unknown," because this hon. member,
who, it appears, has "his local haLitatine," though 're:
tainly not his "narne,"at 34, Charles- t,,
is evidently quite incapable a s,ning his name fiat
legible manner. We woull not for' the world assert
our correspondent has not received propel. instru,s 1
in writing in his youth, nor will we go so far ag t° :a
that his mysterious autograph may not be plaill'bio
clear to those who already have the honour 0'
acquaintance ; all we I,reuume to state is that ache
means of affording information to strangers as to and
writer's Chris ian and surname it is a :401..1 failuretro,
so, until our mind is relieved on these important P°23iti
we can but deplore with all sincerity our utter jos' ro.
t ) comply with the request of our anonymous co
4pondent.—Times.Og
A N AAIERICAN SHIP ASHORE ON TEE 18ng h
WIGHT.—SOUTHAMTON, SUNDAY,—A. report ree‘bip
ere thi, up,rning efftc'. that an American t
tie
named the \Viiliam Singer, was ashore off Brook, f
btck of the Isle of Wight. It, was stated thi.t she s`:010
1,200 toes bur,i,n, and had of Vard a cargo "I
ions of guano. The wind is blowingetrong from the
east. The ca t where the kill is ashore is WY hag
serous. Two steam tugs have left here, and one
left Portsmouth, for the scene of the disaster.