The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-11 00:00:00

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shiI343APPDs Captain H. W. V4 'i • . N.,,
Southampton at 11 am. yesterday,,gh tlikrea
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portion of the: Bombayawl ils. ,Her 3ates #l.:,:--.
Aleiiiidria; lui67-, 26- ; Malta, •39.; auktilbfaltsr,
June 4. She` had firieW-pather a,a far 'as•• Gibraltar,
but tlietiba Mt "eix.pefierP*d strb_bg.liestlgsleet.
June 7th, at 1,30 a.m. in lit 40.551 long 9.21.- '
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spoke a steamer, supposed to be theoutward mail
lacket of the 4th ; and at G a.m. same 'day spoke
tl-ut Sydney Packet screw steamer, steering to the .
no. thward.
The Ripon brings 21 s:Passengers—name'
first-class, 51 second-class, 95 children, 7 serv3'an-' t4s4,
an-t 18 deck ; and on freight 12 packages of 'specie
nv:,,lpuieii?g,e3:sa/..n, scitt4e,csinage;lTsboarlgbot,,frfnkl,ercl4634
tilbiexge:.
Among the passengers was,Gerieral.newett, rieni.
Where the Bengol mutiny- first'
Meerut, the place
broke out. Another Of the passengers was Mr.
Ellis, '6,,. master in the Royal Navy. At the begin-
fling-4411e China war the Hong Kong journals
were filled With the prailas'of this officir, in cons.: -
queoce of his having relieved the 'inhabitants or.
Hong Kong from . very great apprehension.
Soon after . the ' commencement of hostilities
in China a formidable Imperialist fleet fixed ifrs
he id-quarters 'betWeen Hong Kong and ' Ma,ea,o,
and threatened Victoria., ' -Mr. Ellis proceeded in
an *nest unmanageable-steamer, the Eaglet, and
entered the bay of TungYting, boarded •several .
' junt is irtder a heavy fire from, shores batteries, and
succ:ecled in effectually deStroying or capturing the
junks, Messrs. Minns and Knowles were Alto
Custom-house officials oa braid the Ripon, facili-
tating the:landing elthe refugees in obedience to
the orders.of_Govisrhmsnt. . ~ -
Her Majesty's steadier Tartarus was at Alexan-
dria, and. the Royal Albert? Princess Royal, and
Conqueror' at- Malta.. ..
Adviees from Gibraltarare to the 4rlt lost; The
latest quotations of exchanges stood as under :
Louden,. 90 ay., date 49,,V• Paris, ditto, sf.-
290. ; Marseilles, `ditto, sf. Aoc. ;
'Genoa, dit4o,
sf. 31c. ; Madrid, 8 days' ikht; al dis. ; Cadiz,
ditto, -1 pm. ;• Malaga,'
ditto,
1-ktis. '; ' cEilville, ditto,
f dis. ; Alicantei'dittti, i die; ; Varbncia, ditto, .
par. ;
,Spaniati pillared dollars 3i per cent. pre-
mium—none-no demand,
The Gibraltar Chronicle of the 31st• tilt., pub-
lishes the 'following from its Tangier correspon-
dent : ' '
• " The,Britieh steamer. Tiber, with the list lot of
this year's pilgrims to the prephey4: shrine at
Mecca, took her departure for Alexandria on the
18th inst. 4,000 pilgrims (of -whom 3,40-0 were
conveyed to. the above port by British steamers)
have proceeded from this place to the. Levant
during the last six weeks—i. c., -a greater •nutuber
by more than 1,900 than has ever .1)..-fore left these
shores in 'one yea,r. This increase is attributed
td the fact of the Moorish paSienger traffic
havirig bean 'this 'year, , and- for the first time.
opened to pubic competition, andthe consequent
reduction of passage fares to very low rates, as small -
a sum As 3 dols. Iriving in soar- instances been paid
for a passage to Alexandria. The privilege of con-
veying pilgrims ti the East was of late years c.,dt:d
to Freucta steamship cAnpanies, or to Frenelf,and
Euglish companies eorjoiutly,, when' the freights
werelnuat higher and the number of passengers
.
less than at present. We learn that the erops.
,
throughontlhis country are loOking: welt and pro-
mise a fair harvest, though not so abundant a one
as had been expected previously to the long drought
that preceded the lite showfr rs."
Her Majesty's steam gunboat Wanderer, Carr.-
mander Mark R. Pechell, arrived at :Gib:altar on
the afternoon of the 28-h ult.:from Marra, and left
for Tangier next morning. :
The-- • • .
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Capt. Price, landed at the New Mole, on the after-
no.in of the 28th, from her Majesty's steam troop-
ship Urgent, Capt. McDonald. .The Ur ;rot let the
bay 'for Malta at (3 p.m.. on the 30th.
..
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Alhambra, °apt, Steward, arrived at Gibral-
tar on the 3d ihst. .

The Royal iXaeht Squadron selaoon-Or Maria, 15
days from .IVivlta, arrived at Gibraltar on the 27t13,
ult., and proceeded for Lynaington. '
The Royal Victoria Yacht Squadron cutter Gon-
dola, 20 days from Malta and 10 from Cagliari,
arrived on the 30th, and left ukt,the 31st for the
west. 7
The following British merchant steamers had ar-
rived out at Gibraltar :—May 88th, the Elba,
Cap'ain ,M. D. Hatrunild, froni;;Liverpool and
Holyhead., With coals for Cagliari same day, the
Gibraltar, Captain Hall, from London with genet al
~rgo, for Gibraltar and Cadiz ; 22th, the Karnak,
Captain A. Brownless • from Liverpool,
.With gene-
ral cargo, for Malta and Constantin tple ; slime day,
the Frankfort, Captain It. fiepburn' from Liver-
pool, with coals for Gibraltar ; 31st. the Ara,xei,
alptain A. Iforsfall, from Liverpool, with gener.sl
cargo, for Gibraltar,- Malta, and'Atiixandria ; Juna
3d, the,PuritAlii.4l), Captain We}r4ll; ',from. Liver-
pool,.wit h general cargo, for Palerin6,
....Ikkvaii-te-aayve;ifouritirtnuoli, aim-6 rroin-rif-
mouth, in ballast for Constantinople, arrived at
Gibraltar on'the 2d inst.

A correspondent at Gibraltar, writing at 10 a.m.
on the 4th ind., says :--
"The E:yptian war steamer, Fed Cliched, is now
coal cg preparatory tO leaving for Portsmouth to get
her machinery repaired. The stearaship.Tairrus arrived
yesterday evening from Cardiff, is now discharging the
the coals, and wi I leave for Alexandria on the 7th inst.
The Northern Yacht Club steamer Norseman, Captain
Adams, arrived during the night; in four days from
Marseilles, and will leave for Southampton to-morrow.
[be Corinthian screw steamer, fta. Sicily and the Adri•
;Ai; resumed her voyage at 2 p.m. yesterday, and the
o.Liro screw steamer, fur Liverpool, left last night. The
Wanderer gunboat has returned from a cruiz) on the
Morocco coast, as far as Saffi, during the night. I; is
m.t known whether sbie is to proceed to Malta or await
the arrival of our cruiz,m-, the Curle w,.now escorting the
Q iren of Spain in her aquatic trip."

TILE ATL9NTIC TELEGRAPH EXPEpr-

TION.

PLYMOUTH SOUND, JUNE 10.

A sudden fit of energy on the part of theautheri-
ties at this purt has decided that the squadron is to
go to sea without further waste of time. When we
informed our readers yesterday that each vessel was
ready to.g6offat a, moment's notice we did so under
the firm impres6,ion that a steamer was appointed
to tow the Agarnmemcon to the rendezvous in mid
ocean. At the last moment, however, it has been
decided that she is to spit there, in spite of the fact
hit she is jury-rigged with 40 gun frigate mastß
and so deep in the water that she will scam 'Y move
to anything short of half-a-gale. When to these
drawbacks is added the important fact that Uglit
we:,
ot rl
rr a
(i windse r. 4 will
always p
easilyteva
bt le a
able toestimate t this season of the
year,the
time which the English portion of the expedition is
likely to occupy in reaching the centie of the At-
lantic. The Valorous, a steam frigate, capable of
towing two vessels like the Agamemnon, is to go
with her, but ou no account to tow her, and in case
of her being tempted in any sudden emergency to
infringe this rule, She is only supplied with coals
enough to t eke herself back to England after sailing
to the rendezvous. It may, and very likely will,
be urged that the Valorous had not enough coals on
board to tow the ship, but at least it cannot be
denied that the Gladiator, a frigate capable of tow-
ing the Agamemnon half round the world, is left
behind idle at her moorings here. How it is that
the shareholders allow the Admiralty to have any
voice in an affair of this kind it is hard to say. About
a fortnight ago, when not au electrician or any engi-
neer even was on board the Agamemnon, an order
arrived from the Admiralty directing that vessel to
go t ► sea immediately, and whether the Niagara
was ready or not. Fortunately, the senior officer at
this port had sufficient sense to disobay it until a re-
monstrance could b 3 sent, and only to this insubor-
dination on the part of the Admiral is it due that the
squadron was allowed to get ready at all. These
things are to be regretted much, but it is better to
know them now than that we should learn them
hereafter in the exaggerated narratives of the New
York journals Even as it is, they will surely be
distorted to the utmost. The reason for the Aga-
memnon being ordered to sea so soon and suddenly
is that she may gain a day or two's start upon the
Niagara, which is to steam to the rendezvous. Yet,
hardly is it known that the Agamemnon is to sail
to-day ere it is announces that the Niagara is to
steam cut also. Of course, with such an advantage,
she is c.-irtain to be at the rendezvous some twoor
three days before the Agamemnon, and thus afford
scope for a continuanceteinsthe:fizvt,hhtiechhesiarhme vapid
ptuedoepslea,galilirGt tolrerßianiriplati-
a V e ships,
already, schemes,
t o
say the least, made the officers of the
Agamemnon
eNeimagnaorna
tolerably amusing in Plymouth. The
sails with exactly 13 days' coal for half-speed, and
six days' cool for full steam. Her voyage ifisure.to
last 24 dark,

PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY ETININI•
Attended by the Valorous and towed by two
stearntugs, the Agamemnon left the Sound at 9
o'clock this morning and waited outside. The
Niagara, under steam and attended by the Gorgon,
did not leave until 11 o'clock. At that ;tuna •there
was no wind, but a favourable breeze from the
north having sprung up f.ub3equently the. squadron
started under canvass only for their desttnatioui