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

THE INDIAN MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, MOND:.Y EvErarta•
The Colombo has arrived with the heavy portion
of the India and China mails.
She left Alexandria on the 18th January, Malt*
on the 23d, and Gibraltar on the 28th.
She brings 80 passengers, amongst whom 21
Lieut.-Colonel and Mrs. Gabbett and family, it°,"
Mr. Gibson Lieut. Christie ; Mrs. Eaton and ity
fart, and Mrs. Holt, from Madras • Mrs. Lunaed°l72
Mrs. Boswell, Mr. Gill. Mrs. Block and Wavy,
Mrs. Rond And infant, Mrs. Kitson, Mrs. lien
and child, Dr. and Mrs. Fish, Mrs. Saunders all
infant, Captain Tait, Messrs. Gaynor, lVferriovr
Jones, Shave, Thursby, Nassett, and Macpber32l3o3
from Calcutta : Major Lewis,' her Majesty's 31.4
Regiment, Dr. and Mrs. Bradford and family, 211,
Yard, and Miss Rickett, from Point de Galle. ice
Her cat go consists of 31 packages of specie, 111 of
packages of silk, 12 eases of shawls, 226 cases
-
orAnge4, and 38 bales of flax and wool.
The British screw steamer Victor Emanuel Os
lying at Gibraltar with damaged rudder.
The Colombo experienced severe weather in
.-
Mediterranean, encountering head gales, both N"..;"0
outward and homeward bound, accompanied i
latter case with torrents of hail and.sleet. The 'Mb
can coast, when seen, was partially covered 0.,10*
'snow. On January the 26th, the wind shifted
Gibraltar to the west, enabling a large number
wind-bound ships to proceed up the Mediterrann
et
At Alexandri>a was her Majesty's ship 'Veit°
ho
disembarking her Majesty's 71st Regiment, /1 •
had beeu conveyed acre as ftomMalts by the Prinet
Royal, which latter vessel was passed at sea on t"e
20th January half-way to Maltp.
Her Majesty's ships Royal Albert, Hiberiligl;
Conquercr, Centurion, Centaur, Medina, Tartar:lli;
Caradoe, Harpy, Wanderer, Coquette, and
lant, were at Malta. .1 of
The Indus, which took out the Indian 0131 tile
the 20th ult., had arrived out at Gibraltar on
25th ult.
The Nemesis called at Gibraltar on the 25th dio,
and after taking in 500 tons of coals left for

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DESTRUCTION OF THE HOLYHEAD BRlLLP.vg-
telt"'
Wonx..s.—The staging lately erected for the Ortolr
Con of a round head on the north breakwater at beep
head New Harbour Las, during the late gale,' O6l
destroyed by the terrific fierceness of the glued' 11l
about 70,000 feet of timber were carried away $0„-ut
now strewn along the coast below Penrhos.
seven turn,-tablev, and thirty-three of the str°",„Aldr
waggons laden with stone, placed on the top for ""
logs
ing the timber, were plunged ii to the sea. TI„1:19.
sustained must arneunt to many thousands of Po°- bet'
ANOTHER INDIAN HERO.—Major the Hon. Irt°bot‘
Barlow Palmer By ng, of the y net Light DJ astrit ot.
talion, who was killed on the 18th Dec. last, 01',1„7 34)
lant:y le:iding his m, u against the nintineeis of
lt,•gitrent of Bengal N.L, was the second ion 0f,,,11 „jog
6th Viscount 'Torrington, by his second wife! Ft 130 r
Harriet, daughter of the late Ad.kiiral Sir Itnuecir", svot
1)w, G.C.8., and brother to the present peer.
born Nov. 30, 1816. Having passed his exami"d tbt
the military college of A.ddiscombe, he enters pas
Bengal army as ensign in June, 1834, became l'e"„. be,
in 1836, and captain in 1844. Hi- commission° 'ea" IA;
vet maj ,r and major date from 1854 and 1856 r f
ly. At the time of his decease he was waPr of
62d Regiment of N.I. (late let battalion 31at -1°,!00131,
BAgal N. 1.) Ile had seen ac'ive service with tu-a, star'
in Gwalior, and had received the medal and brui4-14004.
for gallantry at Maharajpou, lie was heir Pr.ec,beitif
tive to his brother's title. He married in 1839 Picti
Maria Lowther, eldest daugLter of Col. G. Tfit el OP.- '°
the Bengal army, by 'about he has a family 0' 1
and ono daughter.