The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-04 00:00:00

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

Soluthheampton Company'sonGaturdOaryieanftuelrnoon
to the
south-
Peninsular ----"°.-----.
her outward vo;
steam-
ship Tagus, Capt,anEddward Christian arrived at
27 ; Lisbon,
charge of Lieut. ,
with
mails
iin
reville, R. Admiralty agent,
followingdates29 :—Gibraltar, Dec. 26 ; Cadiz,
Oporto and Vigo, 30. On
heavy the Tagus experienced a
south-westerly gale in the Channel aid
the Bay • along theer Y
&e, coast of Portugal and home-
wards,Nveath This steamer brings 16 pas-
sengers, 46 packager.
and cargo -es of specie, value 29,914/. 10$.,
boxes of comprisingtangerines,
399 half-boxes of oranges, 40
dates, and 149 cpla:ks,
,43 boxes of eggs, 52 boxes of
packages of general merchandise.
Gibraltar advic are to the 26th ult, on which
day the exchanges es
90 days' date, 49 were quoted as under :—London,
Marseilles, do., If to 49i ; Paris, do., sf. 31c.;
Madrid, eight .a • 32c. ; Genoa, do., 3f. 35c. ;
Malaga, do., dis.; sight, la dis.; Cadiz, do., par ;
do., 1k dis. ;
ai ; Seville, do., ft dis.; Alicante,
Spanish pillared "611'
a dis• ; Barcelona, dis
dollars, 4 per cent. prem.,none,
no demand.
Her Majesty's ship Curlew was the only vessel of
war lying at Gibraltar when the Tagus left.
The Prussian Bailing
sailed at 7 lng
frigate Thetis, Capt. Sun-
dewally,aon the 17th, inteniling to
proceed as far as Toni . In.
Gibraltar
crui-te, and then return
again, touching at
The Thetis fired a
it traltar on her way to Prussia
which
salute as she passed the
fortress under sail, compliment was promptly
returned bythe guns
His NetherlandsM of the saluting battery.
ales t•y's steam-frigate Admiral
von Wasfenner,
Capt.
Grove, where she haftVaynis,
left the Orange
of the strong easterly anchored during the preva-
lencetime as the Thetis, and winds, about the same
proceeded under sail for the
eastward, likewise on a cruise
The hired ship Lady M'Naghten as far as Toulon.
ticket-
of-leave men from the Gibraltar with 91
withconvict establish-
ment, left for Deptford,
a
day-
light on the morning of the mtbfair wind, at
By the steamer Durance, which arrived at Gib-
raltar from Malaga on the
t afternoon of the 15th
ult., intelligence was received of the loss of the
Dutch steamer Wilhelm II
1,, which was run foul
of by the French steamer ii-orinandie, bound to
Barcelona and Marseilles, ,:n the previous Satur-
day night. The Dutchman DI
anaged, however, to
reach the harbour, where
Part'u ofsank just at the en-
trance, sternforemost.
the cargo has been
saved, owing to her having vy.ater-tight compart-
ments. The Normandiesuffered damage, and put
back to Malaga in a leaky state,
The British bark Caleb, cflf. .."7 P. Pelham,
which arrived at Gibraltar on t'ir- - • ± •
21st from Shields
and Grimsby, with coals for Mlotril, otril, dragged her
anchors during the same night, and went ashore be-
tween the two rivers on the
Oriental
opposite side of the bay.
The Peninsular and Company's steamer
Pera, Capt. Soy, with the India and China mails of
the 20th from Southampton, put into the Bay of
Gibraltar at 7 a.m. on the caving2dth experienced
strong westerly winds in the
Channel and Bay of
Malta Biscay. She proceeded to and Alexandria
at 1.30 p m. ; all well.
The fellowing British merchants had arrived at
Gibraltar from England since previous dates i—On
the 17th, the Scamander, S.
Giebratt,ltar and 7i days from
Liverpool, with bale goods for
Alex-
andria ; 18tb, the Gibraltar, gall, from London on
and
the 10th, with nine passengers a
Cast cargo of Go-
vernment stores and other merchandise for Gibral-
tarand Cadiz; 20th, Ignez de Castro, W. Kennedy,
a nine days from Glasgow, with general cargo for
Gibraltar and Seville ; 24th, the A. Scott,
nine days from London and eight freenda,
m Havre, with
a general cargo for Malta, Constantinople,
and
`Odessa.

The following items are extracted from the Lloyd