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

THE PENI van., -1R .11AILS.

The Peninsular and tit len al Company's steam-
ship Tagus, Capt. Edward Christian, arrived at
Southampton on Saturday afternoon,
with mails in
charge of Lieut. Greville, R.N., Admiralty agent,
to the following dates :—Gibraltar, Dec. 26 ; Cadiz,
I.4isboii
ya e h
, 2v90; Oportote
and
Tagus
xVeigoo e , 30. On
21Ter;
outward
aid
the heavy south-weSterly gale in the rin
Channeleade
the Bay ; along the coast of Purtugal and home-
wards, fine we ither. This stesmer brings 16 pas-
sengers, 46 packages of specie, value 29,914/. 10s.,
and cargo comprising 399 half-boxes of oranges, 40
boxes of ta.ngerines 43 boxes of eggs, 52 boxes of
dates, and 149 packages of gel.eral merchandise.
Gibraltar ad vices are to the 26th ult, on which
day the exchanges were q noted as under :—London,
90 days' date, 491 to 49i • Paris, do., sf. 310 ;
Marseilles, do., sf. 32c. • 'Genoa, do., 3f. ;.:50. ;
Madrid, eight days' sight, 1k die.; Cadiz, do., par ;
Malaga, do., dis.; Seville, do., dis.; Alicante,
do., dis.; Valencia, a dis.; Barcelona, dis ;
Spanish pillared 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 sailing frigate Thetis, Capt. Sun-
dewally, sailed at 7 a, m. on the 17th, intending to
proceed as far as Toulon on a crui,e, and then return
again, touching at Gibraltar on her way to Prussia
The Thetis fired a Royal salute as she passed the
fortress under sail, which compliment was promptly
returned by the guns of the saluting battery.
His Nethellands Majesty's steam-frigate Admiral
von Wacfanner, Capt. Vaynia, loft the Orange
Grove, where she had anchored during the preva-
lence of the strong easterly winds, about the same
time as the Thetis, and proceeded under sail for the
eastward, likewise on a cruise as far as Toulon.
T
ship Lady M‘Naghten with 91 ticket-
of-leave tun from
the Gibraltar convict establish-
ment, left for Deptford, with a fair wind, at day-
light on the morning of the 18th.
By the steamer Durance, which arrived at hehired
e
Gib-
raltar from Malaga on the afternoon of the 15th
ult., intelligence was received of the loss of the
Dutch steamer Wilhelm 111., which was run foul
of by the French steamer Normandie, bound to
Barcelona and Marseilles, on the previous Satur-
day night. The Dutchman managed, however, to
reach the harbour,. where she sank-just at the en-
trance, sternforemOst. Part of the cargo base been
saved, owing to her having water-tight compart-
ments. The Normandie suffered damage, and put
back to Malaga in a leaky state.
The British bark Caleb, Capt. W. P. Pelham,
which arrived at Gibraltar on the 21st ft om Shields
and Grimsby, with coals for Motril, dragged her
anchors during the same night, and went ashore be-
tween the two rivers on the opposite side of the bay.
The Peninsular and Oriental 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 26th, having experienced
strong wemterly winds in the Channel and Bay of
Biscay. Sile proceeded to Malta and Alexandria
at 1.30 p m. ; all well.
The felkavieg British merchants had arrived at
Gibraltar from England since previous dates :—On
the 17th, the Scamander, S. Tollett, 711 days from
Liverpool, 'with bale goods for Gibraltar and Alex-
andria ; 18th, the Gibraltar, Hall, from London on
the 10th, with nine passengers and a cargo of Go-
vernment stores and other merchandise for Gibral-
tarand Cadiz; 20th, Ignez do Castro, W. Kennedy,
nine days from Glasgow, with a general cargo for
Gibraltar and Seville ; 24th, the Brenda, A. Scott,
nine days trim London and eight from Havre, with
a general cargo for Malta, Constantinople, and
Odessa.

The following items are extracted from the Lloyd