The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-04 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

MARSEILLES, Nov. 4.
The Vectis, with the mails from Bombay*, arrived
at Marseilles at 8 this morning.
The mails left for London at 10.

The passengers remain in quarantine until to,

morrow morning.

CALCUTTA AND CHINA
MAILS.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING,

The Pera steamer, Captain Jamieson, has arrived.
She left Alexandria, Oct. 22d ; Malta 25th ; and
Gibraltar, 29th ; and brings 116 passengers, three
packages specie (value unknown), 1,555 tales and
45 cases silk, 43 bales wool, 39 bales flax, 328 sacks
barley, and sundries. .

She spoke on the 28th the steamship Brenda,
and the Pasha's steam yacht Said; on the 30th
the schooner. Sophy.

The usual fleet was at Alexandria.

At Malta—Her Majesty's ships Marlborough,
Princess Royal, Hibernia, Wanderer, and Curlew.
The comet was last seen from the Pera at 7 p.m.
on the 29th ult., in lat. 36.6 N.
The Pera experienced a white squall, and saw
several waterspouts while coming through the
Mediterranean, nearly abreast of Algiers. She had

Her Majesty's ship Urgent, with invalids, &e.,
arrived at Gibraltar from Malta en the 26th, and
left for Portsmouth on the 27th.
The Centaur left same day for Portsmouth.
The steamship Crimean, from Liverpool, arrived
at Gibraltar on the 28th.

THE BRAZILIAN MAILS.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING.
The mail steamer Avon, Capt. Revett, has arrived
with Buenos Ayres•dates of September 27 ; Monte
Video, 30 ; Rio, October 10 ; Bahia, 14 ; Pernam-
buco, 16 ; St. Vincent, 24 ; and. Lisbon, 31.
• She brings 89 passengers, £63,487 in specie, dia-
monds value £30,987, and cargo of tapioca, tobacco,
cigars, and sundries.
• The Tamar left St. Vincent on the 21st for Brazil.
Oct. 14, the Avon spoke the British barks Lavinia
and Eleanor, entering Bahia; 16th, lat. 1.7 N.,
long. 31 W., passed British ship Shooting Star;
20th, lat. 5.15 N., long. 29 W., passed American
bark Sally -Magee.
The firm of Tiowes, Son, and Co., at Rio, had
suspended payment.
Coffee supplies were very moderate at Rio; prices
had advanced
ed IGunorOors. per erari. in all grades. Stock
65,000 sugars in fair demand and
prices full 200 rs. higher,_with tendency to a further
rise. Very small sales of hides, and stock in-
creased to 16,354.
Exchange 261 and 261 at 90 days.
. Stocks of sugar at Bahia very small. Last
transactions were at 2,700. per arr. for browns, and
3,100 whites. Coffee in brisk demand, and stocks
of Bahias were cleared off at 3,600 and 3,900.
Prices of cocoa varied from 3,700 to 3,850. No
fresh supplies of cotton ; last.sales at 8,500. Inquiry
for hides still brisk.' No tapioca in the market.
Exchange receded to 261 1, and something was
effected at 261, on easy terms of payment.
Freights---15s. Liverpool, 20s. London.
Not much business at Pernambuco.
Supplies of sugar small and operations limited ;
brown Pernams, 2,450 to 2,800; whites, 3,100 to
3,700. Large,supplies of, cod fish: Stock of flour
20,000 barrels. The import duties on these two
articles have again been reduced, cod fish now pay-
ing only 50Ors. per drum, and flour 900 per barrel.
Prices of cotton 'declined from 8,200 to 7,600 and
7,700. Good demand for hides. Exchange closed
at 26d.
The Medway, with artillery troops from Wool-
wich, to Ceylon, called at Pernambuco on the 6th
ult., all well, and proceeded.
The Benmuick Dhui, from London to St. Helena,
went ashore on the 11th, near the Island of
HaMaraca, to the north of Pernambuco. She was
got off, and towed to Pernambuco, where she would
be surveyed and repaired.