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

The Peninsular and Oriental Company'shiteamO,
ship Ripon, Captain H. W. Powell, arrived at
Southampton at 11 a.m. yesterday, with the heavy
portion of the Bombay mails. Her dates are
Alexandria, May 26 ; Malta, 30 ; and Gibraltar,
June 4. She had fine weather as far as Gibraltar,
but thence has experienced strong head gales.
June 7th, at 1.30 a.m., in lat. 40.55, long. 9.21,
spoke a steamer, supposed to be the outward mail
acket of the 4th ; and at 6 a.m. same day spoke
the Sydney Packet screw steamer, steering to the
northward.
The Ripon brings 215 passengers—namely, 44
first-class, 51 second-class, 95 children, 7 servants,
and 18 deck ; and on freight 12 packages of specie,
value 5,3851. sterling, 146 bales of silk, 634 boxes
of oranges, and 84 packages of general merchandise.
Among the passengers was General Hewett from
Meerut, the place where the Bengal mutiny-first
broke out. Another of the passengers .was Mr.
Ellis, a master in the Royal Navy. At the. begin-
ning of the China war the Hong Fong journals
were filled with the praise of this officer, in muse-
I queues of his having relieved the inhabitants of
Hong Kong from very great apprehension.
Soon after the commencement of hostilities
in China a forinele Imperialist fleet fixed its
head-quarters been Hong Kong and Macao,
and threatened Victoria. Mr. Ellis proceeded in
an almost unmanageable steamer, the Eaglet, and
entered the bay of Tung Yung, boarded several
juntas under a heavy fire from shores batteries, and
succeeded in effectually destroying or capturing the
' junks. Messrs. Minns and Knowles were the
Custom-house officials on board the Ripon, facili-
tating the landing of the refugees in obedience to
the orders of Government.
Her Majaity's steamer Tartarus was at Alexan-
dria, and the Royal Albert, Princess Royal, and
Conqueror, at Malta.
Advices from Gibraltar are to the 4th inst. The
latest quotations of exchanges stood as under :
London' 90 days' data 491 ; Paris, ditto, sf.
29c. • Marseilles, ditto, sf. 30e. ; Genoa, 'tto,
sf. 31c. ; Madrid, 8 days' sight, 1 dis. ;
ditto, pm.; Malaga, ditto, 1 dis. ; Savill
f dis. ; Alicante, ditto, dis. ' • Valencia,
par. ; Spanish pillared dollars 3i per cent. -
mium—none—no demand.
The Gibraltar Chronicle of the 31st ult., pub-
lishes the following from its Tangier correspon-
dent :
" The British steamer Tibor, with the last lot of
this year's pilgrims to the prophet's shrine at
Mecca, took her departure for Alexandria on the
18th inst. 4,000 pilgrims (of whom 3,400 were
conveyed to the above port by British steamers)
have proceeded from this place to the Levant
during the last six weeks—i. e., a greater number
by more than 1,000 than has ever before left these
shores. in one year. This increase is attributed
to the fact of the Moorish passenger traffic
having been this year, and for the first time.
opened to public competition, and the consequent
reduction of passage fares to very low rates, as small
a sum as 3 dols. h .aang in so:11,, instances been paid
for a passage to Alexandria. The privilege of con-
veying pilgrims t ) the E '.st was of late years ceded
to French steamship c,neputies, or to French and
English companies conjointly, when the freights
were much higher and the number of passengers
less than at present. We learn that the crops
I throughout this country are looking well and pro-
I rinse a fair harvest, though not so aundant a one
as had been expt-wed previously to the long drought
that preceded the late z•howers."
Her Majt-sty's steam gunboat Wanderer, Com-
mander Meek it. Pawl', arrived at Gibraltar on
the afterna:m (.f the 28. h ult. from Malta, and left
for Tangier next mot ning.
The 12th Company Royal A rtillery, in charge of
Capt. Price, landed at the New Mole, on the after-
noon (f the 28th, from her Majesty's steam troop-
ship Urgent, Capt. McDonald. The Urgent let the
bay for Malta at 6 p.m. en tho 30th.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship CApt. Steward, arrived at Gibral-
tar on the 3d inst.
The Royal Yacht Squadron schooner Maria, 15
days from M alto, arrived at Gibraltar on the 27th
ult., and irocecaled for Lymington.
Tho Royal Victoria Yacht Squadron cutter Gon-
dola, 20 days from Malta and 10 from awliati,
arrived on the 30th, and left on the 31st for the
west.

The following British merchant steamers had ar-
, rived out at Gibraltar :—May 28th, the Elba,
Cap' aiu M. D. Hammild, from Liverpool and
Holyhead, with coils for Cagliari ; same day, the
Gibraltar, Captain Hall, from London with general
c %rgo, for Gibraltar and Cadiz ; 29th, the Karnak,
Captain A. Brnwnless, from Liverpool, with gene-
ral cargo, for Dillta. and Constantin-iple ; same day,
the Frankfort, (.Atntsin It. Repburn, from Liver-
pool, with coali for Gibraltar ; 31st, the Araxe•,
Captai❑ A. Horsfa!l, oin Liverpool, with general
cargo, for Gibraltar, Mal'a, and Alexandria ; Juno
3il, the Corinthian, Captain Wardell, from Liver-
pool, with general cargo, for Palermo.
The Ottoman steamer Bosphorus, Captain W.C.
Huson, 21 days from London, and 6 from Ply-
mouth, in ballast for Constantinople, arrived at
Gibraltar on the 2d inst.
A corespondent at Gibraltar, writing at 10 a.m.
on the 4th inst., says :

"The Egyptian war steamer, F&d Ghehad, is now
coaling preparatory to leaving for Portsmouth to get
her machinery repaired. The steamship Taurus arrived
yesterday evening from Cardiff, is now discharging the
the coals, and ski 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.
The Corinthian screw steamer, for Sicily and the Adri-
atic, resumed her voyage at 2 p.m. yesterday, and the
Cairo screw steamer, for Liverpool, left last night. The
Wanderer gunboat has returned from a oruize on the
Morocco coast, as far as Safi, daring the night. It is
not known whether she is procead to Malta or await
the arrival of our oruizer, the Curlew, now escorting the
QitEen of Spain in her aquatic trip."

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH EXPEDI-

TION.

PLYMOUTH SOUND, JUNE 10.
A sudden fit of energy on the part of the authori-
ties at this port 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 go off at a moment's notice we didso under
the firm iinprer:,ioa that a steamer was appointed
to tow the Agammemuon to the rendezvous in mid
ocean. At the last moment, however, it has been
decided that she is to sail there, in spite of the fact
h it she is jury-rigged with 40 gun frigate masta,
and so deep in the water that she w ill scarcely move
to anything shoat of half-a-bale. When to these
drawbacks is added the important fact that light-
westerly winds always prevail at this season of the
tyear, our readers will easily be able
oexditl
estimate.n .
the
time which the English portion of thep
likely to occupy in reaching the centre ofe thee A-
tlantic. 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 take herself back to England after sailing
to the rendezvous. It may, and very likely will,
bo urged that the Valorous had not enough coals on
board to tow the ship, but at least „it cannot b©
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 an 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 disobey it until a re-
monstrance could ha 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-
rnetnnon 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 rendeziavoguacsa
is to
hardly is it known that the Agamemnon is i Yet,
o sail
to-day ere it is announces that the N
Illvatnwtaog or e
steam out also. Of course, suchanloade
she is certain to be at the rendezvous
t'aree days before the Agamemnon, and thus afford
scope for a continuance of the same vapid
plati-
tudes against the Britishers, tl •
say the
andleast, made
o ‘merandienetuhte, ieir ships, schemes,
which have already, to
officers of the Niagara
tolerably amusing in Plymouth. The Agamemnon
sails with exactly 13 days' coal 'for half-speed, and
six days' coal for full steam. Her voyage is sure to
last 24 daysi 9

PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY EVENING.
Attended by the Valorous and towed by two
si:eatutugs, Vie AgAmemnou 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 time there
was no wind, but a favourable breeze from the
north having sprung up Subsequently the squadron
started under canvass only for their destina,tiot