The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-21 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE,

SOMERSET CENTRAL.
The extension of this line from Glastonbury to Wells is
now completed, and will be opened for general traffic the
first week in February.

RAILWAY BILLS.
Yesterday the Examiners on Standing Orders of the
Houses of Lords and Commons declared that the orders had
been complied with in respect of the following railway
bills

(Before Mr. Smith.)
STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON.—To make a junction
with the line of the North-Eastern Railway at Stockton,
and a branch railway from Marske to Skelton.
LEEDS, BRADFORD, AND HALIFAX JUNCTION.—To
make a branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
at Bowling, and to raise additional capital.
BRADFORD, WAKEFIELD, AND LEEDS.—To authorise a
branch railway to Orsott, and also a railway from Wake-
field to the North-Eastern Railway at Methley.
"The Leith and Caledonian Junction Railway and the
Inverleithen and Peebles Railway Bills were withdrawn. •
(Before Mr. Frere.)
EAST SUFFOLK.—To authorise the company to make a
railway to Aldborough.
CASTLE-DOUGLAS AND DUMFRIES.—To raise additional
capital for completing the works, and also to enable the
Glasgow and South-Western Company to raise money and
hold shares in the company.
MID-SUSSEX AND MIDHURST JUNCTION.—To make a
railway from Coultershaw to Midhurst, and to enter into
working arrangements with the Mid-Sussex and London
and Brighton Railway Companies.
WANSBECK.—To make a railway from Morpeth to the
Border Counties Railway at Birtley ; also a branch to the
North-Eastern Railway.
LIVERPOOL, GARSTON, AND ALLERTON.—To make a
railway from the Allerton Junction of the St. Helen's Bail-
way to Parliament-street, Liverpool.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Indus, Capt. J. Weeks, with the heavy portion of
the East India and China mails, in-char.-0 of Lieut.
Gardener, R.N., Admiralty agent, arrived at South-
ampton yesterday morning. She left. Alexandria
Jan. 6, Malta the 11th, and Gibraltar the 15th.
During the whole of the voyage out the Indus ex-
perienced very bad weather, and also homeward as
far as Malta. A strong easterly gale was hlowing
when she left Malta, which continued for a couple
of days, after which she had fine weather ; south-
westerly winds across the Bay of Ushant, and
north-westerly up Channel.
The number of passengers brought by the Indis
was 75. On freight she had £12,116 in specie ;
five boxes of jewellery, value £5,000 ; a box of
diamonds, value £5OO ; precious stones, value
£7;700 ; garnets, value £1,050 ; a case of specimens,
1,980 bales and 90 'cases of silk, a box of Delhi
curiosities, one ease of cigars, and 90. packages of
sundries.

At Alexandria were the United States' frigate
Macedonian, and the usual Egyptian squadron.
Her Majesty's ships Marlborough, Centurion,
Conqueror, Swallow, Hibernia, Caradoc, Lapwing,
Tartarus, Recruit, and Boxer were at Malta on the
11th. The weather had been very bad at Malta,
and several vessels were wrecked in the harbour
on the 10th, in consequence of the strong north-
easterly gales which prevailed, with a heavy sea.
At Gibraltar were her Majesty's ship, Vulture,
and the Peninsular and Oriental steamship Tagus.
The Vulture and also the Austrian frigate Arch-
duke Frederick, had each lost an anchor and cable,
owing to heavy winds.
The Indus spoke the following steamers of the
company's fleet during the homeward passage :
The Behar, on the Bth, and the Euxine on the 9th,
between Alexandria and Malta; the Orissa on the
16th, off Cape St. Vincent ; and the Sultan on the

19th, off Usliant:
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Ceylon, which left Southampton on the 6th inst.
with the India and China mails, arrived at Gibraltar
on the 11th, at 8 30 p.m., and proceeded for Malta
and Alexandria the same night. The Tagus with
the Peninsular mails of the 7th, arrived in the Bay
on the 14th.

Her Majesty's steam troopship Himalaya, com-
mander Seccombe, seven days from Portsmouth and
four days from Queenstown, arrived on the 13th,
with detachments of different regiments for Gib-
raltar and Malta. She left for Malta at noon on
the 14th.

The following outward bound British merchant
steamers had arrived at Gibraltar :—Jan. Gth, the
Crimean, Captain Wakeham, from Liverpool, with
general cargo for Gibraltar, Genoa, and Leghorn ;
7th, the Christina, Captain Mansfield, from Liver-
pool, with general cargo for Malta and Alexan-
dria •, 13th, the Peninsula, Captain White, from
London, with general cargo for Gibraltar and
Cadiz ; same day, the Meander, Captain M'Micken,
from Liverpool, with general cargo for Palermo,
&c. ; 14th, the Pactolus, Captain Mills, from Li-
verpool, with general cargo for Gibraltar, Malta,
aryl Alexandria. _ _

The -Itoyal Victoria Yacht Club schooner Clay.
more, 11 days from Southampton, arrived at Gib-
raltar on. the Bth. She encountered a severe gale
`off the Lizard, and was obliged to lie-to for 16
hours. In the Bay of Biscay she experienced fine
weather and calms, and was off Cape St.
Vincent on the 3d, where she was becalmed for
several hours among a fleet of more than 70 sail.
The Claymore then encountered strong gales from
the eastward, against -which she bat up to
Gibraltar, having been obliged to take shelter
under Cape Spartel and in Tarifa Bay. She pro-
ceeded to Malaga on the 14th.

The British brig Hartlepool, Capt. W. Compton,
from Alexandria, with wheat for Falmouth, put into
Gibraltar Bay on the 6th inst. to laud Capt. Gibert
and crew, 11 in number, of the French bark Ceres,
of Dunkirk. At 2 p.m. on the 4th, Cape de Gatt
bearing W. by N.,_ distant 6 leagues, observing a
bark in distress, Capt. Compton bore down to her,
and finding she was in a sinking state, took off the
crew, who were in a Tory exhausted condition from
continued pumping. The bark, which was laden
with sulphur, from Girgenti for Dunkirk, was seen
to founder shortly after the crew were got on board
the Hartlepool. The Frenchmen saved nothing
but what they stood in. Capt. Gibert expressed
feelings of gratitude to Capt. Compton for the kind-
ness with which he and his crew were treated on
board the Hartlepool. They were taken charge of
by the French Consul, and have been forwarded to
their respective homes as opportunity offered.
The British ship Egyptian Witch, Capt. J. G.
Chapman, which was towed into Cadiz on the 14th
Nov. last, having been completely dismasted during
the severe gales prevalent at that time, had been
towed to Gibraltar for repairs. She is laden with
machinery and coals for Alexandria.
The Indus is appointed to take out the next India
and China mails, on the 4th of February.