The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-02 00:00:00

LOSS OF THE AUSTRALIAN

MAIL STEAMER.

The following telegram has been received by the
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com-

paiiy :

" The Valetta arrived at Marseilles at 8 p.m.
yesterday, and brings intelligence of the loss of the
steamer Northam, on the 20th August, on the
Nautilus reef, near Jeddah, in the Red Sea.

" All the passengers and the chief part of the
Australian mails were landed on an adjacent
island.

" Arrangements had been made to convey them
:o Aden in the Benares and Cyclops, from whence
hey will come forward to Suez by the Simla."

THE VICTORIA CROSS.

(From the Gazette of this evening)

The Queen has been graciously pleased to signify her
intention to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross on
the undermentioned officer and private of her Majesty's
army, whose claims to the same have been submitted for
her Majesty's approval, on account of acts of bravery per-
formed by them in India, as recorded against their names,
viz :

Lieutenant (now Captain) Andrew Cathcart Bogle, 78th
Regiment (now of the 2d Battalion 13th Regiment)—For
conspicuous gallantry on the 29th July, 1857, in the attack
at Oonao, in leading the way into a loopholed house,
strongly occupied by the enemy, from which a heavy fire
harassed the advance of his regiment. Captain Bogle waa
severely wounded in this important service.
Private Henry Addison, 43d Regiment—For gallant con-
duct on the 2d of January, 1859, near Kurrereah, in defend-
ing against a large force, and saving the life of Lieut.
Osborn, Political Agent, who had fallen en the ground
wounded. Private Addison received two dangerous wounds,
and lost a leg, in this gallant service.

LONDON GAZETTE-(THIS EVENING.)

DOWNING-STREET, Ana. 30.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Robert George
Wyndham Herbert, Esq., to be Colonial Secretary for the
Colony of Queensland ; and Miles Gerald Keen, Esq., to
be a Member of the Council of the Bermudas, or Somers
Islands.

Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Doctor
Antonio Micallef, C.M.G., to be President of the Court of
Appeal, and Doctor Salvatore Naudie to be one of her Ma-
jesty's Judges, for the Island of Malta.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Board of Trade, Marine Department,
September 1, 1859.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations have received,
from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, through
her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires at Vienna, the subjoined
copy of a translation of a Notice to Mariners, warning
them not to anchor their vessels in the neighbourhood of
the new electric cable between Sicily and the coast of
Calabria.

TRANSLATION.
The following notice has been transmitted to us by the
direction of the Central Electric Telegraph in Sicily, and
we publish it for the guidance of navigators :
" Navigators are informed that two electric cables unite
Calabria to Sicily. The points of immersion on the Sici-
lian coast are the Tower of Ganzirri, at the entrance of the
Phase, and the citadel of Messina. On the Tower of Gan-
zirri the words Royal Electric Telegraph' are written in
black letters on a white ground, and during the night a
green signal light is kept burning.
"The present notice is given in order to prevent all ap-
proach or anchorage in the vicinity of the above-named
points."