The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-26 00:00:00

THE BOMB AI MAILS.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw
steamer Orissa, Capt. J. K. Joy, arrived at South-
ampton on Saturday afternoon, with the heavy por-
tion of the Bombay mails in charge of Mr. Fisher,
of the General Post-office. She brought 62 passen-
gers, among whom were Capt. Baley, her Majesty's
26th Regiment ; Capt. Blyth, her Majesty's 14th
Light Dragoons ; Capt. Millar, 22d Regiment Na-
tive Infantry; Capt. Newall, 92d Highlanders,
wife, child, and servant ; Capt. Stewart, her Ma-
jesty's 6th Regiment; Capt. Witlington, her Ma-
jesty's 7th Dragoon Guards ; Capt. Davidson,
Bombay Engineers, wife, four children, and two
servants; Capt. Gwyther ; Mrs. Col. Woosman,
child, and servant; Mrs. Capt. Corrigan; Lieut.
Burnes, 26th Regiment Native Infantry ; Lieut.
Fulton, 7th Regiment Native Infantry ; Lieut.
Gregory, H.M.S Orion ; Cornet Fitzgerald, 3d Dra-
goon Guards ; Dr. Keith, Bombay army, wife, two
children, and servant; Dr. Strover, Bombay army;
Dr. -Webb, her Majesty's 46th Regiment, child, and
servant ; Mr. and Mrs. Stewart, t. o children and
servant; Mr.. Mrs., and Miss Simpson ; Messrs.
Leese and Kelsham (Company's service), Bourne,
Bensuson, Scofield, Harrell, &e. The cargo of the
Orissa consisted of 771 bales of silk, 17 cases of
shawls, 233 bales of flax, 4 live turtle, 332 boxes of
raisins, 58 cartoons of figs, 90 boxes of almonds, 1
box of grapes, 1 box and 2 hhds. of wine, 29 pack-
ages of elephants' teeth, 28 packages of senna, and
245 packages of general merchandise.
The Orissa left Alexandria on the 10th inst at
5.30 p.m. ; Malta on the 14th, at 8 p.m. ; and Gib-
raltar on the 19th, at 6 p.m. In the Mediterranean,
both outwards and homewards, she had generally
moderate weather, since leaving Gibraltar strong
head winds, and the last two days thick hazy wea-
ther.
The usual Egyptian fleet was at Alexandria.
At Malta were H.M.S. Marlborough, Orient,
Hibernia, Victor Emmanuel, Caradoc, and Cadmus,
with the gunboats Boxer and Lapwing; also the
Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Al-
hambra, which was to leave for Corfu with the
mails in the night of the 14th. The steamer Valetta,
with the Calcutta mails and passengers, arrived at
Malta from Marseilles at 8 p.m. on the 14th.
H.M.S. Vulture was at Gibraltar; and the Quail
at Tangier.
Off Cape Finisterre the Orissa pissed a French
28-gun frigate, towing three floating batteries,
bound to the northward, all under steam.
Io the bay she passed two line-of-battle ships and
one frigate, bound to the southward, all out of
signal distance.
The steamer Indus, 51 days hence, with Bombay
and Australian mails, arrived at Gibraltar on the
17th, and proceeded to Malta and Alexandria at
7.30 a.m. on the 18th.
The British merchant steamer Oscar, Capt. T.
Trapp, 7 days from London, with a general cargo,
arrived at Gibraltar on the 18th ; and the Danube,
Capt. J. Parfitt, 7 days from Liverpool, on the 19th,
with a general cargo, for Naples and Corfu.
Exchanges at Gibraltar were quoted at follows :
—London, 90 days date, 51 ; Paris, ditto, sfr. 32c.;
Marseilles, ditto, sfr. 32c. ; Genoa, ditto, sfr. 33c. ;
Madrid, 8 days' sight, dis. ' • Cadiz, ditto, dis. ;
Malaga, ditto, par ; Seville, dis.; Alicante, dis. ;
Valencia, dis. ; Barcelona, par. ; Spanish pillared
dollars, 3 per cent. pm.—none, and no demand.
Our Gibraltar correspondent writes as under, on
the 19th inst. :
" Two more battalions of Spanish troops arrived
at Algesiras about 10 o'clock this morning in two
steam troopships. They landed shortly afterwards.
"The crew of a boat belonging to her Majesty's
ship Firebrand, which had gone over to Algesiras
yesterday, having had a quarrel with some Spaniards
loitering at the landing-place there, four of the men
were, we hear, ill-treatd and ultimately imprisoned
by the authorities of that town. The Firebrand
crossed over this 'morning to see into the affair,
which is reported to be rather scandalous on the
part of the Spaniards. The Firebrand is still there,
anchored opposite the Spanish squadron. The Por-
tuguese schooner Frederica and British schooner
Victoria arrived this afternoon from Mazagan (Bar-
bary), bringing a large number of European fugi-
tives from that port. They are principally people
from Gibraltar, who had.established themselves for
the purpose of purchasing the cereals and other
produce of that country for exportation. The same
night the Vulture left Mazagan the mountaineers
invaded the place, destroying and pillaging all they
could lay hands on. Among the passengers are all
the European consuls. They complain that the
Vulture did not remain longer than she did. Some
of the refugees had to swim for their lives."