The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-23 00:00:00

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, MAI 22'
The above mails reached here at midnight
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Peninsular and Oriental Com an 's steareelaiPin the
Sul-
tan, Captain Neil Cook, which left Lisbon oa the
17th, Oporto 18th, and Vigo 18th.
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The Sultan brought the largest number of
sengers and cargo ever shipped for Southampton
s
by a Peninsular boat, there being 75 passengers in
all, 54 first class (including his Royal Highness the
Duke of Saxe Coburg and Sir James Ferguson, late
Governor of Gibraltar), 17 second, and 4 deck;
besides £7,000 in specie, and 2,450 half-chests of
of
79 boxes potatoes, 280 kets of ditto,
oranges,
794 elephantB s' tusks, and 20 packagesbas of sundrie s.
No political news.
The Tyne arrived at Lisbon on the 13th, and left
the following day for the Brazils.

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by the removal of someoilae lower supports. The
had not terminated when we went to press. , been
CIIELSEA NEW BRIDGE.—A movement has Aof
set on foot in Clapham and the vicinity for the purPl;
procuring the construction of a south-west aPP.rea-,.,..at
Chelsea New Bridge, the want of which is causing of
public inconvenience. It seems that for the PurPTszy
effecting the object in view it will be necessary to comp Aas
new railway in the locality to be on an embankment, eilnse
close to the present South-Western line as possible, !al!: 76;01
to get the Crystal Palace line raised. The road require re..
Galas
detailed in
have to pass under the railways, and part of the lanuwill
quired for it is trust property ; an Act of Parliament
therefore be necessary for the purpose. As one of the spit
cies by which this work might be carried out was bb
to be the Battersea-park Commissioners, application
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then. Y
been made to that body on the subject, and innor
they state that they have neither power to execute It ex.
funds for the purpose. At the same time the bowery
presses its opinion that the proposed road would be nil,
desirable both as regards the interest of the public gerler.
and that of the owners and occupiers of land in the ileiZceor.
bouroood. The other agencies by means of which the .4„.,
struction of the road may be carried out will be---tlae
tropolitan Board of Works, under the 144th section Ve,
Metropolis Local Management Act ; a committee or sio
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formed by or from the public for the purpose ; or,
the landholders themselves. prit of
FATAL ACCIDENT AT SEA.—A corresponv- ros,
the New York Herald, writing from San Juan del DU,'
el,
April 16, says :—" The mail from Costa Rica reaches disc
this morning. The mail boat or canoe met with a f „we,
aster on the river Serapique, soon after leaving the -',,ant
There were four passengers in it, an English were lived
named Joy, his wife and servant, and a German, wile en.
at the Moen, called Juan Aleman. It seems the canoeing..
countered one of the many eddies in the river, which tni.r,
what resembles your Eastern river, and, whirling sli; ;.0.
capsized, pitching out the passengers. Mr.
the who.csist-
excellent swimmer, caught his wife, and wi the in
ante of the boatman righted the bcat, and succeede
placing Mrs Joy and the servant safely into it, and fintiffa.
got into it himself. The boat being half full of water, tiav,"..
could not be persuaded to sit down, and the boatmenci:L,
tempted to swim and drag the boat ashoro but had sea
y,
begun to move when the boat sank. Mrs! Joy sank aka he
and was not seen to rise again. The German dived,
o,fe_
too was lost for ever. The servant girl had on a crin
.11,11ter!
which it is said saved her from a watery grave. -,:%:'the
satisfying himself that his wife could not be found, nor
gallant German who sought to save her, Mr. Joy ret 17,
to San Jose with the servant. They had spent govern" yea
at Costa Rica, and had started to visit their relatives
England,"