The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-24 00:00:00

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY.
The Tagus has arrived with the Peninsular Mail.
She left. Lisbon Jan. 19, and brings specie, £9,613.
She spoke the Sultan on the 21st.
From Lisbon we learn that the indemnity claimed
by the French Government for the capture of the
Charles et Georges has been paid by the Portuguese
treasury. An augmentation of the ministry is ex-
pected.

It is rumoured that Sir Morton Peto is likely to
come to an arrangement with the Portuguese Go-
vernment respecting the Oporto Railway.
Exchange, 53; to 1.

GIBRALTAR, JAN. 12.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
packet Ceylon, Captain Evans, with the London
mails of the 6th inst., put into the Bay about half-
past eight o'clock last night. She experienced fine
weather as far as Cape St. Vincent, and then en-
countered very strong head-winds until her arrival
here. After leaving that part of the correspondence
destined for this place and taking on board the
mails made up at the Post-office here in the evening,
she resumed her voyage to Malta, Alexandria, India,
and China. The *Ceylon had only one passenger for
Gibraltar—Mr. Henry Felix Recano, a native of
this city, who was called to the bar on the 17th
November last by the Hon. Society of the Middle
Temple of London—and 128 others for the East.
JANUARY 13.

The British steamship Meander, Capt. M'Micken,
in six days from Liverpool, arrived last night. Her
dates are not later. than those received by the
Ceylon. The Meander is now discharging the
cargo she has on board for this place, and will leave
for the Sicilian ports in the course of the evening.
The Spanish overland mail came in this morning,
bringing Paris papers of the 7th inst., but no
Madrid journals. "The silence of the Moniteur of
the 6th," says a Paris paper, " no longer allows of
any doubt being felt as to the authenticity of the
phrase attributed to the Emperor by the Constitu-
tionnel. The language is a political event, what-
ever may be the interpretations given to it, and its
importance cannot be misunderstood."
The Cadiz Estafet has also come in. The French
screw transport Seine, which had left Cadiz on the
Bth, returned on the following day on account of
the bad state of the weather. The Ligero, in six
hours from' Gibraltar, arrived on Sunday. On the
10th a telegraphic despatch was received from
Madrid of the evening of the Bth, which merely
announced that the Senate was engaged in discuss-
ing the law projects on mines, and that the law on
the press would soon be brought forward.
We understand that Colonel Benjamin Spicer
Stehelin has been appointed commanding Royal
Engineer in this fortress, in succession to Major-
General Savage, who will leave for England about
the beginning of next month.
Lieutenant-Colonel Christie, R.A., is ordered to
proceed overland to India by the packet of the
20th, and not that of the 12th, as stated yesterday.
The Himalaya, Captain Seccombe, in seven days
from Portsmouth and four from Queenstown,
anchored in the bay at 8.40 last evening. She
brings a company of the Royal Engineers and
detachments of the 2d battalion 6th Regiment and
25th King's Own Borderers for this garrison, be-
sides 387 officers, non-commissioned officers, men,
women, and children of the 2d battalions of the 2d
Queen's, 3d Buffs, 15th Foot, 21st Fusiliers, and of
the 4th battalion Rifle Brigade for Malta. The
following is the'return of those for this place :
Royal Engineers—Captain and Brevet-Major
Sedley,• Lieut. Warren, 102 non-commissioned offi-
cers and men, 6 women and 6 children.

6th Regiment (2d Battalion)-30 non-commis-
sioned officers and men.

25th " K.0.8."-1 captain, 1 lieutenant, 40 non-
commissioned ofEcers and men, 2 women and 1
child. _

The men for this garrison will land immediately
after their dinner hour this day at the New Mole,
and join the head-quarters of their respective corps.
The Himalaya will proceed to Malta to-morrow
morning.

JANUARY 14.

By the steam-packet Tagus, which arrived at 2
o'clock a.m. from Southampton, we have received
our papers of the 7th inst.—Gibraltar Chronicle.

THE GREAT EASTERN.—The contract for the pur-
chase of the Great Eastern by the Great Ship Company was
concluded on Friday, and the first instalment of purchase-
money paid to the liquidators. £300,000, including the
subscriptions of the old shareholders in the Eastern Steam
Company, have been subscribed, and this, it is believed,
will be amply sufficient not only for the !purchase and com-
pletion of the ship, but also to provide working capital.
Plans and specifications are in a state of satisfactory for-
wardness for circulation among competent persons to tender
upon. A general meeting of the shareholders is to be con-
vened in the course of next month, so that no delay may
occur in giving practical effect to all arrangements for the
completion of the ship for sea within the contemplated
period,