The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-25 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY MAILS.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw
steamship' Behar, Capt. G. W. Hicks, bringing the
heavy portion of these mails, arrived at Southamp-
ton yesterday at 6 p.m. She left Alexandria on the
10th inst.; Malta the 13th, and Gibraltar the 18th.
As far as Gibraltar she had moderate winds and
fine weather; thence to Cape Finisterre strong
gales, with heavy head seas ; fine weather in the
Channel. i
This packet brought 83 passengers, among whom
were Major-General Blood, Brigadier Stisted,
Majors Hay and Mein, Captains Heatley, Womb-
well, Paget, Etheridge, Roberts, Creagh, Levine,
Taylor, Archer, Austin, and Forrest ; Colonels Tur-
ner and Timmins: Drs. Naylor, Johnson, Gibson,
Currie, and Williams—all from Bombay ; Captain
the Hon. Pennington, from Malta; Capt. Camp-
bell, from Gibraltar, &c. On freight she has three
packages of specie, value not stated, four ditto of
valuables, 110 bales of silk, and general cargo.
On the 18th inst. the Behar spoke H.M.S. Doris;
20th, H.M.S. Exmouth; 22d, signalled a sloop of
war, but received no reply; 24th, spoke American
ship Sonora, in lat. 46.27 N., lon. 6.56 W., and the
English ship Benjamin Flaxte, in lat. 48.17 N.,
long. 5.40 W.
The usual Egyptian fleet was at Alexandria.
At Malta were her Majesty's ships Hannibal,
Caradoc, Boxer, Lapwing, and Hibernia. The Orion
and St. Jean d'Acre were cruising outside.
Her Majesty's ship Vulture was at Gibraltar.
The Peninsular and Oriental steamship Indus,
with the outward Australian and Bombay mails
ve
of
the 12th, arrived at Gibraltar on the 17th, i
days from Southampton.
Capt. Tomicich, of the Austrian bark Mercede,
arrived at Gibraltar, reported that he was chased,
about a fortnight previous, by a Riffian boat off
Cape Tres Forcas, for a considerable time, ut,
thanks to a smart breeze which sprang up, he was
enabled to clear the coast, or the pirates would have
succeeded in their design of boarding his vessel.
Her Majesty's steamer Banshee, Capt. Campbell,
from Plymouth, arrived at Gibraltar on the 14t
h;
and the steamsloop Intrepid, also from Plymout,
on the 16th.
A correspondent at. Gibraltar writes as follows
on the 18th :
" The anxiously expected east wind set in be-
tween ten and eleven o'clock last night. The ves-
sels in dur bay, including many which have been
here since the 16th ult., as well as those in the road-
stead of Algeciras and from behind the Rock,
weighed anchor and sailed for the westward. The
Sardinian storeship Aurora likewise took advant-
age of the favourable breeze to leave for the Baltic.
The Aurora, Capt. Augiet, has been detained since
the 15th of May, the day of her arrival from Villa-
franca, Waiting for a fair wind. Owing to the
lightness' of the wind this morning, the entrance of
the Straits was observed to be very crowded with
vessels under sail. What with those that have
already taken their departure and others that con-
tinue to wend their way from the eastward, the
number now proceeding to the various ports in the
Atlantic greatly exceeds 500 sail. The Thor, Capt.
Wulf, Danish war steamer, which arrived yester-
day, is from Cadiz and Tangier, and remains. The
Russian steamer Odessa, from Marseilles and Va-
lencia, with oranges for London, arrived yesterday
afternoon ; and the Boeotia steamer, from Liverpool
for Palermo, and the Alice steamer, front London
for Genoa, put in this morning. All these steamers
will leave for these,destination in the course of the
day. Her Majesty's steamer Intrepid, 6 gun vessel,
left for the eastward at half-past 1 p.m. yesterday;
the Indus steam packet shortly after for Malta, &c.
A French screw liner passed to the eastward about
4. Wind continues east.
" Exchange.—London, 501 ; Paris, sf. 20c. ;
Marseilles, sf. 26c. ; Genoa, 5 29." •

We have great pleasure in stating that the Board
of Admiralty have paid a very gratifying tribute to the
services of Mr. Corry, as their secretary, by promoting his
nephew, Lieut. the
.11on. Armar Lewry Corry, now serving
lkex. gajesty's ship Dierfley, te the rea 0 commander,