The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-25 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF PASSENGERS FROM INDIA.

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Colombo, Captain Field, Admiralty agent, Lieut.
lcarbright, R.N., arrived here to-day with the
heavy portion of the India, China, and Australian
mails. Her dates were—Alexandria, Sept. 12th ;
Malta, 15th ; Gibraltar, 19th. Sbe brought 184
passengers, viz., Capt. Frazer, Dr. Giles, Capt.
Hazlewood, Mr. St. Leger, Mr. D. Campbell, Mrs,
White, infant, and son, Mrs. Tylter and four chil-
dren, lajor and Mrs. Price, Mrs. Speard, Mrs.
Impey, Miss Douglas, Mrs. Mayne, Mrs. Stirling,
Mrs. Stillman and three children, Capt. and Mrs.
Elliott and child, Hon. Capt. Forrester, Mr. and
Mrs. Lovegrove, R. Kyles, and W. Brenton, from
Bombay ; Mrs. Stewart and three children, Mrs.
Gill and infant, Mrs. Orr, Mrs. Rawlings, Lieut.
Stephenson, Mr. and Mrs. Perakote, infant, and
servant, and Mr. Shearb, from Madras • Mrs. Lay,
Mrs. Swinhoe, Mr. Raikes and son, Colonel, Mrs.,
and Miss Lennox, Mr. John Howard, Mrs. Jen-
kins and two children, Mrs. Tucker and infant,
two Misses Wilkins, rs. Stokes, Mrs. Chivers,
Mrs. and Miss Victor and two children, Mrs. Dow-
lans and child, Mrs. Watkins and two children,
Mr. Vellenos Mrs. Corbyn and infant, Mrs. Steel
and infant, Mrs. Meade, child, and son, Mrs. Bar-
row and two children, Mrs. Arnesbury and infant,
Mr. and Mrs. Berry, Mrs. Grant, child, and son,
Mrs. Ingram, infant, and son, Mrs. Goldney and
three children, Mrs. G. Edmonstone, R. Turner,
and Mrs. Ottley, from Calcutta ; Captain Read,
from Singapore • Mr. Blanchard, Captain Pews-
dale, Mr. Woodhead, and Mr. Savage, from Point
de Galle ; and Mrs. Brown, infant, and son, Mr.
and Mrs. Fasson, Mr. A. Bruce, Mr. Arnold, Mr.
Lipman, Mr. Mina, Capt. Newlands, Capt. Chap-
man, Mr. J. Ross, Dr. Burke, Capt. Reed, Mr.
Cautley, Mr. E. Christian, Mr. Lambert, G.
Donaldson, and Mr. J. Perry, from Alexandria.
Amongst the cargo of the Colombo were 1,285
bales of silk, with large quantities of gum, wool,
elephants teeth, opium, mother-of-pearl and shawls,
together with specie to the value of 4,8001.
Her Majesty's ship Desperate and Caradoc were
at Alexandria. The Tartarus was surveying in
Aboukir Bay, the Hibernia and Boxer were at
Malta, the Vigilant was en route to Cagliari, the
Vulture and Curlew were at Gibraltar, Admiral
Lord Lyons' squadron was at Algiers when last
heard of. The Egyptian government had purchased
the steamer Persia, formerly in the Australian Com-
pany's service.
The Colombo arrived off the Needles last night,
but for want of a pilot did not enter the Solent.
She passed Hurst Castle at half-past six this morn-
ing, and came up Southampton Water, and was
fastened on the West India buoy, off Netley Abbey,
until the tide rose-and enabled her to go into the
docks, which she entered at one o'clock this after-
noon. Numerous steamers and boats went off to
her for her mails and passengers. The India mail
was landed first and despatched, and then the Aus-
tralian mail was landed and despatched to the
General Post-office. The whole of the mail brought
by the Colombo consisted of about 320 boxes and
bags of letters and newspapers.
The Lady Mayoress arrived at Radley's Hotel,
in this town, from London, yesterday, to await the

arrival of the Colombo, iu order to render any as-
sistance to the fugitives from India that they might
require. Intelligence of the approach of the Co-
lombo off the Needles was communicated to her
ladyship, and she remained up all night in conse-
quence. Early this morning the Lady Mayoress,
accompanied by Mr. Under-Sheriff Andetton, of
London, proceeded clown Southampton Water
the Colombo in a small steamer that had brought
the Indian mail ashore. Her ladyship was dressed
in deep mourning, for the loss of her brother, Col.
Finnis, who was bided by the mutinous sepoys at
Meerut. Dr. Symes, a resident of Southampton,
who has fitted up apartments in his house for any
of the destitute Indicts refugees, was also early on
board the Indian mail packet. The Mayor of South-
ampton proceeded to the Colombo in another small
steamer, accompanied by Captain Engledue, the
superintendent of the Peninsularand Oriental Com-
pany, and other gentlemen. The Lady Mayoress,
as soon as she was on board the Colombo, was
conducted to Captain Field's cabin, and her objec
iu visiting the ship • was communicated with the
utmost delica6y to the passengers. Numerous rely
tives and friends of the passengers also went on
board, and their meeting with their friends from
India was an affecting sight. They embraced each
other in seeming unconsciousness of the presence of
strangers, and paced the deck with their arms en
circling each other's waists. A great number of
the passengers went ashore in one of the small
steamers. A crowd. of persons was in the dock,
and here also affectionate greetings took place be •
tween long absent friends and relatives, which drew
tears from many a bystander. There were aboui
sixty children on board the Indian mail packet, a
large portion of whom were infants in arms, all of
them hurried out of India on account of the fearful
atrocities committed there. The scene on board the
Colombo was very different from that which usually
takes place on board homeward India packets. The
'usual female passengers on board these ships are
ladies in the gayest spirits and dressed in the gor-
geous silks and shawls of the East ; but many of the
lady passengers of the Colombo bore marks of great
sufferings and anxieties, and their dresses betokened
their losses, and the rapidity of their flight from the
mutinous districts. Many of these passengers
escaped from Delhi, Luckne,w' and other parts of
Oude. Fortunately they started from those places
at the commencement of the mutinies. The language
of their husbands was, " Get out of the country
with the children as soon as you can, and never
mind us." Many of them have never heard any-
thing of their husband since. Some of the ladies
escaped nearly naked, lived in the jungle for days
with their infant children, starving, and rarely able
to get a handful of rice to satisfy the cravings of
hunger. Few villagers were willing to assist them,
and many of those who were willing were afraid te
do so. Not the least intere.oing refugee on board
the Colombo was a little dog. It had escaped from
Delhi by faithfully following its mistress and her
children. It had nearly psi I a heavy penalty for its
fidelity. Its back had been literally buret by th.,
sun, and is not healed yet. Some of the passenger s
give a frightful picture of the state of Calcutta
and the interior provinces of India. Many a time
all the persons in the employ of the Feninselar
and Oriental Company sought shelter on board the
company's steamers, the gulls of which were shotted,
and on board which armed watches were kept night
and day. The news of the mutinies at Meerut and
Delhi came upon the inhabitants of Calcutta like a
thunder clap. At Ceylon all the European troops
had left for the Bengal Presidency, and none but
Sepoy and Malay soldiers are left at Point de Galle
and Colombo. The Malay saldiers are eager to fight
the Sepoy mutineers, whom they cordially hate.
The Australian mail steamer was at Aden when
the Bentinck was at that port. The Australian
passengers brought to Suez by the Colombian
landed here to-day from the Colombo. The Tamar,
therefore, which took out the last overland mail,
will only bring home the specie and cargo of the
Colombian.
. About 1,0001. islikely to he raised in Southampt )11
for the Indian sufferers. A letter has been received
here from the East India Company stating that no
official list of the persons massacred in Cawnpore
has been received in England. Mr. Delafosse and
Mr. Bruce, who escaped from Cawnpore, are coo-
nested with Southampton. •

GENERAL HAVELOCK.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—I have waited vainly for some days in
the hope that I should see some distinguished mark
of royal favour bestowed upon that great man on
whose proceedings the eyes of the country are
anxiously fixed as the one hope of Englandin
General Havelock ; and all that has yet been done
to reward his glorious career is a pension of 1001,
a-year, which he shares, I suppose, m common with
fifty or a hundred ordinary men !
Is it possible, sir, that any cold etiquette can be
allowed to stand in the way of the expression of
that intense gratitude which I venture to say the
nation feels for those brave and glorious deeds ?
Who knows how soon a life of such toil and such
peril may be cut short? Let it not be said ilia'
any time was lost in rewarding it while it lasted.
Let the very next mail carry to General Havelock
the news that his servic€ s are appreciated in Eng-
land, and that no honour is grudged to the man
who with a handful of brave soldiers has encoun-
tered over and over again incalculable odds and in
every conflict has come off victorious.
Little do our rulers appear to be aware of all
that they lose by failing to reward, or by reward-
ing too late, the services ef such a man as Have-
lock. Do they imagine that France would have
left such an officer for one week ungraced by every
title of honour and every form of reward which sol-
diers value or a grateful country can bestow ?—I
am, sir, your obedient servant, •
PIIILAGATIIOS.

[Our correspondent should make all .wane© for
the fact that there is scarcely a Minister in London,
that Lord Panmure is more intent on the destruc-
tion of grouse than of mutineers, and that "the
fount•aiu of Honour" itself is far away in the High-
lands out of raach even of telegraph.-EDITOR Or.
THE TIMES.]

Two private letters from Calcutta, dated the Bth of
August, state that 500 French troops had arrived in the
Emilie at the same time as the Shannon. We presume
these French truops have come froui China to defend
French inttrests at Chandernagore.