The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-10 00:00:00

THE STEAM PACKETS FOE INDIA.

SOUTHAMPTON, AUGUST 8.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Candia will Le taken out to India by Captain
Brown. The following officers hare already
booked themselves to go out in her, viz : Colonel
Mathie ; Captains Pelly, Sage, Lynch, Barwise,
Sransbury, French, Baird, G. Clarke, Hughes,
Tedlie, and T. G. Miller ; Lieutenants Henegan,
W. B. Shawe, and Harmer ; and Ensign Morris.
In consequence of the loss of the Erin, in India,
the managers of the Peninsular and Oriental Com-
pany have decided that no one shall be appointed.
to command any of their ships in the Indian and.
Chinese seas by their superintendent at Calcutta,
unless such person has been confirmed. as comman-
der by the company. In addition to the two ships
Granada and Delhi which have just beenlaunchedfor
the Peninsular and Oriental Company, the company
have ordered four more ships to be built. Captain
Brooks, the commodore of the company's fleet, has
been superannuated on full pay (6001. a-year). Ho.
has been in the company's service nearly 20 years,
has commanded a number of their largest ships, and
never met with any disaster. He has proved him-
self a first-rate practical navigator. The Alhambra,
which broke down on her last Peninsular voyage,
will shortly be ready for sea again. The Pera,
which broke down on her last Alexandrian voyager
will take three months' repairing, as one of her
engines isalmost completely gone. Her break down
wac very singular. A small stsanmr was on the look
out for her in the Solent, in order to follow
her up in Southampton Water, and trans-
ship her mails if she could not go into dock.
The Pera arrived off Lope in the Solent to take
in her pilot. She was seen from the small steamer to
sop for this purpose, and immediately the latter
staved up Southampton Water to be in readiness
for the Pera. Just as the small steamer got inside
Calshot Castle and out of sight of the Pera, guns
commenced firing and rockets were ascending in
the direction of Lepe. This induced the captain
of the little steamer to turn back and run for Leper
when he found that the Pera had completely broken
pilot there can be no
down and could not move either way. Had.
steamed right
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going, she would go, but the instant she stopped
there was no more go in her. It was most for-
tunate that she was stopped before she was so
near home. She was towed from Lepe to
Southampton. The Pera is the largest steamer be-
longing to the Peninsular and Oriental Company.
Captain Black, who has been in command of the
Bengal, the largest of the company's mail steamers
in the Indian seas, and who commanded the
Colombo on her last voyage to Alexandria and
back, is on the sick list. His wife was one of
the
passengers from India in the Colombo. She
lost two near relatives, officers, in India, who
were killed in the Bengal mutiny, and her father,
who is also an officer iu India, had a narrow
escape fromethe mutineers. The following officers
have been booked to go out in the Indian mail
packets which are to leave Southampton, viz.:—
Colonels Horsford, Leesuu Michell, Bygrave, and
Burn ; Majors Black and Larkins ; Captains H.
R'chards, !Wean, Phillips, Vincent, Besborough,
Faulkner, Harkness, and D. I\l'lsTeill; and Lieu-
tenants Cleghorn, J. C. Merrick, Woodbridge,
Mylne, H. Benele, M'Neill, and Bell.

THE EXETER-HALL SERVICES.—The Right Rev. Dr.
ackersteth, the Lord Bishop of Ripon, delivered last
tiiglit the concluding sermon to tho working classes', in
Exeter-kall.