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

THE STEAM PACKETS FOR INDIA.

SOUTHAMPTON, AUGUST 8.
The Peninsnlar and Oriental Company's steamer
Candia will be taken out to India by Captain
Brown. The following officers have already
booked themselves to go out in her, viz : Colonel
Mathie ; Captains Pelly, Sage, Lynch, Barwise,
Stansbury, 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,
party have decided that no one be appointed
the managers of the Peninsular and Oriental Com -
to command any of their ships in the Indian and
Chinese seas by their superintendent at Calcutta,
unless such person bas been confirmed as comman-
der by the company. In addition to the two ships
Granada and Delhi which have just been launched for
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). He
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 voyage,
will take three months' repairing, as one of her
engines is almost completely gone. Her break down
was very singular. A small steamer 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 Lepe in the Solent to take
in her pilot. She was seen from the small steamer to
stop for this purpose, and immediately the latter
started 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 firini.; and rockets were ascending in
the direction of Lope. This induced the captain
of the little steamer to turn back and run for Lope,
when be found that the Pera had completely broken
down and could nut move either way. Had
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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 bas 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 in India, had a narrow
escape from the mutineers. The following officers
have been booked to go out in the Indian mail
packers which are to leave Southampton, viz.:—
Colonels Horsford, Leesun Michell, Bygrave, and
Burn ; Majors Black and Larkins ; Captains H.
Richards, Raban, Phillips, Vincent, Be-borough,
Faulkner, Harkness, and D. M`Neill • and Lieu-
tenants Cleghorn, J. C. Merrick, Woodbridge,
.Nlylne, H. Benele, M`Neill, and Bell.

THE EXETER-HALL SERVICES.—The Right Rev. Dr.
Bicaersteth, the Lord Bishop of Ripon, delivered last
night the concluding sermon to the working classes, in
Exeter•hall, '