The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-06 00:00:00

THE MAILS.

SOUTH LUIPTON, April 4.—The Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steam-ship Colombo, Capt. J.
S. Field, left to-day for Gibraltar, Malta, and
Alexandria with the India and China mails, up-
wards of 100 passengers, and a full cargo, including
2,926 boxes of specie and valuables for the follow-
ing places, viz.:—

Silver. Gold. Jewellery.
Bombay £250,378 10 0 ... ... £306 10 0
Ceylon
Madras ...
11,614 0 0 ... 4,998 ... 913 9 0
Calcutta
Penang 12,109 7 6 ... ... ... 285 0 0
Singapore 31,516 13 4 ... . ... ... 44 5 0
Hong Kong 121,217 4 2 ...

Canton - 6,297 0 0 ... ...
Shanghai.... 161,709 0 0 ... ...

161 0 0

£780,636 15 0 £7,998 £2,441 14 0
Total value of specie and jewellery for India and
China, 791,1261. 9s. Tho Alhambra leaves this
port on Tuesday the 7th inst., with the mails for
Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar ; and
the next 'nails from those ports will be brought by
the Tagus, due here on the 14th inst. The Indus,
with tue heavy portion of the India and China
mails, is not expected before Tuesday or Wednes-
day. The Royal Mail Company's steamer Teviot,
Capt. Moir, leaves on the 9th with the Brazilian
and giver Plate mails, and the Parana on the 17th
with the mails for the West Indies. Thee
.homeward steamers, with the Brazilian and West
India mails, are the Medway, due on the 14th from
the Brazils, and the Atrato, due on the 16th from
the West India Islands. The United States mail
steamer Fulton, Capt. Wotton, leaves here on Wed-
day next for New York. The Belgian Royal mail
steamer Leopold 1., Capt. Michel, and the United
States mail steamer Hermann, Capt. Higgins,
which arrived off Cowes from New York on Friday
night, proceeded on their respective voyages imme-
diately after landing passengers, &e., for Southamp-
ton, the former for Antwerp and the Antwerp and
the latter for Bremen. The Leopold is advertised
to leave Southampton for New York on the 21st,
and the Hermann on the 22d inst.

ELECTION OF INCUMBENT OF ST. JAMES, CLERKEN-
wELL.—At the close of the second day'spoll the numbers
stood as follow :—For Mr. Maguire, 888 ; Mr. Ball, 7 ;
and Mr. Herbert, 1.

PRESTON AND WYRE SHARES.—RESOLUTION OF CO3l-
- OF STOCK EXCHANGE.—The original 251. Shares,
and the Halves A, Consolidated Half B, and 6th Shares,
to be taken and delivered indiscriminately—whole shares
for the corresponding fractions, and the fractions for
whole shares.

WIFE POISONING AT CHORLEY.—On Friday, Edward
Hardman, a shoemaker, of Chordley, Lancashire, was
committed to Lancashire Gaol on a charge of wilful mur-
der. Hardman's wife died early in March, and was
buried in Brindle parish church ; but as some suspicions
existed as to the cause of her death, the body was exhumed
on the2oth ult., and the stomach and other ♦iscera were
examined by an analytical chemist, who found arsenic
and antimony in them. In order that the heart and
lungs might be also examined the inquest was adjourned
till Friday, when the gentleman who had made the exa-
ruination expressed his opinion that the woman's death
had resulted from poison.

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the decoration, of wt:ich due noti3e wilrisa gia, be .
the authorities at the War Dertrtment and Admi-
ralty. The announcement will necessarily be (1.1-
layecl for a short period.
Admirals the Hon. R. S. Dancla.s and Eden,
Captain Alexander Milne, Sir Robert Peel, Bart ,
M.P., and Mr. Bernal Olyune, M.P., the Junior
Lords and Secretary of the Admiralty, left town
on Saturday, to make an official inspection at Wool-
wich Dockyard.
Ca.pt. Mulock, of the 70th Foot, proceeds to
China with the expedition, as Aide-de-Camp to
Lieut.-General Ashburqbarn, C.B.
Capt. the Hon. J. R. Drummond, C. 8., has
been appointed naval a'de-de-camp to the Queen,
vice Codrin2ton, promoted to flag rank.
We regret to hear that Vice-Admiral Sir W. H.
Dillon, K. C.FI., is seriously ill.
The next vacancy among the " Active" flag offi-
cers will occasion the promotion of Capt. M'Dou-
gall, the Superintendent of Packets at Southamp-
ton. This officer has also a good-service pension.
Next to Capt. M'Dougall Capt. Michael Quin will
be promoted, thereby placing three good-service
pensions at the disposal of Sirt Wood—viz., thos
of Captains Lapidge, Slaughter, and Quin.
Her Majesty's iron screw steam storesbip Indus-
try, Master-Commander Hodges, arrived at Wool-
wich on Saturday from Plymouth, and proceeded
to Deptford to embark stores for Rio and Ascension.
The paddlewheel steamvessel Cuckoo, tender to
the flagship Waterloo, at Sheerness, brought up a
number of supernumerary seamen to Woolwich on
Saturday for the gunboats which are being manned
at that yard.
Intelligence has been received of the arrival of
her Majesty's steamship Simoom at lat. 0 25 N.,
long. 20 30 W., on March 3, with the head-quarters
of the 33d Regiment, Lieut.-Col Johnstone, C. 8.,
commanding, on board; all well. No casualties
since embarking at Kingstown on Feb. 4.
Tho Greenwich out-pension, vacant by the pro-
motion of Capt. Hillyar to flag rank, has been con-
ferred upon Capt. W. Turner.
Mr. J. Rusden' master, R.N., who was dis-
missed summarily from HM.S. Electra, and the
service, on the arrival of that vessel from the Aus-
tralian station, at Spithead, has been restored to
his position in the Navy List upon his own repre-
sentation.

The Duke of Wellington, 131, Capt. Caldwell,
C. 8., wag paid off at Portsmouth on Saturday. Silo
will be placed in the steam res,rve until wanted.
Thy Nimrod 6, screw despatch gunvessel, Corn.
Dew, did nit leave Portsmouth until daylight on
Saturday for China, touching at Plymouth for final
orders,.

The William Hammond freight-ship sailed from
Portsmouth on Saturday morning for Jamaica with
a detachment of the 41st Regiment. _

The Sir George Rogers freight-ship arrived at
Spithead yesterday morning from Bermuda with
returned exiles. _ .

The Terror, 14, floating battery, steamed into
Sheerness harb -iur on Saturday, about 3 p.m.,
after having been cruising off the Big Nore for the
last two or three days. Captain E. P. Halsted,
Mr. J. C. Hutchings, and Mr. J. H. Langley, of
the steam reserve ; with Mr. Enwood, foreman
shipwright afloat, accompanied her on the second
trial trip, which we hear was satisfactory, and that
they got more than six knots out of her.
The Meanee, 84, is being converted into a screw
in No. 2 dry dock, Sheerness.
The Transit, 6, iron screw trop-frigate, Com-
mander E. Chambers, at Portsmouth, is receiving
an immense quantity of camp equipment and stores
of every description, besides heavy 10-inch breach-
ing guns. A number of the nledical staff corps
arrived on Saturday afternoon and went on board.
A portion of the 59th and three companies of the
90th will embarked to day, and the Transit will, in
all probability, sail to-morrow, en route for China.
The Himalaya, 6, iron screw troop-frigate, Com-
mander Haswell (late of the Plumper), will haul
alongside the dockyard jetty as soon .as the. Duke
of Wellington is removed, to embark the 90th,
and also a great quantity of camp equipage and
munition.
The Drake screw gunboat, Lieut. W. Arthur,
has had sundry alterations made in her rig.
She has had a standing bo *sprit and jibboom, also
a foretopmast with a standing topsail and foreyard,
which improves her considerably. She went out of
harbour on Saturday on trial, under sail. She has
but two mast, and if the above rig succeeds it is
supposed all the other gunboats fitting for China
will be similarly altered.
The sailing ship Cumberland, 70, atting in Nc.
3 dry dock, at Sheerness, was commissioned on
Saturday by Capt. J. B. Dickson, for the flag of
Rear-Admiral of the Rea, P. W. P. Wallis, to
command on the Brazilian station. Admiral Wallis
is expected to hoist his flag this day on board the
Edinburgh, Captain E. P. Halsted, until the Cum-
berland is sufficiently, fitted to receive the flag.
She will be ready to be put out of dock iu about
ten days.
The Pylades, 21, screw steam corvette at Sheer-
ness, in the first-class steam reserve (now in the
fitting basin), is also ordered to be immediately
commissioned. Captain Hall, late of the Heels
and Nemesis, is daily expected to commission her.
On the recent occasion of Miss Nightingale visit-
ing Cha him, for the purpose of inspecting the
naval and military hospitals of the garrison, that
lady instituted some inquiries relative to the work-
ing of the Chatham Gariisou Compassionate Insti-
tute—a society supported entirely by the officers
and troops at Chatham, and which has been in ex-
istence a great number of years. Miss Nightin-
gale was informed that the objects of the institu-
tion were to provide a hospital for the sick women
and children of the garrison ; to supply relief to
those women whose husbands may be in hospital ;
and also to give food, clothing, and lodging to those
destitute soldiers' wives who are constantly arriv-
ing at Chatham for the purpose of embarking with
draughts proceeding to the respective regiments of
their husbands ; in addition to which relief is admi-
nistered in a great variety of distressing cases
which may naturally be expected to occur in a gar-
rison circumstanced like that of Chatham. Before
leaving the hospitals Miss Nightingale expressed
her intention of becoming a subscriber to their
funds, and she has just forwarded to the treasurer
the handsome donation of 50 guineas.