The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-26 00:00:00

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
mad,, in charge of Lieut. IL b
in R.N.,
ship Granada, Capt. Tree-ear, arrived at South-
ampton yesterday at 4 p.n ,with the Peninsular
agent. She left Gibraltar on the, 'l6th, at 6.20 p.m.,
Cadiz at 11 a.m. on the 17th,
Admiralty
Lillson at 10.30 a.m.
on the 21st.
Outwards, on leaving Southampton,
experienced a be ivy gale from the * the Granada
-S. W., with
on the 19th, and Vigo at 3.30 p.ro-
squally and rainy weather • crosing the bay,
more
moderate; from Cape Fin isteri e down the coasts mo-
derate and fine ;
easterly wind; in the Straits of
ard voyage she hadmode-
rate and fine weather to Cape St. Vincent's ; strong
northerly winds from the Cape to Lisbon ; very
strong northerly winds and squally weather from
Lisbon, with a westerly swea.
Gibraltar. On the homew
No communication
with Oporto. From Vigo fresh northerly
and north-
easterly
long northerly and north-we-terly swell. In the
winds and heays squall, with very heavy
Channel, strong E. -.E. winds,
The Granada passed the com patty's steamer Tagus
going out of Vigo
Bay on the 21st at 9 a.m.,, and
_
exchanged colours with the Indus at 3 p.m, on the
22d, in lat. 44.40 N ,long. 8 and Squally.
,10 W., under all sail.
This steamer brings 16 first-class passengers,
among whom are Lt,
second-claes, including 13 non commissioned offi-
cers of the Royal Artillery ; and 6 deck passen-
gers.paokage value
has three packages of specie,
of 60 half-chests
gnuodneBot7enrisorifntah e 92d Re g t ; 20
xe2asisdried plums,
On freight she
value 1,2951. sterling, and one
half-boxes of raisins,
15 half-boxes of
abartrarrels of currants, 2 baskets
0033
f,fooooOrbOs 0,
melons,tOxgOesOss r,
oe3tsf
i;
igbasobn,
xod
pomegranates, 7 baskets of chesnuts, 232 boles of
almonds, 140 eb..xes of eggs, and .17 packages of
general merchandise.
Private letters received at Gibraltar, dated from
on board the Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steamship Madras, near the Maurithr, the 9th of
Sept., abate that she was on her way to Calcutta,
with the head-quarters of her Majesty's 13th Light
Infantry, commanded by Col. L ,rdM. Kerr. They
had only two days' notice to quit the Cape for India.
Tne second division of this gallant corps, under the
command of Major J. W. Cox, was likewise on its
way to the same destination to assist in quelling
the mutinies.
The arrival at Gibralter of the Rhone steamer,
and her collision with a French barque, were re-
ported
by the Riponsteamer (see The un, of Fri-
of
day). The Gibralier Chronicle the 16th publishes
the following additional particular a :--
" The vessel reported to have been in collision with
the steamer Rhone is the barque Adolphe et Laure,
Captain Razouls, from Marseilles, with a general
cargo for Buenos Ayres. The Orient steamtug with
some of the crew star ted last night, and the Govern-
ment stearutug R.ednolo. with Captain Razouls, this
morning, in quest of the barque, which was lost
sight of after the collision. The following is the
report of the captain of the Rhone :.—' At 9.30 p.m.,
Oct. 14, a sail was reported on port bow; our helm
t i make all sure, was ported, when we found, on the
ship approaching, she had her helm to starboard.
We directly stopped the engines and reversed full
speed. in five minutes we came in collision very
softly. We still kept the engines going astern,
when the ship came before the windand she cleared
us. On examining our own shi-
n I found the hull
perfect, our only loss being a a ;
ibboom and that we
had 19 people on board from the strange ship, leas"-
. iug two on board.'
i The Granada' left Lisbon on the 19th inst., when
the reports respecting the fever varied little from
those last received. Many persons of importance had
been carried off,
including three generals—Casal,
Francos, and Rezende ; bht the cases were princi-
pally confined to the lower parts of the town, and
the banks of the river, the hills being comparatively
free.
The Lisbon exchanges by this packet are quoted
for three months at 541 on London, with little
doing and a scarcity of takers, the fever panic hav-
ing rendered collections from the shopkeepers diffi
cult ; Paris, 527 to 528 ; Hamburg 48i
O , In
m, 42i ; And Genoa, 526 , ; Amster-
the stocks,also,
,