The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-23 00:00:00

THE INDIAN MAIL

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Ripon, Captain Dundas • Admiralty agent, Lieut.
Robins, R.N., arrived at Southampton yesterday
with the heavy portion of the Indian mail. The
China snail is missing, not having arrived at Point
de Galle when the Calcutta packet left that port.
The Ripon left Alexandria October 7 ; Malta, 11 ;
Gibraltar, 15. Among her cargo were 1,979 bales
and cases of silk, elephants' teeth, two cases of
sculpture, besides specie to the value of 28,0001.
Her Majesty's ships Hibernia, Conqueror, Boxer,
Despatch, Caradoc, Vigilant, and Wanderer, were
at Malta ; the Curlew and the Vulture and a Nor-
wegian corvett were at Gibraltar ; the royal mail
steamer Tamar, the screw steamers Malakoff,
African, Scarnandar, and Pharsalia, and the
Egyptian fleet were at Alexandria.
The Ripon experienced from Alexandria to
Malta heavy squalls of wind and rain ; from Malta
to Gibraltar fine weather, with occasional squalls.
From Gibraltar to Southampton she had strong
winds from north-west to north-north-east, and off
Pottland a dense fog darkened the channel, which
compelled the Ripon to lie to. She reports the
British channel to be full of shipping.
She brought .howo about 150 passengers, con-
sisting of 56 first-class passengers, 18 second-class,
48 children, 13 European servants, and 8 native
servants. Their names are as follows, viz.: From
Bombay—Mrs. Hicks and child, Lieutenant and
Mrs. Battye and three children, Mrs. De Vitre
and child, Mr. D. Campbell and four children,
M(s Warden and child, Miss Miller and two
children, Mrs. Woolcombe, Mrs. M`Gregor and
three children, Major Vincent, Mr. and Mrs. MUS-
and child, Mrs. Shutaford and child, Mrs.
two children, Miss Cloete, Miss Cat nagie, and child,
PBraartn Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Brooks and
tes,
Lieutenant Grant, Mrs. Graham. From Calcutta
—Mrs. Goate and Infant, Mrs. Gould and two
children, Mr. Fowles, Mr. Tattle, Mrs. Chapman
and child, Mr. and Mrs. Paterson and two children,
Mrs. Cockburn, and three children, Lieut. and
Airs. Cooper and child, Dr. Boyle, Mrs. Templer,
Mrs. Lushington and infant, Mrs. Astell and in-
fat t, Mrs. wingieard and infant, Mrs. M‘Lardy
Hutchinson, Mrs. Sneyd, Mrs. Alex-
and infant, two Misses Weyer, Miss Ramsay, Miss
Short, Miss
ander and infant, Mrs. Vallings and three children,
Mr. Harmer, Mr. Carpenter, Mr. Brait, Edward
James, Thomas Weaver., Wm. Russell, William
W. Nicholas,
Mrs. bidddings. From Madras—Rev. Mr. and
Harris, Sidney Frisk,
Bmoiy:e
and three children, Mr. Smollett,
Miss Mc.Dougall, Dr. Caldwell. From Point
de Galle—Mr. Savage, and Mrs. Wallings. From
Mauritius :—Mr•
learn that a wing of the
Barrow. From Aden :—Sir S.
John Harrison,
Higgingson, two Misses Iligginson, and
Broughton,
John Carey, and William
and Lady Cordes
John
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twoF
rom childrentle passengers; T miti
95th Regiment had arrived at Bombay. The pas-
sengers met in Egypt the 200 troops, bound for
Aden, who were taken from Malta iu the Ripon on
her outward passage. At Aden there were no Eng-
lish troops to guard the place when the Bombay
steamer touched there. At Bombay all was quiet,
but great precautions were taken throughout the
island to put down any revolt, especially during the
feast of the Mohurrum. Lord Elphinstone, the
Governor of the Bombay Presidency, had taken
proceedings in a very quiet, but apparently effec-
tive manner, to prevent any serious outbreak.
Fifty-three men of an artillery regiment, in the
Bombay Presidency, that had refused to march up
the cmintry against the mutineers, were quietly
shipped, unarmed, on board the steamer Bombay
which conveyed the mail from Bombay to Sue;
and the men were landed at Aden. There was
some anxiety lest they should rise against the pas-
sengers, but they became very sea sick, and conse.
• quietly were not very f
-9raudable, Among the