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

THE INDIAN MAIL.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Ripon, Captain Dundas ; Admira!ty ageat , Lieut.
Robins R.N., arrived at Southampton yesterday
with die heavy portion of the Indian mail. The
China mail is missing, not having arrived at Point
de Galle when the Ua'cutta packet left that port.
The Ripon left Alexandria Oc.ober 7 ; Malts, 11 ;
Gibraltar, 15. Among her cargowere 1,979 bales
and casts of silk, elephants' teeth,
two cases of
s specie to the vaue of 28,0001.
sculpture, beside
Her Majesty's ships Hib-3ruii, Conqueror, Boxer,
Dispatch, Caradoc, 'Vigilant, and Wanderer, were
at Malta ; the Curlew and the Valture and a Nor-
wegian corvett were at Gibraltar; the royal mail
steamer Tamar,
the screw steamers Malakoff,
African, Scatnandar, and Pla,rsalia, 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
Poi tland a dense fog darkened the channel, which
compelled the Ripon to lie to. She reports the
British channel to be full of skipping.
She brought home 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-
prattßarnes, Mr. and Alm Wilson, Mrs. Brooks and
James,m s
Mis. . Boyce, goiTdrhdd Johnoedl Thomas
n :a
rn.
and child, Mrs. Shutaford and child, Mrs.
two children, Miss Cloete, Miss Cat nagie, and child,
Lieutenaut 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,
a and infant, Mrs. Aston and in-
Mrs. Cockburn, and three children, Lieut. and
Mrs. Cooper and child, Dr. Boyle, Airs. Templer,
Wingieard and infant, Mrs. M'Lardy
and infant, two Misses Weyer, Miss Ramsay, Miss
in-
font, LAlsrsh.ingto
Short, Miss Hutchinson, Mrs. Sneyd, Mrs. Alex-
anderFrisk,Nicholas, arid infant, Mrs. Vallings and three children,
Fpror.m
Caldwell
Mr. Harmer, Mr. Carpenter, Mr, Breit, Edward
Win, Russell, William
a three children, Mr. Sinollett,
and Mrs. Wallings. From
ReFvr.omMr.poainndt 1
. Barrow. From Aden :—Sir S.
Higg,ng4on, two Misses Eligginson, and
lddyren ; Thomas Broughton, John H. arr:son,
dMeisGsailMelDmrou.gaslla,vav,
Mauritius :
andtwo
c.Lh
John Carey, and William Male.
From the passengers we learn that a wing of the
95th Regiment had arrived at Bombay. The pas-
sengers met in Egypt the 200 troops, .bound for
Aden, who were taken from Malta in the Ripen on
autions were taken throughout the
bsheroutwardtuetgreat
ops
p passage. At Aden there were no Eng-
lish
ta
m touchedtr there. At Bombay all was quiet,
to
guard the place when the Bombay
e c
especially during the
feastisland to
ofp
thuet downm ohuarnryu
Da? revolt,
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 cauntry against the mutineers, were quietly
shipped, unarmed, on board the steamer Bombay,
which conveyed the mail from Bombay to Suez,
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 cons°•
quently were not very formidable. Among the