The Sun. — 1857-09-05 (London, England)

ARRTVAL OF THE RIPON WITH PASSENGERS FROM INDI 4.  The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ripon, Capt. Dundas, (Admiralty agent, Lieut. Seaward, R.N.) arrived at Southampton yesterday, with the heavy portion of the India, China, and Australian mails. Her dates were'Alexandria, Aug. 21; Malta, 25, and Gibraltar the 39th. She brought 157 passengers. Amongt her cargo were 2,308 bales of silk. She spoke the troop ship Syria, Sept. 2, all well on boatel. She passed the Colombo on the 27th ult., and the Tagus on the 31st ult. Lord Lyons' squadron left Gibraltar for Tunis on the 29th ult. The Ripon's mails were contained in about 600 boxes and bags, and' were deby special train of eight vans and carriages to London at noon yesterday. Among the passengers in the Ripon was a young lady, named Stallard, who escaped the massacre at Meerut. In escaping she had to swim over a river. At one time she was in a oarriage in which there were six persons, of whom only she and twa of her companions saved their lives; the rest were murdered. The Rev. Mr. Hay, an American missionary, and his wife and family, were passengers in the Ripon, and they also narrowly escaped with their lives from Meerut. They lost all their property and clothes. One of the passengers of the Ripon was a civilian, who' left Delhi just before the mutiny broke out there. In travelling down to Calcutta he saw unmistakeable signs of the mutiny. He met a lady travelling by dak to Delhi, and he and his party persuaded her to turn badr, as the country appeared to be dangerous. She turned back with them to Cawnpore, but there she was persuaded by others to resume her journey. An Indian colond, who came home in the Ripon, had a whole company of European soldiers, consisting of nearly a hundred persons, cut fo pieces by mutineers. The Calcutta passengers on board the Ripon believe that Delhi must soon fall ; the mutine9r3 ate in want of ammunition, cholera is raging amongst them, and when they make sallies they are slaughtered in great numbers by the besiegers. It is believed that when Delhi has fallen the mutiny will sprea 1' still further over the country, by great numbers of the mutineers escaping to various,parts of India. The Ripon's passengers confirm all the reports about the atrocities committed. Infants and children were literally, for sport, thrown into the air and caught on the swords and, bayonets of the Sepoys. Whole European families—husband, wife, and children—have been exterminated in India by the native soldiers.  The Ripon spoke the following vessels during the voyage :—The English screw steamer Brenda, off and for Malta ; the Peninsular and Orient it Company's steam-ship o,loinbo, 110 miles west of Galita, for Malta; the Dutch screw steamer Trieste, off Algiers, steering east ; the English brig Gem of the Sea, off Cape de Gatte, bound west ; the English screw steamer Vasco do Gama, off Cape de Gate, steering to the eastward ;, the English screw steamer Orontes, off St. Vincent, steering south ; the PeninsWar and Oriental Company's steamer Tagus, off and for Lisbln ; the troopship Hersilil, 100 miles north-east of Cape Finisterre, six days out, bound to Madras, all well on board ; schooner Conquest, 170 miles north-east of Cape Finisterre, steering to the south-west ; the screw steamer Saxon, on the 3d inst., off Ushant, steering up Channel.