The Sun. — 1859-06-21 (London, England)

THE OCEAN MAIL SERVICE.—SOUTHAMPTON, Monday.—The Peninslar and Oriental Company's screw steamship Colombo, Captain J. S. Field, sailed hence today, with the heavy portion of the mails for the East Indies and China, a full cargo, and specie and jewellery to the value of £285,017. The Tagus, Captain Hall, is due on the 21st, with mails from Lisbon, Oporto, and Vigo; the New York, Captain Von Sauten, on the 22d, with mailsfrom New York of the 11th inst., for England and Bremen; the Behar, Captain Hicks, with the Bombay mails, and the Hammonia, Captain Schwensen, with New York mails of the 15th inst., on the 27thl. the Ariel, Captain Jones, on the 30th, with English and French mails of the 18th, from New York ; the Atrato, Captain Woolley, with the West India, Pacific, and Mexican mails, and the Alhambra, Captain Steward, with the mails from Lisbon? Oporto, and Vigo, on the Ist proximo; the Pera, Captain Jamieson, with the India and China mails, en the 4th; and the Tyne, Captain Sawyer, with the Brazil and River Plate mails, on the sth. The Vanderbilt, Captain Lefevre, leaves this port on the 22d inst. for New York ; the Orissa, Captain Joy, and the Sultan, Captain- N. Cook, on the 27th, the former taking out the Bombay mails, and the latter the mails for Vigo, Oporto, and Lisbon; the Weser, Captain Gatjen, for New York, on the 28th, and the Arago, Captain Lines, for New York, on the 29th.  The Red Sea cable has announced the arrival at Aden of the Calcutta mail of the 17th of May, but the news by that opportunity has been anticipated by the • Bombay mail of the 23d. It is satisfactory, however, to receive a confirmation that the line is in working order. The message was despatched from Aden to Suez on the 10th inst., and would have reached London two days sooner had it been telegraphed from Marseilles instead of forwarded by post. The land line of the company between Suez and Alexandria was completed, with the exception of 15 miles, when the last advices left on the 11th inst. The arrival of £500,000 in bullion was announced yesterday, the Asia, from New York, having brought £289,000 ; the Monarch, from Melbourne, £171,400 ; the Moscow, from St. Petersburg, £27,000; and the Ripon, from Alexandria, £13,600. Including the £56,000 in Australian gold, by the Essex, and the £530,000 in gold and silver, by the West India steamer La Plata, there is an aggregate of no less than £1,087,000 in specie, chiefly gold, awaiting disposal. There is consequently a prospect of some amount being taken to the Bank during the present week. The bullion operations at that establishment yes, terday were too small to deserve notice. DETERMINED SUlClDE.—Yesterday evening, a n inquest was held at the University Hotel, Grafton-street East, Fitzroy-square, before Mr. Wakley, on the body of Mr. Charles Hall, aged 47, a coachbuilder, who committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. Tho deceased had for a length of time been in a desponding state of mind, for which there was no assignable cause. On Wednesday evening last, he, in conversation with his wife, said he did not think it worth while living longer. She went out afterwards, during which the unfortunate man took the opportunity of cutting his throat with a razor, and he died on the following day. There were several witnesses examined, all of whom spoke to the deceased's low, dejected state of mind for some time past. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased committed the act while in a state of insanity. The amount of revenue of New South Wales for the quarter ending March 31 was over £58,000 greater than that of the corresponding quarter of 1868. A large portion of it is traceable to the increase in land sales, and to the newly imposed assessment ; but £22,000 is from the Custords receipts alone. • - •