The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-17 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, March 16.—Threes are quoted today
ex-quarterly dividend. Business has been limited
in amount, bat the transactions effected show a
slight improvement, the price being now 66f. 10c.
Mobilier, which receded a little at the commence-
ment, have since recovered, and are now unvaried
at 1,065 f. Little doing in Railway Shares. The
market kept improving to the close, and left off as
follows :

41 per Cents. 93 25 Italian Loan 63 25
Do. end month.... Do. end month 63 60
3 per Cents
Do. end month.... 66 20 Do. end month —
Credit M0bi1ier....1065 Russian
Do. end ru0nth....1063 75 Austrian
Bank Shares 3305 Spanieh Threes.... 52
Credit Fancier 1267 60 florae Debt
Roman — Deferred

BAIL

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OrleanH
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean
New ditto
Southern
Western
Eastern ....
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona

Cash. Account.
1007 50 .. 1007 50
955 .. 957 50

-- - •• - --
933 75 .. 936 25

655 - .. 657 50
520 - .. 520 -
482 50 .. 480 -
375 - 375 --
405 - 408 75
540 - .. 511 25
491 2.5 .. 493 75
590 - .. 590 -
275 - -

CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN
MAILS,
SOUTHAAIPTON, March 17.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Pera has arrived here with the heavy portion of the
above mails and 108 passengers, among whom are
the Earl and Countess of Scarborough, Colonel
Taylor, Major Maxwell, Major Dennis, Comman-
der Poole, R.N., and Commander Reid, R.N.
Her cargo consiets of 6 boxes of valuables, 414
bales and 180 boxes of silk, 32 boxes of oranges, and
35 packages of sundries.
On the 13th inst., off St. Vincent, she exchanged
signals with the British bark Vesta, and on the
14th, off Finisterre, the screw steamer Ajax.
The usual Egyptian fleet and the French frigate
Perdrix were at Alexandria.
H.M.S. Marlborough, Melanee, Hydra, Firefly,
and a Dutch frigate at Malta, and H.M.S. Racoon,
Proeris, and the Orontes, with the 2d battalion of
the 6th Regiment, for Barbadoes, at Gibraltar.
The Ripon arrived at Gibraltar on the 11th, after
a passage of 61 days, having encountered heavy
weather the first four days, and four fine horses,
shipped from Southampton, died on the passage.
GIBRALTAR, March 12.
A letter from Mogador, received yesterday, by
the Sydney Hall, mentions the safe arrival in that
town on the 22d of February, of Captain Carceller,
and the crew of the Spanish schooner Policarpo, as
well as the crews of two other Spanish vessels.
These vessels had been wrecked on the African
coast, and their crews had fallen into the hands of
the Moors of Wadnoon. They were kept in cap-
tivity for more than 10 months, and have been at
length rescued through the active interference and
exertions of Sr. Merry, the Spanish Minister in
Morocco.
The steamer Sydney Hall, which arrived this
morning, has brought accounts from Tangier and
the Barbary coast. The remains of the late M.
Be3lard, the French representative in Morocco, are
to be conveyed to France for interment. His death,
we are told, has caused a very general feeling of
sorrow in Tangier. Although ho had resided but
a short time in the country, his just and liberal
conduct and conciliatory manners had not only won
the regard of his diplomatic colleagues, but had
gained for him the esteem and respect of the Moorish
authorities and population.

Commercial letters from the coast mention that
abundant rains had fallen, and the crops look well.
Considerable advances upon wool, to be brought in
by the Moors of the interior, are said to have been
made by the merchants of Mazagan and Casabianca.
It seems that parties making these advances now
incur some risk of losing their money, since by a
late edict, which has been communicated to the
foreign Consuls, the Sultan prohibits all purchases
of produce until the same is brought within the
jurisdiction of the coast towns, and will therefore
afford no assistance towards the recovery of the
debts contracted by Mows to European merchants,
in violation of his edict. From the rate at which
advances upon wool have been made it is expected
that after the next clip wools will obtain higher
prices than last year.

The agent for Lloyds in this city has received a
communication from his colleague in Mogador, dated
the 4th inst., apprising him of the appearance of
an armed steamer off the African coast. The steamer
is said to have been hovering about the coast
for a fortnight, near Agadir or Santa Cruz, a port
70 miles south of Mogador. She has twice visited
Agadir, and was for a week anchored in a small bay
named Efernic, 15 mires to the north of that port.
The Moors describe her as full of men, and having
plenty of guns. They say she has displayed no
national flag, but has shown signals supposed to be
made to her boats.

Exchanges.—London, 90 days date, 501. Paris,
90 days, sf. 32c. Marseilles, 90 days, sf. 32c. to
33c. Genoa, 90 days, sf. 33c. Madrid, 8 days sight,
par. Cadiz, 8 days, 11 dis. Seville, 8 days sigbt, 1
dis. Malaga, 8 days, 4 dis. Barcelona, 8 days, ~,1;
prem. Almeria, 8 days, par. Valencia, 8 days,
par. Alicant, 8 days, par.
Premium on Five-franc pieces, 11- to I por cent.
prem.

THE REMOVAL OF MIDDLE-ROW.--The Holborn
Board of Works have resolved, on the motion of
Mr Walker, seconded by Mr. Lloyd, to petition the House
of Lords for the insertion of a clause in the Holborn Valley
Improvement Bill, making the removal of the block of
buildings known as Middle-row, Holborn, compulsory.
THE CONSE—VATIVE LAND SOCIETY.—The second
allotment of land for the year took place yesterday
at the offices in Norfolk-street. Two estates were offered
for sale at Colchester and Bishop S ortford, the plots on
which will give the freehold franchise for North Essex and
Herts. There was a good demand for the land. A plot
has been set apart on the Colchester estate on one of the
crescents for the erection of a church.
A ROWLAND AND AN OLIVER.—ShonId Rowland
Hill have a statue? Certainly, if Oliver Cromwell should.
For one is celebrated for cutting off the head of a bad
King, and the other for sticking on the head of a good
Queen,—,Funds,