The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-12 00:00:00

The Bombay and Mauritius Mails.

SOUTHAMPTON, Sunday.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Ceylon, Captain Brooks, with the heavy por-
tion of the above mails, arrived this morning. She
brings 50 passengers, 4 packages specie (value not
stated), 82 packages ivory, and 116 packages gene-
ral merchandise.

The Ceylon experienced during her passage from
Trafalgar to Cape Finiaterre, head winds and heavy
seas; across the Bay,of Biscay light winds, hazy,
with rain ; and up the Channel westerly winds and
dull weather. Oa the Ist inst. she spoke the
steamer Syria, bound for Alexandria, and the
steamer Kalivur, steering south by east. On the
sth ship Victoria, steering nth, and the barque
Skopman, standing south. On the 6th her M.
jestys ship Warrior, eastward, for Gibraltar. On
the Bth, steamship Melbourne, steering south for
Odessa, and the steamer Cadiz standing for Gib-
raltar.

On the 3d inst., in lat. 37 39 N, long. 8 06 E,
the Ceylon passed a large war ship, supposed to be
her Msjesty's ship Meanee.
An Egyptian frigate, from Constantinople, with
the Sultan's mother on board, arrived at Alexandria
on the 27th, and sailed again on the 28th ult.

Her Mtijesty's ships Marlborough, Gibraltar,
Royal Oak, Resistance, Orlando, Supply, and
Psyche, were at Malta ; and at Gibraltar the Pro-
cris and Redpole.

GIBRALTAR, Sept. 6.
The Spanish screw frigates Villa de Madrid and
Carmen, after five days' cruise to try their speed
under sail and steam in the Straits and off the coast
of Barbary, returned to Cadiz on the 30th ult.
Orders had been received in Cadiz from the Mini-
ster of Marine to despatch the Villa de Madrid to
the waters of Pera to reinforce the squadron
already there under the command of Admiral
Pinzon. The frigate would take its departure im-
mediately after receiving the sum of 55,000 from
the Treasury.

The following ships have arrived here since the
departure of the cast mail :—The steamer Syrian,
seven days from Liverpool ; the schooner Tripoli,
5i days from Cardiff; the schooner Confidence, 19
days from Cardiff; the schooner Galatea, 20 days
from Liverpool ; the brig Sarah Ann, 23 days from
Swansea; the steamer Stromboli, seven days from
Liverpool ; the schooner Catherine, 18 days from
Cardiff; the steamer Gibraltar, 71 days from Lon-
don ; the schooner Arab, 24 days from Cardiff; the
brig Ocean, 19 days from Swansea; the brigantine
Volant, 19 days from Newport; the schooner Me.
lodia, 13 days from Cardiff; the steamer Delhi, four
days from Southampton.

The British barque Princess of %Vales arrived on
the 4th in 17 days, from Cardiff; on the 28th she
lost forctopmast yards, also two men lost overboard.
Tie British brig, James Bales, from Newcastle,
arrived on the 4th ; on the Ist she lost foretopmast
yards, &o.

The Chronicle of the 29th ult. says :—" The ec•
centric practice in which the Tarifa batteries have
occasionally indulged of firing directly into mer-
chant ships without any warning gun when the
national colours have not been displayed, has, it
seems, been brought undor the notice of the Madrid
government by the ministers of various powers
whose ships or seamen have sustained injury by
shots from Tarifa. To prevent future irregularities
the Spanish Government, as appears by a letter
from Signor Pacheco to the British ambassador at
Madrid, has ordered through the Captain General
of Andalusia, that the following rule is to be ob-
served at Tarifa, in the case of vessels passing the
island without showing their nation,.l colours:—
"First, a blank cartridge is to be fired ; 10 minutes
afterwards, if this signal is disregarded, a shot is
to be sent across the vessel's bows ; and if she dis-
regards this warning a shot is to be fired at the
rigging."