The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-04 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Italian squadron, commanded by Admiral
Albini, has left the Bay of Naples, after a stay of
ten days, for Genoa. It is composed of eight vessels,
four of them ironclad. Those which are not so will,
it is expected, be shortly disarmed, and the others
are to winter at La Spezzia, wader the command of
Admiral Vacca.

A letter from Santander states that in the coming
general election in Spain, the representation of that
capital will be disputed by the ex. Minister of
Finance Salaverra, of bankrupt memory, and Don
Jose Cedrun, Liberal, and chairman of the Isabel
Seguada Railway Company. Another district will
be contested by the Minister Posada Herrera and
the Marquis de Montecastro.
BOURSE, Nov. 3.—The market has been pretty
firm. Threes, for the Account, are unvaried at
64f. 85e. Mobilier shows a shads of decline, being
now at 870 f. Railway Market quiet, but with
previous prices in general well maintained. The
market improved towards the close, and left off as
follows :
it per Cents. 9l 90

Italian Loan 65 10
Do. end month 65 20
Ditto Threes .. 65 25
New M'exican .... 49 25
Russian

l 0• eni

monl

;i1...•

3 per Cents
Do. end month 6 t 95

-- - -
Credit Mobilior• •• • 895
Do. end month.... 895

Bank Sharon

Austrian
Spanish Threes 448
Florae Debt
Deferred

Credit F oiaeier 1142 6J
Roman.

BAIL'

Orleans
Northern ....

'ATS.

Cash. Account.
831 25 .. 832 50
970 975

Lyons and Mediterranean 895
Southern 577 50 ..
Western
Eastern ....

.. 910 -

Sardinian 333 76 ..
Austrian
Lon, bard

North of Spain
Saragossa 460 460
Ditto to Barcelona

Calcutta an i China Mails.

SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 3.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Ripon, Captain Curling, with the heavy por-
tion of the above mails and 53 passengers, arrived
this evening. She brings in freight 9 packages
specie, value £4,896 ; also 140 cases silk, 110
packages sundries, and 2,700 bales raw silk, value
£240,000 starling.
The Ripon experienced from Malta to Cape
Carbon fine weather, thence to Gibraltar westerly
gales and heavy squalls of wind and rain, with
heavy head sea. Across the Bay of Biscay strong
north-easterly winds, and thick weather up Channel.
On the 30th the Ripon spoke a Turkish paddlo
steamer 40 deg. to the north of Cape St. Vincent,
teering to the southward and westward, and on
the following day, to the south of the Burlings,
the steamer Massilia bound for Ale::andria.

Her Majesty's ships Gibraltar, Revenge, Meanee,
Orlando, Royal Oak, Resistance, Magicienne, Chang
ticleer, Psyche, and Syrian at Gibraltar, the Procris,
Redpole, and Preach steamer Talisman.
Her Majesty's troopship Tamar, from Ports-
mouth, arrived at Gibraltar on the 26th ; she expe-
rienced heavy gales throughout the passage. One
of her seamen was washed overboard; three horses
perished, and a quantity of poultry was lost.
The Egyptian sore w frigate Ibrahamie arrived al
3ibraltar on the 26th ; she saluted the garrison with
21 guns, which was returned by the garrison from
the saluting battery.
The steamer Ceylon, with the outward mails of
the 20th, lett Gibraltar on the 27th for the East.
The Austrian screw line•of-baulo ship Kaiecr,
92 guns, arrived at Cadiz on the 18th.

The British schooner Mermaid, from Cardiff,
bound to Ancona, with coals and earthenware,
when off Europa Point and within about a mile
of Ceuta, was Bred into by a Spanish battery, The
ball struck the schooner on the starboard bow. The
water poured in so rapidly as to defeat all efforts to
keep her afloat. When the pumps were sounded
6 feet of water was in the hold, which speedily
increased to 8; and the master, finding his ship
unmanageable and sinking, ordered the boats to be
launched. The master and crew succeeded in
saving themselves and the ship's chronometer, but
losing clothing and property of the value of
upwards of £lOO. The Mermaid sunk in 45 minutes
after the shot entered her bows. Nl' hen the schooner
was fired into it was blowing a hard gale from the
east, and in the prosecution of her voyage the ves•,
sel was beating to windward towards the African
shore. The cause of the Mermaid being fired into
was the supposed neglect of a rule which requires
every ship to show her colours when passing within
range of the guns of a fortress. In the case of the
Mermaid, the master, after the first warning gun,
exhibited his colours in the main rigging, 18 feet
above the deck, having been prevented by accident
from hoisting them in the usual place. The vessel's
course may have caused some difficulty in making
oat her colours from the battery.
The following British ships had arrived out at
Gibraltar since the departure of the last mail—
The schooner Alfred Charles, 23 days from Liver-
pool; steamer Cadiz, 71- days from London ; and
steamer Genora, 14 days from Glasgow.
Gibraltar Exchanges were quoted on London,
at 90 days' date, 497 to 50 ; Pads, sf. 29e. ; Mar-
seilles, sf. 30c.'; Genoa, 51'. 31c.; Madras, 8 days'
sight, par ; Cadiz, 21 dia. ; Seville, 8 days' sight,
die. ; Malaga, par ; Barcelona, 1- pm. ;
par ; Valencia and Alicant, par. Freights un-
changed.