The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-20 00:00:00

THE Alt Ali Y.

The Adjutant. General, Sir Jas. Y. Scarlett, has
issued a circular memorandum which announces
that the Duke of Cambridge, with the concurrence
of the Secretary of State for War, has been pleased
to extend until further notice permission for the
retirement of half-pay officers by the sale of their
commissions, and which recalls to full pay such as
are able to serve, under the restrictions specified in
the circular memorandum dated Feb. 15, 1861.
The whole of the, troops stationed at Landguard
Fort, Harwich, are to be withdrawn, and the Fort
will be handed over to the Suffolk Artillery Militia
until the 26th of April.

Brigade field-days are to take place in connection
with Colchester Camp every Wednesday. An an-
nouncement has been made that 455 Volunteers are
required for the Ist. battalion, Oth Fusiliers, 40th,
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the battalions at that station being much reduced.
A number of men are waiting orders at Colchester
to join the invalid depot at Chatham, previously to
being discharged from the service.
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deposited at the National Exhibition. The gun
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Armstrong orinance now in use, as well as an
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equipments appertaining to the Armstrong garrison
guns, and field batteries, &c.
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The sailing transport Pathfinder, laden with Ar-
mstrong shot, shell, &c., yesterday sailed from Wool-
wich Pier for Bermuda.

THE EAST INDIA, CHINA, AND AUS-
TRALIAN NAILS.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw
steamer Pera, Capt. T. Jamieson, arrived at South-
ampton yesterday, at 7.30 a.m., with the heavy
portion of the above-named mails, in charge of Mr.
B. Perkins, of the Genf ral Post-office. She brought
93 passengers £57,700 in specie, 95 packages of
goods for the Exhibition, 912 bales of silk, 83 cases
of indigo, 800 sacks of grain, 43 boxes of oranges,
and 240 packages of general merchandise.
The Pera left Alexandria on the 6th inst., Malta
on the 10th, and Gibraltar on the 14th. From Alex-
andria to Malta she had north-westerly winds and
fine weather; thence to Gibraltar westerly winds
and rain ; calms and fine clear weather as far as
Cape Finisterre, and the remainder of the passage
light easterly winds, fine weather andsmooth water.
On the 16th, at 5 30 a.m., the Pera spoke the Indus,
with the outward Bombay mails, steering to the
southward; on the 17th, the steamship Aurora,
steering south; and on the 18th, at 12 30 p.m., the
Tagus with the outward Peninsular mails, a little
to the northward of Ushant.

Her Majesty's ships Firebrand, Pelican, Doris,
and Osborne were at Alexamdria ; the Marlborough
at Malta ; and the Scylla, Procris, anp Redpole at
London, Captain Chads, left Gibraltar on the after-
noon of the 11th inst., under steam, for Western
Islands. The Intrepid left for the eastward at 11 30
a.m. on the 18th. The Amphion also sailed for the
east at 9 a.-m. on the 10th.

The French steam sloop Coligny was at Gibraltar
on the 14th. The Titan left for the east on the
morning of the 10th.

The Swedish corvette Lagerbjelke, Capt. K. L.
N. Dag, 16 Jays from Malta, arrived at Gibraltar on
the 9th, and saluted the garrison with 21 guns on
her arrival, which was returned from the saluting
battery.
The American Federal corvette Tuscarora, Corn.
Craven ; steam sloop Kearsarge, Corn. C. Pickering;
and sailing ship Ino were lying in the roadstead of
Algeciras. The Confederate steamer Sumter, Capt.
Semmes, remained at Gibraltar. The Kearsarge ar-
rived at Gibraltar from America, Madeira, and
Cadiz on the afternoon of the Bth, and went across
to Algeciras the same afternoon. The Ino had taken
the two American gentlemen seized at Tangiers to
Cadiz, Ns here they were transferred to the American
merchant ship Harvest Home, which sailed almost
immediately afterwards for Boston, and the Ino re-
turned to Algeciras. It was said that the prisoners
were kept in irons. Referring to the brief conver-
sation which took place in the House of Commons
on the 3d inst., on this question, the Gibraltar
Chronicle of the 11th says:—

" With respect to the allegation that no pressure
had been pnt upon the Moorish Government to
affect the arrest, and that. by the law of Morocco
the representative of a Christian Power has juris-
diction over the subjects of his own Government,
the true state of the facts appears to be this :—By
the law of Morocco the Sultan has absolute and
despotic power in his dominions ; by special con-
ventions he has waived the exercise of this power
over , delegating it
tatives of those
States. These conventions, however, code the juris-
dictionjover Christians residing in Morocco for of-
fences committed in the country, and have never
been understood either by Morocco or Christian
States to confer upon the latter the right to pursue
and capture upon Moorish territory political offen-
ders. Such offenders have heretofore found as secure
an asylum in Morocco as in any independent State
of Europe. They have usually been
men of liberal
opinions flying from the persecution of an absolute
Government; and it will be singular if this refuge
should now be destroyed by the agent of a Govern-
ment boasting itself the freest in the world. Who-
ever will turn to the last British Treaty with Mo-
rocco, that of 1857, will find that while Article 11
gives the right to British Consuls to call for the as-
sistance of Moorish soldiers to arrest or transport
British subjects, Article 15 specifies
the only ease
in which such subjects are to be conveyed out of the
country and placed on board ship—naraely, when
sailors attempt to desert their vessel—a very neces
sary provision to prevent British shipping being
disabled in Moorish ports for want of hands. Eng-
land does not even stipulate for the surrender of
deserters, but there is a reciprocal engagement that
deserters from the service of one State shall not be
received into that of the other. We may fairly as-
sume that the conventions made with Morocco by
other Christian States are substantially the same as
that of England, and that equal privileges and ad-
vantages are possessed by all. This being so, it is
evident that no pressure would be required to be