The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-16 00:00:00

BOMBAY AND MAITRITITTS MAILS.

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The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Syria, Capt. E. Christian, arrived at Southamp-
. ton on Saturday evening, with the heavy portion of
the Bombay and Mauritius mails, in charge of Mr.
Douglas, of the General Post-office. She brought
129 passengers (of whom 34 were first class, 34
second, and 61 deck), £1,380 in specie, 2,396 bales
of silk, 23 cases of Indian shawls, .2 casks of wine,
and 122 packages of general merchandise.
The Syria left Alexandria on the 2d inst., Malta
on the sth, and Gibraltar on the 9th. She had fine
weather between Alexandria and Malta; strong head
winds from Malta to Gibraltar ; strong south-
westerly gales and heavy seas along the coasts of
Spain and Portugal ; rainy weather and strong
north-westerly swell across the Bay of Biscay ; and
moderate winds, with cloudy weather, in the Channel.
On the sth inst., at 9.30 p.m., the Syria spoke the
Pera steamer, bound to Malta ; on the 6th, at 6
p.m., the Ocean King, bound for Liverpool ; on the
7th, at 10.15 a.m., the Calpe, for Liverpool ; and on
11th, at S a.m., a ship bearing third distinguishing
pendant. •
' The Egyptian steamers, Charkieh and Dakahlieh,
a Sardinian corvette, and two French steamers, were
at Alexandria when the Syria left.
Her Majesty's ship Pelican was at Malta and the
Redpole at Gibraltar. There was very little shipping
in Gibraltar Bay.
The British brig Test, Captain Roberts, from
Port Madoc, put in at Gibraltar on the Ist inst. to
land the crew, six in number, of the late schooner
Marie Antoinette (of Nantes), Captain Dejoie,
which foundered on the 2Gth of September, in lat.
39 44 N., long. 13 13 E., while on her voyage from
Adra to Nantes with a cargo of lead. The Test
proceeded on her voyage to Naples without anchor-
ing.

Latest quotations of exchange at Gibraltar were
as follows :—London, 90 days' date, 491 tof ; Paris,
ditto, sf. 22c. to 23c. ; Marseilles, ditto, sf. 23c.;
Madrid, 8 days' sight, 1 dis. ; Cadez, ditto, 1.1 to 2
dis. ; Seville, ditto, par to dis ; Malaga, ditto,
to dis. The above exchanges are nominal.
The cholera at Gibraltar is reported to continue
in the descending scale. The fall of rain at the
beginning of the month, which amounted altogether
to 2} inches, appeared to have a good effect, and the
number of cases daily oscillated, but on the whole
the epidemic seemed to be steadily declining. The
Chronicle of the 9th inst. says :—" The report of the
public health to-day is favourable. The cholera
cases are few, and the fresh westerly breezes and
cooling showers now experienced, which are agreeable
to the feelings and favourable to the general health,
will, we hope, hasten the final departure of the
malady. There is, too, a more cheerful and ani-
mated appearance in our streets, and the spirits of
the people have been raised by the re-opening of the
trade with Barbary. The Tangier Board has re-
duced the vigour of its measures, and has substituted
for the total exclusion of vessels from Gibraltar a
six days' quarantine in Moorish ports. The board
has also facilitated the embarcation of provisions for
Gibraltar at Tangier by allowing them to be shipped
under health guard supervision from lighters along-
side, assimilating their quarantine rules in this par-
ticular to those of European ports. It is to be hoped
that, with the disappearance of cholera, free inter-
course with Barbary will be speedily restored, and
in the meantime the recent modifications of their
quarantine rules by the Tangier Board has caused
general satisfaction to the commercial portion of this
community."
The following is the official notification issued at
Gibraltar on the 9th inst. by the Colonial Secretary
of the regulations respecting quarantine made by
the Morocco Board of Health :—" In consequence
of cholera having appeared in many places, the Mo-
rocco Board of Health have decided that every
vessel arriving at Tangier, either with a clean or foul
bill of health, her captain must declare whether there
are any sick on board, signing such declaration.
Should there be one or more sick the ship will be
visited by a doctor, and if the sickness has the cha-
racter of cholera the vessel will be sent away to un-
dergo a quarantine at a lazaretto. A vessel arriving
from an infected port will undergo a quarantine of
six complete days ; a health guard will be placed on
board, and the vessel will be anchored in such place
as may be directed. At the expiration of six days its
admission to pratique will be granted until inspected
by a doctor. Should there be any sick on board ou
the arrival of a vessel or at the end of the quarantine
imposed, such vessel will be sent to a lazaretto.
Vessels arriving with cleanbills of health, and which
touched at an infected port without communicat-
ing, will be admitted to pratique. Vessels arriving
in quarantine will be allowed to take in provisions
and depart under the surveillance of a health officer;
should they return, the time that they would have
passed in quarantine cannot be allowed to count in
the new quarantine, even if they have not commu-
nicated with an infected port. Vessels arriving with
Hadjis and with a foul bill of health will be sent to
the Island of Mogador to land in quarantine their
passengers. These passengers will undergo a qua-
rantine according to the peculiar circumstances of
the case. Vessels with Hadjis arriving from non-
suspected ports with a clean bill of health will
not be permitted to land them until after a
visit from a doctor, and their disembarkation
will be at such place as may be indicated by the
President of the Board. Vessels arriving from
Gibraltar to load must have a health guard on
board, but those arriving to perform quarantine at
Tangier need not to be so provided. The barges
destined to transport provisions, &c., to vessels will
be taken near such vessels, where they will be left,
and the sailors of the vessels will load without help
from the people from shore. After this, the barges
will be washed with seawater in the presence of the
health officer and abandoned to be retaken by the
people from shore."

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

LONDON, Oct. 16.—Wind this day at noon—South.
Westerly; moderate breeze and flue weather, but rather
cloudy.
PLYMOUTH', Oct. 15.—Wind S.W.—Arrived-13015in,
from Mauritius.
PORTSMOUTH, OCt. 15.—Wind
a._ .Rer Ma-
jesty's ship Salamis, on a cruise.
QUEENSTOWN, Oct. 14.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Ellswick,
from Liverpool for Montreal.

OFF FALMOUTH, Oct. 15.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Fire
Queen, from China.

YOUGUAL, Oct. 14.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Georgo and
Philip, from Quebec.

DARTMOUTH, Oa. 13.—Wind S.W.—Arrived----British
Empire, from. Quebec.

SOMETHING LIKE A SHOT.—Mr. Adam Leding-
ham, gamekeeper to Mr. Simeon Keir, while out shooting
upon the Lesmurdie moors, in this county, upon Thursday
last, discharged his double-barrelled gun at a large covey of
grouse that were flying past him, andbrought down five out
of their number. Mr. Ledingham, after loading his fowling-
piece, saw another large pack of grouse flying in the same
direction; and while they were in the act of passing him
he discharged both barrels among them and brought down
12 out of their number, thus killing in all at the two dis-
charges 17 fine, plump, strong grouse, making a hit in
grouse-shooting that probably has no parallel in the annals
of sport, more especially at this season of the year, when
the grouse have such a coating of feathers upon their bodies
as greatly defends them from the shot.—Banffikire Journal.