The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-01 00:00:00

BAST INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.

The heavy portion of these mails, in charge of
Mr. U. Ronayne, of the General Post-office, reached
Southampton yesterday afternoon in the Peninsular
and Oriental Company's screw steamer Pera, Capt.
T. Jamieson, which arrived in dock at 2 30 p.m.
She left Alexandria on the 19th ult., Malta on the
22d, and Gibraltar on the 27th. On the homeward
passage the Pera experienced light N.W. winds be-
tween Alexandria and Malta, and thence to Gibral-
tar light breezes and smooth water ; from Gibraltar
to Cape St. Vincent's easterly Willi:Wind fine wea-
ther ; thence to Cape Finisterre light winds, with
very heavy cross swell ; across the Bay of Biscay
and up the Channel strong westerly gale and
squally weather, with very heavy sea.
The Pera brought 50 passengers, viz , 33 first-
class, 12 second, 4 children, and 1 deck, among whom
were the Marquis of Worcester, Lieut.-Col. Mann,
C. 8., RE., Major Jackson, Major Platt, Captain
Brereton, Captain Daubeny, Lieutenant Cumming,
Lieutenant Forbes, &c. On freight she had £1,287
10s. in specie, 1,420 bales of silk, 11 bales of flax,
314 chests of oranges, 1,300 sacks of wheat, 129
cases of indigo, and 214 packages of general mer-
chandise.

Two French transports and a Russian corvette
were in harbour at Alexandria.

Her Majesty's ships at Malta on the 22d ult.
were the Marlborough, Intrepid, Neptune, Medina,
London, Wanderer, Trident, Surprise, Firefly,
Boxer, atd Growler ; and the Amphion, Scylla,
and Racoon were at Gibraltar on the 27th.

The Confederate steamer Sumter was at Gibral-
tar when the Pera left. There are no accounts of
the naval combat in the Mediterranean between
two ships, of which the Sumter was supposed to
be one, The vessel destroyed by the Sumter, in
the interval between her leaving Cadiz and her
first arrival at Gibraltar, was the American
bark Neapolitan, Captain Burdett, with
fruit for Boston, consigned to the agent of
Baring Brothers. She was burnt about 18
miles to the eastward of the rock, and the master
and crew (12 in number) taken to Gibraltar by the
American bark Investigator, which arrived there
on the 14th. The Investigator was laden with
copper ore for Newport, the cargo being owned in
England, and she was released by the captain of the
Sumter on her captain giving a bond for 15,000
dols. A despatch of the 17th ult., from Cadiz, states
that on the order to put to sea being communicated
to the captain of the Sumter, he replied that it was
materially impossible to obey for want of water and
coal, and of money, which he was expecting from
one moment to another, to purchase these two
articles. The Military Governor of the fortress, not
allowin; the validity of these reasons, granted him
six hours to provide himself with what he needed
and to quit the port.
It appears from the official account of the ex-
penses of the Spanish war in Africa, which has
just been made up, that the total expenses
from the Ist of November, 1859, to the end of
1860, were 236,000,000r15. The value of provi-
sions and stores on hand was 24,000,000r15., leaving
212,000,000r15. as the net cost. The ratio of each
soldier cost 3rls. 30c. The daily forage for each
horse and mule Brls. 42c. The treatment of each
patient in hospital cost 7rls. 39c. Forty-six steam
transports consumed 42,000 tons of coal, being at
the rate of 41 tons per diem for each steamer. The
cost of the shoes and clothing expended has been
made good, since the war, by the different corps of
the army. 20,732 cartridges for cannon were ex-
pended, costing each 43r1s. 37c. ; also, 6,338,290
musket cartridges, costing each 36c. The total
number of deaths in the army according to the offi-
cial returns was 7,020.
In the Spanish Cortes on the 20th ult. Senor
Salazar y Mazarredo inquired if the Government
were disposed to discuss fully the diplomatic part
of the African question ; and whether it would lay
before the Chamber the instructions given in 1799
to Mr. Gonzalez Salmon, Spanish Consul at Tan-
gier, relative to the treaty of that date, and also
copy of the agreement between the Governments of
Morocco and England respecting the supply of
cattle for the garrison at Gibraltar. The Minister
of State, in reply, said that on the discussion of the
Treatyof Commerce Government would be ready to
give any explanations required ; that he would
look over the instructions given for the treaty of
1799, and lay them, as well as all other papers on
a subject which had now become matter of history,
lbefore the house.

A letter to the Clamor• Publico, from its correspon-
dent in the Canary Islands, describes the great deve-
lopment of trade in those islands since 18.52,when its
principal ports were declared free. During the
nine years that have since passed the imports and
exports are said to be at least double their former

amount.
Latest quotations of exchange at Gibraltar were
as under :—London, 90 days' date, 49 ; Paris, do.,
5f 25c; Marseilles, do., 5f 26c; Genoa, do., 5f 28c;
Madrid, 8 days' sight, par ; Cadiz, do., 1 dis ; Ma-
laga, do., pm ; Seville, do. ,1 dis ; Alicante, do. , 1
dis ; Valencia, do., pm ; Barcelona, do., pm ;
Spanish pillared dollars (Ferdinand), 21 per cent.
pm—no demand ; do., Carolus, 22 per cent. pm—
in demand ; silver five-franc pieces, lg. per cent. pm ;
Mexican dollars, 3 per cent. pm.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Ceylon, Capt. Evans, which left Southampton on
the 20th ult., with the Calcutta, China, and Aus-
tralian mails, arrived at Gibraltar at 'midnight on
the 26th, and proceeded for Malta and Alexandria
at 9 a.m. on the 27th. She encountered very severe
weather the passage out.
The British merchant steamer Cairo, Captain J.
Milburn, 6 days from Liverpool, arrived at Gibral-
tar on the 19th ult., with cargo for Palermo and
Corfu ; the Gibraltar, Capt. W. G. S. Hall, 9 days
from London and 2k from Vigo, on the 20th, with
Government stores, 108 bullocks, &c. ; and the
Araxes, Capt. T. Jenkins, 7 days from Liverpool,
with general cargo for Malta and Constantinople.
The schooner Gambia, Capt. D. Rees, 16 days from
Cardiff, with a cargo of coals, arrived at Gibraltar
on the 19th.
Intelligence from Madeira, under date of the 9th
andt
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the Gibraltarbark
announcing e from Newport
for Fernando Po, was burnt at sea
Alice, from Sunderland to Mauritius, foundered at
sea; the crews of both vessels were saved....

LOVE, MURDER, AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.-
The village of Remuzat (Drome) was last week the scene of
a murder and attempted suicide under the following cir-
cumstances :—A young man named Arthaud, of a rather
dissipated character, had repeatedly made offers of marriage
to a young woman of the same place, Eugenie Richaud,
but sho had always repulsed his advances on account of his
idle habits. Last week, however, b,e paid her another visit,
and meeting with a refusal as before, he took advantage of
her mother's womentary absence to stab the poor girl seve-
ral times in the neck, and inflicted wounds, which caused
her death on the spot. He then cui his own throat, but
did not wend in killing himself, though for some days
recovery was doubtful. He is now in the infirmary of the
prien at Nyons, awaiting his Wait