The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-06 00:00:00

PIRACY ON THE COAST OF MOROCCO AGAIN.

The English vessel Oscar arrived at Gibraltar on the
16th ult., and reported that on the 12th, at ten a.m., six
miles south of Ceuta, the master and two men went on
shore in the boat for water, and that eight armed
Moors having come down from the mountains they
took one of the men prisoner, and carried him away to
the interior.
A second case, which is more properly a case of
piracy, is given as follows in the Oorreo de Andalucia
(Malaga paper), of the 22d ult. The scene of this oc-
currence is Alhucemas, on the Riff coast :
" The laud ' Santo Cristo had sailed from that set-
tlement in the forenoon, but continued in sight the rest
of the day, and was completely becalmed in the evening.
At about half-past ten two vessels were seen to ap-
proach her, one of which hoisted a lantern, which led
the Spanish crew and passengers to infer that assistance
was sent them from Alhucemas. They were, however,
soon undeceived by the language of their supposed
friends, and had scarcely time to get into the boat of
the laud,' making up their mind to abandon her in
the hope of at least saving their lives. In this they
succeeded, and reached the settlement. On their arrival
they found that a musket, which had been fired by
the pirates, had alarmed the garrison, and that three
boats, with a sufficient number of troops in them, were
already on the point of starting when the fugitives
landed. By the information communicated by them
they were enabled to proceed, accompanied by the boat
of the 'laud,' in the proper direction, and would no
doubt have recovered her, had not the Moors, who had
taken possession of her, run her ashore. Thither it
would have been useless to follow her. Upwards of 500
Riffians were on the beach. and the whole coast was
lighted ; which proved, that the piratical attempt had
been planned by the Cazique of the neighbouring camp,
with whom negotiations had been carried on but a short
time before, and to whose deceitful promises a degree of
credit seems to have been given. And that this was
really the case is proved by his having next presumed to
send five Moors and a Jew to confer with the officer
commanding the settlement, and to impose humiliating
conditions for the restitution of the laud.' His envoys
were arrested ; and he was told that, if he did not re-
store her in four hours' time, his house would be bom-
barded and the district laid waste ; and, as he paid no
attention to this intimation, the batteries of the place
threw so many hollow projectiles into his camp that he
gave up the vessel, but none of the effects which the
pirates had plundered."

MORE GRAVEYARD CLOSING.--TIIO ReV. Dr.
• Worthington, the incumbent of Holy Trinity district of
St. Andrew's Holborn, has received notice, by direction of
Lord Palmerston, that interments in the burial-ground
which adjoins the church, in Gray's Inn road, are to be
discontinued at the end of twelve months. This ground
has been used for the interment of the inhabitants of that
part of the parish of St. Andrew's Holborn, out of the
city, since the year 1754, and at that period was situate in
the open fields.
EXPENSES OF A SUIT IN CHANCERY.—On Saturday
the case relating to the will of Mr. Day, the blacking
manufacturer, came on in the Court of the Lord Justices,
upon a question of payment of costs. It appeared that
under Mr. Days's will there were twenty-three persons
who were entitled to small annuities, and many others
entitled to share in the residuary estate, and nearly all
these claimants upon the property had, throughout the
suit (which was instituted to administer the will), ap-
peared by different counsel and different solicitors. Au
objection was raised to the payment of separate costs,
when it appeared that the expenses of the suit, be-
fore it even came on for hearing, amounted to 70,0001.
The Court left it to the different parties to consider
when they could all agree amongst themselves to be re.
presented by one solicitor. In case no such arrange-
ment could be come to, the question would be disposed
of on Friday next.—Obscrver.
THE REPEALED DUTIES.—In consequence of direc-
tions from the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's
Treasury, the Commissioners of Customs have cansed-to
be furnished to their principal officers in London and
at the several ports throughout the kingdom 91e re' solu-
tion of the House of Commons for discontinuing the
duties of Customs upon a large nun ber of articles of
foreign merchandise, with directions tio them to admit
the articles therein named free of duty from the Ist of
the present month inclusive, under
condition of the parties abiding th the usual (nominal)
Parliament. e ulterior decision of