The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-24 00:00:00

BELGIUM AND CHINA.

The Belgian llioniteur publishes at the head of
its official columns the following document, styled
" Official Communication addressed by the Com-
missary for Foreign Affairs of China to the Belgian
Agent sent to that country :"
[Translation.]

"Ho Kwie-Tsing, Commissary for Foreign
Affairs and Governor-General of the Two Kiangs,
&c., sends the following despatch in reply :
On the 18th of October of the present year I
received your despatch, which contained the copy of
a despatch received from Key-ing, the former Com-
missary for Foreign Affairs, and I have read them
carefully.
'" I find, on investigation, that not long since I
received a despatch from Laon, Governor-General
of the Two Kiangs, and from Hang, Superinten-
dent of Customs at Canton, with copies of de-
spatches relative to the affairs of Belgium,
which informed me that during the 25th year
of Taou-kwang (1845), Key-ing and Kwanggan-
Tang, Commissaries for Foreign Affairs, have,
in a report, proposed to his Majesty to allow
Belgian merchants to trade with the five
ports, that his Majesty granted that permission,
that thereupon the Commissaries provided the Bel-
gian Consul with copies of the British, French, and
American treaties and tariffs, as a guide to Belgian
commerce in the five ports, and that no commercial
regulation was agreed upon during the 4th year of
Hien-Fang (the present Emperor).
" Belgian merchants, therefore, must conform
for the present to the arrangement agreed upon
1845). And
during the 25th year of Taou-kwang (
it is enregistered that I wrote to that intent to the
superintendent of the districts of Soochen, Sung-
kean, and Tac-Toung, at Shanghai, charging him
to notify the same to the Consul at Shanghai, for
the guidance of Belgian merchants.
" As regards the new ports, although the Ame-
rican Minister has exchanged the American treaty,
nevertheless', neither that treaty nor the regulations
nor the tariff have come into force.
‘" The English and French Ministers not having
regulated their treaties, it will be necessary for the
Belgian Government to wait until the treaties of
all the three Governments have been settled in a
satisfactory manner, and the new ports thrown
open; then I will address myself to his Majesty
respecting your country, that. the same privileges
'hay be granted to you as are granted to them.
" Meantime, I have to request that your mer-
chants will trade at the live ports conformably to
the regulations established during the 25th year of
Taou-kwang (1845). When it shall have pleased
his Majesty to grant additional privileges to your

nation, your merchants will then have to conform
thereunto.

" ' For the present, however, it is not necessary
to agree upon new articles of a treaty ; you must
simply wait until the three Powers who have made
treaties have settled their arrangements in a satis-
factory manner, and they will serve also for the
guidance of your merchants.

" This is the reply which I have now the honour
to communicate to you, and I beg of you to examine
it. I take this opportunity of offering my compli
meats to you.

" ' Communication necessary to M. Egremont,
Minister of his Majesty the King of the Belgians.'
(True translation made in English),
" JOHN A. J. MEADOWS, Interpreter.
"Oct. 19, 1839."

FRANCE.

PARIS, THURSDAY.

The Three per Cents. closed to-day at 68f 15c,
for the end of the month, and the Four-and-a-Half
per cents. 97f. 90c. ; Orleans, 1,377 f. 50c. ; Great
Northern, 917 f. 50c.; Strasburg, 637 f. 50c.; Paris
to Lyons and the Mediterranean, 892 f, 50c. ;
Western of France, 585 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette,
502 f.; Lyons and Geneva, 500; Bank of Credit
Mobilier, 753 f. 75c.; Austrian Railways, 5071. 50c.;
Roman Railways, 350 f.

Exchange on London, at sight, parer, 25f. 11 Nc. ; money.
!U. 10e.; thaw months, paper, 24f. fjOe. ; money, 241. 871 e.

CALCUTTA AND CHINA
MAILS.

The following telegram has been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

SOUTHAAIPTON, FRIDAY.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
China, Capt. Jay, has arrived with the heavy por-
tion of the Calcutta and China mails.

She also brings 76 passengers, 3 packages of
general cargo. Her dates are Alexandria, 10th ;
Malta, 13th ; and Gibraltar the 18th inst.

The China was detained at Alexandria from the
6th until the 10th inst., in consequence of terrific
gales and heavy sea on the bar, in whichthe English
ships Isabella and Sir De Lacy Evans, and also
five Greek vessels were stranded.

Thirty-one lighters were blown ashore, and
numerous small craft, were dashed to pieces by the
violence of the gale.
On the 11th the China spoke the brig of war
Sentinelle, on the 14th the Indus, and on the 19th
the brig Pauline.

Gibraltar exchange on London for 90 days was
quoted 501 to 501 ; on Paris and Marseilles, sfr.
35e. ; on Genoa, sfr. 37c. ; on Madrid, for eight
days sight, discount. Freights unchanged.
Morocco news is to the 17th inst.

On the fall of Tetuan the keys of the city were
delivered to the Spanish commander on a silver

tray. The division of General Rios then took
passession of the city and castle, and the Moorish
army retired into the interior. The Jewish popu-

lation remained quietly in the city, and the Moorish
inhabitants remaining received Spanish protection.
The Moorish loss is the action of the 4th was
estimated at 1,000. _ _ _

The defeat of the Moors was the signal of an
onslaught by the Arabs, who broke into the houses
and shamefully treated women and children, and
great excesses were committed. Muley Abbas en-
deavoured to arrest the pillage, but order and dis-
cipline were destroyed, and every effort to arrest
the evil was futile, although 16 of the pillagers
were put to death on the spot.
Sidi Hamed has left tho camp, and:gone to Me-1
quinez.

Muley Abbas, with his defeated force, was hal
way between Tetuan and Tangier.

The obstruction to business on the coast towns
of Morocco entailed great sufferings on the Jewish
population.
A steamer, freighted with bayonets for the Moors,
has been seized and taken to Algesiras.
In the last battle fought the Spaniards took 800
tents, several cannon, and effects.
The Moors are described as poor savages, with
bad arms, no artillery, and inefficient generals.

THE WHITWORTH RIFLE CANNON.

LIVERPOOL, FEB. 23.

The experiments with Mr. Whitworth's guns
were resumed on Tuesday upon the sands to the
west of Southport. It was decided to fire to 12-
pounder with the same weight of powder and ele-
vation of gun as had been tried by the Armstrong
gun, and the result was as follows