The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-02 00:00:00

SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY.

Vile Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Ceylon, Captain Evans, with the heavy portion
of the Calcutta and China mails, has arrived.

She brings 185 passengers ; 6 packages of specie,
value £1,347 ; precious stones, 6,200 rupees ; cut
diamonds, 800 rupees ; pearls, value 550 rupees ;
also 40 cases of gum, 26 casks do,, 140 packages of
general merchandise, and 1,421 bales of raw silk,
value upwards of £140,000 sterling.
The Ceylon sailed from Alexandria on the 18th ;
Malta, 22d ; and Gibraltar, the 26th ultimo.
At Alexandria there was an Egyptian squadron.
At Malta were her Majesty's ships Growler,
Caradoe, and Assurance; and the Peninsular and

Oriental Company's steam-ship Alhambra.
At Gibraltar, her Majesty's ship Scourge.
The Ripon, with the outward mails of the 20th,
had arrived at Gibraltar, and sailed for Malta and
Alexandria on the 26th.

Her Majesty's steam storeship Supply arrived
at Gibraltar in six days from Plymouth, and pailed

again for the East on the afternoon of the 21st.

The
.Odessa, Russian steamer, six days from
London, reached Gibraltar on the 19th. The cap-

,c.in reported having picked up, off Cape St. Vin-

cent, in long, 9 10 W., lat. 37 12 N., on the 18th,
a large piece of bowsprit burned at one end, sup-
posed to appertain to a vessel belonging to some
port in the Baltic, on her first voyage, and of about
1,00

10 tons burden.
The following British ships had arrived at
Gibraltar since previous dates :—Steamer Petro,
8 days from London ; steamer Britannia, 6 days
from London ; brig Refuge, 19 days from Liverpool ;

schooner Falcon, 40 days from Hull ; steamer

Araxes, 51 days from Liverpool ; steamer William
France, 81 days from Liverpool ; brig Emporium,
16 days from Liverpool ; steamer Cora Linn, 15

days from Glasgow; and steamer Calpe, 7 days from
Liverpool ; steamer Venetian, 6 days from Liver-

- The French bark Felice Bernabe was cruising
off Europa Point ; and Norwegian bark Haren

Elizabeth, at the back of the rock.
The east wind set in on the 22d, and nearly all
the windbound vessels had taken their departure

from the Straits. Among the vessels that left were
the French barque Maria, from Marseilles to Singa-

pore, and the Russian ship Argo, from Toulon to
Hongkong, both laden with coal for the use of the
French steamers in the China expedition.

The Clamor says that the Moorish Commissioner
Uda, appointed to investigate into the attempt
against Brigadier Naneti and a captain of the
Saragossa regiment, does not suspect the crime to
have been perpetrated by any person belonging to the
Beni-salem tribe. Nothwithstanding, as the deed
was committed in that territory, the Commissioner
has punished the Kabyles by burning 11 of their
houses, with the whole of the effects and provisions
they contained. He moreover took 32 cows from
them, and sent to prison 32 individuals, who are
undergoing judicial examination.
It was reported at Gibraltar that her Majesty's
Charge d'Affairs, Mr. Drummond Hay, had been
promoted to the rank of Resident Minister at the
Court of Morocco, and that Mr. James Drummond
Hay had been nominated paid Attaché to the
Morocco Legation.
Don Jose Merry y Colon, the recently appointed
Spanish Chargé d'Affaires and Consul-General to
the Court of Morocco, arrived at Tangier on th• 19th
in the Vasco Nunez de Babe), accompanied by the
steam sloop Leone. On landing Don Jose Merry,
after a short interview with the Bashaw, proceeded
to the Consular residence, escorted by a Moorish
guard of honour.
The Gibraltar Chronicle of the 22d says—
" We are informed that Mr. Martin Escalante, a
British subject, and a native of Gibraltar, has re-
turned to this city after an imprisonment of up-
wards of 13 months in Cadiz."
Mr. Escalante was arrested in Vejer in May,
859, for having given to various persons copies of
he New Testament in the Spanish language, and

was brought to trial on the charge of attempting to
PhllnCe the religion of Spain. Thl district jaw!,
decided that the charge was proved, and sentenced
him to nine years' penal servitude. The severity
of the sentence, compared with the particular acts
charged against Mr. Escalante, excited much as-
tonishment in England. The subject was brought
to the notice of the House of Commons, and many
persons doubted whether, since the Inquisition has
been abolished in Spain, and that country is now said
to enjoy the benefits of constitutional government,
such a sentence could be in accordance with her
laws.

The friends of religious toleration and liberty
of conscience will be glad to learn that Escalante's
imprisonment is not sanctioned by the Spanish laws,
but must be attributed to the ignorance of them on
the part of a local judge. On an appeal being
made to a superior Court, the Audiencia of Seville,
that tribunal has annulled the sentence pronounced
by the district judge, and declared Mr. Escalante
innocent of the offence with which he was charged,
and ordered the costs of the procedure to be de-
frayed by the Crown.
Gibraltar exchanges were quoted—on London,
90 days' date 50; ; Paris, sf. 30c. ; Marseilles and
Genoa, sf. 31c. ; Madrid, 8 days' sight. dis. ;
Cadiz, par ; Malaga, par ; Seville, dis.; Alicante,
dis. ; Valencia, par ; Barcelona, pm. ; Spanish
pillard dollars, 3 per cent. pm.—no demand.
Freights remained without alteration.

The following distinguished persons, among
many others, visited the Great Globe lately, in Leicester-
square :—Duke of Buccleuch's family, Lady Sidney, and
party; Lord Elgin's family, Lady Gordon, and party;
Lord Alfred Paget's family, Marchioness of Salisbury,
Lord Camden's family, the Earl of Seafield, Lord Comber-
mere's family, Mrs. Bacon, Mrs. Walpole.
THE NEW INSOLVENT COMMISSIONER.—Mr.
Nichols, the newly .appointed Commissioner, took his seat
for the first time, on Saturday, in the room of the late Mr.
Commissioner Murphy. The appointment has given gene-

ral satisfaction.
FATAL FIREWORKS EXPLOSION AT MANCHES
TER.—On Saturday morning, about ten o'clock, a terrible
explosion of fireworks occurred at the Bellevue Zoological
Gardens, situate at Longsight, near Manchester, which has
caused the death of two men, and another is not expected to
live,
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SHOW, CANTERBURY.—
The South-Eastern Railway Company have provided siding
accommodation and convenient platforms at the show-yard,
so that passengers can be landed on the spot ; they have
also erected an office and cloak-room accommodation close
by the entrance door to the exhibition, as well as a tele-
graph-office in the yard. Most of the South-Eastern trains
will run from London to the Canterbury station-yard in
two hours.
SUICIDE.—A gunner belonging to the Coast
Brigade of Artillery, named M'Bride, was discovered on
Saturday morning at 4 a.m. in one of the invalid wards of
the Hospital at Woolwich, with his throat cut in a fright-
ful manner, the head being almost severed from the body.
The unfortunate man had been 16 years in the Royal
Artillery, and, as is stated, had been addicted for a long
time to habits of intemperance, from the effects of which
he was a patient in the infirmary. There is no doubt as to
the act having been committed by himself.
ELECTION OF ORGANIST AT THE LEEDS TOWN
HALL.--After a severe contest for this honourable post,
before Messrs. Sohn Goss, George Cooper (London), and
W. T. Best (Liverpool), these eminent judges have recom-
mended Mr. William Spark, of Leeds, as the person best
qualified for the situation. There were 22 candidates, who
were ultimately reduced to seven; and these were known
to the judges only by an alphabetical letter, previously
drawn by the players. The following three were returned
in their order of merit : Mr. Wm. Spark, Leeds (G) ; Mr.
W. Parratt, Huddersfield (E) ; and Mt. Taylor, Gloucester
(C). In conjunction with Mr. Henry Smart, of London,
Mr. Spark was the designer of the magnificent organ, the
I beauties of which he will now be enabled to display. The
salary is £2OO per annum.
THE OXFORD-STREET TRAGEDY.—After the ver-
dict had been returned at the inquest on the body of the
man Dhereng, at the workhouse in Mount-street, on Fri-
day, and the reporters and the public had left, several of
the jury refused to sign the inquisition, and it appeared that
of the 15 members composing the jury only 11 were in fa-
vour of the verdict as given, while four insisted on a ver-
dict of felo de se, and it was not until a deliberation and die►
cussion of nearly an hour's duration that the verdict was
officially recorded as given in the first instance by theofor_ee-
man. We understand that the wan'on Mangn.ilingOff Ito
hapless female betokened, in the opinion
jurymen, far more than the insane act of aofmsod; er and
that the consideration evinced by preparing turo dispose of
the body piecemeal would have fully justified a verdict of
•
felo cis se. The most splendid
VALUE Or LAND IN PARIS.
ark
the
and charming country mansion and park inni immediate
n vseoinmbilloyuf.r 1:
vicinity of Paris—the chateau de hearseY Just °ll Ye five
sold
walk from the great wine market,,
Nicolai for the large sum oldo.,,‘si.
be distributed among the servants of ,the princely house.
Company and some building specula-
The Lyons Railway
tors are the purchasers. A part of the original property
was sold to the Lyons Company some years ago for
3,000,000 f. The whole
00 IvOus bought at the beginning of
this century for £l, , . A more striking instance of
the rapid increase in the value of land, in and about Paris
could scarcely be adduced.. It is now intended to build a
long range of wine warehouses on that part of the park
which borders the Seine.