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

SEEDS.

Linseed continues in steady request, and late rates are
well supported. In rapeseed, very little is doing, yet prices
rule firm. Canary commands a fair sale, at full quotations ;

but all other seeds are a 81
somewhat freely, at very full
r urnip,White,p.bus.2os to 24s
Swede —s —s
Mustard, Brown —s —s
White, new s —s
Tares,Winter, new 7sod Bs,

Old —s —s
Canary, per quarter 52s 58s
Rye grass, new 26s 28s
Clover, Red Eng., et. 42s 48s
White

Foreign Red:,.. 42s 48s

White 6Ss 72s
Trefoil, new. lBB 22s

;low inquiry. Cakes move off
priees.

Carraway 328 to 341
Coriander lss 16s
Hempseed, per qr 40s 448
.Linseed,Eng.sowing Ns 68s
Crushing
Baltic —s —8
Odessa 49s 6d 51s
Linseed Cake, p. ton—
English .... £9 5s £9 158
Foreign, p ton £9 Os £lolos
Rape Cakes,p.ton £5 Os £5 10s
Rapeseed, p. qr. 608 66s

THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY.

The 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 559 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 Alexandi is there was an Egyptian squadron.
At Malta were her Majesty's ships Growler,
Caradoc, 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 sailed
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-
tain 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 sumo
port in the Baltic, on her first voyage, and of about
1,000 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-
pool.
The French bark Felice Bernabe was cruising
off Europa Point ; and Norwegian bark Harm
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 Glamor 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 Attache to the
;Morocco Legation.
Don Jose Merry y Colon, the recently appointed
Spanish Charge d'Affaires and Consul-General to
the Court of Morocco, arrived at Tangier on the 19th
in the Vasco Nunez do Mho, accompanied by the
steam sloop Leone. OR laning 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,
1859, for having given to various persons copies of
the New Testament in the Spanish language, and
was brought to trial on the charge of attempting to
change the religion of Spain. The district judge
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 501 ; Paris, M. 30c. ; Marseilles and
Genoa, of. 31c.; Madrid, 8 days' sight. I dis. ;
Cadiz, par ; Malaga, par ; Sayre, b dis.; Alicante,
dis. ; Valencia, par ; Barcelona, y 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 Seofield, Lord Comber-
mere's family, Mrs. Bacon, Mrs. Walpole.
THE NEW INSOLVENT a 2llx .
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
Garde's, 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 Mcßride, 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. John Goes, 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 au all habet'cul letter, previously
drawn by the players. The following three were returned
in their order cf merit : Mr. Wm. :'perk. Leeds (U); Mr•
W. Panatt,liuddergield (E) ; and Mi. Tsylor, Gbucester
(C). In conjunction with Sir. Henry Smart, of London,
Mr. Spark was the designer of the magnificent organ, the
beauties of which he will now be enabled to display. The
salary is £2OO per annum.
TIIE 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 r t. appeared that
only 11 were in of the 15 members composing the jury
fa-
vour of the verdict as given, while four insisted on a ver-
dict 'effete de se, and it was not until a deliberation and di,_
cussion of nearly an hour's duration theta the verdict was
officially recorded as given in the first innce y the fore-
man. We understand that the wan'on mangling of the
hapless female betokened, in the opinion of some
,
of the
jurymen, far more than the insane act of and
a murderer
that the consideration evinced by preparing to dispose of
the body piecemeal would have fully };R
348.,..ed a verdict of
' fele de se.