The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-04 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY.
The Delta, Captain Black, with the heavy por-
tion of the Calcutta and China mails has arrived,
and brings 90 passengers, a general cargo, and news
from Gibraltar to the 30th ultimo.
The Indus left Gibraltar on the 28th for Alex-
andria.
The schooners Dreadnought and Resoloido and
the brig Carolina were ashore.
Gibraltar Exchange on London as last quoted.
THE WAR IN MOROCCO.—The action on the 25th
December was the severest yet fought. A Spanish
General jumped from his horse and led his men
against the enemy's positions, and took them at the
point of the bayonet. The dead bodies of 38 Moors
were found on the spot.
Ten Spanish ships had been ordered from
Havannah to Morocco.
The Spanish army was to be increased to 80,000

men.
Battalions of Spanish infantry were marching
overland to Algeciras, there to embark for Ceuta.
Up to the 30th ultimo, the Spanish casualties
were 6,000.

Viscount Palmerston arrived in London yesterday
morning, from his seat, Broadlands. His lordship will give
a grand full-dress Parliamentary banquet on Monday, the
23d inst., at Cambridge House, to the Speaker and a large
party of the leading supporters of the Government in the
House of Commons.

His Excellency Lord Cowley, British Minister at
the Imperial Court of the Tuileries, arrived in London on
Tuesday from Paris.

Lady Anne Beckett has left town on a visit to the
Marchioness (Frances Anne) of Londonderry, at Wynyard
Park, Stockton-on-Tees.

The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., who came
up to town yesterday in order to attend the Cabinet
Council, returned to Wilton last evening.
The Duke of Newcastle arrived in town yester-
day from his seat, Clumber Park. Notts.

The funeral of Lord Macaulay will take place
in Westminster Abbey on Monday next, January the 9th,
at one o'clock. The members of the Legislature and the
gentlemen of distinction in letters, science, or art, who may
Le desirous to show their respect to his memory, are re-
quested to signify their wish to Mr. C. Buxton, M.P., 7,
Grosvenor-crescent, as the space in the part of the Abbey
chosen for the interment is limited. No one can be admitted
without a ticket.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in
Downing street. The Ministers present were Viscount
Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke
of Argyll, Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, Lord John Russell, the
Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir
Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke
of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Sir George
Grey, the Earl of Elgin, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, and
the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers.
_DEATH OF LORD JOHN SCOTT. —We have to an-
nounce the demise of Lord John Douglas Monta:uo Scott.
The unexpected and melancholy occurrence took place yes-
tez day morning, about four o'clock, at his seat. Caneston
Lodge, near Rugby. His lordship was a keen supporter of
our national sports, particularly the turf and the chase. The
deceased lord was second son of Charles William, fourth
Duke of Buccleuch, and the Hon. Harriet Katherine
'rownshend, fourth daughter of Thomas, first Viscount
Sydney, and was born 13th July, 1809, and married, 16th
March, 1836, Alicia Anne, eldest daughter of Mr. John
Spottiswoode. His lordship, who does not leave any family,
was a deputy-lieutenant of Berwickshire. By the lamented
death of his lordship the families of the Duke and Duchess
of Buccleuch, the Earl of Rnraney, the Earl and Countess
of Courtown, the Earl and Countess of Home, Viscount
Sydney, are placed in mourning.