The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-13 00:00:00

BOMBAY AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Indus, Capt. J. S. Field, bringing the heavy
portion of these mails, in charge of Mr. Rablah, of
the General Post-office, arrived at Southampton
yesterday afternoon. She left Alexandria on the
28th ult., Malta on the Ist inst., and Gibraltar on
the 6th. From Alexandria to Gibraltar she had
light south and south-west winds and fine weather,
along the coast of Portugal and across the Bay
strong north-east winds, with variable winds and
fine weather up Channel.
This steamer brought 68 first-class passengers, 17
second, 5 servants, 20 children, and 48 deck, among
whom were Sir Alfred Stephen, from Sydney ;
Lieut.-Col. Boyle, from Bombay ; and Capt. Rogers,
of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's service.
She brought £2,600 in specie, 684 bales and 128
packages of silk, 76 cases of shawls, 305 bags of
coffee, 10 packages of tusks, 13 casks of wine, and
130 packages of sundries ; also a horse.
On April 4 the Indus passed the company's steamer
Euxine ; 7th, at 1 30 p.m., passed her Majesty's
royal yacht Victoria and Albert, steering S.E., 40
miles to the southward and eastward of Cape St.
Vincent ; on the same day, at 10 51 p.m., passed
the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Pera.
Her Majesty's ships Marlborough, Orion, Victor
Emmanuel, Cressy, and Caradoc were at Malta, and
at Gibraltar were the Hannibal, Renown, James
Watt, Agamemnon, Doris, Scylla, Mohawk, and
Lapwing.
Her Majesty's screw frigate Amphion, Captain
Cochrane, arrived at Gibraltar at 11 a.m. on the
30th ult. from Cork, and saluted the Admiral with
11 guns, which was returned by the flagship Han-
nibal. The Amphion left again on the afternoon of
the 31st to join Admiral Fanshawe's squadron at
Malta.

The paddlewheel steam frigate Terrible, Captain
Glasse, after taking in coals and a supply of fresh
provisions,left Gibraltar on the Ist inst. for England.
The Indiana steam transport, with a wing of the
14th on board for St. Lucia and Trinidad, left Gib-
raltar on the 30th at 6 a m.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Euxine, with the outward Bombay mails of the 27th
ult., arrived at Gibraltar on the afternoon of the 2d
inst., and proceeded the same night up the Medi-
terranean.

The British merchant steamer Britannia, Capt.
J. T. White, from London and Corunn a with Govern-
ment stores, &c.,arrived at Gibraltar on the Ist inst.
The British schooner Maggie, Capt. Eddington,
from Liverpool with coals for Gibraltar, arrived
out on the 31st ult.

Gibraltar exchanges were quoted as under at
latest dates :—London, 90 days' date, 50 3-16 to 50i;
Paris, ditto, 5f 30e; Marseilles, ditto, 5f 31c ; Genoa,
af 32c; Madrid, 8 days' sight, to 'I, dis. ; Cadiz,
ditto, par; Malaga, ditto, 7 pm. ; Seville, y dis. ;
Alicante, dis.; Valencia, dis. ; Barcelona, par.
Spanish pillared dollars 3 per cent. prem.—none
and no demand.

Freights to London and outports in the United
Kingdom—Brazil and River Plate, 12 dols per ton,
and 10 per cent. ; Gulf of Mexico and Havannah,
12 dols per ton, and 10 per cent. ; lialta, Leghorn,
Genoa, and Marseilles, 4 dols to 5 dols per ton, and
5 per cent.; lead at less.
Don Carlos Montemar, who for the last two years
has discharged the duties of Consul for the Queen
of Spain at Gibraltar, took his departure in
the Teodosio steamer for Cadiz on the 3d inst.
The Vice-Consul, Don Joaquin Gonzalez y
Huet, had undertaken the duties of the Consulate
until the arrival of the newly-appointed Consul,
Mr. Rocca. From Cadiz Mr. Montemar will pro-
ceed to Madrid, prior to assuming the duties of his
appointment as Consul-General at Athens, to which
post he has lately been gazetted.
Lieuts. H. A. Ankarcrona and Bergenstrahle, of
th• Swedish Life Guards, arrived at Gibraltar on
the 2d from the late seat of war in Morocco, whither
they had gone to witness the operations of the Spa-
nish army against the Moors. Lieut. Ankarcrona,
who was wounded in the left hip in the battle of
the 23d March, has been recommended to the
Queen of Spain by Marshal O'Donnell for the
Cross of San Fernando. These officers would shortly
leave for Sweden, via Madrid.
The Cadiz papers of the 29th ult. announce the
arrival in that city of the recently appointed Civil
Governor of the province, Mr. Mendez Vigo. The
sailing frigate Baylen, of 40 guns, Capt. N. Chi-
carro, reached that port on the 28th from Havanna,
after a passage of 42 days.
The files of the Gibraltar Chronicle received by
the Indus contain very little from the late seat of
war in Morocco. The following are the principal
items :

" Amid the conflicting reports respecting the en-
gagements of the 23d ult. between the Spanish and
Moorish forces, and the excitement of the public in
Spain on the peace question, the following extract
of a letter dated Camp, Tetuan, April 1, from one
of Spain's most gallant and most distinguished
generals, may prove of some interest :
" "Ile battle of the 23d was, indeed, very hotly
contested. The Moors defended themselves with
desperate fury, but they were forced to yield before
our well-trained and disciplined troops. The losses
on our side bear testimony to the resistance of the
enemy ; 120 chiefs and officers and upwards of 1,020
men were put hors de combat—more than half of
them (57 officers and 556 men) belonging to the
eight battalions under the command of Gen. Prim.
• • • . The result of this last defeat of the Moors
bas been peace, and be it welcome. The honour
of Spain, our dear country, is secured without
humbling the vanquished. It is not humbling
them to require just compensation for the
expenses of the war.'

;' Moorish commissioners had arrived in the
Spanish camp before Ceuta for the purpose of ar-
ranging with the Spanish authorities the new boun-
dary line to be established in conformity with the
treaty of peace.
" The Moorish loss in killed and wounded in the
battle of the 23d ult. is stated at between 400 and
430.

" Accounts received from Tangier on the 4th men-
tion that on the 23d, the day the armistice and pre-
liminaries were signed, a reinforcement of 5,000
men of the tribe of Khamas (between Tetuan and
the Riff) joined the Moorish camp ; and that on the
28th an additional force of 12,000 Riffians arrived
and encamped on the eastern bank of the Boosfiha,
between Tetuan and Martin. The Ruffians are
commanded by Hamrish and Oolishky, the most
Powerful et' their chiefs.
Sanguinary as was the battle of the 23d, it is
war
probable that if the
gone on and victory
had continued to attendt had
he
b Spanish
panish arms, success
would at every step have
pur-
chased. The recent- accession
to more dearly
to the Moorish army
is even more important than its numerical
e crical amount
of t
would indicate, for it consists
fiercest and
most warlike tribes of the empire.
" An Imperial order had been received at Tangier
for the public execution of the two men implicated
r
in the late murderous attack on Mr. James Drum-
mond Hay and the crew of the bark Zuleika ; and
Sunday last was fixed for carrying the order into
effect. Early in the afternoon three colonels of the
Sultan's Bokhara Horse arrived at Tangier for the
purpose of seeing their Royal master's order duly
executed. Escorted by a numerous military guard,
and heavily fettered, the unhappy criminals were
soon afterwards led from prison to the principal
market-place, and, a space having been cleared in
the midst of the dense crowd which had assembled
there, a party of soldiers with loaded muskets
were drawn up within it, anal prepared to dis-
charge their terrible duty. These •preliminaries
had scarcely been completed when further proceed-
ings were arrested by the arrival on the ground
of Mr. Reade, her Majesty's Consul, accompanied
by Messrs. James Drummond Hay and Green.
Mr. Reade had been instructed by her Majesty's
Charge d'Affaires to state that, although the pri-
soners bad been found guilty of participating in the
murderous attacks which had led to the death of the
unfortunate mariner John Storny, it was doubtful
whether either of them was the actual perpetrator
of the murder, and therefore, at his intercession, her
Majesty the Queen of England had been graciously
pleased to direct that his Majesty the Sultan should
be moved to commute the punishment of death for
that of imprisonment for a lengthened term. lie
requested,st therefore, that the authorities would ab-
n fromord giving immediate execution to the Sul-
tan'ser until a reference had been made to his
majesty,
thorities thflioes
After some demur on the part of the au-
eectuest was acceded to. The natives,
who had
Ion:
ads in h great numbers to the market-
place as
that the execution
the as were under the impression
e_ars about to take place, showed,
by their silenee,,rthheyihoawpperveciation of the justice of
the sentence.
reeted with satisfac-
tion the announcement that the livesr of the unfortu-
natesotuereeed blessings had been spared, and
on the
English for their merciful intercession.
"Accounts Accounts from Tetuan in the .slisiaoan'S
that at 2 o'clock on the afternoon of the
25th
state
signing the preliminaries of peace, the 25th, after
after
which are unknown, the Spanish troops begana
s et
to
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retire, as also the Kabyles. At this juncture
sin-
gular incident occurred, which to any one would
appear a notable phenomenon worthy of attention.
The Moors retired between the Spanish troops as if
nothing had occurred, carrying their cap/nip/0/as
and other weapons, which none were willing to sell
at any price. Many of them encamped during
the night with the Spanish troops, and on the
rcreilk being sounded at daylight the Moors began
to dance at the sound of the music. They messed
with the soldiers, and afterwards assisted in bury-
ing the dead of both armies which yet remained on
the field."