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

at 9 a.m.

HOMEWARD BOMBAY MAILS.
The Euxine left here at 4 a.m. on the 19th, and
may be expected at Southampton on the 29th inst.

nation, your merchants will then have to conform
thereunto.

" For tllc present, however, it is not necessary
to agree upon new articles of a treaty ; y-ou mast
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.
" "fhis 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-
ments 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, 1859."

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
Mobilitr, 753 f. 75c.; Austrian Railways, 507 f. 50c.;
Roman Railways, 350 f.

Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 112 c. ; money,
245 f. 10e.; three months paper, 241.90 c. ; money, 24f. 871 e.

CALCUTTA AND CHINA
MAILS.

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

SOUTHAMPTON, 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 which the 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 504 ; on Paris and Marseilles, Mr.
35c. ; on Genoa, Mr. 37c. ; on Madrid, for eight
days sight, Y 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 flamed has left the camp, and: gone to Me-
quinez.

Muley Abbas, with his defeated force, was half-
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 WHIT WORTH RIFLE CANNON.

LIVERPOOL, FEB. 23.

The experiments with Mr. Whitworth's guns
were resumed on Tuesday upon the rands 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 :