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

PENINSULAR MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer

Ripon, Captain J. S. Field, has arrived. She
brings a small mail from Gibraltar and Malta only,
15 supernumerary and 16 distressed British sea.
men, £1,200 in specie, and 1,000 packages of cargo,

The Ripon encountered terrine weather through-
out the passage.
Gibraltar Exchange as last quoted.
By this arrival news from Morocco is two days
later than that brought by the Ceylon.
The Spanish army before Tetuan was 30,000
strong.
The Moorish account of their losses in the battle
of the 23d ult., give 20 killed, the same number
wounded, and five prisoners.
The Moors captured a Spanish officer.
The Spanish army was occupied in the construc-
tion of works to secure its positions required for an
attack on Tetuan.

A star fort was also being constructed on the
right front, and small steamers were waiting to
convey the artillery up the river.
Sickness had increased in the Spanish army since

its encampment in the plains of Tetuan. Marshal
O'Donnell was chiefly occupied in entrenching the
positions to securcAthe army against any disaster
which might arise from an interruption of the com-
munication by sea.
Every exertion was being used to complete the
fortifications round the custom-house.
Private accounts say that cholera cmatinued its
ravages. In one day 200 men had been removed to
Ceuta.
Complete silence reigns in and about Tetuan ;
and there is no communication between the contend-
ing parties.

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is 19,602,6400 z.. and L 74,460,094.
THE INCREASED NEWSPAPER POSTAGE TO
—We regret that we have not space to do
mAonrsex
than thus briefly call attention to the letter in another
column,
wherein Mr. Brodie disposes of the poor official
pleas put forward for the imposition of the new tax on in-
telligence destined for the colonies. Mr. Laing, on behalf
of the Treasury, affirms that the transitai by contract to
the Egyptian Government for the of the whole
of the Eastern and Australian Mails across its ter-
ritory is £12,000 a-year; and in the next breath
he says that the new penny on newspapers
newspapers
aaplerregadvyiabseouptroh
for Australia via Southampton, is expected to
produce £5,000 a-year. In this expectation few will agree
with him. ?.[r. Brodie, however, takes him for the moment
at his word, and remarks that if the second penny will pro-
duceducing at least a like suns. Conseqvuaeyntzlyl,o,Aoouostar-ayleiaa,r a
£5,000 a-year, the first
o i i pennyher
cording to Mr. Laing's showing, is to
to-
wards the Egyptian subsidy
ampton alone. If this be so, what proportion do all the
letters and papers via Marseilles, both for India, China
and Australia, pay ? And if the fact be not so, how narrow'
DE2 transport, belongingjAlB. to the
a policy does it seem to shackle the flow of intelligence to
the colonies for a pecuniary consideration of paltry amount 1
Navigation Company of London,
steam-shipG reST.Greek
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d VINCENT,
Oriental
Powerful,st eCAPEam No.
' arrived here to coal from London for China, making the
• run in twelve days. The Powerful, besides
a large cargo
' five tons, intended for service
of army and naval stores, has on board several Armstrong
guns and a mortar weighing
• against the Chinese.