The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-23 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Closing Prices.—Gold, 139; ; Sterling Exchange
on London, 1081 ; 5-20 United States Bonds, 108 ;
Illinois, 130 ; Erie, 70k ; Cotton—Middling Up-
land, 17i.
PHILADELPHIA, j\ Or. 22.
Petroleutn, standard white, 25.

ITALY.

FLORENCE, Nov. 23.

The Italic announces that the Pontifical Govern-
ment intends to liberate the Garibaldian prisoners.
A first detachment, consisting of GOO men, is
shortly expected here.

PORTUGAL.

LISBON, Nov. 22 (Evening.)

The American ship of war, the Guard, has sailed
for New York direct, by order of Admiral Farragut.

CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.

Gaut, Nov. 17.
The Orissa, from China, arrived on the 15th
inst., and the Avoca, from Australia, to-day.
The Simla leaves for Suez to-day.
The Bombay reached Melbourne on the 14th and
Sydney on the 16th Oct.
The Candia arrived at Galle, Nov. a.
GIBRALTAR, Nov. 22.

The Tanjore left yesterday at 10 p.m., all well.
She may be expected at Southampton on the 26th

inst.

5t:1,7,, Nor. 21.
The Nubia sailed for Calcutta at G a.m. yester,

day.

7HE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

PLYMOUTH, N-OV. 22.

According to advices received by the Britain, the
Cape had recovered its equanimity after the excite•
meat of the Royal visit. His Royal Highness the
Duke of Edinburgh left Simon's Bay on the 2d of
October for Australia. His lengthened stay seemed
to have passed off as agreeably to himself as it evi-
dently did to the Cape people. The Prince during
his stay mingled freely among all classes, and paid
private as well as public visits to institutions. Ile
also made a careful inspection of the Breakwater
works, and finally acknowledged the hospitality he
had received by giving a return ball at Simon's
Town prior to his departure. This ball was in
every way a princely return of those given to the
Duke by the Governor, colonists, and military, and
passed off with brilliant eclat. The Duke left Cape
Town finally on September 28.
The meeting-of the Dutch Reformed Synod was
opened on the Bth of October. It had excited
much interest, but had ended abruptly and unsatis-
factory. The first question to be determined before it
was whether the Rev. Messrs. Burgers and Kotze, the
clergymen whose doubted orthodoxy caused legal
proceedings that were adjudicated upon by the Privy
Council on appeal adverse to the Synod, should or
should not be at once recognised as minister of the
Church and members of the Synod. A considerable
minority of members thought the judgment of the
Privy Council should be acquiesced in. The ma-
jority, however, decided that the Synod should be
adjourned sine die, until an answer could be obtained
to a petition transmitted to the Queen, to have it
cleared up whether the judgment of the Privy
Council was intended to have effect only quoad
temporalia, or whether it extended to spiritual
matters. These ministers continued their services,
and with a few exceptions their congregations ad-
hered to them. It was said by a local journal that
the " liberalism" of those ministers, though it pre-
vai!ed in the Dutch Church, had but very little
sympathy with the extreme views held by the theo-
logians of Germany, or by Bishop Colenso.
Ilis Excellency Sir P. E. Wodehouse would return
to England by the next mail, on six months' have
of absence, but it was not considered likely he would
return to the colony, as his term of office will by that
time have expired. The colonists express hopes that
Sir George Grey will be the next Governor.
Business during the past month had shown signs
of an improvement in the colony. The weather had
been very satisfactory for agriculture and the crops
are very promising. _

Very little had been done during the month in
the way of wool shipments, owing to the low price
of wool in the English markets. Several vessels
had sailed with full cargoes.

A dangerous fever of a low typhoidal character,
and sometimes assuming a malignant typhus form,
had continued to prevail in Cape Town and in many
other places in the colony. .i.LThe number of men
constantly under treatment in Cape Town was
about 500, and the mortality was about 60 a week,
while the ordinary mortality of the city was under
20 a week. Every effort was being made to en-
force sanitary rules.
The Basuto war still continued. The Free State
was said to have obtained some very decided suc-
cesses over the Basutos.

An earthquake had occurred at East London
and King William Town. The buildings were
shaken.

At Natal, in the case of the interdict sought to
be obtained by Dr. Colenso against the Rev. Messrs
Green, S. F. Robinson, and Walton, for preaching,
the Court had refused the application. The rev.
respondents were no ,v to be cited individually to
appear on the first day of next term to show cause
why they should not be deprived of their licences
in the diocese.

The Roman Catholic Bishop of Cape Town had
been mobbed at Namaqual, and a mock religious
procession paraded before him ; his absolution was
asked for in derision, and his person pelted with
filth by some ignorant members of the Dutch com-
munity in consequence of his having baptised two
illegitimate children. The better class of the
Dutch had protested against the outrage, and
sympathised with the bishop.
The Norseman arrived out on the 15th of Oct.,
and the Kaffraria on the 13th.

Ifer Majesty's ships Nymph and Daphne, and
the transports England's Queen and Bosphorus,
were reported to have arrived out. The wreck of
the latter must have occurred several days after the
departure of the Briton.

111ARKETS—(This Day.)

COVENT GARDEN.

Apples, 4s to 8s ; walnuts, lOs to 15s per bushel ; figs,
Os to Os ; peacho, Os to Os ; pears, 2s to 4s per dozen ;
filberts, Is ; grapes, is 6d to 3s ; pine apples, Os to Os per
lb ; oranges, 6s to 8s per 400; artichokes, 2s to 4s ; beet,
is to 2s; cabbages, is 3d to 2s ; cauliflowers, 3s to 6s;
parsnips, Od to Os ; tomatoes, 2s to 3s per dozen , carrots,
6d to 8d; herbs, 2d to 4(1; turnips, 3d to 4d per bunch;
celery, Os to Os Od; horseradish, Os to Os per bundle ; endive,
Is Gd to 2s ; lettuces, is to is Gd per score ; onions, 4s to
ss; spinach, 2s Od to 3s por bushel; potatoes, 80s to 160 s
per ton.