The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-02 00:00:00

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING.
The Dane steamer, Captain Hoffman, has arrived
from the Cape of Good Hope. ~
She left Table Bay July 23d; St. Helena, Aug.
Ist; Ascension, sth; and brings 16 passengers,
£lO,OOO in specie, and cargo of wine, wool, horns,
and sundries.

She spoke July 30, in lat. 19.35 S., long. 1.20
W., the barque Robert Alexander; Aug 10th, in
lat. 5.16 N., long. 19.20 W., the ship Adelaide ;
Aug. 11th, in lat. 8.28 N., long. 20.51 W. the ship
6 Maroi.

The principal topic of news is the recal of Sir
George Grey, the Governor. Meetings have been
held and resolutions passed regretting his departure.
Tranquillity reigns throughout the frontier, and
the States beyond.

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The Cape Parliament was prorogued on July 8,
after sitting 144 days.
Governor Grey had laid the foundation stone of
a patent slip in Simon's Bay.

Her Majesty's ship Boscawen, Admiral Sir F.
Grey, was daily expected at the Cape, from the
West Coast.

The Hermes was in Simon's Bay.
The Lyra cruising in the Mozambique.

The Perseverance had left for England.
The immigration scheme is to be continued in the
same manner as heretofore. Two vessels had
arrived with immigrants during the month, viz.,
the Bride, at Table Bay, and the Shah Jehan, at
Algoa Bay.

The cutter Rosebud had been lost at Lambert's
Bay, and the brig Osmond at Breede River.
A large number of vessels had taken refuge in
Algoa Bay during the month, to repair damages
sustained at sea; among thetn the barque Medium,
from Galle, for Liverpool ; the ship Covenanter,
from Bombay, for Liverpool ; barque George Avery,
from Koringa Bay, for London ; American, from
London, for Bombay.

The Swedish barque Elizabeth put in on the 22d
of June to land captain and crew of ship Wolfe,
from Kooria Alooria to London, which was
abandoned at sea in lat. 34 57, long. 27 22 E.,
and shortly afterwards went down.
The mail steamer Celt, from Plymouth, arrived
in Table Bay July 15.

Her Majesty's ships Tortoise, Trident, and Biper,
and merchant ships Eleanor, Envelope, and City
of Lincoln, were at Ascension.

The Trident is coming home as soon as the ship's
company have got rid of the fever; she has lost
about 43 hands with the fever.

TILE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.

The Indus arrived yesterday at Southampton
with the heavy portion of the Calcutta and
China mails, the whole of which were sorted on
board. The Indus left Alexandria August 18 ;
Malta, 22 ; and Gibraltar, 26. She brought home
80 passengers; amongst her cargo were 1,472 bales
of silk, and a package of specie, value not named.
Her Majesty's ships Marlborough, Conqueror, Ex-
mouth, Euryalus, Princess Royal, Renown, and
Banshee, were at Malta. The rest of the Mediter-
ranean fleet were met going into port from a cruise.
The Vulture and Quail were at Gibraltar. _ _

As the Indus was passing Tarifa, a fortified
Spanish seaport town in the straits of Gibraltar, on
the 27th of August, at about 9.30 a.m., a gun was
fired from the fort ; no notice was taken of this,
when a second was fired, and a large round shot
came bounding along the water and sank within
about fifty yards of the ship. Had this shot been
fired with one or two degrees more elevation, it
could not have failed to fall on board, and nothing
but its having struck the water several times pre-
vented it from striking the hull of the Indus right
amidships, as it was. The passengers were all
looking over the side at the town at the time. The
Indus was about two miles off the town, the British
ensign was flying at the peak ; the weather was
beautiful, and the sea remarkably smooth.
News had reached Gibraltar from Ceuta that
hostilities had broken out between the Moors and
the Spaniards of that fortress. On the 24th, about
noon, 400 Moors appeared on the plains before the
fortifications, and began firing on the Spanish
outposts. They killed a sentry and wounded two
others. The troops in garrison, immediately on the
receipt of this information, were marched out to
meet the Moors, when a heavy firing ensued be-
tween the belligerent parties. The guns on the
ramparts also took part in the contest. The Moors,
who were several times driven back, renewed the
charge. Five Moors were reported to have been
killed. The firing continued at the time the vessel
which brought over the intelligence left the Bay of
Ceuta, on the 24th ult.
About 5 p.m. on the 24th some irregular firing,
with heavy guns, was heard in the direction of
Ceuta, from the Upper Signal Station at Gibraltar,
and again at 10 o'clock the following morning.
News reached Gibraltar on the 26th that the
Moors had lost about 50 men. _ _

Troops were sent by the Commandant-General of
the neighbouring district to reinforce the garrison
of Ceuta.

The master of a falucho reports the following
occurrence :—" While off Apes' Hill with his
falucho, on the 25th, in company with 16 bar-
quillas, or open boats, engaged in the coral fishery,
upwards of 7,000 Bedouins were observed going in
the direction of Ceuta, and, after ascending the
hill, commenced firing upon them. Th master of
the above falucho as well as the men i the other
boats were obliged to cut their nets a d move as
quickly as possible out of range of the bullets which
were falling thickly around them. Great firing
could be distinctly heard in the direction of Ceuta.
The wind being favourable, the other sixteen boats
made sail for Tangier.