The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-03 00:00:00

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE WAR IN GERMANY.
STUTTGARD Aug 2.
An armistice has been concluded between Wur-
,emburg and Prussia.

MENTZ, Aug. 2.

An armistice has not yet been concluded between
this fortress and Prussia, and the navigation of the
Rhine is again interrupted.

BERLIN, Aug. 3.

M. Benedetti and Count Barral, the French and
Italian Ambassadors, have returned to this city
from the Prussian head-quarters.
The Bank of Prussia has reduced its rate of dis-
count from 6 to 5 per cent.

BOMBAY & MAURITIUS MAILS.

MALTA, August 2.

The Ceylon left at midnight yesterday, and the
Pera leaves at 10 p.m. to-day. The former may
be expected at Marseilles on the 4th, and the latter
at Southampton onthe 11th inst.

THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, Aug. 3.

The Peninsula and Oriental Company's steamer
Massilia, with the above mails, has arrived here,
with 157 passengers, 29 boxes of specie value
£lOO,OOO, 443 bales of silk value £44,300, 240
packages rhubarb, and 200 packages of sundries.
The Massilia experienced fine weather throughout
her passage. She was in quarantine at Gibraltar.
The Egyptian fleet and French man-of-war
Andromaque were at Alexandria. The Prince
Consort, Hydra, and Assurance were at Malta.
GIBRALTAR, July 29.
The following British ships have arrived here from
England :—Steamers —Robin Hood, Egyptian,
Tiber, Macedon, Tanjore, and schooner Midge.
The Gibraltar Chronicle says :—" It appears that
Algeciras, following the example of Cadiz, imposes
a quarantine of three days on arrivals from Gibral-
tar by sea. We have not heard whether Spain ex-
tends the quarantine on Barbary to her own for-
tresses in North Africa. The garrison of Ceuta
receives its provisions from the adjoining Moorish
territory, just as we receive ours from Tangiers.
To act consistently, Spain should put Ceuta
and her other settlements on the African coast
in quarantine. We rather hope, however, that
the needless inconvenience to which so many
Spanish subjects would be exposed will lead to a
reconsideration of the grounds on which the quar-
antine has been imposed on Morocco, and that when
it is found, as we are sure it will be, that the quar-
antine cannot be justified by sanitary reasons, it
will be removed. We learn from the Spanish jour-
nals that the quarantine on Valencia, imposed in
consequence of the appearance of a single case of
cholera, was removed by the Central Direction of
Health at Madrid upon the complaint of the Gover-
nor of Valencia of the injury done to that city by
the closing of other ports against its trade. The
quarantine restrictions to which the vessels of nearly
every country are now subject in Spanish ports,
whilst profitable to a certain class of public func-
tionaries, are said to be telling seriously on the
foreign trade and customs revenue of Spain.
A private letter of the 17th July, from Algiers,
gives a deplorable account of the destruction caused
in that province by the locusts. Their invasion
had lasted two months ; they had nearly eaten up
the crops, and in many places stripped every green
leaf from the trees. In some places the devastating
insects lie on the ground a foot deep. The local
authorities at one time gave sf. a quintal for the
collection and destruction of the locusts, but had
reduced the reward to two francs. Some of the
cultivators had abandoned their farms, shut up their
houses, and removed into Algiers in consequence of
the loss of their crops. To prevent a repetition of
the plague by the " langostines," or young of the
locusts, just come out of the egg and covering the
earth in all directions, the troops are distributed in
parties over the fields to assist the cultivators in
destroying the pest. Subscriptions, says the
writer of this letter, have been opened in France
and Algiers, to relieve the sufferings of the numbers
who have been ruined by this terrible visitation.

Her Majesty's steam troopship Urgent, which
arrived a few days ago from the west coast of
Africa with the 3d West India Regiment for Bar-
badoes, and has been kept in strict quarantine,
yesterday transferred the regiment to her Majesty's
troopship Simoom, which placed herself in quaran-
tine
to receive them, and left this port for Barba-
does at sunset. The Urgent this morning received
on board, under the usual quarantine precautions,
the time-expired men and invalids of the different
regiments serving on this station, and departs for
Portsmouth this evening. The 2d, 4th, and sth
batteries of artillery, under orders for Bermuda,
will not leave at present, their departure having
been countermanded. Colonel Maude, C. 8., V.C.,
having completed his five years of service on the
staff, proceeds with his family to England. Col.
Maude's successor, as assistant adjutant-general, is
Colonel Robert Lockhart Ross, late of the 93d
Highlanders.
London, 90 days' date, 501 e ; Paris, 8 days'
sight, sf. 13c.; Marseilles, do., sf. 13c. 14c.; Genoa
and Brussels, do. do.; Madrid, do., 21 dis. ; Cadiz,
do. (pay in gold), par ; Seville, do., 11 dis. ; Ma-
laga, do., 11 dis. ; Barcelona, do., dis. to par ;
Almeria, Valencia, and Alicante, do. do. Premium
on sf. pieces, to 1 per cent.