The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-13 00:00:00

the second section of the fourth article thereof, shall
not be amended or abolished without the consent
of all the States.

SEC. 7. Congress shall provide by law that the
United States shall pay to the owner the full value
of his fugitives from labour in all cases where the
marshal or other officer whose duty it was to arrest
such fugitive was prevented by volence or in-
timidation from mobs or riotous assemblages, or
when, after arrest, such fugitive was rescued by
like violence or intimidation, and the owner thereby
prevented and obstructed in the pursuit of his
remedy for the recovery of such fugitive, Congress
shall provide by law for securing to the citizens
of each State the privileges and immunities of the
several States.

The vote on the first section stood 9 to 8, New
York, Kansas, Indiana, and Missouri not voting.
All the other articles were agreed to by a vote of
16 to 8.

The Conference ordered that engrossed copies
of the plan of adjustment be sent to both Houses of
Congress, and then adjourned sine die.
The proceedings in Congress on the 27th were of
considerable importance.

In the Senate the Tariff Bill was finally passed,
and awaited only the President's signature to be-
come law.

The Army Appropriation Bill was discussed and
passed.

The adjustment adopted by the Peace Confer-
ence was read, and on the !nation of Mr, Critten-
den, it was referred to a committee, consisting' of
Messrs. Bigler, Seward, Thomson, Trumbull, and
Crittenden, with instructions to report upon it at
1 o'clock on the-following day. The Senate then
went into executive session, and ordered the cor-
respondence between the Governments of Great
Britain and the United States, relative to the
fugitive slave Anderson, to be printed.

THE BOMBAY AND MEDITERRANEAN

MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 13.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam
ship Massilia, Captain Roberts, with the above
mails, in charge of Mr. Lea, of the General Post-
office, arrived last night.

She brings 44 passengers, five packages specie,
value 1,614 dols., and the following cargo, viz.:-
21 cases Cashmere shawls, 48 boxes oranges, 60
sacks peas, 25 casks wine, and 1,203 bales raw silk,
value upwards of £llO,OOO sterling.
The Massilia sailed from Alexandria on the 27th
Feb., Malta 3d, and Gibraltar the 7th inst.

Several merchant steamers were in:the harbour
of Alexandria, the usual Egyptian fleet, and a
Russian frigate; at Malta, the Algiers, Cressy,
Renown, Ca3sar, and Mars; at Gibraltar, the
Ariadne, Diadem, and Argus.
The Swedish corvette Lagerbjelke, 16 guns,
arrived at Malaga on the 2d from Malta, on her
way to Sweden.

The garrison of Tetuan was being actively re-
lieved by fresh troops from the PeninsulQ.
The Spanish squadron to form part of the naval
division destined to operate in the waters of Vera
Cruz had arrived at Cadiz.

His Excellency General Quesada, Captain Gene-
ral of Seville, who is on a tour of inspection, ar-
rived at Cadiz on the sth. The General, with some
of his Staff and the Spanish Consul, visited the
Governor of Gibraltar on the 6th.

Rear-Admiral Don Juan Baptista Topete had been
appointed, with some engineer officers and an indi-
vidual interested in the Canary Islands fisheries, to
mark out the most convenient spot for the fishing
establishment at Santa Cruz de Agadir, which
place now belongs to Spain, in conformity to
stipulations of the treaty of peace concluded with
Morocco.

The following British ships had arrived out at
Gibraltar since the 4th inst. :—Brig Betsey, 21 days,
from Swansea ; steamer Olympus, six days, from
Liverpool ; R.V,Y.C. schooner Columbine, 11 days,
from Weymouth ; steamer Victor, 20 days, from
London. Spoken by the Expedient, on the 28th
ult., off Adra, the brig Olive Branch, from Trieste,
42 days out, all well; and on the Ist the Norwegian
brig Skibladner, from the Gulf of Oristano, for
Queenstown, 28 days out. Spoken by the Ocean
Wave, off Malaga, on the Ist, British brig Living-
ston, from Odessa, bound to Cork; and schooner
Glenroy, from Tarragona, bound to Liverpool, all
well ; same day, off Europa Point, British barque
Earl Powers, from Palermo, all well.