The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-21 00:00:00

SHIPPING-THIS DAY,

LONDON, Nov. 21.—Wind this day at noon—South-
West ; moderate breeze and foggy weather.
PLYMOUTH, Nov. 20.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Colonel
Hayward, from Moulmein—Neville, from Liverpool for
Shanghai

ThooN, Nov. 19.—Wind E.—Arrived—Horne, frem
Quebec, leaky.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 20.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Fen-
tonio Bassein, from Bremen.

CARDIFF, Nov. 19.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Josephine,
from Bilboa.

CawEs, Nov. 19.—Wind E.—Arrived—Catherine, from
Rio Janeiro.

FowEY, Nov. 19.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Gor, from
Villa Nova.

DOVER, Nov. 20.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Coudon,
from Southampton for Havre.

QUEENSTOWN, Monday Morning.
Yesterday morning, during a heavy N.W. gale and heavy
sea, the Canada rescued the crew of the water-logged barque
England, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, from Quebec, timber laden,
bound to Sunderland. Three of her crew were washed
overboard during the passage.

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(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPHS)
GRAVEIMND, Monday Morning.
Arrived, Nov. 20—City of Madras, from Calcutta—
Reliance, from Quebec—Osassedor, from Porto Rico—Lady
Bate, from Boston—Victoria, from Nienport—Gemliza,
from Trieste—Madaline, froom Damiest— Mary, from
Prince Edward's Isles—Pride of the Orwell, from Dunkirk
Coral Isles, from Damerara—lda, from Gibraltar.
Arrived, Nov. 21—John Bull, steamer, from Hamburg,
DEAL, Monday Morning.
Passed—Clyde, screw steamer,from Charente—Belgravia,
from Madras (in tow)—both for London.

Sailed, Nov. 20—Jessie Mann, for Sunderland (in tow)
—Esk, screw steamer, for Guernsey.

THE LIFE OF THE LATE LORD HAUDINGE, by
Sir Archibald Alison, is one of the latest literary announce-

ments.

LORD DERBY has been occupied for three years
in his translation of Homer, of which ho himself does not
think so highly as do many of his literary friends.

" MERRY AND WISE," a new illustrated magazine
for the young people, edited by "Old Merry," will be com-
menced by Messrs Jackson, Walford, and Hodder in Janu-
ary.

SIR WALTER SCOTT.—Lucy Aikin, who died last
January, and wrote various historical works, thus speaks
of Sir Walter Scott, whom she met hi 1811 :—" Though ho
speaks very broad Scotch, is a heavy-looking man, and has
little the air of a gentleman, I was much pleased with him.
He is lively, spirited, and quite above all affectation."
An old man named Lauthier, residing at Nismes,
lost his life a few nights ago in a rather singular
manner. His granddaughter, finding that he did not come
down at his usual hour to take his coffee, went to his room.
Alarmed by the heat of the door and by the smell of burnt
linen, she called for assistance, and on the door being forced
open, the bed of the old man was found completely burnt,
and the body calcined. The room being very small, and
wirhout ventilation, the supposition is that the be 'clothes
or the curtains having caught fire from a night-lamp 'which
stood noer, had burnt, but that the want of air had pre-
vented the dimes acquiring violence enough to extent
further.

LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAYS--
The directors of the London and North Western Company
are about to allot to their proprietors rateably, at par. ad-
ditional ordinary stock to the amount of about .£1,000,000,
equivalent to about 5 per cent. on the ordinary capital. The
allotments will be made to the proprietors registered on the
19th instant, in the form of ordinary stock, to be paid up in
full on the 3d January, 1865, carrying ordinary dividend
as from the Ist of that month.

--
HURRICANE AT RIO JANEIRO.--RIO DE JANFIRO,
Oct. 11.—A violent hurricane burst over this city and bay
at 6 o'clock on the evening of tho 10th inst. Rain fell in
torrents, accompanied by very largo hailstones, flooding
nearly all the houses in the city. The damage is estimated
at several millions of francs. Eleven merchant vessels were
wrecked, and several persons perished. Capt. Abeille, of the
French ship Reins Marguerite, rec3ived cn board his
vessel Admiral Elliot and his wife, who were in a sinking
boat.

IMPORTATION OP EGGS—Two hundred and
seventy-two millions of eggs have been imported
into this country in the nine months of this year ended 31th
of September. In the corresponding period of 1863 the
number was slightly less than 213 millions. In the same
months .of 1b62 it was 177 millions ; in those of 1861 not
more than 164 millions, and in those of IS6O only 134 mil-
lions; so that the importation of this descrilaion of food
has more than doubl.d since the übJlition of the Customs'
duty thereon. Three-fourths of the entire quantity are
sent from France, and the greater portion of the residue
from the Channel Islands, Belgium, and Spain.
We lately alluded to the probability of the rumour
that Lord William Paulet would succeed Sir Jas. Scarlett
as Adjutant-General in April next. We believe our readers
may regard the appointment as sure to take place,—Army
and Aavy Gazette.
The new bank which !Et about't o be established
in Mexico is to be represented in London by Baring
Brothers, and in Paris by MM. nottinguer, Mallet, Fould,
and Mareuard: This has caused the rise in Mexican Scrip
which has taken place within the few days.
BRIGANDAGE IN TIIESSALY.—A letter from LAI
rissa,inThessaly, states that a band of brigands, consisting
of about 48 individuals, attacked the village of Chamaco
while the male population was absent. The women were
seized, and boiling oil poured on them to force them to
declare where their money and jewels of value were con-
cealed. The ruffians made off, carrying a large quantity of
booty.

THE BOTABAY MAIL.

By the arrival of the above mail we have advicee
from Bombay to the 28th October, and from Cal.
cotta to the 20th. _
__

The Viceroy of India e rrived at the capital of the
Punjab on the 14th October, and met with an en•
thusiastic reception from all classes of the European
and native communities. On the 15th his Excellency
the Viceroy, after a public levee, gave private durbar
to his Highness the Maharajah of Cashmere and
thirteen other native chiefs. On the 17th his ex.
cellency paid vice-regal return visits to the maha•
rajahs, and conducted the ceremony of the Rajah
of Kuppoortula's investiture with the Star of India.
On the 18th the grand viceregal durbar was held;
the Viceroy opened it with an effective speech from
the throne in Ilindoostanee. Six hundreds rajahs
and chiefs were present, and the durbar is considered
by the Indian press to have been the most splendid
and imposing ever held in India by an English
governor general.
According to the Delhi Gazette the Khan of
Kokan, having learned that 12,000 Russian troops
had marched against Tashkund, started from Kokan
with 8,000 troops, and gave them battle at Tash-
kund. The Russians, it is reported, were victorious,
and the Khan of Kokan was compelled to retreat.
The Russians, after taking Tashkund, marched
against Kokan and occupied it. _ _

Sirdar Mahomed Ameer Khan of Candahar is
making preparations for war, and is resolved to
fight the Ameer of Cabool. He is fortifying Kelat,
and has put all his officers on oath to fight to the
last.

The Ameer of Cabool has received a threatening
letter from the King of Bokhaxa regarding the
treatment of Ufzul Khan and his son. The King
has entered upon active measures in support of the
latter against the Ameer.

A body of 12,000 Persians have reached Karaiz,
en route to Herat.

Affghanistan is in an unsettled state ; the Ameer
of Cabool's treatment of his brother Ufzul Khan
has excited against him the indignation of all the
chiefs.

It is rumoured that the Bhootanese have sub-
mitted, and offered reparation for the insu't to the
British auhorities. The rumour requires confirms•

tion.

The Bhooteas despatched troops to a dozen diffe..
rent points for the defence of the Dooars. They are
able to bring twentpfive thousand troops into the
field.

The Waghurs have again risen in rebellion in
Kattiawar, and defeated the Guicowar's troops sent
against them. A small British force, under Major
Dennis, accompanied by Major Keatinge, V.C., the
political agent, has left Rajkote to quell the insur-
rection.

It is reported from Simla that Sir Robert Napier
will succeed Sir IL Rose in the command of the
Indian army.
Sir.C. Trevelyan is said to have been suddenly
attacked with severe illness.

The report on the external commerce of Bombay
for 1863-4 has just been circulated. It shows that
the value of the whole of the external trade, during
the period under report, amounts to £77,608,330,
being an increase of £18,450,000 over the previous
year and of £35,573,000 over the value of the pre-
ceding five years ; showing that it has more than
doubled itself in value since the commencement of
the American war.

Speculation is still rife in Bombay (says the
Gazette of the 28th of October). New banks, finan-
cial and joint-stock companies are daily projected.
The Rajah of Sillinghnt, in Uhota Nagporo, has
been accused of sacrificing a human being at the
shrine of Renakunee, and has been arrested by the
police. He declares it is a conspiracy of his enemies,
and that the man said to have been sacrificed died
from'a snake bite.

The deficiency of the rainfall during the past
monsoon is seriously felt in several districts of the
country, and it is feared that much suffering will

ensue.

Mr David Sassoon, the well-known Jewish mer-
chant of Bombay, has applied to the Secretary of
State for the permission to erect a statue of the late
Prince Consort in the gardens of the Victoria
Museum at Bombay.
The Sheriff of Bombay, in compliance with a requi-
sition, had convenca a public meeting of the inhas
bitants, to be held in the Town-hall on the 2d of
Novcmbes, for the purpose of devising means for
alleviating the distress of the numerous sufferers
by the late hurricane at Calcutta and surrounding
districts. Meanwhile, at the instance of his Excel-
lency the Governor, the opulent native community
of Bombay subscribed £lO,OOO in one day for the
cyclone relief fund in Calcutta.

The Englishman of Oeober 20 contrasts this I
conduct with that of the native community of
Calcutta in the tollowing terms :—Bombay need
not fear that we shall grudge her her commercial
prosperity while she shows so conspicuously how
well she deserves it. She has far eclipsed Calcutta
in mun:ficence, as she is fast outstripping her in
material progress. No appeal to the feelings of the
Parsees and Hindoos there eras necessary ; no one
had to stand up and exhort them to give. No sooner
were the details of the calamity which has befallen
Calcutta and its neighbourhood known to Sir Ram-
seijee Jeejebhoy and his Parsee and Hindoo friends,
who happened to be assembled at the time at Poona
for another purpose, than they subscribed upwards
of 75,000 rupees for the relief of the distressed ;
while the Hon. Rastomjee Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy
had already sent 25,000 rupees through his agent;
and a further sum of 10,000 rupees has since been
subscribed by Torabjee Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy. In a
few hours, without advertisements, without discus-
alone and exhortations, Bombay hss given double the
amount that Calcutta has laboriously collected in
as many days. If native Calcutta a not ashamed,
it is because she is not proud enough to be ashamed
of anything. From Dapooree to Calcutta—From
Sir B. Frere to the Secretary, Government of Ben-
gal—On hearing details of hurricane at Calcutta,
Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy and some Parsee and
Hindoe friends, assembled to witness the foundation
of Deccan' College, Poona, subscribed upwards of
75.000 rupees (three•quarters of a lac) for the re-
lief of the distressed. His brother the Honourable
Rustomjee Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, has already sent
through his agents, on the 11th inst., 25,000 rupees
—total, one lac. Particulars sent by post. This
telegram is seta because distress is urgent, and
relieving bodies will be glad to know the amount
of subscription available. Please inform the sheriff
or whoever may be the chairman of any general
relief committee."
The relief committees were actively engaged in
their humane work. Their reports show that the
cyclone had almost everywhere caused vast damage
to property and deplorable loss of life. The wave
at Diamond Harbour was 11 feet high, and three
miles inland it exceeded a man's height. About 90
per cent. of the Sanger population perished.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Bombay Gazette, Oct, 28.)
MONEY.—In the early part of the fortnight there
was a considerable drain from the ban k,which caused
the directors to raise the rate 1 per cent. at their
meeting on the 20th. Latterly money has again
been flowing into the bank, till the last week's re■
turn compared with that of the preceding week,
showing an increase in the cash balance of nearly 20
lacs. NJ reduction has however taken place, and
even at their present quotations the bank authorities
evince little inclination for business.
GOVERNMENT SECURITIEs.—These have been in
somewhat better inquiry during the fortnight con-
sequent on an advance at Calcutta, caused by an
easier state of the money market there.

EXCHANGE.—A limited business was transacted
in the early part of the fortnight, but although rat„
continued without much perceptible change, sellers
were able to plaeo paper more readily on perhaps a
shade easier terms. Quotations hardened slightly
after the bank meeting, end as the bulk of the mail
business was postponed till arrival of the telegram,
rates since then have been firmer, and a consider-
able amount of paper of the older banks has been
placed at 2s lid.
limaTs.—Our market has continued very quiet
and inactive since our last report. The approach of
the Dewalle holidays and the indefinite character
of the up country intelligence, have kept buyers

away from the offices, and the transactions which
have taken place have been on a most limited scale.
All classes begin to recognise the improSib-lity of
an early cessation to Transatlantic troubles, and
importers continue to maintain great firmness,
Native holders are consequently regaining confi-
dence, and bazaar sales have been generally on a
higher basis than we last advised. Grey goods
must be quoted lower, but there is no demand to
test rates. White goods are weaker. Dyed and
printed goods are moderately well "supported.
Twist is entirely unsaleable, and animation is only
apparent in one or two descriptions of metals.
Stocks as a rule are low, as very few ships have
come in, and considerable steadiness may be looked
for.

FREIGHTS,—The advices to hand by last mail were of
such an adverse nature for cotton, that it was thought that
we should have again had another fortnight of great depres,
sion in our freight market ; and for a few days after the de-
spatch of our last report scarcely any demand existed for
tonnage ; and several vessels that had been lying idle in
the hope of better times soon after took their port clear-
ances for Calcutta, where the great destruction of property
by the late cylone held out prospects of very high rates of
freight, or accepted country employment, trusting the
state of this market may have improved upon their return.
This cleared the market of vessels ready to: receive cargo—
and cotton having commenced to arrive :from up. coantry
dealers, being unable to sell, commenced to ship on their
own account ; it was then found that available tonnage
had been reduced within such a narrow compass and the
news from Calcutta held out so much encouragement of
high rates there that shipmasters declined the rates offered,
and at first only a small business was done for Liverpool
at rates varying from 17s 6d to £3. The scarcity of
tonnage soon attracted the attention of speculators, and
rates were speedily run up to £3 7s 6d and £3 10s—these
rates seemed to have stopped the inquiry, and nothing but
the absence of arrivals has enabled speculators to main-
tain the market. The amount of tonnage overdue is ex-
cessive, several vessels that left England in May last not
having yet made their appearance; but when relief is
afforded to the market by heavy arrivals the reaction is
likely to be as sudden as the present advance. But in all
calculations of this sort, it should be remembered that the
quantity of cotton offering for shipment during the next
two months is extremely large; and with the probability of
very high frieghts being obtainable in Calcutta, rates can-
not be expected to rule below £3 for some time to come. For
London—The trade with this port is always limited, and
there is actually no inquiry for tonnage just now, neither is
there any available. For Havre there is nothing doing.
For Calcutta and back—Rs 25 and port charges is offered,
but scarcity of tonnage interferes with business. Business
will be much interrupted during the ensuing fortnight by
the intervention of the Dewallee holidays, after which our
shipping reason may be said to have fairly opened.
(From the Calcutta Englishman, Oct, 20.)

PRODUCE MARKET—Since the disastrous gale very little
has been done in the market. The prices of most articles
have gone down considerably, and some are scarcely saleable.
IMPORT MARKET—Since the holidays the demand for
piece goods and yarn is somewhat moderate, but it is ex-
pected that within the next week or two the demand will
considerably increase.

GOVERNMENT SECURITIES—There are indications of a
better demand for Government paper, and the increasing
facilities for obtaining accommodation will doubtless have
some influence on prices, but as very few of the dealers have
yet returned to town, there have been scarcely any transac-
tions, and quotations are quite nominal.
MONEY MARKET—Our money market now presents a
decidedly easier appearance than it did before the holidays.
The mail steamer has brought us a large supply of bullion,
besides a considerable amount in rupees for Madras and
Bombay, and further large supplies of coin are expected
from the latter city. Money is in full supply in the bazaar,
and good paper can be discounted at 8 per cent.

EXCHANGE—There has not been much business trans-
acted during the few days since the holidays closed. The
rate has, however, been steadily falling, owing to the large
arrivals of money and the scarcity of paper. Bank bills
close at 2-11, credits may be quoted 2-11 to a, and document
paper.

FREIGHTS —As only three days have elapsed since the
termination of the Doorga Pojah holidays but little can be
said as to the state of the market,' and there have been so
few transactions that it is impossible to give quotations.
Full particulars of the disastrous eff ct of the late cyclone
on the shipping in port have been read in England before
this mail arrives. For the few ships which have escaped
with comparatively small injuries very high rates of freight
are asked ; but in the face of the unfavout able accounts re-
ceived from home shippers have so far suspended operations
rather than pay them. For London the only charter is that
of the Aprodita at £5 fora full cargo of jute and other light
freight. For Liverpool there has been nothing done. We
may shortly expect a considerable influx of tonnage both
fiom home and the Eastern ports, but some of those vessels
that are ready will no doubt be required to take forward the
cargoes of such ships as may be condemned.
In the country trade the only business done has been for
Bombay, and in consequence of the high rates ruling there
for grain several charters have been effected at considerably
higher rates.

The wrecks of the following vessels sunk during the cy-
clone have been sold by auction, viz .—Singapore (Fr), 438
tons, for Ri 2,4oo—Ville de St Davis (Fr), 379 tons, for Rs
I,6oo—Anne de Bretagne (Fr), 400 tons, for Rs 11,000—
Lew Chew (Br), 854 tons rice, Rs 90, Rs 6,Boo—Vespasian
(Br), 919 tons rice, Rs 16, Rs 600—Lady Franklin (Br)
1,187, Rs 3,400.