The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-07 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE--Last Evenings

FOREIGN OFFIOE, SEPT. 3.
Earl Russell, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, has received from the Prussian Charge
d'Affaires at this Court a notification, that persons once ring
Prussia are still required to be provided with passports.

SEPTEMBER 6.
The following despatches have been received at the
Foreign Office, from Sir Frederick Bruce, her Majesty's
Minister in China, and from Mr Caine, her Majesty's Con-
sul at Swatow

Pekin, June 7, 1864. 1
My Lord,—l have the honour to enclose " _Returns for
Shanghae of import and export trade under foreign flags"
for the year 1163, published by Chinese Customhouse. On
the last page there is a table giving the yearly amount of
foreign commerce, beginning with 1854.
The import trade has increased from taels 41,000,000
(about £13,000,000) in 1860 (the last year before the open_
lug of the Yangtze and the northe. ports), to taels
81,000,000 (about £27,000,000) in 1863.
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quired before the Yangtze could be made available as a
highway for transport. The decks of the steamers are now
crowded with Chinese passengers, their holds are
filled with produce destined, not for f export, but for
Chinese consumption. The practica) io,N,intages of foreign
inventions are thus brought :.clue io th.:ssLs of the popula-
tion in the very centre of China, end they can now avail
themselves of the natural cutler for the productions of those
rich internal provinces, instead of being driven to the slow
and circuitous method of artificial water communication,
and exposed to the exactions of officials of the different
provinces they had topr,ss througa.
The large amount node: the hoed of re-exports embraces
the trade in imports and exports which have been brought
to Shanghae as an entrepot, and are thence distributed to
different ports of China, to Japan, and to the western
world.

The exports of Shanghae itself have suffered from the
diminution of the silk crop, due to the advance of the in-
surgents into the silk districts, and the flight or forcible
seizure of the labouring population.
The entries of foreign-owned tonnage employed in carry-
ing this trade have increased, within the same period, from
293,0G6 to 996,890.

I have, &c.,
FREDERICK W. A. BRUCE.
The Right Hon. Earl Russell, K.G., &c.

BANKRUPTS.

Tho following are the only bankrupts of commercial im-
portance in the Gazette :
Charles Cross, watchmaker, Exeter
John Best, butcher, Darlington
Whitehall Worthen, cooper, Coppenhall
Frances Dukes, joiner, Sheffield
John Turner, case maker, Sheffield
Samuel Levick, general dealer, Sheffield
James Day, builder, Reigate
Bernard Isaacson, naturalist, New-cross
George Briggs, builder, Lambeth
Joseph Joanny, greengrocer, Soho
John Swales, screw bolt manufacturer, Manchester
Theophilus Moss, confectioner and baker. Manchester
John Thompson, butcher, Newcastle. Upon-Tyne
Wiliam Nicholson, porter and beer retailer, Everton,
near Liverpool

Course of Exchange,—Yesterday.

Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 12 2 12 9
Antwerp
Brussels .... 25 70 25 77i
llamburgh
Paris ... Short. 25 25 25 35
:Ditto
Marseilics — 25 70 25 75
Frankfort on Maine - 1201 121
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh —30 i

Berl in .......... „ ___
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Madrid
Cadiz — 471 48
Leghorn — 25 75 25 - 80
Milan
Genoa — 25 SO 25 8;5
Naples
Palermo — 25 80 25 85
Messina — 25 80 25 85
Lisbon
Oporto
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard)......Der oz., £3 17 9
fSilver is EhtB (SiAllllArti). ...... c... •