The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-29 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

MELBOURNE.
Wool.—Several parcels have changed hands at current
rates. Advives from England state that upwards of
70,001 bales would be offered in London during the
July aeries of sales, and considerable doubt was enter-
tained in prices being fully maintained.
Tallow.—Beef, 35/. to 381. ; mutton, 381. and up-
wards, according to quality and condition.
Bides.—Country hides, 103. to 12s. In the absence
of opportunities to ship town hides have been sold at
prices in favour of the buyer.
Freights to Loudon and Liverpool.--On wool, id. ;
tallow, 355. ; hides, 455.
The gold-market has been inactive during the day, the
parcels for shipment by the Donald M`Kay being made
up. Entries were passed at the Customs for 33,685
ounces for Liverpool by that vessel, and for two small
parcels for China by the Trernelga and the Amigos.
There hat been little or no trade doing to-day. The
shipment of the gold with some, and the European cor-
respondence with others, having fully occupied the mer-
cantile mind.

The Email brought by the Champion of the Seas was
an unusually small one, consisting of 9,722 letters and
23,000 newspapers only, the whole of which were sorted
and in process of delivery on the day after the vessel's
arrival in the Bay.
The demand for gold this week for the Donald McKay
was brisk, awl the price rose in consequence. 765. 3d.
and 76,, 6d. were the prices ruling during the latter part
of the week.

The quantity of gold sent down by escort this week is
fully an average •ne ; and we cannot help expressing
our satisfaction at the rebut as given below on the year
and quarter ending this day, as compared with 1854,
which, but for the continued trading monopoly of some
of the banks here, a result the most beneficial must have
accrued from such an extensive produce to the whole
mercantile and trading community of this colony.
A considerable move has taken place from Marybo-
rough to Fiery Creek, which is the principal point of
attraction at present for the migratory digger. At the
older fields the produce seems steady, as a glance at the
returns given below wi3 show. A very considerable in-
crease in shipments of the precious metal has taken place
this year over that of the corresponding period of last
year, also toted below.
Comparative quarterly statement of geld produced in
1854. 1855.
oze. ozs.
July 133,246 166,191
August
September

501,704 596,053
501,704

'acreage ea the quarter ... 94,349

Increase on the year

Number of persons arrived 2,106
Number that have left 5OO

Addition this week ... 1,006 and year.... 43,03

The escorts have brought from—
Mount Alexander and Ben-
digo ........................ 17,484 ozi.
Ballarat, including Geelong 1.5,983
The Ovens
.................... 7,633
Maryborongh .............. 5,383
Daisy Hill ..................... 1,420
Av0ca........................... 616
M'lvor ........................ 569

Amount this week .... 4,
,103 and year 1,528,702

STEAM COMMUNICATION DETWEENTHE CLYDE AND
Cl‘raPtvaiYn°Cincu'in—mTihng a
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nows screw steam-ship Edinburghiled from Greenock, for New
York, on Wednesday. This is the first steamer that
has sailod for New York from the Clyde for some time.
The regular steam communication between these ports
was stopped by the taking up, about six months ago,
for service as a government transport
Glasgow, i of the screw-
steamer which is still engaged n that service.
THE LATE FIDE AT BOULOGNE.—A letter from Bou-
logne sur-Mer says :—" The strong box of Mr. Barnard,
which, as is known, was found in the ruins of his house,
has just been opened in the presence of several persons.
None of the bark notes, railway bonds, and other valu-
able papers, w/Lich it contained, have been completely
destroyed ; bu t all are dried up and singed, and can
consequently only be preserved with difficulty. The gold
and silver coi no arc intact, but the bags in which they
were contaiwed have been almost entirely consumed.