The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-05 00:00:00

NEWPORT.

Beef, from 33 4d to 4s 4d ; mutton, 3s 10d to 4s 6d; veal,
4s 8d to 5s 4d ; pork, 3s 10d to 4s 6d ; and lamb, 3e 10d to
4s 8d per 81bs by the carcase.
WHITECHAPEL.

Beef, from 3s 4d to 4e 2d ; mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 6d ; lamb,
3s 8d to 4s 8d; veal, 4a 6d to 5a 4d; and pork, 3s 8d to
4s 6d per 81bs. by the carcase.

BREAD.

The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from
7d to lid, of household do., 5d to 6fd per 41b loaf.

HIDES AND SKINS.

Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 2id to 3d ; 641 b to 721 b, 3d
to 31d ; 721 b to 801 b, 3d to 4d ; 801 b to 881 b, 31d to 44d ;
881 b to 961 b, 4d to 4id ; 961 b to 1041 b, 4d to 5d ; 1041 b to
1121 b, Od to Od. Horse hides, 108 Od to 12s Od ; calf skins,
light, 2s 6d to 4s Od ; full, 7s Od to Os Od ; polled sheep, 4s
4d to 58 6d; half••breds, Os Od to Os Od; Downs, 3s 4d to
3s 10d; lambs, 38 Od to 58 6d; sheallings, Os Od to Os Od.

INDIA.

By the arrival of the Bombay mail we have re-
ceived files of papers from Bombay to the 9th of
August.

We take the following from the Bombay Gazette
of the 9th of August :
The English mail of the 3d of July arrived in Bombay
on the morning of the 23d idem. The total time occupied
in transit from London was 19 days and 11 hours, the
quickest passage ever made from London to Bombay. Our
latest London telegrams are under date 15th July.
The Governor-General has recovered his health. His Ex-
cellency and Lady Elgin are staying at Chinee, in Thibet,
Lord Daihousie's favourite place of residence. On return to
Simla, his Excellency will proc"od to Lahore, and thence
to Peshawar, where it is expected he will have an interview
with the Ameer of Cabool or his envoy. The return march
from Peshawar will occupy the interval to January, when
the Council of India will re-assemble, and the Punjab Ex-
hibition open, both at Lahore.
The Governor of Bombay is at Poona, where the Legis-
lative Councitis now holding its meetings. His Excellency
held a conference of Executive Engineers at Poona on the
31st of July for the consideration of numerous public works
in different parts of the Presidency, to be entered in the
Budget.
The Governor of Madras is laid up with an attack of
fever at Oosoor.

The Government of Bombay has appointed a Commis-
sion, consisting of Mr. Hart, Revenue Commissioner,
Southern Division; Mr. Ellis, Revenue Commissioner,
Northern Division; and Colonel Pottinger, Commissary -
General, to report upon the changes which have taken
place during the last 40 years in the prices of principal arti-
cles of provision, and the wages of labour, both skilled and
unskilled, and also in house rents, at the principal towns of
the Presidency. The information is required by Govern-
ment with the view of raising the salaries of certain classes
of Government servants.

The Act for the re-incorporation and re-constitution of
the Bank of Bombay, passed by the Bombay Legislative
Council on the 24th March last, received the assent of the
Governor-General on the 4th July.
A camp of exercise, it is said, will assemble at Lahore
early in the ensuing cold weather, and an army of observa-
tion at Peshawur. It is more than probable that these
forces will have something to do. Disturbances seem almost
unavoidable in Cabool.

" There are three parties in Affghanistan. The first con-
sists of Shere Ali Khan, the new Ameer, and his brother
Mahomed Sherif Khan. The second is composed of the
two sons of the famous Akbar Khan—Futteh Mahomed
Khan and Jullaloodeen Khan. The third is led by Mahomed
Azim Khan, Mahomed Asian Khan, mad Mahomed Osman
Khan. To these must be added the Persians as a fourth
element in the comingstruggle.
The Shah of Persia has an army of 45,000 men in the
vicinity of Meshed ; but he has made no attempt yet to re-
gain Herat.
Mahomed Azim Khan, son of the late Ameer Dost
Mahomed, who has hitherto ruled the Ameer's provinces of
Koorrum and Khost, the former of which adjoins the British
territory of Upper Meerunzye, from which it is only sepa-
rated by the Koorrum river, had by last accounts taken his
departure towards Cabool with all his followers, leaving a
very slender garrison in the fort of Khost. It remains to
be seen how this may affect our frontier politics.
The King of Bokhara has taken Kokan, and written to
the officers commanding the Russian troops in Agha Mus-
jed, Burkarak, and Huzrat Sooltan, to vacate those forts, as
they belonged to Kokan. The Russians have vacated the
fort of Agha Musjed for the present.
" It is confidently stated that Poona is to be one of the
residencies of the Governor General of India. Orders are
said to have been received to begin the erection of a Go-
vernment House for his Excellency's accommodation.
" The British India Steam Navigation Company com-
mence their new contract mail service between Bombay and
Calcutta on Sept. 15 next, and will continue it monthly.
The steamer will call at Mangalore, Cannanore, Calicut or
Beypoor, Cochin and Tuticorin, and also at Rutnagherry,
Vingorla, Goa, Sudashewghur and Colombo. On the
eastern coast they will call at Bimlipatam, Coconada,
Madras and Tuticorin, and, with permission, at False
Point, Poonie, Ganjam, Masulipatam, Pondicherry, and
Negapatam.

The Resident at Baroda has detected a conspiracy against
the Guicowar, headed by his highness's brother, who has
been placed in arrest.
Sir Hope Grant has recommended the introduction of the
Zouave uniform for the Madras native army, and the pro-
position is now under the consideration of the Government
of India.

The famous Baiza Bai, grandmother of the present Ma-
harajah of Gwalior, is dead. Her immense wealth will fall
to the Maharajah.
Sir C. Trevelyan has under consideration the abolition of
the Land Revenue Branch of the office of the Deputy Auditor
and Accountant-General of Bengal, and the compilation in
future of the revenue accounts by the Board of Revenue.
The attempt to increase the growth of cotton in the My-
sore territory Ly the free distribution of seed, and the offer
of priz,s for its cultivation, has proved a failure, there being
no competitors for the rewards. The laudable endeavours
of the Government have therefore ended in disappointment.
The excessive and continuous rain has ruined the pro-
spects of the cotton crops in the Agra districts. The grain
crop, which in some places has been sown three times over,
is all but destroyed.
The rain has been very propitious in Berar, and three-
fourths
of the Khurreef crop this season consists of cotton.
The grain crops in the district will not suffice even for local
consumption.
Cholera was raging at latest dates in Lucknow, Allaha-
bad, Benares, and other places in the North-west.
It is now a matter of doubt generally whether the man
captured at Ajmere is the Nana Sahib of Bhitoor. The
latest news regarding hiw, however, is that a squadron of
the Inniskilling Dragoons from Mhow, and two companies
of the 28th Europeans from Nusseerabad, are to escort the
Prisoner to Agra; Captain Carrell, of the Ajmere Police,
going in political charge.
Severe shocks of earthquake have been experienced at
Shrinaghur, in Cashmere.

The iron ship Dowthorjee was wrecked three miles south
of Booree on the 13th of July. All hands saved. Cargo,
consisting of railway machinery, lost.
The fall of rain in Bombay for the week ending 26th of
July was 9.82 inches ; for the week ending Ist of August,
1.97 inches; total fall to Ist of August, 58'31 inches.
The health of the town and island of Bombay has some-
what improved, but the mortality is still far above the
average of past 10 years.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Times of India of 9th August.)

Money continues easy. The Bank's rates are unchanged.

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Exchange is slightly more in favour of sellers. We quote
Bank -bills at 2s 7-16 d, Credits at 2s 9-led, and Docu-
ments at 2s 11-16 d to 2s Old. The business transacted has
not been large.
Government Paper—The market has been dull. We
quote Fours, 99ir ; Fives, 109 r; and Five-and-a-Half,
118 r.
Imports—Early in the fortnight there was rather more
activity apparent in the native gray goods bazaar, and
several purchases were made by Indore buyers in anticipa-
tion of the opening of the season. The demand was not
sufficiently extensive to be felt by importers, and latter:y
has almost entirely died away. Again, the only business
now doing being for the Deccan, 7 and 8/Ib. 40 in. shirtings
and 32in. Madapollams have consequently slightly given
way; while other descriptions, of which supplies continue
to arrive on an exceedingly small scale, maintain their
former values. There has been nothing like any pressure
to sell on the part of holders; and although the latest ac-
counts from America are, perhaps, more significant than
any previously received, confidence does not seem to have
been shaken, although importers are quite ready to meat
the market when they can get fair rates. The state of the
Manchester market would seem to show that, for some
time to come at least, shipments are likely to be on a more
moderate scale than recently. In commenting on the
statement of stock of cotton goods in Calcutta lately made
up, and comparing it with the clearances and imports dur-
ing the six months ending the 30th of June, the Bengal
Chamber of Commerce arrives at the conclusion that con-
sumption, or as it is more correctly expressed, " the power
of purchasing," has not been so much affected as many were
inclined to suppose it would. No such statement of stock
is compiled here, and under present circumstances to do so
would be very difficult ; but when the unprecedented pro-
sperity of this presidency is taken into account it may cer-
tainly be argued that consumption hero has not hitherto
been, nor is likely in future to be, on a smaller scale rela-
tively than in the districts which draw their sup7lies from
Calcutta.

HUNTING FOR DIAMONDS.—A day or two ago, a
traveller laid down a parcel of diamonds in a trades-
man's shop, in one of the western towns of Cornwall. A
lady, with four parcels, was at the moment; leaving for the
north of England. In the haste, the parcel of diamonds was
given to her as her own, and she set off for Plymouth. As
soon as the error was discovered, a telegram was sent on to
the station master, where the train was then stopping, and
a reply paid for. The request was to inquire fore a lady of
a certain name in a second class carriage. The answer did
not come in one hour, when another telegram was sent, but
no reply was furnished. Again, after two hours, a third
telegram was sent ; and, after waiting five hours and a half,
an answer was made to the first telegram. In consequence
of this prompt attention of the station master, two gentle
men had to go to Plymouth in search of the case of dia-
monds, worth from £9OO to £1,000. Western Morning
News.

THE MALTON TREASURE TROVE.—It will be
remembered that a few months ago a deposit of
silver coins of Edward I. and 111. was found in
an old horn, at Malton. A claim to them was put
in on the part of the Crown as treasure trove, and
the coins were forwarded to the Treasury, with a
view to deposit them in the British Museum. A
plan for their local distribution was also suggested
by the previous owner, or bolder, and it is at
length ordered by the Lords of the Treasury that
the coins be returned to Melton, with permission
on the part of her Majesty for the holder to dis-
pose of them as he sees proper. A portion is des-
tined for the Yorkshire Museum; the rest for pri-
vate collections.

The Great Campden House Case.

(From the Law limes of to•day.)

The great Insurance case has ended in a verdict
for the plaintiff. At the close of the examination
of Mr. Woolley, it was manifest that such must be
the issue. He told a plain story, not improbable in
itself, and he was wholly unshaken on cross-exami-
nation. Unless the case of the insurance offices was
very much stronger upon their briefs than it came
ont on the evidence, it is difficult to imagine how
their legal advisers could have recommended such a
defence upon such slender materials. They should
have known that nothing short of the clearest proof
would have sufficed to secure a verdict, where the
defence rested upon a charge so serious. The jury
would not have been justified in finding for the
offices upon any case less than that upon which they
wovld have convicted plaintiff' of arson and attempt
to murder, had he been on his trial for those crimes.
In fact, save for the consequences, he was in the
same plight as if he had stood in the dock ; his cha-
racter was equally at stake. A verdict against hail
would have been virtually a conviction for arson.
Some of the newspapers have been loud in
reproaches of the companies for resisting the
Claim- It was certainly must unwise to do so,
unless they had been armed with very much
stronger proof of the asserted crime. But we
must except to the dangerous doctrine put forward
by the limes, that policies of insurance should be
excepted from the law of fraud, and that the offices
should pay them under any circumstances, save in
the case of arson in fire policies and of murder or
suicide in life policies. Baron Bramwell refuted the
first fallacy in his clear and able summing up of the
case, in which not merely did he recognise the
right of insurance offices to resist fraud—or that
which they believe to be fraud—bat he pointed out
the danger to the community if they were not to do
so. " Consider," he said, " the consequences that
must ensue if the companies were to say, ' We will
pay claims which we believe have originated in
fraud rather than discredit ourselves with the pub-
lie; Gentleman, if they were to take that course it
would speedily come to this, that no man would be
safe in his bed for fear lest bis neighbour, certain of
impunity, might set fire to his house in order to
defraud an insurance company. It would be a down-
right iniquity if offices were to pay claims which
they believe have arisen out of crime. It would
render it necessary that the matter should be taken
out of their hands and intrusted to some office on
the part of the public. It is an undoubted fact that
life and fire insurances have been converted into a
means and motive of crime."

The principle so broadly asserted by the .Times
goes to this—that if by any amount of fraud, by
false statements, by concealment of facts, by perso-
nation, or any of the many other tricks by which
insurance offices are daily imposed upon, and which
no vigilance on their parts can possibly detect by
anticipation, nor until the event happens that
reveals the fraud, a rogue succeeds in obtaining a
policy, he is to enjoy the fruits of his crime and
triumph in his wickedness. This would be indeed
to offer a premium for fraud, and to propagate crime
by that surest of all promoters of it, the example of
successful knavery. It is the duty of companies no
less than of individuals to resist fraud whenever
they have just reason to believe that a fraud has
been committed. A fire insurance office is bound
to do so for the reason pointed out by Baron Bram-
well, that, if it were not to resist it, every man's
life and property would be in jeopardy from his
neighbour, whom poverty and impunity might
tempt to save himself from ruin by robbing the in-
surance office. A life insurance office is equally
bound to resist a fraud, because the losses caused by
the fraud must fall upon the honest insurers, and
if the offices did not resist, frauds would certainly
multiply until the innocent policy-holders were de-
prived of all their gains. The resistance to Mr.
Woolley's claim was a grave mistake, but it affords
no argument for the doctrine that has been founded
upon it by the Times and some other journals, that
insurances offices should submit to any frauds save
those accomplished by arson, murder, or suicide.