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

BILLINGSGATE.

Salmon, Os 8d to is Od ; trout, Od to Os ; eels, 5d to 10d ;
prawns, Os ; skate, 4d to 6d ; sturgeon, and halibut, Od per
lb. ; turbots, 8s Od to 18s; cod, 4s Od to 6s Od ; brills, 2s Od
to 5s Od ; doreys, 5s Od to 6s Od ; mullets, Os 6d to is 6d ;
lobsters, is to 4s 6,1; crabs, Gd to :3s Od ; plaice and gurncts,
Od to Os Od each ; soles, 3d to 2s Od per pair ; common
oysters, lOs to 25s ; natives, 55s to 60s per bushel ; whitings,
4s Od to Os ; haddocks, 4s to 12s ; smelts, Os Od to Os Od ;
flounders, Os Od per dozen ; mackerel, 40s per 100 ; fresh
herrings, 8s to lOs per 100 ; bloaters, Os ,to Os per 100 ;
carp and tench, Os Od to Os per brace.

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

Beef, from 3s 4d to 4.9 2d; mutton, 3s 8d to 4s Gd ; lamb,
3s 8d to 4s 8d; veal, 4s 6d to 5s 4d; and pork, 38 8d to
4s 6d per Blbs. by the carcase.

BREAD.

The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from
7d to 7id , of household do., 5d to 61d per 41b loaf.

HIDES AND SKINS.

Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 21c1 to 3d ; 641 b to'72lb, 3d
to 31d ; 721 b to 801 b, 3d to 4d ; 801 b to 881 b, 31d to 41d ;
881 b to 961 b, 4d to 41d ; 961 b to 1041 b, 4d to 5d ; 1041 b to
1121 b, Od to Od. Horse hides, lOs Od to 12s Od ; calf skins,
light, 2s 6d to 4s Od ; full, 7s Od to Os Od ; polled sheep, 4s
4d to 5s 6d ; half-breds, Os Od to Os Od ; Downs, 33 4d to
3s 10d; lambs, 3s Od to 5s 6d; sheatlings, Os Od to Os Od.

I N D lA.

By the arrival of the Bombay mail ro have vc,
ceired files of papers from Bombay to the 9th a
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. Oar
latest London telegrauts are under date 15th July,
The Governor-General has recovered his health. His Ex-
cellency and Lady Elgin are staying at Chinee, in Thibat,
Lord Dalhousie's favourite place of residence. On return to
Simla, his Excellency will proceed to Lahore, and thence
to Peshawur, where it is expected he will have an interview
with the Ameer of Cabool or his envoy. The return march
from Peshawur 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 Council is 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 Liao
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 ,Jbserva-
tion at Peshawur. It is more than probablo ',,hat these
forces will have something to do. Disturbances ',seem almost
unavoidable in Cabool.

" There are three parties in AffghanistarA. The first con-
sists of Shere Ali Khan, the new Amcor, and his brother
Mahomed Sherif Khan. The second is composed of the
two sons of the famous Akbar KharA—Putteh Mahomed
Khan and Jullaloodeen Khan. The Vaird is led by Mahomed
Azim Khan, Mahomed Asian Khari, and 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 ; 'out he has made no attempt yet to re-
gain Herat,

Mahomed Azim Khan, son of the late Ameer Dost
Mahomed, wlao has hitherto ruled the Ameer's provinces of
Koorrum arid ghost, the former of which adjoins the British
territory ,if 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 IChost. 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 Tnticorin, and also at Rutnagherry,
Vin.gorla, Goa, Sudashewghur and Colombo. On the
eastern coast they will call at Bimlipatana, 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 by the free distribution of seed, and the offer
of prizes for its cultivation, has proved a failure, there being
no competitors for the rewards. The laudable endeavours
of the Government have therefore enied 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 Lueknow, 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 hiui, however, is that a squadron of
the Inniskilling Dragoons from Mhow, and two companies
of the 28th Europeans from Nussecrabad, 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, 58.34 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.
(Front the Times of India of 9th August.)

Money continues easy. The Bank's rates are unchanged.
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, 99,4 r ; 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 Indere 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 84lb. 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 here has not hitherto
been, nor is likely in future to be, on a smaller scale rela-
tively than in the districts which draw their supplies from
Calcutta.

HUNTING Fon DiAmoNDS.—A day or two ago, a
traveller laid down a parcel of diamonds in a trudea-
man's shop, in ono 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 etopping, 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
on 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 holder, and it is at
length ordered by the Lords of the Treasury that
the coins be returned to Malton, with permission
on the part of her Majesty for the holder to dis-
pose of them as ho sees proper. A portion is des-
tined for the Ycrkshire Museum; the rest for pri-
vate collections.