The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-16 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1853.

It is generally underst
ood that, on the 23d
instant, at
ohay%)thean Emperors of Russia and
Austria are to
conference. interview and a solemn
Occorrilin.g: this incident will do,
at the most critical
buture in the negotiations
regarding Turkey, it g
cannot
extraor-
dinary influence, we may canieetxercise
ure
designs of the CZAR, and,, upon the
gene
therefore, upon the destinies of efarisPeaking,
The circumstance of the intended meet•stencl"i•
nig having
been arranged at this particular moment
by the
AU'TOCRAT would appear to indicate, on the - part
of that ambitious potentate, a continuity of
Pur-
pose admirably in keeping with that supremo and
implicit self-reliance which is about the most re-
markable among his distinguishing characteristics.
Throughout the whole course of the recent pro-
ceedings in respect to the Turkish Government
the Emperor NICHOLAS has contrived to strengthen
his position by unbending consistency, unyield-
ing determination, and unflagging perseverance.
Fair-play requires that this much, at least, in his
regard, should be admitted. To this extent,
whatever our views as to the lawlessness of his
policy, he cannot but be admitted to have ex-
torted from us our unwilling admiration. Ab-
horring though we do the criniina:ity of his de-
Signs for the augmentation of his power and the 1
extension of his dominion, we are compelled,
llttvertheless, to acknowledge
the ~B,
as .a
tactician, the masterly skill of
his adroitness as a diplo-
matist, and his
consummate genius in weaving
the web
of
intrigue
andthheavwe
wiles
seenof rendered chicane.
Undoubtedly
these merits
more apparent of late in the
conduct of the
Russian AUTOCRAT 1,
-3, the deplorable
presented by the blundering, and contrast
hesitation
inconsistency of his numerous antagonists., and
Let
us compare, for a moment, the course Pursued

there by the avowed enemy, and here by
the nominal friends, of the Sultan ABD-
UL-MEDJID —there by the known assailants,
and here by the so-called supporters, of the Otto-
man Empire—there by the one foe, and here by
the four allies, of Turkey. Let us examine into
the labour of the opposing forces, and then answer
which of the two has yet, up to this instant, ob-
tained the advantage—the Cabinet of St. Peters-
burg, or the Conference brought about at Vienna
between the Representatives of the British, French,
Austrian, and Prussian Governments. Examine,
we say, and then answer which of the two has
yet obtained the advantage? Why—so have
matters been conducted between Russia and the
allies of Turkey, that the cause of the CZAR has,
for the time, assumed the appearance of right,
of reason, and of justice. The Emperor NICHO-
LAS has so preserved his own consistency in the
midst of the flagrant and notorious inconsistency of
the Four great opposing Powers of Christendom,
that his position from having been the worse, has
become actually and unmistakeably the better,
more solid, more defined, and mere tenable.
Argue the matter as you may, this fact, unhap-
pily, is just now beyond the reach of contra-
diction.

In a military
point of view Russia has obtained
the advantage—'because, if the Turks have been
arming,
and if the Egyptians have furnished their
contingent, the Cossack forces, under Prince
G ORTZCIIAKOFF, have long since crossed the
boundary line of the Pruth, and formally taken
possession of the Danubian Principalities.
In a maritime point of view, no less than in a
military, Russia has again obtained the advan-
tage—because the advance of the seasons have
brought about the security of her fleets in the
Baltic, and the adroit application of her energies
have marvellously developed her warlike resources
in the Euxine—in her stores at Odessa, and her
dockyards at Sebastopol—while the Turkish line-
of-battle ships have been idly manceuvring in the
Bosphorus, and the united fleets of France and
England have been more idly anchored in Besika
Bay, instead of being long since conducted to the
waters of Constantinople, through the channel of
the Dardanelles.

Finally, in a diplomatic point of view, yet
more than in a military or a maritime, Russia has
indisputably up to this moment obtained the ad-
vantage over her antagonists. Because—if the
original Note presented to the Divan by Prince
M_ENSCHIKOFF was refused by the Turkish Govern-
ment—if the Sened was refused, and then the
ultimatum, and then the ultimatissimum—the
proposal suggested by the Four Powers through
their representatives at Vienna, the proposal
submitted by England, France, Austria, and
Prussia, first, to the Government of St. Petersburg,
and then to the Government of Constantinople,
the Proposal accepted by Russia and rejected by
Turkey, has been so drawn up by the allies of the
SULTAN, that it secures to the Emperor NICHOLAS
more than his arrogant ministers through their
insolent emissary had, even in the haughtiest
moment of their pride, ventured to demand from
the Turkish Government.

Therefore, we repeat—Russia has in a military
point of view, in a maritime point of view, and
in a diplomatic point of view, obtained, as yet,
unquestionable advantages over her antagonists.
Military advantages in the lengthened occupation
of Moldavia and Wallachia ! Maritime advan-
tages in the simultaneous strengthening of the
fleets of the Baltic and of the Euxine, as well as
in the concentration and accumulation of the ma-
terials of war for the army at Odessa, and for the
navy at Sebastopol t Diplomatic advantages in
so persisting in the CZAR'S first lawless demands
upon the SULTAN that the Four Powers are in-
duced at last to propose a compromise (!) grant-
ing more to Russia than was ever demanded by
the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh !
The real tendency of the Note emanating from
the conference at Vienna of the British, French,
Austrian, and Prussian Representatives, might,
if in nothing else, be perceived clearly enough
from the diametrically opposite manner in which
it was at once received at St. Petersburgh and at
Constantinople. We have seen that it was forth-
with accepted by the Russian Government—ac-
cepted eagerly and unconditionally. Added to
this, we have observed that it was rejected without
delay by the Divan—rejected respectfully, it is
true, but positively and unmistakeably. Now,
we ask any man of common sense if these two
facts, taken together, are not in every way signifi-
cant as to the bearing of the Note forwarded from
Vienna to St. Petersburgh and Constantinople ?
We ask any impartial observer to decide
whether those facts do or do not imply that the
proposal is degrading to Turkey and truckling to
Russia, advantageous to the CZAR, and disadvan-
tageous to the SULTAN ? Of this, of course, the
Note itself is the clearest attestation ; but the
prompt acceptance of it by Russia, and the reso-
lute rejection of it by Turkey come in, we con-
ceive, as crowning corroboration.
Russia having thus so far succeeded, the young
Emperor FRANCIS JOSEPH is about, on the 23d
instant, to be lured into the perils of a personal
interview at Olmiltz with his Majesty the Russian
AUTOCRAT, of all living potentates perhaps the
most wily, astute, and experienced. Everything,
in fact, bodes mournfully at this moment for the
insecurity of the peace of Christendom—our
doubts as to the future being none the less
gloomy from a knowledge that the Earl of ABER-
DEEN still continues, unfortunately, at the head
of her Majesty's Government.

The touring season is at itslheight, and the
public mind is greatly agitated on 'what is for the
time being a question of considerable importance,
in which the would-be traveller feels deeper inte-
rest than on the various complications of the
Eastern difficulty. " What shall I do with myself
during the week or month that, according to ex-
isting arrangements, is placed at my own disposal,
in which I am totally free from the cares of busi-
ness and can do as I think proper, without being
subjected to any control whatsoever ? Whither
shall I go and how shall I turn the funds available
most
for the trly,
that is to'he s
to the best advantage, so as to see all
een in the selected districts on the
whichmanyreasonabled terms?". These are interrogatories
question
and are still ur -
themselves, and of course the
during the past month have asked,
prominently
of askingtravelling
and hotel charges are
brought fares
forward
instituted between travorivard' Comparisons are
and in this country,
i ande
img-bills on the Continent
sPirit
tory to England s excited highly deprecia-
in favour of the foreign everything decided
ro
own countrymen are unsPparfnrielY tors,
censured
our
unequivocally condemned. Hotel Chei d and
pub-
lished with notes and comments, bills are .
, by no
flattering to the proprietors' attendants of th"-ails
British Hostelries, while no allowance is inade efse
the peculiar circamstauces in which they are placed,
and the difficulties which must be entountered
satisfy their over fastidious guests. Nor do we often
hear of the very moderate charges for comfortable
accommodation that may, we believe, be found in
the great majority of cases, and which, consider-
ing the enormous duties on wine, spirits and malt
liquors —the expenses of licenses, and other
•
charges to which the Englishmen is subjected,
while the foreigner is exempted, might challenge
comparison with the best-regulated establishments
of the Continent. That there are extreme cases
in England—that great abuses may be discoverep

—and. that great extortion prevails in some estab-
lishments is unfortunately but too certain, but
these form the exceptions, and not the rules. And
we believe that taking the general body of pro-
prietors throughout the entire country, it would
be difficult to find a more energetic and hard-
working body, or one more desirous of meriting
the public patronage, by a strict attention to their
business, and an earnest desire to combine reason-
able charges with good accommodation, so as to
gain fair remuneration for themselves (and who
will take trouble, and encounter the risk of loss
without such a prospect ?), and .0 give satisfaction
to their visitors. Let us strip the question of the
prejudices by which it is surrounded, let us take
a fair and unbiassed view of the subject, and we will
find that even in the worst cases there are faults on
both sides, and that the exhibition of less pretension
on the part of the traveller, and a disposition
to be more easily contented, would be met with a
corresponding movement on the part of the hotel
proprietors, who, we are convinced, would wil-
lingly meet any reasonable suggestions on the part
of the community.
In the first place, before lending ourselves to
the clamour that has been excited, and joining in
the outcry against a respectable and hardworking
body of men, let us consider the conditions under
which they are bound to carry on their business,
the time during which they are enabled to realise
handsome returns, and the general balance of
profit and loss on the entire year in proportion to
the capital embarked, the risks encountered, and
, the labour that must be bestowed on the efficient
management of the concern. If we find that,
taking the twelve months one with another, the
Hotel-keeper does not obtain undue remuneration
when all these matters are taken into account,
that his occupation is not less troublesome or more
profitable than others in which he may embark,
we find that the loud complaints as to extortionate
charges fall to the ground, and that the supposed
extortioner is, generally speaking, a fair-dealing,
well-disposed man, quite contented if he can make
both ends meet, and set aside a moderate provi-
sion for a rainy day, to provide for the time when
old age, or failing health, or even a change of
fashion, may render himself and family dependent
on the savings of more auspicious seasons for com-
petent support. A slight examination will show
us that, as a class, the Hotel and Innkeepers have
sustained perhaps heavier losses than any other—
that families once moving in respectable spheres,
and enjoying every reasonable comfort befitting
their positions, have been reduced, without any
faults on their parts, by causes wholly beyond their
own control, to poverty and destitution from
comparative affluence—a simple fact, that should
induce them to enter on a dispassionate investiga-
tion of the subject, in order to ascertain if any-
where the fault really lies.
Placing aside, then, the differences of rent and
taxes to which the Continental and English Hotel-
keepers are subjected, but which will alone be
sufficient to account for very material alterations
in the charges to customers, we must make allow•
antes for the brief harvest which the English pro-
prietor is enabled to reap. The person maintain-
ing a handsome establishment at a fashionable
watering-place, or in a district in which he can
only look to have his house filled during a brief
season, knows to his cost that it is only for two
or three months of the year that he can antici-
pate anything in the way of profit. For the
remainder of his time, at least nine months
out of the twelve, he will consider him-
self exceedingly fortunate if he can pay his way ;
if, in fact, his establishment meets its own ex-
penses. The interest for his capital, and remu-
neration for his labour, rent, taxes, and other
outgoings, must all be provided within the busy
time when he is reaping the fruit of what he had
previously sown. He would gladly hand over
his concern for the nine months to any person
who could give him sufficient security that the
character of his house would not be depreciated,
or his property injured during the time. No
reasonable traveller, then, will complain if, during
the Hotel-keeper's harvest, he himself should be
charged is. for a chop sold by the butcher for
4d., or Os. for a bottle of sherry, supplied by the
merchant for 3s. He will take into his consi-
deration the supply of what is too frequently a
perishable commodity, that must be kept in hand.
If he pays in Calais, Boulogne, or Ostend, or, in
fact, at any of the hotels of France or Belgium, 2-..1
or 3 francs for a bottle of Bordeaux, costing the
proprietor from 12 to 20 sous, why should he
complain at paying from 2s. 6d. to 3s. for a
pint of sherry, or port, costing the English
proprietor is. Gd. The cheap and moderate
foreigner makes from 200 to 300 per cent.
profit ; the extortionate Englishman from 70 to
100 per cent. Yet one is praised because
lie can purchase his liquids and viands cheaply,
the other censured because he is obliged to pay
dearly for inferior commodities. But which is it,
the system of indirect taxation, or the landlord,
that is to be censured ? If we consent to retain
an iniquitous fiscal system, we must not complain
of those who are obliged to suit their dealings to
existing circumstances. The Frenchman, in his
private dwelling-house, has an excellent bottle of
light claret for a franc. He pays three francs at
a table cl'hote for the same. The Englishman, in
his private house, pays 3s. for a bottle of bad
sherry. He gets the same at a hotel for 6s. The
advance to the Frenchman is 200 per cent., to
the Englishman 100 per cent. Which has the
greatest reason of complaint ? It is a fair way of
putting the question, and the answer will go far
to decide the controversy.
But there is another point that must not be
lost sight of. The English traveller, while on the
road, is far more exigante than the Continental.
He requires an exhibition of plate and gorgeous
furniture that the other never thinks of obtaining,
and which he himself is not accustomed to at home.
He grumbles and complains without just cause,
and is then surprised if "it is all put in the
bill." In truth, he desires to pass for a much
greater man than he really is. He will not per-
mit his lady friend to go into the public room,
and grumbles at being charged for a private
apartment. He'll ask, perhaps, for " Moselle"
at a provincial hotel, for the purpose of impress-
ing the waiters and attendants with the notion
that he is a very important personage, and then
complains if they should be deceived, and esti-
mate him according to his pretensions rather than
to the actual state of the case. Let JOHN BULL
be less exacting on the road, and he will be better
and more moderately served ; and if matters
should turn out differently, and he should be
handed a heavy bill for bad accommodation, let
him, before he blames the hotel-keeper, consider
how far he is himself responsible for the objec-
tionable items.

EXPECTED BREVET.—It is the general impression in
naval and military circles that a brevet will shortly take
place. The 9th of Noyember is a day anxiously looked
for by many gallant officers of both services, that day
being the anniversary of the Prince of Wales's birth, and
the day on which it is expected the brevet will be issued.
THE NEW GOVERNOR OF BOMBAY.—Lord Elphinstone,
the newly appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief
at Bombay, will proceed to that Presidency with the
benefit of previous local residence. The noble lord is
well acquainted with the general resources of the East.
For many years he filled the office of Governor of Ma-
dras. Lord Elphinstone is now in his 46th year. Lat-
terly ho has filled the office of Lord-in-Waiting to the
Queen.
MUNICIPAL CORPORATION.—Among the acts Cof the
last session was one for making sundry provisions with
respect to municipal corporations in England. Town
councillors are no longer exempted or disqualified from
serving on grand juries. Power is now given to mayors
of boroughs to appoint deputies to act for them.
Set on
RISE IN THE PRICE OF COMHODITIES.—Yesterday
another rise in the pricc2 of bread took place throughout
the west-end of the metropolis, the 41b loaf now selling
at Bd. Coals have also risen in price within the last few
days
10
th tohfenleaxrtgemsuems of 4d. per cwt. Butter, meat, and
For a license toonith,
Poorer classes feel this advance most severely, as labour
.wo carriages 12/
t THEhe present time is very scarce.
new NEW DUTIES ON HORSES LET TO HIRE.—The
or fifteen carriages
hors let to hire will take effect from the
every additional 'when the present duties will cease.
71.
ieot out one horse or one carriage, the
4duty will be
81:0 per annum, and for two horses or
s;,haenudthsoe
dountyupwtioll tbweendtoyl.horFsoers
se authorises.
tenstaeheorses, 101. The act is not to ex-
tend to licensed
frerhackley carriages. A penalty
of
.1001. is to be levied a
beater
horses for hire without
AeLumber of horses or car-
riages
alicentseh,anorthkeeeipicineng

MONEY MARKET

AND
CITY INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday
were estimated at 5,000 to 6,000 bales, of which
1,500 American were taken for export and on
speculation. The market closed very flat with
prices of all kinds per lb. lower. The sales
include 130 Pernam and Maranham at 61d. to Bd.,
80 Bahia at cid. to 6 d., 200 Egyptian at 64d. to
74d., and 1,000 Surat at 3d. to 3/d. per lb. The
Railway Share Market opened flat, but closed with
a better tone.

Colonial produce was taken steadily for con-
sumption in the early part of the week, but since
the apprehension of a further increase in the Bank
rate of discount, neither exporters nor the home
trade have been very willing to buy, and conse-
quently some heaviness has been apparent. With
the exception of one or two articles, such as
tallow and iron, there has been very little specula-
tion lately, and the latter has materially declined.
Sugar has been rather cheaper, coffee firm, salt-
petre and ruinin demand, cotton steady, hemp
and flax rather tending upwards, and tea quiet.
The advantage of a new means of communica-
tion between Ireland and Great Britain has just
been practically tested by the running of a steamer
on an experimental trip between Belfast and Scot-
land. The point of departure was Lough Ryan.
The voyage was accomplished in three hours, and
will probably. be made hereafter in two. A corres-
pondent writing to us from Belfast, upon this sub-
ject, remarks :
" Your paper has always looked closely into the mail
service. With two such natural harbours placed, as it
were, vis-a-vis to each other, and with boats built suit-
able for the station, the distance may be run in less than
two hours with regularity ; and then, it must be also
borne in mind that the sea-passage would be in that
case less than an hour ; in fact, with the shelter of the
Copeland Islands, placed as it were by nature to act as
the most perfect series of breakwaters, it would be a
misnomer if called a passage ; it would rather be a mere
steam ferry.

" At present the mail is brought round by Dublin,
and the time allowed for its conveyance from London is
18 hours. It will be done by the new route in 11 hours,
and if a short line of 20 miles were made to Girvan on
the Glasgow and Ayr line, it could be taken round via
Ayr in 12 hours."
The advices by the Overland Mail, according to
the telegraph via Trieste, will be satisfactory in re-
spect to the extent of the business doing in imports,
although prices do not seem to have improved.
The Indigo crop is estimated at 116,000 maunds.
The progress of the war in China is apparently still
in favour of the revolutionists.
The minimum rate of discount at the Bank of
England was not advanced at an hour sufficiently
early to enable us to do more than record the fact.
Some thought the measure would be postponed for
another week, and the fact of a longer discussion
than usual having taken place in the Bank parlour,
shows that it was not considered immediately urgent.
Moreover it was the impression that there would
be an immediate jump to 5 instead of 4 per cent.,
and it would be advisable that all parties should
at once make their calculations to meet such a con-
tingency. Once up to 5 per cent., there will be
every prospect of permanency, unless something
very adverse occurs, and at last the foreign ex-
changes will get more in our favour, and loans and
other schemes be repressed. Our opinion has
already been expressed as to the Bank having for-
merly discounted too low, because when unable
to get more than 2 per cent. on Bills, it might in-
vest its surplus in Consols. Now, however, if the
bullion cannot be kept in the country, these rapid
advances are inevitable. _

The English stock market has been without any
particular change, and with less doing. The wet
weather causes a dull tone to prevail, otherwise the
inclination would probably have been favourable.
Consols have been 95 to g for transfer, and 951 to
for account. East India Stock has been quoted
253. Exchequer Bills have fallen to Gs. to Bs. dis-
count, and India Bonds to 2s. discount to 4s.
premium.
Foreign Stocks have been rather firmer. Mexi-
can have improved to 241 Sardinian Bonds
have realised 93 to 94. Portuguese 4 per Cents.
have been at 42i to 43. Brazilian Old 5 per Cents.
have been done at 97. The Spanish Deferred
Stock has been at 22k, and the Committee's Cer-
tificate is at 51. Dutch 21 per Cents. have been
at 631.
Railway Shares have been generally lower, and
to the extent of 1 to 1 per cent., North-Western,
Midland, South-Eastern, and Caledonian. French
shares have been duller, but not much lower.
The Gold Mines are steady, and the Australian
Banks lower. The Land Companies' shares are
higher. _ _

The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under :

Great Western..
North Western

South Western..

Brighton
Midland

1853. 1852.
£26,067 £20,624
58,025 52,725

14,720 13,427

South Eastern.

14,474 14,474
26,759 25,129

21,716 19,580

Caledonian and Edin. and Glasgow.. 16,154 14,266
Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire 20,704 19,038
York and North Midland, Newcastle
and Berwick, and Leeds Northern 30,132 28,010

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(Front the Oficial List.)
Business done.
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9si 5 a
New 34 per Cent. Annuities shut 97i
India Stock
India Bonds, £lOOO . . . 2d 4 p
Ditto, under £lOOO 5 p
Consols for Account 13th October
Exchequer Bills, ld.
£l000
2,500 —
Small 1 d
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Grenada Bonds, Deferred - B
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Peruvian Bonds, 41 per Cent. 75 x d
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent.
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent 94 3
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 46A
Spanish New Deterred, 3 per Cent. 22
Ditto for the Account 2214
Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun si p c
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian .q per Cent.
Dutch exchange, 2i per Cent.
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates _ 97.1

HALF•PAST TWO.
Consols 9si a
Ditto October Account 95

THE LATE SIR C. J. NAPIER.

15th Sept., 1853.

The Editor of The Sun is entreated to give in-
sertion to the following letter, as showing the gene-
rous temper of the British soldier.

Royal Marine Barracks, Gosport,
12th September, 1853.

My dear General,—On Saturday I placed in gar-
rison and divisional orders your request to make
known to the troops the sentiments which you have
been pleased so warmly to express.
The funeral of your late distinguished and much-
lamented brother, Sir Charles James Napier,
G.C.8., excited the deepest interest, not only in
the troops, by whom he was so justly beloved and
revered, but by all classes of society, as was appa-
rent to you on that melancholy occasion.
From an early hour in the morning the roads
were covered, all hastening to the spot, and Ports-
mouth presented a dense mass of people, not less
than sixty thousand.
The moment the time was communicated to the
troops, they, as it were, with one voice, expressed
a wish to attend ; and I found it necessary to
direct the 42c1. Royal Highlanders to cross from
Gosport by one bridge, and the Royal Marines by
another, as sufficient accommodation could not be
afforded by one and the same.
What a proud scene to contemplate. History
does not present a parallel : the whole of an ex-
tensive garrison, the finest troops in the world,
turning out with one accord to do homage to, and
crowding round his honoured remains.
What prodigies of valour have been, and would
have been again accomplished, had an all-wise
Providence so ordained it, under such a leader,
whose name and heroic deeds must ever adorn the
brightest pages of History.
The Garrison Chapel was hung with black yes-
terday, allusion was made to the melancholy event,
and myself and all officers appeared with crape
rouud the left arm.

I beg to return you, on my own part, and that
of the corps to which I belong, our most sincere
and heartfelt acknowledgments for the gratifying
note embodying your lamented brothers' opinion
as to its services, and which I have felt it
my duty to submit to the Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty that so honourable and truly valu-
able a testimony should be communicated to the
corps at large.
With sentiments of the most profound respect,
allow me to subscribe myself your faithful and obe-
dient servant,
CHAS. MENZIES,
Colonel Commandant Royal Marines,
nrimanding S. W. District.

DONCASTER RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

DON STAKES.

Cineas
Orestes
Four ran. Won in a canter.
PARK HILL STAKES.
Mayfair
Boarding School Miss
Eight ran. Fine race. Won by a head
Rataplan scratched for Cup.
DONCASTER STAKES.

Balrownie
Sittingbourne
Won easy.
DONCASTER CUP
Hungerford

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THE OVERLAND MAIL.

TRIESTE, SEPT. 15.
The steamer Calcutta arrived here this morning,
at 6 a.m., in 109 hours from Alexandria.
The Indian Mail bas arrived at Alexandria with
dates from Calcutta of the sth August ; Hong
Kong, 23d July ; Bombay, 30th July.
There is a great famine in Burmah.
The East India Company's steam-frigate Mozuffar
was lost off Rangoon river.

Cholera is committing great ravages in the
upper provinces of India. The indigo crops are
not good.

The market for cotton piece goods has improved.
Exchange 2s. ld., steady.
In China the Patriot army retains its position.
The Tartars had attempted to retake Amoy, but
without success.

Trade dull and inactive. Exchange, ss. 3d.
Our dates from Alexandria are to Sept. 10.
* Another dispatch from Trieste states that no lives
were lost.