The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-10 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, Nov. 1 (Morning).
Money light. Gold, 1451. Exchange on Lon-
don, 1581 ; on Paris, 3.57 k. Stock steady. New
York Centrals, 1001 ; Illinois, 13741; Erie, 921;
5-20 Bonds, 1021. Cotton dull. Middling Up-
land, 57. Flour advancing. Wheat quiet. Corn
declining. Provisions quiet. Coffee very firm.
Sugar and molasses steady. Petroleum dull; crude,
36 ; refined, 59.

MOBILE, OCT. 28.
Cotton steady. Middling Upland, 54. Sales
to-day, 850 bales.

MEXICO.

Official advices from El Paso to the 2d ult. an -
nounce that Juarez was still there. The Imperialists
were marching on the city.

`Advices from Matamoras to the 26th ult. report
the Liberals to have been defeated and driven from
before that town.

Cortinas has arrived at Brownsville, having
abandoned the Liberals.

General Ochoa has arrived at New York on an
important mission from Juarez.

RUSSIA,

The Russian Correspondence announces that a
stratum of graphite (blacklead for pencils) has just
been discovered near the Sea of Azoff, equal in
quality to that of Siberia. A petroleum spring has
also been found in the government of Archangel,
near a stream falling into the River Betchora. The
oil obtained can easily be conveyed into the interior
of the empire by the ordinary roads as far the
Kama, and thence to all the governments through
which the Volga passes.
The Russian Gazette of Moscow announces the
arrest of the five persons who went, some time back,
dressed as officers of the gendarmery and commis-
saries of police, to the hospital of Rogoisk in that
city, and carried off all the money they could find.
The principal, who wore a colonel's uniform, proves
to be a tradesman of Moscow named Serenow ; the
others being of low degree in the same place. The
Gazette adds that one morning, soon after the rob-
bery, all the drivers of hackney carriages in Mos-
cow were ordered to meet in the Devilchi field, that
the witnesses of the crime might recognise the coach-
man who had driven the thieves to the hospital.
After several thousands had marched past, the guilty
party was identified by the witnesses and taken into
custody.

The Correspondence of St. Petersburg publishes
the following account of the mineralogical capabili-
ties of the empire :—" Russia is with reason con-
sidered as a naturally rich mineral country, but the
wealth buried in the Ural mountains, in Siberia,
and in Southern Russia still await the active hands
which will give it real value. The mines there and
quarries regularly worked would produce consider-
able sums which are at present dormant from want
of hands and capital. The following official returns
for 1863 show the little progress in this industry :
The quantity of gold produced was 1,459/ ponds
(3211 b. each) ; silver, 1,0781 ; platina, 30 ; copper,
294,168 ; tin, 4,025 ; zinc, 150,000 ; lead, 71,721;
cast iron, 16,640,000 ; iron, 11,998,500 ; steel,
145,000 ; coal, 17,210,000. If we value the pond
of gold at 13,753 roubles,that of sayer at 910 roubles,
and other productions in proportion, the value of the
above-mentioned materials will amount to a sum
of 52,866,330 roubles. To that we must add 48
millions of ponds of salt, which, exclusively of about
10 millions of roubles of taxes, produced 14 mil-
lions of roubles. The receipts of the metallurgical
manufactories amounted during the year 1863 to
25 millions of roubles. Thus all these products pre-
sent a total value exceeding 100 millions of roubles.
That sum is in no way proportioned to the wealth
contained in our mines, and those who would wish
to form an idea of the value of our soil would be
greatly mistaken if they accepted Aticli a standard.