The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-28 00:00:00

CALCUTTA MARKETS.

Sept. 17.—Our export market here has been only
moderately active. For many kinds of produce there is
a good demand, and yet the shipments of scarcely any
article are on a large scale. Since the Ist inst. only
9,161 maunds of sugar have passed the Custom House
for Great Britain. In raw cotton for China there is a
fair extent of business in progress ; but moderate for
Great Britain. Very little doing in rum, and that for
Australia only.
In imports, the business of the fortnight has been a
good deal restricted to immediate wants of dealers, and
the ,reported sales upon the whole are very moderate in
extent. Large quantities of goods still remain in Cal-
cutta, which the dealers find it impossible to forward to
their destination, as there are not enough steamers on
the river to carry the goods, and this mode of convey-
ance is the only one available at present.
The mule twist market has not been so lively.
Higher prices and increased firmness on the part of
hollers checking in a great measure the ardour of
dealers.

EXCHANGE continues still remarkably steady. Pre-
sent rates are as follow :-Ist class credits, 2s. id. per
rupee ; ditto documents, 2s. id: to 20. 18d. ; China Rs.
247 to 250 per dole.
FREIGHTS.—Quoted rates are as follow :—To London :
Sugar, 3/. 17s. 6d. to 4/. ; saltpetre, 3/. 15s. ; rice, 41. ;
jute, 3/. 10s ; hides, 41. 10s.; oilseeds, 4/. ss. to 4/. 10s.;
shell lac, U. 10s. to 3/. 15s. ; lac dye, 4/. to 4/. 7s. 6d.
To Mauritius ; Co.'s Rs. 2/. to 2/. 2s. per bag, pay-
able there at 50 cents.

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INDlGO.—Shipments from Ist to 15th inst. are 113
chests. The estimate given a short time since regard-
ing the out-turn of the present crop is still adhered to.

CANTON MARKET. SEPT. 5.

But little business doing either in imports or exports.
EXCHANGES AND BULLION.—On London, 7s. 9d. Pay-
ment for produce has been made to the native dealers
to very large amounts in Oriental Bank bills on London,
which are resold by the Chinese to importers of drug
and bullion at a sacrifice of about sixpence the dollar,
the bank bills referred to being exchanged to shippers of
produce, they giving up their own bills with collateral
security and a profit of twopence in the dollar to the
Bank.

FREIGHTS.—To England, 2/. to 2/. 10s. for tea, and
10s. more for silk. Tonnage very abundant. To Ame-
rica, $9 in clippers, but.no freight offPrin,g.

THE NEW STREET IN THE ClTY.—Considerable pro-
gress has been made with New Cannon-street, which
now extends westward to Old 'Chancre, and is only
divided from St. Paul's Church-yard by a few stacks of
old houses. The new street will pass at the back of the
handsome row of warehouses lately erected on the south-
east side of St. Paul's Church-yard, and form a junction
with the latter at Paul's-chain. The only unsightly
objects which at present detract from the magnificent
ensemble of the new street are the unfinished buildings
and daris of old houses to be seen on the south side of
New Cannon-street, between Queen-street, and Old
'Change. In the midst of these eyesores is an old
church (St. Mildred's), standing in an isolated position,
almost in the way of the traffic, and exhibiting a broad
surface of bare wall, and an extremely shabby appear-
ance altogether. This church is expected to come down,
but is, we believe, still sought to be preserved by some
of the parishioners.