The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-24 00:00:00

THE OVERLAND MAIL. AWAEy MARKEI

BY SUBMARISE AXD EUROPEAS TELEGRAPH.
TRIESTE, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 23.
The steamer Bombay arrived on the 23d, at eight
a.m., in 112 hours from Alexandria.
ALEXANDRIA, AUGUST 18.
The India Mail has been in Alexandria since the
15th, with advioes from Calcutta to July 14 ;
Madras, July 21 ; Shanghai, June 28; Canton,
July 4 ; Hong Kong, July 6 ; Singapore, July 14 ;
and Bombay, July 20.
There is no particular news.
Trade in India was dull.
Exchange at Shanghai, 6s. Bd. ; Canton, ss. Oicl
Freights at Alexandria, 3s. per quarter.

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY.

The General Screw Steam Navigation Company's
steamer India.:a, Captain Lambert, which has been
placed on the Havre and New York line, arrived
in Southampton Water to-day at noon. She left
New York on the 10th instant, and not on the Bth,
as reported by the Cunard steamer Africa, whose
arrival at Liverpool on Sunday was reported in
The San. Her passage has thus occupied a space
of little over 12 days.
The Indiana brings 70 passengers and general
cargo, but no specie.
The news by this arrival is meagre.
Previous to the sailing of the Indiana telegraphic
reports had been received from New Orleans an-
nouncing the arrival there of the El Dorado steam-
ship from San Francisco, and the Philadelphia from
Havannah. The Et Dorado brought dates from
California to the 15th ult., the same as those pre-
viously received by the Star of the West. The
Havannah news was of no importance.
Conflicting reports had been received in New
York respecting the progress of the cholera in the
provinces. In the neigiibourhoAl of the Niagara
Falls it was much on the increase • so much so,
that the place had almost been deserted by tourists
and fashionable visitors. In Baltimore the disease
Was declining, while at New Brunswick it was
rather on the increase.

The Greytown affair still occupied the attention
of the public, and there the matter stood.
The State elections were being held. In the St.
Louis district, Missouri, Mr. Luther M. Kennett
had been returned by a majority of from 600 to 800
over Mr. Benton. Great excitement had taken
place, and much rioting was the result, but without
serious consequences. Mr. Kennett is a great
supporter of the Nebraska Bill. Returns had been
received from North Carolina, but they could not
be depended upon.
The adoption of the • Reciprocity Treaty was
about being advocated in New Brunswick, now that
it had been confirmed by the United States.
A large fire had occurred at New Orleans, and
property to a large amount h9d been destroyed.
The fire raged principally among the merchants'
warehouses.

MARKETS.
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. B.—The cotton-market continues
without change, with a moderate demand at previous
rates. The sales for the last two days were 2,250 bales.
Corn and flour unchanged.
NEw YORK, Aug. 10.—Common brands of State
flour were firmer yesterday by 161 c. to 25c. per barrel.
Indian corn also improved a cent. or two per bushel.
Wheat unchanged. Cotton steady, with moderate sales.
There was a slight revival in freights for Liverpool.

ARRIVAL OF THE SCREW-STEAMER
ALPS.

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY, 11.59 A.M.

The screw-steamer Alps has arrived, with dates
from New York to the 12th inst., and $288,000 iu
specie._ _ .

The Hermann cleared on the 12th for South-
ampton. . . .

The Navy-yard at Washington had been totally
destroyed by fire.
At Havannah a speedy change in the Govern-
ment of the island was anticipated.
A large number of additional troops had arrived
at Havannah. Business generally dull.
The Empire City had arrived with 1,127,038
dollars. Money was plentiful. Foreign exchange
dull ; London, 109 a to 109. Cotton active, at an
advance of k cent. to cent. FlOur market ex-
cited, and prices irregular. Wheat had improved,
and was firm.

AND
COMMERCIAL liVT ELL IGENCE.

• CITY, TWO o'CLOCK.
The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 6,000 bales, of which 1,000 American
were taken for export. • The market closed heavily
without change in prices. The sales comprised
210 Pernatn and Maranham, at 7d. to 7id. ; 30
Bahia, at 62-d. ; 300 Egyptian, at 51d. to Bd.; 600
Surat, at 3d. to 4gd. ; and the remainder Ame-
icar. Railway Shares were inactive at rather lower

prices.
We have the arrival of the steamer Bombay
notified by electric telegraph from Trieste, with
dates from Calcutta to the 15th of July, Bombay
to the 21st, and Canton to the sth. The brief
notice is that trade was dull there, and no parti-
cular news.
The screw-steamer Alps is telegraphed also from
Liverpool, with advices from New York to the
12th inst. She brings 288,000 dollars in specie.
Under the head of the " Money Market," it is
stated in the Times of this morning, as if from
authority, that "the anticipated letter from M.
Drouyn de l'Huys with regard to the Turkish loan
has been obtained, and is precisely in the same
terms as that already furnished by Lord Claren-
don." This assurance so far is satisfactory, although
it might have been as well if the document itself
had been given, seeing the absolute contradictions
by Mr. Stanley in his letter in The Sun yesterday,
of other facts previously asserted by M. Musurus,
the Turkish Envoy, and still left unexplained by his
Excellency. Straightforward explanations on the
part of those who alone can make them would put
an end to the " attempts of speculators" on either
side to make trade out of the question by " idle
statements with the view of influencing the mar-
ket." We believe that it is of the greatest import-
ance for Turkey that the loan should be realised
without more let or hindrance than is necessary
for the security of the public, or rather the sub-
scribers to it here. As there can be no doubt that
the firmans authorising the loan must be here or
in Paris, it would doubtless serve the interests
both of the loan and the subscribers that they
should be published in a translated form. Other
rumours are afloat about the loan which it is not
deemed necessary now to advert to.
A return to an order of the House of Commons
has just issued from the Post-office of the money
orders issued for the three months ending the 30th
of June, the gross sum received, and the cost of
maintaining the offices in Great Britain and Ire-
land within the same period :

Total sums received for printed forms £l3s 2 7
Gross amount of money orders issued 2,540,537 7 6
Commission
Cost of maintaining offices lB,lBl 0 0
Number of money orders issued, 1,322,541

The London and Western Districts Cemetery
Company have received the official approval of
Viscount Palmerston by letter, dated the 21st inst.,
addressed to Mr. J. F. Galbraith, the managing
director, of the site of Isleworth for their large
cemetery. The distance from Oxford-street is only
7 miles, and the site is considered highly eligible
and convenient for the metropolis and vicinity,
having access by road, rail, river, and canal. The
company has been provisionally registered, and it
is intended to apply for a Royal charter. The
estimates, including land, enclosures, churches,
&c. are for a sum less than 50,0001.
The news from Berlin and Vienna contained in the
second editions of the morning papers of the total
rout of the Turks in Asia with an enormous loss of
men and materiel, coming from avowedly Russian
sources, has been entirely discredited on the Stock
Exchange, perhaps too absolutely so, and the Funds
would really seem to have improved upon it, for
we have Consols I better than at this hour yester-
day. They are called 941 to / for money, and 948t0 # for time, with a fair bu3iness doing. Threes
Reduced 94i- to Threa and a quarter per Cents.
941 to 4. Bank Stock wag done at 210. Long
Annuities 4. India Stock 225. India Bonds
ls. to ss. premium. Exchequer Bills par to 4s.
premium, the latter for small bills. Exchequer
Bonds, 1858, 98i.
Very few dealings are recorded in the foreign
market. Mexican are 24, being firm. Spanish
Deferred were ifq. The Turkish Scrip has been
dealt in sparingly from 6i to 7i prem.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds 6 to 62, Mexi-
can 24k to 242, Peruvian 71 to 73, ditto 3 per
Cents. 52 to 54, Portuguese 4 per Cents. 40 to 42,
Russian 5 per Cents. 99 to 101, ditto 41 per Cents.
85 to 87, Spanish New Deferred 17/ to 18, ditto
3 per Cents. 37 to 372, ditto Certificates 4/ to 5,
ditto Passive 34 to 4.

The last week's railway receipts ascertained up
to this day are in round figures as under :-
1854. 1853.
Great Western
North-Western
Brighton
Midland
South- Eastern
Caledonian
Great Northern 20,731 18,174
Lan.eashire and Yorkshire
There is a dull market for Railway Shares, but
prices have recovered somewhat of yesterday's de-
cline. As exceptions, however, we notice Cale-
donian and South-Western, which are very heavy.
Central of France are rather lower.

St. John del Rey Mine Shares have receded 10s.
but Colonial Gold are 1/. to 1/. 10s. better. Bank;
are inactive, and also the Land Shares.

BRITISH FUNDS TEAS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.

( Front the Oticial List.)

Business done
Sank Stock
per Cent. Reduced Annuities 941 h
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9l 1
31 per Cent. Annuities
; ong Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860
India Stock
;ndia Bonds, £lOOO . . ,
Ditto, under £lOOO ... 1 5 pm
Consols for Account 13th Sept.
b.;xcliequer Bills, 24d.
l!.1000 ' ... par 2pm
2500 2 3 pm
small
Exchequer Bonds Scrip, 1858
Ditto 1859
I'RICE or FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE ('CLOCK.
,exican 3 per Cent.
Spanisit New Deferred, 3 per Cent —
Ditto for the Account lBh
Turkish Scrip
Dividends on the above payanie in Landon.
HALF-PAST TWO.

Console
Ditto September Account

ODESSA.—Advices from Odessa to-day of the 11th
inst. state that it was rumoured to be the intention of
the Czar to remove the prohibition against the. export of
grain, which has existed at that port for the last six
months. Looking at the extraordinary extent of the
present crops in Southern Russia, this measure will be
of considerable importance, if the total absence of block-
ade, which is still reported, should be allowed by the
allies to continue- It is to be presumed, however, that
the place remaining open is simply a temporary conse-
quence of the arrangements in progress for the attack
upon Sebastopol.
The discount houses yesterday afternoon gave notice of
a reduction in their rate of allowance for money at a call
from 41 per cent., at which it has stood since the 11th
of May last, to 4 per cent.
MR. GEORGE HODSON.—Tbis gentleman is giving
nightly, at the Regent Gallery, an entertainment called
"My Irish Portfolio ; or Leaves from a Shamrock, "
which is redolent with Hibernian humour, vocal, drama-
tic, and anecdotal, and is likely to become as popular as
the many amusements of a similar class which, within
the last few years, have met with so much favour in the
metropolis. Mr. Hodson takes no small rank as an
Irish comedian, is the possessor of a very good voice,
and is blessed with that hilarity of spirits which belongs
to the natives of the Emerald Isle. His clever imita-
tions of Woodin, 0. Smith, and Buckstone, are among
some of his most successful efforts. We cordially re-
commend an inspection of his ample and varied "port-
folio."
COMMITTAL OF MR. G. H. SMITH FOR THE MURDER
OF nis WlFE.—Yesterday morning, at nine o'clock,
'Mr. J. Lewis, coroner for the city of Rochester, and a
respectable jury, again assembled at the Guildhall,
Chatham, in pursuance of adjournment. The coroner
having on Tuesday given directions to Mr. Bevon, the
surgeon, to make a post mortent examination—and that
gentleman was the only one examined—he stated that he
bad made an examination of the deceased lady. He found
the scalp and cranium had been perforated on the left
side, so that lie could introduce his little finger into the
wound ; the brain was gorged with effused blood ;
the two leaden bullets, which he produced, were lodged
in the anterior lobe of the right side, having tra-
versed in an oblique course the corpus callosurn, until
resisted by the internal table of the cranium. No marks
of violence were visible on any other parts of the body.
Death, in his opinion, was caused by the concussion and
effusion of blood about the brain by a pistol-shot. The
coroner briefly addressed the jury, when a unanimous
verdict was given of murder against Mr. Smith, and he
stands committed under the coroner's warrant to take
his trial at the next Maidstone assizes. The prisoner is
in a very desponding way. He has refused to take any
food or nouri-hinent whatever since he has been in
cus
tody, and as he stood remanded by the mayor and ma-
gistrates he was brought up at twelve o'clock yesterday,
and was ordered to be removed to the county gaol.
The de( e tried lady is stated to be a cousin of Lord Vis-
count Canning, the Postmaster-General, and their coin-
ing to Rochester was on account of their accompanying
a lady, a friend of theirs, at Jersey, who came to Coat-
ham to see a son of hers, and to stay for a short time,
when it wag agreed that they should return to Jersey
together. The prisoner had obtained leave of absence
from his duties as postmaster at. ;Jersey ior a limited
poriod to recruit his health.