The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-27 00:00:00

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

TRIESTE, WEDNESDAY.
The steamer Bombay arrived at IN a.m. on the
25th.

ALEXANDRIA, OCT. 20.
The Candia leaves Alexandria this day with the
Indi t and China mails, and advices from Calcutta,
18th Sept. ; Madras, 24th Sept. ; Shanghai, 26th
August ; Canton, 9th Sept. ; Hong Kong, 11th
Supt. ; Singapore, 18th Sept. ; and Bombay, 28th
Sept.
Trade in India is dull. Exchange at Calcutta,
is. 11d. _ _

In China there was much dissension among the
rebels. The siege of Canton continued, with
great distress. No trade nbtQd for shipment. The
rebels still hold Shanghai.

Exchange at Canton, 4s. 9d. ; at Shanghai, 654. id.
The American 'clipper Comet arrived at Hong
Kong from Liverpool in eighty-four days.

At Warsaw a pontoon bridge has been thrown over
the Weicht,el, near the citadel ; the fortifications o
Zawesc are finished, and this place will be strongly
garrisoned. The fortifications at Kieff are rapidly pro-
gressing.

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f;0111111-EBUIAL INT ELL I GENVE.

CITY, I'VO o'CLOCK

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 8,000 bales, including 1,000 Ameri-
can, and 500 Surat 'taken for export and on spe-
culation. The market closed tamely, without
change in prices. The sales comprised 6,000
American,. 280 Pernam and Maranham, at 51d.
• to 7d., 300 Egyptian at 50. to laid., and 1,200
Surat at 3d. to 4d. per lb. Railway Shares were
dull, and prices had a downward tendency.
Among the sales of produce yesterday, the Daily
_Commercial Gazette notices 1,500 ounces of sulphate
of quinine, taken for the Russian market. Is this
in conformance with the Royal proclamations and
orders in Council ? We had imagined that trade
with Russia was prohibited.

Colonial Produce has been in limited request
this week, and for some descriptions of sugar a
slight concession in prices has been made by sellers,
but generally there is a disposition to hold for full
rates. Colony plantation coffee has been in demand
at is. advance, and native is wanted. Rice has
been benefitted by the material advance in grain,
and the quantity offering is smaller. Very high
prices are now asked, middling Bengal having been
sold up to 15s. 6d. In spices very little has been
done, and saltpetre, cotton, hemp, tallow, and iron
are all quiet. Tea has been dull from public sales
being declared.

Yesterday there arrived in the Thames 37 ships
from foreign parts, 2 from Ireland, and 88 colliers.
The sentence upon Mr. Cole, of four years' penal
servitude, is considered lenient here, since no doubt
is entertained of other cases being provable against
him. The fabrication of dock warrants strikes so
deeply at the root of all mercantile honour, that
ito man can be safe in his dealings or advances
unless justice is rigorously executed against the
fraudulent parties ; but at the same time we think
it has hitherto been too much regarded as a matter
of course that the merchandise hypothecated is in
the warehouses. Without in the least impugning
the credit of any one seeking advances, the fact,
undoubtedly, should in all cases be verified.
Accounts from the Baltic state that the greatest
exertions are making to get Russia supplied, be-
fore the navigation closes, with the articles of
foreign production that she most requires, and has
been hitherto prevented by the blockade from .ob-
taining. The scarcity of colonial staples experi-
enced in Finland had already ceased, owing to the
arrivals from Swedish ports ; and St. Petersburg
and the interior provinces would be supplied in the
same way.

In referring yesterday to the Customs revenue of
France the decrease should have been stated at
10,000,000 f. _ _

The investigation into the affairs of Mr. Edward
Oliver, of Liverpool, shows, it is said, assets
1,168,2501. against liabilities 700,0001.; but, allow-
ing for depreciation of property, the surplus is not
estimated at more than 78,0001. There are no less
than 100 ships entirely owned by Mr. Oliver.
At the opening of the Stock Market this morning
Prices were heavy, but an improvement has since
occurred, and Consols, which were 94i to 94i, have
been done at 94i 4 for transfer, and from 942 have
risen to 94a j for time. The New 31 per Cents.
have been 93i to 93i, and the 3 per Cents. 93 to
93g. Bank Stock is still rising, having touched
213. Exchequer Bills are 6s. to 9s. pm., and East
India Bonds 10s. pm.

Notwithstanding the larger supply of stock since
the transfer books were opened there is a better
tone, and an impression exists in some quarters
that the supply has not only been absorbed by
parties inclined to hold, but that the speculators,
unless favoured by a tighter money market and ad-
verse political events, will find stock rather scarce
next settling day.

Foreign Stocks have been quiet. Russian 5 per
Cents. are 95i, and the 4i per Cents. 85 to I.
Turkish Scrip has been 21 to being flat. Brazi-
lian Bonds are 98. i.

• The letters by the Overland Mail are expected
to be delivered to-morrow by 11 o'clock. The
outline of the news is not favourable iu respect to
commercial affairs. The " patriots" were in pos-
session of Shanghai, and there was no trade going
on at Hong Kong. The tea market will probably
be affected by this. In India trade was dull. The
rate of exchange at Calcutta was is. 11d. for bills
on London.

The pressure of late in the United States money
market is producing the ordinary result—contrao-
tion and severity on the part of the very institu-
tions which most contributed to speculation and
over-trading. In the revulsion that ensues, how-
ever, such banks themselves very often get severely
punished, and a worse feature is the discredit
thrown upon the banks which probably never pur-
sued an objectionable course.

The prices of United States Public Securities
have undergone no alteration worthy of notice
since this day week.

The following are the nominal prices of foreign
stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 5& to 6 ; Mexi-
can, 221 to 23 ; Peruvian, 71 to 73'; ditto,
per Cents., 51 to 53 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents.,
40 to 42 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 95 to 97 ; ditto,
4i per Cents., 84 to 86 ; Spanish New Deferred,
18j to 18i ; ditto, 3 per Cents., 371 to 38i ; ditto,
Certificates, 5 to 5& ; ditto, Passive, 41 to 5.
The Railway Share Market has been rather
heavy, but without any prominent change in
values. Luxembourg shares are firm.
In the Foreign Mines there have been a few
purchases, at rather fuller rates.
The Joint-Stock Bank shares are brisker. Crys-
tal Palace are supported.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES.
(Prom the 00cial List.

Engines' dens.
Bank Stock ..... ..
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cont. Consols Annuities 944 4 i ;i i
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities Expire sth Jan., 1860
India Bonds, ilOOO ....,.. .....
......
Ditto, under £lOOO lO
Bank Stock for Account 212
Consols for Account 14th Noy
Exchequer Bills, 24d.
i.:1000
£5OO
Small 9 6 p
Exchequer Bonds 1853, 3i per Cent. lOO
Ditto 1859, „ ...... 99i
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Brazilian Bonds; riper Cent ... 931
Ditto New, 1852, 4 per Cent .... ....... 95
Portuguese for the Account
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £St 95:1
Ditto 44 per Cent.
Ditto Small ..
,Turkish Scrip 6 per cent
Dividends on the shove payable in London-
Belgian Bonds 44 per Cent. ex. 25 fr
Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cent. 12 Gull
Ditto 4 per Cent. Cortifieates.. .
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols ......
...........
....
Ditto November A ceonnt
.....

20
20
10
10

St.
10
25

20
50

CROLEICA IN VIENNA.—From the 16th of September
t• the 9th of October there were 693 cases, of which 67
recovered, and 289 died.
DESTRUCTION OF A WADDING FACTORY, SPITALFIELDS.
—The most extensive fire that has occurred in the
me-
tropolis
for some weeks broke out yesterday afternoon
between the hours of three and four o'clock, in the ,
pre-
mises
belonging to Messrs. G. Babbinson and Co:, wad-
ding manufacturers on a very !sage scale, situate in
Spital-street, Spitalfields. The building in which the
misfortune commenced was the main factory, which was
between 50 and 60 feet long by nearly 40 wide, and con-
tained a great stock of manufactured wadding and ma-
chinery. Adjoining the factory was a range of drying.
houses, of precisely the same length and width as the
first named, also filled with stock, under going the process
of drying ; so that it became manifest from the first
that, uniess the fire could be extinguished in its incipient
stage, there was every probability of the entire property'rt
falling a prey to the fury of the flames ; anThe d unfou-
fire was
nately the worst fears were aeon realised•
first discovered by some of the workmen on the pre
off
mises,
who lost, no time in bounding an alarm and sending
for proper assistance. It was not subdued until the
factory and contents were destroyed, and the drying.
houses levelled with the ground. The total loss must
be considerable, and unfortunately the sufferers wire
not insured
8 for a single penny. One f qttiliate circura-
-lancnv
° was that the flames were prevented from reachi
the
•
Leam.botler so that no explosion took place, which
otherwise might have been the case. The disaster, it is
auPpose d, was caused bye the friction of some of the ma-
chinery driven by steam-power.