The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-28 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL.

REPORT ON TEE STATE •F THE BOMBAY MARKETS, FROM
THE 14TH TO THE 27TH DEC., 1853.
Our Money Market has remained without change
during the last fortnight. Money has been in little de-
mand, and rates of discount remain unaltered. Among
the causes contributing to this easy state of the market,
so unusual at this season, especially
in native quarters,
we may note the greati decrease in the import of opium
from Malwa, and consequently in the duty payable to
Government. By the last returns published by the
opium agent it appears that the passes granted up to the
14th inst. have been for only 4,029 chests against 13,194
chests at same date last year. The deficiency in the
transit duty is thus above 36 lace of rupees.
Government Securities maintain former rates, and
Joint Stock Shares have advanced. To-day's quotations
are as under : Government Five per Cent. Loan of

1841-42, 1014 to 1021 ; ditto Four per Cent. Loan of
1835-36, and ditto Four per Cent. Loan of 1842-43,101
to 101 i; Bank of Bombay Shares, 40 per cent. premium;
Oriental Bank Corporation, 89 to 90 ditto ; Commercial
Bank, 37 ditto.

Exchange.—The rates have been sustained, but few
transactions have taken plale. Bank rates are 2s. Id.
Baring Bros. credit' 2s. ld. 3-16 d., and the best local
drafts at six months' sight 2s. lid. to 2s. id. 5-16 d. per
rupee. On Calcutta at sixty days' sight Rs. 99 per
cent. On China at sixty days' sight the rate is nominal
at Rs. 233 per hundred dollars.

Freight has continued steady ; the shipments of lin-
seed going on having kept up the rates to 3/. to Liver.
pool, and 3/. to 3/. 2s. 6d. to London. Two vessels are
now loading for China at Rs. 17 per candy.

CHINA.
(From the Overland China Mail of Dec. 11.)
THE REBELLION.—CANTON AND AMOY.
Quiet prevails at both of the southern ports, and
the restoration of the constituted authorities at the
latter place has been a matter of gratulation to
the residents. There has been no very reliable in-
telligence about the progress of the rebels since
last despatch of the mail. A report, however, was
brought from Shanghae by the Lady Mary Wood,
that, after being defeated by the Imperialists at
Sinchow, in Peeheelee, the insurgent army con-
tinued to advance, and had at the end of October
reached Jinkew, about sixty miles from Pekin.
Pekin is presumed to be well garrisoned, and
we learn from the son of a Chinese gentleman, re-
cently arrived from the capital, that its stores of
rice are sufficient for three years' consumption, the
present price being high, but not exorbitant.
Of other provinces, we learn that Kiangsi and
Ngan-hwui are now quiet, matters proceeding in
their usual course, as if they had never been in-
fested by rebels, who (that is, bands claiming to
belong to the Nanking body), are now committing
ravages in Hupih, their object, according to the
accounts we have received, being mainly plunder.
They, came near Without entering the capital of the
province, but set fire to a city to the west of it.
From Shanghae our intelligence, on Chinese
authority, is comprised in two short papers—the
one being a proclamation by Hii Nai-chaou, Go-
vernor of Kiang-su (formerly Literary Chancellor in
Kwang-tung), to the people of S'ianghae, promis-
ing rewards for the apprehension of any rebels, and,
at the same time warning the inhabitants against
harbouring or abetting them—also declaring that
the soldiery shall be punished for any misconduct
on their part that may be reported to the com-
manding officers.
The other paper contains miscellaneous memo-
randa, some items of which are, that—
The Fokienese chief Li cuts men to pieces, and.
steeps their hearts and entrails in wine—a figure of
speech not very flattering to Generalissimo Li
Hien-chi.

The rebels have made a census, according to
which the population remaining in the city ii
80,000. [ln 1850, according to a correspondent
of the Chinese Repository, it was variously esti-
mated at from two hundred thousand to half a
million.]
About 300 of the orderly inhabitants have been
recently slain by the rebels ; and about 100 of their
spies have been taken and put to death by the Im-
perial troops since their arrival.
Rice is sold to the poor at 27 cash a catty. The
commissariat is supplied by the people of Pu-tung,
the articles being hoisted over the wall at the Little)
East Gate.

Amongst foreigners there has been nothing very
exciting since Mr. Consul Alcock issued the notifi-
cation given in our supplement, against those who
had endangered what he terms " the foreign settle-
ment," by " supplying the insurgents in the city,
night after night, with cannon and other munitions
of war ;" until the Imperialists sent a body of
troops to intercept " three large guns in their way
from a foreign hong," when the volunteers and Bri-
tish marines mustered and rescued the guns, after
killing—we conceive most unjustifiably—several of
the Imperialists.
Trade still continues to be carried on under the
provisional regulations of the Consuls of Great Bri-
tain and America, the countries chiefly interested.
in it. An Austrian vessel has, however, entered.
and cleared out with cargoes without account-
ing for the duties, there being no consul of
that country at Shanghae. Tonnage of all flags is
in request, and the only vessel disengaged has been
chartered for England at 6/. Whatever may be
the result with imports, which would have be,en
greatly overdone even without the rebellion, the
exports from all China of tea and silk are now con-
siderably greater than at the same period last year.

COMMERCIAL.
CANTON MARKET-DEC. 9, 1853.
IMPORTS.

The import market still remains dull, and without
symptom of improvement.

EXPORTS.
The same inactivity continues as at the departure of
the last mail.
Exchanges and Bullion—On England ss. ld. to ss.
lid. for 6 months' sight ; ss. for short paper. On India,
Co.'s accepted, 236 R. to 237 R. Sycee, 1 per cent.
premium. Gold, $2l 50c. per tael.
FREIGHTS.—To England, 4/. 10s. to Si. A clipper
ship has loaded at Si. for tea and Si. 10s. for silks. To
the United States, nominal at $l5.

SHANGHAE MARKET, Nov. 27, 1853.
IMPORTS.—We have but little alteration to report fir
the import market.

EXPORTS.—Teas.—Since the departure of the last;
mail, our market has been fully supplied.
EXCHANGES AND BULLION.

On England.—After the departure of the Lady Mary"
Wood on the 22d Nov. great fluctuations took p lace in Es,-
change up to the arrival of the Audax on the 11th Nov..
The treasure brought by her had a sudden effect,.
and the rate immediately receded from 6s 6d to 6s 3d,
finally rallied again to 6s 4d to 6s sd, and at the departure'
of the Nymph on thel9th the closing rate was 6s. The ar-•
rival of the Lady Mary Wood on the 24th with a million anc7.
half of treasure on hoard had but little effect in lowering'
rates, the lowest point reached being ss. 10d., and wo
may quote 6s. as the closing rate for this mail. Om
India—Company's rupees have been equally variabl',,
the last quotations being 285 per 100 dols. Drafts c
Canton, 18 to 20 per cent, discount.
Gold, per bar, $175 ; sycer, $l2O ; Mexican dolla rs,
20 per cent, discount.

FREIGHTS.--To England, 4/. to 4/. 10s.; to the Uni tect
States, $8 to $lO, but tonnage is very scarce.

THE WEST INDIES.

The Royal mail steam-ship Medway, Captain B.
Baynton, arrived at Southampton at 4 p.m. yest
day from the West Indies, having left St. Thorns s s
on the evening of the 7th inst., -six days after t
departure of the Solent with the last mails.
The Medway comes home as an extra steamer •ta
undergo repairs. She brings no passengers, mains,
or specie, and but a small. quantity of cargo.
The Royal mail steam-ship Orinoco, with tb to
outward mails of the 17th of December, reache
St. Thomas's on the 3d of January, from Soutt
ampton.

This steamer brings but little news from tl2 9
several West Indian colonies additional to that ii
ceived by the last packet.
The yellow fever was auain commencing at Sit-
Thomas's, and that island, with some of the s• cur-
rounding smaller islands, was likewise being frig ht-
fully ravaged by cholera. Up to the sailing of the
Medway 791 deaths had occurred in St. Thom: ►s's
alone.

The following shows the number of deaths ioc-
curing daily since last accounts :

Total from our last

IN TOWN.

Wednesday, the 4tb, from noon ...... 32
Thursday, the sth .................... 43
Friday, the 6th ........................ 47
Saturday, the 7th, to noon ...... .
....... lB
IN THE COUNTRY.

From our last to the 4th, afternoon... 95

Total .............................. 791
The last steamer brought news that the chol
had broken out at Nevis, and it was feared that ; it
would spread among the whole group of the nor th-
em and windward islands.
The American ship Hermann, Captain Skinn em,
put into St. Thomas's on the sth of January in am .
almost sinking state, laden with a cargo of guar 10,,
bound to Baltimore.
The proposed removal Of troops from several, o f
the West India Islands was creating great dissatis
faction, and in some places considerable alarm,
among the inhabitants.
From Jamaica, Barbadoes, Demerara, and otl xer
colonies we have no accounts, no fresh arrivals fr
those places having taken place since the depart' are
of the Solent.

RAILWAY BILLS BEFORE PARLIAMENT.—Yesten lay,
the following bills were passed by the examiners
Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway ; Shrewsbury and
Chester Railway ; Whitehaven, Cleabor, and Egrem ont
Railway ; Whitehaven Junction Railway ; Barns rd
Castle and Bishop Auckland Railway ; the Cam 34) ,clc
Railway ; Cork and Bandon (Bantry Extension), 31; ib-
hereon Branch ; Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Wo rot
tershire Railway ; Swansea Vale Railway ; Nortb. as id
South Western Junction ; Carlisle and Silloth Baty a pa
Dock (for Incorporation) ; Ardrossan and Glasgow- /aid
South Western. The standing orders were decl taaed
" not" complied with in the case of the Shrewsbury • and
Hereford (for power to lease the line) and Fm mess
Railway.

A SAD FATE.-.Anna Maria Jones, authoress of the
"Gipsy," and other popular novels of the day, die d on
Tuesday at No. 17, Saha bury-place, Bermondsey, i a the
most abject poverty. Her remains await, in all p robe,-
bility, a pauper's funeral.