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London, England, 1849-11-01 00:00:00

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NEW WORK, by the Author of " JANE EYRE."
Just published, in 3 vols. post Svo., price 17. 1 is. Gil. cloth,
S HIRLE Y. By cuintEß BELL
Author (;t- " Jane Eyre."

"`S:iirley' is the anatomy of the femaleheart. It is a book which,
like its predecessor. indicates exquisite feeling and very great power
of mind in the writer. 'lke women are all divine, and Shirley' is,
indeed, an intellectual harem."--Daily News.

OVERLAND MAIL

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INDIA.

We have received by express from Marseilles the
intelligence brought by the Bombay mails of the
17th of September and the Ist ult. The former
mail was, as will be remembered, too late in its ar-
arrival at Aden to be forwarded at the same time as
the Calcutta and Madras mails last received. This
delay had been caused by the extraordinary force of
the monsoon, which is said to have been the most
violent for many years. The amount of rain fallen is
almost beyond precedent, and the floods throughout
India have been most destructive. In one instance
the rain and the flood have by their united operation
produced a most unexpected effect—the renowned
Fort of Moultan, with all its bomb-proof dependen-
cies, which had so long held out against all kinds of,
assailants, has melted away before the joint attacks
of the monsoon torrent and the flood of the Chenaub.
On the 1811 of August the rain began, building after
building fell in rapid succession, and on th 23d the
river had covered the whole country. The floods
gradually ascended the course of the rivers at the
rate, it is said, of about 70 miles a•day, and had
everywhere done much temporary damage.
We receive by this mail more full and precise
accounts of the conclusion of the sanguinary episode
which the Moplah insurrection in the Madras Presi-
dency had furnished. It seems that the troops ordered
to avenge the loss of their comrades of the 43d Native
Infantry, consisting of the grenadier company of the
94th 'Regiment, assisted by another company of the
39th Native Infantry, came up with • the insurgents
on the 4th of September. The Moplahs, in number
only 64, immediately attacked our troops, and only
one of the whole number would accept quarter. The
rest were all slain.

'The news from the Punjaub is almost entirely a
mere detail of the movements of the troops who form
the army of occupation. In several of the stations
much sickness had prevailed. At Wyzeerabad
upwards of twenty Europeans had been struck
down by apoplexy on the 13th of August, and the
subsidence of the floods had been everywhere fol-
lowed by increased mortality. At Moultan almost
all the Europeans were suffering from fever. The
cold weather was, however, setting in, and the sickness
was decreasin*

Sir C. Napier and the Governor• General were to
leave Simla about the end of October, the former
proceeding to Peshawur on a tour of inspection.
We subjoin copious extracts from the Indian
papers.

(From the Bombay Thies, Sept. 17.)
With the present mail we resume our mid monthly
summaries, interrupted since May, when, they could
only, be transmitted by the circuit of Madras, direct
communication.. with Aden being confined to one
dispatch during the storms of the south-west monsoon._
At the date of the last issue the rains were believed
to be over, and an unusually favourable season was
supposed to have passed. On the 2d instant they're,
sumed, and have ever since prevailed .with all :the
violence of the wildest period of the monsoon. Within
the past fortnight 21 inches have fallen, and, the fall at
Bombay up to the present timiis 110 incites; or con-
siderably more than a third aboVe our average. Vitas
only twice exceeded this' durinwtheipaitttitirtf-twO
years. All over the country has been -propor-
tionately heavy. The famous folieof Moultan, 'with
its mosques, bombproof walls; and bastions,t which
for three months bade defiance -to nearly One
hun-
dred British cannon, has in a -feti'--houra been
levelled by the rain and the river Chenitub, the buildings
being all of mud or unburnt brick. On the 13th
of August the enormous dome of Bhawul Huk fell
with a tremendous crash which made the earth tremble,
and building after building-From this time continued
to give way. The ditch was full of water, and the
counterscarp end curtains began to slip in. On the
231 the river broke through all -bounds, and flooded
the country everywhere. It entered the fort and
levelled it ; it approached the precincts of the city,
swallowing up everything before it. By the 26th
the country was one vast sea, studded with trees and
speckled with islands, the occupants communicating
with each other by inflated skins, empty earthen vessels,
pumpkin shells, planks, rafts, and boats. Much ap-
prehension was entertained of suffering from scarcity,
and afterwards from sickness, until the ground become
fit for crops. The food which thus swept all before
it at Moultan on the 23d and the following
days hsd deluged the country around Shahpore-
-200, or by the course of the stream 300, miles higher
up on the 19th—thus travelling at the rate of 70 miles a
day, or about three miles an hour, the country all along
being perfectly flat. We have not heard whether the three
rivers united flowing past -Moultan bad been flooded by
the rains or not. The Jhelum must have been
swollen by some enormous fall of rain in the moun-
tains of Cashmere and Jamoo, amongst which it takes
it 3 rise. These rains must have fallen simultaneously
with those which levelled the Bhawul Huk, which
fell in the whole of the north-west provinces, and
relieved Ceylon from the fear of scarcity. The
cholera, which at the commencement of the month
prevailed amongst the shipping, was by the judicious
measures adopted speedily abated; it has since re-
appeared. but in a mitigated form, and has not proved
very fatal. At Jaulnah, in the Madras territories,
its ravages have been fearful—four British officers
having been cut off by it in the course of a week. It
prevails to some extent amongst the troops at Poonab,
and a very sickly season is apprehended after so
tremendous a fall of rain. We shall this season
pass at once from the present deluges to the
baking heat of October, without the inter-
vening showers that used to occupy the de-
lectable months of August and September. The
Governor-General has of late been suffering from in-
disposition, a:id has been recommended to retire fur-

then into the hills for the change of air. A proposal
has just been issued to connect Baroda with the sc-a•,
port at Tankaria Bander by a tramway ; the dis-
t once is 40 miles, the estimated cost 50,000/. The

intervening country is fist, but so muddy and soft
for months after the rains as to be at present untra-
versible. The tramway would open up the whole
traffic of Goozerat, and so on to Malwah. It would
not only not interfere with the railway, but the rail-
way company are the parties most strongly urged to
include it in their great scheme. The wealthy na-
tives, who are well aware of the advantages of open-
ing up the country, are perfectly willing to come for-
ward with large advances if the initiative is ones

taken by Europeans. There is a movement amongst
the native gentry of Ahmedabad to get the country
watered by means of a large iron main from the
river; the project has been introduced by Captain
Fulljames, of the Goozerat Irregular Horse, an able
and benevolent man, and an excellent practitical engi-
neer. One village has offered 500/. a-year for the use of
the water, and it is believed that the whole landed pro-
prietors and cultivators around will come forward
in like manner so as to meet the entire charge of the
scheme. An advance of money to begin with will
probably be applied for to Government, to be repaid
when the works are in operation. The inquiry into
the extent to which the embarrassments of the magis-
trates and heads of police at Calcutta have interfered
with the discharge of their duties, is likely to be fol-
lowed by the removal of nearly all the delinquents
from office. An inquiry into the state of the Stamp-
office, the head of which is said to be equally encum-
bered with the rest, has also been instituted. The
Custom-house and Post -office will, it is said, come
next under revision ; and the whole of the public
offices of Calcutta, said to be one mass of venality,
knavery, and corruption, are recommended to be in-
quired into. The liabilities of Major Birch, lately
removed from the Calcutta police for being in debt,
amount to 40,000/.-20,0001. of which are set down
opposite the name of Baboo Mutty Loll Seal, and
8,0001. opposite that of another creditor. At Bombay
one of those discoveries of vice in an almost incredible
form which within these few years has so frequently
astonished us, has just been made by the police. A
copartnery, with a regular deed of settlement, formal
books, and a a well ,organized mode of keeping re-
cords and conducting business, has just been-dis-
covered—the objects of which' were to forge docu-
ments, draw up false vouchers and accounts, and
provide proof of their genuineness—to swindle, in
fact, in form of law, all and sundry they could
victimize. The partners quarrelled ; one of them
informed, and the 'whole firm and stock are now in
custody, We had many years amongst us a fl
ing copartnery for the purpose of organized plunder ;
a branch of their business was the burning and sinking
of ships. This has survived them. How many
kindred establishments exist amongst, us cannot be
guessed at; the sympathy of the native community
generally is with the criminals, not the law; and
here there is more honour among thieves than in most
parts of the world—thence the extent to which honest
men are fleeced. Sir W. Gomm is still at Calcutta.

• Sir. W. Cotton, Commander-in-Chief at Bombay,
leaves us about the b-ginning of the year. Lord
Falkland and family have returned to the presidency
and taken up their residence at Malabar Point.
The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Bombay has
also returned to the presidency; his-Lordship shortly
goes home on leave. He has been a persevering, dis-
tinguished, and successful labOurer in his Master's
cause, and his departure will form subject of deep and
general regret. Sir Henry Pottinger is at Madras.
I Sir G. Berkeley, Commander-in Chief, has by this
time left the Neilgherry Hills on his way back to that
presidency. Sir E. Perry, Chief Justice at Bombay,
proposes making a tour through Sinde and the north-
west during the approachink vacation. The Marquis
Dalhousie and Sir C. Napier have consented to be-
come patrons of the United East India Service Club.
Major Quentin, 10th Hussars, and Lieutenant-Colonel
H. Havelock, C.R., Deputy Adjutant-General Queen's
troops, Bombay, are about proceeding—the former to
the Neilgherries, the latter home on sick leave.
An action for trims. con. was some time since
brought by Brevet-Major A. N. Maclean, 28th
Bombay Native 'lnfantry, against Captain F. Cristall,
Bth Bombay Native Infantry. The defendant pleads
that Mrs. Maclean was not the wife of the plain-
, tiff, the marriage ceremony having been performed
by a Congregational missionary, the only parti's
permitted by law in India to perform it
being clergymen of the Catholic persuasion or
those in orders of the Established Church,
Episcopalian or PrtstOrian. The
should the judges dectdelbat the marriage is not
legitimate, means to take advantage of the decision
as a virtual divorce. The que4on is a most impor-
tant one. -If Major Maclean's;marriage was irre-
gular, so are hundredqof otheis in India,—those
supposing themielves-virtOus -Married persons, rear-
ing a
.bloornieg , legitimate, progeny around them,
being, in the eye of the la,in a „state of concubinage
surrounded by bastards.' "A result so fearful may at
last make the supplicatiohsi'which have for years been
set up on the subject be listened to, and give us an
amended Marriage Act, "of which we have so long
stood greatly in need. An association of young
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nder under the •name of the "Students' Literary and
Scientific Society," haie just'
,published a report,
from which it appears that in' the' course of the next
month they intend establishing `no fewer than eight
female schools within the preiidency—all to be taught
gratuitously by members of the society. This is as
surprising and creditable to its performers as any
educational effort in our annals. The Marquis of
Dalhousie has caused a tablet to be erected in St.
Paul's Cathedral; Calcutta, in memory of the late
Major G-. Montizambert, her Majesty's 1011 Foot—a
school fellow of his Lordship's—who fell at the siege
of Moultan on the 12th of September last.
MOULTAN.

The following letter from Moultan reached us on
Wednesday the sth instant, by the steamer Bombay,
via Kurrachee

' ' ' MOULTAN, AUG. 18.
We have been visited lee by one of the heaVies,
falls of rain 'remembered * the Moultanese. The
results .have been melancholy; the town an :fort
I
shattered by shot, and shaken.by the terrific exp sion
of the 30th of December, 1848, have been qtly
cut up, walls undermittedi :: and several un appy
people buried' under the ;ulna. The domes the'
clttidel are so 'unsafe that. the officers and Eur 'ens
are mavin`g into tents, fobi-of them having fall I '
The men in the .I(unneoCot 'are, also move ' in,
tents, as.the ditch, being -Atli of;,wat,er, melts th - tit,
wall,"andit his-Slid down-bodily in several place as.
I
also has the counterscargLah,d4he 'inner brit all
is expected to go in a .I'elr-I(l.Nrk The destructi to
the fort has been very great, `l4p_. *e, *.re at preses 4 on
an island, all around betV,fly',;....: The 4th Dies'
linea are drowned, and 110101171I*tkInd the menlare
pitched on a small risitiCgrottilk , i the CavalrY:.
At 10 this morning we *re-" alt-Itattled by whir at
first was thought to be ati'•earthqtialteraeut it was soon
discovered that the enotin' one domelf th beautiful'
shrine of Bhawul Huk (injured by our shot) N-4 fallen
in with a noise like thunder : forturately tn fakers
were all at a distance—it is now a perfect ibeap of
ruins. Another fall-vf rain will lay the famolas fort
of-Moultun fla'; being-bui-it on an 01t site, Verfectly
honeycombed in all directions, it is darrgerou's to ride
about, the earth everywhere giving way. A major of
artillery and his horse were nearly swallow4ed up in
one of these immense fissures, and several small
treasures have been. discovered to the prize agent by
the ground opening.
Moultan, like Surat, seems this season destined to
be the victim alternately of fire and water—of the
British Artillery and the Naiads. What Which was
so long in effecting, and then performed but imper-
fectly, the waters of the Chenaub have accomplished
noiselessly and without difficulty. On the 23d ult.
the river, breaking through all restraint, came pour-
ing into the ditch, when the greater part of the bas-
tions, a large portion of the wall, and the whole of
the counterscarp tumbled in. The fausse-braye was
immediately filled with water, and nearly the whole
of the huts in the Sepoy lines fell down. Two com-
panies of the 9th Native Infantry have lost all their
musical instruments, arms, and accoutrements. The
Vizierabad Eedgah, where the Rifles were quartered,
came tumbling about their ears, and compelled them
to seek refuge in the fort, the only place for miles
around not under water. On the evening of the
24th the flood at last made its way into the cita-
del and rendered Moultan nearly as unsafe a place of
residence as it was in December, though from a
totally different cause. The horses of the artillery
had escaped drowning by swimming and wading to an
elevation some way off; and for miles around the
whole country was one magnificent lake, studded
with innumerable islands, on which the people and
their live stock sought refuge, boats and rafts being

in,
into

the only means of communication. Serious appre-
hensions began to be entertained that if the waters of
the flood did not subside immediately, the severest
privations might be apprehended, if fearful sickness
did not ensue. We trust some faithful chronicler
will be found to give us all particulars of the rise,
duration, subsidence, and influence of this most me-
morable flood, and to determine whether within the
period referred to by history or tradition any similar
phenomenon was ever known to have occurred. The
fact of stately structures being built within the reach
of the overflowing water, and of these having re
mained for a long lapse of time uninjured, indicates
that floods of this sort are of rare occurrence. The
swallow never builds on the sash window or opening
casement, and mankind erect no structures where

there remains any chance of their being washed away.
A large overflow of water was said to have occurred
some fourteen years ago, occasioned by the bursting
of a bund, which continued ever after to be carefully
attended to by Moolraj. There seems no reason to
suppose that any such catastrophe was ever known in
Moullan as the present.

ocronart 3.—During the past fortnight scarcely
anything has transpired likely to be of interest to the
home reader. News of the almost total destruction,
on the 4th ult., of the body of fanatic Moplabs, on
the-Malabar coast, before whom a party of the 43(1
Madras Native Infantry had, on the 28th of August,
shamefnity retreated, will already have reached home
by the Madras steamer. The Grenadier company of
her Majesty's 94. h Foot, ordered from Cannanore,
and another of the 39th Native Grenadiers, from
Paulghaut, the former under command of Major
Dennis, came up on the 4th of September with the
rebels, at a place called Teermanam Coonetoo. The
Moplahs immediately attacked our troops, and; out of
64, all but one preferred being bayoneted to surren-
dering. The courage of the barbarians entitle them
to respect ; they accepted no quarter, and desired
nothing but vengeance at any price. One is at a loss
to comprehend the nature and objects of desperation
such as this. They saw themselves so outnumbered
that resistance was hopeless. They had not placed
themselves beyond the reach of clemency, and had
no point to gain by fighting to the last, yet they
threw themselves on our bayonets and have perished
to a man. Major Dennis and Lieutenant Vaughan
(94th) were slightly wounded, as were some dozen
or so of the men,—two European soldiers being
killed, and one mortally wounded. A tremendous
fall of rain occurred on the day of the dispatch of
last mail—upwards of five inches having been mea-
sured in six hours. Since then the weather has
fair and open, the total fall for the season being 118
inches. The fall of the 17th was general throughout
the country. At Compta, on the coast, a hurricane
of unusual violence occurred on that day, destroying
a number of large native craft in the harbour. The
storm was felt at Cambay, Malligaum, and at Hydera-
bad, in Sinde, on the same day. Considerable damage
has been done to some of the crops, while others have
benefited by the storm. Surat has once more been
the victim of fllocl, On the 18th ult. the rise of the
river first began to occasion alarm, and on the follow-
ing day it burst everywhere into the town, rising at
one time 20 feet above the highest high-water mark.
The cut intended to lead the waters of the Taptee by
a direct course to the sea, and so save the city from
disaster, has not on the present occasion been able to
accomplish the objects intended by it. The loss of
property occasioned by this calamity must have
been very great indeed. The Nizam's dominions,
like Guzerat, have, it would appear, been
deluged by the overflow of the rivers, swollen by

the rains of the middle of September ; and the
mud buildings in and near Hyderabad have been hid
nearly as low as those of Moultan. The rains which
deluged Hyderabad seem to have fallen nearly a week
earlier than those which swelled the Taptee. The
burst of storm which occasioned the flooding of the
rivers of the Punjaub occurred when the weather was
open and fine over the greater part of India. The
September burst seems to have extended itself all over
the bills to the north, east, and south of us; to have
been experienced to a moderate extent at Madras, and
severely at Calcutta. Nothing new from the Pun-
jaub. Sir H. Lawrence had almost entirely recovered
from his late illness, and did not intend leaving Lahore
for Jatnoo, as was formerly reported to be his inten-
tion. A fort named Shunakurghur, 18 miles from
Peshawar, which commands the approach from
Caubul, was to be reinforced, in order that we might
be prepared for any inroad of marauders during the
winter. The detachment formerly located there con-
sisted of one company of the 70th Native Infantry
and a detail of the 136 h Irregular Cavalry. The re-
inforcement was to consist of two companies of the
19th Bombay Native Infantry and a rissalah of the
Sinde Horse. The three companies of the 70th Native
Infantry on duty at Attock were to be relieved by a
similar detail from one of the corps at Rewul Pindee.
Lieut. Stanford, of her Majesty's 24th Foot, died at
Wuzeerabad on the sth of September. A con-
siderable amount of sickness still prevailed at Pesha-
war, Attock, and Wyzeerabad, at which latter pljice
on the 13th of August, upwards of two dozen Euro-
peans were struck down with apoplexy. As expected,
a considerable amount of sickness had broken out at
Moultan on the subsidence of the waters, almost all
the Europeans being laid up with fever. Captain
Gell, Lieutenant of Police at Kurrachee, has been re-
moved from his employment and remanded to his
corps. The flood of the Indus had this season attained
an unusual height in Upper Sinde, and it was feared
that unless the water was quickly drained off sickness
would make its appearance. Sir Charles Napier and
the Governoor• General leave Simla about the end of
the present month for the frontier, the former pro-
ceeding to Peahawur on a tour of inspection. Lord ,
Viscount Gough is reported to have declined an in-
vitation from the elite of Simla to an entertainment,
proposed by a deputation, " upon a principle and for
motives which he thought it unnecessary to enter
upon, and begged that the deputation would inform
the gentlemen who had now come forward upon the
eve of his :departure how greatly he regretted being
unable to accept the honour they wished to do him."
Sir L. Peel, Chief Justice at Calcutta, is on his way
to Mussoorie. The last representative of the Holkars,
the old Mahjee, died at Indore, of cholera, on the 9th
of September ; and the Dewan of Kolapore, from the
same disease, on the 11th. During the past month
upwards of 700 persons have been cut off in
Botnbay by this epidemic.
_The Judges of the Su-
preme Court of Bombay have decided that the mar-
riage of Major—Maclean and Miss Pelly was a valid
one. Sir W. Cotton has been indisposed, but is now
convalescent. Brigadier Douglas, commanding in
Upper Sinde, has been seriously ill, and it is thought
likely he may have to return to Europe. ' The regu-
lation lately adopted in restricting the number of
brigades to two held by Queen's officers in the Bom-
bay Presidency comes immediately into operation.
At present Upper Sinde, Poonah, and Bombay are
brigade commands, held respectively by Colonels
Douglas, of her Majesty's 78th; Boileau, of her
Majesty's 22d ; and Derinzy, of her MJjesty's 86,13.
The latter cfficer, being the junior of the three, there-
fore retires. Should the sickness of Colonel Douglas
compel him to return to Europe, Colonel Derinzy
will probably remain with us till March. The order
for the disbandment of the Sinde Camel Corps has
,been cancelled, and the regiment is ti be turned over
to Bengal for service in the Punjaub. Dr. Patch,
late of the Bombay Medical board, leaves for Eng-
land by the steamer of this evening, having re=
signed the service. Sir J. Jejeebhoy and family have
contributed 5001. to the fund for European pensioners
and their families. Lieutenants G. J. 'Ashton and
H. F: H. Parker, her Majesey's 53d Foot, and W.
H. F. Partridge, 14th Madras Light Infantry, have
been cashiered the service by sentence of general
court-martial. Major Bogle, Commissioner of the
Tenasserim Provinces, was severely hurt by a blow
oaf the head vt ith a club, inflicted by a Burmese on
the 29th of August, at Moulmein ; the Gallant
Officer was not, however, considered to be in any
danger.

from the scarcity of supplies, and in the latter from
the cause above-mentioned.
Since the departure of last mail money has con-
tinued very abundant; in fact, we never knew it
more so ; and in the absence of better employment. for
it, capitalists have been investing largely in the Five
per Cent. open Loan. Thore has been little cluing
in the other descriptions of Government paper. In
Bank shares we have no great change to report.
Holders are, generally speaking, very firm, but there
being few buyers, transactions are few and far be-
tween. There seems however to be more confidence
in our joint•stock banks now than there has been for
a long time past, and we hope nothing may occur to
destroy this feeling.
Piece Goods—Very little business has been done
in any kind of cotton piece goods since the departure
of last mail, the dealers having before that time pur-
chased largely, and been unable to get their stocks off
their hands owing to the very stormy weather which
prevailed. Luckily the arrival of further supplies
from home during the fortnight has been light, the
Lascar and Ontario being the only vessels which have
entered port since last report. Some few descriptions
of goods in the gray are scarce and inquired for, such
as jaconets of allLdescriptions, and shirtings of 40 and
45-inch widths. The sales of these have been to the
extent of 5,800 and 2,500 pieces, at prices varying
from lir. to 2r. 7.16, and 4r. 11-16 to: 6r. 1-16 per
piece respectively. Gray domestics have been sold to
the extent of 2,240 pieces, at 7ir. to 11r. per piece.
Of gray longcloths, 1,740 pieces have been sold at
4ir. per piece, a slight reduction on former prices.
Stocks of gray madapollams are large, and prices
have somewhat gone down. 7,600 pieces have been
disposed of at 2ir. to 2r. 10a. Op. per piece. Bleached
jaconets, medium qualities, are much wanted. 1,300
pieces have been sold at 3r. 3 16 to Or. per piece.
Bleached shirtings of the higher qualities are inquired
for, while the lower are dull. 3,000 pieces have been
sold at 4r. 7-16 to Or. 7-16 per piece. 1,000 pieces
bleached madapollams, at Sr. 7-16 to 32r., have been
disposed of.
Cotton Yarn—ln mule twist sales to the extent of
342 bales, and in water to the extent of 105 bales,
have been made during the fortnight, the former at a
slight advance in price for No. 30 to 70, No. 20 being
in better demand, though the price remains unaltered.
There being large stocks of the latter on hand, prices
of No. 20 and 30 have somewhat receded, while the
value of No. 40 is as before. In dyed yarns we
have only heard of two sales, one of 16 bales orange,
No. 30 and 60, to 120, and another of 50 bales, No.
40 to 50, at 121 per lb.
Ball Thread— 2,8801 b. at 12ia. per lb., have been
disposed of.
Woollens—The prices of cloth and flannels remain
steady, but we have not heard of any sales.
Metals—The only sales of metals during the fort-
night have been these in copper. The prices of
brasiers and sheathing have declined, while that of
nails has improved. The value of British iron, nail-
rod, hoop, and bar, has also increased, while that of
Swedish steel has receded.

Beer—Only one sale of 105 hhds. of Allsop's has
been effected at 60r. per hhd., aad our quotations may
be considered nominal.

Spirits—Both brandy and gin are dull of sale.
Marine Stores—Pew transactions. Canvas, paints,
spirits of turpentine, and linseed oil thin. Cordage
in better demand, at a slight advance in price.
Cochineal—No sales reported. Oar quotation is
readily obti-inablefor good r.ilvcr.

Saffron—None in first hands, and in much inquiry.

EXPORTS.

Cotton Wool—Last accounts from home have
caused a further advance in prices, purchases of
2,100 bales of Dhollera and 1,000 bales of Broach
having been made since yesterday ; the former at
99kr. to 100 r., the latter at 91ir. per candy. The
market continues rather bare, but large supplies may
now speedily be looked for. Upwards of 500 can-
dies which had been shipped at Compta for Bombay
were destroyed in that port by a storm of the 17th
ult., ls of the vessels on board of which it had been
embarked having been driven on shore and wrecked.
Last advices for the Canton market for this staple are
also favourable.

Opium—Little doing, and prices nomivally some-
what lower than at last report—viz., 1,325.1% per chest
The produce of next season's crop in Malwa will, it is
said, be somewhere about 22,000 chests.