The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-21 00:00:00

FREIGHTS.

...___.
£ Xs.
To London, por ton ~, . sto 5 5
~,
To Liverpool, per ton ..
.
5
To China, per candy ... ••• ••• Is rupees.
.
EXCHANGES.
London, at six months' sight, per R. Is. 101 d. to ls. 10:d
at two months' sight, do. Is. 10d.
at one months' sight, do. Is. 94d.
tat6o3odalasy's'
dragons, each 1.. 100 sight ... ... •••
Calcutta, at 60 days' sight, per 100 rupees 99 to 991
; 100 tolas
sight, per 100 rupees 99-1 to 99
Madras,
s a,
Calcutta, at 30 dpapyeerssrgl
100
oh
PRICES •F BULLION.
..•
21101Grr.. 31
a3.a.
11r. 2a.
Sovereigns each
•• ••• •••
to , per 100 1.. p. an. d.0..115. 214 rupees.
„
Bank of England notes, per X ••• ...
222 i
suS3pe,carenmeisashnildevreoorll,warpnses,
...
... 1025-103
Gold leaf, per tola (range of quality) ••• 16:— 171
BANK SHARES.
Bombay Bank ••• . 36r. per cent. pm.
Oriental Bk., I,ooor. each (500 paid up) 20r.
Commercial Bank . , • 5Ar.
Agra Bank ••
... ••• •_ •••
Bank of Madras i
(500 r.) 394 r.
•,,
(1,000 r.) 13r.
GOVERNIIENT SECURITIES.

Five per Cent. Transfer Loan Rupees.
109
par ... 100
Four per 100 sicca
Five per Cent. Loan, 1825-26 ... 104 ... 100
104 ... 100
Fire per Cent.cent. Loan, 11882392:g ---
100
Four per Cent. Loan, 1835-36 17 100Co.'s.
per Cent. Fire
per
Cent
Loan,
8
Loan, 1842 -43 ... 87i . . 100

(From the Gentleman G
s azette.)
'
that and tli
others °
The disastrous intelligence received by the last mail
has, as might be expected, produced the utmost dis-
trust and alarm'. Native merchants are entirely at a
very
must necessarily follow.
ust
loss to understand the nature of such enormous failures
magnitude of which
Should this impression, however prove erroneous, it is
not thought that Bombay will be implicated to any se-
rious extent, there. being but three or four of these un-
fortunate houses which have much connexion with it ;
lead to have
t() t the beenc onrcelpuosioteild
and sanguine hopes are entertained that one of these, the
largest in amount, will, the case of Messrs. Sanderson
and Co.,be found perfectly solvent, and be speedily enabled
to resume their hitherto high position in the mercantile
world. The arrival of the next
mail, expected about
the 26th, is looked for with. intense anxiety. The results
of these extensive failures is depression of exchange and
tightness of money. ;. besides forcing into the market
considerable quantities of goods, which have been
parted with at a great reduction on former prices.
Such at present is the degree of alarm prevalent,
that none but bank bills, and those chiefly at short dates,
can in any way be negotiated. There is one somewhat
singular feature attending this unprecedented panic ;
there is not one instance of the stoppage of a regular
bank, and this induces a hope that, in the fearful list,
many, indeed a large majority, will
be found to be in
such a state as may warrant their bankers assisting
them out of their difficaltie7, and at such a crisis it may
well become the Bank of England to act a more liberal
part than we have by the last mail received accounts of.
tinder all the circumstances, it will readily be con-
ceived that legitimate business transactions are now, and
must probably .
, remain for some time to come, under a
cloud, the clearing of which from the mercantile horizon
may hereafter not improbably lead to brighter prospects
as may
as India is concerned.
The mail which left on Saturday morning took a
large amount of bills, duplicates of which leave this day,
and will in all probability arrive at the same time as
the originals. In a case like the present, wheni there is
increased risk of accident on the other side, t might