The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-10 00:00:00

LLO YD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY).

LONDON, OCT. 10. —Wind this day at noon, light
easterly airs, and fine weather.
DEAL Ocr 9.—Wind N.N.E.—Sailed the London,
Johnstone, for Demerara.
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 9.—Wind N.—Sailed the Colum-
bine, Blaney, for Jamaica; Abercrombie, Ewer, Deme-
rara ; Robert Pulsford, Prince, New Orleans ; Florida,
Moran, arid Robert Watt, Johnson, Charleston ; New
Brunswick, Watson, Savannah ; Thomas P. Cope, Murc-
ken, Philadelphia ; Liverpool, Graves, and Aderondack,
Hackstaff, New York ; Peruvian, Gwatkin, and Ayre-
shire, Mass, Africa ; Myrtle, Martin, Azores ;
Stone, Constantinople. Off port, Mischief, Cephalonia.
PLN MOUTH, OCT. 9.—Wind N. E.—Arrived the Strabo,
Shuth, from Richmond, United States, bound for Amster-
dam, very leaky.
PETERHEAD, Ocr. 7.—Arrived the Traveller, Simpson,
from Davies' Straits.

SUNDERLAND, OCT. B.—Sailed the Whitwell Grange,
Bertram, for Savannah ; and Andrew White, Clark,
Constantinople.
PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 9. —Wind R.N. E. to E.S.E.—
Arrived the Britons Queen, Valder, from Denia.
POOLE, OCT. 9.—Arrived the Juhn Thompson, Clark,
from Quebec.
FALMOCIEL OCT. B.—Wind E., fresh breezes.—Ar-
rived the O:ientai, steamer, from Alexandria—left 23d
ult., Malta 28th, and Gibraltar 31 inst., with mails from
India. Sailed Trefusis, M'Kinnon, Newfoundland. When
the Oriental steamer, left Malta, the mails from the
lonian Islands had not arrived. They would, therefore,
be brought to England by her Majesty's steamer Rhada-
manthus, expec!ed to leave Malta on the 29th ult.
HULL, OCT. 9. —The Providence, Jackson, for Singa-
pore, in going out of dock this morning, got on the east
bank of mud, in the basin, and will be got off on the flood.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY.—The un-
settled state of our political affairs influences our mar-
ket, which has been less steady this week than last, but
so far there is little change in prices. Holders, who
were looking for extreme rates previously,have accepted
offers which they had rejected, making a decline, in par-
tial instances, of id. per lb. There has been less inclina-
tion to purchase on speculation. 1'2.00 bales of Ame-
rican is all that has been taken for resale here, and
nothing for exports. To-day the demand is moderate,
and sales above 3,500 to 4,000 bags of all kinds.

LIVERPOOL. SHARE MARKET,- OCT. o.—Eastern
Counties, 9, ; South Western, 511.
Our Share Market still remains stationary, with re-
spect to the amount of business transacted, with a still
further tendency of prices to decline.
The steamer Leopold 11, which arrived at Leghorn
from Naples, and Civita-Vecchia, has brought intelli-
gence that at her departure from Naples, the Sicilian
squadron of twelve sail, were going to sail for Toulon.
Arrests still continue at Ancona, Romagne, Rome,
and Milan.
Arrivals this morning, French mail ; and the Ori•
ental, which sailed from Alexandria, Sept. 23 ; Malta,
Sept. 28 ; Gibraltar, Oct. 3. She brings the official
despatches from Sir Robert Stopford, Commander-in-
Chief in the Mediterranean. We have no ship letters.

THE FUNDS.

The British Market opened this morning with an im-
provement, owing to the intelligence from Paris being
of a more pacific nature, and a prevailing opinion in the
City that war will still be prevented.
Consols opened this morning at 87 to for the Ac-
count, left off 86, 1. At present the Market is not
quite so good, and they have receded to 86:k 87 for
the Account ; Exchequer Bills par, 2 prem. ; Bank
Stock, 165k1 1661 ; India Stock 244 246.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active left off
at present 221 ; Deferred 101 11 ; Passive
5-1-1 ; Portuguese 321; Three per Cents 211 ; Colom-
bian 21 22 ; Brazilian 73 75 ; Mexican nothing
done ; Dutch Two-and-Half per Cents. 481 49 ; Five
per Cents., 931 941.
SHARES.—Great Western Railway 16 to 18 prem. ;
London and Brighton 11i 4 dis. ; Blackwall 4 31 dis. ;
Birmingham 71 78 premium ; Southampton 511 52.1
per share ; Croydon 1011 111 per share ; Greenwich
6 7 per share.

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.

Bristol and Exeter........
Great Western

Ditto New ...
London and Birmingham
London and South Western
North Midland
South Eastern and Dover

50 26i...,. to 26
0

40
90 162.
38i 5l
100
23 -

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
National of Ireland

Provincial of Ireland
Union of Australia..

I 7 -
25 -
2L q.—.— 291 -

MINES.
Brazilian Imperial (at 51. pm. )
United Mexican (issued at _Wpm )
Ditto Scrip....

20
40
_

PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, OCT. 8.
3 per Cent. Consols
Three and Half Stock 95 Grand Canal Stock 164
Ditto Reduced
___

Ditto New, 183(1 ...... 96 Ditto 4 per cent
3& per Cent. Dcbs.
HALF- PA S T ONE.

In the recent Calcutta papers received, the following
letter is inserted from Candahar :—" Here we are all
sale in the Fort of Quettah, after having given the
enemy a thorough drubbing. I was away, or rather on
my return from Candahar with a wing of the regiment,
and arrived twenty-four hours after the attack had been
made on the cantonments here, when the enemy met
with a sad repulse, though only 220 were in the lines.
I marched 100 miles after receiving an express with
my detachment in three nights, crossed the Hojab pass
to Boat, which in my opinion is tqual to anything that
has ever been done in India.
The enemy were 1,000 in number ; 100 were killed,
and about 100 wounded.
Our troops, it will be seen from these passages, con-
tinue to sustain with the utmost vigour and success
the incessant assaults made upon them.
The British Funds, which were in the early part of
the morning improving, and reached 871 to 4 for the
Account, soon after declined to 861-, owing to several
sales being effected, caused by a report that the quarter's
revenue would be unfavourable, which we cannot as yet
trace to any authentic source, since which a re-action
has taken place, and Consols have again improved to
for the Account, caused by the arrival of the
pigeons with the French prices.
Consols may be quoted at present 87 for the Ac-
count, Money 861 ; Exchequer Bills, par, 2 prem. ;
Bank Stock for the opening, 166 ; India Bonds, 15
12 dis.
In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active not quite
so good as in the early part of the morning, when they
were 221, at present 2 ; Portuguese, 321 ; Colom-
bian, 21-1 22; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 49
481 ; Five per Cents., 941-
Shares—Bristol and Exeter, 261 26 ; Great Wes-
tern, 82 81 83 82 ; ditto, New, 461 ; Midland (North)
80. Little doing in the above market.
The French Funds were improving, according to the
pigeon express this morning.

STEAM COMMUNICATION.—The Steam ques-
tion has been again brought before the public at Calcutta,
at a meeting convened expressly to receive and consider
the communications which left London on the 4th of June,
to which considerable importance attached, as they com-
prised the specific modifications and resolutions adopted
by the Board of Directors of tile East India Steam Navi.
gatien Company, in the confident expectation of thereby
uniting all interests in India in the common cause. The
result of this meeting, which was held on the Ist of
August, may be briefly told. After an intfectual attempt
on the part of Messrs. Turton, Grant, Robby, and Col-
quhoun, the agitators of the Precursor Scheme, to re-
pudiate the measures which were submitted under the
plea of their not being sufficiently specific. resolutions
were passed, acknowledging, in the strongest terms, the
judgment, patience, and consideration, which the •sroceed.
ings of the London Board evinced—expressing the fullest
confidence in the Directors—and authorising the immediate
appropriation of all the funds which had been previously re-
mitted. They farther intimated that an union of the prin-
cipal patties had taken ph+ce, from which a vast accession
of subscribers might be expected, and recommended the
purchase or hire of a steamer, to occupy the line between
Suez and Calcutta—(a measure which had been already
anticipated, as the India steamer lest Plymouth, full of
passengers, on
.Sunday morning for Calcutta, for this pur-
pose—and the immediate supply of fuel to the depots.
The unequivocal and universal expression of opinion
upon the question induced the withdrawal from the
chair of Mr. Turton, who, with Messrs. Grant
and Colquhoun, retired from the Committee. The
official letters also announce the union of parties, and
remit a further sum of 7,0001 , on account of subscrip-
tions to Mr. Curtis's Company ; with the iutima-
tion on the part of no less than 70 of the principal firrns'
whose names are attached to a resolution that they pledge
themselves to support Mr. Curtis, to the fullest extent in
their power, in carrying out chat which they believe will be
the only measure of real and permanent benefit to the in-
teresis of all India._Extracted from No. V. of the In-
dian News.
Loss OF TIIE ROUEN MAIL.—M. Conte,
director of the post-office, has published a notice, on the
recent loss of the Rouen mail, to the following effect :
According to all appearances the box of the Havre mail
was opened between Ecouis and Pontoise, some of the
letters having been dropped on the road. Part of these
were afterwards found and brought to the office, but the
rest have not been discovered, notwithstanding the most
diligent search and inquiry. Thoso still missing are the
letters for Paris, put in at the post-offices of the follow-
ing places s—Bacquesille, Darnetal, Dieppe, Envermeu,
Grant Couronne, Longueville, Malounay, Rouen, Totes,
and Valmartin. All these letters must have been posted
on the Ist inst. The bag from Rouen, containing the let-
ters addressed to towns situated beyond Paris, remained in
the mailbox, and its contents have been forwarded to their
respective destinations. The postmaster adds, that he
hopes, from the active exertions making, tee lost letters
may be shortly recovered and delivered, but recommends
that in the meantime all merchants and others who had re-
mitted bills by that mail should take such means as duo
precaution dictates. Upwards of 600,000 f. worth of bills
arc said to have been contained in the Rouen bag alone.
The opera of Fra Diavolo in active re-
h.hc areal at Covent-garden Theatre. The principal parts
In the vocal department will be sustained by Mr. Harrison
and Mils Raintorth.