The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-22 00:00:00

TRADE WITH CHINA.

There have just been presented to the House of Com-
mons, in pursuance of their order of January 22, returns
of the trade of the various ports of China, down to the
latest period (in continuation of the returns laid before
Parliament during the last session). These returns oc-
cupy some 150 closely-printed folio pages, and contain
reports upon the several ports for 1845 and down to the
middle of last year. The following is an interesting te"
bular statement, giving a comparative view of British
trade at the five ports of China during the year 1845:
Ports of trade. Imports. lixports.
Canton £2,321,692 £4,392,270
Amoy
Foochewfoo 43,981
Ningpo 10,398
Shanghae 1,082,107

Total £3,605,772 £5,824,717
Victoria, April 28, 1846.
The following is a despatch from Consul Macgregor
to Sir John Davis, relative to the British trade at Can'
ton for the half-year ending 30th of June, 1845 :
Sir—l have the honour of transmitting to your EX
cellency returns, illustrative of the British trade at this
port for the half year ending the 30th of June, viz.:-
Ist. A return of the quantities of merchandise im-
ported in 68 British vessels, of 30,343 tons, and in 47
Hong-kong lorchas, of 2,829 tons, showing an aggregate,
value as regards British manufactures and produce, 0'
2,162,632 dolls. and productions of India and other
countries of 2,002,979 (lolls. making the total of impor-
tation during the half-year 4,165,611 dolls. at 4a. 2d.,
equal to 867,8331. sterling. This amount does not, how-
ever, include the quantities imported, from Macao ie
Portuguese lorchas, nor any others but those that have
been reported through this consulate and actually paid
duty.
2d. A return of the quantities of merchandise exported
during the same period in 77 British vessels, of 35,242
tons, to the value of 7,917,200 dolls., or 1,649,4161. stg.,
which amount likewise only includes those articles which
have paid duty.
3d. A statement of the tonnage dues and import and
export dutics paid upon British shipping during the same
period, and amounting in all to 973,406 dolls. or 202,7934
sterling.
A comparison of the above mentioned returns with
those of the corresponding period of 1844 yields the
following results :

Ad. 17 The former show a decrease in the importation
of British manufactures and produce to the amount of
425,657 dolls., and in that of the productions of India,
and other countries of 129,718 dolls., being a total defi-
ciency of imports, upon the half-year ended the 30th of
June, 1845, of 655,375 dolls.

Ad. 2. A decrease is apparent in the value of exports
to the amount of 797,943 dollars.

Ad. 3. A corresponding deficiency, amounting. to
140,622 dells. occurs in the duties levied upon the British
trade during the past half-year.
To account for this apparent decrease in our trade of
the first half-year, I will only remark generally, that
owing to over-importation in 1844, the stock of Euro-
pean goods on hand at the commencement of the present
year was unusually heavy, in consequence of which ship'
meats to this port became less frequent, and prices de-
clined on an average 10 per cent.
The diminution in the amount of exports must be
chiefly attributed to two of the most important articles,
namely tea and raw silk, having
been shipped fromShanghae to a much greater extent in the past half-yamthan in the corresponding period of 1844. a
The deficiency in the aggregate amount of duties levied
in the British trade seems to require no further explans-.
tion, it being naturally dependent upon the fluctuation a
commerce, and I therefore confine myself to stating that
the number of British arrivals from the Ist of January t°
the 30th of June, of the present year, amount to 75
ships, of 32,487:13 tons, against 91 ships of 40,6641 WWI
which were reported inwards at this o'ffice during the
corresponding period in 1844.
I ate happy to add, in conclusion, that the eon:la:Ai;
ties which remained on hand at the commencement
the year having since been disposed of by shipments to
Shanghae and Amoy, and cotton manufactures bent
cheaper now in the home markets than they have bee;
for some time, there is a fair prosp 11'
ect of a brisk trade at
Canton during the ensuing season, the more so as tom''
and oth-r China produce seem to come in freely from the
in ter or
i of the country.
It appears from various of the returns that the follow'
ing are the amounts of British import and export tract:
at the several ports during the half-year ending Jl3ll
30, 1846 :
Shanghae—lmports, 440,994/. ; exports, 456,965 L
Ningpo—lmports, 1,725/. • exports, 4,5061.
Fouchow—Consul Alcock states •that there was an
" absence of all foreign trade at this port during thebalf.
year ending 30th June" (1846).
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business, was unable to forward the returns from this
port at the time the others were made.

EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE DI '1 •
RESPECTABLE FEMALE.—On Sunday afternoon between the •
hours of two and three o'clock, the neigbourhood Of Mi_tl2-
chester.square was thrown into a state of considerable au"
and excitement in consequence of the following extraordi-
nary attempt at suicide made by a highly respectable female
whilst labouring under some temporary mental aberration.
It appears that the unfortunate victim, named Fanny Richey,
aged fifty-six, had for some months past resided at No. 19,
Henrietta-street, Manchester-square, and was somewhat re-
markable for her eccentric ways and habits, though it was
little suspected that she was of unsound mind. At eleven in
the morning she was in conversation with the landlady, after
which she retired to her apartments at the upper part of the
house, and at the period specified above she deliberately pro-
ceeded to the roof of the house by means of a small ladder
and at once precipitated herself into the street. She fell in
a diagonal direction, and lodged upon the area rails, her
clothes having caught, and thus the unfortunate creature
miraculously escaped an instantaneous death. The occur' :
rence was seen by several persons passing by at the tun
and police-constable 109, D division, states that her dra e:
l
caught on to the spikes of the rails, so as to break the
otherwise she must have been killed on the spot. The unfor-
tunate creature was then conveyed in a cab to the Middlesex
Hospital, and Mr. Dickson, the house surgeon, ascerteM,
that she had sustained, besides a dreadful wound on
hoped 7
head, some severe internal injuries, so as to leave little
of her ultimate recovery. She is unmarried, and very 7
spectably connected.
A THIEF SHOT.—A party of gipsies having lUtenl
pitched their tents in the neighbourhood of GrerePeti,lej
one of them, following the occupation of a tinkerlti
of
on Mr. Richard Murton a farmer in the p
Cuby, on Tuesday week, and inquired if he- part
andtitre
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kettles, pots, pans, or old bellows to he
.12 that
He was told they had none of those
required mending. Outside the house,ar
this, it
was a large brass pan, with water in R ;
andb
fore he
appears, the tinker took good notice of e
• between
left the premises..• On Wednesday morning, od
three and four o'clock. the farmer's son was awake _
tichowever,
by the barking of their dog. He looked out from
the window, and saw a man who had a largp g
with him. He called to his father, who told him to
see who the man was. Without putting on anything
except his hat, he took a loaded gun, and ran out
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thief, and after running across two fields overtook him,
and ordered him to carry back the pan to the plaee vrbence
he took it. The fellow refused, but Mr. Murton insisted
on " if you don't I will
firehaitsytoauk.i'n' taking
rka thefew pan,mo saying,r words, the thief took up the
pan and carried it part of the way back, but then again Put
it down, swearing that he would go ao further with it.
The farmer's son said he should, and upon thikt they had
another altercation, until at length the fellow produced a
hammer, and threatened to knock Mr. Murton's brain.
out, if he did not let him go. Murton still insisted on the
pan being carried all the way back, and some more word'
followed, when, for his own defence, and to sPeure the
rogue, Mr. Murton fired his gun, and shot off pot of the,
calf of one of the fellow's legs. He instantly fell, see
Mr. Murton, after examining the injury that had been
done, ran in to tell his father and brother. They came
out and carried the wounded thief into the house, gars
him breakfast, and afterwards placed him is a cart' and
took him before Mr. G. W. F. Gregor, a Pie'
gistrate for the county. Mr. Gregor was obliged
to come out into the yard to take the deposi-
tions of the witnesses, the man's leg being so bad that
he could not 'be removed from the cart. He was com-
mitted for trial, and taken on to St. Austa
but, coat-
plaining of his leg, he was examined by a surgeon, who
directed him to remain at St. Austell until he was in a fit
state to be removed. On Friday last, however, the pri-
soner's leg had become so much worse that, after 110
consultation among the surgeons. it was considered ne-
cessary to amputate the limb, which was done on the
same day at St. Austell.— West Briton.

BIRTHS.
On the 12th inst., the lady of Major T. 11. Ottley, Bombay
Army, of a son.
On the 15th inst., at Tharloe-square, the lady of Lieuteo
nant-Colonel G. Warren, of a daughter.
On the ICith inst., at Camberwell House, Surrey, the wife
of John H. Paul, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 17th inst., at Cheltenham, the lady of the Rev.
Hamilton Thompson, of a daughter.
On the 19th inst., at Eltham, Kent, the lady of the ROY
John 1. Plummer, of a daughter.
On the 18th inst., at Great James-street,
Bedford-row, the
lady of Montague Ormsby Cooper Es ri of a daughter.
On the 19th inst., at .Minerva-place, Kennington-Green,
Lambeth, the wife of Mr. J. Hawkins, of a daughte;rs. jobn
On the 19th inst., at Newton-road, 1.38P/114°1r'
Collins, of a son.
On the 17th inst., at Alscot-park, Gloucestershire, the 11187
of J. R. West, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 17th inst., at Wilton, Norfolk, the wife of the Ref'
W. H. Hanson, of a (laughter.
On the 18th inst., Mrs. Cherles Dickens. of
B $O,ll.
On the 18th inst., in Duke-street, Westminster,
ors
Brunel, of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the 17th inst., John Parker Bolding, Egq, of liamilt°ll.
terrace, St. John's-wood, to Mary, daughter of the late r•
Richardson, Esq., of Flatfield, Perthshire.
On the 17th inst., at St. George's Bloom/31)111'n Orr g°
Burrow Gregory, Esq., of Bedford-sq*are, to Maria '.1.!1;e41
Price, second daughter of R. Price, Esq., of Santiago,•

DIED.
On the Bth of February, at sea, on board the ship Welles.
ley, Sir Walter Scott, of Abbotsford, Bart., Lieutenant'
Colonel 15th, or King's, Hussars.
On the sth ult., at Montreal, Lower Canada, G. Ferguson
Esq , late Captain in the '23d lleiment, aged 83.
On the 16th inst., Mr. Daniel West, of Lidwells, in Gou
hurst, Kent, aged 73.
On the 17th inst., in Bedford-row, Henry Kensit,
On the 17th inst., at White House, Musselburgb, D. 1134-
ray, Esq., aged 74.
On the 19th inst., Rebecca, wife of Mr. Tubb, of Baguet-
court, Fleet-street. D
On the 19th inst., in Finsbury-circus, Thomas Bevan,

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