The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-02 00:00:00

MADRAS.

There has been a violent storm at Madras, which has
slightly damaged some of the shipping in the roads. The
greater portion, however, have escaped without injury.
The Isadora was totally wrecked in a severe gale at
Vizagapatam on the 18th of May.
A Court-martial has sat to inquire into a charge pre-
ferred against Lieutenant-Colonel Smith, of the 2d Light
Cavalry, relative to official complaints made by him to
the Brigadier commanding the Hydrabad subsidiary
force, of the conduct of the Paymaster of that force in
the distribution of certain Government lottery tickets.
Lieutenant-Colonel Smith was honourably acquitted of
the charge, and the proceedings of the Court-Martial
have been confirmed by the Commander-in-Chlek
ANOTHER MURDER ON BOARD A CONVICT SUM—The
brig Freak. which left Bombay for Singapore some short
time since, has been cut off in the Surat passage, and her
captain and chief mate murdered by a party of convicts
(forty-five in number) which she had on board. There
was, as usual, no guard. The murderers are in custody,
at Penang.
The system prevailing in Bombay of allowing convict
transports to leave the port without a guard, cannot be'
enough censured. It is the province of the ship to take
precautions for the security of the convicts, and Govern-
ment might easily frame a regulation prohibiting such
vessels from proceeding until the necessary arrangements
had been made. A mere dash of the pen would prevent
all these horrors, and yet nothing is done. The moral
responsibility rests with the Government.
Loss OF THE BRIG AGRA.—This vessel, from the
Mauritius, was wrecked off Point Palmyras on the 22d
May, and the captain, crew, and passengers, left her in
the long boat and jolly boat the ensuing morning. The
chief mate, three of the crew, and two Malabar passen-
gers, who proceeded in the latter, met the Col. Newall
two days afterwards, and were taken on board. Of the
other boat, which contained the captain, nine of the
crew, and two European and two native passengers, no-
thing whatever has been heard, and great apprehension
exists for her safety, as it was bad weather which caused

the two boats to part company.
WRECK OF THE FERGUSON.- —The Ferguson, bound
for Madras, and having on board a detachment of her
Majesty's sth Regiment, was stranded on the grand bar-
rier Reef, Torres Strait, on the 27th of April last. She
was soon abandoned, and the officers, troops, and crew,
were put on board the Marquis of Hastings and Orient,
which then sailed for Capang for the purpose of obtain-
ing supplies. No lives were lost.
A statement to the above effect was found deposited in
a chest on Booby Island, where the Berkshire touched,
on the 6th of May.
MADRAS MARKETS. .

COTTON.—The Market for this article remains without
change, and we have not heard of any recent transac-
tions of consequence in Tinnevelly Cotton. In Western,
purchases of what comes to Market are being made at
Rs. 44 and 46 per Candy.
INDIGO.—The sales Knee our last have been confined to
a few parcels of fine Kurpah at our quotations; in other
descriptions there is little doing, and the supplies in the
Market are small, of good quality.
DIETALS.—We have to notice the following transac-
tions :-100 Candies assorted Iron, at Rs. 24 to 25 per
Candy ; 50 ditto Tile Copper at Rs. 245 do. ; 50 ditto
Sheet do., at Rs. 275 to 280 do. ; 45 do. Pig Lead, at Rs.
48 do. ; 10 Bottles Quick Silver, at Rs. 59i per Maund ;
100 Boxes Tin Plates, 221 per Box.
GRAIN AND PIECE GOODS.—Our quotations for these
goods are the same as before, and we have no change to
notice in them.
EUROPE ARTICLES.—The sales since our last have been
very limited, and there is a general depression in the de•
mend for Imports ascribable to the scarcity of Money.

MONEY MARKET.
SOVEREIGNS.—The demand for these at present is
limited. The value may be quoted at Rs. 10 12 to 10
3 each.
BILLS ON ENGLAND.—We have none to report under
this head. Exchange quoted at 1 111 to buy, and 2
1 to sell.
GOVERNMENT PAPERS.—The Value of the old loans is
still nominal, and there do not appear to have been any
transactions therein sufficiently large to establish a fixed
rate for them. In the New Five per Cent. Loan invest-
ments are being made very slowly, and in all do not this
time amount to 14 Lacs.

FREIGHT.
To LONDON.—Porto Novo Iron, 15s. per ton of 20
cwt. Dead weight, 3/. 10s., light goods, 5/. 55., cotton,
4/. 4s. per ton of 50 cubic feet.
BOMBAY.
The steam frigate Auckland, bringing the London
mails of the 4th of May, arrived on the morning of. the
6th inst. ; thus thirty-three days only were occupied
between London and Bombay.
The south-west monsoon has set in generally through-
out the presidency.
I alluded in my last communication to an unfortunate
accident which befel the Donna Pascoa, a fine new ship,
as she was proceedinm6 out of the harbour, bound for Cal-
cutta. The result has been her total loss. The heavy
rolling of the vessel rendered it necessary to cut away
her masts, and the leak increased to such an extent that
she became water-logged, and utterly unmanageable. In
this state she drifted, during the night, over to the oppo-
site coast, and grounded on a sand bank. Here, in a
short time, she was an entire wreck. The hull was sold
for 9,000 rupees, but the monsoon having set in it could
not be floated off, and the purchaser must have been a
loser by the speculation.
Another vessel has gone to pieces on the S.W. Prongs,
the scene of the wrecks last year. The Memnon, which
left Bombay for Liverpool on the Ist instant, having
sprung her topmast during some boisterous weather, was
returning to this port, when, on the evening of the 11th,
about eight o'clock, she ran aground close to the light-
house. The weather was fine at the time.
This accident must, I think, be altogether attributed
to gross and culpable carelessness on the part of the
captain, who, it is said, was disputing with his mate as
to the right course when the vessel struck.
Some apprehensions have been excited for the safety
of the Buckinghamshire, from the fact of a bale of
cotton having been picked up by the Westmoreland,
which was identified by the shipper as a portion of
the cargo of that vessel, and a great number more
having been seen floating around. When the
Buckinghamshire left this (on the Ist of June) she
had a quantity of cotton lying about her decks, and
there is nothing more likely than that, meeting
with bad weather, it was thrown overboard to facilitate
the management of the ship. That she is safe, cannot
be reasonably doubted ; for had she gone ashore, intima-
tion of the disaster would long ere this have reached
Bombay ; and, had she foundered, portions of the wreck
must have been seen by some one of the numerous ves-
sels that have subsequently arrived.
The Rev. Michael Antoine de St. Louis Gonsagoa,
Roman Catholic Vicar-General of Bombay, has been
committed to prison for solemnising a marriage in con-
' tempt of an order of the Supreme Court..
0. P. Q. IN THE EAST.
P.S. 1, forgot to mention in connection with
China affairs, that a report was brought by the last over-
land mail that Sir Henry Pottinger had been appointed
to supersede Captain Elliot as Plenipotentiary. To this,
credit has been pretty generally attached, but as nothing
positive is known, I shall abstain from commentary for
the present.
Calcutta papers just received contain nothing of im-
portance. The Englishman intimates the intended de-
parture of the young King of Joannah for the Mauritius,
to the Government of which colony his case is referred
by Lord Auckland.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
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