The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-21 00:00:00

CANTON MARKET, MAY 20.

Quotations for imports are duty paid, and when not
otherwise specified, the full cargo or shopman's price is
named, which is subject to 5 per cent. discount for cash
in two months, or 7 per cent. for payment in 10 days.

IMPORTS.

The import market has continued during the month
in the same dull state as before, and prices have gene-
rally declined.
CANTON.—SaIes daring the month have been made to
a very trifling extent; only a few hundred bales having
gone into second hands at about the following quota-
tions:—Bombay, 6 dolls. 6c. to 8 dolls. 6c.; Bengal and
Madras, 7 dolls, 6c. to 8 dolls. Bc. taels for cash in two
months.

MONTHLY STATEMENT OF STOCK AND DELIVERIES.
Imptd. Delvd. Stocks same periods.

1847. 1846. 1845.
Bombay, bales 3,787 4,100 17,865 30,576 26,343
Bengal „ 416 2,330 3,643 3,310 5,104
Madras „ none 718 3,478 3,160 27,812
American „ none none 1,567 1,851 none
Shanghae „ 880 691 780 none none

6,083 7,902 27,332 38,897 59,259
Cotton Yarn—But little business has been done.
Quotations for cash in two months :—Nos. 16 to 24, 29
to 31 dolls.; 26 to 32, 32 dolls. to 34 dolls,; 34 to
42, 35 dolts. to 37 dolls,
Long Cloths—There have been but few sales, and
these at reduced rates in barter for produce. Greys may
be quoted 2 dolls. 40c. to 2 dolls. 90.. for 60s. up to 725.
and whites, 2 dolls. 70c. to 3 dolls. 25c.
American Goods—Sales have been made to a small
extent ; the present quotations are the same as last
month-2 dolls. 50e. to 2 dolls. 60c. for drilling, and 2
dolls. 55c. to 2 dolls. 65c. for sheetings.
Long Ells-111-1 Scarlets are worth 11 dolls. to 11
dolls. 50c.; other colours about the same as before.

Spanish Stripes—The presant not being the season,
prices have declined; they may be quoted from 1 doll.
10c. to 1 doll. 25c. per yard.
Carrilets may be quoted as before, 19 to 22 dolls.; few
or none have been sold.

Iron has declined ; a small parcel of nail -rod and bar
has been sold at 4 dolls.

Tin Plates—No transactions; 7 dolls. to 7 dolls. 50c.
Rattans are excessively dull, the best Banjarmassing
not being worth more that 3 dolls. 20c. duty paid; Straits,
2 dolls. 80c.; and Water, 2 dolls.
Pepper remains about the same as last quoted; holders
appear inclined to hold. The quotation is 5 dolls. to 5
dolls. 50e. duty paid; but we hear of no transactions.
Rice—The weather having become favourable for
the coming crop the price has given way materially ;
Arracan is 1 doll. 30c.; Manila and Java, 1 doll. 60c.,
for good cargo.

Putchuck:—Dull, at 7 dolls. 50c. to 8 dolls. duty paid.
Cloves—Maintain themselves at 35 dolls. duty paid.
Opium—Malwa,;the clearances are small; the stock is
moderate owing to the large quantities sent northward;
in the expectation of heavy arrivals holders anxious to
to realise, and the price for the best is 540 dolls., with a
month's credit. Bengal, the clearances have been very
considerable, and leave a very moderate stock; the
scarcity of money, combined with the falling due of
some time bargains, has caused prices to become unduly
depressed. To-day's rates are :—New Patna, 627 dolls.
50c.; old ditto, 625 dolls.; new Benares, 622 dolls. 50c.;
Turkey has been in good demand, and has advanced to
390 dolls.

EXPORTS.

Teas—The transactions during the month have been
limited, say 15 chops Congou at 11 to 18 taels on board;
2,000 chests Pekoe at 16 to 25 taels; 2,500 half-chests
plain Orange Pekoe at 12 to 17 taels; 4,000 ten-catty
boxes plain Caper at 9 to 12 taels; 10,000 chests Twan-
kay at 13 to 30 taels; 1,000 chests Hyson at 27 to 45
taels; 2,500 chests Young Hyson at 19 to 35 taels; 500
packages Moyune Gunpowder and Imperial at 13 to 30
taels; also 8,000 chests Canton Young Hyson at 11 to
14 taels; and 4,000 chests ditto Imperial and Gun-
powder at 17 to 22 tads.
The stock remaining unsold presents little to select
from, and consists of 50 chops Congou, 20,000 chests
Twankay, 2,000 chests Hyson, and 2,500 chests young
Hyson and 2,500 chests Gunpowder and Imperial, be-
sides a large quantity of Canton-made.
Advices have been received from the tea districts;
the crop is represented as large, and the price moderate.
It is said that no Plain Caper nor Plain Orange Pekoes
will be brought down this year. The first Moning
Congou is expected in the course of a month.

SLK.—About 100 bales Tsatlee have been sold during
the month at 400 dolls., leaving 600 bales Tsatlee and
200 ditto Taysaam still unsold. The crop of Canton
has proved very short, and the article must continue
high.

SUGAR.—No. lis quoted 6 dolls. The Teentsien
junks are likely to want large quantities next month.

FREIGHTS.
Cl. per ton is the current rate to England.
EXCHANGES.
4s. 30. to 4s. 4d. for bills on England at six months'
sight; the former is the Oriental Bank rate. Accepted
Company's bills on Bengal sold at 212 rs.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen will hold a Privy Council to-morrow
(Thursday) afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. The
Council will be held at three o'clock.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by his
Royal Highness Prince Waldemar of Prussia, and at-
tended by his Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen, his
Serene Highness Prince Lowenstein, Baron de Laner,
Count Oriole, and Count Groeben, and also by the
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Royal suite, visited and
inspected Carisbrook Castle on Monday afternoon.
His Royal Higb ness Prince Albert, and his Royal High-
ness Prince Waldemar of Prussia, left Osborne at half-past
eleven o'clock yesterday morning, to embark in the Fairy,
for the purpose of visiting Spithead. The Prussian Minis-
ter, Prince Lowenstein, Baron de Laner, Count Oriole,
and Count Groeben accompanied their Royal Highnesses.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the
Princess Helena, took their usual airings yesterday
morning, on the sea beach.
The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester
House.
Mr. Sergeant Murphy had an interview with Sir G.
Grey yesterday, at the Home-office.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England
held_na
I special general meeting yesterday, at their office,
1 Whitehall-place.
The Lords of her Majesty's Most HonourahiecPnrivy
Council had a meeting yesterday in the Councilr ationamo-f
ber, to hear counsel fur anal against the con
certain Acts of Naturalisation passed inwetrhee
tlhselanLdnrodf
Jersey, in 1829. The. Lc.;
President, the Lord Privy esal,P the Secretary of State
for the Home Department, and the Chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster.

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SALE OF PROPERTY BY AUCTION..--CAUTION.—
In the case of Robinson v. Wall, the printed conditions
of sale having stated that the property would be sold
without reserve, which means that " no person will be
employed to bid in behalf of the vendor for the purpose
of keeping up the price," whereas an arrangement
existed which would have prevented a sale under a cer-
tain amount; the Lord Chancellor has decided that.
dthe
purchaser cannot be called on to complete.— The Iptil eA
ET*ER.—On Tuesday morning, an Englishman
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named Johnson, employed on the Rouen
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from a
Railroad, in attempting, at Malaunay,
them, and lite] nearly the whole of
one
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to the hospital,
waggon at rest to one which
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performed without the patient
amputation was found neeessar yth.geOenffatehoitss
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but when he recovered his
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CALEDONIAN RAIL WAYTWO* . fr

(Fr,,t the l'aifway any SZ7pping Journal.)
The works oil the Caledonian e(Nei-where
h,ing F:rostatt,A iti a rrteA-vig,orou3 manner.. On the
Glastlow cittin line—from the kr:re:ion with the Wishaw
and Coltness'way, a distance of 35 miles, to the sum-
mit near Elvanhead..-61.01 prt'etess has been made as
leaves no doubt or this prtion being in a state to open
for traffic in the course of the year, with two months to
spare. The greatest activity prevails ; at the heavy
points two sets or shifts of workmen are constantly em-
ployed.
Near Carluke are the two deep ravines of Garion Gill
and Carluke Burn, over each of which the railway is
carried by embankments 80 feet in height. Such works
are always tedious of execution. Th,,,se embankments
were closed, to have a road over, on Ist July. The rock
cutting at Cieghorn is in active progress, and a road at
the proper level tray be expected through it in the mid-
dle of August. Over the Mouse Water will be a hand-
some stone viaduct of five arches, each forty feet span;
nearly the whole of the stone is on the ground, and the
workmen engaged in building the arches. Over the
light part of the works the permanent way is laid. An
excellent material for ballast is found in the furnace slag
of Shotta Iron Company, a communication to which is
formed by a temporary railroad.
Near Carstairs the earth work is nearly finished.
To wards Thankerton the heavy embankment at Grange
will, the contractors aro sanguine, be close in August;
as also, at same time, a road through ;
Liggetfoot excava-
tion. On each side of Thankerton a considerable
length of permanent way is laid. A tlp, short distancthe south of the village the main
high monnds of sand and gravel (the niteaipoiasssoesr
the throughpea-
santry);- santry);. this is the very best material for ballast. With
so much permanent road ready, a locomotive engine
would now be most useful and is daily expected, to drag
the gravel from these kaims, north and south, to less fa-
voured localities.

Towards Abington, near Leamington Bridge, the Clyde
is crossed by a timber viaduct. This in course of erec-
tion—the principal timber being all on the ground.
South of this the work is light, the excavations nearly
finished, and the material proper for ballast.
At Crawford the formidable whinatone cutting through
the village is being executed in good earnest. It is quite
expected to have a road through in August. South from
this, over the Newton meadows, is the largest unfinished
embankment on the division; but a large portion being
from convenient side cutting, the completion in proper
time may be considered safe.
A very large quantity of work has been executed in
the last month—the weather being favourable, and work-
men by no means scarce.
The enterprising contractors evince their high spirit,
as also sound judgment, at this period of the summer, by
bringing at once additional horses, when two shifts of
workmen are required on the works. The services of
these useful animals must, however, soon be at a discount
for the purposes of the Caledonian Railway.