The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-23 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the New York Herald.)
NEW YORK, Aim. 2, P.M.—The steam ship Hibernia
arrived at Boston this forenoon, with five dloy s' later
news, which was telegraphed and published by the
He, at an early hour this forenoon, and had the
Met of depressing the markets for bread stuff.. During
:'Change sales of Genesee were made at .5 dolls. 50c: to
5 -dolls. 62fc.; of straight brands, Michigan, at 5 clidls.
25c.; and of Oswego, at 5 dolls. 87ic. There' were no
sales of wheat reported. It was said that the article
could have been bought for sc. less. Corn was also
lower. Sales of flat yellow were made at 62c.; of round
white, at 65c.; and sales of Western mixed were re-
ported at 60c. Before the new sales of flat yellow were
math; at 68c. For rye 81c. was offered, and 82c. asked.
Oats remained the same. In meal there was nothing
done'. 2 dolls. 50c. was offered, and 2 dolls. 75c. asked.
Provisions were firm, but no sales of moment transpired.
Groceries were steady, with moderate sales, at about
the current prices of last week.

RECEIPTS DOWN TEE HUDSON RIVER.
July 30. !July 31.
Flour 9,095 barrels Flour 13,222 barrels
Corn meal 1,676 do. Corn meal 200 do.
Corn
Wheat 10.212 do. Wheat... 4,977 do.

SINCE TIIE OPENING OF NAvIGATION TO AUGUST 1.
Flour 1.634.975 barrels Wheat... 1,260,934 bushel:-
Gul meal 9,690 do. Rye..... 45,543 do.
Corn 2J 80,834 bushels

Ashes—The sales of pots reached about 150 barrels at
4 dolls. 814 c. Small sales of pearls were made at 7
dolls.

Bread-tuff;—Fllur—Sales of 300 barrels Genessi-e
were sold at 5 tolls. 50c.; 200 ditto, at 5 dolls. 62ic.;
2,700 ditto, straight brands Michig,n, s,,ld at 5 dulls,
25c.; 400 ditto. at 5 dolls. 31j-c.; 300 ditto, Oswego,
sold at 5 dolls. 37 4c.; and 150 ditto, straight round hoop
Ohio. at 5 doles. 87ic.
Wheat—The market was unsettled by the news, and
it was considered some 4c. to sc. per bushel lower.
Corn—Before the news, some 4,000 to 5,000 bushels
flat mixed were sold at 68c. After the news came to
hand 4,000 bushels round white sold at 65c.; 3,400 ditto,
flat yellow, a little mixed, sold at 620., and sales of
Western mixed were reported at 60c.
Meal—Prices were unsettled. For Western New
York, 2 dolls. 50c. was offered, and 2 dolls 75c. asked.
Bye—lt was said 81c. was offered, and 82c. asked.
Oats remained nominally the same.
Cotton—The Ilibernia's accounts being favourable,
and the accounts from the south more uniformly unfa-
vourable for the growing crop, holders decided to de-
mand an advance to-day ou the ruling prices of Satur-
day, which was occasionally paid, and the markets swep•
off all offering at lower rates. The sales are reported
at 2 500 bales, but believed to be much larger, and were
nearly entirely for export.
Naval Stores—The market was unsettled, and no sales
were reported; dealers were wailing for letters per
Hibernia.

oils—Sales of linseed were light; city pressed stood
,at 70e. and English at 66c. There was nothing new in
•sperm or whale oil.
Provisions—Pork was firm, though sales were limited.
The 'foreign news unsettled the market, and no sales of
any moment transpired.
Riee—Since last report the salts have reached about
150 tierces, at 5 dolls. to 5 dolls. 7kc.
Freights-20,000 bushels corn •were engaged for
Liverpool, in bag,, at 10d., and 1,000 barrels flour at
3,. 6d., and 2,000 to 3,000 ditto in smother vessel at the

iqme rate& To London, 2,000 barrels -flour were en-
gaged at 3s. 9d. and a lot of grain, in bags, at 101 d. To
the continent there was no change.
LATEST MARKET, AVG. 3, half-past Two, P.M.

Cotton, 1,000 bales at steadyl)rices. -
Flour—Flat Ohio and Michigan, 5 dolls. 25c. sales ;
Oswego, 5 dolls. 50c. sales; prime Genessee, 5 dolls. 62c.
no sales, buyers stopping at and taking what they can
get at that.
Whear—Low samples 100 c. to 115 c.; prime Ohio is
held at 125 c.. and there is nothing worth much more.
Mesl-2 doll,. 50c. is the offer for Western New York;
no other here.
Rye and Barley about 80c. and 50c.; canal Oats sell
at 48c. by cargo.
Corn—The whole range is 60c. to 65c.; good western
mixed sells at 62c.; yellow, flat, and round, 65c.
'Provisions firm.
Turpentine, 2 dolls. 50c., nominal; spirits, 41c., in-
cluding the package; sales on the wharf, of tar, nt 2 dolls.
;a fair irb
Iduesm na
Ile.
sold
at
6i,
373 c. per barrel.
littlels.
tBoBc2b.Betitotce; dolls.
.7
Sterling,
Whshes,
iskey, 28c.
and the great drawers ask 6i, but do nut sell. Francs,
nominal.
Freigh:s steady.

The news per Hibernia reached BALTibIORE
here early this tore-
noon, and had the effect of completely unsettling the
market for breadstuffs, which had a downward tendency.
No sales transpired worth reporting. Our stock of flour
aud.grain is vocy.

Nothing doing in breadstuffps.
- • rrFlF,t-Leo, A
mar...ert . 2h, P.bM.een
entirely unsettled by foreign news. The receipts during
the preceding twenty four hours have been as follows :
PHILIDELPHIA., AIIG• 2.
The market is again completely unsettled by tne
news from Europe made public ft an early business
hour this morning.
200 barrels Western flow; told At--6.d0115. No ot-Ie
-for Pennsylvania brands, which are held at 6f dolls.
-Wheator
small 2, S
lotbushels,
o f
c102r5ne...
Cn
meal, dolls. 50c ; ryeY elflowur, 75c
yellow sanOical. No change
in cotton. Whiskey, 28e. Groceries and provisions
, nominal at Iliac'quotations. -
L Thy tyke of svocks were p inaipslly conlinva hate

--
securities ;his morning. Pennsylvania advanced with di*
first board, and sustain, d an .advance on last week*
prices at the close of the hoards. The sale, wer_
,o 211
.dolls. .Pennijlvania, b's ',"ca,h, 81 ; 1,000 dolls. United
State.' Treasury Notts, 105

.- . •
. ALBANY, AM. I.
Flour—Before the'stitaner, 150 barrels Genessee was
sold at 6 and, after
,n,.thing of importance done,
holders generally firm at 6 dolls. for Genesee', wad •
dolls. 75c. to a dolls. Vic for Western. Receipts are
very light, ani the home demand for a-me days being
good, 2,000 beshels oats sold at 48c., and 3,000 bushels
were offered et the same price.
CHABLErrox, JULY $l.
Cotton—The aggregate transactions of the week,
1,070 bales ; 'priees.itre firm, and the market closes at
the quotation's given in our report of the 24th instant.
Nothing has been done in 'the inferior qualities ; receipts
of the week 635 bales ; no sales of long cotton. Rice,
very quiet, offers for some 300 or 400 tierces, terms did
7 -1
ticronohuaNsingiedguweab.ryaegoFbsr.arkgeisiglnthhsltiairtseLolbniivaoeagrtvhsprinenotgl
not come up to the views of holders, only 46 tieroes
were sold at 4i dolls. per hundred. Exchanges.—No
equate and
o6af tonhl teßod. cotton
oston.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
wee
APa
had
oimri oy: rny
fay,o favours,
occasionr, Aug.t
ando2 .
find—w eI
faultt
hi
as a
d longwhiotphe timedthaemore
so
bestowal
i inmce.
partial tra had dawned on the administration of naval
af.ai r, when the present First Lord was appointed to
office. It is with extreme regzet e find ourselves
mistaken in our supposition, as the two promotions
which head the list below exemplify. We know
nothing of Captain Broun or Captain Clifford person-
ally, and the" World is equa'ly ignorant of the services
they may have performed to have entitled them to be
promoted over.the heads of so-many other deserving*
men. They may be good officers—assuredly are very'
fortunate ones—but where promotion can only be
obtained by death vacancies, certainly some more dis-
crimination than has been evinced in the cases under
notice ought to guide the nava; Commander-in-Chief
in his bestowal of rewards.- As parallels to the two
cases alluded to, we will just instance two unfortu-
nates on the per contrd side of Fortune's day-book.
Commander William Radcliffe (1830) of the Apollo
troop-ship, refitting in this haihour, and Commander
Arthur Morrell (1823) late of;. the Tortoise store and
guard ship at, and Governor of ,'the Island of Ascen•
sion. The former is a lieutenant of 1816, the latter a
lieutenant of 1809. In neither of the official re•
sources at the public disposal are any services what-
ever recorded of eitber of the officers yesterday
promoted from the rank of commander to that
of captain. Now look at the per contra
cases :—Commander Radcliffe entered the service
in 1809, served all the war ; was promoted
to the rank of Lieutenant for his gallantry at
Algiers ; served in the Tyne under Captain Goy.
don T. Falcon ; in the Hind, under the Hon. Captain
Rous ; in the Marten, Captain Henry Eden (now
private secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty);
and in the Undaunted, under Sir A. W. Clifford; in
the two latter as First Lieutenant. He was promoted
to the rank of Commander in 1830 ; has since been
very actively employed in the Apollo in various parts
of the globe, particularly at Monte Video, where the
Apollo landed her guns and her crew (in conjunction
with the crews of the Eagle and French steamer Ga-
zendi) by throwing up a battery, and defending the
east point of Maldonado for several days against a
strong force of Oribe's army. He (Commander Rad-
cliffe) also received a letter from the Lords of the
Admiralty, stating that they had recorded his services
in bringing the Apollo safely out of Waterloo Bay,
Cape of Good Hope, after losing all her anchors, in
consequence of tremendous " rollers" setting in,- the
ship, at the time, having her Majesry's 73d Regi-,
ment on board. He still, we believe, remains the
Senior Commander actively employed afloat. Captain
Clifford (promoted yesterday), was a Midshipman in
the Undaunted, his first trip to sea, when CommeiV•
der Radcliffe was first Lieutenant in the same ship.
He (Captain Clifford) appears in the .Navy List a
Lieutenant on the 7th of May, 1838 ; and Commander
on the 7th of March, 1842 ; and has been a short
time in the East Indies as Commander of the 16-gun
sloop Wolverine, recently paid off at Chatham. Cap-
tain Broun was First-Lieutenant of the same Un-
daunted in her next commission, after Commander
Radcliffe had been promoted; and has served a little
more than one year as Commander of the St. Vincent.
SenWieirthCormegmaarcindet°r oCforhamtandyeear M
r, in
,the
hell NlaB,
1723Ltishte,
his, if possible, is a more melancholy case than that
of the officer whose claims we have just recapitulated.
Re was mate of the Polyphemus, and commanded one
of her boats at the capture of a privateer off St.
Domingo, in 1808. Was Senior Lieutenant of the
Termagant, at the reduction of Genoa, and of the
Revolutionaire, and in command- of her boats, at the
capture of two piratical vessels. He subsequently
served in various parts of the world, and was, in De-
cember, 1844, appointed Governor of Ascension as a
permanency, but in less than two years from the
date of his appointment to that post was dispossessed
of it, and came home in the Hydra steam sloop sane
months since, after being pit "to' much expense is
sending for his wife and family out, and establishing
them at Ascension.

The Agincourt, 72, Captain Johnstone, flag of
Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, K.C.8., late
Commander-in-Chief on the China and East India
Station, arrived at Spithead at seven o'clock this
morning ; Sir Charles Ogle, the Commander-in-
Chief,
.being absent on leave, and his flag struck,
Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker, C. 8., the acting Com<
mander-in-Chief, who is junior to Rear • Admiral
Cochrane, had to salute that officer first, thus revers-
ing the usual order of that ceremony, although the
flag (blue) at the mizen of the Agincourt was neces-
sarily junior to the white one of Rear-Admiral Par,
ker. This- arose from the circumstance of Sir Thomas
Cochrane not having rec ivied any official in-
formation of his promotion from blue to white and
from the white to the red squadron of the fleet. As
he is now senior officer so long as he remains at this
port, Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker's authority as
Commander-in-Chief is superseded. The Agincourt
has been in commission five years and seven months,
and has of course been employed in all the operations
against the Chinese and the pirates of the coast.
Five years being the maximum time appointed for a
ship's term of commission on a foreign station, man,
of her crew who have been in her the whole term
will receive double pay for the overtime. The ship
is in splendid condition internally, but her
eoructwa•aart .
d
appearance resembles that of an immense m
man, on account of her fantastic port streak,been relieved
&h
c She
left Penang on the 14th of April, having
abtyldtlairerliv'eedrnaotn,ssirOn,onfla,sg of
Bay,
R Ceaarp-eAodfmiral I
Good
Hope,ngee
lfild,
on
the
id
sth of
utnes,
;osacileadpttahinencsetaon3,
niet,hefiag of 14th,leaving
the Rear-
Admiral Dacres, the Brilliant, 22, Captain Watson,
and the Rosamond steam-sloop, Commander Foote,
in the bay; arrived at St. Helena on the 24th of
tJhuen
Ne, s,at took in t
erw it
cb, water,Band
Commander
sailed o T 1.1
Francisthe 2 Bthß,
ileaving
t
anchor there; arrived at Ascension on the 3d of July,
the
1p Prometheusbw eSeen ~.
and sailed on the 4th for Spithead, leaving the Tor-
toise store and guard ship, Captain Hutton, and the
Kingfisher, 12, Commander Horton, the only men of
war there. The island was very healthy, oasis° was
St. Helena ; and the squadron, under Commodore Sir
Charles Hotham, employed on. the -root 17f .
the Agincourt,
Commanders Patey and Punter, of
as also
have come home in the ship on promotion,e. ro mender
Africa.
the following officers invalided
.si
on the
'Crotch, of tl-e Devastation
Bril-
liant, from the Cape; Mr. Dune t
n Lata--Ascen.ion a
coast of Africa; Dr. Thompson, 8.
of the Mai:Le..is...l' and Dr. Bender-
stlueariornsto-Lf ith, uetenan
ships of the East India Nue-
valids from the various
Sir Thinas Cochrane came into harbour by
Hender-
son, Assistant-Surgeon of the Vernon;V also. 80 in-
tdbreon Fire
Queen steam-yacht, Lieutenant-Commander
Johnson, arid landed 'at the Dockyard this afternoon.
The ship is ordered to Plymouth, to be paid off. The
admiral's effects have been taken out by the Echo
and landed here. The Agincourt brought mails from
ecHmoempl
landed here this morning.
:oafrpBra?vsOetdtotahntrsestiepnidythears2eoo.4
sh
ho
erTs horse=power,
this afternoon from the coast of Africa station, where
in the suppression of the slave trade. She is 27 days
from Goree, 22 from the Gambia, and 3.5 from Sierra
Leone. Commodore liotham, in the Penelope steam-
frigate, was at Ascension 14 days before the steamer's
leaving Sierra Leone. The Favourite, 18, Com-
mander Murray, was at Sierra Leone ; the Mariner.
12, Commander Matheson, was et Cape Mount; the
Contest, 12, Commander M'Murdo, and the De7se-
lemon
employed
,5
en:
dedaa
cam' r
uld_jrs :
noAigosipatc ;
he Ascension, which
tation steam-sloop, Commander Crouch, in the Bights;the
the Heroine, 10, Commander Edmubendrss,
°onf the
south coast ; and all the othrrstme
detailedn in our
squadron were distributed 1
The Growlera steam-sloop,
ptoer. . All were
well.
T der Potbury, had arrived
free emigrant ship, Coalman
at Sierra Leone, hut had not embarked any natives.
The Dart
brigantine, Lieutenant-Commander E. A.
Glynn, had not arrived the coast. The Prome-
theus active, on
in her
•endeavours
has been very to sup-
' press the slave trade. She has captured sixteen
slavers, all fine vessels, and all of which were con-
deinned: She has also been very healthy during the
whole term of her commission, having lost only four
. bailds from sickness. Her boilers are not in a very
. good state, but otherwise the vessel is in admirable
condition. Mr. Martin, - Master of Ascension dock-
yard and the Tortoise store and guard ship, and Mrs.
Martin; .have come home in e Prometheus—the met Itivriletiegi —s.u—p-ei:ceTe7l.-th
She 'brought a
few invalids from the squadron, and mails from the
Gambia and Sierra Leone. She will proceed to Wool-
wich to be paid off.
Captain Norton, the commander, and Mr. H. J.
Wolfe, chief mate, of the Royal Vest India steam.
packet Avon, have obtained first-class master's cer-
' tigc.atet ',ll Ognanship and navigation.—?'soar.