The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-21 00:00:00

FREIGHTS,

The demand for tonnage for sugar and rice being
great, agents of vessels have been able to obtain a
slight advance on rates previously quoted, which are
likely to be fully maintained, as very little available
tonnage is now in the river.
Saltpetre—To London, 8/. ;to Liverpool, 71. 15s.
to 8/., per ton of 20 cwt.
Sugar—To London, 8/. ;to Liverpool, 81., ditto.
Rice—To London, 8/. ;to Liverpool, 71.175. 6d. to
8/., per ton of 20 cwt.
Oilseeds—To London, nominal ;to Liverpool,
nominal.
Rum—To London, 8/. 155.; to Liverpool, 8/. to
8/. Bs. Bd. per 5 hhds.
Jute and Hemp—To London, Si. 10s.; to Liver-
pool, 51. to Si. is. per 5 bales.
Indigo, Raw Silk, and Silk Piece Goods—To
London, Si. 17s. 6(1.; to Liverpool, 51. 10s. to 51. 15s.
per 50 cubic feet.
Shell Lac—To London, Si. 7s. 6J.; to Liverpool,
51. to 51. ss.
Lac Dye—To London, 51. lis. ;to Liverpool, 51.
to 51. 10s. ditto.
Cotton--To China, 4 dolls. 50c. to 5 dolls. per bale.
Opium—To China, 7 dolls, to 8 dolls. per chest.
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To Mauritius—Rice, 3 to 3 4 Company's rupees
per bag; Meas. goods, 45 to 50 do. per 50 cubic feet.
Oil Seeds—The demand for the American market
for linseed having ceased, there has been nothing
doing, and the accounts from England not being suffi-
ciently encouraging to induce parties to pay the high
rates of freight now ruling. Mustard seed has also
been neglected.
Jute— The inquiry for this article has been steady,
and parcels as they come to hand find ready sale at
full prices, and on the finer sorts an improvement is
perceptible. The rates now current are for low to
fair, 10r. to 10r. Ba. per bale; and good to fair, 11r.
to 12r.

Hides—Throughout the past months the demand
for the English market has been languid, and shippers
were only induced to operate by holders submitting
to a reduction on previous rates; this in many in-
stances they were obliged to do, in consequence of
agents here having declined advancing on goods
shipped on native account.
For America there has been a good deal doing both
in cow and buffalo; the French have also been buyers
to a large extont.

Cotton—The local transactions in this article have
been small, the shipments which have gone forward
being generally on account of the importers. Exports
in August to Singapore and China were 2,348 bales,
or 8,541 maunds.

Opium—Late advices from China give a more fa-
vourable account of this drug, and the market here,
which was very dull, has revived, and a considerable
advance been established. Patna is now worth 1,220,
and Benares 1,205 per chest. Stock in the Company's
Godowns of the former is 1,130 chests, and of the
latter 384 chests.

IMPORTS FROM EUROPE.
British Cotton Piece Goods—For the principal de-
scription of goods under this head there has been a
brisk demand during the month. In grey shirtings
the qualities selling at 4r. 10a. to 4r. 12a. continue
most in favour, but within the last few days there
has been more inquiry for the heavier descriptions
ranging from sr. to 6r., and the prices now offering
are a little in advance of those procurable some time
back, the reported sales of the month are 70,000
pieces, showing a considerable increase on the same
period last year. White have been selling more
freely, as is usual at this season of the year, when the
demand for bleached fabrics is generally brisk. Gray
Jaconets have not been in so good demand as last
month, the reported sales only amounting to about
30,000 pieces against in the month of July upwards
of double that quantity ; prices,l however, have not
undergone any material alteration. Bleached have
been in better demand, the reported sales of the month
amounting to upwards of 40,000 pieces at firm prices.
Grey Madapollams—ln these cloths the business
done has not been so lon• 1-5 dOu against 21,000. put
sale, wily snowing
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• white
Pparticipated in the inquiry for bleached goods, and the
reported sales are comparatively large, being 13,000
against 500 last month, the prices obtained, however,
are very unsatisfactory for shippers. All fancy light
Poojah holiday
Manchester fabrics are only saleable at losing
s approach__there is a
prices. Scotch goods of all descriptions are very dull,
in fact, have been nearly unsaleable for some time
past. There has been a pretty fair inquiry for the
lower descriptions of woollens, which have been pur-
chased to some extent for Rangoon, but prices are
still very low.
We have to correct a typographical error in our
last in the table of "comparative statements of im-
ports and reported sales" under the head of "sales of
grey shirtings for twelve months, ending 31st of July,
1847," read 13,90,765, instead of 23,90,765.

BOMBAY.
(From the Bombay Times.)
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FIVE O'CLOCK, SEPT. 10.
The occurrence of a few native holidays having
interfered with the course of business during the short
period that has elapsed since our last dispatch, dated
the 30th ult., our report by the present mail is con-
sequently meagre, and presents but a limited record
of transactions.

The import market has undergone little or no
change ; but we are happy to be enabled to state that
the weather continues highly favourable for the crops,
rain having fallen in some quantity at the Presidency
since our last advices, and there is every appearance
of its having been pretty general.
Cotton Manufactures.—These fabrics are in much
the same position as last noticed. Rather more
disposition has been evinced by importers to rea-
lise, but in prices there is no change except for the
qualities of bleached shirting, and the better
kinds of gray jacconet, both of which descriptions
have been in request, and are a few annas per
piece higher in value. Gray madapollam has
also enjoyed a good demand, which has been freely
met by importers, and the sales of this cloth are large
—forming, indeed, the chief operations since last
mail, but at no improvement in prices. Gray shirt-
ing of all kinds has become again dull, and domestics
are still but in limited demand. In Scotch goods
the transactions have been very unimportant. The
inquiry noticed in our last for dyed goods and prints,
in Turkey red, continues, but the low prices offered
are an impediment to transactions, the only sale that
we have heard of being 500 pieces Turkey red
prints, 23 inches 28 yards, at 10 rupees per piece.
The orders in the bazaar from the country are appa-
rently trifling as yet, and as the local dealers have
laid in some stocks of cotton goods, they are not at
present very anxious to augment them.
Cotton Yarn—lmporters in general are looking for
an advance in prices, and refuse to sell at present
rates, so that the business done in the last eleven
days is very:contracted, sales being limited to a few
trifling parcels, say 135 bales in all of " Mule," Nos.
20, 50, and 60, at annas 6i, 91, and annas 9i per lb.
respectively. Orange twist is still in request at our
quotations. Turkey red continues very dull of sale,
and we are informed only of the disposal of 16 bales
of 2001 b. each, of good quality, at ir. 9a. per lb.
Woollens—There is some inquiry, but at offers too
low to admit of sales.
Metals—British bar iron continues in request, and
a further advance could be obtained, but holders are
indisposed to sell. The stock in first and second
hands is now reduced to about 10,000 candies, and
for a good assortment 40rs. per candy would no doubt
be given. Swedish does not participate in the ad-
vance, and is dull of sale. Other descriptions of iron
are without change, and no transactions in any of
them have transpired. In copper, nothing, that we
are aware of, has been done, and prices are stationary,
notwithstanding that the supplies here and on the
way out are very moderate. In lead, spelter, or tin-
plates, we have not heard of any transactions, and
they continue as before reported ; the last-named
article is very scarce. Swedish steel in tubs has been
sold to the extent of 1,000 cwt., at 91 rupees per cwt.
Cochineal—The market has become dull for this
article, and in the absence of transactions our quota-
tions must be considered nominal.
Saffron—Some sales of this article have been re-
ported to us, say 48 pounds at 12 rupees per pound,
and 400 pounds at 10 rupees and 14 rupees per pound.
We judge from these prices that the quality must
have been inferior, though some of it is said to have
been good.
Beer—A further limited supply of Allsopp and
Bass is in the market. Sales of both these brands
have been effected to the extent of 100 hhds., in about
equal quantities of each, at 75 rupees per hhd.. and
a few hhds. at 80 rupees. Of Hodgson a few casks
are said to have been sold at 65 rupees per hhd. ; and
of Tennent's, 50 hhds. at 54 rupees per hhd., these
brands having benefited by the scarcity of the two
more Avowed ones.