The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-21 00:00:00

COTTON GOODS.

White Shirtings • • Dols.: 245 to Dols. 295 per piece.
Grey ditto .. • • 210 275 ~
Cotton Goods—Good 72 reed shirtings in the grey were sold at
2 dols. 90 cents., but are now barely worth 2 dols. 75 to 80 cents. ;
and this, though nominally the price for cash, very little progress
could be made in sales at these rates. Whites are also lower, though
there are very few fine goods in the market.
Yarn—Still in demand at the advanced quotations.
Chintz furniture - - 20 to 220 per piece.
METALS.

Tin, Banca - - 18 oto 18 50 per picul.
Straits - - - - 15 50 to 16 0 „
Iron, Nail - - - - 330 to 340 „
Hoop - - 3 3to 310 „
~ Bar - - 290 to a o „
Steel - - - . - 450 to 5 0 ~
Tin plates - - - - 650 to 7 0 per box.
Lead pig
Quicksilver - - - - 123 oto 130 0 „
OPIUM.

Turkeylta sweda' a
Patna, old . - - 680 oto 685 0 per chest.
Benares, old
i
480 oto 0 0 per picul.
new, good - - - - 735 oto 740 0 „
Opium—The news of the advance in the Calcutta market has
e
speculative inquiry here, and new Patna has got up to 670
dolls. to 680 ; Benares, 650 dolls. to 660. This advance, however,
can be but temporary, looking to the supplies we sire likely to re-
ceive shortly. Malwa is still at 730 dolls., but in very limited demand.
Woollens are unusually depressed, scarcity of money and the high
rate of interest having compelled many holders among the Chinese
to force off their stocks.

EXPORTS ON BOARD.

Alum - - - - Dols. 1 65 to 1 80 per picul.
Camphor - - - -..14 oto 15 0

VII 1° oto 11 0
Cassia
Buds - - - - „ 16 oto 19 0 „
China roots - - - „ 2 50 to 3 0 „
Musk - - - - „ 85 oto 90 0 per catty
Rhubarb - - - - „ 25 oto 50 0 per picul.
None good in the market.

„ 450 oto 460 0 ~
„ 365 oto 0 0 ~
- „ 0 oto 0 0 ~
None.
Silk—Tsatlee, 1,000 balee are offering at 460 dole.
Sugar - - - -
, f 4 oto 5 50 ~
Tea :

Silks :
Tsatlee
Taysaam
Canton

Congo% common teas - Taels 14 oto 19 0 ~
For common ; market cleared for all above this grade.
Caper plain - - - - market cleared , ,
„ scented
- - - Taels, 20 oto 30 0 ~
Orange Pekoe - - _ s 16 oto 20 0,,
, , scented - . - "' 26 oto 40 0 „
Souchong - - - '' 16 oto 38 0 „
Twankay - - - - '' 17 oto 33 0 „
Hyson Skin 1 ~
„ common
- - „ 15 oto 20 0 „
j
Hyson - -
- - .. 32 oto 66 0 „
Young Hyson' - - - " 20 oto 60 0 „
Imperial - - - - '' 36 oto 56 0 „
Gunpowder - 40 oto _6O _ 0 ~

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TEA.—The lower qualities Hyson and common Twankays have
been in demand during the month. Hyson at taels 33 to 38, and
Twankays 17 to 18 per picul. Moderate purchases have also been
made of common Cougus at taels 16. The continued high rates of
freight check any large [transactions in low-priced teas. Scented
Orange Pekoes have been in request, and the stock had been nearly
cleared off at prices varying from 35 to 40 taels.
The anticipated reduction in the duties on tea has given rather
mere confidence to the buyers, though with the large and the accu-
mulating stocks of British manufactured goods—the low prices that
rule for cash sale—and the uncertainty of any immediate change in
the import duty on the herb, it is necessary to limit purchases, and
therefore the difficulty of making returns still exists.

SILK EXPORT.
The export of raw silk to the United Kingdom, from Canton
and Shanghai, from let July to date, amounts to about 13,303 bales,
as follows ;

To
From Canton ........ • ... London.
2,913
sha.ngltal.. ...... . 5,409

Liverpool.
811
4,230

8,322

5,041
8,322

PRICES OF BULLION.

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Sycee silver, large, 9to 9 per cent. premium.
Spanish dollars, Ferdinand, par.
Spanish dollars, Carolus, 9 a 10 per cent. premium.
Republican dollars, to I per cent. discount.

Exchange on England, 6 m. s.—Some extensive sale of Baring's
credits have occurred towards the close of the month at 48. 53{d. a
4s. 6d. English houses are not drawing.
Exchange on India.—Company's accepted bills on Calcutta, 216 a
218 rs. per 100 Spanish dollars.
Exchange on Bombay, at 60 days' sight, 222 per 100 Spanish
dollars ; at 30 days' sight, 219 per 100 Spanish dollars.

COURT CIRCULAR,
The Queen and Prince Albert took an airing yester-
day in an open carriage and four. The Equerries in
Waiting, Colonel Buckley and the Hon. Captain Gordon,
attended on horseback.

and
Mr.s
Captain
and
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His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by the
Hon. Captain Gordon, and her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princess
Mary, honoured the Floral Exhibition in the Regent's
Prince .Albert,
hilatteern.ded by Lord
Park with a visit yesterday.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
easndyetshteercuPryinicnestshe Alice
pleastouorke
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mar.
grounds of Buckingham Palace.
Seymour. Lorn, Lord George Lennox,
Palace The Rinoeyluadleddinthneerppaurethyys
Marchionessnaottfendance during dinner, and
oganfu
from Ittapeder, by Bender.
The band of the Grenadier Guards, under the direcptieorn.
le Diablo —Meyerbeer.
Strauss
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performance of the
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presence yesterday evening. _
Captain
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Royal Highness the
_Duchess of Kent, attended
GeHoergreßLoyennox, Captain Franc
Gordon,lrrighiel liFeZspnki:ecaruerrs: d the
and his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, bAynLciaendyt CAoungucerstt,,Laptrtuhcee,Haannodvi:srir.
at-
tended by Baron Knesbeck, honoured the Archbishop of
York with their company at dinner yesterday, at his
residence in Grosvenor-square.. The noble directors of
the Concert of Ancient Music had the honour of meet-
ing their Royal Highnesses.
After dinner the illustrious party proceeded to the
Hanover-square Rooms, to In )nour the performance of
the Concert of Ancient Musics with their presence.
lilis Royal Highness the D mice of Cambridge returned
to town
College, at yeste
andhurday
rstmorning ifrom the Royal Military
S.
His Royal Highness Prit ce George, visited her Ma-
jesty the Queen Dowager 2iresterday, at Marlborough
House.
The Metropolitan Railwa3 r Termini Commission had
a meeting yesterday The C ommissioners present were
Viscount Canning, the Ear l of Dalhousie, the Lord
Mayor, and Sir Frederick Sm ith.
The Hon. Mr. Scott had i in interview with Mr. Se-
cretary Gladstone yesterday e it the Colonial-office.
Dispatches were received 3 resterdav at the Colonial-
office from the Governors oi ' the West India Colonies,•
and also from the Governors (if New South Wales and
New Zealand.
The Ecclesiastical Commis: iioners for England had a
general meeting yesterday. There were present, the
Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of London,
Winchester, Bangor, Chesarr, Chichester, Gloucester
and Bristol, Hereford, Leicl!ter, Norwich, Ripon, Sa-
lisbury and Worcester, the le,arl of Devon, the Earl of
Bessborough, and the Right Hon. H. Hobhouse.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council met
yesterday. The Lords present were the Lord Presi-
dent, the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, Mr. Baron
Parker, and the Judge of the Prerogative Court. An
appeal from the High Court of Admiralty, " The Even-
ing Star," was heard, and the Solicitor-General opened
an appeal from the Ilight Court of Admiralty, " The
Iron Duke." The case was adjourned.

THE HARBOUR c,f MALAMOCCO.

[We have been requested to insert the following extract
from a letter, written by a foreign gentleman to a friend is
this country, setting forth the advantages of the harbour of
Malamocco as the Mediterranean-European port for the
Indian Overland Mail. The letter having been written in
English, we have thought it best to preserve the phraseology
of the writer.]
Dear Thomas,—Don't think it ridiculous if I direct again
to an argument that ought not meet controversy any longer;
the same being of so high consequence that will induce me
to talk frankly at all times the opportunitl shall offer, sup-
ported by undeniable facts. I therefore entertain anew your
readers, and wish that the following matters should reach
the notice of her British Majesty's Admiralty, stating the
most lucky results obtained by the dyke to the north of the
harbour at Malamocco; results which we could not bring
well enough to general notoriety, as they concern so highly
the sea navigation of all countries, and most particularly the
intercourse of the Indies, through Egypt, with Italy, Ger-
many, and England. And if, commencing, I strove to keep
myself beyond the charge of ridicule, it is because somebody
indeed has reproached me that I, being almost a foreigner,
and uninvited, will stand a champion for business about
which the countrymen are seen never to mind in the least,
because it seems that I would plot against the very unac-
countable road of Duino, opposing to it the stupendous port
of Venice, because at last I shall waste my ink and reap no
of the Triestemen, the steam-ships belonginging to the
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I will not lose my time in confuting one by one the afore-
said charges. I don't plot either against Duino or against
Trieste, and possibly there are people stubborn enough to see
dark at noon-shining sun. The last objection only is worth
some regard, but it refers to times to come, to a thing to be
done hereafter, and I relate about the present time. Should
I meddle in conjectures, and build upon the future, I might
say that a railroad stretching from Venice to Innsbruck will
prove, shorter, easier, and safer, and of course more probable
than that which one would let run thither from Trieste or
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to the north of Mal._

After some calms and contrary winds at sea, which to
sail-ships prevented crossing the gulph, on the 25th day of
March the following vessels stepped into the harbour of
Malamocco by the new entrance along the dyke, without
waiting the common high-time :

2 stir ' Hour of, Water- I Surface of
Ships name. Ca.n taii...:„ the 'draught or water under
"'"`' entrance:
the ship. commontide tide.
--- ----
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i Venetian Venetian
Buona Tone •• • • Tajechevich ~Ba. m. ft.ll 61n. ft.l Sin.
Bohemian Girl.. Newson —. • 1 2p. m. 11 4 2 0
Teresa .•••• • • •• Milossovich . 4 13 6 1 6
Fr. Giuseppina.. i Battagliarin .5 12 0 1 6
Ezio Risorto. •• • Marazzi •• • • do. 12 9 1 6
Belvidere
Ocean (?) .... • • I Albert ••• • •• do. 11 0 1 6
Odoardo .
Anna Dorotea • • Tristem .... 7 12 2 1 2
Regina Vittoria. Florio ...... do. 13 3 1 2
And on the 27th left.