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

CHINA.

The following document from the Chinese correspondent
of the China Hail, relative to the right of the English to
enter Canton, has appeared in the second edition of that
paper :

" REPORTED CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE KWANG•CHAUFU
AND SOME OF THE CANTON GENTRY, AT A LATE FEAST
TO WHICH THEY WERE INVITED, IN ORDER TO ASCERTAIN
THEIR SENTIMENTS RESPECTING FOREIGNERS ENTERING
THE CITY.

" On the 21st day of the second moon Liu-kai-yi, the pre-
fect of Canton, gave an entertainment at the temple of Great
Budha, and invited all the distinguished gentry of the city.
His design was to consult with them about restraining the
common people from opposing the entrance of foreigners into
the city. The gentry beforehand conjectured what his ob-
ject was, and therefore very few attended the feast. Among
the persons present at the table that day were Hu-tsiang-
kwang, Puan-sz-shing (Puting.qua). Liang-kwo-chung, Ho
yiu-shu, and the presidents of the three colleges, Yue-wha,
Yuo-sia, and Yang-shing, in all about twelve or thirteen in-
dividuals.

"The Prefect at the table asked the gentlemen saying—
The inhabitants now will not allow foreigners to enter the
city, while the foreigners say we will enter the city before we
give up Ting-hai (Chusan); therefore his Excellency
(Keying) has directed me to ask you, respected sirs, to devise
a plan to restrain the people from hindering the entrance of
foreigners into the city, in order that they may give up Ting-
hai at an early day. Now, what are your honourable opi-
nions?

" There are several difficulties about this matter," replied
the gentlemen. In the first place, the inhabitants of the
provincial city are people from all quarters, and they cannot
be compared with the families, sons and brothers, of the
same village. To say nothing about our being irrespon-
sible in the matter, though we exert ourselves to the ut-
most to restrain them, yet they will not listen to us. In the
second place, in the treaty it is clearly stated, that after
receiving the total amount of 21 millions of dollars, then
the English should restore Ting-hai to China; but there
is nothing said about giving it up after granting ingress
to the city. Now they have received all the money,
and yet can violate the treaty in giving back Ting-hai, which
is insatiable covetousness ; and moreover they eat their words,
saying, let us enter the city, and then we will give up Ting-
hai. This shows that they disregard good faith and equity,
and are truthless. Setting aside the fact that the people will
not permit them to go into the city, yet suppose they do so,
still the English will not give up Ting hai. And, in the
third place, it is an old law of the country that foreigners
should not enter the cities. lf, fearing to take up arms, we
should from compulsion secede to the wishes of foreigners,
and admit them to the city, to say nothing of the inconsist-
ency of so doing with right principle, and with established
custom, the great political loss will make all foreigners ridi-
cule and laugh at us. We beg your honour to think the third
time whether these things are so or not.
"The Prefect replied—According to what you have said,
if these things are so, we can never permit foreigners to go
into the city ; but if we do not permit them to go into the
city, how shall we get Ting-hai back again ? I beg you to
think of some plan, so that I may reply to his Excellency
(Keying).
" The gentlemen again said—ln the treaty it is declared
that on the day wken they have received all the money they
shall restore king- hai ; thus his Excellency may with all
propriety find fault with them on the ground of the treaty.
If they again will not yield, then proclaim to every country
their violation of the treaty, and let all men know that they
are in the wrong; and after that beat to arms and attack
them ; or, if not so, secretly send a body of troops against
them, and not many days will elapse before we can extermi-
nate the garrison of foreign soldiers, and thus Ting. hai will
be restored to China. This is a great concern of the nation,
and it is not for us, the gentry, to meddle with it; we, there-
fore, beforehand, beg your honour will hold secret consulta-
tion with his Excellency about it, and all will be right."
NO TX BY oust CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.—The above
is a report of the conversation by the superintendents of the
feast in the Temple of the Great Budha, Canton, 2d moon,
27th day (March 24).

MACAO.
The Government of Portugal has issued a decree declaring
Macao a free port, but coupled with restrictions that, if en-
forced, would go a great way to neutralise the anticipated
advantages of the measure. As the enforcement of these,
however, is left to the option of the governer and senate of
Macao, they have wisely resolved not to retain them ; so that
Macao, now that its trade is reduced to a shadow, is really a
free port. The following is the text of the decree :
" The Governor of the Province of Macao, Timor, and
Solor, in Council directs the following :
" Whereas it is expedient, by virtue of the act No. 362 of
the Competent Ministry, dated the 20th of November last,
that the decree of the same date should be published for
general information, be it known that this royal determina-
tion shall be in full -rigour and operation from the Ist of
April next, according to the second article of the same de-
cree; and that the table, regulations, and instructions
therein contained, for the more easy and regular perform
mice of its enactments, shall be published in proper antici-
pation. The authorities to whom the knowledge thereof
may relate have it thus so understood and enacted.
" Government Office, Macao, Feb. 28, 1846.

" JOSE GREdORIO PEGADO."

DECREE TO WHICH THE ABOVE NOTIFICATION REFERS.
" The opening of some of the ports of the empire of China
to the commerce and navigation of all nations having put a
stop to the propitious circumstances which favoured the
commerce of the city of Macao, notwithstanding the restric-
tions imposed thereon, and it being of rigorous necessity, in
consequence of the altered circumstances in which that
event has placed the said city, to devise means by which the
restrictive system hitherto followed may be modified, and,
by making use of the advantageous geographical position of
that city, its commerce may be cherished and developed, I
hereby, availing myself of the authority conferred by the Ist
article of the law of the 2d of May, 1843, and having heard
the Council of Ministers and that of the State, decree the
following : . .

"Art. 1. The ports of the city of Macao, both the inner of
the river and the outer of the Type and of the roads, are
de-
clared free ports to the commerce of all nations, and therein
shall be admitted for consumption, deposit, and re-exporta-
tion, every article of merchandise and commerce of whatever
nature they may be.
"Art. 2. All the articles and merchandise imported into
the said port, under any flag, are to become quite free of entry
duties thirty days after this decree is made public in the city
of Macao,
"Art. 3. The importation of cannon, projectiles, incendiary
mixtures, gunpowder, tobacco of any quality, snuff, soap, and
orchell weed, are, however, absolutely prohibited.
"Art. 4. The importation of the following articles of Por-
tuguese production and industry shall only be admitted in
Portuguese vessels proceeding from Portuguese ports, for the
purpose of enjoying exemption from duties, viz., arms and
fire-arms, betel-nut, towellings, muslins, hats of every de-
scription, olive oil, cocoa-nut and palm oil, bacon, ready-made
clothes and shoes, linen cloth, ralt, medicines, sandal wood,
spirits of wine and of cocoa-nut juice, wines, liqueurs, and
vinegars of wine and of cocoa-nut juice.
" Art. 5. The same articles mentioned in the preceding
article, whether of Portuguese or foreign production or
industry, may be imported by Portuguese or foreign vessels,
from foreign ports, upon paying 20 per cent. ad valorem.
" Art, 6. The said article, though excepted from the ge-
neral immunity for consumption, may, however, be received
into depot at the city of Macao, under condition of being re-
exported within the term of one year, with those cautions
and guarantees usual in such cases, by paying only one per
cent. ad valorem of deposit and wharfage, besides the ware-
house rent and Coolie labour.

" Note. All the articles received in deposit, not being re-
exported within the term of one year, shall be subject to pay-
ment of the consumption duty stated in article 5.
" Art. 7. Every other article which is admitted free for
consumption or re-exportationishall only be subject to the
payment of Coolie hire, according to a table of rates to be
fixed by the Governor in Council, after hearing the Director
of the Custoth-house, and which rates are not to exceed the
prices heretofore established.
" Art., 8. The goods mentioned in the 4th. sth, and 6th
articles, shall be received into the Government warehouses to
be subject to the overseeing of the Custom-house until they
are cleared. As to every other article comprised in the ge-
nerality of the privilege, it will be free to the proprietors to
store them In the Custom-house warehouses, or in private
ones, as may be most convenient to them.

_ •
" Art. 9. For the payment of the warehouse rent, there
shall be also a table fixed by the Governor in Council, after
hearing the directors of the Custom-house, regulating it as
much as possible by what it is customary to pay lor private
warehouses.

" Art. 10. To facilitate the landing of more bulky articles
of merchandise, the Government shall cause cranes to be set
up on the most convenient localities, or the most frequented
wharfs; and the Governor in Council shall determine the
rates to be paid for the use of them.
"Art 11. The Governor in Council is authorised, after ob-
taining the necessary information, to establish a table of an-
chorage, calculated on such a moderate scale that the port
expenses which ships will have to pay in Macao may invite
both the national and foreign commerce.
"Art. 12. Every act contrary to the tenor of the present
decree is hereby repealed.

w" The Councillor of State, Minister Extraordinary, and
Secretary of State for the Marine and Ultra-marine Com-
merce, are to take the proper steps for having this understood
and carried into effect.
" Court of Belem, 20th November, 1845.
" THE QUEEN.
JOAQUIM JOZE FALCAM.
(True copy) " MANOEL JOZE D'OLIVEIRA LIMA."

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE BOMBAY MARKET.
(From the Chamber of Commerce Overland Price Current.)
BOmRAY, APRIL 15, 1845.—We have no new feature to notice In
our market during the past fortnight. Money continues very scarce,
and confidence has been somewhat shaken by several failures in the
bazaar. Business both in imports and exports has consequently been
very limited.
COTTON MAl4uFAcTraE9.—The market continues depressed, and
and sales generally can be effected only by submitting to a heavy
sacrifice on prime cost. There has been considerable demand for
low Grey JacconetS and Madapollams ; bet, in consequence of the
advanced period of the Kasen, and the holders generally having met
the demand, no improvement in prices has taken place. There is a
slight improvement in Grey )ladapollanls of stout fabrics. White
Madapollams and White Long Cloths continue dull of sale, and we
have no material change to note in their value. Cambrics and
Muslins of all descriptions continno in limited request, at very low
prices. Turkey Red Cloths and Prints of every descriptioll are quite
following
neglected, and can be forced off only at a heavy sacrifice.
sales have been effected since our last YARNS—The inquiry is still confined to superior qualities. The
'twist 25,000
:
Mule Twist. No. 20. 8,000 lbs. at .4s. 6% per ih.
30. 18,700 , at 64 0
Turkey lied and Ora':ige
40. 15,000 „ at 0
„ 10 .9
Woollens—ln consequence of the lowness of prices, .
~ 10
50. 11,90 „ at
nonatilnal at our r quotations.
Water do. 30. 31,200 , at , 91
are
1,14 been done 1
ness9oo did° at 9, .ye note a sale of 900 yards Flannel at 7, and
Iletals--Vv. apnas PPf. Y 441. .
the salekhave e little change to note in the prices of Metals, and
beenfew, About 0 Candles . Brazier's Copper, has

been sold at 5431. The price of Iron does not improve notwithstand-
ing high prices in England end diminished imports, which may be
partly accounted for by the scarcity of money, but chiefly in conse-
quence of a diminished consumption in the interior consequent upon
the high price.
The sales reported are 115 tons British flat the bar at Rs. .10 per
candy.

150 do. do at 29 per do.
1,300 cwt. sheet at 7 per cwt.
Marine Stores—The only transaction reported under this head is a
sale of 130 bolts of canvas at Its.
Ileer—Nothing doing, none of the new brew having yet arrived.
Spirits—Stocks are very heavy, the market is dull in the extreme,
and no sales making.

Cotton—Frices have again slightly given way.
EASTERN PRODUCE.
The following
are the quotations of the day, but there Is little doing, and the
quality is generally inferior.
Broach and Surat • • • • • • .. ..... ...Rs. 76 at 77
Dollera
Oomrawuttee. ..... •••• •. .• .... • • •• 75
Compta 01d....... 65
Wool—The market is nearly bare, and the quality
very inferior.
Opium—The price has fallen to 1,300 rupees per chest. A great
proportion of that at present in the market Is much adulterated.
In other articles of export there is little or nothing doing.
FREIGHTS.
To Great Britain may be quoted at 3/. 15s. per ton, and Re. 19 to
20 per candy to Ch'na.

Government securiti..s, au?: Ec
nms
eagauke r,
of the intensity of the
money pressure, have slightly given way, and may be quoted as
under :
5 per cent. loan of 1825-2‘l at RS. 107 to 110
4 do. do. 1832-33 at „ 09 to 100
4 do. do. 1835-36 at „ 94
5 do, do, 1841-42 at „ 104j4
4 do. do. 1842-43 at „ 96
EXCHANGE.
In consequence of the limited demand for bills, and an Influx of
paper from Calcutta and other places, the rate ou England has ad-
vanced to 2s. at 2s. OW. per rupee according to tke credit attached
to the paper. At the latter rate Calcutta bills have been freely
offered.
There has been another sale of five lakhs of Government bills on
Calcutta at thirty days' sight, which averaged 07-3 annas per 100.
BANas.—We subjoin the current rate of Bank Shares; Bank of
Bombay, at Rs. 42 per cent. premium ; Oriental Bank, at Its. 175 to
It 5 premium per share.

PRICE OP BULLIGN.
Sovereigns each -11 g. 11
Bank of England notes, per £ 11

CHINA.
(From the Overland Friend of China, March 29.)
SUANGIIAI.—We have advices from the great northern mart to the
llth inst. The market continued in an extremely depressed state,
from the failure of the two bongs chiefly engaged in foreign trade.
In our last monthly summary we mentioned that of " Annul," in
whose pack-houses there was stored about 1,600,000 dollars worth of
produce and goods the property of British merchants, upon which
an embargo was laid by the British Consul and too Chinese autho-
rities. The goods have not yet been delivered to the owners ; but
we anticipate that by next mail we will be able to state that the
claims of those in whom the property is vested have been examined
and admitted. Kingwo was bankrupt- only a few days before the
date of our advices, but the extent of his liabilities are unknown,
though they must he great, as he and Allum transacted between
them four-fifths of the foreign trade of the port. The tea growers
are the principal sufferers by these bankruptcies, and it is feared that
next season they will he induced to take their teas to Canton at
a great expense for inland transit, as confidence in the hongs at
Shanghai must be destroyed. It is possible that they may gradu-
ally get into the way of selling to the foreign merchant direct,
without the produce passing through the hands of middle men. It
is very desirable that such should be the case, as also that the pur-
chasers of imports should have a direct trade with the importer.
Trade would thus be put on a better footing, and the system of barter
introduced by the bankrupt hongs put an end to.

The sales of cotton goods since the Chinese holidays have been
limited ; probably not over 45,000 pieces of all descriptions. The
imports have been 379,000 pieces of grey, and 66.800 pieces of
bleached, and to which 350,000 pieces held by the creditors of Allan),
and several cargoes daily expected from Liverpool, and the prospect
for British cotton goods is far fro n encouraging. Quotations—almost
nominal for 725, 3 dots. 10 to 3 dots. 20 ; 665, 2 dots. 90 to 3 dols. ;
00s, 2 dots. GO to 2 dots. 70.

In woollen fabrics there has been something doing. Long ells have
sold freely at 10 dols. per piece for a really good assortment of co-
lours ; inferior qualities have averaged 9 dots. The market is bare
of this description of goods In the hands of importers. Spanish
stripes and habit cloth have also been in demand, and the market
cleared of 3,400 pieces at 1.30 dols. to 1.40 dols, per yard. There was
still a demand, and moderate shipments would probably realise these
rates. Camlets have been moving off at 20 dols, to 22 dols. per piece.
There is a censiderable stock in first hands.

Chintz and other prints are unsaleable; the market being glutted
with this sort of goods.
In produce we note some transactions in green teas, at previous
rates. The export since our last summary is 1,548,346 lbs., in the
proportion of 807,743 lbs. black to 740,703 lbs. green. Silk has also
been purchased to some extent, and at reduced prices. Taysaam of
good to fine quality has been bought at from 280 doll. to 300 dots. for
cash. Export since the holidays, 672 bales.
Exchange—Bills on England have been sold at 4s. Bd.
Shipping—ln harbour, the Marion, the 31armion, Nimrod, Bleng,
Esmeralda, Janet Wilson, and Gardner.
CANTON PRICES CURRENT.—Mancn 28, 1846.

The market for imports, contrary to general expectation, Continues
in a very depressed state, and the little improvement manifest at the
early part of the month has quite subsided, and prices are again
lower.

Cotton—Some few sales have been made at our reduced quota..

COTTON GOODS.

White Shirtings :Theis.; 2 45 to Dols. 2 95 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 line goods In the market.
Yarn—Still in demand at the advanced quotations.
Chintz furniture - 20 to 220 per piece.
METALS•

Till, 13anca - - -

- 18 oto 18 50 per pieul.

„ Straits - - „ - 15 50 to 16 0
-
Irou, Nail
- 330 to 340
•• Hoop ' ” - - - 3 3to 310
, Bar
- 290 to 3 0 - 450 to 5 0 „
Steel - - - - -
Tin plates - - - - 650 to 7 0 per box.
Lead pig
- 123 oto 130 0 „
Quicksilver - - ' -

Captain's sur- 11°ur of.
Ship's name. name. the
entrance

Buona Tone....
Bohemian Girl..
Teresa. • • • • • • • •

Tajechevich .
Newson • . • •
Milossovich .

8 a. m
2 p. m
4

Fr. Giusappina Battagliarin . 5
Ezio Risorto.. • Marazzi • • do.
Belvidere
Ocean (?) .. •
Odoardo . .• Suttera...... do.
Anna Dorotea • • Tristem •• •• 7
Regina Vittoria. Florio •• •• • • do.
• - - - - -

And on the 27th left
Eolo ..... Matarona .• I 8 a. m.
Buona Annetta. I Zamara. I 10

Water- I Surface of
.draught of water under
the ship. common tide.
Venetian Venetian
ft.ll 61n. ft.l Bin.
11 4 2 0
13 6 1 6
12 0 1 6
12 9 1 6
12 9 1 6
11 0 1 6
12 10 1 6
1 12 2 1 2
13 3 1 2

11 3 1 1 0
11 6 1 0 6

By this account one perceives that the ship Teresa, Cap-
tain Milossovich, has stepped into port with 15 feet of water,
at common tide, because drawing the vessel 1314 Venetian
feet, and the surface of the water being 1% under common
tide, at common tide she might have had 15 feet without
running aground with her keel. Now one Venetian foot
being equal to metres 0,34773485, the 15 Venetian feet are
equal to metres 5,216, or to 16 Parisian feet.

'Which be also 'saki for proper direction to the sailors of
every country in the world.
Thus stated the facts, it assures unopposedly that vessels
which require so much as 15 Venetian feet of water at pre-
sent during the tide, can safely step into port by the new
entrance. About the vessels coming in at night I have to
say, that the obstacles at Malamocco shall not outweigh
those met at Duino, where " H. E., the Governor of Trieste,
Count Stadion, the Knight di Bruck, Director of the Lloyd's
Company, and the most notable merchants, werewaiting Mr.
Waghorn till half an hour at morning, because the night
was dark, and he could not steer towards Duino but by the help
of squibs purposely flung in the air from ashore," as the zealous
Briton wrote to the editor of the Times. See the Gazzetta di
Venezia, dated Nov. 18, 1845, No. 265.
Now, methinks that by such like cares had not proved more
difficult to land at Malarnocco than it resulted landing at
Duino, and if Mr. Waghorn will land at Trieste, he shall
lengthen both his sea and land passage.
Let us recapitulate. Since the time of the experiment
that was made on October 27th—I mean since Mr. Waghorn's
departure from Trieate or from Duino *—things remained
there unaltered; I mean that the mail that comes from Egypt
either landing at Trieste or at Duino, ought ever to run the
road of Romans, Codroipo, Sacile, and Ceneda.
But at Venice things are;come about, because now steamers
get in very easily from Malamocco, and the bridge built
across the Lagunes spares one hour's voyage to reach Mestre,
and from thence to Ceneda, where we can arrive from Venice
within four hours and half, or five at most, whilst twelve, or
at least ten hours, are required If starting from either of the
two other points.
The Government of her British Majesty will then perceive
that, in the actual condition of things, Venice, and not Duino
or Trieste, is the port where the post of India ought to hind,
if they care to receive at London their dispatches six or eight
hours sooner than by landing elsewhere, which I wanted to
demonstrate with all possible exactness; and this is owing
in a great degree to the superior effects already obtained by
the grand work of the dyke, not least of the monuments which
glorify the reign of our Emperor Ferdinand T., happily
reigning.
1 will close this my letter, dearest Thomas, with one rec-
tification.

In my item concerning the dyke at Malamocca, issued
out by the Gazzetta, 3d December, 1845, No. 278, was
printed "that the dyke to the north had produced such an
effect in benefit of the port as to render quite useful build-
ing the second dyke at the south, which also makes an es-
sential part in the scheme of improving the aforesaid har-
bour."

These words would imply a contradiction, because if the
dyke had since then produced the best effects, it insured, of
course, that the dyke to the south would be useless, or less
useful; and if the dyke to the south were quite useful, the
other to the north either had not produced the best effects,
or but very scarce ones.
In fact, the foreign newspapers (among which the privi-
leged Gazzette of Vienna) that reported my aforesaid item,
were puzzled at the same scrap, and some one quite altered
the contents, others moulded them to the best of their under-
standing, but not according to what I had wished to tell.
The same scrap ought therefore to be renewed as follows :
" Because whilst, some time past, it was reported that the
aforesaid grand work—we mean the dyke—the result of so
many studies by both native and foreign most clever engi-
neers, renowned masters in the hydraulic art, did not an-
swer its own purpose, a few days ago we read that the dyke
to the north had produced such effects as to render quite
useless the building of the second dyke to the south, which
also makes an essential part in the scheme of improving the
aforesaid harbour."

Please to grant a most visible spot to these news, that, I
warrant you, are conveyed from genuine sources; and thus
you will contribute also to enlighten the minds of those who
are led astray by false opinions, hurtful to the prosperity of
our beloved Venice.

Yours truly,
(Signed) G. DEMBSEIER.
Venice, April 4, 1846.