The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-27 00:00:00

BANKS.

Subjoined are the current rates of Bank shares. Some
shares in the Oriental Bank have changed hands at th•
figures quoted:— _

Rupees.
Bank of Bombay
Oriental Bank, Old Shares
Ditto, New Shares 27 to 28 ,f
Agra Bank 54 to 55
PRICE OF BULLION.
Sovereigns, each
Bank of England notes, per £ lO „

CHINA.

HONG-KONG, AUG. 28.

The late riot at Canton has led to a long corre-
spondence between the Consul and the British mer-
chants. The merchants claim, as a right established
by treaty, that one of her Majesty's vessels should be
permanently stationed off the factories, to be at
hand in the event of any outbreak ; but the Consul
maintains that according to the treaty, which pro-
vides for a vessel of war at each of the five ports,
Whampoa is its proper anchorage, which, though ten
miles off, he, in common with the Chinese, holds to
be the port of Canton. This seems vastly absurd,
and is ably exposed both by the merchants, and in
an article in the China Mail for July 30. Any
future riot, like previous ones, would probably be
over before assistance could be procured from the
outside anchorage ; where, however, it, must be ob-
served, no British vessel of war 'has ever been per-
manently stationed, any more than off the factories,
their occasional visits being always made after they
are wanted; so that both now, and on a similar oc-
casion four years ago, her Majesty's subjects have
been obliged to seek assistance from an American ship
one time, and from a Danish another. It is the more
influence of such protective force within hail that is
especially valuable, and Sir John Davis has over-
ruled the Consul's scruples, and ordered the Nemesis
steamer to lie close to the factories ; and though she
has no marines or forces to act on shore, so long
as she remains in sight there will be no more rioting.
The British community having no assurance that
they will be protected by their own Government,
have resolved to do their possible to defend themselves,
having formed into three regiments of volunteers,
which meet regularly for, it must be admitted, a
rather irregular drill. They have sent to England
for 300 muskets and accoutrements, and will then
only require a drill sergeant to teach them how to
make the best use of their weapons. The musters,
however, are already productive of good effect upon
the Chinese, who, while they are not themselves
very knowing in military tactics, have great re-
spect for the powers of a body of Englishmen
with arms in their hands, and a design to use them.
It is to be hoped our countrymen will not presume
upon this to insult or maltreat the Chinese without
good cause. With all their ill-feeling against
the English, they are seldom the aggressors in any
row with the Fanquei. Recently, the proximate
cause of the riot was a Chinaman being struck or
severely poked with a stick, because in a crowded
street he was in the way of a merchant, who has
made himself disliked by the populace for bis offen-
sive conduct towards them. This fact is not alluded
to by the Consul in the course of the correspondence;
but his attention has since been specially called to it,
both by Sir John Davis and Keying, who require
an investigation into the cause of the riot, in which
several lives were sacrificed, and considerable damage
done to property.

The news from Canton induced the Governor to
hasten his return from the north, without accom-
plishing the principal part of his errand; for it was
his original intention to have visited Japan, and en-
deavour to establish commercial relations with that
country. The design is postponed until the arrival
of Admiral Inglefield, and we must, therefore, be
anticipated by the Americans, French, and Danes,
who have each sent vessels to Japan, it being our
turn to improve upon their negotiations. Subjoined
is the proclamation issued on the surrender of Chusan,
and the Gazette intimation of consular changes,
these being all that has yet transpired of the Gover-
nor's northern tour.
PROCLAMATION.
DIPLOMATIC DEPARTMENT.

The island of Chusan, having been restored to the
Emperor of China in conformity with treaty engage-
ments, is no longer to be considered as one of those
ports or places with which trade is permitted. British
subjects are therefore warned,
that after the depariure
of her Majesty's 93th Regiment, which is fixed fk)r the
22d instant, any persons resorting to the island, or
to any of its dependencies, will become liable to the
penalties provided by the 4th article of the supplemyn.
tary treaty.

J. F. DAVIS.

God alive the Queen.
Given on board her Majesty's Steam-vessel Vulture,
this 16th day of July, 1846.
True copy, A. R. JOHNSTON.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
DIPLOMATIC DEPARTMENT.

His Excellency her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, 8:0., is
pleased to make known the following appointments :
Rutherford Alcock, Esq., to be her Majesty's consul
at the port of Shanghae, vice Captain George Balfour,
who retires.

Richard Belgrave Jackson, Esq., to be her Majesty's
consul at the port of Foo-chow-foo vice Mr. Alcock.
George Grey Sullivan, Esq., to be her Majesty's acting
consul at the port of Ningpo, during the absence of Mr.
Consul Thom, on sick leave.
John Backhouse, Esq., to be her Majesty's officiating
vice-consul at the port of Canton, subject to the pleasure
of her Majesty's Government.
Victoria, HBonyg?
Kong,rder, .
Aug. Aug . 24 , 1846.
R. JOHNSTON.
In addition to the appointments gazetted, the fol-
lowing changes take place among the interpreters at
the respective consulates :--Mr. Medhurst, of Shang-
hae, returns to England, on sick certificate; Mr.
Parkes, from Foo-chow-foo, is to act in his stead ; and
Mr. M. C. Morrison proceeds to Foo-chow-foo. _

The recent adoption of free-trade principles at

Macao has compelled the Governor to impose a heavy
income and property-tax, amounting to 10 per cent.,
which is creating an outcry in the Holy- City, be-
cause it is felt to be especially hard upon the Por-
tuguese, now the only permanent population of the
place, whose remonstrances against the former ex-
cessive restrictions and imposts, which drove away
the entire foreign community, were disregarded, when
they might have prevented the subsequent decay of
trade.

Murders and highway robberies—hitherto com-
mitted exclu,ively upon Indians and Chinese—are,
as you will see from the papers, becoming alarmingly
common, and the perpetrators are probably encou•
raged by the impunity they enjoy for their depre-
dations on the river. The police—who, to do them
justice, are certainly efficient in protecting life and
property within the town—have no force adequate to
the purpose on the roads and villages upon the island,
and they have as yet been able to devise nothing bet-
ter than to counsel the inhabitants not to go alone or
unarmed beyond the bounds of the town. A few
thousand dollars spent in maintaining a rural police
would render such counsel unnecessary ; but permis-
sion
from home must be obtained before even this
step is adopted by the local authorities.

Warren Delano, jun., Esq., who goes a passenger
in the Lady Mary Wood, is the bearer of dispatches
to the Government of the United States.

The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Thvigaticn
Company have permanently appointed Mr. Olding
their agent at Hong-Kong, an arrangement which
we are very sure will give general satisfaction to the
foreign community in China.

CHINA COMMERCIAL.
HONG-KONG, AUGUST 28.
At Canton the market continues dull in the extreme.
None of the staple imports are in demand, or can be
disposed of above prime cost, while the prices asked for
exports offer no immediate prospect of eligible invest-
ment. No present inconvenience is thus experienced by
the scarcity of money, caused by the drain fur India;
but it may be severely felt should an improvement take
place in the export trade.
Matters are rather better in the north. At Amoy
cotton and cotton goods fetch remunerating rates, but
the market is a limited one, and must so continue, until
the native dealers are induced, by a sustained demand,
to bring exports to that market. At present returns are
chiefly made in cash.

At the date of the very lest adviens from Shanghae
there was a perceptible, though slight, improvement in
the market.

The loss of the Duke of Lancaster will probably give
it a further impetus. Stocks of shirtings are light both
in first and second hands, and there is a demand for both
white and grey, especially the former, in which a con-
siderable business has been done since the hot weather
commenced. The transactions, too, being principally for
cash, are on a much sounder basis than during the
monopoly of the now bankrupt Hongs, a pernicious
system which we trust will never be revived. Un-
bleached goods also have been sold, but to a limited ex-
tent, and at from 50 to 60 cents. less than white. The
stock of opium is very large, most of the receiving vessels
being full; there is, therefore, no immediate prospect of
amended prices. In the new crop of tea scarcely any
transactions have taken place. The musters hitherto
produced are not of a first-rate quality, and the prices
asked are such as no one, looking at the advices from
England, is disposed to give; and it is probable that
among the first operations for this article it will be taken
in exchange for opium. It is said that the number of
ehopi to be brought forward at Shanghae will fall greatly
short of the amount last year.
A similar indisposition to enter into transactions in
silk is manifested, the ',sires asked bring such as to leave
no prospect of profitable investment. The nalive dealers,
who have gone to the interior to make purchases, are
said to have hitherto mule little progress, the producers
holding out fur prices higher than the foreign merchants
are disposed to give, and therefore leaving no profit to
the dealer. It is said, however, that a landing- firm in
Canton has made a contract fur from 3,000 to 4,000
bales, speculating on the higher priers last year obtain-
able at the southern ports. Another sale of about 500
bales is stated to have taken place, consisting of Tsstlee,
first and second qualities, in equal proportions, at 400
dollars for sycee, or say 420 dollars. Of this year's crop
but littlo really good has made is appearance, being
probably held until better prices are offered. Instead of
being deficient, as was reported, the crop is now said to
be abundant; and therefore it will soon be proved
whether the unfavourable advices from England will
have the effect of forcing the Chinese to lower their de-
mands, or whether they will be able to hold or take the
silk into consumption among themselves.

CANTON MARKE r —AucusT 24.
(From the China Mail.)
13IPORTS.
Cotton— Low rates continue, without the slightest in-
dication of improvement. They, however, appear to
have had their due effect upon clearances, which stand as
follow for the mouth ending the 20th inst. : --1
Deliveries. Stocky.
... 26,689 53,840
421 4,440
3,170 8,115
373 165

Bombay, bales ...
Bengal, ditto
Madras, ditto ...
American, ditto ...

Total ... 30,633 66,3 GO
The rates may Le quottfd 4 a 6 tads net for Boe,bs,y ;
Banda 6.8 a 7 tae's ; Tinnivelly, 6 4 a 6.6 taels. The
stock at the correspording period last year W 23 70,458
bales, and in 18U, 117.893 bsles.

Cotton Yarn—Orving to the heavy arrivals, dealers
became unduly alarmed, and prices reccdeU below what
the circtreastaeces justified. During the last day or two
an improvement has been_ manifested fur low numhers,
but the high numbers are in very limited request. The
following are the prerarFng rates, duty paid :—Nos. 16
to 24,`26 duly. ; Nos. 28 to 42, 28 doll 3.
Long Cloths—Considershie parcels were }laced
against tea at the beginning of the, month, but owinr, to
the suspension of purchves of the leaf, long cloths have
again relapsed into their funLer dull state. Comi:ler-
able quantities lialT been removed to the north during
the month. The quntationi —72 'reed greys vreizh--
ing tqlb, ; 66-s„ ditto, weigliirg 91h., 2 dolls.
20c. weighing 81b., 2 dolls. sc.—all long. White.
may he
.i.toied .1 doll. 90c. for common; up to 2 dolls.
90e. rdr hoe 74.,--;n/So long.
Atnericatt Goods—Domestic 40 pls.- are becoming
rather scarce, aarlare wortle2 dulls. 500. to 2 dulls. The.
long ; drily 40 3(11. have declined to 3 dulls. l 5;.
Long tlls continue in fair deMand with a slight ad-
vance in price. Good assortments of 1111 mark com-
mand 8 dulls. 25c. long ; brown are scarce, and command
8 dolls, 50c..; scarlet and purple, 8 dulls. 40c. ; unizarine
blue, 80. dolls. 20c. ; black, yellow, and green, 7 dolls.
20e. ; ash, 6 dolls. 20e.

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Spanish Stripes also continue to improve, and good
assortments,aale.b;e at doll. 25c. to 1 doll. 35c. long ;
ti
purples -re worth. 1 doll. 30c. ts; 1 doll. 45c. ; mazarine
blue L doll. 25c. to 1 doll. 35c. ; scarlet, 1 doll. 20c. to
I doll. 30c. ; gentianella, 1 doll. 15c. to 1 doll. 20c. ;
black; 1 doll. sc. to 1 dull. 15c. ; brown, 95e. to 1 doll.
10c. ; green, and light blue, 85c. to 90c. ; yellow, 70c.
to 80c. ; ash and white, 60c. to 70c.
Camlets continue dull and without demand.
Lead is still saleable at 5 dolls. 50c. long. I
Iron has improved considerably. Bsr and bolt are
worth 3 dolls. 50c. long. The large sizes of nail rod
3 dolls. 20c.; smaller, 2 dolls. 80e. Hoop is worth 3 dolls.
Tin Plates have slightly improved, being quoted from
6 dolls. to 6 dolls. 50c.

Betel Nut—A parcel of old has been forced upon the
market at 2 dolls. 30c. A cargo of new has arrived by
the Sophia Fraser, for which about 3 dolls. is wanted.
The prospects for the article are very bad.
Rattails are duller than we ever saw them, and there
is a considerable stock. Good Banjarmassing are quoted
only 3 dolls. to 3 dolls. 25c. long., and Straits 2 dolls, to
2 dons. 50c.

Putchuck remains neglected at 6 dolls. to 6 dolls. 50c.
l.)ng.
Cloves have improved, and will command 32 dolls.
long.

Rice seems to have fallen to its lowest point. Arracan
1 doll. 20c.; cargo Manilla and Belli 1 doll. 50c.
Opinm—Malwa—The accumulation of stock seems at
length to have alarmed holders, and the price has re-
ceded to 650 dolls. to 660- dolls, for the best. In Bengal
drug the market continues to be ruled entirely by specu-
lation, and the Chinese are making strong effirts to sup-
port it. Nearly all that the foreigners held has been
bought by Chinese at three weeks and not cleared, who
thus have all the stock in their hands. Notwithstanding
that in many instances the time had elapsed and the
buyer not able to clear, the system is still pursued,
though hitherto unsuccessfully. The clearances have
been extensive, but have latterly been greatly falling
off. Patna may be quoted at 602 dolls. 50c. ; Benares
scarce, and worth 5 dulls. more ; Turkey is in demand at
500 dolls.

BIRDS AND TEE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—A para-
graph having lately gone the round of the daily papers,
stating that birds sitting on the electric telegraph wires
would, were the instruments at work at the time, fall
dead to the ground, we have been informed by a party
who is thoroughly conversant with the electric telegraph
that such cannot be the case. The only reason he as-
signs for the above supposition is that birds in their
flight fly against the wires, and being stunned fall to the
ground to all appearance lifeless. The fact is simple
enough, there being nothing to connect the birds with
the earth, which must be the case for such an occurrence
to happm.
ACCIDENT IN THE `STRAND:—This morning, shortly
after twelve o'clock, the following melancholy accident
occurred in the Strand, opposite the Adelphi Theatre,
during the bustle usually the conclusion of
the performances at that establishment. A piing woman
with a child in her arms had just leftthteopit department
of the theatre, and whilst attempting was knocked down by aeab, at that nfomectirtodsrs the
~ road
The woman was instantly assisted to rise, but Irfoinreg
the
child could be picked up it was trampled upon is a
shock_
ing manner by the fore-hoofs of the horse. The injuries
sustained were of such a nature that the child (a
about four years of age) is scrircely expected to live.boy of
LA TS VICTORIES IN INDIA.—Mr. Welford, of
,41f#14-tnyiklviZ•has leceived an order from the East
India-Company for the execution of 30,000 medals, to
commemorate the victories of Moodkee, Ferozeshah,
Cvr. Aliwal, and Sobtaon, to he present-d to the officers,
non-commissioned. ,officers, and privates of the Com-
pany's service ate he Queen's troops which took part in
those action3,V
AI 11 S

GLASGOW, SATURDAY EVENING.—The sudden intima-
tion from the new directors of this railway that, from
and after the 16th proximo, the Sunday passenger
trains on this line are to be discontinued, has been re-
ceived by the great body of the public, both in Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, alike with surprise and dissatisfac-
tion. This feeling pervades to a very large extent not
only the business community, but a vast portion of the
best and most pious men in both cities, who regard the
resolution as the triumph of intolerance and bigotry
over enlightenment and sound sense. The facts are
these:—Since the 21st of February, 1842, when the rail-
way was opened, up to the present time, two trains have
left each end daily—that is, morning and evening, the
present hours being 8 A.M. and 5 P.M., thus allowing
every servant of the company to attend Divine service if
he felt inclined. Moreover, the trains have been uni-
versally conducted in the most orderly manner, gene-
rally carrying country people from the villages to
the town churches, or young men engaged in
the respective cities to visit their parents,
whose residences might be situated in the
neighbourhood of the line. For instance, hundreds
of Roman Catholics have been in the habit for two
years past of coming every Sunday from Campsie and
Kirkintilloch to attend Divine worship in the chapels
in Glasgow ; and, indeed, Christians of all denomina-
tions have been wont to use these trains to attend the
ministration of clergymen according to their respective
creeds. They have never been required or used as trains
intended for the purposes of pleasure or recreation. They
have, in thousands of instances, subserved the ends of
those who travelled on errands of necessity and mercy ;
and, at the same time, have been of incalculable service
to tourists and commercial travellers. But by this reso-
lution all communication between the two sides of the
island, having a population of 350,000 at the western
terminus, and 200,000 at the eastern, is now to be en-
tirely stopped one day in seven ; and thus, instead of
going forward, we are retrograding to the practice of the
days of our great-grandfathers. Up to the opening of
the railway the mail coach ran regularly on the Sunday,
a post-chaise could be got when desired ; but every con-
veyance of this kind has been long driven off the road ;
and those, therefore, who feel a necessity to travel on
Sunday, are now utterly helpless.
This running of Sunday trains has certainly been the
vexed question of the railway ; but on no former occasion
have the directors taken it upon themselves to settle it. It
has always been left in the hands of the shareholders.
At every successive half-yearly meeting Sir Andrew
Agnew, with his friends, has appeared to move the dis-
continuance of those trains ; but uniformly his motions
have been defeated by majorities varying from three to
seven against one. It was often publicly and authorita-
tively stated at these meetings of the company that there
was a majority of the Scottish shareholders in favour of
this moderate amount of railway traffic on the Sunday,
irrespective of the English proxies altogether. Mr.
L.:adbetter, the first chairman of the company, was
averse to these Sunday trains, and resigned on account
of them. Mr. Learmonth, the ousted chairman of the
late ousted directors, was equally opposed to them ; but
they were carried on by both in deference to the wishes
of the shareholders. The new Anglo-Scottish board has,
however, knocked them on the head, without saying any-
thing to the shareholders on the matter. It appears that
the English deputation, which was headed by Mr.
Cbeetham of Manchester; and which drove the former
directors from office, have associated with themselves in
the new direction several gentlemen who are prominent
members of the Free Church—such as Mr. H. Dunlop of
Craigton, Mr. Hoeg of Newliston, &c., and Mr. Hen-
derson of Park, who, though a member of another dis-
senting body, was the first chairman of the Evangelical
Alliance ; and to this connexion must be traced the
removal of the very modest and moderate allowance of
railway accommodation which the Scottish public en-
joyed on the Sunday. The general impression here is
that many good men oppose the Sunday trains from
conscientious motives, but that the larger number de-
claim against them to support a character of " I am
holier than thou art." And the people here con-
sider it the " unkindest cut of all that they should be
deprived by means of the usually liberal minded Eng-
liehmen of it privilege which the latter enjoy so largely
,hemselves, and the ice of which in Scotland has bee,'
proved rather to heln than to harm the cause of reli-
gion and morality. The public are of course resolved
to resist the resolution which has been cc me to ; and
the question is likely to give rise to greater discord Clan
this divided company has yet seen. In other respects
the new directors are making every effort to meet the
wants of the public, by ordering new engines, car-
riages, &c.

SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER.
CHESTER, MONDAY, OCT. 26.—The first general
meeting of the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway was
held to-day in the Westminster assembly-room of the
Royal Hotel, for the usual purposes. This undertaking,
as the railway world are aware, is formed by an amal-
gamation into one company of the Nerth Wales ➢Mineral
and Extension, the Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester
Junction Railways and their branches, for which an Act
wai obtained in the late session. The attendance was
very numerous, and Mr. William Ormsby Gore, M.P.,
presich d.

'After the usual preliminaries,
The SECEETAB.Y read the report from the directors,
and explained the Parliamentary progresS and present
po,i•ion of the company, with information down to the
latest dates on the following iten-.s:—

" STATE OF TILE CoMPANY'S FUNDS.
1. Of the share capital of the North
, Wales Mineral Railway .£270,00
There has been called up X210,000
2. Of the share capital of the Shrews-
bury, Oswestry, and Chester
Junction of .

410,000

There has been tolled up... 120,000

630,000