The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-05 00:00:00

FREIGHTS.

A further decline has taken place in the rates of freight,
which may now be quated at 21. to 21. ss. to London and
Liverpool, and 51 rupees per candy to China. There is
a good supply of tonnage.

MONEY MARKET.
Subjoined are the cut rent rates of the different Govern
ment Securities.

5 per Cent. Loan of 1825-26
4 per Cent. Loan of 1832-33
4 per Cent. Loan of 1835-36
5 per Cent. Loan of 1841-42
4 per Cent. Loan of 1842-43
EXCHANGE.

. . . . 110 r.
96r.
... 105 r.
96r.

The rate on England has again advanced, and we may
now quote it at 2s. ind. for six months', and 2s. for 30
days' bills. There has been another sale of Govern-
ment Bills on Calcutta, to the amount of 5 lacs of rupees,
and 102 rupees 7 annas per 100 rupees was the average
rate realised.

PRICE OF BULLION.
Sovereigns, each
n/ rupees.
Bank of England Notes, per £

QUOTATIONS OF THE BOMBAY EXCHANGE
MARKET.—JULY 17, 1846, FOUR O'CLOCK.
Bank Shares—Bombay Bank, no sales. May be
quoted for without dividend,: to sell at 40i to 41 per
cent. premium. Oriental Bank, old—Ruling from 30f
to .304 to buy, but to sell rather neglected. Oriental
Bank, new—Some shares have been sold during the
week from 261 to 25 per cent. premium. Agra Bank—
No sales to report. Nominal 54 per cent. premium.
Madras Bank—No sales to report. Nominal, 53 per
cent, premium. Commercial Bank—Little doing in this,
from 94- to 9 per cent. premium. Transferable at
limited time of the bank, nominal, per cent. premium.
Steam Navigation Shares—Bombay, nominal 20 per
cent. discount on 500 r. No sales to report. Calcutta,
nominal 16 per cent. discount. No sales to report.
Railway Shares—No quotation. Nothing having yet
been done, these remain stationary.
GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
5 per cent. Transf. Loan for sa. rs. nom. 117 rs. per 100 sa.
Ditto ditto 5a.1825- 6 rs. 1091 „ „
Ditto ditto 5a.1829-30rs. 110 f „ t
Ditto ditto Co.'s rs. 105 k 100 Co.'s.
4 Ditto ditto sicca 994 to 99i- „
Ditto ditto Co.'s rs. 9.5 i to 96i
EXCHANGES.
London—Six months' sight, Bombay and China
drawn, negotiated from 2s. 0:11d. to 2s. oid. per rupee.
Calcutta—Co.'s draught at 60 days' sight 2f per cent. pm.
Pt f f at sight
„ Shroff's bill at sight 31 tf
ft
ft tf 2 months' sight 11 „
ft 1 month's sight ft
„ Merchants' 1 per cent. less than Shroffs rate.
PRICES OF BULLION.
Sovereigns—Old, 11r. 2a. each, to sell ; new, 11r. each.
Bank of England Notes—Per 10i to 11r:
Spanish Dollars—Per 100, 220ir., to sell.
German Crowns—Per 100, 2144 r., to sell.
Sycee Silver—Large boat, none, retail price, 1064 r.;
small boat, none, retail price, 105 r. 15a.
Gold Leaf—Per tola, 16r. to 17r., range of quality ;
97 Standard, per tola, 17r.
Gold Mohurs—Bombay, 16r. each, to sell ; Calcutta,
old, 20r. each, to sell ; new, 17r. each, to sell.
Gold Tomauns-16 wals in weight, 64r. each, to sell.
Gold Gubber-12 wals in weight, sr. 3a. each, to sell
THE WEST INDIA MAIL.

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Dee,
James Fuller Boxer, R.N., Commander ; Lieutenant-
Commander W. South, R.N.,Admiralty agent, arrived at
Southampton at half-past ten o'clock yesterday morning.
She brings on freight 252,040 dollars on merchants' ac-
count, but none on account of the Mexican dividends ;

17,708 ounces of silver, 668 ounces of gold, 37 ounces of
gold and silver amalgam, 440 ounces of gold-dust, 625
franc-pieces, and 1,0351. 7s. 6d. silver coin ; also
1,230,250 cigars, 9 cases, and 99 bales of leaf tobacco, 83
cases of ditto, 1 bale of bass, 75 cases of pine-apples, 13
casks and 9 cases of preserved turtle, 20 head of live
turtle, 61 barrels of arrowroot, 63 bales of sarsaparilla,
22 gourds of aloes, 8 cases of plants, 5 cases of succades,
and 55 packages of sundries—the largest amount of
cargo yet brought by any of these ships.
The Dee brings mails to the following dates :—From
Tampico, July 22 ; Vera Cruz, August 2 ; Havannah,
10th ; Nassau, 12th ; Bermuda, 20th ; Jamaica, Bth;
Jacmel, 10th, Porto Rico, 13th ; llonduras, July 20th ;
Demerara, August 3d • Tobago, sth ; Trinidad, sth ;
Barbadoes, Bth ; Grenada, 9th ; St. Vincent, 10th ; St.
Lucia, 10th ; Dominica, 11th ; Martinique, 11th ;
Guadeloupe' 11th ; Antigua, 11th ; Montserrat, 12th ;
Nevis, 12th ; St. Kitts, 12th ; Tortola, 13th ; Porto
Cabello, sth ; La Guayra, 7th ; St. Thomas, 14th ;
St. Jago de Cuba, sth.
The Dee also brings fifty-three passengers, as fullows,
viz.:—from Nicaragua, Don J. Costerica; from Chagres,
Captain Loit, Gen. Col. Superintendent of the Royal
Mail Steam-packet Company, and servant ; Messrs. A.
de Boon, T. A. Bareau, P. de Quiros and I'ridham ;
from Santa Martha, Messrs. Mackirdy and
Klein ; from La Guayra, Mrs. Andral, daughter, and
Mr. Foulguce ; from Havannah, Senors Urbano, F. de
Sotomayor, S. de Martiartu and servant, A. Kleinwort,
J. F. Lineros, and Mrs. Scull and daughter • from Ja-
maica, the Rev. J. C. Hall, lady, and family, Messrs.
Westmoreland, R. Moss, Benite, and P. Blake, and Mr.
and Miss Read ; from Demerara, Mr. Foster ; from
Barbadoes, Miss Stopford ; from Trinidad, Messrs. Le-
guin, Bowen, and Armstrong ; from St. Vincent, Capt.
Griffin, R.A. ; from Dominica, Messrs. Hockin and
Scott ; from Guadeloupe, Mr. Le Dentu and two chil-
dren, and Mr. Couchimbert ; from Montserrat, Mr.
Buchan ; from St. Kitt's, Messrs. Barr and Turner ;
from Bermuda, the Right Hon. Lord James W. Butler
and servant, Mrs. Ross and family, and Captain
Powell of the 20th Regiment, also two Government in-
valids, one Company's invalid, and three distressed Bri-
tish subjects.
Our letters from the city of Mexico are dated the 30th
of July. Most of the troops had left for the north, and
General Paredes was about to place himself at their
head, having transferred the Government to General
Bravo, the Vice President. All the Ministers had
resigned. The new Cabinet was not yet formed. An
amnesty to prisoners accused ofpolitical offences had been
published.
The insurgents at Guadalaxara still maintained their
position in the centre of the city. General Arevalo had
been killed.

The Americans appeared to be waiting the ter-
mination of the rainy season in order to resume hos-
tilities. The blockade of Vera Cruz and Tampico
continued.

The ports of Vera Cruz and Tampico still remained
blocaded by the American squadron, consisting of one
corvette at Tampico, and two frigates, one corvette,
two brigs, and two steamers, off Vera Cruz. The Ameri-
can commodore's frigate (Cumberland, 60, guns) had
gone on shore on the Anton Lizardo shoals, and
been obliged to get all her guns out ; she got off with
the loss of her false keel, and other serious damage,
and it was expected would shortly sail for the States to
repair.
The town of Vera Cruz had declared against the
Government, and in favour of Santa Anna, on the 31st
of July, and a deputation left in the Dee to invite him
to return and resume the command of the army. He
left Havannah with his family, General Almonte, and a
number of other followers in the Arab steam-vessel of
Liverpool, on the evening of the Bth ult., cleared out for
Sisal, but it was supposed he would LO direct to Vera
Cruz, having been assured that no obstacle would be
offered by the American squadron to his landing.
The light on the Castle of San Juan de Ulloa was re-
lighted on the 23d of July, and continued so every night
during the Dee's stay.
The Endymion and Rose (all well on board) were the
only English vessels of war at Sacrificios, the Vesuvius
steam-vessel having been ordered to Bermuda from
having severe sickness amongst the crew. The Alarm
and Daring were daily expected. There was one
Spanish frigate and a brig, and a French brig at Sacri-
ficios.

The Vesuvius was off Bermuda on the 9th ult.,, with
27 cases of yellow fever on board. She took in 100 tons
of coals, and sailed for Halifax.
Informatio❑ had been received in the Pacific of the
blockade of the Mexican ports by the Government of
the United States. The feeling it seemed to produce
was that it might tend still further to complicate our re-
lations with the latter power. The news of the peace-
able issue to the Oregon question had not, however,
reached Peru or Chili at the time the mails were dis-
patched.
Her Majesty's ships Daphne and Sampson (the latter
a steamer), a French corvette and a brig of war, were
lying at Valparaiso. The Grampus, 50 guns, Captain
H. B. Martin, C. 8., sailed for Callao on the 28th of

June, there to await the arrival of the European mails,
due on the 7th of July; and after receiving her dis-
patches, she put to sea on the 11th, to join the Admiral,
whose " whereabouts " every one seemed to be igno-
rant of.

The United States squadron were supposed (with the
exception of the frigate Constitution) to be off the coast
of Oregon and California. The latter vessel had pro-
ceeded homeward, her timbers, it is said, being in a de-
cayed state.
Tnere was a French corvette at Callao.

A silver mine, lately discovered by a watchmaker
named Teare, 01 Corocoro, in Bolivia, wai greatly spoken
of. Its ore is said to contain an unusually large propor-
tion of silver, and anticipations had already been
hazarded that this mine would surpass in value the far-
famed Potosi mines.

We learn, moreover, that arrangements have been
made by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company for
conveying treasure from the Pacific to Europe across the
Isthmus of Panama, and that the project is looked upon
with muck favour on the west coast.

By the latest accounts the Company's ships were as
follows:—viz„ the Thames at Grenada, on the 9th of
August, proceeding to Trinidad ; the Eagle at Barba-
does, on the Bth of August, proceeding to Tobago and
Demerara ; the Reindeer at St. Thomas's, on the 14th of
August, returning to Grenada ; the Tweed at Grenada,
proceeding to Jamaica; the Avon at Jamaica, on the Bth
of August, to follow the Dee to England, ni(i St. Thomas;
the Medway at Havannah, on the 9th of August, pro-
ceeding to the Gulf; the Severn at Bermuda, on the
29th of August, proceeding to Nassau, Havannah, and
Jamaica; the Lee schooner was gone to Honduras on
the Bth of August; and the Larne at St. Thomas's on ,
the 14th of August, proceeding to Grenada.
The Jamaica Despatch of the Bth of August states
that the whole face of the island has been blssed with
most abundant rains. The entire aspect now wears a
change almost indescribable. The rapid growth of the
sugar-cane is most amazing, and plants which in many
districts were conceived to be-entirely burnt out of the
ground are now making great strides towards advance-
ment. Next year's crop will be very early, and a large
increase on the present. The appearance of the coffee-
fieles is most cheering, betokening a growth of wood
which must yield very large returns at maturily if at-
tended to; while the new crop promises a fair—we do
not think an excessive, but a considerable advance on the
last. The native labourers had not resumed their work
after the August holiday, -but the Coolies were em-
ployed and conducting themselves in a very satisfactory
manner.

The Trinidad Ga.z,tte of the 3 ibt of July mentions a
viohut gale from the south-wet, which bad done con-
sideiable injury to the rotcls and bridges. Dysentery
was very prevalent in the island, and many deaths had
occurred from it.

The St. Kitt's Gazette of the 7th of August says—
" We do not remember for a long period past to have
had the delightful and continuous showers of rain that
have fallen during the last few days. The appearance of the
country is exceedingly gratifying, and we have no doubt
that the young canes will be materially benefited."
Throughout the whole of the West India Islands
there seems to be an unmixed feeling of satisfaction
with the weather and the appearance of the crops.
The Dee passed on the 31st of August the General
Parkhill, American ship, in lat. 46 deg. 41 min. N., long.
19 deg. 16 min. W., and on the Ist of September the
American barque Wallace, of Boston, steering .to the
westward. On the 2d of September passed a barque
standing to the N.E., painted with a white streak,
under jury-sails ; made no signal of distress.