The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-16 00:00:00

CHELTENHAM MARKETS.
s. (1, to s.d i Pet lb,
50 6ti

Barley
Oats 2 6 3 3

Mutton
Veal

Beans
Pease
Hay 3l. 15s to 41. 10s. Od. pet ton.

d. to
7

7_ 0
7 0
6 7
0 7

HULL MARKET.—Oct. 14.
Wheat, Old ......... ...... SOs 445. 465. New 380.405. 43s
-- Foreign
Oats, Poland —s. .211 s. 22s Old l6s, 20.
r2l.
- Small or Feed.... —s. 17s. Ids ... •.• ..--s. 16s. 16s.
-- Foreign —s 11s. 155..... ....... •
i..
Barley, Norf. & Suf 2tis 20s. 3-.-i 8, L..ic. & Wold ....g. 26,, 30s.
Foreign - 6. —l3.
Beans 341 35s 265. Foreign --s. 20s 255.
Pease, White --s. 365. 40s. Grey --8. 345. 365.
l'ares —B. —s. —ii. Foreign..,

Rapeseed. in bond none Free,-perTZt.37l6.. Oa..

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURI
BASINGHALL-STREET, TO-MORROW.

(From the London Gazette.) M. H
.1. Andrews, stock-broker, Threadneedle street
F. Bone!, merchant, talcutta
T. Shailrake, jun., coal-merchant, Commercial road 2 I
W. 0. Attree, draper, Newbury, Berkshire • 2 11
J. T. Thompson, upholsterer, Long-acra 1 1

The waters of the river Seine are so low that several
boats with wino from Burgundy have been obliged to discharge
their cargoes at the distance of several leagues from Paris.
A soldier, in the Tower, who was lately convicted of
an offence before a Court-martial, for which it is likely he
would have been severely cogged, had it not been for the hor-
ror and disgust shown by the public to such mode of punish-
ment, has been sentenced to a perpetual drill, than which no-
thing can be more irksome to a soldier, particularly if he has
been any time in the army.

Indigo, a staple art: of the East Indies, one of
the most valuable of its products, and one of the most
profitable of cultivation in all Hindostan, is yielded by.
the Indigofera tinctoria ; and it is in that country so
lucrative, because an immense extent of land is re-
quired to produce but a moderate bulk of the dye, be-
cause the labour and land are cheaper here than any
where else, and because the raising of the plant and its
manufacture can be carried on even without the aid of
a house. The first step in its cultivation is to render
the ground, which should be friable and rich, perfectly
free from weeds, and dry, if naturally moist. The
seeds are then sown in narrow drills, about a foot
apart. The rainy season must be chosen for sow-
ing, otherwise, if the seed is deposited in dry soil,
it heats, corrupts, and is lost. The crop, being kept
free from weeds, is fit for cutting in about two or three
months, and this may be repeated in rainy seasons
every six weeks. The plants must not be allowed to
come into flower, as the leaves, in that case, become
dry and hard, and the indigo produced is of less value ;
nor must they be cut in dry weather, otherwise they
will not spring again. A crop generally lasts two
years. Being cut, the herb is first steeped in a vat
till it becomes macerated, and has parted with its co-
louring matter ; then the liquor is let off into another,
in which it undergoes the peculiar process of beating,
to cause the fecula to separate from the water. This
fecula is let off into a third vat, where it remains for
some time, and is then strained through cloth
bags, and evaporated in shallow wooden boxes placed
in the shade. Before it is perfectly dry, it is cut into
small pieces of an inch square, and finally packed into
boxes, or sewed up in bags for sale. Indigo was not
extensively cultivated in India before the British set-
tlements were formed there ; its profits were, at first,
so considerable, that, as in similar cases, its culture
was carried too far, and the market was overglutted
with the commodity. The indigo is one of the most
precarious of oriental crops, being liable to be des-
troyed by hailstorms, which do comparatively little in-
jury to the sugar cane and other plants. European
skill and capital have been, in India, especially ap-
plied to its management for nearly fifty years. What
was manufactured by the natives of India, prior to that
time, was trash, unfit for the European market, then
almost wholly supplied by South America, which fur-
nished England with about 1,200,0001 b. weight.
There are at present, in Bengal, 309 manufactories of
indigo for exportation, of which thirty-seven only are
conducted by natives, and these in imitation of the
European process. The Indians, however, cannot
even imitate us to any advanAge, with so many exam-
ples before them, and in full possession of all the land,
to the complete exclusion of their competitors ; for the
indigo thus prepared is full fifteen per cent. lower in
value than that manufactured by Europeans ; and as
to indigo made by the old native process, it is still
wholly unfit for the foreign market ; and even when
re-manufactured by Europeans, which is sometimes
done, it is still, from the deterioration it has undergone
in their hands, a very inferior commodity. The ave-
rage yearly quantity of indigo produced for some time
back in the British dominions in India, has ranged
from 8,500,0001b5. to 9,000,0001b5. weight, and in
value from 2,700,0001. to 3,300,0001. The produce
of 1828, the greatest ever known, amounted to
12,000,0001bs.—Murray's Cyclopedia of Geography.