The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-11 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL.

BUENOS AYR ES, AUG. 30.
Importations have been very moderate, and the com-
plaints of bad assortments are louder and louder.
For articles in demand there is a tendency:to improve-
ment in prices ; and most look forward with some
confidence to the ensuing month, should no political oc-
currence take place to mar the prospect.
The arrivals of articles of daily consumption have
been frequent and heavy, but apparently not more so
than the necessities of the market require.
Rice is the article that has declined most. Rum or
cana is also in languid demand, and to realise sales
holders must abate somewhat of their late pretensions.
Sugar is firm and likely to remain so till the fate of the
crops in Brazil is certainly known. The consumption is
immense, and it is hardly possible to overstock the war-
ket. Spanish wine, th;mgh ahrndant, continues firm,
and being also an article. of immense cor-umptton, a very
short term is required to restore the equilibrium of the
market. Gin is in good demand, and may be considered
a safe article of investment.
Export Produce.—Under this bead we have no im-
portant variation to note since our last.

PERNAMBUCO, SEPT. 17.
Sugar.—Eutries are being retarded, owing to, con-
tinual showers of rain which we have experienced for the
last ten days. Prices for Channels to the matutos,
2 doh. 640 rs. to 700 dols., and for 3d whites 3 dole.
600 rs. per arroba. 1,300 bags Cotinguiba whites
were sold at three dole. 800 re., and 600 bags Rio
Grande at 4 dole. whites, and 2 dols. 900 re. per ar-
roba brown.
Cottons—Entries during the month reached 2,622

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1310, Lind purchased at from 6 dols. 400 re. to 6 dole.
600 re. per arroba, according to quality.
Ittim.—tritHee are small and demand limited at 93
dole, to 95 dole, per pipe.
Freights.—The only charter effected this month is
of the Hanoverian brio Miranda for hides, from Pa-
raiba to the Channel for orders, at See., and 5 p-r
cent. per ton of 56 arrobas dry salted, and of 80 arro-
bas wet hides.

Exchange.—The transactions of the month =cunt to
75,0001., viz.:-12,0001., at 271 dots ; 15,0001. at 2n
dots. ; and 35,0001., at 272 dols., ail 60 days' sigtt,
and 13,0001., at 27 dole., 90 days ; and about
400,000 f. on Paris, and 348 to 350 rs. per franc,
Flour.—Has been neglected throughout the month;
the arrivals were 3,150 barrels per Alice from Rich-
mond, of which 1,150 barrels went sluthward in the
same vessel, whilst the remainder have been sold at about
21 dohs. per barrel ; 200 barrels per Snowdon, from
Newfoundland, sold at 18 dole. 500 rs. ; 50 barrels
per Soberano, from Lisbon, retailed by the importers,
and 2,950 barrels per Raonoak, from New York, which
proceeded on to Bahia ; the consumption during the
month has been about 3,400 barrels.
ManuFactured Goods—The only arrival has been 255
pkgs. per Raoul, from Havre, which being damaged by
salt water are selling by public auction. The demand
in general is very limited.

RIO DE JANEIRO, SEPT. 12.
Coffee—The transactions since the departure of Tamar
amount to 183,000 bags, viz , 98,600 for the United
States, 56,000 Channel and North of Europe, and
28,400 Mediterranean. Exported 6,000 bags to Balti-
more, 3,600 Channel, 6,900 Charleston, 4,460 Havre,
1,5C2 New Orleans, 2,503 Philadelphia, 3,838 Rich-
mond ; in all, frcra let to the 12th inst., 28,789 bags ;
shipped since Ist inst., 78,903 bags.
Exchange—Bills to a moderate amount have been
passed upon London at 271 to at 90 days ; upon
France at 352 to 350 for direct, at 348 indirect ; upon
Hamburg, at 657.
The amount negotiated for this conveyance may be
estimated at 1,375,000 f., principally at 271, upon Lon-
don ; at 1,300,000 f., principally at 348 for indirect, and
at 350 to 353 for direct bills upon France, &c., at m. b.
1,210,000 upon Hamburg, generally at 657.

CANADA.
ARRIVAL OF THE CANADIAN.
LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY.

The Mon treal Company's screw steamer Canadian,
Captain Ballantine, arrived here last night. She
sailed from Quebec at five o'clock on the morning
of the 28th ult., having been detained in conse-
quence of the delay of the arrival of the Western
mails from the 27th. She brings a heavy cargo
and 112 passengers, besides the usual mails from
the British North American provinces.
The Canadian passed the screw steamship Anglo-
Saxon, of the same line, October 2, lat. 53.26 N.,
lon. 49.15 W., hence to Quebec; and on the 9th,
off the Copelands, the North American, for the
same port.
A fearful tornado had passed over a portion of
the Canadian provinces, destroying fences, break-
ing trees, and unroofing barns and houses. The
Whets were felt in and around Kemptville.
From Nova Scotia we learn that at Windsor Mr.
Howe was elected without contest.
The jury empanelled upon the Port Hope tra-
gedy had agreed to the following verdict :—"We,
the undersigned jurymen, empanelled to inquire
how and by what means Thomas Henderson, de-
ceased, came by his death, on our oaths, do find
that the said deceased came to his death by means
of a bullet discharged from a pistol in the hand of
George Brogdin ; and we do further find that said
George Brogdin committed such under great and
justifiable provocation, and would express the
strongest reprobation of that course of licentious-
ness on the part of the deceased which produced
such a fearful retaliation."
Commercial affairs at Quebec were exceedingly
quiet. The timber trade is reported to be steady.
The following is a comparative statement of
arrivals and tonnage at Quebec in the years 1855
and 1856, to the 26th of September :
Vessels. Tons.
1855
1856

More this year... 262

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

We have received files of papers from Cape
Town to the 2d Aug. inclusive. We take the fol-
lowing from the Cape Town Mail of that date
" We noticed last Saturday, a rumour prevailing
in Cape Town, that ' some alarm had been created
in the Caffre border.' Three posts have since arrived
from the frontier, without in the slightest degree
confirming that rumour, or even alluding to any such
alarm. There must, therefore, have been a mistake
somewhere. The rumour, probably originated in
some cAlidons that have recently taken place
beyond the Orange River between the Free State
and a native chief named Wietze, a quarrel which is not
yet se3led, and which it was feared at one time might
lead to something more serious between the State and
the powerful Chief of the Basutus, Moshesh. Peace
between those two partiei is the paramount interest
of both. Of this, we have no doubt, both the President
Boshoff and the Chief Moshesh are personally aware
and convinced ; but it may not be entirely so
with some of the people under them, and there
exist, unhappily, some grminds of dissatisfaction re-
specting boundaries which the British authorities
left undetermined when her Majesty's authority was
withdrawn from that quarter. There can be no interfer-
ence now on our part unless both parties agree to submit
the question to the Governor or to the Queen as umpire,
as England and the United States of America did on a
similar occasion to the King of the Netherlands. This
would he the safest and cheapest course, provided both
parties bind themselves to abide by the award. A war
between them at present wou!d be most destructive,
e, and
could only end in the total ruin of one of the parties, by
no means to the advantage of either."

AmPTON, Oct. 10.—The
THE MEDITERRANEAN.-
-of the India, China, and
Brooks, with the heavy portioncharge of Lieut. Darby, R.N.,
Peninsular and Oriental CornSprranT
Mediterranean
in charge
this afternoon. Her dates are
Company's steamer Indus, Capt.
agent,
5 Malta, 29 ; Gibraltar, Oct. 4.
Alexandria, Sept.
35
passengers, and on freight 7 pack-
Indus brings
Admiralty
The
• value 6,
424/,principally gold from Malt 1,
ages of specie,
isting of 2,778 bales of silk, 13 bags of
and a cargo, ar2rw;
"n'22 cases of shawls, 6 cases of sundries,
elephants' teeth,
3 cases of bloodstone, 3cases of tortoiseshell, and 170
packages of general merchandise. At Malta were
and Shearwater ;
H.M.S. Hibernia, Hannibal, righ's :p
of Rear-Admiral Stewart, Fancy, Cracker, Clinker,
Firm, Flamer Comet, Magnet, Harpy, Recruit, Curlew,
Wye, Arrow, Desperate, Supply, Wallace, Bulldog Hearty,
)
Humber, and the Pera. H.M.S. Vesuvius and
Ariel and the Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steamer Euxine were at Gibraltar. Oar u,aial parcel
from this port has not arrived by the Indus.
Sir Joseph Paxton, M.P., presided at the dinner suc-
ceeding the annual exhibition of the Bakewell Farmers'
Club, on Wednesday. In proposing the toast of the
evening, "Success and prosperity to the Eakevvell Far-
mers' Club," the hon. gentleman expressed his pleasure
at the excellent exhibition of stock, and proceeded to say
that last year he had introduced to the notice of the
secretary of the club a cheesemaking machine, believing,
as there were many dairy farhissn the district, it might
prove very advantageous. At suggestion it was placed
in the hands of the largest cheesemaker in the neigh-
bourhood, and had been found to save a great deal of la-
bour, and 14 per cent. of material. He would recom-
mend the club to adopt that experimental system with re-
gard to every new machine which they thought it desirable
to introduce. Having expressed an opinion that steam
ploughs would never be made to answer, so as to be pro-
fitable to the farmer, Sir Joseph criticised the sentiment
recently propounded at an agricultural meeting by Sir
James Graham with respect to the untoward influence
which freedom in Russia might exert on the condition
of the English agriculturist. Sir James Graham must
have let such a doctrine slip in an unguarded moment,
for, in trulk, whenever countries became free they
ceased to be competitors with England in corn. Last
week, for instance, we had 16,000 qrs. of corn from
Russia, and only 4,000 from America, showing that
where commerce was carried on in a free country the
people were enslaved. If Russia were as free as England,
arts, manufacture; and other commercial pursuits would
flourish more and agriculture less. Having spoken
in favour of a system of agricultural statistics, he re-
marked that, as far as he could gather from conversations
with many farmers in that part of the country, they
were desirous that any measure connected with Agricul-
tural statistics should be carried out on some principle,
and that they should not be burdened with an expensive
machinery for its execution. "Hit could be done cheaply,
and with as little trouble as possible, there would be few
objections. Sir Joseph next referred to the question of
the sewage of large towns, advocating itsi application to
h
agricultural purposes, and concluded address amid
loud applause. The Hon. G. 11 • Cavendish, and
other gentlemen, having acknowledged the toast, and
Borne other toasts having been proposed, the Proceedings
terminated.
SUSSEX AGRIVULTURAL REPORT FOR SEPTEMBER.`
During the latter part of the month a great deal of rain
fell, and some of the late oats and beans were much
injured by the wet. The crop of cloverseed will be very
indifferent, and the quality must be bad, as there has not been sufficient sun to ripen it. Some of the fellows
intended for wheat are in a very unsatisfact,ny state,
and there is now no chance of cleaning them, and there has been but little opportunity for the autumn clearing
of
the
he
c stubbleis The potato disease has much increased,
Ail green crops have
trop qui
te a failure throughout the aunty.
wonderfully
and imroved. Te manld werizel is as good as we ever rerneupther to hahe s veengo it, Swede turnips are very fine in many placee, but in some instAuce3 the plant was destroyed by
the black eater-
pillar. The wheat market has been gradually creeping
up, and we think, in all probability, it will yet be higher.
We hear from all quarters great complaints of the yield,
and we believe that, notwithstanding the increased
number of acres sown last year, the whole quantity
grown will be less than of an average breadth and
yield. Goodnd is likely to malting barley commands high prices,
a do eo, as good qualities are rather
scarce, and a considerable portion of the crop is much
damaged by the weather,-.-Brighton ago"