The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-14 00:00:00

3°,000f. The officers, from the General downwards,
are said to have enriched themselves greatly.
" A General Order from the British Commander-
-111• Chief desired that all articles taken by officers
and men were to be sent in for sale by public auc-
`l°ll, for the benefit of the army, which was done.
ail were permitted to have the articles they had
brought away for themselves valued, and have the
option of taking or rejecting them. Many beauti-
ful curios and souvenirs were thus obtained at a
lominal price. The sale realised 32,000 dols.,
which, with the value of the treasure, estimated at
61,003 dols., is to be divided as prize money on the
Spot.
" The pressure of the people is said to have had
great weight in inducing the authorities to yield.
" I believe that their yielding now under pressure
is the same as at Tientsin in 1858, and that, if we
retire from hence, they will again break their en-
gagements. There is no other guarantee for us
than keeping the ground we have gained, having
beaten the army out of the field.
" Letters were found in the Palface from San-ko-
lih-sin to the Emperor assuring him of his confi-
dence in being able to annihilate us by the arrange-
ments he had made on the road at Chang-kia-wan,
'where the battle of the 18th ult. was fought. He
begged the Emperor to have no apprehensions as
to the results; that, having ascertained how few our
numbers were, he was confident he could surround
and destroy us.
" The garrison of Pekin is reported to be 60,000
to 70,000 men, or eight standards of 8,000 each;
but probably not three-fourths of that number
exist.
" There were a few guns on the wall opposite to
Our battery, and our works for riflemen were ex-
tended to within 190 yards of the wall.
" San-ko-lin-sin, it is said, was in Pekin this
Morning." •

COMMERCIAL.

HONG KONG, OCT. 28.

TEA.—The state of the market at the open ports is most
singular. In face of a heavy export, of full supplies, and
of unfavourable advices from London, rates continue nearly
at the standard at which they were pitched when the pro-
spects of a short supply were imminent. The tea-men
combine as usual, making ingenious repre;entations about
Coming supplies, sufficiently plausible to induce foreigners
to believe them and to go on purchasing. It is true they
are firm, but that probably arises more from their convic-
tion of their ability to bring foreigners to terms than
from any belief they have in short supplies. The
Worst of the tea trade as now conducted is this—that when
the communications are interrupted and the country teas
really stopped, as was the case lately at Shanghai and Can
ton, spurious, inferior, or fancy teas are manufactured to
such an extent, and meet with so ready a sale, as to cause
the export to swell up se that when the country teas are
released, they find a sale from their scarcity, and make
shipments amount to a figure which is absolutely startling.
SHANGRAL—In the absence of alarms as to the Nankin
rebels, confidence has begun to return and trade to improve.
Ningpo, however, still forms the principal outlet, the corn-
Munications between the interior and that port being clearly
less interrupted than those of Shanghai.
HONGKONG.—The reports of sales give but a small husi-
tess for the fortnight. The import trade generally, how-
ever, is in a very healthy state, holders requiring an ad-
, Vance upon many kinds of staples, and stocksteing sensibly
reduced.
CANTON.—The state of the market for the different de-
scriptions of goods is naturally similar l&that of Hong-
kong. •
FOOCHOWOO.—The heady sales reported last mail ap
Pear to have supplied the demand. Stocks are rather
heavy.
AMOL—Stocks low, and rates firm, but small sales.

INDIA.
We take the following'froM the Calcutta English
than of the Bth of November :
The resumption of business after the holidays has
been attended with the usualtendency to improve-
raent in trade. Exports have assumed a decidedly
improved tone, although not on a very extensive
scale. The money market remains in the same con-
dition of plethora, and no investments are found to
relieve it. Imports have found somewhat freer sales,
but still at prices showing a heavy loss. Freights
still ruli high, and the promising news from China
'will help to maintain them for the present.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Joint-Stock Shares—The market for joint-stock shares
is dull, with no activity.
Government Securities—There is no new feature to re-
port in this market ; the opeiutittin, c.nd on-
tirely for local account.
Money-market—Money is literally a drug, and cannot
And employment at even from 31 per cent. to 4 per cent.,
with little hope of present improvement. Trade is miser-
ably dull and only transacted at a loss.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
MADRID, DEC. 12.
The budget of expenses has been voted.
The Leon Espanol announces that General
Narvaez has retired altogether into.private life.
Disastrous inundations have taken place in
Grenada.
Several buildings were overwhelmed at Santa Fe.
The Badajoz Asylum was swept away, and
many children were killed and injured.

BOMBAY, Nov. 16.
The sth Europeans have mutinied at Dinapore,
and have been disbanded.
One man was shot.
The combination against the income tax con.
tinnes to be maintained in Bombay.

CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN

MAILS.

CARLSRUHE, DEC• 13

VIENNA, DEC. 13

The Pera with the heavy portion of the Calcutta,
China, and Australian mails left Malta at 7 p.m.
on the 7th, and may therefore be expected at
Southampton in course of the 16th inst.
The Ellora (from Southampton on the 27th of
November) reached Malta on the 6th inst. at 6 a.m.,
and:sailed for Alexandria at noon.
The Bombay left Suez for Bombay, and the
Singapore (with extra mails, kc., of 12-18 Nov.)
for Calcutta, on the 29th ult.
RANOVER, DEC. 13.
England has accepted the propo3al of Hanover,
that the third million of thalers for the redemption
of the State dues be distributed among all other
States, except England and Hamburg, according
to their maritime importance.

Yesterday the Representatives of the States on
the banks of the Rhine assembled for the purpose
of signing a convention, by which the Rhine
dues have been considerably diminished.

Judgment was delivered to-day in the case of
M. Richter.
M. Richter was found guilty of the charge of
having induced a public functionary to abuse his
official power by corrupting Gen. Eynatten.
He was acquitted, for want of proof, on the
charge referring to the bills of exchange, and
was declared not guilty on all the other charges.
The attorney for the Government recommended
him. to the favourable consideration of the Court.

BERNE, DEC. 13.
In to-day's sitting of the Council of the States,
M. Almeras, from Geneva, gave notice of an
interpellation on the state of the question of
Savoy.