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

80,000 f. The officers, from the General downwards,
are said to have enriched themselves greatly.
" A General Order from the British Commander-
la-Chief desired that all articles taken by officers
and men were to be sent in for sale by public auc-
tion, for the benefit of the army, which was done.
All were permitted to have the articles they had
brought away for themselves valued, and have the
°Phan of taking or rejecting them. Many beauti-
-1111 curios and souvenirs were thus obtained at a
Itoininal price. The sale realised 32,000 dols.,
: 111°h, with the value of the treasure, estimated at
1,000 dols., is to be divided as prize money on the
aPot.

" 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
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
t keeping the ground we have gained, having
beaten the army out of the field.
" Letters were found in the Palace from San-ko-
111'8in to the Emperor assuring him of his confi-
dence
in being able to annihilate us by the arrange-
tnents he had made on the road at Chang-kia-wan,
here the battle of the 18th ult. was fought. He
begged the Emperor to have no apprehensions as
t° the results; that, having ascertained how few our
numbers were, he was confident he could surround
Ind destroy us.
"The garrison of Pekin is reported to be 60,000
t° 70,000 men, or eight standards of 8,000 each;
b
probably not three-fourths of that number
exist.

" There were a few guns on the wall opposite to
enr 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, Ocr. 28.
,IJEA.--The state of the market at the open ports is most
'War. In face of a heavy export, of full supplies, and
:!Unfavourable advices from London, rates continue nearly
; the standard at which they were pitched when the pro-
Peeta of a short supply were imminent. The tea-men
eol4bine as usual, making ingenious repre3entations about
e°4l ing supplies, sufficiently plausible to induce foreigners
to
°elieve them and to go on purchasing. It is true they
ti fib, but that probably arises more from their convic-
ft:ll of their ability to bring foreigners to terms than
any belief they have in short supplies. The
°rst of the tea trade as now conducted is this—that when
4e tcommunications are interrupted and the country teas
t:I1Y stopped, as was the case lately at Shanghai and Can
.441) spurious, inferior, or fancy teas are manufactured to
eh an extent, and meet with so ready a sale, as to cause
tehe export to swell up se that when the country teas are
.I.BB4sed, they find a sale from their scarcity, and make
4°Praents amount to a figure which is absolutely startling.
tet_SLOTGHAL—In the absence of alarms as to the Nankin
mbeg, confidence has begun to return and trade to improve.
l'agPo, however, still forms the principal outlet, the corn-
-41,1 cations between the interior and that port being clearly
44 interrupted than those of Shanghai.
te4°NohoNa.—The reports of sales give but a small busi-
Ne: for the fortnight. The import trade generally, how-
l., )18 in a very healthy state, holders requiring an ad-
pm-4e° 'upon many kinds of staples, and stocks being sensibly
10,8,1•1rox.—The state of the market for the different de-
Options of goods is naturally similar to that of Hong-
?fik
bk:OCROWFOO.—The heavy sales reported last mail ap,
reavy,t.o have supplied the demand. Stocks are rather
4407.—Stocks low, and rates firm, but small sales,

INDIA.
Ilro take the following from the Calcutta English
;I of the Bth of November :
tee. he resumption of business after the holidays has
kell attended with the usual tendency to improve-
-4414 in trade. Exports have assumed a decidedly
ititPioved tone, although not on a very extensive
tee. The money market remains in the same con-
ttiil°ll of plethora, and no investments are found to
114°.te it. Imports have found somewhat freer sales,
still at prices showing a heavy loss. Freights
'till
)tii, rule high, and the promising news from China
help to maintain them for the present.

1„, COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
heat-Stock Shares—The market for joint-stock shares
(41,1) with no activity.
Dolt .ternment Securities—There is no new feature to re-
is this market ; the operations are limited and en-
-110 for local account.
4eY-raarket—Money is literally a drug, and cannot
Itimtanployment at even from 3i per cent. to 4 per cent.,
kig little hope of resent improvement. Trade is miser-
dill and only transactd at a loss.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
MADRID, DEC. 12.
e budget of expenses has been voted.
1:0 Leon _Espanol announces that General
ez has retired altogether into private life.
ttvit
18astrous inundations have taken place in
several buildings were overwhelmed at Santa Fe.
hAn he Badajoz Asylum was swept away, and
'
Children were killed and injured.

BOMBAY, Nov. 16.
The sth Europeans have mutinied at Dinapore,
4110 re been disbanded.
1,, man was shot.
The combination against the income tax con-
Iles to be maintained in Bombay.