The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-17 00:00:00

BATES OF FREIGHT AND aTIABTO

(From the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette.)
The tonnage loading on the berth for India, Chinft'd
the Cape of Good Hope amounts to 57,327 tons, and
for Australia and New Zealand to 39,434 tons.

Berth freights are unchanged. 04'
Freights to the West Coast of South America are °.ol'
tonnage being in little request. From the Tyne 0 to
paraiso for orders 275. to 28s. is obtainable, and 24%0
Callao. From the Guano Islands a few fresh orders
fot
the market at 70s. for Dunkirk and Nantes, and 65t,
lartinique. Nitrate charterers are at present inact`;gliti
Some little more inquiry is manifested in coal fre:
to the East, but the rates ruling for most of the ports 9to
still low, though shewing some little dispositi°/10'9d
advance. A ship is wanted at Singapore at ;i
Yokohama £42 to £43, and Shanghae at 435. 445'' ilia
£43 from the Tyne. Homewards, the orders from Itol.
and Java are the only freights quoted, and the in 4
from the latter is less pressing.
'"los°
River Plate coal freights are much the same. fof
for the Brazils are advancing, and the rate ap°
klaranham, for which a ship is much wanted, bas

up to Ns.
Tonnage is in good request for St. Thomas anu"
Unique. For logwood, from Jamaica, 37s GI is °yg
e
to United Kingdom or Continent.tm
•
Iron freights to the United States and Canada orlij
at the last quotations. There is but little doing 111
home.
The Mediterranean and Black Sea coal freights $
' eri
in the main, no material alteration. There is, 110`gfifot
more demand for tonnage for Constantinople All-A
tUe
Alexandria. Azoff home chartering is still slack, an lei'
rates from the Danube low. For cotton seed from P'e 0
andria 20s. per ton is offered for small vessels. 1:11:110°
also some little inquiry for steam tonnage from Triell"-
"alonica.

The Weekly Register strenuously denies the - rvt`
ment of the Pall Mall Gazette that difficulties have fi,j.rd
respecting the CEcurnenical Council. Nothing has ocetcjiiii
to delay even for an hour the assembling of the COIII3
December. 441

On Monday Bishop Jackson will have hi ° 1;0
experience in consecrating a church at which hie ;get'
is to prevail. It is the church of St Chad, I°l'oll
stone, at the East-end of London. There
will be Some
celebration during the octave, and the preachers will be °Ol
of the most noted men of the " advanced" artP
curiosity is felt as to the course which the bishopl did
The remains of the Earl of Radnor were ilitet'od.
on Thursday in the parish church of Brilford near
The fuberal was strictly private, being attended 0015
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P
membersvf the family and the prin
ci al an ser ts fro.' C°041,1
and Longford Castle. The chief mourners were the peg 10"
Earl of Radnor, Lord Penzance, Viscount Pelkosteeip
the Hon. John Bouverie. The lion. E. P. Bouverie''

was prevented by illness from being present.
and
The uncertainty as to whether Mr. Cl'a'y f,:
would become Dean of Lichfield or retain the per; °Via
Pancras is now over. The Echo says ho will Fil'Atigr'e4
parish for his deanery. Our contemporary
mistake has long prevailed that the vicarage 5 of St•
is a very wealthy Church living ; but it now esceri:ot °'ff
that it is not worth more than £5OO or £6OO a Yet'r.iags.
which there are payments for curates and other eetb- Or,
The Western Daily Press announces 018
Justice Hannen, who sentenced Wiltshire to death f,a
murder of Harriet Nurse, at St. George's, r,scoullveu,
convict to the mercy of the Crown ; but that, /,`•
violent assault upon the warder in Gloucester Glic'ecoPl;
lordship was induced lo alter his opinion, and the fa r
raendatioa was withdrawn. _ The exoeuttegjf-i
ILandaz.next. _