The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1858.

LATEST NEWS.

INDIA AND CHINA MAILS,

(By ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY MORNING.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Pera, Captain Jamieson, has arrived. She left
Alexandria on the 7th inst., Malta the 15th.

She brings 18 packages specie, value not stated,
1.777 bales and 15 cases silk, 59 cases shawls, &c.
She also brings 162 passengers, and landed 40 at
Malta.

The Hon. F. W. A. Bruce, with the new treaty
concluded with China for the signature of her
Majesty, proceeded via Marseilles ; also the Mar-
quis de Bellecourt, bearer of the French treaty for
the autograph ; and Doctor Bradley, bearing the
American treaty.

FRANCE.

PARIS, SUNDAY.

BOURSE, September 18, Two o'clock.—The mar-
ket has been buoyant, and prices show some im-
provement. Threes have been done at 73f. sc.
and 73f. 15c. ; Mobilier varied from 967 f. 50e. to
9601. ; Orleans, 1,432 f. 50c. to 1,435 f. ; Northern,
1,0051. to I,olof. ; Lyons, 877 f. 50c. to 885 f.; Eastern,
750 f. to 755 f. ; Southern, 612 f. 50c. to 617 f. 50c. ;
and Austrian, 6901. to 687 f. 50c. At half-past
three the following were the last quotations :-
41. per Cents. .... 96 Credit Foncier 675
Do. end month .. Belgian 41
3 per Cents. 73 Piedmontese (5)
Do. end month.... 73 10 Roman 92 50
Bank Shares 3140 Austrian —
Credit Mobilier 962 50 Spanish Threes
Do. Account 962 50 Home Debt 4O

city the deaths for the week ending the 7th were
450.

Two or three persons had been killed by an
cident on the Hudson. River Railroad.

The mission to Paraguay had been tendered to
Judge James B. Bowlin of Missouri.
The returns of the Vermont elections showed the
following result :—Republicans, 50; Democrats,
11 ; no choice, 1.
The vote for members of Congress ran nearly
with the State ticket, and each of the Republican
candidates were elected by a very large majority.
Advices from Great Salt Lake City report that
the election had resulted in favour of none but
Mormons. The average vote for them was 1,018 ;
that for the " Gentile" list 37.
Advices from Mexico state that the Liberals, cap-
tured Tampico on the 25th ult. Gen. Miramon
and the Reactionists were hotly pressed. Gen.
Vidaurri was concentrating 10,000 men at San
Luis, with the intention of marching on the capital.
Funds were plenty. A fearful gale and inunda-
tion occurred at Brazos on the 26th ult.
The New York commercial advices of the 7th
report the rate of exchange on London as 109,1 to
1091. The bank statement of the week, as com-
pared with the preceding returns, showed a decrease
of 198,584 dols. in loans, and 580,367 dols. in the
nominal deposits, while there was an increase of
214,460 dols. in the undrawn deposits, 231,658 dols.
in specie, and 281,403 in circulation.
Cotton was active ; the quotation for middling
Uplands was 12a to 131. Breadstuffs were heavy
and unsettled, at a reduction of about sc. to 10c.
for all common and medium_iit , SEPT.Kgra 9? EVENING.
grades. The demand
for wheat was fair. Corn was rather lower.
NEW yo
The sales of cotton in this market during the past
lands
firm,
two days foot up 4,000 bales. Pricesiiiiddlirnegveuryp
bandn
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lower
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while for wheat
Breadstuffs have a declining tendency. Flour is
easier, but not quotablyi3g
and Indian corn prices have receded lc. .to 2c. per
bushel.
Provisions are steady at the prices advised per
mail.
The stock-market is dull, and prices of the lead-
ing securities are rather easier.
Messrs. Neill, Brothers, and Co., under this day's
date, quote middling uplands here at 131 e. with a
firmer market. Their account? of the growing crop
tontine bad, and the receipts and exports are quite
ght.

HALIFAX, SEPT. 9.
The royal, mail steamship Asia; from Liverpool,
arrived here early on the morning of the Bth, and
we learn from Webee that the steamship North
American has reached that port.
NEW YORK, SEPT. 9.
The screw steamship City of Baltimore sailed
hence at noon to-day for Liverpool, having on board
26 cabin and 200 steerage passengers.

'BY ELECTRIC AND INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH,
LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 20.

The screw steamship64W Baltimore has ar-
rived in the Mersey, bringing advices from New
York to the 9th inst., and 97,341 dols. in specie and
gold bars.
On the 9th the City of 'Baltimore passed the
steamer Pacific and the ship Towler, bound in ; on
the 17th the barque Chieftain, bound west ; and on
the 19th, off Maiden Light, the royal mail steamer
Arabia, bound west.

This passage of the City of Baltimore is one of
the most extraordinary on record for a screw
steamer.

The suspension of despatches by tie Atlantic
Telegraph had occasioned anxiety, and Mr. Cyrus
Field had published the following despatch
" Sir,—l have received from Newfoundland a
despatch informing me that although the insulation
of the ocean cable remains perfect no message has
come over it for several days.
" The last telegraphic despatch that I received
from England was dated London, Sept. 1.
"What may be the cause of the cessation we don't
know, but conjecture that it is the change of
the shore end at Valentia, which I was informed
was about to be made ; but it should also be
stated that Professor Thomson was to succeed
Professor Whitehouse in a series of experiments
upon the cable ; and, although his system was re-
garded by all practical telegraphers in England as
perfectly childish, it is quite possible that the pre-
sent delay in transmitting, intelligence is attributa-
ble to Thompson's experiments.
" It was also known at the sailing of the Africa
that the directors, despairing of satisfactory results
from the sysiems of Professors Whitehouse and
Thompson, had arranged with Professor Hughes to
take charge of the electrical department of the com-
pany's business, and it was expe-Aed that the
Hughes's printing telegraph instrument would be
placed at Trinity Bay and Valentia on or about the
20th or 21st inst., and from the experiments made
while the cable was at Plymouth there is no rea-
sonable doubt that Professor Hughes will be able
to transmit, intelligence through the cable reliably,
and at the rate of about 300 words per hour."
" CYRUS W. PIELD.

" New York, Sept. 8."
The Goyernment had agreed to accept the offer
of the COlonisation Society in respecf to 'the-cap-
tured Africans.

The American and Republican Convention were
in session at Syracuse ; the lion. Daniel T. Jones
was appointed President of the former, and the
Hon. Daniel Ullman, President of the latter.

The closing prices of stocks were as follows :
New York Central, 791 to 79a; Erie, 181 to 181 ;
Reading, 49 to 491 ; Galena, 831 to 831 ; Rock
Island, 721 to 721 ; Hudson River, 281 to 28a ;
Toledo, 341 to 34a • Michigan Southern, 241 to
24a ; Milwaukie and Mississippi, 17 to 171 ; Michi-
gan Central, 581 to 581 ; Hadem, 101 to 101 ; Mis-
souri Sixes, 841 to 841.
The foreign exchange-market was unchanged.
Ashes were quiet. Cotton was firm, and more
active. Scotch pig iron in moderate request.
Sales of molasses moderate. Spirits of turpentine
weak.
Breadstuffs unchanged.

Freights to British-ports rather firmer.
Sugars without change.

PROGRESS OF 4 USTR.ILLI.

In 1835 the first settlement was made inVictoria,
whence, up to 1851, the population went on increas-
ing. gradually until it reached 77,345 .souls in a
period of 16 years ; but from that date to March
31, 1851, little more than six years, it jumped, it
may be said, to 469,637 souls. The revenue, which
in 1651 was only £316,532 derived from all sources,
was £3,308,589 in 1857 ; of which latter sum
hod
of receipts
turuesrecee,
iiipnntcB3l übB ssyilN:,
sevaoalfs.l3l:gr4:olld9o,o4e x,900p08,0r
consequently;t d3uu ttin.
£1,595,283 was derived from receipts atthe Custom-
erlela
syh eei ndeexxpcee ns
popu-
lation required greatly increased expenditure, and
unavoidable outlays for roads, bridges, and other
public works. The expenditure in 1857 was, not-
withstanding, far within the revenue, andamounted
to £3,163,689. The number of vessels employed in
carrying on the export and import trade of the
colony has increased 208- per cent, since 1851,
when there were 710 ships entered inwards at the
Custom-house at Melbourne, but 2,190 in 1857 ;
the tonnage has advanced between the same dates
438 per cent., from 128,959 to 694,564 tons; and
the hands employed 549 per cent., from 7,735 to
34,777 men. The exports in 1851 were declared at
the value of £1,422,909, but at £15,079,512 in
1857. The imports in 1851 gave a total value of
£1,056,439 ; but in 1857 they were returned at
£17,256,209, the greater proportion of which were
from the mother .country. As, to postal. inter-
course, which is a safe barometer of the progress
of nations, .we find that no less than 2,415,933
letters, and. 1,333,639 newspapers were de-
livered inland; "and a shipment made to
other countries of 1,484,048 letters, and
1,648,531 neWspapers, in 1857. In reference to pub-
lie works, these statistics show that in 1851 there
was not a single mile of'macadamised road made .
beyond the towns of Melbourne and Geelong ; but
at the close of 1847 there were 450 miles of road
formed, 270 of which were • macadamised ; 300
bridges erected, and
many miles of viaducts con-
structed, at a cost altogether of £4,121,848; and
without reference to outlays to a considerable
extent, by district road boards. Two lines of rail•
way had been constructed by private companies.
The first from Melbourne to HobsOn's,Bay., with a
branch to St. Kilda, at a cost of £365,240 inclusive
of rolling stock, on which the profits are about 19
per cent., and after deducting
expenses and adding.
to the reserve fund, leave 14 per cent. pev annum
to the shareholders. The other line is that of the
Geelong and Melbourne, open to Williamstown, 40
miles, at a cost of £590,576. Two trunk lines are
to be constructed by the Government. Of commu-
nications by electric agency, no less than 701 miles
have been established in the colony, at a cost of
£70,000. There are 22 stations, at an annual
expense of £lB,OOO. The lines are to Sandhurst,
via Castlemaine, 102 miles ; to Belvoir, Murray
River, 191 miles ; to the South Australian boun-
dary, near Nelson, Glenelg River, via Geelong,
Ballarat, &c., 336 miles to Port Phillip Bay, at
Queenscliff, via Geelong, 70 miles; and to Sand-
ridge and the harbour of Hobson's Bay, 24- miles.
Such are some of the heads given in the report, and
they are sufficient, we think, to show the vast im-
portance of this colony, and the probability there is
of still greater increase in every department ; but
if anything further is necessary, we will mention
that in 1851 there were only
.six banks, and that
now there are 54, the paid up capital of which
£5,423,694. .2 .Tournae of Sept: 18.

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