The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-11 00:00:00

INDIAN FINANCE.

On Saturday copies were issued of a financial
despatch from India, dated Feb. 22, and of a finan-
cial despatch to India, dated the 31st ult. The
latter is as follows :

"1. From your despatch dated Feb. 22, 1859,
No. 28, and the notification issued on February 21,
which accompanies it, her Majesty's Government
observe that you have now brought forward another
financial measure, viz., a loan of five crores, at an
interest of 5+ per cent., to which subscriptions may
be paid, half in cash and half in five per cent, paper,
the same to be opened on the first May proximo ;
and that you have also resolved that, in place of the
issue of Treasury bills on the terms previously
notified, a new issue of thOse bills will take place
from the Ist May next, bearing interest at the rate
of 2+- pies per cent, per diem.
"2. If the measure of a Five-and-a-half per Cent.
Loan be unsuccessful, you have intimated that you
will request her Majesty's Government to supply
the deficiency from England.
"3. The amount of your loan for 1859.60 has
been fixed at five crores, exclusive of the sum that
may be realised from Treasury Bills, and your re-
quirements from the date of your communication,
sth February, 1859, to 30th April, 1860, in excess
of the revenue receipts is estimated at about 11+,
crores, including payments in India on account of
railways, but independent of any sums which may
have to be paid within the year on account of prize
money, or of compensation for losses sustained in
the mutiny. But this requirement of 111 crores is
based on the supposition that 12 crores will be held
in cash balance on Ist May, 1860, an amount which
you consider may possibly be reduced by two crores,
in the event of tranquillity being maintained. As-
suming that you will be able to dispense with e,
larger cash balance than 11 crores, and that the
increased customs and stamp duties should realise,
as estimated, within the year, an additional revenue
of one crore, your requirement will be reduced to
crores, of which you hope to raise five in India,
independently of any amount which may be bor-
rowed previous to 30th April next, or which may
be raised subsequently in Treasury Bills, or by
cash paid into the Five per Cent. Loan by English
holders of loan property under the arrangement of
which you were apprised by my despatch dated the
9th inst., No. 20.
"4. Under the circumstances of the present emer-
gency her Majesty's Government cannot hesitate to
support you with remittances to the full extent
which may be called for, though compliance with
your requisition compels them to apply to Parlia-
ment for further borrowing powers.
" 5. My despatch, dated the 16th March, apprised
you that a second million of bullion would be im-
mediately remitted, so as to arrive, if possible, in the
course of the month of May, and that, if indispens-
able, a third million would be despatched. With
reference to the notification you have now issued,
her Majesty's Government will take measures for
the supply of the third million without waiting
for any further communication from you, and they
will also be prepared to supply any sum which you
may fail to raise by your loan operations in India.
" 6. In the event of your finding that your esti-
mated receipt from loan in India is not likely to be
realised, her Majesty's Government desire that you.
will give them prompt and early information of
the same.
" 7. They further desire that an estimate of the
Indian receipts and charges for 1860-61 may be
prepared as soon as practicable , and that the same
be transmitted at such a date as will ensure its
being received here by the lst January next.
" 8. Large as is the
immediate deficiency of ways
and means in the present year, it is satisfactory to
jfind from the regular estimate of the year 1858-59,
ust closing, that the agrege ts, notwith-
standing the unparalleled crisis recei
thropugh which
India has just passed, are fully sustained on com-
parison. with former years. Her Majesty's Govern.
ment admit the exceptional nature of this crisis,
and viewing the present embarrassments as result-
ing solely from the extraordinary military exeu_
diture which has been necessitated, they fully rely
on your so carrying out the intention expressed in
effecting
reductions in the present enormous war charges
as early and to as great an extent as may so as to ensure that the restoration of pyeacesaand
speedily have its natural effect on the Government
"9. In all well-devised
y on receiving
realised, shall
finances.
Majesty's Government?'
measures, having this
you may rel
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CoUIVTRY IifARKBTS.

LIVEREOOL—APRIL 9.
Our corn exchange this week has again been dull, the
operations of buyers being limited to mere retail wants,
and no change whatever can be made in the price of any
article.

NORWICH—APRIL 9,
There was rather a fuller attendance of farmers at
his market to-day, and a fair supply of wheat sold at the
full prices of last week, there being a better feeling in the
trade,

YORK—APRIL 9.
At thi3 corn market to-day there 'was a very small show
of wheat, and the prices of all descriptions of grain were
at a slight decline on last week. A slow inquiry for beans,
which were scarce, at late rates.
Wheat .......... .376 to 40s Oats. • .......... 20s to 241
White do, ........ 40s to 448 Beans ........ 40s to 42s
Barley ......... ..28s to 345 Beans, new ...... —s to -5
Malt, 64s to —s per qr. ; flour, 28s per 20 stone.
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oxpoR,APRIL 9.
a slow
This day there was a limited show of wheat, and
demand, in consequence of the farmers asking
White samples realised 45s to 495.
high, prices.

for wheat ,-
chane in' NOTTINGHANI—Aritm 9.
We have to report less animation in the demand to-day
banardleyP
news doing Prices
to farmers demanding an advance. White wheat, new, 4.4 s to 50s Barley, grinding-288 to 304
Red do. .......... 388 to 44s Oats, old, • ...... 24s to 30s
Old white ........ 445 to 50s New, do .......... 26s to 304
Red do.. .......... 38s to 42s Bean.s.. .......... 48s to 514
Barley, malting.— 36s to 44s Peas ......... —s
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LEICESTER_ APRIL 9.
We continue to be fairly supplied with wheat ;
no great activity in the trade, and a dull business passing
there isg
at late rates. No change is made in the
price of
Barleyey in retail demand, but choice malting qualiti oats.
es sold
at high rates. Beans is higher.
Wheat ... 39s to 43s Oats.s to 293
White do .43s to 47s Bean.... ....... ........ 25
to
—s
Barley. .355 to s ..
39s Ditto, old ... • ...42rs to 46s
Fine flour, 30s I Seconds, 288 •
I Thirds, 26s per 3ack.
CHELMSFORD—APRIL 8.
We haair supplies of all descriptionswheatgood previous
rates.
Wheat, white.... 39s to sls Peas, Partridge ..40s to 453
red ...... 378 to 49s White
........ to 40s
Barley .......... 30s to 40s Boiling ...... 40Ds to 45s
Chevalier ....323 to 438 Dun . .•. ..... to 403
Grinding ...... 25, to 33s Beans, Ti.k ....Via to 39s
Chevalier . ..
:65075s to
6%8
3' is to 38s
Oats ............ 22s to 32, ivillyzraogwanTicks 313 s to 42s

DUBLI
We had a dull and N—APRIL 8.
heavy market at our corn exchange
toas-day, without any alteration in the general currencies of
lt market day. Nothing doing in Indian corn.
s. d. s. d. s. d. s. 11.
Wheat, white.. 23 oto 26 0 Do., new ..... 11 6to 13 0
Do., red ...... 21 6t023 6 Bare . ........ 10 0 to 12 0
Doyleew ..•• 23 oto 26 0 Rapeseed. .. • . 26 0t029 0
Bay ...... . 11 oto 17 0 Oatmeal. ..... 13 oto 14 6
Oats ........ 11 oto 13 0 Bakers' flour .. 13 oto 18 0
Do., black. 10 6toll 0 Indian corn .. 28 oto3o 0
...--_,—,......222......-- -----

BIRTHS.
ALisox..OA.the Bth inst., at Elm-row, Hampstead, ma-
EACiIIieDSLeXEYM-W"I'LDNIOAhT.—soOnn, otfhae son.
inst., at Woolwich, the
wife of Colonel F. Eardley-Wilmot, R.A., of a son.
GRAcWieN-T.—On
wife th the 2
the d inst., at Easter Elchies,
Craig-Ella-
of a,
son. e of Hon. George Essex Grant, of Grant,
WOOD.—On the 9th inst., at 16, Chesham•place, the wife
of Major-Gen. Wood, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES
CAnnEN—Minsn.—On the 9th inst., at St. Gabriel's
C 7th Rehurch,
t. to Pimlico, Captain William J. Carden, H.M.'s
P. Marsh
7g, Eliza Jane, only child of the late Henry
, Esq., of Martham Hall, county of Norfolk.
CARTER—BOSTOCK.—On the 6th inst., at St. George's,
Hanover-square, Henry Carter, of 6, Arlington-street,
Piccadilly to Margaret, third daughter of Pryce Rostock,
of Carshalton, Surrey.

DEATH S.
ARTIIUR.—On the 6th inst., at Dolby-terraee, Islington,
Mr. John Arthur, late of
aged 60. Llanelly, Carmarthenshire,
BERENS.—On the 7th inst., at ShrivenhamVicaraget Arch-
deacon Berens, aged 81.
BISSET.—On the 2d inst,, at Hitchin, Herts, the Rev. Jas.
Bisset, aged 88.
HILLAM.—On the Bth inst,, at Brighton, George Walsh
Hallam, Esq., of Brent Pelham Hall, Herts, a magistrate
aid dep.-lieut. for the county, aged 63.
HA.YGA.RTII —On the 7th inst., the Rev. John Sayer Hay-
garth, Principal of the Royal Agricultural College, aged
47.
TAYLOR.—On the 7th inst., Joseph Taylor, Esq., AI R.C.S.
aged 77.

LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG',
of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The S'un Office, No. 112,
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savor, in the co outy • 1
Aliddlesez, IV[onday, April 11, 1869.