The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-27 00:00:00

EXCHANGE AND BULLION.

The assumed certainty of war in Europe having appa-
rently caused the exercise of great caution on the part of
drawers, bills have been procurable to a limited amount
only. Buyers' requirements having, however, been also
small, the fall is not so heavy as migt otherwise have been
the case. The banks having steadily declined to draw, our
quotation for this class of paper is quite nominal.
Oa London, bank rate, 6 months' sight, 6s. 51d. first-
class credits, 6s. 6d. ; documents and other bills, 6s. 6id.
per tael.
On Bombay, bank drafts, 3 days' sight, Rs. 303 ; Lon-
don drawn, bank bills, Rs. 303 per 100 taels.
On Hong Kong, bank drafts, 15 days' sight, 25 per cent
discount.

AMERICA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY MORNING.
The Persia has arrived, with the New York mails
of the 17th, and 378,682 dols. in specie.
The City of Baltimore, hence, had arrived out.
The Royal Mail steamer Conway arrived at Ha-
vannah on the Bth, with dates from Vera Cruz to
the 4th inst., and 2,000,000 dols.
C. Whitbread was among the passengers; be
and others having been banished.
At Havannah on the Bth sugar was quiet, at 71
reals per arroba for No. 12 ; stock, 250,000 boxes.
Sterling exchange, 13 to 141.

Freights unchanged.
Letters received at Washington, from Mexico
state that Captain .Aldhamin, commander of the
British naval forces, had assured the Government
that he would not enforce the measures contem-
plated for the redress of complaints.
There had been a heavy storm at Picton, and
numerous shipwrecks, with loss of life.
At New York sterling exchange was 11.0- to
1101; money abundant at 6L7 per cent.
The following were the latest quotations for
stocks :—United States Fives, 1873-4, 1011-; Vir-
ginia Sixes, 94; Missouri Sixes, 824; New York
Central, 71k; New York and Erie, 5 ; Reading
Railroad, 43; Michigan Central, 421; Michigan
Southern, Preference, 21k ; Cleveland and Toledo,
181; Panama Railroad, 115 ; Illinois Central, 641;
Illinois dentral Bonds,- 85t, ; Chicago and Rhode

Island, 62;
Galena and Chicago Railroad, 641;
Del. and Hudson Canal, 90 ; Cumberland Coal Com-
pany, Penn. Coal Company, Pacific Mail S. S.
Company, 73.
The Bank statement was favourable.
Potashes, 5 dols. 25c.; pearl, 5 dols. 50c. Cotton
dull : Middling Uplands, 118. State and Wes
stern
flour had further receded 20c. to 30c. pe lb.;
southern flour heavy, but held frrmly. Corn meal
slightly lower. Wheat had decline
rod.
was Corn had
advanced slightly. The demand for was h
Crude turpentine, 350 ; spirits of Dutch 441 ;
common rosin, 1 60 to 1 65 for cargo afloat.
Pro-
visions dull. Sugar dull, witha declining tendency.
Freights very dull.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
The Persia passed the steam ship Asia on the 18th, bound
for New York ; on the 24th, the British Empire, bound
east; and on the 25th, the British brig Radical
The Delta, from Cape Verdi, at Baltimore, reports the
British brig Seraphina, from St. Domingo for Falmouth,
wrecked at Fortune Island, 20th July : all hands saved.
The Saragossa cleared at New Orleans, for Philadel-
phia, on the 4th, and same day was discovered to be on
fire, supposed from spontaneous combustion, caused by
gunny: bags, which were saved from a burning warehouse
about two months before, and probably stript in a damp
state, though apparently dry.