The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-01 00:00:00

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eu,tem-housev, taking advantage, of circumstances, ex-
tort stoney from Oa merchants, we promise thet as Peon
as the merchants have pointed them out the delinquents
will be severely punished. No leniency will be shown
to them. Let all yield implicit obedience t A specia'
proclamation.

"LIST OF CHARGES.

T. m. c. c.
Hooehow and silk thread per bale 3 0 0 0
Coarse silk ,, 1 0 0 0
Refuse silk ,, 0 4 0 0

Silk piece goods, large
Silk piece goods, small ,, 1 1 0 0
Black tea, large chests per chest 1 1 6 0
Black tea, middle-sized chests ,, 0 1 3 4
Black tea, small chests__
Green tea, large and small chests ., 0 1 3 4
" I4sued on the 12th of July, 1857.
"The imp )st levied upon opium bae been also in-
creased from 12 dols to 24 dole.

COMMERCIAL.
HONG KONG, AUG. 9.

EXCHANGE —Orierrtal Sauk bine on London, C
montna' :sizfit, 44. lid. ; private bilk, 44. Hp. On
Calcutta and B mibay, 3 clays' sight, 226 rP„ Commer-
cial Bank of India, on L 6 ooatioe eight, 44.11 d. ;
at sight, 4.. 9d. On Calcutta and Bombay, 10 day's
biiit, 226 rs.

SHANGHAE, JULY 29

EXCHANGE.--There is a decline since last ni,ntb, the
it flux of bullion having been considerable. The closing
rates of 27th June were,—for Bank bills, 7s. 31. to 7s.
3i 1. ; private, 7s. 3Acl. to 7s. 4d. On India, 337 to 336
rupees. The amount of paper offering on the market is
n.t lsr;e. Present quotations are :—Bank bi,l4, 6s.
10d. to 6.4 ; private, 6a 11d. On Calcutta, 315 to
313 rupees. On Bombay, 310 rupees. On Bong Kong,
27 per cent, discount. Mexican dollars,

FRANCE.
PARIS, WEDNESDAY.
The Moniteur of yesterday publishes the follow
ing _

" METZ, SEPT. 29.

"The Emperor left Stuttgart this morning at
half-past 8 o'clock. The Prince Royal, the Princes
of the Royal family, and the Ministers and officers
of the Court were at the station. A. large crowd
was assem hied.

" The King's aides-de-camp, on attendance upon
the Emperor, accompanied him as far as Bruchsil.
"The Emperor arrived at Mannheim at elsven
o'clock.

" His Majesty was received there by General
Roberk, first aide.de-camp of his Royal Highness
the Grand Duke of Ba'len, who had sent Court
carriages to convey the Emperor and his suite to
Ludwigshafen, where His Majesty was received by
his Royal Highness Prince Luitpold, brother of the
King of Bavaria. At Sarrebruck the Emperor
found his Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia,
who was awaiting His Majesty.
" Along the whole line of road the German po-
pulation evinced the warmest sympathy for His
Majesty.
"At Forbach, the first French station, the po-
pulation of the place and of the district of Sarrc-
guemines gave the Emperor a hearty welcome at
the railway station.

"The Emperor entered the tdwn of Me! z, at 7
o'clock, in the midst of an immense crowd of peo
ple, who loudly cheered him.
" The health of the Emperor is excellenl-.
" The town of Metz is brilliantly illuminated.

" His Royal Highness Prince Henry
.of the
Netherlands was waiting at Metz to compliment
His Majesty.
" The Emperor attended the theatre in the
evening."

BOURSE, Sept. 31—The following ware the last
quotations :

Cash. fr. End of Month.
li per Cents
3 ,
per Cents 63 68
Bank Shares 2,810 Credit Foncier
Credit Mobilier 912 50 Roman
Do. Account 9OO -- Austrian
Belgian 44 . Spanish Threes —
riedmontese (5) 9O Home Debt

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K
IA A AN T

A ND

GOMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLoca.

The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
quie`ly, and prices were without any material
alteration. The sales were estimated at 5,000 bales,
500 of which were taken by the speculators. The
Railway Share Market exhibited more activity,
but quotations were a shade lower.
The position of the Money Market during Sep-
tenalwr is thus reviewed in the Banker's Magazine :
—" There , has been great stagnation in public
affairs during the past month. Depression un-
fortunately is the order.of the clay, through the
political position of India ; and the anxiety evinced
to ascertain the nature of the intelligence by each
mail shows the importance attached to the progress
of events In that quarter of the globe.
The result is that business is checked, uneasiness

created, and a general heaviness produced, which,
without severely affecting monetary or mercantile
interests, .prevents activity. Consequently during
the last fortnight there has almost been entire
stagnation and the operators in public securities
have generally suspended transactions. The value
of money is well supported and there is evidently
no expectation of a decline, the efflux of specie
to the continent, with the advance in the rates
of discount at Amsterdam, Hamburg, and
Berlin to 6i per cent., causing come par-
ties on the contrary, to believe that a prospect
exists of a movement in the other direction.
Notwithstanding large Australian remittances
have beeu received, the drain to France and Ham-
burg excites some apprehension, particularly since
the disturbance in the money circles of the United
States, where pressure and panic have prevailed,
has caused shipments of gold from New York to be

suspended. Trade generally appears to be scarcely
as sound as formerly, and the failures in the pro-
vinces although unimportant, indicate that weak

firms cannot resist the effects of the late main-
tenance of the rates for mercantile accommodation.
The minimum of the Bank of England has not
varied, while in Lombard-street the rate is fully
51 per cent."
During the last two .days, the pressure for dis-
count has been severe, under the twofold influence
of active revenue collections, and the preparations
for the 4th of the month. Full rates, and in some

instances an advance have therefore been exacted ;
but there is now a slight pause in the inquiry, and
the market is temporarily easier.
The Bank of England directors, as expected, have
made no alteration in the discount regulations at
their meetinz to-day, and, through the aid of the
October dividends, and the influx of gold, it is now
thought that no new measures will become neces-
sary this year. All are prepared for the continu-
ance of the present minimum, trade being carried
on to too great an 'extent to admit of a sufficient
accumulation of capital to influence the rates
_

favourably. Provision has now been made for the
commercial engagements due on Saturday, the
settlements at the Stock Exchange are com-
pleted, .and also the preparations for the shipl
ment of specie by the Colombo for India
and China. A short period of relief may now be
experienced. Specie is likely to arrive in large
quantities from Australia, several remittances
being now overdue, while of silver moderate sup-
plies miy be expected from Mexico.
,The steamer
Parana, just announced, brings nearly 400,000/2
Silver has been in active request during the last
two days and an adva,nce in prices has consequently

taken Pace.
A decline of about per cent. wal experienced
on the Paris Bourse yeitelday, the Rentes having
closed at 68f.

Diving the eight months ending August, the
imports of specie into ,France were valued at
17,500,0001., and the exports at 15,940,9001.
The market for Public Securities has been very
buoyant to day, and a rise of per Cent. has taken
place in consequence of real and speculative pur-
chases. There is a good deal'of animation, and
most securities are in demand, a better feeling,
having been generated by the, Revenue Returns,
And the expectation of better news from India
The mirkets consequently present a remarkable
contrast to what they did a few days ago whtri quo-
tations were almost nominal, and business was
nearly suspended. Consols have been 904 for
money, and 90g for account, and these are the
present quotations. India Bonds are 255. to 235.
discount, and Exchequer Bills are ls. better, viz.,
9s. discount.

An extensive business has been done in Foreign
Stocks. Tutkish 6 per Cents. have risen to 954 4
and the 4 per Cents. are 991. Transactions in
othf r securities have taken place as follows :—Bra-
zilian, 100 ; Deitch 24 per Cents., 641 ; Russian 5
per ents. 1094 • Mexican, 211 21. ; Buenos Ayres
6 per Cents., 81. ; Spanish Deferred, 251 ; ditto
Passive, si.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign.
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 5i 6 ; Mexi-
can, 21 21i ; Peruvian 4i per Cents., 794 80J ;
ditto 3 per Cents., -- ; Portuguese 3 per Cents.,
444 45i ; Russian 5 per Cents., 109 111 ; ditto
per Cents., 96 98 ' • Spanish 3 per Cents., 40i ;
ditto New Deferred, 25i ; ditto Certificates,

; ditto Passive, 5i 6. - -
The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
o this day, are in round figures as under :

1857.
.£31,501

1856.
£30,358

Great Western,

North-Western

67,546

65,497

South-Wobiern
Brighton .
Midland

16,532
18,472
35,365

16 858
19,215
33,161

Sauth- Eastern

23,359

25,724

Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire
Brit,t )1 and Exeter

28,374
26,531
7,036

25,960
24,192
7,448

Chs3ter and Holyhead •
East Lancashire

7,603
7,052

7,572
6,763

Llucashire and Carlisle.

Manchester, Sheffield, and Live°ln
North-Eastern

North London

North Stafford

Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver
'Vest Hartlepool
Edinburg,h at,d Glasgow
Glasgow and South• Western
Scottish North Eastern
Grand Truck of Canada
Great Western of Canada

7,362

11,682
39,626

2,387

8,191

4,881.
3,651
6,384
6,990
3,761
9,984
10,707

7,003

10.,012
37,593

2,171

7,199

4,236
3,408
6,008
6,773
3,563
5,069
12,134

Great Luxembourg
A rather active business has been transacted in
Railway Shares this morning, and an improve-
ment of about 1 to 2 per cant 7 may be quoted on
some of the principal lines. Midland advanced 2/. ;
North-Eistern (Berwick), 1/. ; and North-Eastern
(Y‘.ll), 11. 10s. ; Great Northern, 1/. • and South-
Eastern, ; Caledonian, Great Western, and
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton 10s. ; and
North-Western, 15s. to 11. The Foreign lines are
quiet, but firm ; Namur and Liege and Antwerp
and Rot.erdam were a shade higher. In the Colo-
nial undertakings East Indian unproved 10s. ; and
Groat Western of Canada, 15s. Grand Trunk of
Canada were at about former quotations.
Mining Shares exhibited no variation of import-
ance. Brazilian Imperial realise 2to 2i, and
Alfred 09nsols 12i,121, 13.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares show
a slight improvement. London Joint Stock have
advanced 54., and London and Westminster ss.
Oriental Batik and Provincial of Ireland realise
Previous values. In the Miscellaneous Shares no
transactions have been repoited.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official Lists)
Business done.
per c'snt Consols Annuities 9OA 901
I (11ft Bonds, 0090
')itto, under £lOOO 25 d
C P.:.
"Jr
ceouro,

I X !hog= Bllle, iid.
11000 .
- 5i.p..
S aa11......-..,... ..... .

50
25
100
25
50

20
20
20
20

10
20
5
20

PgICES OF FOE,EIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK
liiaziaan 5 per Cent.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. Bl
['latch Exchange, 26 per Cent., 12 64
M.)xican 3 per Ceut
Bus Ilan Bonds, 1822, 11 St., 5 per Cent lO9l
Sp 1411 Bonds, 3 per Cent.
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent.
Ditt, Passive
bonds, G pat cent 9sj
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payablein London.
Dutch Exchange, 26 per Cony., 12 Guilders 64i
TWO O'CLOCK.
Sn
(AA

Consols, monoy
Consols account

THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPIL—The necessary. arrange-
ments for establishing a direct line of telegraphic com-
munication along the coast between Madras and Calcutta
are being vigorously proceeded with ; the transport
i.teamer Manitia starts immediately for Ganjam with a
supply of wire to be used on the new line.—Spectator,
August 13. [rile wonder is, and more the pity, that
it was not finished years ago.—. Ed. Sun]
Despatches were received the Colonial-office yesterday
from the Governor of Malta.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland are still at Dun-
robin Castle, surrounded by a select circle. The Marquis
an.l Marchioness are expected to leave Dunrobin in a
few days, for Tr.rbert House, Roes-shire.
The extraordinary pressure for money on Tuesday
appears to have been caused chiefly by the receivers of
revenue having at the end of the quarter to pay over ati
the balance, in their hands to the Government account,
and the requirements en Wednesday were comparatively
modtrate.--yin,o.

SHA MARKM—(This Day.)

45
all
100
all
100
100

17i
100
all

100
all
10'J
100

all
all
100
100

,100
all
all
100

1100
100
all
all
all

RAILWAYS.

St. 'lOO
50 3i
St. 100
St. 100

20
20
10
St.

161
100
'Co

2s6d
lOs

FOR

Closing Pries,
yesterday

5 - 54
8 - 83

66 - 68

•• ...... •,..v
74 '''' 84

84 - 86
84} - 84!
33 - 34
7 -J 9

. •
.. - ••
3 - 5

10
20
20
20

8a 9
20 20,
56a 57,
45 47
30 33

17 - 18
91 - 93

Antwrp &Rotterdam'
Ardennes
Belgian East. Junct
Reziers to Graissessac
Carineaux & Toulouse
Coal Mines and Ry
Dutch Rhenish

Eastern of Franco
Do. New

Euphrates Valley
Qt. Central of France
Great Luxembourg
Italian Junction
Lake Coast. & Pak
Li erre and, Turnhout
Lombardo-Venetian
Lucca dr Pist.sp.c.l,.
Lyons and Geneva
Lyons & Mediterran
Maria Autezia
Do. New

all
all
all
all

=
- 62;

28 - 29

96 - 93
8 - 9
97 - 98
89 - 91
120 - 122
97 - 99
53t -54 i
60 - 05

Business don.
this day.

223
all
all
20

73 - 76
7} - 842
7* -- 8*
95i - 961

••• .N.:. .••

51 .4 51 •
162 - 103
901 -96 i

1d i
89/ 90.1

• -- •••
401 -41 i

8n _ 81}
55 - 57

13.4 - 14

59 - 61
3i - 3i
46A -47 i

6

2i
2'a
47 48
76 771
94 96

•.• - ..•
74
44 4i
- 8
10 - 10.1,

31 32
7 6 d

-
102 --
24 - 25
47 - 49
3 -- 2 41
33 - 35
61i - 651

f4l
131 144
54 —41 d
9 11
39 411

20i -- 24

7 - 9
3 -
5% -

57i 8}

611
28k 8

98 i

511 4 i 4

NI i i

97k a 7

821 I 3

48 9

92 a

77} 8!

313 i 2

651 i x d

97i 7 8
14t

FIGN.

sg Q

•••
- 1,'14

4 -
4 - 30
271 -27 i

/441 4 5 41

i; - 24i1
6 - 6ii

..d
.31 31P1

Namur & Liege
Do. do. 6 p. c. Pref
Northern of France
NorwegianTruk. Prof
Paris and Lyons
Paris and Orleans
Reeife & San Fran.,
(Peruam.) g. 7 p. C.
Rums and Fr%scAti
Royal l)anisii
Royal Swedish •
Sambre and Meuse
')o. 54 per cent. pref
Southern of Franco
West Flanders '.
Do. 5) per c. Prof
W.& N.W. of France
, Western of Austria
'West. of Switzerland
,Wiesbaden .
Do.B p. cent. pref.
Zealand .........

:L.- 274

- 7t
18 -19 fl
35i - 35}
9 - 10
3q - 35
54 - 56

1 isle

14 - 16
7 - 7i
-
25 - 25
44- - 54
91
27 - 2!q,

at BANKS.

F+2 - 8
- 34(1
48 _ 50

65 - 67

18
-
181 18i,

49 -
36 - 37
18 - 19

111. ..... •••

all
I
all
all

X
501 611
6 - 7

20
12i
25
20
St.

••• 4-- ... 1
.- ...d
13 ...... 114

31i
471 61
21A

LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS.

Leasing
Companies

Closln Prices
yesterday

26
13i1
20
St.

St.
121
14
124

100
54

;1 all
100
all
all
all
all
100

all
100
100
100
100
3i
1100

Ln.&N.W.
CaWon...
E.U.&E.O
Gt.Northn
E. Count.
Caldonian.

92 - 94
94 - 96
12 - 14
134 - 136
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Do..

Elt.Westn.
Y. k N.M
Do
Do

liii : liii

S. Eastern
Do

25
10
L 0.61

12 - 124
224 - `2:34
93- - 97

Peto & Co
Do
lin. &N. W
& Midld
Midland

1100
100
100
100
all
all

Business
this dal

2i - 2
90 - 91

E. Count
Do
Do ...
Do

par - 1 p
54 56

L. &A . W
Do
Gt. Northn
T. Braeseyi
M. MClean
Stk.&Dar
Do
Gt.Westn

128 - 130
-
9 -9!

31 - 32
85 - 87

M SFIARES.

••• - •••
89 - 91

94 - 96

... -- ...
51 -- 64

1110 -- 113
1117 -- 122
105 -- 107
10i -- 105
122 -- 124

••• •••
63 - 70

114 - 116

LOG - 108
LOO - 102

60 - G 2
10 - 102'

-
87 - 8 1
81 - 83
82 - 84
96 - 93
9 -
16 -
91 - P.;"
69 - 71
181 - 19
-
131 - 14

135 - 139
111 - 113

1155 - 157

-
6'2 - 66

119 131
94 c 6
85 87

ioi = iij

U 5 - 101

90 - 92
- 1(1

22 -

1110 - 112
100 - 105

10 = i'64

21!2 -22
P 5 - 10,)
95 - 100

14 - 16
264 - 2741
14 - 24p1

.• • ..-. • ..
45 - 50

45 6

ENGLAND'S SUMMER, 1857.

The echoes of the rage of war
Fade in the Eastern distance ;
" Two years ago" looms very far
In our well-filled existence :
On that broad Eest, yet more remote,
We waste not thoeght or feeling,
But muse on British flags afl )at,
And swarthy millions kneeling.
Week after week the summer sun,
Undimmed by cloud or shower,
With an Italian speed brings on
The happy harvest hour ;
The arts of peace, by plenty nuret,
Proclaim the world's alliance,
Even in the merry trumpet burst,
And shouts of gay defiance.
Then flash along
,the sentient-wire
Some words so brief and fearful,
That they wbo hear them scarce desire
To see their children cheerful :
Tidings that through wide Hindostan,
Where Britain's rule stood surest,
No life is safe of Christian man,
The loftiest or the poorest.
Is it a nation roused to meet
In arms a strange dominion ?
A people maddened by the heat
Of just or false opinion ?
No ; soldiers cared for as our sons,
And clothed with England's honour,
Have turned their parricidal guns
With basest craft upon her !
Soon things that make young blood run cold
We whisper, while we tremble ;
Or cry that truths shall not be told
We to ourselves dissemble ;
And hideous images affright
Our soul's deep hidingielacee,
And in our sleep we start at eight
Of unknowst forms and faces.
Our fair expanse of green and gold
Can hardly find us grateful,
The very sun that could behold
Such scenes is almost hateful ;
Warns rays flare up to cruel heat,—
We sicken and we languish,
With those on whose sad heads they beat
Intolerable anguish!
We mark, as comes the breeze of morn
.To freshen and to sweeten
The ripples of the oaten corn,
The billows of the wheaten ;
And feel that not one such sweet breath
Can reach where parch'd and tangled
The earth gives up to wasting death
Our brethren foully mangled.
And ob I the pangs of those who know
What never must be spoken—
Hearts that will bear about the woe
Of memory until broken :
God give them thoughts of those who died
In Christendom's first ages,—
The child, the veteran, and the bride,—
The saints of history's pages !
For these are Christian martyrs too—
And Engl cad's all the dearer :
The mighty werk she has to do
These agonies brings nearer ;
Conjuring her by that pure blood
No moment to abandon
The task of work'.-embracing good
She once has laid her hand on.
She cannot match the devilish deed,
Nor mate the hideous treason,—
Her blow is not the traitor's weed,
But self-defending reason :
That will be lavish of its life,
And hold all cost uncounted
Till through the length and breadth of strife
'lsis peril be surmounted.
Then may she pardon—only then—
When shamed and conscience-stricken,
The credulous or slothful men
Who let the horror thicken—
Who little knew and nothing planned
The evil bond is sever,
Nor dared to burst it with the hand
Of resolute endeavour.
Yet while the rulers we condemn,
Who failed in due prevision,
We trust for Britain' as for them,
In history's great decision,—
That subject lands more justly ruled,
And strength more mildly wielded,
Had never bean, that when befoolad
To noble hopes we yielded ;
Hopes
of a world the force of law,
The worth of knowledge prizng ;
From Heathendom's debasing avve
To Christian reverence rising ;
Hopes of a people struggling forth
From custom's deep entrancement,
Led by the conquerors of the north
To Freedom's safe advancement.
Ba this an Oriental tale
By Saxon pride engendered,—
Hopes for a hundred years may fail,
Yet not he all surrendered :
And now from each distracting scene
Of passion fiercely nourished,
We know what India might have been
Had Moslem tyrants flourished ;
So would have been, and yet would be,
If England shrank from dity.
. . Teen watch your harvest wealth with glee ;
Rejoice is Nature's beauty,
Matting her bounties ministers
Of toil and self-denial,
Aud Victory's surest harbingers,
After the fiery trial. R. M. M.