The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-09 00:00:00

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans 1421 25 .. 1422 50
Northern 985 987 50
New ditto 915 .. 915
Lyons and Mediterranean 1021 25 .. 1022 50
Geneva 350 —.—
Southern 660 662 50
Western
Eastern
Sardinian 360 .. 362 50
Austrian
Lotrbard .........

By the arrival o:
ceived files of paps
August, and from

INDIA.

We take the fol
of the 12th of Aug
" The English
in Bombay on the

" The season con
weather most favo,

throughout the len,

" The Committek
have announced t,
that there is no lon

of their subscription.
" We give the fc
a traveller through the Doab a conspicuous place in
our heads of intelligence :

" ' The aspect of the country is wonderfully
changed. From Allighur to Delhi, from Delhi to
Meerut, and from Meerut to Mooradabad, the coun-
try is one glorious mass of green, variegated here
and there, where the land is low and flat, by patches
of water. Population seems called into existence
as by a wizard's wand, and every acre of ground,
however distant from a station or remote from a vil-
lage, is brought under the influence of the plough.
From early dawn to dewy eve, as the carriage con-
veys you from one station to another, look where
you will there are husbandmen with their oxen,
studded all over the plain busy with their plough.
A stranger travelling through this part of the coun-
try would scarcely credit that famine had so recently
visited the land. His entrance into a station, how-
ever, would tell him a sad tale. The sufferers of the
famine, though not numerous,
hesishear their testimony to
ia;irtey,yaentdsatffio cciaelnitfotor
sympathy.draw
et
po 0
oexciteu s
this. Better times, however, are at hand; and
when one reflects on the barren state of the Doab
but a month back, and sees the country as it now is,
he may without exaggeration say it is a land flow-
ing with milk and honey.'
" The Paper Currency Act, to provide for a Go-
vernment paper currency, received the assent of the
Viceroy on the 16th of July. This Act provides
for the establishment by the Governor-General in
Council of a department of the public service, to be
called the Department of Issue, for the issue of
promissory notes of the Government of India, pay-
able to the bearer on demand, for such sums, not
less than 10 rupees, as the Governor-General of
India in Council shall from time to time direct.
Circles of issue are to be established in British In-
dia. The whole amount of bullion and coin received
for notes is to be kept as a reserve to pay such notes,
excepting an amount not exceeding four crores of
rupees to he fixed as the minimum limit of circula-
tion.

" The indigo question has been further embittered
by a public trial---' The Queen v. James Long,' for
publishing a libel upon the indigo planters and the
_Englishman newspaper, which took place on the 19th
and 20th of July in the Supreme Court, Calcutta,
before Sir Mordaunt Wells. The jury brought in a
verdict of guilty, and on the 24th idem the judge
sentenced the Rev. Mr. Long, to one month's im-
prisonment, and a fine of 1,090 r. The lion. Seton
Karr, implicated in the circulation of the libel, has
averted a probably similar punishment by a public
apology.
"The Government of Bonbay has finally de-
cided upon Warree Bunder a 3 the terminus of the
Great Indian Peninsula Railway, and Colaba as the
terminus of the Bombay and Baroda Railway.
" Tile European and native residents of Bombay
are memorializing Government for the abolition of
the ramparts of the fort, ak the dedication of the
space thus obtained to the use of the public. The
ground now occupied by the ramparts would realize
a sum of 60 or 70 lacs of rupes ; and the commer-
cial interests of Bombay are suffering greatly for
want of room. The ramparts are of no practical
utility in a military point of view.

"There is now a decided break in the weather—
we have had open weather or eight days. The
fall of rain up to this day, the 12th of August, has
been 68 inches.

" The health of the city tnd neighbourhood is
generally good."

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
REPORT ON THE BO2IBAY MARKET.
(l romp the Bombay Gazett? of August 12.)
The reports from the interior continue favourable
as to the progress and prospects of the monsoon
and the crops.
The import-market has relapsed into D. languid

SEPTEMBER 9, 1861.

state, and former prices are no longer obtained.
Notwithstanding the increasing value of goods in
Manchester, the accumulation ef stocks here, the
heavy shipments on the way, and the want of de-
mand from the interior have induced the dealers to
draw back, and the importers to be less firm. To
effect sales holders have been obliged to submit to
easier rate 3.

The export-market is firmer ; with the exception
of cotton, in which the business is active, there is
little doing for other produce in consequence of
scanty supplies,

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 8.

The Royal Mail steamship Persia, Capt. Judkins,
has arrived, with advices from New York to the
28th ult. On leaving she spoke the ships Union
Rinaldo, and the Royal Mail steamship Asia, bound
in. On the 29th the City of Washington, Hibernia,
and Teutonia had arrived out. Passed the ship
Cultivator, bound west, and the screw steamer
Chersonese, bound east. On the 4th inst. spoke the
schooner Petrel, bound east.

The New York Tribune publishes the following
special despatch from Washington :
" Mr. Adams, Minister at St. James's, writes that
in the British mind the independence of the rebels
is fully admitted as a military and political neces-
sity ; that their acknowledgment by England is
but a question of time and prudent courtesy ; that
while Britain is impatient to get cotton from the
South in exchange for manufactured goods, she is
anxious not to lose Northern markets,and is unwil-
ling to part with her hope of breaking down the
Morrill Tariff, by the same means with which she
chained the North with the Walker Tariff ; and
that two or three more successes like that of Bull's
Run would entitle the slaveocracy to immediate
recognition."
The Secretary of the Treasury had issued a cir-
cular to the officers of Customs, containing the in-
structions necessary to insure a strict observance of
the non-intercourse ordered by the President's late
proclamation. •
Passes had been refused to the representatives of
the press, and they were consequently unable to
visit the camps on the Potomac.
Mr. Berrett, Mayor of Washington, had been
sent to Fort Lafayette for refusing to take the oath
of allegiance. Mr. D. C. Lowber, of New Orleans,
' a bearer of despatches from President Davis, had
been arrested on his way to embark for England.
General M.Clellan had reviewed in detail every
brigade of troops in the neighbourhood of the
capital.
Mrs. Phillips, wife of a Washington counsellor,
had been arrested on a charge of holding treason-
able communication with the enemy. Females
arrested by the Government were permitted to re-
main at their residences, a guard being placed at
the doors to prevent escapes or communication with
friends. After Mrs. Phillips was thus honoured,
she called out of the window to a friend, " Ain't
you proud of your country ? See here, I am a
prisoner!'
It had been decided to prohibit the carriage of
correspondence from Confederate States by express
companies.
Some rioting had occurred at Danbury, Connec-
ticut, in consequence of the raising of a " peace
flag." The peace men, being the most powerful,
attained their object after some fighting.
The transmission by post of journals which de-
precated the continuance of the war was strictly
forbidden. Even the New York Journal of Com-
merce, a paper of moderate principles, had come
under the ban.

The New York tribune of the 21st publishes ex-
tracts of correspondence found on the person of Mr.
Robert Muir, of Charleston, confined in Fort
Lafayette. One letter from James S. M. Carter, is
dated Charleston, July 31, and is addressed to
" Charles Cavendish Clifford, M.P., House of Com-
mons, London," and gives a resume of the events
which had occurred, but with whichour readers are
familiar. He says in one portion that he is
" pained to see the disposition of my neighbours to
underrate the courage and patriotism of the North,
and have feared it might have led us into fatal se-
curity. The last battle has taught us that the
Yankees will fight, and most desperately, and will
lead to greater caution in future. I could hope that
neither section would be again humiliated by so dis-
astrous a defeat as that of Manassas. The bankers

are everywhere subscribing the half of their entire

crops to the Government loan. Evcryyrheie in
North Carolina and Virginia there is a promise of
most abundant crops, and I have never seen such
favourable prospects for planters as there are now."
Another letter says, " Have no doubt that there
will soon be direct opportunities with the South by
steam." A Miss Annie K. Anderson, writing from
Norfolk on the 11th of Jaly, states that the
blockade had caused everything to rise in value, and
that meat was almost beyond the reach of the poor.
The schooner Henry Middleton was loading with
600 barrels of spirits for Liverpool, and would run
the blockade. " Mr. Robert Muir," the letter
says,—

" One of the parties interested in the adventure,
and by whom I send this, will confer and advise
whether it will be better for the schooner to clear
for a Northern port, so that, in case she is ordered
off by the blockading fleet, she may proceed to New
York or Philadelphia. Confer with Mr. Muir on
this point, and whether it will be necessary to put
her under the British flag. Endeavour to have
some goods to meet the raising of the blockade.
Salt is worth to-day 4 dols. per sack."
Mr. R. T. Walker, of Charleston, writes, on Aug.
6, to Mr. Charles Moore, of Liverpool, that 600
barrels of spirits of turpentine had been sold for

shipment to Liverpool at 25c. the gallon :
" Should the vessel be overhauled by the blockad-
ing fleet, the captain has instructions to fire her.
The parties making the shipment are determined
the -- Yankees will derive nlo benefit from it.
The stock of spirits in the place is about 1,200 bar-
rels ; none of it for sale under 30c. There will be
very little resin received here this year, in compa-
rison with the last, many of the distillers having
abandoned the business."

Among other letters was a draught for £250
from the Bank of South Carolina in favour of R.
Stokes, being a legacy. Raveul and Co., of
Charleston, send a draught in favour of Coates, of
Paisley, for 717 dols. A mother and daughter
write to their " dear Willie," and mention that
there was little tea or coffee for sale in Charleston.
Mr. E. N. Thurston, of Charleston, writes to Mr.
C. K. Priolau, of Liverpool, and speaks hopefully
of the state of affairs.

It is mentioned in Washington letters that the
Government contemplated encouraging privateer-
in, ventures by waiving their claim to a share in
prizes captured. _ _

With the sanction of the Federal Government the
foreign Ministers at Washington had opened a cor-
respondence with their respective consuls atSouthern
ports, requesting them to obtain the release of
foreigners captured by Southern vessels,
On the representation of Lord Lyons several sol-
diers claiming to be British subjects had been dis-
charged from the army.
The refractory men of the 2d Marine and 13th
New York Regiments had been despatched to the
Dry Tortugas, where they would be confined. The
place of their imprisonment is reported to be very
unhealthy.
There were, according to Washington letters of
the 27th, indications of a general advance of the
rebel army, and it was dexterously seizing many
unoccupied poinp that would be of great import-
ance in the event of an :attack. A large force had
been thrown forward to Bailey's Crossroads, where
they are making a strong entrenched position. At
Vienna they had assembled in some force, and Fede-
ral scouts reported a large body at Falls Church.

A secret expedition sailed from Fortress Monroe
on the 27th, under the command of General Butler
and Commodore Stringham. It consisted of the
frigates Minnesota and Wabash, the sloop-of-war
Pawnee, gunboats Monticello andvHarriet Lane,
the steamers Adelaide and George Peabody, the
propellers Fanny and Adriatic, with a large num-
ber of schooners, barges, &c. The Quaker City
would follow. The vessels carried over 100 guns
and about 4,000 men.
Colonel Tyler's Federal force in the Kanawha
valley is reported to have been defeated at Sum-
mersville by the Confederates under General Floyd.
The repor[s from Kentucky exhibit symptoms of
an impending civil war in the State.

The Confederate privateers were becoming yen.

turesome. A schooner which had arrived at Boston
from a port in Maine, reported having been over-
hauled by a privateer only 20 miles north east of
Cape Ann. She was a clipper schooner of about
140 tons, named the Freely, from Charleston, South
Carolina, and showing about 40 men on deck.
The Charleston Courier says that the iron-clad
steamer, named Randolph, 155 tons, has been pur-
chased at Savannah for the coast of South Carolina
She makes thirteen to fourteen knots an hour.
From north-east Missouri we learn that General
Green, with 1,200 Confederates, was fast moving
towards the Missouri river, pursued by General
Hurlbut and Colonel Moore. From Rolla we learn
that an attack is reported to have been made on
Montgomery's force at Fort Scott, and that the Con-
federates were repulsed. A deserter from New
Madrid reported General Pillow's force at 20,000,
much demoralised. Jefferson Thompson had 8,000
at Benton, General Hunter 800 at Charleston.
Masked batteries were being built by the Confede-
rates along the river bank. The Confederates at
Cedar Creek were reported at 1,500. Mr. Gamble,
Provisional Governor of Missouri, had issued a pro-
clamation, calling out 42,000 of the State militia.

g the Bombay 'pail we have re-
fers from Bombay- to the 12th of
Calcutta to the 30th of July.
[lowing from the Bombay Gazette
gust:--
mail of the 18th of July arrived
Bth of August.
ntinues most proPtious, and the
nimble for agricultural labourer.;
igth and breadth of the land.
e of the Punjaub Famine Fund
to the subscribers to that fund
iger any need for. lie continuance
ons.
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