The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-05 00:00:00

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(From the Age of October 15.)
There were 24,284 oz. 4 dwts. of gold entered for ship-
moot to-day per Simla for London.
The Customs revenue for Oct. 13, 1837, is as under :
Brandy, 2,425 gallons, 1,213/ 6s lld ; gin, 1,203 ditto,
602/ 116 s 3d ; rum, 711 ditto, 3551 163; whisky, 415
ditto, 2081 Gs ld ; cordials, 32 ditto, 16/ 4s ld ; other
spirits, 92 ditto, 461 lOs 11d; wine, 1,994 ditto, 19918 s;
beer, 14,936 ditto, 3731 8r; tobacco, 1,285 lb, 128/ 10s;
cigars, 163 ditto, 241 9s • coffee, 831 ditto, 61 18s 6d ;
sugar, 90 cwt, 271/; g01d:12,309 oz. 3 dwt, 1,538/ 12s lld ;
tonnage, 681 9s ; passengers' rate, 13/ 12s 6d ; other
moneys, 33 Total revenue, 4,8531 lls 2d. Pilotage,
106/ 19s 4d.

The arrival on the same day of the two mails gave
occation to more bustle and excitement than has been ob-
servab'e f r some time about the haunts of commerce, and
the various rumours of important news respecting the dis-
turbances in India and other items of information were
largely oinvaseed. The preparation of the home mail has
been the principal occupation of the day. The mail just
arrived, (part of which was delivered this afternoon, has
coma barely in time to admit of return letters being sent
per. Simla.

We take the following from the Sydney Herald
of the 10th October :

" FRIDAY EVRNING, Oct. 9.
" The amount of gold coin issued by the Sydney
branch during the week ended to-day, October 9th,
has bean 40,000 sovereigns.
" The amound of gold dust imported int) the
same e,tablishment during the week for the purpose
of cninav has been 10.407 oz.
" Western Escort arrived to-clay from the
several gold-fields, and delivered at the Sydney
branch of the Royal Mint the following quanti-
tiss of gold dust :—From Bathurst, 939 ounces
17 dwts. ; Stoney Creek, 531 ounces 2 dwts. ;
Sofala, 384 ounces 11 dwts. 22 grs. • Tambaroora,
215 ozs. 17 dwts. ; Louisa Creek, 641 ozs. 12 dwts. I
23 grs. Total, 2,713 oz. 21 grs.
" The following general abstract, showing the
average amount of the liabilities and assets of the
Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, taken
from the several weekly statements during the
quarter from the Ist of July to the 30th of Sep-
tember, 1857, is published in to-day's Gazette :
Liabilities—Notes in circulation not bearing inte-
rest, 199,5101. 3s. ; bills in circulation, not bearing
interest, 10/. 18s. 4d ; balances due to other banks,
3,126/. 7d. ; deposits bearing interest, 5520001. ;
not bearing interest, 754,472/. 12s. 4d. • total
amount of liabilities, 1,012,119/. 14s. 3d. Asseti—
Coined gold and silver and other coined metals,
397,4481. 4s. 9d. ; gold and silver in bullion or bars,
2,3401. 12s. 2d. ; landed property, 16,000/. ; notes
and bills of other banks, 3,003/. 16s. ; balances due
from other banks, 134,3681. 2d. Amount of all debts
due to the bank, including notes, bills of exchange,
and all stock and funded debts of every description,
excepting notes, bills, and balances due to the said
bank from other banks, 779,1461. 19s. 3d. ; total
amount of assets, 1,332,307/. 12s. 4d. ; amount of
the capital stock paid up to this date, 237,6941. ;
rate of the last dividend declared to the shareholders,
12 per cent. per annum ; amount of the last divi-
dend declared, 14,2591. ; amount of reserved profits
after declaring such diviend, 40,952/. 9s. Bd. •

THE MONETARY CRISIS AT HAM-
BURG.

HAMBURG) FRIDAY.
The Senate has just convened another extraor-
dinary convocation of the burgerschaft for to-mor-
row to empower the former to establish a govern-
ment discount institution, with thirty millions
marks banco capital.

FRANCE.
PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.
The journal La Presse has been suspended for
two months, in consequence of the article which
appealed in it yesterday, signed by M. Peyrat, on
the torus)]. of Carnot and Goudchax to take the
oath prescrib3d to members of the Corps Legislatif.
A telegraphic despatch, just received, states that
the French ambassador at the Porte having applied
fur th 3 authorisation of the Turkish Government
for a canal across the Isthmus of Suez, the Sultan
is reported to have answered that he could do
nothing of the kind balore England evacuated the
island of Perim.
BOUUSE, Dec. 4.—The following were the last
quot itions
Cash. fr.
End of Month.
4i per Cents
—fr. - 3.
3 per Cents 67 45 67 50
Bank Shares 3025 Credit Fonder 5321—
Credit Mobilior 690 Roman 4
Do. Account. 690 -- Austrian
Belgian 44 — Spanish Throes ...... 4W,—
riedmontese(s) B7il— Rome Debt - 1

RAILWAYS—FOR CASEL
tr c.
IT. c.
Orleans - Midi
55
Northarn
655
Now Ditto 735 Strasburg
Lyons and Med
New Ditto... .. ..... 885521:iii--
Geneva 625 Austrian Cum....... 66.''
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TURKEY.
Intelligence ha 3 been received from Cons' anti-
nople to the 28th ult. M. de Boutenieff had paid a
visit of ceremony to the the Grand Visir. mehmed
Pacha, governor of Epirus, has been named mini-
ster of the Turkish government, and had interdicted
the proceedings at the divans of the principalities.

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING.
The Alhambra, steamer, Captain Joy,
was tele-
graphed from Hurst at 9.10 a. M. , with the Penin-
sular mails.

The Weekly Register announces the death at Rome
of the youngest son of Sir John Bowring, Governor of
Hong Kong. The deceased gentleman, who Was in his
thirtieth year, was a Jesuit priest.

7E NTZ

I the last mail has been chiefly marked by very great
stringency in the money market, the banks having
seemingly come to the conclusion, or been forced to it
by a scarcity of money, greatly to restrict, and in a
measure entirely to stop those discount facilities which
they had been extending to houses' of small means ; as
these measures were intended to force such parties to a
cash system of business, they made little distinction as
to the class of paper offered, and indiscriminately
throwing out good as well as bad paper, if held in weak
bands, many idle, injurious rumours were current dur-
ing the month, but for which not the least or remotest
foundation existed, and which arose entirely from the
above-mentioned cause. It is wonderful bow regu-
larly, in spite of the scarcity of money, all engage-
Iments have been met, and the absence of failures,
in spite of the sudden withdrawal of accom-
modation, augurs an extremely healthy state of
trade, an entire absence of overtrading, and a sufficiency
of capital in even the smallest business proportionate to
the extent of its engagements. Few commercial com-
munities could have payed through an ordeal such as
we have lately been subjected to with such ease and
facility ; and we believe that no other conclusion can be
' come to but that the trading community, as a body, is in
an extremely prosperous condition, possessing individu-
ally greater elasticity and extent of resources than was
imagined, as otherwise they could not have weathered
the late financial crisis as they have done ; for wo do
not exaggerate facts when we state that but four weeks
ago, for all purposes of meeting current liabilities,
neither goods nor bills were of negotiable value in the
I hands of small houses.
The improvement of trade on the diggings, consequent
on a plentiful fall of rain and a return of the population
from various rushes to their old localities, on an im-
proved find of gold on old, and continued good success
in new fields, and on a general diminution of stocks,
owi ig to the large quantities for warded to and consumed
on new rushes, has greatly conduced to relieve the pres-
sure which -would otherwise have been felt in town; and
it affords an additional guarantee of the impossibility of
any serious derangement of our commercial and financial
prosperity, as long as the gold-fields show no signs of
diminished yield.
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Favourably, therefore, as we can report of the conditions
and prospects of our local trade, we have to speak again in
very oppasito terms of the state of the import business.
Since the middle of last month, although a better trade
with the interior has created a demand for goods, and a
continuance of unfavourable winds has caused British arri-
vals to be few, prices have not in the least advanced, and the
mass of goods offering for sale seems as large as ever, and
effectually prevents any improvement. In fact, prices for
many articles have again declined, and some generally
very current staples are even more unsaleable than at the
time of departure of last mail; in which category we have
to place brandies, case and bulk, Old Tom, and whisky,
bar iron, currents, cheese, and boots and shoes. Butter,
if new and good—conditions which in late arrivals have
not been met with—is in considerably better demand, and
a price above market quotations could be got for it ; but
the quantities of inferior butter on hand are iremendously
large, and probably not less than 15000 firkins— lots of
2,000 and 3,000 firkins being held by more parties than
one. For oilmen's stores a good demand has arisen, and
although not positively higher, full market rates have been
established. Oats have pretty well withstood the pressure
of arrival, but timber, galvanized iron, and sheet leadhave,
owing to heavy imports, rather declined. Candles are
firmly held for 144 d. In other leading articles of import
there is not much change from last month, and the diffi-
culty of moving off goods remains undiminished.
While British imports, as a rule are doing badly,
Eastern produce has again very materially advanced ; and
while holders on the spot have been greatly benefitted,
even for importers some profit remains on present extrava-
gant cost prices. The greatest change has taken place in the
value of tea, which, after steadily advancing to 91. 155.,
have again taken a start this week, holders asking 101. 10s.
the chest for good congous. Mauritius sugar at one time
during the past month touched 581. for medium coun-
ters, but several shipments have come to hand the price
receded to 55/. ; but for first-rate light counters 581. can be
got. Cossipore is firm at 651., and holders are sanguine
that this class of sugar, as well as Patna rice, will advance
considerably, as they expect that produce will rule very
high in Calcutta, owing to the complications arising from
the Sepoy mutiny.
Ii the export trade there is no material change. Wool
and tallow remain very high, but hides have fallen full 30
per cent. Exchange on London has, since the last mail,
been reduced to 11 per cent., under which none of the
banks are drawing.