The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-21 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA.

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office in anticipation of the Calcutta
and China mail due in London, via Marseilles, on
the 27th inst. :

INDIA.

CALCUT TA, OCT. 28.

(Four days after the departure of the mail.)

Business dull. Freights lower. Exchange on
London, 2s. gd. to 2s. id.

CHINA.

HONGKONG, OCT. 13.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
C rnton was lost in a gale off Macao. The crew
has been saved.

Trade better. Freights dull. Exchange on
London declined-4s. 9d. to 4s. 90.
CANTON, OCT. 13.

All quiet. Trade improved. Demand for im-
ports dull. TQa market opened favourably. Teas
have been taken freely. Freight, £3 for London
and Liverpool.

SHANGHAI, OCT. 5

Imports in good demand. Teas taken freely.
Exchange on London at six months, Os. 71d. is 6s.
71d. Freights, for tea, £1 10s. to £2 ; for silk,
£3 105. to £4 10s. Steady business in silk.

OCT. 6.

The Chinese Government has repudiated its
treaty with the United States by refusing to open
the ports of Swatow and Taiwan, as stipulated by
that treaty.

Trade uninterrupted. European goods in good
demand for the North. Tea a shade lower in prices.
Silk as last quoted. Exchange on London, 6s. Bd.
Large sales of manufactured goods at higher prices.
Tea exports to Englsnd, 8,407,5141 b. ; prices nearly
the same as before. Silk exports to Europe, 88,261
bales. Price of No. 3 Tsatlee, 400 to 410 dols.
Exchange for bank bills at six months, 6s. 7d.

SINGAPORE, OCT. 21.

The mail steamer arrived at 6 o'clock this morn-
ing. Trade improving. Exchange on London at
six months' sight, 4s. 9d. Tonnage heavy.

JAPAN.

JEDDO, SEPT. 23.

The affairs in Japan remain still unsettled. A
change of Ministry favourable to foreigners is daily
expected.
A Russian officer, Marifat, and one of his crew,
have been murdered by the Japanese. Atonement
for this outrage has been demanded by the Russian
Ambassador, and has been granted by the Govern-

ment.
The dollar question has not yet been decided.
Trade dull.

JAVA.

BATAVIA, OCT. 8.
The Governor-General is seriously ill, and it is
urgent that he should be relieved.
The expeditionary force to Boni leaves this month.
The Sir Robert Maclure is in dock at Onrust.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Colombo arrived at Calcutta on the 25th of
October in 69 days from Southampton.

ADEN, Nov. 9.

The Simla, with Calcutta dates up to 22d Oct.,
arrived here to-day. Only 50 out of 1,000 of the
discharged Europeans at and near Calcutta have
accepted bounty for China.

By an order of the 21st of October, two years'
service are to be granted to those men of the local
army who have not taken their discharge, and are
to be permitted to enlist for China, and will receive
a bounty of 50r. oa condition that they enlist for
10 years.

Lord Canning left Calcutta for the north-west on
the 10th of October.

India 51 per Cent. Loan, from 5 to 51 discount.
Received by pout from Alexandria.

We havo received by extraordinary express, in
anticipation of the Overland Mail, our letters and
papers down to the 26th ult.
The following is from the Bombay Gazette of the
26th ult.

Although but little news has arrived from the
seat of war in Okhamundel since the departure of
the last mail, what little there is, is of the highest
interest. Proceeding in the order of time, the ope-
rations at Beyt must occupy our attention first. On
the 2d inst., the squadron, under the orders of Capt.
Cruttenden, of the Ferooz, accomplished the ap-
proach to that island. Thence, on the following day,
the steam frigates started off on a reconnoitring
expedition : two days afterwards the Ferooz, the
Victoria, tne Zenobia, the Clyde, and the Constance
appeared on the point of coast facing the fort of Beyt,
upon which they opened a crushing fire, which was
directed along the whole of the eastern front, but
mainly on the two strongest works. The effect was
considered to be overwhelming ; the officers and
men who composed the force were confident of suc-
cess, and, the engineers concurring, determined to
assault the place without delay, and fixed upon the
morning of the next day, the 6th. It appears to
have been planned that the place should bo can-
nonaded the whole of the morning, and that the
storming column should rush forward as the fire
ceased. From all accounts, the men composing this
column pushed on to the fort a little too soon, for
they found on reaching it that unlooked-for ob-
stacles were interposed between them and the enemy
which barred an advance for awhile ;—the bombard-
ment, although it did great damage, and perhaps
inflicted great loss on the enemy, produced no deci-
sive results. The fort was thoroughly loopholed,
and the consequence was that the stormers were ex-
posed to the withering blasts of shot that swept
through their ranks during the short combat that
ended in the rout and retreat of the Waghers. On
the evening of the same day, the British flag was
seen flying from the fort, and the whole of the con-
tested ground was in the hands of our soldiers,
who, according to their usual custom, fought bravely
and with great success. The victory of the 6th is
much more important than was at first supposed.
Our loss is now ascertained correctly ; the number
of killed and wounded among the officers is five, and
among the non-commissioned officers and men, 71.
With respect to the movements of our troops, and
the actual operations performed since the fall of
Beyt, we are yet uninformed. There is reason to
believe, however, that our men by this time have
tested the strength of Dwarka, which is rockoned
one of the strongest outposts which guard the chief
marine residence into Okhamundel.

The temples at Beyt were decorated in a very
costly style, and, consequent upon a rumour here
that our soldiers had appropriated their valuable
-contents, the Banians and Bhattias of Bombay, pe-
titioned the Governor for their restoration. The
following is the reply sent by the Government to
the petitioners :

" From 11. L. Anderson, Esq.,
" Secretary to Government, Bombay,
" To Munguldass Nathoobhoy, Esq., and others.
" Dated 25th October. 1859.
POLITICAL DEPARTMENT.

" Gentlemen,—In reply to your petition of the 16th inst.,
I am directed by the Right Hon. the Governor in Council
to inform you that instructions have been issued to the
officers in charge of the field forces in Okhamundel to re-
spect the whole of the temples at Beyt and Dwarka, and to
restore such idols and property as may have oeen taken
from either place.—l have, &c,
" 11. L. ANDERSON,
" Secretary to Government.
" Bomday Castle, 25th October, 1859."

From the north-west provinces there is nothing
of importance. During the last week some of the
rebels of distinguished position stood forth conspi-
cuously. We have a report, hitherto softened, that
the Nana has been seriously ill, and we infer from
the statement. he is not out of danger. The Lahore
Chronicle mentions a report, which we are inclined
to doubt, that the Nana died in the Dang valley,

and that his followers had all dispersed in several
gangs.
A few days before the departure of the last mail
it was announced that the leading merchants and
members of the different professions would call a
public meeting to protest against the tax on trades
and professions. There was a grand master in the
Town Hall on the 11th instant, and the meeting
was in itself an important one—avowedly the com-
mencement of an endeavour to oppose the introduc-
tion of the tax on the ground " that it is partial
in scope, unsound in principle, and replete with
injustice to the most loyal and most useful members
of the State, namely, the industrial classes of her
Majesty's subjects in India." The leading city men
who attended the meeting "came out strong.' in
denouncing the financial policy of the Government
in proposing a tax of this description. The mea-
sure has been freely criticised lately, and judging
by such flashes of opinion and sentiment as have
been struck from the popular heart in public meet-
ings, it is abundantly clear what sort of feeling is
growing up upon the subject throughout the coun-
try. The toiling millions will not submit to have
their hard-earned savings taken from them.

We hear from Calcutta and Madras that orders
have been received from the Supreme Government
to detain the discharged men of the European regi-
ments and offer them a bounty of 50 rupees on con
dition of their proceeding to China. " Private in-
formation," says the .Englishman, " reached us by
the Candia that the Ministry at home could not
believe in the great exodus of discharged European
soldiers from India, and that at the eleventh hour
Lord Canning would, by some well-timed and politic
stroke,detain them at the Presidencies. On receiving,
the disastrous news from China, and authentic infor-
mation that the discharged troops were proceeding
home without any efforts being made to detain them,
an order appears to have been sent to Lord Canning
to offer them a bounty to enlist for China. This ex-
plains the detention of the two vessels, with 1,000
men on board, which led to so many conjectures.
We now learn that they were detained in order to
induce the men to re-enlist for China, and that of
1,000 men, only 10 volunteered to remain."
In China nothing positive is yet known as to the
policy which we are going to adopt towards the
Chinese Government. It is believed, however, that
in the event of a war being decided upon, the fact
will become known to the Chinese before any ade-
quate force can be assembled; and the China Mail
apprehends that " Scunkonilism and the war party
will consequently gain the ascendancy in the coun-
cils of the Court •f Pekin ; and that some general
attempt, if not by open warfare, yet by secret
and Chinese means, may be made on the
foreigners of the coast of China, and especially on
those at Shanghai." Under such circnmstances the
best thing they can do is to form a militia at once,
in order to be prepared for any emergency ; and
although the materials for any considerable force
may not be available, yet, as far as possible, it will
be as well to maintain an armed attitude, as the
Chinese will not hesitate to adopt violent measures
to get rid of " the outside barbarians" as soon as
they hear that a new war has been determined on.
A goodly number of troops are already on their
way to that country, and in all probability another
war will soon follow.

The New Times informs us that Major-General
Sir Hope Grant proceeds to China to assume the
command of the troops to be employed in that
quarter.

COMMERCIAL.
Bombay Standnrd Office, Oct. 25.

We have no change to note in the value of money.
In Government Securities, Fours, after advancing to 75k,
have declined again to 741 per cent. Fives and Five-and-
a-Half have been in good demand, and prices have advanced
to 89 and 95 per cent. respectively.
Cotton Piece Goods.—Grey skirtings have been rather
more readily taken than at the date of our last, and a con-
siderable quantityhas changed hands at the slightly reduced
prices we then quoted, and in which we do not now make
any alteration.
Cotton Twist.—There has been an exceedingly dull mar.•
het for yarns, and the sales unusually small during the past
fortnight.
Woollens are unchanged in value, and the demand is
small.

Metals.—Copper continues to be much wanted, as far as
manufactured descriptions are concerned, and the few
sales made havo been at higher prices.
Cotton.—The market has had a declining tendency, in
consequence of the inactivity of buyers for homeward ship-
ment, caused by the dull advices thence.
Freights.—Homeward rates are almost the same, the
only alteration being a partial advance of 2s. 6d. per ton for
Liverpool, for which port we now quote 17s. 6d. to 225. 6d.,
and for London 17s. 6d. to 20s. per ton. The improvement
for China has continued, and Rs. 10 per candy has been
freely given.
Exchange on London was at one time quoted at 2s. lid.,
at which figure, however, little business was done. We now
again quote 2s. Oki. for first-class, and 2s. ld. to 2s. lid.
document paper.