The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-12 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA.

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office, being the first messages for-
warded by his newly-established special service
between England and the East :
CALCUTTA, SEPT. 16.

A large public meeting had been held, to petition
Parliament for an inquiry into the affairs of India
on the spot.
Exchange on London 2s. Id. to 2s. id. Freights
flat.

MADRAS, SEPT. 16.

The Governor-General will proceed on a tour
hrough the North-West Provinces and the Pun-
aub next month.

The bill for substituting an income-tax for the
license-tax on trades and professions had been
severely criticised by the legal members of the
Council, and the clause exempting civil and mili-
tary officers from the payment of this tax had been
rejected, and they are to pay three per cent. on
their incomes.

The Government of Bengal has ratified the corn.
mutation of the land-tax.

The Madras Government has appointed officers
to explore the Sdill (? Hill) regions, to report on
their adaptability for European colonists and mili-
tary, and to make a sanitary report on the nature
of the country.
A commercial order, allowing interest to be paid
in England on certain loans, has been extended to
all securities.

The Five and a Half per Cent. Loan is at .51
discount, Fives 11k, and Fours 241.
Exchange on London, six months' documents,
2s. ld. to 2s. ltd. ; Bank Bills, 2s. Oad.

Imports.—A fair business had been done during
the past fortnight. For mule twist steady prices
prevailed. Shirtings a fair inquiry, and the,,prices
had been maintained.
Exports.—Cotton, nothing doing. Indigo demand
improvingo;no stock of goods ; middling and com-
mon, moderate supply.

Sugar dull and declining, Prices, 27 rupees to
31 rupees 12 annas per candy.
Bice, from 4 rupees 5 annas to 4 rupees 13 annas
per bag. Oilseed less demand, and prices declin-
ing.

Freights depressed. Tonnage abundant. No
departures for England.

CEYLON, SEPT. 17.
The Governor was defeated by a large majority
in the Council on the railway question.
Freights lower. Import trade dull.
Yarn in good request, at better prices.

(By the Red Sea and India Telegraph Company.)
MR. GISBORNE TO C. L. PEEL, ESQ.
ADEN TELEGRAPH OFFICE, Oct. 1.
The Bentinck, from Calcutta, arrived this
morning.

The bill taxing trades and professions has passed
its second reading, and been referred to a select
committee. The Chamber of Commerce and other
bodies have petitioned against it.

An act has been passed enabling the Govern.
General to leave Calcutta for the North-West re•
taining full powers, for seven months.
The clause in the Criminal Procedure Bill ran.
dering Europeans liable to preliminary investiga•
Lion before native magistrates, has been success•
fully resisted.
The rebels on the Nepaul frontier is still trou.
blesome.

Some of the discharged Europeans have already
sailed for Calcutta. The behaviour of all, except
the sth Regiment (still at Berhampore), has been
good.

Exchange on London, six months, Light 2s.
01,d. Five and a Half per Cent. Loan from 51 to
51 discount.

The correspondent of the Madras Athenceum at
Calcutta had telegraphed to Madras that Lord
Canning had been relieved, and that Lord Claren-
don was to succeed him.

There is no news from China to the 10th August.
The Peiho and Grand Canal are blockaded by the
British and French ships of war. Captain Vansit-
tart, of the Magicienne, died on the 17th July.
Admiral Hope is in a precarious state, and will
have to be invalided,

The American Minister was still negotiating
about proceeding to Pekin.

Ching King Kang, the celebrated leader of the
rebels has been killed by his own people.

PIEDMONT.

The Tuscan Monitore Of the Bth is headed with

the arms of Savoy.

The Opinione of Turin, in speaking of the Peace
Conference at Zurich, says :—" From an official
notice which appeared in the Vienna journals of the
Ist, in which reprisals against Piedmont are an-
nounced, because the Sardinian Government
had performed acts of sovereignty in certain
districts of Mantua and Verona, which are
to remain in the hands of Austria according
to the preliminaries of Villafranca, we have
reason to suppose that the conclusion of peace
and consequent delimitation of the frontiers
is not so near at hand as the rumours about
the Zurich Conference would lead us to think. In

that communication, Austria declares that she
will cause the taxes to be collected in her own
name in those parts of the provinces of Brescia
and Mantua which she occupies with her troops,
and which are comprised in the cession to Pied-
mont. That declaration is remarkable, because it
seems to reveal to us that a a part of the province
of Mantua, now occupied by Austria, is to be given
up to Piedmont, as well as the five communes
of the district of Gargnano, in the province of
Brescia. On the other hand, the Sardinian Go-
vernment has ordered the interest of the public
loan laid on the Lombardo-Venetian Monte to be
paid to Lombard holders, and this corroborates the
supposition that Piedmont really takes that part of
the debt upon herself. Others also assert that
Piedmont takes upon herself, at the charge of the
new provinces, the quota of the Austrian loan of
1854 belonging thereto. We believe these to be
the only matters, except a few details of secondary
importance, that will be settled at Zurich."

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY.

The Univers has received an avertissement for an
article which appeared in its impression on Satur-
day upon affairs in Cochin China.
BOURSE, Oct. 11.—The market has been dull,
but prices have not much varied. Threes have
been done at 69f. 45c. and are now at 69f. 55c
Mobilier varied from 812 f. 50e4 to 815 f. ; Austrian,
548 f. 75c. to 550 f. ; Lombard, 552 f. 50c. to 553€.
75c. ; Lyons, 907 f. 50c. to 910 f. ; Orleans, 1,365 f.
to 1,367 f. 50c. The following were the last quo-
tations :

41 per Cants. .... 95 I Credit Foncier 690
Do. end month .. --I Belgian 41 —
3 per Cents 69 60 I Piedmontese (5) .. 85 50
Do. end month 69 55 i Roman B6
Bank Shares
Credit Mobilier .. 815 Spanish Threes
Do. Account ..... 813 75 Home Debt 43f