The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-22 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL.

BOMBAY, FEB. 25.
Since our advices of the 9th hist. the only change notice-
able in our money market has been its increasing strin-
gency, so that the difficulty of obtaining the most ordinary
facilities has become greater than we have known for many
years past. The Bank of Bombay now discounts no private
bills, and their largest customers can only obtain accom-
modation on the security of government paper to a very
limited amount at 11 per cent. The result of this has been
that we have witnessed the unusual feature of English
houses resorting to the native shroffs for loans at the hirh
rate of 14 per cent., while bazaar orders have in some in-
stances had to borrow at 18 per cent.

EXCHANGE.—There have been few China bills in the
market, and the business has been chiefly in local drafts.
The banks have not been willing buyers, being short of
cash, and unable to sell many of their own drafts. We
quote first-class paper at 2s. 2d., and documents 2s. 2td.
per rupee.
By telegraph from Calcutta we have commercial quota-
tions from China of a later date than those brought by the
regular mail :
CALCUTTA, FEB. 21.
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The James Hartley, from Hong Kong, Feb. 1; Shan -
hai, Jan. 22.—At Hong Kong, opium Patna dole. 7621;
Benares, 810 ; Malwa, 600 to 605. Exchange on ,London,
4s. 50. to 4s. 6d. ; on India, 216.—At Shanghai, Patna
500 ; Malwa, 454 to 480. Exchange on London, 6s. ld. to
6s. 2d. ; on India, 296.—Pekin and Pioneer arrived.

THE MEDITERRANEAN.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY MORNING.
The Euxine has come home from Marseilles
station to be repaired.
On the 17th of March, when 20 miles north of
Cape St. Vincent, she spoke her Majesty's ship
Orion, all well, nine days from Bantry ,Bay. The
Orion parted company with her Majesty's ship
Victor Emmanuel two days after leaving the above
place.

Attempts to float the American ship Hope, ashore
in Gibraltar Bay, failed on the 15th, and she was to
be lightened of part of her cargo (marble), when it
was expected sho would be got off.

CENTRAL AMERICA.

GREYTOWN, MOSQUITO, FEB. 16.

The Nicaragua Legislature has ratified the treaty
made by Sir W. Gore Ouseley on the part of her
M ajesty's Government. The same mail from Gra-
nada contradicts the previous report that the United
States treaty had been signed.
The Vandycke charter is not to be signed ; but
the five Central American States will form a grand
transit company--at least so they say.
Our harbour has put a veto on any transit com-
pany yet awhile, as the sand pit known as Punta
Arenas has so contracted the entrance that it is
extremely difficult for any vessel either to come
in or go out. Some portion of the old Transit
Company's buildings are daily washed away by
the sea. The mail steamer is now anchored outside;
the Valorous remained inside until there was danger
of her being land-locked, and left last week, to keep
company with the Caesar and Diadem, and the
United States sloop of war Jamestown.
The Diadem leaves to-day for Port Royal for
provisions, and the Valorous goes on a cruise to the
northward.

The report which you copied from an American
paper, that the English Consul here interfered in
our munipal election, and that there was great dis-
satisfaction, &c., is an entire fabrication.

AUSTRALIA.

LIVERPOOL, MARCH 20.

The passenger ship, Sir William Eyre, which
left Melbourne on the 25th December, has arrived
with twenty passengers and 11,741 ounces of gold.
Her news is only to the 22d,
Business was very dull owing to the Christmas
holidays. A great storm, with loss of life, had oc-
curred at some of the diggings. '
An examination was going on at Sydneyrespect-
ing the alleged customs frauds.
The Sussex, Wm. F. Fothergill, Augusta Amelia,
Forest, and Monarch, all from London, and the
Tasmania, from Liverpool, had arrived at Mel-
bourne. The Sussex spoke with the Aurora,
Australis, Clontarf, and W. Lloyd. The Wooloo-
mooloo left Sydney for London on the 19th Jan.
The Thames had also left Geelong for London.

The Russian journals state that it is proposed to
enlarge the military and mercantile ports of Revel,
so as to render them accessible to vessels for the
greater part of the year. The extension of the
mercantile port would be advantageous, they
assert, to the commerce with St. Petersburg.

A fire broke out last week in the military store-
house at Debreezin (Upper Hungary), which, with
all it contained, was completely destroyed.
Advices from Vienna state that the walls of
Vienna are covered over with the vowels A, E, I,
0, U, signifying " Austrim est imperare orbi uni-
verse." (It falls to the lot of Austria to rule over
the whole world.)