The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-03 00:00:00

EASTERN PRODUCE.

COTTON.—There is very little doing in this staple,
and the stocks in first hands are low. Prices are de-
clining, and as the season will now open for imports,
it is probable that more extensive operations may be
resumed.

COFFEE.—Fair supplies of Mocha have been received
of late, and the stock now here is to some extent. As

the accounts from England by the last mail were not
very favourable, the dealers are inclined to take lower
rates, and it can be bought at rs. 91 per maund, but
shippers do not appear inclined to give that price, and a
further decline may still be looked for. Of Berbera,
there is none in the market.

Gums.—Animal, Arabic, and Olibanum—Large ship-

ments have been 'lately made to England, chiefly Zn
native account, and they are now scarce in the bazaar,
and very little of good quality to be met with.
Ivoar.—The stock of ivory at present in the market
is very small, and of inferior quality, for which extra-
vagant rates are demanded.
OPIUM.—The drug continues at our last quotation,

with a slight tendency upwards.
PEPPER.—The stocks of both Bhutcole and Malabar
in the market are at present very trifling, and supplies
to any extent cannot be looked for from the Malabar
coast for a month at least. Bhutcole may be quoted at
rs. 67, and Malabar at rs. 57, per candy.
Wool..—Prices of this article are almost nominal.
Some small supplies have been received, which have
been taken for shipment to England by a native mer-
chant at a very high rate. Supplies to any extent will
not be received here until November or December.
FREIGHTS.

Freights have not fluctuated much during the month.
The present rates may be quoted'at 3/. to London, 2/. 10s.
to 3/. for Liverpool, and rs. 12 to 12: to China.
MONEY MARKWI.

There is scarcely any alteratia in the Government
securities. The present quotations are-
-5 per cent. Loan of 1825-26 es. 109 at 110
4 „ „ do. of 1832.33 105 at 106
4 „ „ do. of 1835-36 99} at 100
5 „ „ do. of 1841-42 110 at 1104
4 „ „ do. of 1842-43 99i at 100
Exchange on England has slightly declined since
our last quotations. The present rates are—for 6
months' Bills, ls. lOid. ; and for Bills at 30 days'
sight, ls. 91d. per rupee. On Calcutta, at 60 days'
sight, rs. 100-14 as.
.On Madras, at 60 days', rs: 1004 ;

mid on China, at GO day's sight, rs. 217 per 100 dollar-s.
BLNKS.—The shares of the Bank of Bombay are at
present at 52 per cent. premium. The Bank of Western
India has declared adividend of 7 per cent. The shares
are at present quoted, old without dividend, and new, at
55 to 60 per cent. premium.
PRICE OF BULLION.

Sovereigns, each
Bank Notes, per £

LEVANT NEWS.
ALEXANDRIA, SEPT. 21, 1844.
The Geyser sailed hence early yesterday morning
for Malta, having on board Lord Ellenborough. The
Berenice, from Bombay, arrived at Vienna on the
17th inst., with the mails and 25 passengers, amongst
whom is Sir Henry Pottinger, who proceeds this day
to England by the Great Liverpool.
Lieutenant-Colonel Powell, of the Ist Bombay Eu-
ropean Regiment, Adjutant-General of the Bombay
army, died of dropsy, off Jedda, on the 13th instant,
on board of the Berenice. This officer, who was
about 54 years of age, had just retired from service.
M. Bourne is in constant communication with the
Egyptian Government to complete the arrangements
for the transit through Egypt of the India mails, but
it appears that he is progressifig very slowly, and up
to this time nothing decisive has been done.

MALTA, WEDNESDAY, SETT. 25.—The Alecto,
from Corfu, has just arrived, 10 A.m.
The Great Liverpool, with mails from India, ar-
rived this morning after one of the most rapid pas-
iages she has ever performed. She passed the Geyser
steam-frigate at 8 A.M. on Monday, in lat. 34 35 N., '
-long. 20 17 E. This vessel, with his Excellency
Lord Ellenborough on board, has just moored in the
great harbour. I have not been able to ascertain if
his Lordship will perform his quarantine here or not.
Her Majesty's ship Formidable, bound to this place,
had quitted Gibraltar before the departure of the Sy-
deaham, which brought us back our Commander-
in-Chief of the naval forces in the Mediterranean
yesterday.
Lieutenant Franklin will not now be sent for trial
to Gibraltar. His court-martial will take place here.
Commodore Smith, with the United States squa-
droa, is still here.
The Tanus is expected to-morrow from the Levant.
The Acheron's mail will close at 1 P as. this morn-
ing, and the Great Liverpool will leave port at 9 A.M.
to-morrow.

NEWS FROM PORTUGAL
SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 2.-
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Liverpool, Captain F. Meehan, arrived this day, at
forty-five minutes past three o'clock, A.M., from
Gibraltar, bringing the following mails :—Gibraltar,
Cadiz, Lisbon, Oporto, and Vigo.
Her dates of departure are as follow :—From Gib-
raltar, 22d ; Cadiz, 23d ; Lisboit;4sth ; Oporto, 26th;
and Vigo, 27th ult.
Ships-of-War lying at Gibraltar—Her Majesty's
ships Albion and Warspite (the. Polyphemus sailed
on the 21st for Malta) ; the Danish steamer Heels
and brig Mercurius ; the Norwegian corvette Nordj-
stein ; the Austrian corvette. Adira ; and the Prussian
corvette Amazon. _ _ _

At Cadiz—Two French line of battle ships and the
Belle Poule frigate.

LISBON, SEPT. 25

The downfal of the Cabral Administration is ap-
parently close at hand. The uncompromising hos-
tility of the Chamber of Peers—at least of its great
majority—to the present Ministers, rendering it ne-
cessary that some coup d'etut should be ventured on
to neutralise it. Cabral, it appears, drew up a list
of 10 persons, all of them of course in his interest,
and having caused the decrees nominating them
severally to the peerage to be made out ready cut and
dry, proceeded on Sunday last to the palace for the
purpose of urging the measure upon the Queen as one
of vital necessity. The Duke de Palmella, however,
who was aware of his intention, had been there before
him, and just as stongly recommended her Majesty
not to do anything of the sort, as it would be esta-
blishing a precedent which other Ministries in their
turn would act upon, and which would eventually lead
to the complete swamping of that Chamber ; and as,
moreover, the maintenance of Cabral and his colleagues
in power was by no means an object of such import-
ance as they themselves would make it appear, the
consequence of this was, that when Costa Cabral pro-
posed the measure to the Queen, and, in full confidenea
of her assent to it, laid the decrees before her for sig-
nature, she coolly replied that the matter was of too
serious a nature to be decided upon without further
deliberation, and that she would therefore submit it
to the consideration of her Council of State. This
was the same as pronouncing his doom at once; for
as the Council of State and the Ministers have been at
open strife for a long time past, he has evidently no
chance of favour from that quarter. Immediately
after this interview had taken place, the Queen,
it is said, sent the Duke of Palmella to treat
with Viscount Sada Bandeira about the for-
mation of a new administration, which he did ;
and the result of their conference was, that a coalition

• and Moderate Septembrists, should be formed, the
Duke himself taking the Presidency of the Council of
Ministers, Sada Bandeira the War Department, aid
Silva Sanches and three others, the other four porte-
feuilles. The Cortes are to meet on the 30th instant,
and it is expected that the debates upon the address
will at once decide the fate of the Ministry.
The auction for the tobacco contract terminated on
Thursday last, when the contract was knocked down
to the former contractors, Barons Folgosa and Jun-
queira, for the annual sum of 1,428 contos, but with-
out the condition of advancing a loan of 4,000 contos
at par and five per cent, interest, us proposed by the
Government. As, however, since then, Count Far-
rabo, Rio Tinto, Izidoro Guedes, and other bidders,
have again come forward and protested against the
Laing of the contract to Folgoza and Junqueira,
which was done clandestinely after the number
of days appointed for the auction had elapsed, the
Government has announced that it will be put up
again on the 26th inst. for the last time, the present
contractors having made a new offer of 1,400 contos,
and a loan of 4,000 contos at 6 per cent. The soap
and gunpowder monopolies, the first of which is
worth 137, and the second 60 contos a year, have
been, on this occasion, joined to the tobacco contract,
which is the reason why the price of the last-named
is apparently so much greater than it was last time.