The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-29 00:00:00

24,000 Ohio Sixes, 1860
1,000 Kentucky Sixes 1., lO2
13,000 Illinois Bonds
5,000 Indiana Bonds 1 • 441
5,000 Pennsylvanian Fives s6O 74t
• 2 Bank New York
25 Merchant Bank lO7
120 United States Bank
20 Illinois State Bank
50 Vicsburg Bank
350 Farmers' Trust .
50 North American Trust sl3 13
125 Canton Company , . 3Bl
50 Utica and Sche
200 Long Island Railroad
150 Harlem Railroad_ 77i

25 Paterson Railroad 4
100 Stonington Railroad a -30 45
25 Mohawk Railroad , 65
100 Norwich and Worcester Railroad
100 Reading Railroad
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100 Ditto - blO 51

The stocks are again on the advance. Kentucky im-
proved i per cent. ;. Farmers' Trust, 1 ; Reading. Rail-
road, ; Long Island, 14 ;
.Stonington, ; Mohawk, 1 ;
Norwich and Worcester, 2. Harlem fell off 1.

The sales at the Public Board this morning were to a
moderate extent. Long Island Railroad improved per
cent. on the closing sales of the 3d ; Zahawk, 2i ; Nor-
wich and Worcester, 21.
DIVIDEND.—The Trenton (N. J.) Bank has declared
a semi-annual dividend of 1 doll. on each share; payable
on the 18th.

NEW YORK MARKETS, JULY 5.
There is a. moderately fair demand for flour at dolls.
4 37i :for Genesee, and dolls. 4 lid, dolls. 4 181 for
Michigan. The quantity arriving is only small, which
will tend to keep the market steady.
The foreign advices have made the Cotton people stiff
in prices, but the transactions have been small.
Sales of Northern Corn at 50 cents. weight, and
Southern at 48 cents. measure. There is nothing doing
it Wheat.

For Pot Ashes the market is dolls. 4 061, but buyers
are generally indisposed to buy at that rate. Pearls are
dolls. 4 50.

Provisions are very dull, beef especially so. There is
some demand for Pork at a low figure. We quote dolls.
6 62i a 6,75, and dolls. 8 62i a 8,75.
Sales State Prison brls. Whiskey at 23k, which is a
little better.

COLONEL STODDART AND
CAPTAIN CON OLL Y.
Captain Grover received on Saturday evening the
'ollowing letter :

"Bokhara, May 5, 1844.
" I write this letter in the house of Nayeb Samet
Khan, the chief of the-artillery and the arsenal of his
Majesty the King of Bokhara, a sincere and excellent
friend of the British nation, but in the presence also
of his Majesty, the Abneers, Mahrarn (private cham-
berlain), and I write this letter officially by order of
the King of Bokhara, to whom I give a translation,
and therefore confine myself only to the most neces-
sary topics without comment and without observation.
" On the 29th of April the King stated to me by
medium of the above-named Nayeb, and in the pre-
sence of Mullah Kharsem, the King's Mahram
(private chamberlain), that he had put to death in the
month of Sarratan, 1259 (July, 1842), Colonel
Stoddart and Captain Conolly. The first had been
put to death—firstly, on account of his having treated
royalty with the greatest disrespect on different occa-
sions ; secondly, that he had turned Mussulman, and
then returned to the Christian faith; thirdly, that
he had promised to get letters from England in four
months, by which he would be acknowledged as
ambassador from England, and fourteen months had
elapsed without any answer being received, though
the King had erected japar khans (post-houses) on
his account. And with regard to Conolly, that he
had been put to death for having induced the Khans
of Khiva and Kokan to wage war against the King
of Bokhara, &c.

"His Majesty has given me permission to leave
Bokhara on the 9th May (Friday next). From
Mesched I will write everything more fully, &c.
(Signed) " JOSEPH WOLFF.
" To Captain Grover."

CHINA.
The following brief account from a Correspondent
relative to the new trade with China will be read
with interest :

"Shanghae is a large city, the walls are about
forty-five miles round, but like all Chinese places, is
very dirty. It has every appearance of being a place
of large trade ; the river which is a fine stream is full
of junks, which are arriving and departing every day,
and it possesses a great advantage from being so near
Nankin and Soo-chow, the latter one of the largest
commercial cities in the Empire, it is said. The
people are very civil (the effects no doubt of the
thrashing they have had), which contrasts strongly
with the behaviour of the Canton men, and the autho-
rities have shown every disposition to meet the wishes
of the Consul—at first they objected to him living in
the city, wanting to keep that sacred as in Canton,
but he insisted on it, and told them if they would not
allow it he should go on board the steamer and return
to Chusan. A good site has been appropriated for
the European residents—it is about three-quarters of
a mile from the city walls, bounded on each side by
creeks with a frontage of about quarter to the river
but without any boundary behind, so that buildings
can be carried as far back as is necessary or con-
venient. The shipping will lay right in front of this
place, and the Custom-house being there also, it will
be convenient for business. The country all round is
flat, in fact, there is not a hill in sight from Shanghae
or Woosung, but I cannot see why it should be so
unhealthy as is generally represented, for in the
neighbourhood of the city it is principally dry wheat
and cotton land. When we have comfortable houses to

live in I hope we shall find it quite as healthy as Can-
ton, for the situation does not appear to me to be worse,
if so bad.

" Large quantities of cotton are exported from
Shanghae principally, I believe, to the more southern
provinces ; it has also a considerable trade with Japan,
I am told.

" I have also visited Ningpo, which is a much
larger and handsomer city than Shanghae; it contains
some of the best streets and finest shops I ever saw in
China, but there is not that bustle and appearance of
trade that there is at Shanghae, although its traffic
must be considerable; the river Tai-hae is not such a

large stream as the Woosung, and altbough there are
many junks moored between Chin-hae and Ningpo,
the bulk of them appear to be of a smaller class than
those I saw at Shanghae.