The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-16 00:00:00

TRADE REPORT.

Trade is rather brisk in China and at Calcutta ;
dull at Bombay.
Exchanges on London at Hong-Kong, 4s. 101 ;
Calcutta, 24. lid. to 2s. 1 id.; Bombay, 21. lid. to
26. 1 15-16 d. ; Alexandria on London, 96i to 97 ;
ditto on Trieste, 165 to 170.

SECOND DISPATCH OF THE SAME DATE.

The Hindostan steamer from Calcutta arrived at
Suez on the 3d instant, with 89 passengers, having
made the voyage in 25 days. The overland mail is
from Bombay of the 16th November, from Calcutta
of the 7th of November, from Singapore of the 6th
of November, and from Hong-Kong of the 29th of
October.

The political intelligence presents no feature cf
more than usual interest. The greatest tranquillity
prevails in India. The Governor-General was pre-
paring to proceed to Lahore and the Peshawur
frontier.

The Nepaulese Ambassador arrived at Bombay on
the 6th nit., from Suez.
The Nimrod Government iron steamer has been
wrecked.

The late rumour of the Affreedees having made a
descent upon the salt mines on the Kohat frontier
remained without confirmation.

Piracies were of frequent occurrence in the waters
of the Indian Archipelago. Java is tranquil.

The Chinese on the western coast of Borneo have
discontinued their resistance against the Dutch.

At Hong-Kong the fever has declined among the
:roops.

The gangs of Chinese robbers in the province of
Kwangee are gradually dispersing.

TRADE REPORT.

Export market at Bombay and Calcutta brisk, and
looking up. Indigo commands high prices. Sugar
much in demand, with difference (Ausschlag) of two
andes. Saltpetre sought after for shipping. Rice
firm, the supply insufficient. The price of opium
going down. Large quantities of cotton had been
sold and shipped. At Bombay 4,850 bales and 460
candies were sold within the last few days.
The import trade was getting brisk now that the
Indian holidays are over. The favourable rates of
exchange permitted some modification in the prices,
and a still more favourable time was looked for on the
arrival of purchasers from Upper India. Large
sales were effected in the inferior sorts of madapollam.
435 bales of water and 100 bales of mule twist
were sold at Bombay. Nothing was doing in coloured
goods.
Prices of metals were going down.
Freights from Bombay to London or Liverpool
2/. 10s. to 2/. 15s. A lower freightage expected.

Exchange, 29. lid. for paper. A great deal of bu-
siness was done at this rate. On document bills,
2s. 2d. to 25. 2id.

THE LIMERICK ELECTION.
TRIUMPH OF MR. GOOLD.
(From the Dublin World of Saturday.)
We are delighted to be able to announce that the
Limerick election has virtually terminated in the triumph
of the representative of rational Liberal principles, and
the defeat, not alone of the champion of stolid, stupid,
"learn-nothing-forget-nothing" Irish Toryism, but the
total discomfiture and-ignominious rout of the gang of
lay and clerical impostors, who under the " felon flag"
of the Tenant League,, have perambulated the county
during the last six weeks, and done their utmost by stir-
ring up the worst passions, by the utterance of the
foulest calumnies, by exciting class against class, to
accomplish their object, which was openly avowed not
to be merely the return of Mr. Ryan, but the commence-
ment of a reign of terror, bullying, and intimidation, in
every county and borough in Ireland.
Mr. Lucas announced, a few days ago, that upon the
issue of the election ho would stake the very existence of
the Tenant League. Well, clearly, unequivocally, and
with trumpet-tongue, has the county of Limerick ad-
dressed the delusion " Thou shalt die.'.' The honest men
of Limerick have literally followed our advice—they
have "repudiated and cast from them" the landless and
peripatetic adventurers, who presumed to dragoon them
in the exercise of their politica? privilege. Lucas, how-
ever, and his fellows, will still endeavour to trade upon
what remains of popular credulity, which is " becoming
small by degrees, and beautifully less."
The following is from our owh reporter:--
Limerick, Friday evening.
The contest is, in reality, at
an end. Goold, your
favourite, rides the first horse. The Dicksonites are
sadly chagrined; but the rage of the supporters of Ryan,
the Tenant League nominee, knows bounds. The
Roman Catholic clergy, almost to a pat the eleventh
hour, consulted their true instincts, .1". refused to have
anything further to do with the itinerant bullies of the
Tenant League.
At five o'clock the High Sheriff entered the Court,
and directed his deputies to close the books; he also in-
timated to the Tenant League orators that he would
cause the Court to be cleared at six o'clock. This an-
nouncement gave rise to a disturbance, which for some
time assumed a threatening aspect; the candles were, with
one solitary exception, extinguished. When order was
restored, the meeting was addsessed by Mr. Ryan, the
Rev. Mr. Bell, Mr. Joynt, Mr. Fuller, and Mr. Lucas, in
the usual strain, the heads of which may be summed up
in " Partizan Sheriff--bristling dragoons—gross
bribery—landlord tyranny—victorious defeat—right
of petition—murdered families—colours nailed to the
mast—gauntlet thrown down—snivelling, sneaking
Whigs—covert enemies—open foes—traitor priests, &c."
They also charged the High Sheriff with limiting them
to one hour's oratorical display;
but when it is remem-
bered that they had the exclusive occupation of the
hustings, that all their speeches were ex parte, and the
subjects of which those speeches were composed con-
sisted of unmitigated abuse of the High Sheriff himself,
the authorities, civil and military, and the rival candi-
dates, perhaps the impartial and unprejudiced mind will
admit that the privilege should have been courteously
acknowledged, and not made the means of indulging in
the most unrestrained and virulent liberty of speech.
The following is the state of the poll:
Poll for the Day.
Goold ... 74
•••
Dickson ... 44
Ryan ... 21
Majority of Gould over Dickson
e Ryan

Grose.
226
lea
128

THE BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
all the mighty gatherings against Papal
assumption, few, if
any, of the speakers have men-
tioned what appears to me the cause of the Pope's late
steps. There has been a division between blaming
late and present Governments for their tolerant acts
towards the Papacy and the Puseyites in their preach-
ing and teaching Romish doctrine, but the bishops
have been untouched. Now, Sir, I consider nearly
the whole blame of the Pope's conduct lies at their
doors. What have many of them been doing the last
few years (I speak not of Exeter, who has openly
upheld Popery) but in their charges speaking against
these growing errors, and then privately doing all they
could to foster them,
and filling up their appointments
with men holding these opinions? Now, Sir, the Pope
was not ignorant of this double-dealing. It is what
he teaches his bishops to do when they are not strong
enough to declare themselves; holding ecclesiastical
dominion, be was very likely to overrate the power of
these spiritual lords, and it will be a serious thing for
the Church of England if the public mind is diverted
by its zeal against the Papacy from that reform which
is so loudly called for, especially in its bishops. 'What
has the Bishop of this diocese (Gloucester) been doing
but filling up all his livings with men of this party,
while professing openly against them, and whilst he
was uttering his wish to get them out of his diocese,
and at the Bristol Tract Society speaking the same
language, he has, to my knowledge, been acting in a
manner quite inconceivable, except from a determine
ion of still doing the same.—l am, Sir, &c.,
T. BEALE BROWNE.
n, Andoversford, Gloucestershire.

Hami

TIIB AmaitlCAN MAILv,--ane British and North
American Royal Mail steam-ship Niagara, Captain Stone,
which would leave New York on Wednesday, the 4th inst.,
may be expected to arrive in the Mersey in the course of to-
day. It is expected the Niagara will bring the Message of
the President of the United States. The United States mail
steam-ship Atlantic, Captain West, which would leave New
York ox the 7th inst., may be expected to arrive in the
Mersey on Wednesday evening or Thursday morning next.
The United States mail steam-ship Baltic,Captain Comstock,
sailed from Liverpool on Saturday evening, shortly after six
o'clock, for New York, taking out a large mail,' and a fair
complement of passengers (104).
Lord and Lady James Stuart, with Miss Stuart and
Mr. Herbert Stuart, arrived from Dumfries House, at Mount.
Stuart,,Rotheaays.oll,llw.2Bth ult. , ,A few, Clays afterwards
Lord James was waited on by 'a, deputation from his consti-
tuents and friends in that quarter, inviting him to a public
dinner, which was arranged to come off. at Itothesay yester-
' day, and Was expected to ,be very generally attended._
Greenock 4dvectiser.