The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-18 00:00:00

FREIGHTS.

The bulk of the transactions since our last have been at 4/. both
to London and Liverpool, and should no considerable addition to
the present available tonnage take place, a further rise may per-
haps ere long be looked for. A little tonnage has indeed already
been let for London at 4/. ss. Freight to China may be quoted at
rs. I S per candy for cotton.
MONEY MARKET.

There has been little change since our last in the rates of Go.
vernment paper.
Exchange—The exchange on England has scarcely at all
changed since our last. Some transactions have taken place—
principally in bills received from China at Is. 100. at six months'
sight, and the rates now current may be quoted at Is. 101 d. to
Is. 104 d. On Calcutta, exchange at 60 days' sight is at rs. 99k,
and on Madras, 99i.

(From the Morning Herald.)
The Bombay correspondent of the Herald gives the follow-
ing additional particulars respecting the affairs of the Punjaub,
up to the 12th of May :
" I formerly gave you the particulars of the extraordinary
nature of the pilgrimage of the Raja Goolaub Sing to
Lahore, terminating, as it then appeared at first, in his sur-
rendering himself a captive just as victory was in his hands,
and then in his being received into royal favour, as he was
supposed to be a prisoner. It would now seem that none
of these things were the result of either insanity, caprice,
or accident. The troops, in bringing the hill Raja
to the capital only acted in conformity with the in-
structions of the Queen herself, and there is little doubt but
that she entertained some intentions of deposing her relation
Inwaher Sing, and creating Goolaub vizier in his stead. But
fickle fortune again played truant to her new favourite, and
the Ranee once more permitted herself to listen to the coun-
sels of her kinsman. Having gained over to his in-
terests the other sirdars of the Khalsa, accompanied
by them he waited on the Queen on the 14th of
April, and recommended that Goolaub Sing should
be fined in large sums, and the mulct handed over
to the troops, by which means not only would the army be
bound by fresh ties to the Sirkir, but emancipated from the
influence of the Raja, whom they represented as aiming
at the virtual sovereignty himself. The troops are repre-
sented to have been much excited, and to have been far
from unanimous, some giving in their adherence
to the sirdars, and others, among whom the Avi-
tabile battalions were most conspicuous, declaring
their intention of laying down their lives, should
such be necessary, in behalf of Raja Goolaub Sing. Still
more stringent demands continued to be made by Inwaher
Sing. Among others, that his rival should give up all his
hill forts, and even those of Jumbo°. This claim, the Raja,
of course, resisted, but professed his readiness to satisfy every
just claim. His treasury, however, he declared to be empty, his
wealth being concealed underground, in spots known only to
himself. llis confidence in himself and his troops appears to
have somewhat failed, for eventually not only did he agree
to give up 350,0001. as a nuzzurana, and half the property
belonging to the late Raja Juchet Sing, but also all that of
Heera Sing, and then to retire to Jumboo. On the 22d,
however, the Punches met in council and insisted that he
should be made vizier ; the following day this was complied
with."
Our news from China—reaching to the 16th of March—is
on this occasion, as it has been for some time past, chiefly of
a commercial character. The Government of Macao, whose
suicidal measures have for some time past attracted at-
tention, has at length made a bold and desperate effort
at improvement, and by the establishment of new cus-
tom-house regulations calculated to remove some of the
impediments hitherto thrown in the way of trade,
has sought to lure back the shipping to its well nigh
deserted port, and render the colony once more a
lively and bustling resort of commerce. A court-martial has
been held at Victoria for the trial of Lieut.. Angus Mac-
donald of H. M. 98th Foot, on the charge of writing an in-
sulting note to the Sheriff of the colony, Major Caine, with
the view of establishing a personal quarrel with that officer,
in consequence of circumstances connected with the perform-
ance of his official duty. Lieut. Macdonald was found guilty,
and in the first instance sentenced to be cashiered, but on
a revision of the proceedings had a minor degree of punish-
ment awarded him. Major-General D'Aguilar takes the op-
portunity of this trial to convey to those under his command
his abhorrence of the practice of duelling, remarking that
" while he can make every allowance for that high teeling
which renders it worse than death to a British officer to sub-
mit to an unprovoked insult, without reasonable explanation
and redress, he i. 9 equally determined to visit with the se.