The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-07 00:00:00

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF EXPORTS.

1944-s.—Nov. 30, 39 chip. ; 13Iack, 14,916,7001tm. ; Green,
3,372,4691b5.; Total, 18,289,1691b5.

1643.4.—ti0v. 30, 29 ships; Black, 13,025,7691b5.; Green,
2,045,9061b5.; Total, 15,071,6751b5.
Excess of 1844-s.—Black, 1,890,0311n5.; Green, 1,326,5631 be.;
Total, 3,9.17,4941b5.

The crop of new Green Teas promises to be ample for all de.
mands, nor does there appear any sufficient reason for the ex.
traragantly high prices hitherto demanded and paid for there.
Exchange on London remains at 4s. 6d. per Sp. doll., but opera.-
tions have not been extensive. Tonnage—The supply is ample
and without indication of change on present rates--31. 10s. to
5/. 15s.

"The Canton Market has been for a long time in a ruinous
state, and sales during the past six months have been leaving from
2.5 to 30 per cent. loss, and I really see no prospect at present of
its improving, so long as shipments continue to be poured in from
India to so large an extent ; nor until the present heavy stocks in
first and second hands are much reduced. I would, therelbre,
strongly advise you to have nothing to do with shipments of cotton
to this place, unless you can purchase at much lower rates than
have been current se long at Bombay. I should say, unless you,
can purchase the best Bombay cotton—Surat or Broach—at 70 re.
per candy, it would be air exceedingly dangerous speculation ; but
the most suitable qualities of cotton for this market are Dholkra
and Compta; Surat and Broach do not fetch a proportionate high
price to what you pay for it in Bombay, and should you ship to
this, pay great attention to the colour ; see that it be white and
perfectly free from seeds. Seedy Cotton is saleable only at a great
reduction in price. This is the case, even though the staple and
colour is good. So avoid shipping seedy cotton of all things.
Compta, if et a good clear white colour, will sometimes fetch ashigh
a price as Dhollera ; but it is seldom to be had in Bombay so
white, and of the two probably Dhollera Is the safest to ship, if to
be had nearly as low as Compta. What the Chinese buyers like
in Cotton is ffeedom from seeds, purity of colour, and that flay
appearance and firmness. The prices of to-day are as fallow :--
Bontay 5 Tacls at 7i per picul.
Madras
Bengal ... (I do. to 8 per ditto.

But the highest rate quoted for Bombay is only to be °Malicia
for some small lots of very fine Cotton. The deliveries of Bombay
qualities have been of late more extensive, but the stock still re-
mains about 12:2,000 bales,

" I am sarry to think that the Bombay opium trade will be a
long time recovering itself here—almost all the Malw•a that
has come in during the past year having been spurious, and many
parties must have lost heavily. Only think of it being Bold at
\Vliampoa at prices ranging from 500 to 200 dollars per chest.
Meyers have little confidence now in Malwa opium; they invert.
ably demand a reduction on its being delivered. Patna has faller'
suddenly to 660 to 665, and Benares 615 to 620 per chest. This
is a very disagreeable place to live in compared to Bombay, arid is
very sickly. The Hong-Kong fever appears to be incurable. The
weather at Present is fine, but very cold."

RAILWAY BUSINESS IN PAR-
LIAMENT.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5.
The following Bills were read a first time :
Ulster Railway Extension.
York- and North Midland Railway (Goole Branch).
West Cornwall Railway.
Cambridge and Lincoln Railway.

The following petitions for Bills were referred to the Select
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills:—
Harwich and Eastern Counties Junction Railway.
London and Croydon Railway (Kentish Lines).
London and Croydon Railway Enlargement and Orpington
Branch Railway.
Rye and Tenterden Railway.
Kingstown and Bray Railway.

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE,

31Ancil 5.

North Union and Ribble Navigation Branch Railway,—
Committee on petition, Monday, March 17.
Newcastle and Berwick Railway,—Second reading, Mon-
day, March 10.
Brighton and Chichester (Portsmouth Extension) Rail.
way,—Connnittce on petition, Postponed from Friday 7th
till Monday, March 10.
Eastern .00-unties (t.ambridge and Huntingdon) Railway,—
,S-econd reading, Monday, March 10.
Cornwall Railway,--Committee on petition, adjourned.
Friday, March 7.

Trent Valley Rai wAy,—Petition for Bill reported, and .
Bill ordered to be biought in by Lord Francis Egerton,
Colonel Anson, Mr. Mark Philips, and Mr. Dugdale.
York and North Midland Railway (Bridlington Branch)
a second time, and committed, and referred to
the Committee of Selection.

MELANCHOLY ACClDENT.—Yesterday, about nine
nine'oklegk, an accident, by which one man unfortunately lost his
occurred in the river nearly opposite Deptford, under the follow-
ing circmnstances: —A sailing barge was coming up the river, with
rather a fresh hfcieze, whilst a coal barge, manned by the deceased
and another labourer, was drifting down with the tide, both men
guiding her course by means of oars; when, through some
cause both the vessels came into violent collision, and the deceased,
who stood upon the gunwale, was pitched overboard by the con-
cussion, and although every exertion was made to save hint when he
rose to the surface, he was carried by the strength of the tide under
the sailing-barge, and was never afterwards seen. Several boats Im-
uictliately pat
its tT
refrocnoT,t,ry wereesh fruitless,oretos as the
crchfortiiebocl3", but all their
tidersrrtions fur
was
running,
strong at the time, and must have quickly carried him away from the
spot where he sank.