The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-04 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

BolVlLLY.—Thefollowingis a list of the deaths amongst
the officers of the three Presidencies, reported since the
dispatch of last mail : . .

TIER MAJESTY'S TROOPS.—Assistant-Surgeon G. W.
Barnes, M.D., 86th Foot ; Capt. S. G. Mundell and
Ensign G. Weld, 22d Foot ; Capt. C. W. James, 50th
Foot ; Capt. A. W. Browne, 78th Highlanders.
BounAY.—Lieut.-Col. C. Davies, 2d European L. I. ;
Capt. J. H. Chalmers, 4th N. I. ; Lieut. A. Austin,
3th N.I.

BENGAL. —Capt. R. N. Maclean, 2d Grdrs. N. 1.; Capt.
C. Mellish, 10th L. C. ; Capt. F. E. Manning, 18th
Grdrs. ; Capt. R. Alcock, 46th N. I.
MADRAS.—Mejor-General M. Riddell ; Cornet W.
Leslie, 6th L. C. ; Captain E. L. Durant, 3d N. L. I.
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Davies, of the 2d Eu-
ropean L. 1., died Oct. 1, of injuries sustained by the
bursting of both barrels of his fowling-piece. Ile had
that morning written home to announce his intention of
retiring from the service.

The-steam frigate Semiramis, which arrived on
Thursday, left Kurrachee on the forenoon of Sunday
hst. Owing to the scarcity of coal in Bombay. she re-
.•eivA orders to sail down. She experienced nothing
Out light baffling winds, which often dwindled down into
calms of many hours' duration. She got up her steam
on approaching Bombay, and on the whole has made a
most excellent passage. Yesterday forenoon the Semi-
ramis received orders to proceed once more to Kurra-
chee, and she starts, we understand, this morning, for
the purpose of bringing down a portion of her Majesty's
13th L. 1., which the Sesostris And Pluto may be unable
to accuminodate.—Bombay Times, Nov. 30.
A notice was issued yesterday stating that no tenders
are required at present for the convey ance to England
of her Majesty's 13th Regiment, which is expected
from Kurrachee. The want of European troops in
the garrison of Bombay is such, that after the de-
parture of the wing of the Queen's there was not a suffi
cient number to form guards for the Mint and Castle.
Luckily the company, of her Majesty's 17th Regiment,
which came from Ahmednuggur and was destined for
Aden, arrived: their departure is not to take place by
the next steamer for the Red Sea, as it has been post-
poned until another opportunity. The Queen's have
left upwards of 100 men sick at Colabah.—Gent/eman's
Gazette, Nov. 29.

Captain James Henry Chalmers, of the Rifle Regi-
ment, Native Infantry, Commandant of the marine bat-
talion, died at Bombay, Nov. 23. He had served in
India twenty-six years.

THE LATE MR. BAINDRIDGE.—We are deeply grieved
to notice the death of Charles Hardy Bainbridge, Esq.,
oue of the solicitors of the Supreme Court. The de-
clining health of Mr. Bainbridge for many months, in
some measure prepared his friends for the melancholy
event, which took place on the evening of the 18th inst.
Mr. B. enjoyed, fo. the last six years, a lucrative and
highly respectable practice, as a solicitor, in partnership
with the late Mr. Patch, and was followed to the grave,
Tuesday evening, by a large number of both
branches of his profession, and of the principal mer-
chants of Bombay, his friends and clients.—Bombay
Courier.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
BOMBAY COMMERCIAL RETROSPECT.
BOMBAY, DEC, 2.
Curia.—We have received accounts from China to
the 10th Oct., by the Anonyma, which arrived here on
the evening of the 27th of November. Letters from
Calcutta give intelligence of two days later date. The
following extract from a letter of the 26th September
gives so clear an account of the state of the market as to
save us the trouble of any narrative of our own:—" Our
Opium Market has been in a gradually declining state
for some weeks, the legitimate demand has been limited,
and the speculative demand has entirely ceased in con-
sequence of the heavy loss incurred on the numerous
time bargains recently entered into, few of which were
contracted for at less than 800 dolls., or have been cleared
at less than 40 dolls. per chest. Our present prices are,
f,e. New Patna, 745 dolls.; New Benares, 720 dolls.; and
Malwa, 740 dolls. The Cowasjee Family and Kelpie are
shortly expected, and we therefore cannot calculate upon
any material or permanent improvement in prices. In
Malwa, any rise in price must be wholly nominal, for there
is actually none good here, and the Chinamen have almost
ceased to attend to the article. The report here is that
the new crop of Malwa will not fall far short of 30,000
chests, and that some has been already contracted fur at
1,200 and 1,300 rupees. If the crop is really so large, prices
must rule low even supposing the quality to be good.
The crop of Bengal is also, we hear, large ; and altoge-
ther we think that prices in China must present an ave-
r ige fur next season considerably lower than that of the
present year. The Cotton market is very flat. Old
stapl.: will hardly find purchasers at any price. The
quotation fir new Bombay is, taels 6. 5 at 7. 5 ; Bengal
Laois, 6. Exchange on England, 4s. 3d. Freight to
England, 41." Intelligence from Canton had been re-
ceived of anything but a pacific nature. Two European
firms had made arrangements for building factories on
the site of the old ones ; their intentions had been, how-
ever, frustrated by the threats of the Chinese. A party
connected with opium smuggling had been secured and
were taken in cages to the city. The smugglers are said
to have been well punished by one party ; while on the
other hand it is affirmed they were liberated, as the con-
tents of the chests were so metamorphosed that not an
ounce of drug did they contain. An edict issued by
Keying, the Imperial Commissioner, respecting a native
of Tsing-yuen, who was shot dead by an American, is
worthy of perusal—it will be found amongst our extracts.
The American Ambassador was requested to deliver up
the murderer in order that he might be punished by
death according to usage. There seems still to be a
great want of confidence on the part of the Chinese to-
wards their European mercantile brethren. Discontent
and insubordination are now as prevalent among the
Chinese in the. city of Canton as they have ever been.
The tea-men of Canton have issued a circular to the
foreign merchants with respect to prices for the present
year's crop. The circular is much too lengthy to be
given entire, but we subjoin an extract or two ;
" Whsreas the grand principles for conducting com-
merce are sincerity, truth, and justice, and the necessary
and important requisites for preparing tea all depend on
the seasons of heaven and human strength, the product
depending upon whether the season has been favourable
or adverse, and the price, whether high or .low, being
ruled by the state of the market ; this is what each and
all quietly made their account for, and it is unnecessary ,
to dilate upon it. Of late years, in selecting W 00.43 teas
fir your honourable countries, you have not only chosen
leaf,th every t
you finest sorts of
stillspring
mor e leaf,
desired small
theleaf; Ro-kau and and tender
Woo-ning teas, each one striving with another who
should be the first to contract for them. Hence the
Chinese merchants have hurried with their baggage to
the hills, and the people o those places have seen them
crowding thither like bees. This is the reason why the
price of tea is so exorbitantly high. The hardships and
difficulties endured by the Chinese merchants in thus
redoubling their haste in bringing forward the teas, and
in their hurried journeys to assist and urge on its trans-
ports, have all been disregarded by them. Formerly the
Wei). e teas began to arrive successively in the 9th and
10th month, but now they have at length come to arrive
in the sth an,' 6th month, each one following another
like a string of fish. This is all owing to the
universal desire for gain. How could we know
that all you honourable merchants should change
your former way, and become so crafty and deceitful,
merely choosing a few tens of chops of the most
superior Wocaning teas, and forthwith desisting (from
purchasing), causing people to feel the most anxious and
painful suspense—the misery of those who look to the
corner of the walls and who sigh after painted prunes.
Ilow is it that tea:which has been `fixed ' when offered
f a. delivery has been rejected and all at once pronounced,
unequal to the muster, rejecting it without any proof,
and forcing it back? Your minds are solely bent on your
own advantage, and therefore you desire to injure others.
We consider that the tea called 'Sparrow's tongue' has:
a tongue indeed, but it cannot speak for itself; that the
under leaf, 'Living Fragrance,' has indeed a fragrance.
hich dues not relish such disparagement, Had you a
thousand hills and ten thousand Waters, where you

might select your teas, we yet fear you would not find
them excellent,' and that each successive season would
witness the delivery to you by the dealers of goods that
had been previously settled for. The former tea' (you
would say) was better. then, and you would not. take it,
and would for your own convenience return what had
been already agreed upon. It is .diflicult to submit
voluntarily to things of this nature. Besides the Woo-
ning sorts of teas surpass six hundred in number, but
you would not be satisfied with myriads. You 'blow
upon the hair of the skin. to look for sores,' and
what fault is there for which you may notframe
a pretence ? In former years among all the Woo-e
teas there were but a few chops usually rejected ;
the former dealers and preparers of tea possessed sin-
cerity and good faith, and that in no small measure.
How, let us ask, can the price of the Ning teas
be reduced so much ?. You are all joined in making
this the custom, and habitually practise it, which we
think is inconsistent with all reason, and will not be
agreed to. Formerly the price was fixed when the tea
was shown to the merchant ; they did not point to a
deer and say it was a horse,' they had not the slightest
tinge of such principles. How could they deceive them
by giving them a fish's eye for a pearl,' or a streaked
pebble for a precious stone ? And how is it that the
Chinese merchants were formerly so simple and are now
become so knowing ?'"
The Government of Macao are said to be literally in-
solvent. The troops who garrison the city have been
unpaid since April last. The Friend of China of the
31st August notices the total wreck of the American
ship Convoy, on the island of Luconia, on the Ist Aug.
The schooner Osprey, arrived at Hong-Kong on the 24th
Sept., reports having fallen in, on the sth of July, with
an extensive reef, in lat. 31 N., long. 144 50 E. The
London Mail of the Bth August reached Hong-Kong
on the Bth October— two months between London and
Victoria.

DEATH OF CAPT. SCOTT, LATE OF THE SHIP EARL OF
CLARE.—Accounts received this week from China, we
regret to say, announce the death, after a short illness,
of Captain James Scott, of the ship Earl of Clare, et the
Blenheim Reach, on the 3d of October. Captain Scott,
who stood first on the list of country captains, had been
24 years in the service. He was well known and very
much respected here by all engaged in the China trade,
and in private fits greatly esteemed. His family, who
were with him in China, are now on their return, in the
ship Buckinghamshire, to Bombay.

THE BOMBAY MARKET.
(From the Chamber of Commerce Overland Price Current.)
BOMBAY, DEC. 2.—The celebration of the newellee holi-
days during the early part of the past month, put a stop,
as usual, to all active commercial operations, and when busi-
ness about the 10th ult. was again resumed, the dealers
evinced no inclination to make extensive purchases. Cer-
tain transactions—noticed more particularly below--exer-
cised a most prejudicial effect on the market for piece goods,
while twist, metals, and almost every description of imports,
were dull of sale, and with few exceptions declined in value.
Business has latterly been done to some extent, but prices
have not rallied, and still continue, generally speaking, ex-
tremely low. It is to be hoped, however, that as the depres-
sion, in the principal instances, has been owing to a temporary
cause, trade will soon exhibit a more promising aspect.
Metals.—Transactions have been limited, and fresh impor-
tations having taken place, prices have in one or two cases
suffered still further reduction. We quote one small sale of
sheathing copper at 52 rupees per cwt., but nothing else has
been done at so high a rate, and 44 rupees is now the best
price that can be obtained for the article. South American
has also been disposed of at 40 rupees, but 45 and 46 rupees
is the present rate. Tile, however, has improved in value,
484 rupees per cwt. having been refused for it. In iron,
British tar and nail rod are both lower than before. Quick-
silver has declined somewhat ; but lead, steel, spelter, and tin
plates, remain without alteration. We subjoin a few sales :
Copper 9O cwt. sheathing
100 ditto
10* ditto
300 South American at 49
Iron 9O tons Swedish bar ...... at 48i per candy.
200 tons English bar
420 cwt. square nail rod at 30
461 bundles sheet at 6 per cwt.
300 cwt. hoop
Spelter 5OO cwt at 15
Tin Plates ...100 boxes
Orsidue
We have also been apprised of sales of 3,064 cwt.
Iron.—Bar and bundle, at 24 rupees per candy, and 3,000
cwt. sheet (damaged) at 4i rupees per cwt.
Cotton Manufactures.—Soon after the termination of the
holidays, and resumption of business, rumours gained ground
that a partial failure of the grain crops had taken place in
Malwa, and that Calcutta piece goods, newly imported
there, were underselling those from Bombay ; and it was
also stated that, owing to this state of affairs, orders which
had been sent here had been withdrawn or greatly contracted
in extent. Influenced, it is supposed, by these reports, one
or two extensive holders forced their goods suddenly on the
market—a course which necessarily occasioned a consider-
able reduction in the prices of many fabrics, and which, had
not the major part of the importers kept firm, must have
been attended with even more serious effects. Grey Mada-
pollaina and long-cloths of tine qualities are at present in
fair demand, at about previous rates, but the low and mid-
dling descriptions are cheaper. Grey domestics pave been
sold to a limited extent; but jaconets are quite neglected,
and sales of them to any amount are impracticable, even at
a serious reduction. All sorts of bleached goods are in very
limited demand, and have declined in value. For Turkey
red goods there has been some demand, and transactions in
them have taken place at fair rates. Prints are in rather bet-
ter request, but the prices obtainable are still extremely low.
Yarns.—The market has been dull throughout the month,
and prices of most numbers, both of mule and water, have
given way, as will be perceived by a reference to our quota-
tions. Turkey red yarn has been sold at 1-6-3 at 1-9-0 rs.,
and we note a sale of orange so low as 10i annas per lb.
Mule Twist, No 20 ... 10,4001 b. at 6i to 6i as.
15,200 ...
2,000 ... 6, •
30 ... 15,200 ...
38 ... 600 ,8}
40 ~. 29,600 ...
22,000 ... tit to 8i as.
50 ... 12,300 ... 10 •
6,400 ... 9i
60 ... 3,000 ... 12
70 ... 500 ... 14
Water Twist, N 0.20 ... 15,200 ... 6g
2,400 ... 6
15,200 ...
45,200 ... 8
16,000 ...
20 at 34 ... 6,600 ... titt
Turkey Red Yarn ... ' 4,000 ... 1 6 3 re.
40 to 50 ... 3,200 ... 1 9 0
Orange ... 10,000 ... 010 6
Sewing thread ...' 1,000 ... 3 30 pr grose.
Woollens have been in moderate request, but lower rates
have, nevertheless, been accepted by holders. A sale of
986* yards, at 1.6-0 rs. per yard, has been reported to us
for publication.
Marine Stores are still without demand, and prices, with
the exception of those of pitch and coal tar, which have
both receded, remain as they were at the date of our last
publication.
Cochineal is in request, and the market firm. We have
been informed of a sale of 3,0991 b. at 2irs. per lb., and 2-13 rs.
has, we hear, been since refused.

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Saffron is in better request than last month. The following
transactions have taken place :-
1 case at 28i rupees.
2401 b. at 23i to 244 rupees.
Bottles retain last month's prices; 300 gross of quarts have
been sold at rs. per dozen, and 1,146 dozens of pints at
14 annas ;55 gross of the latter have also been disposed of
at 13A annas.
Beer.—We have no transactions to record, and but little
can be done till the arrival of the October brew, the stocks
on hand being extremely small. We requote last month's
rates for all brands.

Spirits.--A sale of 28 hhds. of brandy at 2i rs. per gallon
has been reported; also one of 100 gallons of gin at 2 rs. 14
an. per gallon. Stocks continue light.
EASTERN PRODUCE.

Cottou.—Prices have further given way since the depar-
ture of the last mail. Broach and Surat being 7 re. to 9 re. ;
Dollera, Ir. to 2 ; Oomrawattee. 3 rs. to 5 ; Barsee, 5 re.,
and Compla, 3 rs. lower than before.. We have been ap.
prised of purchases of 1,000 bales of Broach at 81 re., and
300 bales of Surat at 82k rs. per candy. The unfavourable
state of both the English and China markets has produced
this reduction, and the nature of our latest advices from the
last-named quarter gives reason to expect a still further de-
&oaf
Coffee.—There is no alteration to notice in the price e any
variety.
Elephants' Teeth.—We repeat last month's quotations,
with the exception of that for large teeth, 140 maunds of
which have been purchased at rates varying from 87 re. to
88 per maund.
Opium—Has declined very considerably since our last, the
present price being only 1,175 rs. per cheat, while last
menth's rates were 1,410 I& to 1;420.
Pepper.—There is still no bhutcol/ in the market, and the
price of Malabar is a trifle lower than before.
Wool.—The high rate mentioned in our last is still main-
tained, and purchases have been made to some extent. A
considerable quantity was seized in the early part of the
month at the Custom-house, and on being put up to sale by
auction realised the high prices of 143 rs. per candy.