The Sun. — 1844-12-04 (London, England)

LAND MAIL.  INDIA AND CHINA.  sidency.  India.  once more reverting to the in his state of freedom he  on his return again to his  at 4/. per ton of 50 feet ; to Amoy, 6 dolls. per ton of 40 feet; to ports north of Amoy, 8 dolls, per 40 feet. For grey cotton goods there was rather ait ac wild ha= its, the authorities deemed it best to secure him by force, while they had the opportunity. He was secured by a native in the service of the Pre Lire demand; but for bleached qualities there was no inquiry. The importations of both description had been very large. White shirtings, 40-inch, 3.50 dolls. to 3.80 dolls. per piece; grey ditto, 40-inch, 2.90 dolls. to 3.40 dolls. per piece. The stock of yarns was very heavy, and there appears to be no improvement in prices. Nos 18 to 30 are quoted 24 dolls. to 26.50 dolls. per picul. Nos. 38 to 42, 29 dolls, to 30 dolls, per picul. The heavy importations of opium, and the knowledge that large shipments were on the way, had caused a decline in the various qualities of the drug. Prices were merely nominal. A few chests of Paula were sold at  In Gwalior 'natters continued much in the same condition as fomnerly, paltry intrigues of every description being, now and then carried on. Her Highness the young Dowager appears to have no very great liking towards her Minister, Ram Ras Phalkea, believing hi n I to be striving his utmost with the British authoAies, to effect her expulsion from the Lushkur---a nd a document, proved afterwards to have been forged, had been presented to Captain Shakespeare , as having been sent by the Bhaee herself; and at individual had latterly confessed, he had wrote it at the instigation of the son-in-law of the Minister. The people generally would much rather prefer being governed by a person appointed by us than submit to the authority of Ram Ras Phalkea, and complaint s are numerous against him, and continually in the mouth of every one in the Lushkur, as being in ti to habit of attaching the other Ministers to himself by presents of repeated bribes. Several important mu' sures have lately been passed by the Durbur, viz.--the total abolition of the traffic in slaves, and a prohibition against the public sale of opium and ()filer injurious drugs, without a special license from th ose entitled to grant them—a measure which it is hoped will tend to put an effectual stoppage to the numerous murders and suicides, lately of common occurrence, from such incitements.  760 dolls.—some circulars quote the rate 765 to 810. Malwa is quoted at 750 dolls. At Chusan, Patna was quoted at 810 dolls., and Malwa 840. Turkey drug at Hung-Kong was selling at 350—the latter is increasing in consumption in consequence of the inferiority of Malwa. On the above prices no rise is anticipated. All the Hong-Kong merchants were summoned into the city of Canton on August the 12th, when the authorities demanded a further payment of 5,000,000 of dollars as their portion of the Canton ransom money. The Hongs refuse to pay, and the general impression is, that they will be imprisoned. Meanwhile Howqua, Sanqua, and some of the more wealthy of the Hongs, have left their longs. It is understood that Mr. Cushing, the American Minister to China, is shortly to return to the United States.