SYDNEY MARKETS.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 34, 25 November 1842, Page 3

SYDNEY MARKETS.

—Friday, Oct. 15

During- the week the greatest t ranquillity has prevailed in the commercial markets generally, and business has been upon a much more limited scale than is usual at this season ; the private transactions have been limited to very small parcels of goods, exclusively to meet the wants of dealers ; but prices are fully maintained, excepting sugar, which has a decided downward tendency ; upwards of 4000 tons may he expected to arrive with the next two months from Manilla, Java, Mauritius, Bombay, and Calcutta. The cargo, cx Louisa, from Manilla, comprising 2809 bags of fine grocers’ samples, was submitted to public competition, and realised on an average £22. 7s. 6‘d. per ton ; the coffee, only fifty bags, was disposed of at 7d. per lb., the remainder withdrawn, The Margaret , which arrived yesterday from Manilla, brings 170 tons sugar, reports six vessels bound for this port with sugar, and one having sailed. In other articles there is no alteration, the sales have

been so trivial that they are not worth reporting*.—Sydney Herald, Nov. 14.

Wheat. —We have only had four loails brought into market siuce Monday; and the prices given at the mills have ranged from Gs, to 7s. per bushel, according to quality. With reference to the wheat crop, we regret to state, that, from various parts of the country, the accounts are rather unfavorable; on the Hunter, particularly, rain is much wanted ; and on the llawkeslmry, though not so much in want of rain as the Hunter, yet the prospects are not very cheering. Flour. —Jn this market there has been several purchases made during the week ; and millers are firm at our present quotations. We understand that flour is being shipped for llohart Town, where, for an inferior description, better prices will be obtained, than in this place.

Bread. —The price for the 21b. loaf still remains at from 3d. to 4d.; the quality, however, is very inferior in many of the bakers’ shops.

Houaut Town Markets. —The wheat market remains without much animation ; prices have varied from Gs. 9d. to 7s. 3d., according to quality. Fine flour at the mills, 17/. to 17/. 10s. No alteration in other articles of colonial produce. Land Sale. —The estates at New Plains, fivamlalc, the property of Mr. Joseph Kirlcby, were submitted to the hammer, on Friday last, by Mr. J. C. Underwood, and realised as follows : —Lot 1, a sheep run, comprising 2,240 acres, 16s. per acre ; Lot 2, about 300 acres of grazing and cultivating land, 21. 10s. per acre. The sale went off much better than was expected, taking into consideration the depressed state of the times. Launceston Markets. —Wheat, ss. 6d. to Gs. Gd. per GO lbs. ; Flour, flrst quality, 18/. per 2,000 lbs.— Colonial Times.

The Massacre at Cabul. —We are glad to learn that an appeal, which we trust may he eminently successful, has been made to public sympathy in behalf of the suffering* wives and children of our army in Cabul. The list of subscriptions is appropriately graced by having at its head the name of the Queen for 200/. ; Sir C. Forbes has given 100 guineas, the Hon. Mr. Elphin stone 50/,, andanumber of other charitable individuals have sent in to the committee sums of less amount. The case is one of very urgent nature, and we hope the general body of our countrymen, and countrywomen as well, will in the promotion of so pressing an object of benevolence. Loss of an Emigrant Ship. —Several letters were on Monday received in the city of the total loss of the emigrant ship Kent, Captain Gardner, on the night of the Bth of May, in the Western Ocean, off the Seven Islands, during a heavy snow storm. The vessel, it appears, belonged to Greenock, and was bound for Montreal; having 70 emigrants on board. The disaster, it is said, occurred between 11 and 12 o’clock, by the ship running on a mass of sunken rocks a short distance from the coast. Owing to the severity of the storm which prevailed at the time, for a length of time it was

expected that she would fall to pieces. Providentially, however, she held together until day-break, when the whole of the emigrants were safely landed on the coast, though in a) most deplorable condition, many of them having lost everything they possessed. The ship was of about 600 tons burden, and is, together with her cargo, reported to he insured.

WAGHORN’S OVERLAND ROUTE FROM INDIA. (Concluded from our last.)

In our last we left the homeward bound travellers at the Grand Hotel upon the Desert of Suez,, from whence we are now to trace their progress to Marseilles, which port they will, in all probability, have reached simultaneously with the piiblication of this article. Continuing the route across the Desert, as indicated by the stations established by Mr.

Waghorn, we arrive at the close of the second day from Suez, at Cairo, the modern capital of Egypt. At this celebrated city, and in its immediate vicinity, there is so much to arrest attention that the traveller will, in all, probability, feel disposed to delay his further progress homewards while lie visits the Pyramids of Gizeh, about 10 mile* to the south-west; the citadel, situated to the cast of the town, and remarkable as having been the scene of the slaughter of the Mamelukes—completely commands the city, but is itself covered by a high range of mountains in the rear, where a square fort, erected by the Pacha, is garrisoned by 400 men ; the obelisk at Matarea (the site of the ancient Heliopolis) ; the tombs of the Maine- 1 lukes ; the forests of agate in the rocky hollows of the Desert; and the summer palace of the Pacha. Within the walls of the citadel the chief objects of interest are the new palace of the Paciia, the mint, Joseph’s well, and the magnificent view from the ramparts, extending over the whole city, the land of Goshen, the Pyramids, &c.. and hounded only by the eternal Desert. Hill’s family hotel at Cairo, will afford the traveller every possible comfort during his sojourn, and nothing requisite to his enjoyment or further convenience on the route, will be asked for there in vain. Houses, furnished or unfurnished, may also he liad by those who prefer such accommodation ; and for the satisfaction of invalids, there are English medical men in regular practice to he met with. At Boulak, the harbour of Cairo (from which it is distant about two miles), the travellers embark upon the Nile for Atfoli, at which place this magnificent river is connected with Alexandria by the canal of Malunudie. The time occupied in reaching Aifoh. generally oecupieabout four days. On the travellers arrival at Atfoli, a change of boats takes place under the superintendence of persons appointed by Mr, Waghorn, to attend to the concerns of those journeying by his route; and the necessary transfer being accomplished, we now embark * upon the canal of Mahmudie, which runs 60 miles in length, 90 in breadth, and 18 feet in depth, through a perfectly level country, not requiring a single lock in the whole distance. It is stated that 150,000 men were simultaneously employed in excavating it, and that it was finished in the space of twelve months from the commencement. The voyage from Atfeh to Alexandria is generally accomplished in 12 hours, and one of the first-class boats, with two cabins capable of containing six or seven persons, can he hired for about ten dollars for the

purpose. The modern town of Alexandria is surrounded with high stone walls, strengthened by a deep fosse, and is entered by four gates. Its appearance from the harbour is decidedly European. On arriving at Alexandria, the boat is met by persons appointed by the establishment, and the travellers are at once safely conducted to the hotel. While tlic necessary delay occurs for the transfer of their luggage to the steamer which is to convey them to Syra, they cannot be more agreeably employed than in visiting the many objects of historic interest in its immediate vicinity—Cleopatra’s Needle, Pompey’s Pillar, the catacombs, baths, & c., will each afford matter for amusement and information. The traveller is now once more afloat: hut it is upon the blue waves of the Mediterranean that he is borne onward to his desired port, and in due course arrives at the island of Syra, belonging to the King of Greece. Here again the baggage must be shifted ere further progress is accomplished. The necessary delay for this purpose enables the traveller to rest and recruit himself after his fatigue, and also to see all that is worth notice on the island, which, by the way, is little better than a barren rock, without a tree or road upon it to diversify its monotonous appearance. From bonce a regular steam-boat will transport him through the Straits of Messina to the island of Malta, which feat is generally accomplished in from seventy to eighty hours. Yaletta, the capital of the island, is a handsome and well-built town, situated upon a promontory ; its appearance from the sea is highly picturesque. From Malta, passengers are forwarded in 24 hours, by a Neapolitan boat, to Naples, where, after a short delay, boats belonging* to the French Government convey them on their route homewards, touching at Civita Vecchia and Leghorn, on their way to Marseilles. From this city the traveller can take the matte posle for Paris, which it reaches in 66 hours; or he may halve the fatigue of a continuous journey, by adopting the same mod.e of transit to Lyons, which he will reach in 36 hours. From either of these places the remainder of the journey home is conducted by the agent of Mr. Waghorn, whose care and pro - tection only ceases with the safe arrival of the traveller in London. The whole period calculated for the journey from India to London by this route, is at present limited to one month.

Credit. Cash Fine flour.. .. (100 lb.).. . ... 21s. 20s. Second do. .. . .. lGs. 15s. Ration do. .. . .. 14s. 13s. Bran .. (per bushel) . .. 2s. 2d. 2s. No. 1 Biscuit . .. 2Gs. No. 2 ditto .. ... 21s.