The Express.
London, England, 1863-11-04 00:00:00

THE BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE HAILS.

IN. Nov. 4.

The Royal Mail Company's steamer Magdalena
has arrived here with the above stalls, 81 passen-
gers, 21,4621. in silver specie from Buenos
Ayres, 4,291.1. in gold from Rio, and 1,200
packages of cargo. She experienced off Finisterre
a heavy gale from the north-west, and strong winds
and a heavy sea from the same direction up
Channel.

The Magdalena changed colours on the 14th
with the outward French maiL

Her Majesty's ships Egmont and Stromboli were
at Rio. The admiral, with the remainder of the
squadron, was on the River Plate.

The Eng lish ship Flora, of Liverpool, from Ma-
nilla, put into Bahia on the 11th, leaky. She re-
ported having been boarded by the Alabama, off
the Cape of Good Hope.
General Penaloza, with 1,000 men, bad threatened
to invade San Juan. His head-quarters were in
Biota, where, it is said, his influence is so univer-
sal that he can dictate terms of conciliation with
the national government.
The sugar crop at Pernsmbuoo was a month later
than usual. The weather had been favourable for
all descriptions of produce.

Business at Rio Janeiro was slightly active, and
would Let so a few days. The coffee market wall
calm, and the demand for brown sugar was lively.
Exchange firm, with an upward tendency.
The sugar market at Bahia was dull, with abate-
ments in prices. Cotton increasing. Rum in
demand. Tobacco sales unimportant.
There was a great scarcity of provisions at the
Cape de Verde 'fluids, in consequence of no rain
having fallen for more than a year.

OXFORD ANT/ CAM/MOOS AFRICAN MISSION.
—1
K Mt FiClin has written a letter from Hanover 1
The Lard Bishop of Ligroin occupied the chair at a meeting • „ „
I. enorsexims with this mission, held at the Cornbioatios• stating that the
amount given in the French journals of the
room, Clan College. Cambridge, oo Monday greeting. Mr, i injuries which he received In the descent of the" Giant"
Woodcock stated that the surviving members of the octal- halloos is altogether exaggerited. The fracture of his left
sal mission were, and had been for mootlia, is • very di& 1 arm wee sever of a very grave character, sod is now "Meg
tressed condition on the brinks of the river Shim After'
ea meat favourably. In other respect. he is perfectly re. i
entering into minute details of the past via:Whales and .
future intentions of the mission, Mr. WOodootE madewar , ""I". sadlmadY I° go np the third time if the *ppm-
fee Mr. Charles Livingstone, who addressed the meeting Oft teaity offers.
r the won subject. to the course of his remarks he 1 The Austrian government will put to sale on the
1 cribed the atrocities of the slave trade imootiraged sod
MANd oe by the Portuguese, who, as a oormequeoce, were ~.._1614 a Novemberll•M cwt,of lava of tebs°°°' grown li
se:errellfy hostile to the mission. After having answered MU 7.64 1.14,46 se Wad *snorted from Auskis-
us questions put to ham, the proceedings terminated THE ALEXANDRA CASE. —We hear that the
with a vote of thanks to the chairmen. in the morning a Vase:colas °overawed have made an offer for the Alex-
full choral service had bees held in King's College Chapel, Andra, aod that Messrs. Baring guaranteed the transaction
and, after a sermon by the Bishop of Lincoln, 421. were to be bond Me. Our government, however, declined to
collected for the Oxford and Cambridge Mission. sandies the trausaction.—Times.