The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-10 00:00:00

THE BRAZILIAN MAILS.

The Royal Mail Company's steam packet, Teviot,
Captain Riven, arrived at Southampton this morn-
ing. and landed her mails under the charge of Lieut.
O'Reilly, R.N., Admiralty agent. Her dates are:
' Buenos Ayres, July 28 ; Monte-Video, 31; Rio de
Janeiro, Aug. 14; Bahia, 18; Pernambuco, 21; St. Vin-
cent, 28 ; Teneriffe, Sept. 1; Madeira, 3; Lisbon, 6.
She brings seventy-seven passengers, amongst whom
are Mr. Macdonald, Governor of the Gambia,
Sir Charles Watson, the Dean of Llandaff; thirty
were landed at Lisbon. The freight list comprises
diamonds, value 27,0001.; gold dust, value 3,349/.
sterling; and a general cargo.
Both at Bahia and Pernambuco business was very
dull, the market being overstocked.
In Bahia the sugar crop, a good average one, was
nearly finished, and the prospects of the next is good.
The opera-house at Rio was burnt down on the
Bth of August. The city was perfectly healthy, as
also were Bahia and Pernambuco. _ _

The ship Thomas Arbuthnot arrived at Pernambuco
from Sydney on the 20th of Au,,ast. She confirms
the newg of the finding of a gold mine at Bathurst,
New South Wales. She had a lump of gold
four pounds weight onboard. Particulars are given
elsewhere.
lirquisa has entered the Banda Oriental, at the
head of 8,000 men.
The cholera has abated in the Grand Canaries,
after carrying away 9,000 persons.
The Cape steamer left St. Vincent three days be-
fore the Teviot.

Our correspondent writes as follows:
RIO DE JANEIRO, Atm. 13.
The Geyser arrived yesterday from Monte Video,
but brought no regular mail or newspapers. Various
reports are in circulation as to the state of things
there on her departure, but the only certain infor-
mation I can obtain is that Oribc had marched to
prevent the junction of Urquirs's forces with
those of Brazil, having left Colonel Lucale in
Cerrito with a force of 1,500 men ; also that a
formal declaration had been made to Admiral Le
Predour that hostilities would commence on the 3th
of August.
Private letters state that Admiral Le Predour had
replied to the Montevidean government, that " what-
ever determination it might arrive at he would
answer for the safety of the city of Montevideo."
Another letter states that the Brazilian steamer
Pedro Segundo had sunk two small vessels which
were conveying military stores up the river Parana.
We had a large fire in Rio on the night of the
10th; the theatre of St. Pedro d'Alcantara was burnt
to the ground. It was one of the largest in the'
world, and the loss to the proprietors is estimated at
300 cootos of reis.
In the coffee market sales to the amount of 38,000
bags are reported since the lit of this month, and are
advance of 100 to 150 reis has taken place in prices
Of mew idle we have had an exceedingly limited
supply, and hive every reason to believe that the di
lamp is well sigh exhausted; dealers are veep gm
in their demands, and there is every moped et a
further rise in prices.
In a former letter, after having detailed to yea the
vigorous and effective measures taken by the Bra-
zilian government for the suppression of the slave
trade, I expressed a fear that some act of violence or
injustice on the part of our cruisers would change
the favourable course which things were taking. I
am sorry to state that my prediction has been ful-
filled, and will now state to you some of those pro-
ceedings, which are greatly to be lamented, inasmuch
as they tend to frustrate the object in view, but
doubly so in that they disgrace our English flag, and
reflect deep discredit upon our naval officers.
The first case which I have to report is the capture
and destruction of the brig Piratimin, and the facts °,
the MSC I will state in as few words as possible, leav-
ing you to form your own opinion of the legality of
the capture. The Piratinim sailed from Bahia with a
cargo of 4,000 alaseires of salt, 37 packages of
earthenware and china, and • few barrels of sherry
and Madeira wines. Her passengers were the Senhor
',vita°, the owner of a large sugar estate near
Cuwpos, and 97 slaves belonging to the same gentle-
man. (It is necessary here to remark, that about
one-third of the number were mulattos, and that all
the others were creole', and speaking the Portuguese
language.) Each slave was provided with a
Nesport from the poice authorities of Bahia,
had been duly despatched from that port,
and bad embarked publicly, and during the
I day time; in short, the cargo of the Piratinim
was in all respects a legal one, and she pursued her
voyage with all the confidence and fancied security
of a honest trader. A few days after leaving port
she was encountered by the Sharpshooter steamer,
whose signal to lie to was immediately responded to;
her despatches, &c., were produced, but, undeniable
as was the evidence offered of her innocence, the
Piratinim was adjudged to bo a lawful prize, the
slaves were transferred to the Sharpshooter,
and to crown all, " a general division (says
the Jormal do Commereio) of the wines, china, and
other spoil was made amongst the officers and crew
of the Sharpshooter; the Piratinim was then set fire
to and sunk!" The excitement and indignation caused
in Rio by this disgraceful proceeding was intense,
and scarcely had the popular feeling in some d
subsided, when a new outrage was reported, evee:=
justifiable if pomible than the preceding.
Tho Basilian brig Nova Mello, left this port for
Banta Catharine on the 20th of July, with a
cargo of merchandise of the value of about 2,0001.
sterling, on the 28th she was detained by the steamer
Locust, and although absolutely nothing was Mad
on board to criminate her, yet she wee mode a prig
of and sent to St. Helena. Her peermigel (=me
whom was a Brasilisa clergymen& returning to his
parish in Santa Catherin. a) mime Laded in a boat of
the Locust. " Their dameide dome: says the Areal
du Commercio' " wire *Bowed to asecenpany them
only upon the payment of a yam equal to 101, is
heed, the receipts for which payment are still ia the
hands of the passengers. Oiler cases, of a simile
nature to those above, ari=ed, one dein be
of particular a peculiarly tharadost 1111) al
I have not the mesas masetaidng. the gleam d
them states's* I abstain from giving J the
particulars.
Part cif the cargo of the Novo Mello consisted of
SO barrels of fear, shipped for Sesta Catharine by
the eminent American firm of Maxwell, Wright, sail
Ca You are, perhaps. aware that this Ana alma&
at the very head of the foreign commercial beam all
this city ; and this fact slew I conceive to be at&
tient to convince you of the illegality of the te
Fortunate is it for the oases d justicejusticethat thrra
has
occurred, as the position of Messrs. Maxwell, Wright,
end Co., is such as caning fail to procure for them
the indemnification which. as Brazilians, they would
probably have been amid
In a word, so mime and violent are the proceed-
ings of oar cruisers flat British residents in Rio de
Janeiro are pissed is the palatal and moat unusual
=Weed triabi "sat
Esgtit slimed
; and. pensive
ac.kvneowasledtc
Breeilisas have beau ender repeated insults and in-
Jots% yet if this system is persevered in, an out-
live& et popular feeling will most assuredly take
pies% sail English life and property be seriously jeo-
posiliseL
The &again facts I eisammicate to you in
the hip due will give aim ell possible puMi-
sky, that at bmi may Ism how their
lag is being dlligneed goes the oast et Brasil, by
being nob 01 eeltit mesh @deli kamiles ad oppres-
sion ; diet the elprevals d the aim *ale may
My thoesdess vsladsse the pewee is
erhablei le dint the result - sumer To Gommerefelfr OFFICEL—By
that bide may tow it will act pared in the late curios, an alteration is effected in
affect their commercial makes with the I the appointment to °due held at the pleasure of the
C 1 From Henry VIII. werranu of appointment wag
empire; alla=lllP:b.lic °Fink, at home 1011 declare nee•teary to be paned under the Great SeaL They me
against this abase of our superior power, in thus em- by this see • with, and the offices of the Clerks to
ploying it Is trample upon sad oppress a weak and the Signet Privy Seal are abolished, with campus.-
=offending aation. ties to the holders. The duty of the Signet-odes re-
maining is to be performed brtlie Secretary of Bute. The
All that she can do Brazil has done and is doing
regatta the Privy Seal.m, and ill the
for the issesien of the traffic ; but if injustice atria. The act act will take effect on the 31st of 'Dee. next.
thus anemia tale practised with impunity, and law- —Ls*, Ti,,ses.
less emblem the part of our officers is to be followed THE HOP-PICKING has commenced, and it will be-
by the pencillao. n and reward of its pe trstors, I come general daring the present week. It is, however, se
tficn the means employed will most es defeat pt too early to say anything of the yield. The quality we
reear will not be so good as was at one thus hoped. The'
their end; the Brazilian government will be thrown
into difficulties which will oblige it to withdraw its frersndo.ft the late wini
ookiag mesa fiskehazie become
es ma
thaw t;
hes evident, many
f
present energetic opposition to the trade. It has been Kr:aping. A pat isproveniss teak pins jab:%ltagpwo. I
proved that our cruisers of themselves are entirely tion of the *autism in esamenease el the las hes was-1
inefficient to repress it, and after having had the end ther, bat this was sleeked by the wind sad the Gild Wilds.
b 0 earnestly sought for almost in our grasp, we shalt and in not a few what is deemed the red rut is
find ourselves farther than ever from its attainment, almth/
Bas Liii 4.4futiffm,4• As" alit may
to"ass.
and the onle
y gain to the nation after the expendi- eas is mime giyoung Instances, will be asedeet to edam,
turc of mach treasure, and at the coat of infinite and quality.—Meieleleas Gazette.

A meeting of the subscribers to the Bank of Brazil has
been convened for sth inst., when the internal regulations
of the company will be made known, and the managers
nominated by the directory will be submitted i to the con-
sideration and approval of the meeting.
A moderate amount of business has been transacted in im-
ports, the sales of produce have been limited ; the transac-
tions of the money-market have been to an average extent.
Elroy:re.

Coffee.—Prices, which were firm at the close of the past
month, have since advanced, in consequence of the unim-
portant receipts of new, together with turther arrivals from
the United States, which alone almost invariably suffices to
render the market firmer.
Since the arrival of the Teviot business has been almost
restricted to the completion of cargoes, and our quotatations
have reference to the prices required by the dealers, whilst
purchasers can only be found at a reduction of fully 100
eels per aerobe.
The accounts from the interior represent the falling off of
the present crop compared with that of 1830-1851 as likely
to be greater than was previously supposed, and if this be
hereafter confirmed a further advance may be anticipated,
both here and likewise in foreign markets. Advice' are,
however, so very conflicting, that is not possible to arrive
at any correct estimate.
The sales since let may be estimated at about 28,000, all,
excepting 5,0110 bags, for the United States.
Exported 2,800 to Baltimore, 11,534 Channel, 1,980
Charleston, 2,107 Lisbon, 2,903 Marseilles, 12,560 New
Orleans, 14,297 Pluladelphia, 200 Valparaiso—in all 48,381
bigs.
Freights dull, andttuotattons almost nominal.
MONSY MAILILZT.

Discounts easy at 6 per cent.
Exchange wu firm on the Ist at 291 upon London, and
the trasusictions were of some importance until 7th, after
which the market wu a shade flatter, bills having been
passed at 291 dole. at 90 days, oa 9th at 29 dole. to 291 dole.
and yesterday at 291 doh. at 291 dole. River Plate and
other indirect bills at 29d01l 328 and 330 have been the
extremes upon France, &c., 615 the only rate quoted upon
Hamburg.
Stock is steady at 90 ; Five per Cent. has been sold at 74.
Specie.—Businesa limited to some few transactions in
doubloons and dollars, at our quotations.
Shares.—Sales of Commercial Bank, at 620 dole. ; of Bank
of Brazil scrip, at 5 discount.
Porrocktrr, 6 p.m.
Coffee.—Last evening and this day the sales amount to
16,000 bags, at our quotations.
Ship since Ist instant, 50,290 bags. Stock this day,
65,009
Exchange.—A fair amount of business has been done this
day, at 41d.
We estimate the transactions, since Severn, at 280,0001.
upon London, 500,000 fr. upon France, &c., 290,000 mares
banes upon Melberg.
MONTHLY Review OP THE MARXIST.

The movement of the various markets during the past
month war of mom then usual interest. .

Imports were upon a more extended scale than in any
previous month since July, 1847; the sales in coffee were in
ads mice of those in the like month of any previous year ; the
revenue of the customs exceeded that of any previous month
of any year.
As respects articles of import it may suffice to observe,
that the market was over-supplied with every description,
earthenware, salt, and some few unimportant articles ex-
cepted, and, us maybe imagined, prices ruled s cry low; the
sales eff eeted entail immense biases and it is evident that the

consumption of this market is much over estimated. The
sales are very extensive, but the supplies in first hands con-
tinue abundant, and unless receipts be far, very far, more
moderate than they have been, shipments hither will result
even more unprofitably than heretofore.
The continued demand for our primary article of export,
particularly, and now almost exclusively, for the United
States, despite the unfavourable &deices front all consuming
countries, caused prices to improve during the month, the
highest having ruled at the close, with indications of a fur-
ate advamo.
BAHIA, AUOVeT 18.
Wit gro—.Abeut lids article little or nothing can be added
Ma obenvadans is our former price current ; the stocks
the public warehouses are rapidly decreasing, and prices
ellstinue very firm ; some of the holders are keeping out
of the market, and there is a difficulty in purchasing any
Mlifiiieguble number of cases ; the quality, owing to the I
Wan, of the season, is getting very inferior. At 1,600
dole. per arr. for browns, and 2,000 dots. per arr. far whites,
they stand in 15s. Bd. and 19s. &I. per cot., hes OS board,
et the exchange of 29d. per 1,000 dols., aadfreleitosaladed.
Cotton.--Some arrivals have taken pMso lagnaty, bat the
Meek ia first hands is insignificant, brig about NI to 800
bop ; this uncle onathinew ba numb mitestei, and no
trammtlans law iwiren time he some time past $ 0=
Wiens en seminal,Mene t,4 eansespense d the
et freights, it is probable that they will maintain them-
selves. At 4,800 dolt. to 5,080 dolt. per melba, es
29d., it would cast 5.10 d. to 6.30 d. per lb., bee on
exclusive of freight.
Coffee.—Arrivals of the new crop continua insigniflear
•

being about 500 arrobas during the week, and the quality
very inferior; sales have been effected at 2,760 doh. per
snobs, at which, Exchange 29d., it stands in 28a. W. per
cwt. free on board, wiliest freight.
Cocoa.—A few bey bow been imported from llheoe, for
whkh 2,100 doh. per strobe are demanded, at which it costs
22a. per cwt. Ores w bend at the exchange, at 29d., and
!relight excluded; me seise hew transpired.
lIINIIIMI awilieses brisk, and prices looking
up-116r. far who/. aid Her. per lb. for dry being de
hmnikel, dans\ as miens bow =Lutes effected at
lima sass TM Weft el MEd MP
Rua sestinas to sell downy et our quelatisse, awarding
to quality.
Tapioca.—There is so inquiry, and prices are fiat ; the
best is selling slowly, in small lots, at 2,000 dole. to 2,200
doh. per alqueire.
tressoetions of consequence bare taken
place, the ill:pews* mode daring the week haring been
mistreated for Whim ; there are about 7,000 bundles on the
water liar whki We owners demand 10,000 dots., the qua-

lit=msapteior.
—No arrivals, nor anything in first heads;
tawdry santinnes brisk.
Tobassis, leaf.—Arrivals have been insignificant, and
small Isis of eland, seconds, and thirds. have been disweed
of at 3iffekisis. and 3,360 dab. • others, of inferior quality,
an semi at 3,200 dela. ; this stocks in first hands are

hilrewasiaLt=wdasiii—L.Nothing has been done in this article
leallare ahapether no charters having been
iiiisissy oar het; are the are hardly obtainable.
Bthelmege elethere Ara at 200. per 1,000 dela., but
hearesthert Om as therewth have been very insignificant;
bMs remain In the sassbna.
P.B. Arrived a saw se= per Chanticleer, the isle
of which has not yet bees
.11,11.• SIVISTTria, •

Freights perfectly nennesal.
Cotton bad been takan at Ifs. &L per lb.
Exchange on Leedom, W.