The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-16 00:00:00

entered by that road have evep.d. There hay be.n '
a 'tarter lose of lib, and a large Lumber of
prima rs were taken. Ties column of tebels that
attacked the suburbs by the &Amadei road
were kept at bay outside the Boa Vista, and
the third column only penetrated as far as
Estancia by the Margainho road. Terse two latter
parties fought desperately to wain their object of
entering the eity try the Boa Vitra. They fought
Ant five o'clock to the moreibg until six o'clock is
the eveaisg, but without gaining any ground. Der-
Ind the night they have retreated to the counby I the
=trent troops are toe meek wore out with their
marches to follow them. Their principal
leader, Minos Machado (a Deessobrezado ad deputy
to Abe gmeeral assessid3),_ was killed early in
the day, sad to his death the rebels attribute
their de'est. acme others of their leaders are
pietism. They were ighting far thirteen loan
oeseseadvely, and led no time to effect the object of
their visit, s. e., pleader. Preciametiocs have bees
hued on some of the killed, promising six days' h-
earse to sack the pima, if they were eseemsfel is
taking it. You can form se coseeption of the her
rime courage displayed by them men. This bee
bees the poet desperate affair ever known in this
place, and if they had succeeded it is horrible
eves to imagine what might have bees the
resat Petting aside the Ws of property, it is gums*
summed no lives would have been spared, whither
eises or foreigners. The party that retreated frees
the whorls@ daring the night is mud to consist of about
800 men, and to bare imbed another force at Olinda
that was to have attacked the forte, and intended to
eau the Rea& by the sea beach. By soma &relent
they did not arrive until the evening of yesterday. It
will be some time ere we recover from the effects of
the alarm nosed by this attempt of the rebels, but we
ataider that the rebellious spirit of the people will be
cashed for a time by this, to as, !avowable ter-
siltation.
*The killed and wounded on both sides are about
1,200, and the number of prisoners taken about 600.
The Portuguese are dreadfully alarmed, and immense
numbers have taken refuge on board the vestals in
"FEB. B.—The Cohabits has been daslaed till
to-day. Everything continua quiet in the town.
Tha rebels that st;11 continue wader arms are in the
neighbourhood of remade I cannot ascertain their
numbers correctly, 'bet they aro supposed to be about
1,000 or 1,200 strong. A great many of ththe e rebels
have been met with in smell penis.ias awe day of
the battle, and refusing to surrender hare been shot.
The total number of rebels killed is fully 600."
In freights there was little doing, and with daily
arrivals seeking employment. Several Teasels have
gem to the northern and southern ports for cargoes.
The latest quotations to the United Kingdom were
40s. par ton fur sugar, in begs, with five per cent.
ToLiverpool, for cotton, one halfpenny, and five per
cent per lb. Exchange on England, which had ad-
orned, was quoted at 28d.
At Bahia, on the 19th January, exchange was firm
at 26d. Freights to the channel, 50s. fur sugar in
cams.

LA PLATA.—The American barque Muekingam
arrived off Falmouth on March 14th, with dates from
Buenos Ayres to Dee. 24th. The governor
of Monte Video had proposed a law to
the effect that so long u the present
siege lasts, and for a year after, no property of any
description be distrained for the payment of debts
coat/acted previous to Jan. 1, 1843 ; but when the
debtor has not sufficient property to guarantee the
payment of his liabilities, the exception will not be
allowed in his favour. In °Dampener° of the appear-
ance of cholera turbos in several parte of Europe the
medical board at Buenos Ayres bad drawn out for
the adoption of the government several precautionary
measures of a sweeping character, which, if fully
carried out, will be attended with much public incon-
venience and individual less.
The .journal de Metre says:
We are sewed that the government of the republic has
received Locative co that Mr. Southern, the English envoy
estraordissey at Buenas Alas, sad whom Roses at tint re-
tard to resolve in his oMdai quality, has at length sae-
ossied is plaelag himself in sassed with the dictator.
Our own accounts give no corroboration of this
statement.
Freights for England : 41. ss, per 2,240 lbs. of dry
hides ; and 40s. to 435. OM. for the same weight of
salted hides.