The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-13 00:00:00

BRAZILS.

The Empress, Captain !garden, after a very rapid
run of 24 days, arrived in the Mersey on Saturday,
banging dates from Pernambuco to 17th Dec., and
IBahia to llth.

The Brazilian government was still actively en-
gaged in warlike preparations against Buenos Ayres.
The screw steamer Esk, belongiug to the Weat
India Mail Company, arrived at Pernambuco on the
15th December from Southampton, having occupied
35 days in the passage.
Commercial affairs were not much changed. Sugar
was in better demand, some purchases being made for
the Mediterranean, consisting principally of fourth
and low thirds, at 2 dole. 100 r. to 2 dole. L2oor. Fine
qualities were in request for native ports and the
United States. About 3,300 tons would leave the
ports for various places the week the Empress left.
Cotton had fallen to 6 dole. 500 r. to 6 dole. 600 r., and
but for the receipts at Pernambuco being light, prices
would have gone lower. The receipts from Ist July
were 20,247 bags. Hides had an advancing tendency.
Irisa buyer was in moderate request at 600 r. per lb.
Freights were steady. Sugar to iLiverpool, in bags,
was quoted 405.; cotton to ditto, id. per lb.
Exchange on London was quoted at 291 to 30:d.
Rio Janeiro dates of 3rd December, state that ex-
change ruled at 29!d. to 30d. Good first quality
coffee was quoted at 3 dole. 700 r., and the stock of all
kinds was 140,000 bags. Freights to the Channel
57e. 6d. to 655. Nothing new in politics.
The advice, from Bahia are to the 11th December.
Exchange ruled at 30d. Sugar 2 dole. to 2 dole. 100 r.
for white, and 1 dol. 600 r. to 1 doL 700 r. for muscovado.
Freights 60s. to 70s. for sugar, and 75e. to 85s. for
tobacco, to the Channel.

BRISTOL MARINE BOARD.—Mean. Edwd. Drew,
R. P. King, W. P. King, las. Cunningham, W. Braes, W.
Patterson, R. Rowe, 3. K. Ilaberfield (mayor). and F. W.
Green, the members of the Bristol Marine Board, hays re-
signed their appointments, and it is expected that the re-
maining member, P. W. S. Milos, Esq., M.P., who is absent
from the city, will follow the example of his cAlowes. The
proceeding hu arisen out of a dispute between the board and
the government, the latter having refused to Bristol the
' privilege of examining for first-class certificates, which it is
contended, on account of its large foreign trade, its position
as the metropolis of the west of England, and its connexion
with the ports of South Wales and Monmouthshire, it is
entitled to equally with, if not in preerenco to, Glasgow,
Newcastle, Shields, &c. The matter has given rise to •
good deal of feeling, and it is not expected that any men of
mercantile eminence or importance will be got to
act on the local board ; if, indeed, any citizen can be found
who, after what has taken place, will serve as a member.
The opinion of the best informed hero is, that Mr. Labou-
there must have acted in mistake, being deceived by the
largo coal tonnage of the northern ports, and probably
bringing it (very absurdly) into comparison with the tonnage
of foreign merchandise, and it is thought that some means
will be found for bringing the subject again under the consi-
deration of the authorities. Bristol has • maritime trade
with Africa, the West and But Indies, America, New
Brunswick, Valparaiso, Buenos Ayres, Sicily, Spain, Portu-
gal, France, Belgium, all the ports of the Baltic and the
Mediterranean, in fact with all parts of the world, and the
importance to seek a port of the privilege now refused must
be obvious.

A NEW GLASS AND IRON RAILWAY STATION.—OD
Thursday the Buckinghamshire Railway Company con-
tracted with Mesas. Fox, Henderson, end Co., to erect a new
station at Bewley, Oxford, which is to be constructed on
the same principle as the building for the great Exhibition,
and it is to be completed in three months. It is stated that
this has to London is to be opened tot the Ist of May aut.

NDIA AND CHINA.

We have received a telegraphic despatch from
Trieste in anticipation of the overland mail.
_ _

The steamer Oriental arrived at Sucz from Cal-
cutta on the let, carrying 63 passengers, and the mails
from Bombay of the 17th December, Calcutta of the
7,h December, Singapore of the 6 h December, and
Hong Kong of the 24th December.
The greatest tranquillity prevailed throughout
India. A trifling encounter took place at the Kohat
frontier, between the British troops, under Major
Taylor, and the Wucker; the latter were repalsed
by the British troops, and only one woanded.
On the 31st of November the Governor-General
set out from Amar Kullen to prccecd to Lemdar-
meet. .

Malignant fever and dysentery are decimating the
troops in the Parjaub.
Sir Charles Napier was expected at Bombay on
the 3rd of January.
Sir William Gomm arrived at Calcutta on the 6th
of December.
The negotiations respecting the Calcutta Railroad
have come to a stand-still. . .

Java is tranquil. Piracies are still being perpe-
trated. _

Siam is tranquil, but apprehensions existed u to
its future state. The King is constructing a fort.
The Indian papers have late news from New South
Wake, from which it appears there had been heavy
gales, in which sundry vessels had gone ashore and
been wrecked.
Violent rains had fallen in the interior.
The Legislative Council passed a vote against the
transports of convicts in the colony.
Trade Report.-11tmbay market brisk, with con.
siderable supplies and lowering prices.
Exchange on London, 2e. 24d. to four-eights;
Ifreightage to Liverpool, 21. 10s.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CALCUTTA.

Ewe market very brisk.' .kgood harvest is expected.
Indigo, SUM, and anis command high prices. fisltpetra
and raw silk are firm; much was ding in import., espe-
cially in Lancashire invoices. The sugar harvest has been
bad in Siam. Cotton is muck in demand at Canton, and
commands high prices.
lischange on England, 5i., 3.. 4d. to ss. 2d.; freights,
21. 2s.