The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-15 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 13, 1851.

productive to the revenue, but because upon delibe-
rate inquiry such publications are considered
(rightly or wrongly) to be within the spirit andin-
tention, as well us subject to the legal operation of
the acts imposing taxes upon newspapers. It would
'thisnfair and ungenerous to adopt any other than
latter hypothesis, for in these days public men
would not attempt, and parliament would not sanc-
tion, that which would be otherwise little less than
legal robbery; but still this very view renders the
decision of the point which has been so raised by the
government itself inconvenient am' difficult on
whichever side the judgment may be given. If it
be held that the language of the present laws
be not sufficiently extensive to subject such
publications to the payment of stamp duty,
and to the liabilities of newspapers, then the
1 whole of the press now stamped must be regarded by
the government as eir4roacal to an unfair competition,
and conscapently entitled to relief; while on the I
other hand, if the opinion of the law officer, of the
Crown be confirmed, the area of texation will be so
enormously increased, and the effiet upon much of
'our cheap literature will be so seriuus, that the
immediate interkrenee of parliament will be essen- !
tial to effect an equitable adjustment. It is not tic-
eessury now to discuss what might under this
latter alternative be an equitable arrangement,l
hut these observations will suffice to point out
the importance of providing beforehand against a
state of circumstances which must ensue in the
(verse of (as we urolcrstand) a curry few weeks; and
there is no way in which provision could be better made,
with advantugt to the public, with justice to the press,
with convenience to the government, and in all pro-
liability with gain to the revenue, titan by a realm-
tim of the duty paid upon advertisements ins:tood
in any puthcation whose whole impression
bore the newspaper stamp. Such a colas:salon
would not merely afford a moderate advantage
to that portion of the press which contributes exclu-
sively to heavy burdens ; but it would enable the
government to await with dignity the solution of the i
now-pending question. If it should be held that the i
.I,a-eviler arts do not include the larger class of
publicutions now sought to be affected, the govern-
ment will have done an act of justice to these on
v, lam alone the present hurlers rest, while sonic
countervailing advantage will be afforded to those '
publications if the effect of the judgment of tho
Court of Exchequer should be to subject them to the
liabilities of the acts referred to.
It is upon the fairness and the prudence of the
course we advocate that we especially rely upon
this occasion ; and we do not attempt to reiterate
the public benefits which result front every removal
of restriction on the modes of legitimate advertise-
meta. Upon these we have often dwelt, and the!
only other consideration of importance is the finan-
eiai effect of any change in this tax. If the ad
vela imement duty on the stamped press were redoced
to rid. and not entirely abolished, there is little
doubt that gain instead of loss would be the result,'
I
while the public benefit would be nearly equal toe
that o Melt its total abolition would contra.; and as
the Eilaxvil.tant of the I :mimics:a would know
precisely the proporf to increase of advertise
events coomequent upon such reduction, he would
have a safer guide in any future legislatien on the
subject. It would :indeed be difficult for any Chun-
teller of the Exchequer to find a tax by the redue-:
tine of which he could at the same time do justice
to u class and give relief to the general public,
with less risk of loss than by the mode we sag-
gest, for the whole amount of duty paid by the
,tamped piss may be safely assumed at 90,004/.1
ler annum, and against the two-thirds which
would be given up, must be put the increase in ad-
v, rtisententa which would certainly occur; and if,
AN the fact is, notwithstanding the reduction of the
athertiaement duty some years since from 3s. bd. to
Is. Ca, the income derived from this attune is now,
larger than it was before the change, it is not unrea-
,anable to assume, that at this time, when the need
of publicity is increasingly felt in every grade and
occupation, an increase as large would take place,
and if there were a moment at which the restrictions
upon advertising could be released with more grace
than at another, it must be at a period at which it
will be of eireential moment to all, to avail them-
selves of every conceivable means to give publicity
to their wants and wishes, mud to convey to the
notice of the multitudes, who will probably throng
this vast city, those porticulani which each may con-
sider of importance to his interests.

acted upon by tl__
Roman catholic statesmen. The nen of whom Ik-Icount-current of the treasury continues to increase,
manistr are most, and most justly, proud, have zeal- having this week gained about 44 millions, and the
ously.maintained these views. i total amount being 11:1,574,03rifr. Private aceounts.
It is our earnest wish, whilst resisting the arrogant leurrent in Piwis have declined nearly 5; millions, and
encroachments of the 'tomb& hierarchy, to utter no' increased in the departments nearly I a million ; the
word of which any sincere Roman catholic can rea-lamount of the former being fin,303,705fr., and of the
sonably complain. But it would be treason to the i latter, 23,591,P3i11i'm The whole amount of the me-
cause -of common sense, of pure wligion, of nound ; tallie reserve is ut present 521 millions, to 3114 Tail-
morality, to shrink from dragnatirg the conduct of , lions of notes in circulation.
individual ecclesiastics by its right came. Aud, there-1
fore, we feel ourselves gound to ebelare that, if we
have any. complaint to make of Mr. BefIIELL for the
manner an which he discharged his task in the legal
discussion which has elicited these remarks, it is on MADRtn, MAACH 9.
aceouut of an excessive mealv-raouthedness. tic . A severely contested debate has terminated in the
to make no ' Chamber of Inputies with the triumph of ministers.
protested again and again that lie meant
priest who' The question was the tulmis.sion of the resignation of
insinuations against tile choral:H. of the
Garelll Luna, mentiwr of the committee on the settle-
had brandished his spiritual tenors over the dying -
meld of the debt, which had been made to put in a
CvanE. There are crimes against society, less diva&
ing it may be, but not less dangerous and detestable: member of the opposition. The rosignat ion was ad-
than the infumisinse erinws with which courtsof justice
Br nett d, and
are irimmonly ealr &M ed upon to . And if pal t only has been app Sanchez Ocana, a ministerial deputy,
pinted in to lace or Garcia Luna.
avo Murillo said the ministry re try gard ed the (mea-
-1 of what was charged by Mr. I/EMELT, and to a eon- :
. tics of the debt AN the most vital which affected its
sidentble extent not dt-mied by -he counsel for the,
defence, be true, a great crime or committed by thelexistence, and desired to king it forward as early as
side of CATTRE'N death-bed. We will not, before the ' possible.
evidence on both sides has been fully heard, or before ' The Viscount dArtneria is spoken of its likely to,
the court has pronounced its final judgment, take upon I be appointed 'Political chief of Madrid.
us to affirm that such a crime his been committed ;1
but crimes of the sense nature Foxe been perpetrated j
•
in this land in former times, and in other lands iu thel GERMANY. I
present day. The We abridge case warrants a sus- i —...
pieion that similar audacious jugglery is still being, PRUSSIA.
played off in this country; and Nocietv ought to be • A letter from Berlin, of March 11, says :—All
protected from its fatal consequerecs. 'lf the law as I efforts to win over the small states to the reduction
it stands cannot afford this protcdion, the legislature of votes have hitherto roved ineffectual. One of
ought to interfere. , the most powerful of these states hers threatened,
in ease of compulsion, to separate altogether from'
the Confederation. This threat, it is said, produced
much sensation.

SPAIN.

CILUTER wrote his " Sompeoures Tale " more
than four hundred and tltty years ago. In that
story, with the breadth of a IllXWall and the glee
of a Hu:rims, he described the specious priest,
darkening; the bed of death with his shadow. and
terrifying the mind enfeebled by disease, or delirious
through fever, into bequests to the church. While
priementft was yet strong in the land, the strong,
clear-sighted Cu %ITER laughed such tricks to scorn,
'and the common sense of England laughed with hint,
and protected him from priestly vengeance. Thu
tale mar still lie read with pleasure and profit, and
•
to it we refer such of our readers as have dipped
but seldom into the " well-spring of pure English
undefiled" to learn what a savoury legacy a stout-
hearted English yeoman, in the days of old, be-
ereathed to a melidling priest.
It would appear that though four centuries and a
half have winged their way since the death of ('HM:-
cut, there are people in England still who may bene-
fit by pondering on the moral of his " Sompnoure's
1 'rale. For nine mortal days has the new Vice-
neancellor been compelled to listen to learned and
lengthy pleadings on the merits of the heroes of
a similar tale. In the land of WiektErc., and in the
nineteenth century. it would appear, there are still
priests who can avail themselves of men's belief in
the spiritual authority to which they lay claim, and
UK` the awful fir»iskr of their religion as a spell
to shake the money out of the bags of the dying
miser, that it may.drop into their clutches.
It is alleged by the counsel for the ltev. Father
Hoursroef and Mr. Barrister Coot( E, that the pro-
ceedings instituted in the ease " MEratath r. Wiss;-
st es- have been prompted by sectarian hatred. It is
alleged that the principal witnesses upon whose evi-
dence the plaintiffs rely arc legacy hunters, who
have been baffled in theii designs upon the inherit-
ance of the deceased. It is not worth while to argue
these points with them: we will take the case as it
stands. upon their own showing.
It is admitted that Cum:. a man tolerably well
supplied with near relations, by a deed executed on
his death-bed, divided his worldly substance of
10.000/. into two parts, placing ;,000/. at the disposal
of a trusteeship of priests, and bequeathing only
3,0011,. to his relatives. It is admitted that no orders of i
the deceased availed to keep the priest who ultimately i
prevailed upon him to make this settlement, from his
bedside until the deed was executed and safe in the
hands of the priest's confidential lawyer; and that,
after this object was attained, CARRE was left by the
WILMTER novelty of plan may be found in the ghostly father to die without farther spiritual! aid.
budget to he brought forward next week, it is It is ulmitted that the lawyer who acted under the
most unlikely to contain any proposal for the general priest's directions, tugh a barrister, took upon him
removal of those imposts known as taxes on know- to play the parts of solicitor and law-stationer
ledge: and since the total repeal or an extensive also. It is admitted that two females were
remission of the window duties is so loudly called for, brought to act as witnesses to the deed.
and si earnestly desired, we should be unwilling tot An attempt was made to show that CARRE
advocate any application of the existing surplus I had entertained the idea of such a dispo-
winch could interfere with so desirable a result. But sal of his property, while yet in health, before
there is one subject connected with the press which the priest visited him. That attempt is even more
deserves the attentive consideration of the govern- suggestive of dark suspicion than any of the sus-!
meat before they again irretrievably commit them- pimotee facts we have enumerated. The story is, that
selves to a financial scheme, and which supplies a CARIE consulted a French ecclesiastic respecting the
very strong argument fax the mudthealion and settlement of his property. and was by him advised
paitial reduction of the duty on advertise- to give one-frurth of his property to the poor. But'
meets. We allude to the periding p ' the deed executed under the influence of HOLVITOCK 1
against the unmamped portion of the press. t conveys nearly three-fourths of his property to the
is asserted on the part of the Crown, that many pub- administration of priests for eleemosynary purpos,es.
Bastions which have hitherto been considered as free To crown these damning admissions. the defend-
from liability to stamp are subject as newspapers to ants. after the time of the court had been wasted by
the payment of the tax, and that this liability affects I a nine days wrangling, evaded the expression of the
also semi publications appearing at more distant in- 'judge's opinion, by consenting to do what was asked
tervala than 2$ days: and the "Household Narro- without waiting for a judgment. and to pay the
tivc" has been selected as the publication on which money into court.
to try this question. Whether the law officers of the Winit the decision of the court on the merits
Crown be right in their construction of the acts of of the ease mar be we cannot foretel, and we do not
parliament relative to newspapers is not of much ice- 1 care.
It is sufficient that the experience of all his-
port:ince to our present argument; it isautticient that tory has shown that to allow large amounts of pro-
the question has been raised, and it must be assumed petty to accumulate in the hands of a priesthood
that these proceedings hare not been instituted claiming such authority as that of Rome, is danger-
simply because some sharp-sighted official has ous alike to the morals and the temporal prosperity
discovered that a elms of publications hitherto con- of a nation : and that to tolerate the impetration of
sidered exempt from tax can be brought within gifts to the church from dying men by their codes-
the meshes of some ancient law, and made' son inevitably leads to such accumulation,

The enormous wealth possessed by the Romish 1 There was a brisker feeling at the Bourse to-day.i
church in this country previous to the Reformation The Fives rose 23 centimes, and closed at 94.3.3. Thel PORTUGAL.
was mainly acquired by such urts. Its broad lands, Threes closed at 37.90, with a rise of 10e. TIIIS DAY.
The Montrose, Capt. Toy, arrived at Southampton!
Land even the greater part of its tithes, were never , It is confidently reported that a definitive ministry ' Two certmex.
conferred upon it by the state. They were the - free- will be formed in the course of next week. last night, having left Lisbon on the 9th inst. Sir J.
E. I The market for the home funds is extremely quiet
gifts" of dissolute and rapacious nobles, or meaner ' Another article has appeared in the
ate des Tennent, who was on his way to his government}donercey more than a nominal businces having
money-grubs who fancied that, by conveying to the Debats, repudiating the notion of " fusiou,” t which St. Helena, has come home from Lisbon, on account i been Lnder the influence of the absenesoeany
.of the illness of Lady Tennent. Sir George operationsof a nature to sustain the market prices have
church the ill-got property which the approach of the legitimists are very angry.
death forbade them longer to retain, they might Father Ventura, with whose name the readers of Hamilton Seymour, our minister at the court of been weaker,and are nowquoted ,1 worse than theyleft
escape the penalties which their consciences told the Exilrems in Years tasl arc pretty familiar, is going Portugal, has received his appointment to St. Peters- . off yesterday lafternoon. Although Consols is almost
them their evil lives deserved. !to deliver a series of Lent bvllmns in the church of burg. The French minister at Lisbon is about to tho only stock now open in this department
The encouragement of such preposterous views the Assumptiou. • leave. Baron Moira, late Portuguese minister at it is quite unnoticed. The critical state of the
was of itself an abundant source of demoralssaessm The council of state held sittings on March 11, 12, Turin, has been aProinted to he court of St. James s, ministry, and the disappointment and ems rtainty
Every {age of our old history bears testimonv to its and IS. the vice-President of the republic being in Bumbler, om of the late Baron Moncorro. The brig I felt at the further indefinite postponemen of tho
penutioaa influence. Nor did the evil stop h'ere. It the chair. A hill relating. to labour in prisona, and er laden with biscuit for the navy, foundetad : Chancellor of the Exchequer's explanations trylative
hoe
become a fashion to bewail the spoliation of the a regulation relating to the acbninistrative superin- off Cabarita—crew saved. The Montrose brings 10 to the financial measures for the year, operate as a
church under /lE3atli VIII. It Mlay be admitted at tendeuee of railways, were read a first time, and the packages of specie. perfect clog upon business.
once that the funds wrested from the church might discussion of a bill for the regulation of salt marshes . Our correspondent writes : Consols opened 96; to 2 for money, and 962. to
I have been better employed than they were. But was begun. The other dtys of the week were I The inhabitants of Portel, near Evora, are barri- .for account, but soon receded to 96; for cash, for
had the sum total of these funds been thrown into devoted to meetings of committees, sections, and . aided in their houses for fear of the assassins, who go ' which they are now called, 96' to I, and ! more for
i the wse or the fire, the wresting of them from the ' other routine business. I with impunity. No one is bold enough to accept the 10th of April. Nothing has been dune in the
iecclesiastical corporations which then held them 1 The committee on the low of recruitment has authority there. This shows that the government stocks now shut.
I would have been an unspeakable gain to humanity.. adopted, on the proposal of Gen. Lamortiere. the ,has some motive in not putting them down. Exchequer Bills are very Him. The larger
; They were squandered by men like Wossey in am- : principle of substitutes Is ing furnished by the state. i In consequence of the events at I'ortel. the amounts mark 565. prem., and; the , small bills 5j3.
i bitiOUS intrigues or dissolute ostentation. The ; In answer to complaints of the coalition press that' Minister of Justice has proposed a law (the decree, and 58s. ; India Bonds, 1,000/., 02s. ;m m.
power they conferred on the priesthood was used the government haul withheld from the committee on of the 21th December, 1846), which will have the Seemly any business has offered in the foreign
to crush the efforts of intellect, and arrest the pro- the National Guard Bill the documents required for effect of abolishing trial by jury for the space of two
marlet, and prkes may be eonsidered tin' same
gross of a purer morality. They were nut even mu-' its labours. a list of documents furnished is published years. This is further progress in a line of march 03 yesterday, except for Venezuela Bond, hich are
tiered available for the minor benefit of promoting :be the ministerial petters, as officially communicated. that has been chalked out. better, and in which speculation is going on. The
art; must of the abbeys and churches which fell al. de Mandy made the same complaint. Exchange, 541. Discount of Lisbon Bank notes,4i. list reports bargains in the under-mentioned descrip-
into the King's hands hied been allowed to fall into The rairara announces the publication of a work
Bopnedrz,viafnori
wettheer.rcediecii,:unnidet . of
,:.thei•tuslttnh
tions only, viz. :—Buenos Ayres Six per ('cots., 56.
decay, the wealth devoted to their maintenance' of Louis XVI., entitled " Relies:ions sir mss entre- At Oporto exchange for this packet had been done . Mexican Bonds,
at 541 to 5.5, with a large extent of transactions; : inst.,
having been perverted to other purposes. I tiens COW he due de Vaugnyon." This duke, it may
per Cents., 20 ; ditto Three per Cents. 38.
If proceedings like those which have been dig- Ibe renumbered, was the King's preceetor. .1 pre- good local paper offered freely. There is no political Four-and-a-Half per Cents., K!, ..:. Steinisli Active
closed in the case, " NIETAILIE r. WISEMAN; and in i face is to be appended from the pea of 3L de news. I,ollaoo wine freights were temporarily quoted . Five
the Weybridge case, are to be tolerated. we may yet ,' Falloux. and the wine company would have severe{' Deferred, 122.
lat 225. 6d. Heavy shipments of wine were being I Venezuela Two-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 34; 'ditto
sec in Oda country a section of the lbmiish ecturch I Baron Billing, charged by the French government I made,
surcharged with as great a plethora of ill-got wealth to conclude with Belgium, the Netherlands, and hundred pipes for shipment to London in April. The settlement of the share account appears to
as before the Reformation. And the consequences England, treaties for the protection of literary pro- have been finally concluded without the occurrence
will be the same. A wealthy priesthood will abuse ,pertv, arrived at the Rogue, front Brussels, on the of any casualty Iwyond the one noticed by us yes-
its weelth to obtain political power • the prevalence of I oth, and on the following day hada very long confer- 'HIE BRAZILS AND RIO DE terday. The liabilities of the broker referred to,
the detestable doctrine that death-bed gifts of pro- . dime with the Minister of Foreign Affairs on the
I Mr. 11. J. Bolding, are understood to amount to be-
party to the church can avail to avert the conic- subject. Between France and Holland it will only. LA PLATA. twecu 15,0001. and 20,0tioe
quences of a vicious life will sap and undermine mo. be nets.osary to give an extension to Art. 11 of the ItMiLlslt Vt.sl/3.--Trug 144.
rulity. The habit of perverting the mystic powers treaty of the 2.3 th July, 1840, so as effectually to AItRIVAL OF THE TEVIOT. awe made. that
3 peg Ct. Col that `.,hut I Ir.) C.ti/...121,,,,.. Ai., 10. nil
with which their ecclesiastical character is supposed protect literary property. We published yesterday a summary of the intel- i'reku***A''''' PG: t,„sess l';','''ir`,. ''''
to invest them, into a means of acquiring property The metallic reserve of the Bank of France in ligenee brought by the TIAIUt. 6 Pgr et. AUbtri,.. Hot. I, - sl t...1*.5t..1:r..t.a. It t. ri Isi
for the church, will make jugglers and practical Paris has increased something less than half a mil- Our correspondent at Rio writes as follows : 314 Fr UL Beg. Bonin. VI 3 1 ,lorug li I,e/. .r., 1,. .4 t
per Cent., -1,, . ~,. us st.. iii.,, : i
atheists of the priests themselves. lion, and in the provinces upwards of four millions. IttO JANP.IRO, Fan. 10. Iciltto"*Sll.r. !.1'.3"-• 41
4 I r;.,',l.:7,:litrestreit.e.i 31) 4)
These are not the opinions of mere sectarians or The discount accommodation in l'aris has fallen off 4 1.1, Ct. slum.. Ate.., 64 is ; ... ,m i.S. it.. ti ~.1., 12
bigoted protcstants. They are the same that were lof a million, and in the branch ranks somewhat' Spar Ct. /311111 in 146,., 103 l' I .1.1....3,1.1.4. I 4.... 11/j 50
proclaimed by the shren.:d and wort, though time- more than 4 millions, the anioant of the former being' 1/01,3 Coluto,;.. lie ba.., - ' •ve Ct. Nott,t-t, 14.1. 36 )
Cohautblan Ett.t6l.l its, tic I 1'... ofc,rt..l r...•
serving, ERASMC,4. and by MOltE, W*llo died for his 49.322.3113 fr., and of the latter, 77,079,651 tr. On the i I,r, Ct. Itant.'t 5c.,,.7,1 S.s .t.t. ~ l'sv., ~..,
n nee , ~. bayo 1614,, I',/,/ 9 i 16 '....r i't. V....v.
devotion to the 'tomb& church-one of its noblest side of the liabilities, the notes in cireulation have stems. Dirtim eer5...1014 i 1N.,,k• •. h 1,4
and purest martyrs. They are the seine that were I increased shout lof a million in I'w-is, and fallen off
"ted uen- ' the Venetian Senate and other great I about the sante amount in the provinces. The se- RAILWAYS.

The Teviot, punctual to ber appointed time, entered this
port on the afternoon of the 7th. Great was the interest
with which her arrival was looked for, not only by our own
countrymen, hut also by the Brazilians. Bets to a large
amount depended upon her arrival, hut the odds were very
much against her. Our triumph, then, was complete when
the signal fur an English steamer was made from the Castle
bill, and thu Teviot, within ten minutes of her appointed
time cast anchor in our magnificent harbour. The Custom-
house quay, Pharaux— in short, every place from which a
sight of ker could be obtained, was thronged with people.
lii%ery one was delighted at her arrival; even those who hail
wagered against her forgot the loss of their milreia in the
exotenient of the moment, and enthusiastically greeted the
arrival of the first steam-packet from England to Brazil.
A terrible accident occurred in this harbour on Saturday
last. A large French barque, the Eliza, bound for California, ,
with 210 passenger, on board, was blown up by gunpowder.
She had 00kil. stowed away forward, which was covered
by 3*o or 40 tons of coal. By sum: wan. or other the gun-
powder ignited, blew the bow of the vessel to fragments,
when she instantly tilled and sank. Owing to the prompt
reiistanee rendered, the loss of life was providentially Mal ;
ten individuals only are missing, but some twenty or thirty
are more or less injured. The poor passengers are in a state
of utter destitution, having saved nothing from the wreck,
but a subscription has bra opened in their favour which is
being very liberally responded to.
Beasil will not bo entirely unrepresented at your great
Exhihition. The Teviut takes home a splendid bouquet of
feather flowers, made in this city ; and others from Santa
Catharina and Para, composed of fish-scales, and ill•
Nees' wings. Very 'beautiful they arc, and I doubt not will
attract some notice. . . . .

THIS DAY.

••• 41
:14 531 3
voci of. 11.32

Two o'C'Tocx,

After the feverish excitement and remarkable rise
of the last few days, the share market to-day is
slack, the range of prices being generally lower.
There is still a great deal of movement in
this department, but sales for the purpose of
realising profits seem to form the bulk of the day's
business, and hence the decline is natural. The kill
is most marked in York and North Midlands, London
and South Westerns, Lancashire and Yorkshires,
East Lancashires, Great Westerns, and Eastern
counties. A few descriptions, however, which have
excited much attention lately, still show an upward
tendency. Aberdeen:. and Manchester and Matloc•ks
arc both higher tu•dty.
In French and Belgian shares there is a good deal
of movement, and prices have advanced considerably.
The following are this day's quotations:

OILIIIN ARV SHAKEN.

Thu government is perilling its very existence in its •
efforts to suppress the slave trade. The once notorious
slave steamer, the Serpent& (now the Goltinho of the Brazi-
lian navy), hits made several captures. I,tst week she
carried ott 200 newly-imported negrom from the island of
Maramhaia. They arc supposed to have belonged to Joa-
quint Breves, the well-known and opulent slave-dealer.
This man is the owner of 10 large farendas, and the master
of some 2,504.1 slaves. His large possessions give him great
political mita, nee, and this seizure of his slaves shows
plainly the energy and determination of the government.
It is to be hoped, now that the Brazilian authorities have
Riven such substantial proofs of their good faith, and sin-
cere determination to pot an end to the traffic, that the
officers of our cruisers will abstain from interfering, and em-'
flue their operations to the high seas. Irritating the people 1,
will he merely throwing new difficulties in the way of the
government, whose task is already sufficiently arduous.
Great activity still prevails in the imperial arsenal. Two
new vessels of war are in a forward state, and five others
are repairing. All fear of an immediate aggression on the
part of Hewes appears to have vanished, hut the Brazilians
are well prepared should anv such aggression he made.
We have a strong naval force here at present. In har-
bour are the southampton, Thetis, slid 'Tweed ; and the
steamers Conflict, Sharpshooter, and Harpy. The Cors
momut, Geyser, mud Rifleman are cruising on the coast.

Aberdeen, 191 1 17..ittit.,..N0tt., :tad Bos., E. Junction.
54 61 51 6; Bristol and Exeter, 8.1; Caledonian, 17 161 •
Chester and Holyhead, 27 51 Itl ; East .inglian, 2.11. L. awl
E. and L. and 14 , 64 .516 ; ditto 18/., E. and 11. 44 4 ;
Eastern Counties, 74 8 7' ; Eastern Union, Class ,A, late
E. U. shares, 71 4; ditto 11. and C., .M 1 ;• East Lancashire,
181 1 It; Edinburgh and Glatt., 391 81; Edinburgh, Perth,
and Dundee, loi I 1; Gnat Northern, 184 1 ; ditto halves,
11, 6 per Cent., 121 1 ; Great Southern and Western (Ire-
land), 411 ex div. ; Gt. Western, 91t 1 1 ; ditto 17/., 14t 15;
Lancaster and Carlisle Third., 111 12 put. ; Lima-hire and
Yorkshire 64 1, 31; ditto Ffths, 5 1; Leeds and 'thirst,
211 14; London. and Blar I kwall, 82 1; Loudon, Brighton,
1
and South Coast. 971 7 • London and North NVestern, 132
ditto Quarters, 23} 1 ; i;0114.111 and South Western, 924 14 ;
Manchester, Buxton, and Mat., 2} 1 ; Nlanehester, Slut ~
I and Lincolnshire, 391 ril ; Midland, 661 lii 51; ditto 501.,
221 t • Newmarket, 8,1 1:, Newport, Altera:tin-tiny. and
Ilereetrd, 11 } ; Northlk, 29,, 9 1 ; ditto 20/.,2:, 2 ; North
British, 111 11 # ; North Statthrdthire, 114 1 ; North Walt.
ern, 8 1 71 •• Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver., 2*) 191 f ;
Scottish Midland, 111 ; Sltr. w ...bury and Birmingham,
Class A, 3: 1 di...; Shrewsbury and Chester Halves, 10;
1 ditto and Oswestry, 15 ; shropshin• Uni.,n, 31 ; South
Devon, 201 l; ; South-Eastern, 281 NI ; South Wales,
for 6 A ; Taw Vale Extrusion. 31 1 3 ; Waterford and
Kilkenny, 7 West London, 71 : York, Newcastle, and.
Berwick, 214; 1 ; ditto Exten.ion, 171 • ditto G. N. N.
Purchase, 74 1; York and North Midland', 29 81 1 4 1,

Preparations for war were still being made at Rio
Janeiro; the squadron was fitting out for the block-
ade of the ltiver Plate, in caitewarshould be declared
by Rows. Admiral Great:ll, late Comml-General
at Liverpool, arrived in the Teviot, and had hoisted
his flag on board the frigate Constitution.
Troops were being marched to the frontier, where
there is a force now of 12,000 men. The day before
the Teviot sailed a steamer had arrived at ltio from
Rio Grande, bringing the important news that a
treaty of alliance, of and defensive, had been
entered into between the minister of Brasil and the
govermaeut of the Republic of Paraguay, which will
materially strengthen the Brazilians, and oblige
Rosas to think well before he declares war, which
there is otherwise little doubt he would have done
the moment he received intelligence that the treaty
concluded by him and the French minister had
been ratified in Paris. The Brazilian government
appear to be at length in earnest in their wishes
to suppress the skive trade; their cruisers arc very
active, and are making a number of captures. At
Bahia there were five vessels known to be intended
for the slave trade—two of them new vessels from
Lisbon; three of these the owners have been obligcsl
to sell to the government, and they are now being
fitted as garda-costal to cruise after slavers; the
other two are taking in cargoes to return to Lisbon.
The day before the Teviot arrived at Bahia the au-
thorities had seized another ; it appears she had
gone to the coast for slaves, and had been chased off
by au English cruiser; a second time she made the
attempt, and was again chased off, when she re-
turned to Bahia, and was immediately deserted by
her crew, the Brazilian laws now enforcing a
long imprisonment on persons found in ves-
sels known to have been employed in the
slave trade. Should the government continue
to act with the same energy, there is no question,
as far as the Brazilians are concerned, that the slave
trade has received its death-blow. This opinion is
held by all the British officers on the station, and
that they will continue there is every reason to be-
lieve, from the fact that the slaves already in Brazil
are so numerous us to cause serious apprehensions on
the part of the free population of an outbreak among
them. The Harpy had taken a slaver outside
Rio, and had sent her to St. Helena. The Rifleman had
also taken one, into which she had sent two
I midshipmen and a boat's crew; it unfortunately came
r on to blow hard the sante night, and as they have
not since been heard of serious fears are entertained
fur them.

(►or Commercial Intelligence ate page 7.]

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY.

MARYLEBONE.
Sir Ma Hare w•as finally examined, charged with com-
mitting an assault on Mrs. Anne Fairchild, wife of a vete-
rinary surgeon, residing in Church-street, Paddington. '
The particulars of the caw appeared in the L-rprcss of
Monday last.
After the depositions had been read over the magistrate
committed the defendant to the sessions for trial, accepting
Mail for his appearance.

A WlioLE SHIP'S CREW POISONED.—News was
brought last night by the Jersey mail steamer that the
Isabella, of Jersey, arrived at the latter place, from Lisbon,
on Tuesday last, with the captain dead, and all the crew
suffering from sickness. An inquest was held on the body
of the captain, and it appeared from the evidence that when
the Isabella was about 30 wiles from the Channel Islands,
the captain and crew dined off pea soup, and all were seized
immeshately afterwards with vioknt pains in the bowels,
and vomiting, and the captain died from the effects of his
illness. The cook is suspected of being the cause of the
sickness and death on board, and has been taken into cus-
tody. The inquest has been adjourned for a poe-moment
examination of the body. The captain's name was Anley ;
he was 42 years of age, and has left a large family.