The Express.
London, England, 1856-02-28 00:00:00

BRAZILS.

LIaBON, Fee. 22.
The Luso-Brazilisn steamer Dom Pedro IL
arrived here on the 21st inst. Her dates are—Rio
de Janeiro. Jan. 20; Bahia and Pernambuco, Jan.
30; St. Vincent, Feb. 10; Madeira, Feb. 19. She
eneountered very bad weather on the voyage.
At Rio the cholera was still raging, and the deaths
were averaging 10 daily; the same state of things
prevailed at Bahia and Pernambuco and the other
provinces.
There had been a great flatness in the coffee mar-
ket since the Avon's departure, the sales only reach-
ing 6,000 bags. According to private letters from
some of the leaser ports of the province the stocks
were very limited, and arrivals from the interior,
where they were abundant, were anxiously waited.
The prices were nominal, and the stock called 80,000
bags, the shipments since Jas. 1 being 130,424 begs.
Washed, 6.800 to 6.400; superior, 5 to 5.600.
The sales of sugar had been altogether for con-
sumption.
The exchange transactions were small; the total
on London about 80,000!., principally at 27;, at
which rate the last transactions were done. In stocks
and freights there was little doing. The rates of
exchange were: —London, 271 to 27; ; Paris, 342 to
348; Hamburg, 645.
Freights.—Channel, 455. to 505.; Liverpool, 455.;
Hamburg, 100 to 102 nominal ; London, 45.
News of a day's later date had reached from Monte
Video by an American brig. She however brought
neither letters nor papers, but merely the report that
a great revolt was shortly expected to take place.
A Rio journal publishes an article on the subject of
the communication with the River Plate, in the
course of which the writer alludes to the British
packet service on that route, and while giving all
credit to the company for what has been done, regrets
that they do not afford better facilities to commerce,
and suggests that the voyages should be made more
frequently and opportunely.
At Bahia, exchanges were effected at 281 to 28f
on London. Coffee was in demand ; a few hundred
bags brought from the interior were told afloat at
dole. 4.400. In freights little or nothing had tram-
spired.
At Pernambuco, the exchange was quoted—Lon-
don, 281 to 28; ; Paris, 348 rs. per Ir.
The entries ot sugars had averaged 4,000 begs per
diem for the last few days. A great deal ot rain
had fallen, which caused sugars to be very damp,
and storekeepers were pressing sales, but the prices
still kept up.
The supply of cottons was very limited, and prices
were unaltered. Freights of cotton to the Channel
were about 7-16 the per lb. and 5 per cent.
The British brig of war Express had sailed for Rio
de Janeiro. The American barque Shooting Star,
bound with oil to New York from the Sandwich
Islands, had called for provisions, and on sailing had
struck on the rocks of Gee, opposite the bar of Go-
tonna, forty mi'es from Pernambuco, where she was
still bard ashore.
The Brazilian shareholders in the Luso-Brazilian
Steam Ship Company had held a meeting at Rio,
and among other things the following resolutions
were approved, viz , to carry on the line, to remove
the seat of direction to Br►zil, and to construct a
third steamer.
A letter from Rio states that the p►rty of Roses,
which actually dominates in Monte Video, were
shortly expecting the return of their chief.