The Express.
London, England, 1859-09-02 00:00:00

BRAZILS AND THE PLATE.

The Tasmarian arrived at Southampton yesterday
with the Brazils and River Plate malls. Her dates
are—Buenos Ayres, July 31 ; Monte Video, August
; Rio de Janeiro, 9; Babia, 12; Pernambuco, 14.
She brings diamonds value 13,2001., and specie
value 27,3801.

Her Majesty's ships Spy and Oberon were at
Monte Video. Her Majesty's ship Buzzard had
sailed for Rosario, convoying to that port the General
Havelock, screw steamboat, bound thither with
British cargo and passengers, but said to have been
purchased by General Orgill= for 20,0001.
In the northern part of the province of Buenos
Ayres sheep still died in vast numbers for want of
rastenance, caused by the continued drought. One
person had lost 6,000 in a week. No such mortality
had occurred for twenty years.
Business in general was stagnant, from the dis-
turbed state of matters. Mr. Yansi, Peruvian minis-
ter, had visited Buenos Ayres to mediate between the
cooflicting partite.
At Bahia business was mostly suspended in ex-
ports, from the late heavy rains.
The following is from oar correspondent at Rio ;
" Rio de Janeiro, August 8.
"The project of the Minister of Finance, which I
mentioned in my last, was carried in the Lower
House by a majority of eleven, but great doubts are
entertained of its getting through the Senate.
" The 20th of July was the anniversary of the
Princess Imperial, the &short Donna Isabel, the
presumptive heiress to the crown of Bri.zil. Amongst
those who attended the " beija mao" usual on those
occasions (and which few would wish to see
abolished), I heard various opinions expressed
as to the probable consort of the future
Empress. Some were inclined to believe that
it would be the present Duke of Oporto, the
brother of the King of Portugal ; bet it appears to
me that this probability is based only upon the iden-
tity of language and religion and the ties of family,
and from what I have observed generally here this
union would be very unpopular with the greater
part of the Brazilian people, national sympathy
between the two coantries being at a rather low
ebb. In a physiological point of view it
would be objectionable on account of the close
consanguinity of the parties. Others spoke of the
Prince Teuthicon, son of the Prince of Joinville, the
brother•ia-law of the Emperor. Here, in Brazil,
the Prince was very popular, and his Brazilian wife
is so well beloved by her countrymen that this
union would certainly have the approval of the
entire nation, as in it they would hare (as I heard
some of them remark), the surest guarantee of a
future representative system. Finally, the union of
the Princess with our own Prince Alfred was men-
tioned, and the idea was caught up with the greatest
enthusiasm by many Brazilians of the highest influ-
ence and position. This, however, cooled down
somewhat when it was remembered that the diffe-
rence of religion would be an insuperable obstacle
to this alliance.

Prince Michel Olsrenovi.ch has refused a deletion
of 20,000 dollars, which was voted to Mot by the Silesian
Senate. The Pricer, in a letter to the senate, thanks them
for their kind tntentions, but says that, in presence of the
pressure on the public reveaue, Da cauld not accept the
offer.

A letter from Alexandria, in the Levant Herald,
says. "The Viceroy bas been forming during thews week,
an encampment of hie troop* at Kairwl•reie, where are now
o Alerted some 30,000 infantry, cavalry, end artWory, under
trate, probably there awaiting the Sultan's expected vials, to
ban a grand review of nearly the whole of the viceregal
army before him. The scone presented by throe Egyptian
troo;s thus encsmced along the banks of the Nile, with the
splendid iron bridge spenoing it, in front of the camp; the
eteamcrs detonated with five lying al. ngaide ; the railcard
from Caro to Alexandria, with locomotives hurrying slung
with their trains of carriages and trucks, wahine passengers
and goods through the midst of this • tented field,'—ell form
a acme not only picturesque in ireelf, hot which is highly
illustrative of the material i.rogreas of Egypt:'

The Sphinx SyyptieW reports the 'narrow escape
et hie Hieheees the Viceroy, during a collieioa en the rail-
way between Dineraaaour and Kaf el-Z.yat. The Cra-
nial train bad jolt *topped at one of the stadia:La, when a
inggep train which had not been signellel dashed up
behind, on the saute line of raffle. Oa perceiving the coz-
negro ahead, the driver of the approaching angler reversed.
and did his utmost to sweet the collisi a, but is vain. The
two carriages which fortunately intervened between the
sip-coming train and the carriage in which Use Pasta eat
were smashed to atoms, sad that which contabsed his
Highnees wee Moo cmulderably damaged, bat its august
occupant escaped without a bruise. Two of hie eulte vole
lee■ fortelMAtt, but the escape of the whole from iaateda
&traction wee censideted cheat miraculous.