The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-17 00:00:00

BRAZILS

There had been an outrage upon British subjects
at Rio de Janeiro. Two Englishmen, one a mate of
a merchant ship, and the other a laborer at
the gas works at that place, were impressed as they
were walking in the streets on the morning of the
21st September, and sent on board the Cariacu, Bra-
zilian government transport. As the sailor was
disabled by an abscess and the laborer was useless,
they were landed, without a word of explanation
or a shilling of wages, at Pernambuco on the 7th
October. The sailor's name is Thomas Willis. He
went to Rio as second mate of the Midas. The
other, Thomas Stephens, arrived at Rio as passen-
ger in the ship Calcutta, from Australia.
The accounts from Monte Video have been anti-
cipated by the Braziliera's arrival at Liverpool.
RIO DE JANEIRO, OCT. 14.

Since the departure of the Braziliera, our coffee
market has continued active, and 40,000 bags have
been purchased at continually advancing prices ;
so favorable, indeed, is the opinion of the article,
that some 20,000 bags have been bought on specu-
lation- -in the re-sale of a part of which consider.
able profit has already been made. One or two
large parcels are withheld entirely from the mar-
ket, the dealers resolving to wait for still higher
prices, which there is every probability of their
obtaining, as our stock actually available does not
reach 50,000 bags. Should the Olinda (expected
on the 21st from Liverpool) bring favorable news,
there is but little doubt that prices will rise as high
as in 1850. In fact, it is just now that whatever
real deficiency there is in the crops will be felt;
but we apprehend that supplies will again become
free in the begining of the year, and a great re-
action take place. Dealers themselves evidently
dread this, and few will be found to speculate
beyond the present year.
Exchange has become firmer since the last con-
veyancedand considerable amounts have been taken
at 28 and 28k, 60, and 90 days. Since the Tay,
about 450,0001. have been passed, principally at 28
and 28i.
The government is disposing of the shares of the
National Bank at a premium of 10 per cent.
COFFEE.—Superior, 5,000 dots. to 5,200 dols. ;
good, Ist, 4,800 dols. to 4,850 dols. ; American as-
sortments, 4,900 dols. to 5,000 dols. Stock this day
(Ist and 2nd hands), 80,000 bags. Shipped since
Ist instant, 55,485 bags.
SUGAR.—White, 2.600 dole. to 2,800 dols. ; seconds,
2,400 dols. to 2,600 dols. ; brown, 1,800 dols. to
2,000 dole. Stock, 650 cases.
FREIGHTS.--Channel, 45s to 50s ; Hamburg,
40s. to 455.; Havre, 40f.; United States, 65c. to 800.
The latest news from Uruguay was that all was
quiet in the capital.
THE PLATE.

The government of Buenos Ayres had notified to
the other provinces that it was ready to co-operate
in the work of national organisation, but not on the
basis of the compact of San Nicolas, nor with Gene-
ral Urquiza as director of the Thirteen Provinces.
The representatives of the latter, however, assem-
bled at Santa Fe. hold firmly by Urquiza, and it was
thought that thirteen revolutions must take place
before their dispositions were changed.
Business during the month of September had
been good. The local demand was active and
steady, and still larger transactions might have
taken place, but that the wholesale market was ill-

assorted. The sister provinces are doing little with
Buenos Ayres. The British Packet, which gives
out that the cause of Urquiza is lost, admits
that the political uncertainty has a baleful effect
on the trade with the interior. Importation is
limited, only one vessel having arrived direct from
Liverpool with a general cargo. A few judiciously
selected cargoes, says the Packet, are much wanted.
The tariff question was still unsettled, and flour,
grain, tea, coals, and lumber were dear. The sup
ply of hides and tallow was short, the enhanced
value of cattle having indisposed owners to kill.
The extravagant prices last quoted are still main-
taind. The prospects of the wool harvest were
cheering. The clip is expected to be the largest
and best ever remitted.

The amount of exchange on Efigland, passed
per the Severn, is estimated at 130,0001 sterling.

(From our Second Supplement of Yesterday.)

VIENNA, TUESDAY NOON.

An official dispatch says :—" The Russians dis-
lodged the Turks from the island opposite Giur-
gevo, but it was immediately retaken by the Turks."
TUESDAY EVENING.—The Turks repulsed the
attack on their position at Oltenitza on the 11th ;
they still held the island opposite Giurgevo.

VIENNA, 11TH.

The enthusiasm at Constantinople is- still more
strongly excited by the publication of the Sultan's
Manifesto, read on October 31st, in a National
Assembly, presided over by the Sultan himself,
when he announced his intention to buckle on
the sword, to proceed to Adrianople, and march at
the head of the troops.
The arrival at Shiraz of the deputation from
Affghanistan, which came to induce the Shah of
Persia to declare against Russia, produced pro-
found sensation at the Persian court. The Shah
did all in his power to delay the decision, and to
suppress an anti-Russian movement.

PARIS, TUESDAY,

A despatch has been- received, stating that the
Russians lost .3000 men in the battle of the 4th
inst. From that day to the 11th there was no
military event of importance. Hostilities were
confined to some skirmishing on the outposts.

The Turks have 24,000 men at Oltenitza,, and
same number at Kalafat. The Russians have
35,000 men at Budexhli between Bucharest and
Oltenitza, and established head quarters there.
The Turkish envoy in Paris received the following
message on Tuesday, from his colleague at Vienna :
" the news from the seat of war is to the I lth, at
that date nothing decisive had taken place." After
November 23rd Turkish ships will be declared law-
ful prizes for the Russians, even if their cargoes be
not wholly Turkish property. Neutral flags shall
enjoy full liberty.
The Russian Government has appointed a Go-
vernor for the Principalities.
The Emperor of Austria and King of Prussia
have formally declared to the German Diet that
they do not intend to take part in the hostilities
between Turkey and Russia.

50,000 Turks crossed the Danube at Kalarxil,
between Oct. 27th and Nov. 3rd.

The Greeks had offered to advance money to the
Porte by way of loan.
The Times leading article says the reports of
a lodgment of the Turks at Oltenitza, of a
severe battle fought afterwards, and of the dis-
comfiture and the retreat of the Russians, which
were all substantially true, and that they pointed
not to a single engagement but to a series of en-
counters on the same spot. The Times now
awaits news of the battle, which probably occured
when Gortschakoff arrived in person at Oltenitza.
Unless the Turks were reinforced, it is not unlikely
that they may be driven across the Danube, still
there would be a strong body left in Wallachia,
indeed, there would be the left wing intrenched
at Kalafat, which numbers greater than the de-
tachment at Oltenitza.

Respecting the unexpected inferiority of the
Russians the Times cannot accept the surmises
that the reported events are owing to the Russian
commander's stratagem, or his inconsiderable
strength ; sickness may have deterioted the efficacy
of the troops, yet a large army is decimated in a
day, and there were ample opportunities of re-
oruiting, it. Pe hapa tho tanxtla. ;a
may have carried his dissimulation •so far as ulti-
mately to have deceived himself, expecting to win
without fighting. He may have permitted the
strength of his army to sink so low, that at the
the shock of war ; at any rate, of sustaining the
reputation on which he relied.
NOTE —The Telegraphic News in the Times of
the repulse of the Russians on the 11th, tends to
disprove the truth of the rumour that the former
bad been defeated by Gortschakoff.
PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.

The Times Naval News- A sailmaker at this port
who has just returned from St. Petersburgh, where
he has been chief sailmaker in the Government
dockyard, states that every Englishman employed
in the Russian arsenals has been summarily dis-
charged.
VIENNA, 14th—Exchange on London, 11 19.
ST. PETERSBURGH, Bth—OnEssA, 4th—Exchanges
on England more unfavourable, and owing to large
purchases of Wheat it now pays well to send gold
to Odessa.

BANKING NEWS.—The Times says the drafts of
the Isle of Man Bank (Holmes and C 0.,) were
refused acceptances on Thursday, but merely from
a temporary cause—the death of one of the pro-
prietors having been followed, within the last day
or two, by that of the only survivor. The estate is
understood to be in every respect ample.

STEAM" COMMUNICATION B_ETIVEEN LIVER-
POOL AND CANADA.

Our Canadian advices report that great exertions
were making to increase the steam communication
between the ports of the St. Lawrence and Great
Britain. The company with which M'Lean, M'Larty,
and Co., of this town, are connected, are building
three first-class powerful screw steamers of 1750 tons,
to be called the Ontario, Erie, and Huron, which
are to be placed on the line next season. The line
having been found self-supporting, several Cana-
dian competitors have been brought into the field.
Le Canadian, of Quebec, informs us that Messrs.
Gilmour, and Co., of that city, are going to build
seven large steam-ships •of 2000 tons each, to run
between the St. Lawrence and Liverpool, Glasgow,
and London. We also learn from the Montreal
papers that a company has been formed in that
city called the " Montreal Screw Steam Navigation
Company" of which Messrs. Edmonstone, Allan
and Co. are the agents. The first vessels of this
line are already contracted for, and are now build-
ing in the Clyde. They are to be 1875 tons new
register measurement, and will be fitted with
engines of 350 horse-power, which arc guaranteed
to propel the vessel ten knots an hour, and enable
them to make the passage from Liverpool to
Quebec in a period not exceeding twelve days.
The first of these vessels is to be completed by the
Ist of June. Besides these, we are further in-
formed, there is yet another company in process
of formation in Montreal, to build one or more
ocean steamers for the Canadian trade, for which
a large amount of stock has already been sub-
scribed, but we have not learned that their ar-
rangements are yet in such a forward state as to
give them to the public. A Montreal journal also
states that, " Messrs. Edmondstoue, Allan and Co.
are making the following additions to their line of
sailing vessels. A splendid iron clipper ship of
850 tons register, building by Messrs. John Reid
and Co., of Port Glasgow, and a wooden one of
similar dimensions, under construction by Messrs.
Robert Steel, and Co., of Greenock, the celebrated
builders of the Cunard steamers. These ships
will take their places in the line early next spring.'

FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday night between 8 and 9
o'clock, as the steam ship Minerva, trading between Liver-
pool and Belfast, was being hauled through the Nelson
Dock gates. Robert Cruickshank, second engineer on board,
was standing by the larboard wheel (one of those about the
platform which are used for stopping and starting the en-
gine) just as they had closed the gates, Cruickshank put his
head behind the wheel, and the cutter of the air pump
touched his head. The head engineer shouted to the man
to come away, saying sharply " What are you doing
there ?" The moment he was spoken to the second time,
one of the spokes of the wheel caught him on the head, and
knocked him down on the lever. The engine was immedi-
ately thrown ,out of gear and stopped, but the man was
killed by the blow. He was perfectly sober at the time.
An inquest was held yesterday and a verdict of accidenta
death returned,