The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-05 00:00:00

BRAZILS.

The Pilot Fish, at Liverpool, brings dates from
Bahia to the Ist of March. The news is very un-
important.
At Bahia the arrivals of sugar have been consider-
able. Prices flatter, and at 2,000 reis to 2,100 eels
for white, and 1,600 reis to 1,700 eels for brown.
Stock of cotton light, and market firm at 5,200 reis
per arroba.
A fair demand for coffees, at 5,200 reis for washed ;
4,000 reis to 4,600 rein for ordinary.
Exchange.-30,0001. have been effected at 29d.
Freights.—To London, 32.. 63. to 355. for sugar;
Liverpool, 355. for sugar, and id. per lb. for cotton.
A letter received in Liverpool this evening confirms
the accounts of the wreck of the John It. &kiddy,
and also stet( a that the packet-ship Albert Gelatin is
ashore on the same coast.

AMERICA.

The United Stated mail steamer Washington, Capt.
G. H. Floyd, from New York, en route to Bremen,
arrived at Cowes this morning. Her advice. have
been anticipated.

SOUTH AMERICA AND THE PACIFIC.

We have dates from Valparaiso to the 12th
January. The ministerial crisis anticipated in my
late despatches had not wentred. Two of the cabinet
hid proposed to resign, in consequence of the alleged
indecision of their colleagues, but the President had
not accepted their resignations, postponing the
acceptance till after the passage of the budget. The
revenue question was attracting great attention. The
ex-minister declared there was a surplus of two mil-
lions of dollars; the prevent one complained of a defi-
cit of half a million. The Controller-General decided
in favour of the latter statement. The following is
the report of the market :
Business has been more dull those in the preceding month,
prices of the chief articles for consumption barely having
been maintained, and for a:me they are lower ; whilst im-
portations from all quarters of the glob- continue pouring in
on a scale entirely out of proportion with our want,.
California vessels laid en of privileged flags, get complete
cargoes without any difficulty or demur at from 22 dole. to
23 dole. per ton.
There had entered at the port of Valparaiso, fr3m October
26 to November 29, 35,292 tans register of chipping, and de-
parted, chiefly for this port, 30,760 tout. There remain,
says the reporter, above 1,500 tons British, and about 500
tons of northern flag► for charter in the harbour.
Lumber for home consumption !not easily
.di.posed of, as
pnrchasen will not psy a rate equal to such as can be ob-
tained for export, orders for wooden houses for California
having run cut. Prices range in bond from 47 dole. to 60
doh., two lots having been realised during the month for
California.

Flour.—The principal sales during last week have been :
300 bags 4.4 in Conception ; 2,000 do. 4.4 and 4.3 half bags
taken from on hoard by the purchaser, which is equal to
5.4 here. Crops are expected to be large, but prices will
keop up nevertheless with a limited demand fur California.
The mining business of Chats, owing to the discovery of
new nicer and copper veins, had much increased. In the
district of Cop'aps food for the animals engaged in treas.
vrting products was very scarce. The portage is said to be
d.tfirult, and the railroad proposed to run from Copiapo to
thr coast is lrlieved to ba necessary. The increase of copper
fountiriss along the coast are said to be thriving in spite of
the v....enlist: laws of England. I) Carlos Lambert heaths
m.o•t extensive foundry, situated at Coquimbo.
Tne cumber of vessels that arrived at Valparaiso is 1849
was 9GB. Of these 232 were English, 234 American.

CUITOX-Ii01:51/6 REVENVII POR j'ALPARAI3U IN 786 TZAR

1849.
January
1.1 bruary
March 152 847 0 September
April
May 202 614 7 November
Jus

Total
Instructions comprising the obligations imposed by
the custom-house of the republic cf Chile have been
published. They consist 36 articles, copies t f
vessels arriving from foreign ports. Tte manifesto of
vessels must be delivered up before any communica-
tion ii held with tLe shore.

A liberal spirit is extending itself with respect to
education and internal improvements. The immigra-
tion of Germane and S ties is much encouraged.
The British steamer, E2uador, Capt. Pearson, ar-
rived a. Valparaiso r.n the 9th of January, ten days
from Callao and the intermediate ports. She had
sixty passengers and 56,000 dolt. en specie, consigned
to I..steb:.n Miranda, 03 ounces gold ; F. Alvaro z and
'Son, 48 do. ; Tadeo Lavin, 23 do.; Ezquerra and Gil,
22 do.; M. E. Sarratea, 32 do.; Sumo° Brothers, 58
bard dollars; do. do., 166.48 enacts gold dust;
H. Elizelde, 300 hard dollars ; T. T. Emith, 2,183
silver in bare; do. do., 172 silver in lumps; Sober-
caseaux, 1,583 silver in bars.

THE lONIAN ATROCITIES.

TO THE RIOHT HON. EIRL °HET.

Thr Lono,—l owe no ay...logy to your lordship for
trespassing on your time when it regards the mal-
administration of the affairs of the lonian Islands,
conducted in a manner as unjust towards the people
as derogatory to the honour and dignity of our Save-
reign, the protector, by treaty, of the septinsular re-
uublic.
The question of good or bid government, my lord,
is simply the question whether justice towards the
people or not forms the basis of it. Therefore, as re-
gards the lonian I-lands, your lordship's responsibility
lies in the advice that you have been pleased to give
your Sovereign; which has lately tended to unhold a
system of government altogether opposed to justice,
and, consequently, to good government. Your lord-
ship has been pleased to recommend a continuance
of the high police poser in the hands of the Lord
High Commissioner, by praising the exercise of it in
the late outrageous cruelties committed by Sir Henry
Ward in Cephalonia, and byr approving the wanton
despotic acts of Sir Henry NI and under it in Corfu, in
the persecution of individuals by domiciliary visits,
&I.—persons denounced by an adventurer for the
reward of thirty pieces of money. Such a fact speaks
volumes against Sir Henry Ward. He tot
allowing the high police power to remain idle, is, in
your lordships opinion, a full justification for Sir
Henry Ward's hanging 21, and flogging 61, in
Cephalonia, and for the exercise of it in Corfu, under
a false statement; the falsehood of the coming of the
7,000 Albanians mint have been apparent to any one
who was not dead to truth. The cause of these acts
your lordship does not trouble yourself to inquire
into ; the affect 'produced by the exercise of the high
police power strikes your fancy as a great result in
hangings, floggings, banishments, under the single
motive of sic rot°, sic, ribri.

My load, you 'lwo' it in your power, however, to
make the lonian people same redress, by advising
that a vial conimistion should be sent out to inquire
into the financial arranzeinents of the government
from the time that Lord Nugent retired from it, when
he left a considerable surplus of revenue in the trea-
sury: Into the swallowing upof this surplus and other
monies, Lod John ItUalrill refused me an inquiry—
not the lees wanted, however. As the justification with
r. Bard to the accusation of an excessive ens nditurc,
I will quote once more Lord Se.iton's remarkable
words. Lord Seaton succeeded immediately to Sir
lleward Mingles, against whom my com-
plaint was laid. On the opening of tl e
Legislaivo Assembly, Lord Seaton ta:11, allud-
ing to the i x ersive tixpendhurc, " Amieicnzio
"sol 'emote i fad, astenendomi da ogni vageona-
mend ult.( riori." The force of these words is not
weakened by their extreme courtesy. Thu act was
admitted.

Now, my lord, in the name of the lonian people, I
ask for a rJyal commission Mr the above purpose;
an I I do it the more streouott.ly from beingeonvineed
that, under a has and prejudieed :II stem of
government the lonian Islands, in their twesperity
(statesou a should look beyond the present moment)
would boeoute, as they ought under the pro:eetion of
a British Sovereign, a bright example to the neigh-
bouring nations of the two continents._

I h Lve the honour to be your loriVip'4 obxlient
savant, CHARLES FITZROY.

Eldoislie, April 3.