The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-20 00:00:00

THE BRAZILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY.
The Royal Mail steam ship Medway, Captain
Parker, has arrived. Duriug the voyage homewards
tlici Medway experienced Light N.E. trades, and
fine weather to Madeira, thende strong head winds

and heavy swell to Finisterre.
Her dates are —Buenos Ayres, March 4.
Montevideo, March 10 ; Rio Janeiro, March 17 ;
Bahia, March 21 ; Pernambuco, March 21 ; St.
Vincent's, April 3 : Teneriffe, April 8 ; -Madeira,
April 10 ; and Lisbon, April 13.
She brings eighty four passengers, specie value
£216 from Pernambuco, £6OO from other ports,
diamonds, value 61,000, *358 barrels of Tapioca,
and 325 serons Of cochineal. She spoke the Avon,
March 28, all well. The Teviot was going into
Lisbon as the Medway came out. The outward
'African mail steamer left Madeira on the 9th of
April. Yellow fever still prevailed at the Brazilian
ports, and had proved very fatal among the mer-
chant shipping.
The Royal mail steamer Prince was not allowed
to land her passengers at Buenos Ayres in conse-
quence of fever at Rio, and they were brought back
to Montevideo and placed on board a sloop. The
Prinde was detained five days coaling at Monte-
video in quarantine. She brought no files of
papers.
Yellow fever still prevailed at Rio Janeiro, Bahia,
and Pernambuco. At Rio the deaths were twenty
per day. At Bahia however, where it had chiefly
prevailed among shipping, it was on the decrease.
At Pernambuco it was nearly extinct.
The Cape de Verd Islands were healthy. There
is no news from this quarter.
At Bahia there was a brisk inquiry for superior
qualities of brown sugars ; white neglected.
No sales in cottons.
In coffee no sales of importance transpired.
Less inquiry for 'hides.
Freights looking 'better.
Exchange flatter since the receipt of the Med-
way's letters from Rio.
Exchange at Rio :—London, 27a i to 273 d ;
France, 345 to 348 ; Hamburg, 655.
The Alhambra steamer, with the mails from
Southampton, had arrived at Lisbon on the 12th,
and left the same day for Gibraltar.
The Anglesea steamer, from Liverpool to Odessa,
had put in for coals at Lisbon on the 12:h
COMMERCIAL.
• PERNkAIBUCO, MARCH 20.
Suomi : The arrivals by land and water during the week
have averaged 4,200 bags per day. We have very little
Channel Sugars for sale ; of the better kinds of unclayed
a good stock exists, prices 25950 to 35300 for muscovadoes,
and 3sBoo to ssooo per arroba for whites. The shipinents
since our last number were 806 tons, making them since
Ist November last 29,630 tons, consisting of 12,372 tons
whites and 17,258 tons browns.
CorroN: The receipts during the week are 737 bags,
which have been purchased on arrival at from 75400' to
75600 per arroba.
Hints: The shipments this month have been only 2.478
dry salted hides, making the total exports since the Ist
of November last 41,420, against 46,851 within like period
of 1855 to 1856 ; 54,174 of 1854 to 1855; 41,224 of 1853 to
1854. and 23,282 of 1852 to 1853. We have no change to
note in prices.
FREIGHTS The only charter has been of the English
brig Panope to load at Paraiba for the Channel for orders
at 35( per ton and 6 per cent.
la EXCHANGE: Transactions continue to be maid at 271
60 and 90 days.
DISCOUNTS : Money a little more scarce, bat the bank
rate still continues at 8 per cent per annum no to six
the months bills.
•

THE IRISH CHIEF SECRETARYSHIP.—Mr. Ralph Bernal
Osborne, Secretary to the Lords of the Admiralty, is men-
tioned as 1)1r. Horsman's successor in the office of Chief
Secretary.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—About mid day on Friday lust
while James M'Quillane, a labourer, to David 11I'Culloch:
Esq., Auchness, Kirkmaiden, was feeding the straw cutter
which is driven by water power, he was caught by th,
right hand, which was torn off above the wrist, and hie
arm frightfully mangled up to near the elbow. Dr. Sloans
Sandhead, and Dr. Wilson, sen., Stranraer, were sent f 01.,.
and found it necessary to perform amputation above the
elbow joint. The unfortunate man is doing as well as could
be expected under the distressing circumstances. He is a
young man about twenty one years of age, and was married
a few weeks ago. It was his first attempt at feeding the
machine, and hu had only been a few minutes engaged
when be met with the accident.--Dumfries Standard.