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BRAZILIAN PAPERS.

[From the Diario Flumfantre.l
RIO DE .411E1110, Dec. 31.
The court martial appointed to try Capain Lieutenant John
Pascoe Grenfell, of the Imperial Navy, has unanimously acquitted
him, on the ground that the crime is not proved in such a manlier as
to lead to any punishment ; for by the instructions which the ac-
cused produced, it was evident that his conduct was in all respects
directed and regulated by the literal observance of the orders he
bad received.

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JANUARY 3.
Numerous complaints having been made to his Majesty the
Emperor, of the great interruption of public tranquillity by the
many robberies, and even murders, that have been lately committed,
in spite of the existing regulations by which the laws have smite-
voured to check these disorders; and his Majesty having taken
into consideration this important subject, involving the security and
tranquillity which the citizens of Brazil have a right to expect
under the eyes of the laws; his Majesty has been pleased to increase
the police guards, and has ordered the following regulations to be
enforced on the responsibility of the competent authorities. (Here
follow the regulations, in eleven articles.)
All persons whatever, when they meet any patrol, officer, or
soldier, of the police, must obey, if summoned in his Majesty's
name, to stop, in order to be questioned, searched, or presented to
any authority. After ten in the evening in summer, and nine in
winter, no person is exempt from being searched by the patrols of
the police, and even before those hours, if there is reason for
suspicion, in order to discover if they have prohibited arms or in.
struments for house-breaking.
The patrols are to be strictly enjoined not to abuse this measure,
nor to employ it in the case of persons who are publicly known and
of good character. Slaves may be searched at any hour of the day
or night. After the ringing of the bells (at the above-mentioned
hours), every person found in a tavern, shop, or gaming-house,
shall pay 4,000 rcia for the first time ; for the second, double ;
and so on, progressively, if • freeman ; and if a slave, shall be
flogged. The owner of the house shall pay 9,500 rcis the first
time; double the second ; and treble the third ; and shall besides
lose his license. The same penalty to be inflicted on those tavern
keepers. &c. who shall allow in their taverns, by night or by day,
aaseniblages of persons without buying. A tavern or vends, in
which it is proved that slaves have sold articles that they have
stolen, shall be liable to a fine of 10,000 rein, and its license irre.
vocably taken away.

The market in English Securities was light on Saturday.
Consols for Money were at 93i$, and for the Account
they were done at 931 i. The foreign market was depressed.
Mexican Scrip was at 4, and Brazilian fluctuating between
91 and 4, sad but little doing in either. Colombian Bonds
had declined to 92 ; Greek Scrip was, by a series of skilful
artifices, depressed at the close of the day to 1/ discount. All
the morning there was a continual circulation of rumours
against the Greeks, and the depression we have stated was
finally produced by a very confident, but, as we ascertained,
wholly groundless assertion, that one of the Greek Islands
had gone over to the Turks. The prosperity of the Greek
cause will support it against all those malignant attempts
to injure it, and we have no doubt whatever that this loan
will be permanently beneficial to the subscribers. The
spiteful opposition to it can only prevail for a short time.
The shares generally varied a good deal : Pasco Peruvian
were between 91 and 341. The new Mexican Company
was at 111 101, and die Liverpool and Manchester Rail
Road as high as 56. The Irish Companies, and all Asso-
ciations connected with iron, looked well. The Shares of
a new Company, under the title of the Atlantic and Pacific
Association, came out at 1 premium. They afterwards de-
clined to 1, hut they were well thought of, and the reason
of their not coming out higher was understood to be, that
they were not so soon expected in the market, which was
consequently taken somewhat by surprise. The speculators
in Mincing-lane were so busy settling their differences, that
no bargains were made there on Saturday.
We are requested to state that the wine-merchants in the
city intend to lower French wines 13s. per dozen, and other
wines 10s. We are assured that the persons who are en-
deavouring to keep up the price, are not regular wine-
merchants, but speculators, who are buying up the wines
in bond for the purpose.
All appearances tend to confirm the opinion that there
has been a commotion at the Havannah. Houses of great
caution and respectability are buying up sugars, and there-
fore it is conjectured that they are acting upon private
intelligence.
There are letters in town from the Isle of France, to
the 20th November. They bring no news. The Lord
Ilungerford, from Calcutta, has arrive& but almost all her
letters and papers are left at Portsmouth. The letters that
have arrived are chiefly duplicates. Those that are not so
are purely commercial. The report of the indigo crop was
favourable. The letters are dated from Madras, 14th
October: Bengal, 14th September; and Mauritius, 23d
November. This vessel is not above ten days later than
the last arrival.
A commercial treaty between Colombia and the United
States has been ratified. A panenger in the Aspasia, from
Carthagena, states that Mr. Anderson, the brother of the
American Consul, sailed from Carthagena with the treaty
on the same day he left that port.
A memorial from the West India merchants and planters
will be presented to the Chancellor of the Exchequer this
day, praying that the duties on ruin may be placed on the
relative scale of duties with British spirits as it stood during
previous years; that is, in place of the present reduction
to Ss. per gallon, the duty should be lowered to Ss. or Ss. Gd.
per gallon.
A deputation of merchants connected with the Cape of
Good Hope, waited upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer
on Friday. The present duty on Cape wine is 2s. 6d. or
2s. 7d. per gallon, and the merchants pray for a reduction,
on the scale of that of the other duties. The deputation
was favourably received, and informed that the represen-
tation would be immediately taken into the serious con-
sideration of Government.

THE LATE INIINDATIONS.—III the province of Over-
yssel, 250 persons lost their lives in the late floods, and
14,000 oxen were drowned. Four thousand persons are in
need of immediate assistance ; and, on a surface of 90,000
acres of land which were overflowed, 1,300 houses have
fallen in ; and the manufactories and dock-yards at
Blocksyl and Zwartsluis have been greatly injured. The
country lens it were covered with household furniture, of
every description.
A petition is in course of signature at Manchester, pray-
ing for a revision of the Corn Laws.
A requisition to the Mayor of Liverpool has been signed
for a meeting to petition for the repeal of the ►Window
Tax.