The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-01 00:00:00

THE BRAZILIAN AND RIVER PLATE
MAILS.

(REUTERS EXPRESS.)
SOUTHAMPTON, 00t. 1.

The Royal Mail Company's steamship Parana, Captain
Jellicoe, arrived this morning with the above mails and 93
passengers, also, on freight, specie valued £9,395, and the
following cargo, viz. :-15 bales cotton, 342 bales wool, 807
rolls of tobacco, and 45 serous minerals.

Her Majesty's ships Satellite and Triton, and the gun-
boats Dotterel and Spider, were at ➢Tonte Video; the
Sheldrake was at Buenos Ayres, and the Egmont and
Stromboli st Rio de Janeiro.

Tho steam troopship Vulcan, from Hong Kong on the
9th June, Singapore 25th, Mauritius July 19, and the Cape
of Good Hope Aug. 22, with naval and military invalids,
put into St Vincent on the 20th, for coals and fresh sup-
plies for the sick, and was to sail for Madeira on the fol-
lowing day.

The Spanish war vessels,Baranquilla and Bianoa were to
sail from Rio for the Pacifil, after coaling. The French
war vessel Ashtree left Rio on the 4th to cruise to the
southward.

The Russian war vessels Ryda and the Hydyman left
Pernambuco on the 13th fur Europe.
The Federal ship of war Onward was cruising on the
Brazilian coast for Confederate vessels.

The Magdalena had not arrived out at St Vincent when
the Parana left on the 20th,

BUENOS AYRES, Aug. 27.

Affairs are without material change. Congress is still
sitting. The peace of the country is undisturbed.
Agricultural industry is on the increase. General
Mitre's Government enjoys respect and confidence
The invasion of the Indians has been less repeated. A.
scheme is before Congress to extend our frontier line, and
secure the province several thousand leagues of territory.
In the province of Catarmarca rich and valuable mines
have been discovered, and people are flocking to them. Mr
Wheelwright has proceeded to Rosario to superintend the
works of the Great Central Argentine Railway. Several
vessels have arrived with plant for the line. The arrivals
of ores and regulus from Catamarca are unusually large
and valuable. The Provincial Government is occupied
with a scheme for the redemption of the convertible paper
currency. The works of the Southern Railway are pro-
gressing favourably.
The winter is nearly over—grass is abundant—the fllcks
have increased—the sheep are in good condition, and the
prospects of the farmers good.
The money market has been unsettled. The demand for
specie has increased. The price of the dollar has fallen
from 29, paper dollars, to 284. The fall in the price of
specie is expected to continue to the end of the year. A
heavy business has been done in exchange for this packet.
The rate on E.tgland has gone up from 494 d to 50d and
50Id. The amount drawn for the packet is estimated at
£200,000.
In produce salted hides have an upward tendency. Dry
hides are on the decline. Nearly all the wool has been dis-
posed of—last sales 117 dollars. Sheepskins have been sel-
ling at extreme rates—the current rate for the best wooled
skins is 3 reales per pound. The import market is Lecom-
big active. Prints are in great demand,
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. S.

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The Import trade in cotton goods is improving, and the
demand increasing. The coffee market is dull; dealers
evince much desire to sell, but owing to the small stock of
60,000 bags not at such a decline as the position of the
article in foreign markets would require. Sales from 6th
ult. to date have been 112,776 begs, prices rule for superior
washed and pulped, 6 800 to 7 400 ; superior fine, 6 900 to
7 000; superior, 6 700 to 800. let good, 6 400 to 500, and
let orainary, 6 100 to 200, Sales of hides, large, at 260 to
270, as small, 250, as stock, 8,000. In exchange about
£150,000 have been negotiated (including £50,000 for the
Government at 27a, 27k, 27a on France, and Antwerp,
2,000,000 f., at 344 to 346r5., and Hamburg B M 500,000 at
657r5. The rate of interest in the banks is 8 per cent. The
transactions in stock have been moderate at 97 to 93 per
cent.; freights to England, 40s; Channel, 59s to 555.

BAHIA, 11th Sept.

Trade is dull on account of the elections, but which gas
on quietly. The crops cf cotton will be much less than was
expected. supplies are insignificant, and a few bales disposed
of at 28 500 per arroba. The sugar continues completely
stagnated, no sales of importance, quotatior s nominal. No
sales of coffee effected, stock small, price demanded, 5 060
to 5 400 per arroba. Cocoa dull. ii ides, no sales. Rum,
for regular quality, 76 000 per pipe. Stock of tobacco much
reduced, no sales of importance, freights for Chann.l, 47s 6d
for tobacco. Exchange, 27i to a ; on Paris, 348 and 316
per franc; on Hamburg, 659, as per mark B Co.

THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.

[REUTERS EXPRESS
SOUTHAMPTON, Oct. 1.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship
Masailia, Captain Almond, with the heavy portion of the
above mails and 53 passengers, arrived at 11 p.m. last
night.
The Massilia brings on freight 11 packages specie, value
£3,007 ; preeliias estonce, value, 1,600 rupees , Jewellery,
3,500 rupees; silver plate, 770 rupees; feathers, 2,900
rupees; and a general cargo, including 1,782 bales raw
silk, value £160,000 sterling.
The Islassilia left Gibraltar on the 26th, and experienced
a string easterly gale for eight hours, falling light
off Cape St. Vincent, thence to Finistere being unsettled
weather, with heavy squalls of wind and rain; from
Finistere fresh north-easterly winds, with heavy confused
sea and swell; in the Channel, north-east winds and thick
weather.

On the 22d the Massilia spoke the steamship Ripon,
steering south-east; 28th, the steamship Allis, of Liver-
pool, steering north-east ; and on the 29th, the steamship
Syria, with the outward mails of the 27th, steering south-
west.

The steamship Poonah, with the outward mails of the
20th, arrived at Gibraltar on the 25th, and left at noon on
tho same day for Malta and Alexandria.

Her Majesty's ships Procris and Redpole, and French
ship Talisman, were at Gibr-Itar ; at Malta were her Ma •
jesty's ships Hibernia, Orlando, Meanee, Psyche, and
Weser; and at Alex Andria the French sloop of war Per-
drix, two Sardinian vessels of war, and the usual Egyptian
fleet,

GIBRALTAR, Sept. 26.

The submarine cable between Oran in Algeria, and
Carthagenia in Spain, has been successfully laid by the
aid of the steamers Edaireur and Dix Decembre.

The British steamer Osiris, 8 days from Liverpool--
steamer Brands, 9 days from London—steamer Marathon,
6 days from Liverpool—steamer Messina, 9 days from
Glasgow—and steamer London, 71 days from London, have
arrived out since the departure of the last mail.

Exchanges are quoted on London, 90 days date, 50 to 50i
Paris, of 30c—Marseilles, 5f 30c to 5f 31c—Genoa, Of 32c.
Madrid, 8 days' sight, par to dis—Cadiz, 1i to 2 dis—
Seville, dis—Malaga, par—Barcelona, pm—Altneira,
Valencia, and Alicant, par.

The Gibraltar Chronicle of the 23d of September says
—Letters from Tangier mention that the last accounts
from the interior report the Sultan as being within a
day's march of Rabat, where he intends taking up his resi-
dence for some time. During the Sultan's stay at Rabat he
will be visited by several of the representatives of the Euro-
pean rowers from Tangier. Sir John Drummond Hay, her
Majesty's Minister, left Tangier for Rabat by land on the
21st, and it is understocd that the representatives of France
and Belgium will proceed thither shortly. One of the
causes, and a not improbable one, which has been assigned
for the Emperor fixing his residence at Rabat is that it is a
convenient strategic point. His authority over the unsettled
tribes in his dominions depends a good deal on the proximity
of himself and his troops. When the Sultan is at Fez the
discontented tribes in the southern portion of his empire
take the opp ortunity to rise and refuse the payment of taxes.
When at Morocco the tribes of the north are beyond the
reach of his arm, and profit by the occasion to redress their
grievances themselves. But when the Sultan is at Rabat
he occupies a central position prepared to move either
north or south, and the unruly tribes in both quarters
are kept quiet, because, whilst none know in which direction
the Sultan intends to move next, all are certain that the
slightest symptoms of insubordination either in the north
or south will speedily bring him amongst the rebels to his
authority. The Sultan appears to be fulfilling very fairly
his promise to Sir Moses Montefiore to administer even-
handed justice to his Jewish subjects. The following
occurrence at a town in the interior, called Damnat, proves
that the Sultan is in earnest in protecting his Jewish sub-
jects from oppression by. the Moors. A Moorish youth, a
member of the Governor's family, had forcibly abducted
from her home a young Jewess. All the representations of
her family and relatives to the Moorish authorities only
brought insult and illtreatment on the remonstrants. They
then employed the intercession of the Hebrew congregation
of Tangier, and the latter appealed to the foreign ministers,
who brought the matter to the Sultan's knowledge, The
result was that the girl was immediately restored to her
friends, and the delinquent punished. A still more impor-
tant part of the Sultan's order on the matter, as providing
a security against future oppression of the Jews of Darentit,
was that in which he named a respectable Jow of the town,
who is to have the right of being present at all trials in
which a Moor and a Jew are parties, with the power of sus-
pending the execution of judgment pending en appeal to
the Sultan, adding in fact a Hebrew tribute to the Moorish
court, with the power of staying proceedings. The part
of the Sultan's edict respecting the Jews which is found in
practice most difficult to carry into effect is that which de-
clares that they shall in all cat,es be paid for their labour.
Most of the skilled artisans within the Emperor's dominions
are Jews. The Moorish authorities were in the habit of
exacting from them compulsory labour without payment.
Their burden was worse than the ancient corvee in France,
because the compulsory labour was not, like the latter, con-
fined by law or custom within fixed limits, but depended on
the moderation and discretion of the Moorish authorities.
Since the issue of the Sultan's edict the Jews have in many
parts of Morocco refund to perform this forced labour, and
disputes and squabbles with the Moorish authorities have
been the consequence.