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

PORTUGAL.

LisßoN, Sept. 27.
The discount rate of the Bank of Portugal con-
tinued at 7 per cent., being 2 per cent. above its legal
rate. It appears the mercantile community in Per.
tugal will be quite satisfied with the variation of
the rate with the value of money, should the Cortes
take from the Bank its obnoxious privilege of first
being paid its bills from bankrupts' estates, con-
tained in the same law which gave the bank the
exclusive issue of notes and maximum discount rate
5 per cent.

The exchange on London for bills at three
months had varied at Lisbon from 54 to 541, and
at Oporto it was current at 55, with some trans-
actions Mi. Portuguese stock quoted 48-1- to j,
little doing.
All excitement respecting the recent election
in Portugal had subsided, the Government majority
estimated at fully three-fourths of the members
elected had been obtained without any disturbance,
though the contest was severe in some districts at
Oporto, Torres Vedras, &e.

The supplementary elections were to take place
on the 2d October, when M Fontes would be a
candidate for the seat still vacant for one of the
districts of the capital.

FALL OF THE CEILING OF A CHAPEL.—On
Monday evening last, a few minutes before 10
o'clock, tha ceiling of the Primitive Chapel, Boston, fell
with a tremendous crash. There had been service during
the evening, and the congregation left about eight o'clock.
At that time all appeared as usual. The ceiling joists had
been separated from the crass timbers of "the roaf, owing to
being inefficiently fastened in the first instance, The
chapel is a spacious building, and was erected about 25
years ago, It was fortunate the ceiling did not fall while
the congregation were assembled, or the consequences
would have been fearful.—Lincoln Mercury.
ESCAPE OF A WOULD-BE SUICIDE.—A marvellous
escape from instant death took place at Ashbourne
on Wednesday night. As a train approached the railway
station a man, who afterwards gave his name as Smith, was
seen to throw himself across the rails in front of the ad-
vancing enr'ne. Tho horrified spectators were prepared to
see him cut to pieces at once, when providentially the wheel
guard of the engine struck him and tossed him off the line.
lie was at once picked up, and given into the custody of
Mr Superintendent Corbishley, having only sustained a cut
lip and a few broken teeth. Ho was lodged for that night
in the union workhouse, and the surgeon to the union gave
it as his opinion that the poor man was unsound in mind.
A watcher was provided until further steps could be taken
fur securing his safety. On being questioned as to his rea-
son for acting in such a manner, the man said he had had a
dispute about Luther with some young men at Glossop, of
whom he had made such enemies that they were pursuing
him ; he was destitute and weary of the persecution, and
so had attempted to destroy himself, and, though he had
failed then, he said he would attempt it again,

THE BRAZILIAN AND RIVER PLATE
MAILS.

(REUTER'S EXPRESS•)

SOUTHAMPTON, Oct. 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, 312 bales wool, 807
rolls of tobacco, and 45 serons minerals.

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

The 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 vesmels,Baranquilla and Bianca were to
sail from Rio for the Pacific, after coaling. The French
war vessel Ashtreo left Rio on the Ch to cruise to the
southward.

The Russian war vessels Ryda and the Hydyman left
Pernambuco on the 13th for Europe.

The Federal ship of war Onward was cruising on the
Brazilian coast for Confederate vessel S.

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 repeatei. 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 flocks
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
heayy business has been done in exchange for this packet.
The rate on England has gone up from 491 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 becom-
ing active. Prints are in great demand,
Rio DE JANEIRO, Sept. S.

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 fpreign 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. Ist good, 6 400 to 500, and
Ist ordinary, 6 100 to 200, Sales of hides, large, at 260 to
270, as small, 250, as stock, 8,000. In exchange about
£450,000 have been negotiated (including £50,000 for the
Government at 271, 27i, 271 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 psr
cent.; freights 10 England, 40s; Channel, 50s to 555.
BAHIA, 11th Sept.

Trade is dull on account of the elections, but which goes
on quietly. The crops of 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, quotatiors nominal. No
sales of coffee effected, stock small, price demanded, 5 0',)0
to 5 400 per arroba. Cocoa dull. B ides, no sales. Rum,
for regular quality, 76 000 per pipe. Stock of tobacco much
reduced, no sales of importance, freights for Chann'l, 478 6d
for tobacco. Exchange, 271 to ; on Paris, 348 and 346
per franc; on Hamburg, 659, as per mark B Co.

THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS,

[REUTER'S EXPRESS ]
SOUTHAMPTON, OCt. 1.

The Peninsular and Oriental company'. steamship
Massilia, 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
£3,067; precious stones, value 1,500 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 Massilia left Gibraltar on the 26th, and experienced
a strong 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 Chanty'', north-east winds and thick
weather.

On the 22d the Massilia spoke the steamship Ripon,
steering south-east; 28th, the steamship Atlas, 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
the same day for Malta and Alexandria.
Her Majesty's ships Procris and Redpole, and French
ship Talisman, were at Gibraltar ; at Malta were her Ma
jesty's ships Hibernia, Orlando, Meanee, Psyche, and
Weser; and at Alexandria 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 Brenda, 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 50/
Paris, 5f 30c—Marseilles, 5f 30c to 5f 31c —Genoa, 5f 320.
Madrid, 8 days' sight, par to / dia—Cadiz, 1/ to 2 dia—
Seville, / dis—Malaga, par—Barcelona, / pm—Almeira,
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 Powers from Tangier. Sir John Drummond Hay, her
Majesty's Minister, left Tangier for Rabat by land on the
21st, and it is understood 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 hie 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 opportunity 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 bo fulfilling very fairly
his promise to Sir Moses Monttfiore 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 honle a young Jewess. All the representations of
her family and relatives to the Moorish authorities only
brought insult and illtreatment on the resionstrants. 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 Damnat,
was that in which he named a respectable Jew 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 an appeal to
the Sultan, adding in fact a Hebrew tribute to the Moorish
court, with the power of staying proceedings. Tho 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 cases 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, cot-
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 idiot the Jews have in many
parts of Morocco refused to perform this forced labour, acid
disputes and squabbles with the Moorish authorities have
been the consequence.

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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, Sept. 29.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena and
Princess Louise, drove out yesterday afternoon to
Loch Bulig.

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ARTHUR I:1
GEMlANY.—llocumm, Sept, 26.—Last Friday our avian'
renowned little town was honoured early in the morning bY
the visit of his Royal Highness Prince Arthur of England
and Prince Adolph of Mecklenburg, accompanied by sere•
ral English officers. The princes first went to the Queen
Victoria Vineyard, inspected the monumont erected by the
proprietor, Mr Pabztmann, in honour of her Majesty Queen
Victoria, and took great interest in the explanations Mr
Pabztmann gave them with respect to the culture of the
Rhenish vines. They afterwards tasted the celebrated
wines in the large collars of Mr Pabztman, which they
highly praised ; and were much pleased at tasting, after the
Rhenish custom, the Queen Victoria hocks from the casks,
to which the prizi medal was awarded at the London In"
ternational Exhibition. The excursionists were favoured
with very fine weather, and the princes seemed much
pleased with the arrangements of Mr Pabztmann, to wheal
our little town is indebted for the honour of this visit.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster
have Icft Motcombe House for a tour in Scotland,

The Fail and Countess Home are entertaining a
select circle at their seat in Snotlard.

Viscount Canterbury arrived in town last e'en•
ing from Newmarket.

Lord and Lady Vivian left Bodmin yesterday,
on a visit to Mr and the Hon. Mrs Tremayne, at Syden"
ham House, Devon.
Lord Ebury has left Moor Park, on a tour of
visits to Scotland.

Mr. and Lady Mary Craven arrived at Thomas's
Hotel yesterday, from Newmarket.
The mortal remains of the late Sir G. F. EimonA
stone will be interred this day, at .Effingham Church, near
Leatherhead, Surrey.

110NEi MARKET

AND

COMbIERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
There is an active demand for discount accome
todation today, at fully 9 per cent.
B About £102,000, in gold, was tthken. into the
ank yesterday.
e. There Was a general advance in the foreign ex-
blE,Nes yesterday afternoon.
ince Monda
amounted y last the imports of specie have
Tun to £687,000, and the exports to £163,775.
t,
Irl e failure was announced yesterday of Messrs.
'd4itch
y and Smith, wholesale clothiers, of Hounda-
rt,, with liabilities said to amount to £BO,OOO.
The following is the circular issued to the creditors :
, Walbrook, London, Sept. 30.
blVe have to inform you
that Messrs. Early and Smith, of
aloundsditch, export clothiers, have been compelled to sins-
reild Payment. This course has been rendered necessary by
recent failure of several firms, including that of the
haelis Ban, with whom Messrs. Early and Smith have d large ransactions. The books have been placed in the
handset Messrs. Coleman, Turquand, Youngs, and Co., to
Ea jars a statement of affairs, and in the meantime Messrs.
w Yana Smith have to request your kind forbearance.—
- are
Meaers J. and J. 11. LINKLATER and LIACKWOOD.
Liver. Hall and Jones, colonial brokers of
pool, have likewise suspended, with engage-
meets said to reach £500,000. The following is
e circular issued to the creditors :
W Liverpool, Sept., 1861.
tr eitel We
depre
deePlY regrssedet
state of to inform
the you that, owing to the ex
our
-
, O
L equent inability to effect sales, we have been compelled
i„.SPOIId payment.
t .vb1:1 at the present low prices of general produce, and
lla 6d.
everything at the worst, we estimate our assets at
in the pound— tut we entertain a confident hope
;44t) with the forbearance of our friends, we shall be able
° Pay a larger dividend.
*tinder these circumstances we trust that those friends
n-Be Property we hold, and to whom we are under acept-
-nee, Will have no difficulty in renewing their bills until the
Produce can be more favourably realised.
1344 the meantime (acting under the advice of Messrs.
the
and Co., solicitors), we have placed oar books in
'ne hands of Messrs. John Bewley and Son, accountants,
Who
will prepare a statement of our affairs, and as soon
a 8 this can be done, they will call a meeting of our
creditors.

The Stoppage
HALL AND JONES.
T
has also been announced of Messrs.
b. Broom and Co., cotton and colonial produce 3h'
ken, of Liverpool, with liabilities said to to
'4lotint to £500,000. Sk

Two O'CLOCK.
Less depression has been apparent to-day in the
market for the English Funds, and a better feeling
also prevailed in the Stock departments. Con-
-B°lB improved at an early hour fully I per cent.,
now 88i for money, and 881 for the account.
Bhe 'IeW Threes are 851 86i ; the Reduced 851
zeh(quer Bills, March, lls to 4a die.; do.
une, 14s to 133 dis, ; and India 5 per Cents., 1031
i general upward movement has taken place
rill Tallies in the Foreign Market, and business is
ather more animated. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862,
are 69} t ; do. Consllides, 50:y ; Mexican, 268 27k;
Greek, 221
n Spanish Passive, 31i ; do. Certi.
eates 13! ;
and the Confederate Loan, 65 67.
stfik firmer tone has been apparent in the Railway
„nes uare Market to-day, and several of the principal
". have realised enhanced rates. Great Northern
Stock have improved 10s. ; Great Eastern and
°utill Eastern, each 155; Great Western, Lanca-
shire
and
Yorkshire,
North Western and Metropo-
litan, ; and M'dland, £1 10s.
e,ihe Foreign and Colonial lines remain without
"„s'lnge of importance.
~1-54nk and Miscellaneous shares are in some
.in.
"euees also at enhanced values. Alliance have im•
r.°7"l to 421
rondo ,-, Lfindon Chartered of Australia to
2.n
and County have declined to 68 ; Lon-
a„Non Financial have advanced to 21i ; and National
jj*"unt Company to 11/.