The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-01 00:00:00

THE BRAZILS.

BUENOS AYRES, OCT. 27.
The irritation manifested in the province of Entre
Rios against the Central Government of the Argen.
tine Republic has subsided, owing to the efforts of
Urquiza himself. In the province of Rioja, Pena-
loza is, it is said, pursued by superior forces.

MONTE VIDEO, OCT. 29.
The revolution, headed by Flores, is far from
being suppressed. This celebrated adventurer,
crossing the Rio Negro, has again beaten Llamas,
General of the troops of the regular Government,
and has laid siege to Salto and Paysandir.
The division of General Moreno (White) has dis-
persed of itself, and Medina (White), who had set
off in pursuit of Flores, suddenly came to a halt,
wherefore is not known. Monte Video is at the
mercy of a coup-de-main.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 8.
A serious conflict has arisen between the M ar-
quis d'Orlanda, Minister of the Empire, and the
Municipality. The organic municipal law of
Brazil places under the control of the mu-
nicipal magistrates all matters affecting
the police, and the management of the
City including among other things the control of
the slaughter houses, and the protection afforded to
the breeders and sellers of cattle against the coali-
tion of the shopkeepers and butchers, in fact every-
thing relating to the supply of food and the whole-
someness of alimentary substances.
But the Government, through the chief of the Rio
police, has nevertheless interfered more than once in
the exercise of these privileges so formally reserved
to the municipality. Either through weakness or
m
connivance the municipal magistrates (vereadores)
have always allowed the Government to do this-
But latterly the Marquis d'Olinda thought proper
to place the slaughter house of Rio, and the supply
of meat, under the control of the Chief of Police.
An official agent was appointed responsible for the
provisioning of the city, and having the privilege of
himself furnishing daily about two-thirds of the
oxen necessary for the consumption of the city,
the number of which was fixed by the Minister,
and charging upon each lb. of meat (which is about
80 reis per lb.) a commission, first fixed at 10,
and afterwards reduced to 5 reis. This constitutes
a real monopoly, and increases the price of an article
of food of the first necessity, without profit for
anybody except the agent. It besides gives rise to
many scandalous and immoral traffics, among others
a monopoly of fresh hides, prejudicial to the pro-
ducers, who receive on the average 3,500 dole. for
an article for which 9,000 dols, is asked in the
market. It is also prejudicial to the tanners, who
can neither buy the hides from the slaughtered
beasts, nor have beasts killed on their own account.
The Vereadores have energetically protested
against the measures above mentioned, and hence
the conflict; but the Marquis d'Olinda persisting,
the Conservative members, happy to put the Liberals
at variance with the Government they created, did
not appear at the sittings.
The Liberals protested strongly against the arbi-
trary acts of the Mai quis d'Olinda, and offered
their resignation. The marquis, not satisfied, re-
ferred them to the judge as guilty of rebellion, sus-
pended them from their functions, and summoned
to replace them those of their fellow-citizens who
at the election obtained the greatest number of
votes after them. These persons are called sup-
plentes. The supplentes first on the list not
venturing to come forward in the state of
public opinion, the list was gone through
in the order of the number of votes, until M. Ottoni
was reached, who thus found himself called to the
Municipality. Exercising his influence upon col-
leagues without consideration or importance what-
ever, the celebrated agitator, the famous tribune of
the people, discovered how to make the Marquis
d'Olinda appear right and the liberal Vereadors
wrong, and, according to his own expression,
" cut the gordian knot," so miserably, however, that
public opinion, indignant at such an unworthy
course, has turned against him, and M. Ottini runs
great risk of finding himself alone in the Municipal
Chamber, unless the Emperor, not persisting in his
conduct, appoints him Senator. But even in this
case his influence would be enormously diminished.
The polemic on the Anglo-Brazilian question
which followed the publication of an article in the
Jornal do Coninzercio in favour of mediation by the
King of Portugal, has been taken up the official

The latter journal says :—" The acceptance by
England of the mediation offered by his Majesty
the King of Portugal has not yet been notified to
the Brazilian Government in an official or authentic
manner. Earl Russell has confined himself to an-
nouncing in Parliament that the Government of
the Queen would with pleasure renew relations
with the Brazilian Empire. These words do not
imply a formal acceptance of the mediation. They
announce, on the contrary, to take the initiative.
Under such circumstances the Brazilian.
Government was obliged to be guided b 3
Earl Russell's note of the 25th Nlay, in
which he said, " Her Majesty's Government
expresses her regret at the events which have ac-
companied the reprisals, and declares that it line
no intention of offending the dignity or violating
-
the sovereignty of the empire, and agrees to satisfy
the demands of those who ear interested." The